CCI Website: Gone
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Whats life if you never get to the Po!nt?
I said honorary CCI meaning it's just as good as any CCI.
Thanx Dave
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The Beast and Night, They go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly
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Or Arrow, Or Intamin
Remeber most of CCI is former S and D people too.
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1989, 9 years old bawling my eyes out because I didn't want to ride Magnum. I did anyway and look at me now. Why did ya make me do it Dave? ;)
MagnumForce said:
I said honorary CCI meaning it's just as good as any CCI.
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My bad :)
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Bob Hansen
A proud CoasterBuzz Member
"So you think your'e really brave, gonna see the DEMONS cave.
You silly dude, your'e only food, for the DEMON"
(Playing taps....)
Ladies and Gentleman, After calling some of my sources and receiving this link in an e-mail, its safe to say CCI has officially closed.... What a SAD SAD day for coaster enthusiasts....
http://www.amusementbusiness.com/amusementbusiness/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1546838
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WCUSA-The World's largest theme park is coming!
Theme parks will NEVER be the same!
Ack!
The blurb that olov posted can be found here:
Look under the "Extra! Extra!" section.
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"Look outside, I know that you'll recognize it's summertime." - The Flaming Lips "It's Summertime (throbbing orange pallbearers)"
My only worry is what happens when a current CCI starts getting old, and needs refurbishment ? Since the original company isn't around anymore, will the park end up making poor modifications, or bring in a 3rd party to do a hack job ? There are so many woodies out there which -used- to be good, but after modifications, ended up getting ruined. Without CCI around to do the repairs and refurbs, I am scared that some other company could come in and ruin some of the greatest woodies ever made. On the bright side, CCI made them right the first time, unlike so many other woodie manufacturers, so hopefully routine maintainence will preserve them forever, and they will never need to be modified.
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Wooden: 1) Beast 2) Raven 3) Son of Beast 4) The Boss 5) Timber Wolf
Steel: 1) Raging Bull 2) Millennium Force 3) V2 4) Wild Thing 5) Mr. Freeze
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Off to CP in August, Hopefully off to two other parks in July though!! YEA!!!! :-D It will be a good summer!
Questions:
smles@ilstu.edu
Since it is official now I can spill the beans.
Unfortunately Denise Dinn and Randy Larrick are divorcing. Denise headed the business side of things and Randy oversaw the construction side of the business.
I had heard about this a while back, and hoped it was just a rumor. But of course it is indeed true.
Best luck to both of them. They provided us with some great coasters.
Shaggy
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Shaggy
R.I.P. Maestro
Phantom Theater 1992-2002
This is so sad. All of the CCI I have ridden (4), they all were terrific, magnificent, brillant, masterpieces! I can't belive this is really happening.
R.I.P.
Custom Coasters International
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800,000 years in 7 seconds: Time Machine the movie or next S&S creation?
"So Quoth the Lemon Chill Guy" (TM) (C)
This will serve as a great shock to the rollercoaster industry!
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Off to CP in August, Hopefully off to two other parks in July though!! YEA!!!! :-D It will be a good summer!
Questions:
smles@ilstu.edu
CCI is dead. Long live CCI.
Here's a link for you....though it seems I am eight minutes late with it. That's an eternity on the internet...or when trading stocks...or in a basketball game. Whatever.
-'Playa
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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.
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Yes, this is the thing that I knew, but given my business relationship with them, it wasn't my place to say anything until they were ready. I never heard from CCI directly, only people let go, so there was no official word. Now there is, and it's a serious bummer.
As PointMan mentioned above, the company had a ton of talented people, and it's my hope that they can band together and start a new company. However, there are a lot of challenges involved. You can't start a company and work for free, you need some capital (if that weren't true I wouldn't be working for "the man" right now).
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com, Sillynonsense.com
7/27: Subdivision Cam becomes party cam at the year's hottest Ohio luau!
I'm not sure this is the last we'll see of Denise or Randy as coaster designers. I bet at least one of them will get back in the mix.
However, I don't think I'm quite as sad as I should be over this. Nothing against CCI, they make GREAT rides (Timbers, Raven, Legend) but some of the best coasters I've ridden are from GCI anyway (Lightning Racer, Roar, Wildcat & Gwazi). Of course, none of the CCIs are going anywhere, and again, I don't think this company (the employees, at least) are going to be gone for long.
Well all those people have to work somewhere. I am sure that where great woodies are needed great woodies will be built.
A new company will be there and while not CCI I am sure many of CCI's employees will work for it.
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1989, 9 years old bawling my eyes out because I didn't want to ride Magnum. I did anyway and look at me now. Why did ya make me do it Dave? ;)
My apology to OLOV.
Really, I am sorry for calling you a liar but I checked all through RRC and didn't see that.
I really was trying to respect the co. owners.
Sorry for being a Arse.
Chuck
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Charles Nungester
Lesourdsville Lake, The great American amusement park opens the season June 6th Thurs-Sun every week. Park phone is (513)539-2193
Remeber "Tis better to have loved and lost then to have never loved."
Look at the awesome would that CCI has made over the last 10 years. I am very grateful for that and I am looking forward to wheer these employess will go.
GCI and CCI hybrids would be pretty darn cool coasters. ;)
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So what if there is no more CCI. We still have Raven, Legend, Shivering Timbers, Cornball Express, and 31 other coasters to enjoy.
Hoping PTC gets back in the business of building (Rebbie to the rescue), or that GCI can afford to bring in some of the CCI folks.....truly sad day......however, there is now some GREAT coaster-folk available for hire - we just need that "capital" Jeff referred to.....
CCI is a company full of talent. This is not the first time that a major wood coaster manufacturer simply ceased to exist; it happened in 1990 with the death of Curt Summers, and the result was CCI. There is so much talent at CCI, and there appears to be enough demand for that talent, that it seems inevitable that some new entity will rise from the remains of CCI.
From the sound of it, trying to keep the family business going as the family disintegrates would probably be unreasonably complicated. Sadly, it sounds like this was the cleanest option available.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Closed topic.
