Working Roller Coaster Hill: A LEGO® creation by Kayla Rhodes (busy with the end of senior year) : MOCpages.com

Working Roller Coaster Hill

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This is a part of an amusement park ride.

About this creation

This is one of my favorite Technic creations that I have made. It works like a real roller coaster. It took about 2-3 hours to build because I had problems making the gears work and making the car stay on the track. The most challenging part of it was designing it so the car stayed on the track. I got this idea from the rides I went on at the Universal Islands of Adventure and Disney World in Orlando last August. I had noticed that the cars on roller coaster and log flume rides are pulled up hills by gears in the middle of the track. When I thought of that, I decided that I wanted to try to do that in LEGO. I really like how it turned out because it works every time.

The drop

Side view of the car going up the hill

The hill with the car on it

View of the whole thing from the top

Some of the gears

The gears going up the hill

The car with three minifigs side view

Front view

Bottom view, you can see where the bottom of the car attaches to the track. I put tiles on either side of it so the car could easily slide up and down the hill without getting caught on something.

The lever that can be turned so all the gears turn to haul the car up the track.

More views of the track

I also built a technic car this weekend. It is really simple compared to this, but it can be seen here.

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Ian Spacek

January 20, 2013

Clever!

I like it

cyberfrank 2010

January 19, 2013

I hope you will post more animals soon!

I like it

cyberfrank 2010

January 19, 2013

I d really like lego to release one, the carrousel was good looking, but, a roller coaster is so much more exciting! although yours is nt very refined in colors, it does seem to work good, and your concept is neat, not much people do them, congrats! I used to have this dream of buying 4 indiana jones mine cart chase, with your system, it would really rock!

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John Daniels

January 19, 2013

An interesting concept! I think that I will have to try out a working roller coaster sometime! In the last shot people can see the car that you built. --John