Based on this article, a Green Bay amusement park is in negotiations with an owner of 2 wooden coasters to aquire one of them which has historical value.
Sounds like Starliner to me.
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But Apex no longer owns the bobs. They resold it to Ray Edgehouse Jr. who took out about a 15' (maybe longer) section of the ride and donated it to the Geauga County Historical Society to be re-erected and displayed. Plus pretty much anything metal has been stripped from the ride. A while ago the guy was trying to sell pieces of it on eBay. I doubt you'll ever see the bobs run again.
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Either coaster would be great. The article talks about the person even donating the coaster if Bay Beach would take it off there hands. Why not take both coasters and assemble them over time. I would love to have these coasters in GB. Since I'm about 5 minutes from the park it would be sweet.
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Let's not forget about the Ozark Wildcat.
In First Drop, it was reported that HFEC has moved the OzCat trains to Southern Georgia. In addition, GCII is reported to be re-tracking Cheetah. I'm anticipating that Cheetah will be the first non-GCII coaster to run MFlyers, in 2010.
And the information above does seem to be pointing toward Starliner...which was much-improved after the move from Panama City Beach. Would be nice if it could find a beach-side setting again...
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They're trying to relocate Twisted Twins from SFKK.
The comment about "bring it up to code" makes me dismiss Starliner. It was already re-engineered and rebuilt, so it would be up to code, unless Wisconsin has some weir codes of course. So that makes me think Big Dipper, which would certainly need to be modified to be brought up to code for new construction.
But I heard Cedar Point was going to rebuild it in the near future, so who knows. ;)
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I'll take any of em. I get up to Green Bay several times a year. It would be nice to have a good wooden coaster to ride on visits to Bay Beach. I'm wondering, however, if any of them would be a good fit because of the focus on little kids for the park.
Maybe Little Dipper from Kiddieland?
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^I think Starliner would be a good fit. It's a good sized coaster but with a family appeal. I believe you had to be 42" to ride.
But you are right, Little Dipper is now going to need a new home or it will be scrap wood.
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