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Cedar Point made the following tweet today, with a video that says Mean Streak will "get the axe" on September 16:
Goodbye, pard'ner. pic.twitter.com/94ucD8RgJl
— Cedar Point (@cedarpoint) August 1, 2016
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Did Kinzel go all Letterman on us and appear in the end of that video?
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The man with the axe represents a lot of us. :) That was the coolest, most imaginative commercial advertising the closing of a roller coaster I have ever seen. LOL. I bet this ties in with the theme of the ride's next incarnation.
I like Mean Streak for what it is. It's so large and oddly beautiful that it wouldn't make sense to demolish it and use the land for something completely different. I can't wait to see what they've got going on.
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If you look at the current footers some are marked with an orange dot. Others are not. Whatever goes in may be reusing some of the footers. That may be what they are implying with "getting the axe". They used something similar for the Mantis closing announcement to "take a final stand".
Mean Streak was created during a time when building the tallest, fastest, and steepest was the most important thing. These woodies weren't always built for longevity. I loved it when I was a kid, but it didn't age well at all. Whether we are talking about a rebuild or a totally new coaster, I welcome it. Mean Streak stopped being fun a while ago and I cannot wait for what replaces it...
0g said:
I have never seen coaster enthusiasts so excited for the REMOVAL of a coaster before.
Did you forget about Viper at gradv?
If they were tearing the whole ride down the guy would've had a match not an axe! RMC is the only option for that pos, and the park needs an airtime coaster which it lacks!
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Jephry said:
Mean Streak was created during a time when building the tallest, fastest, and steepest was the most important thing.
I don't think CP has ever stopped chasing those records. Now, in addition to the above 3 records, they make up new ones so they can have a record breaking amount of records broken.
RMC conversion seems reasonable, however I've always thought that structural integrity was the problem and why it was slowed down, not the track itself. If it ran full speed the structure had problems with movement and weakening. This was brought up years ago at a q & a at coaster mania I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong
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