Cedar Fair 2003
Goku,
Do you really think that was the idea when the bought the park? To get people from lower Michigan to go to MIA? I think that if they did that they would be stealing patrons from CP, which to lower MI is "the park". It might not completely slip onto the "back burner", but I would imagine it will get treated a lot like VF, which is unfortunate.
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Some articles in the Muskegon Chronicle quoted Roger Jourden's belief tht it would be built, but later articles quoted Camille, who never directly answered the question again. She said they had to propose and plan for expansion.
Why are people so stuck on a hypercoaster for MA? Is it going to put MA on the map? With a hyper already built @ SFGAM to the west and 3 hyper-class coasters at CP to the east, the answer is NO. They're not going to draw crowds like they did 6-7 years ago. For that matter, nor will a B&M invert, standup or drop tower for the same reasons. Every single person in the surrounding market who wants to ride one has been there and done that. It's old hat.
ST put MA on the map because it was different from anything else in the surrounding market. It wasn't another Arrow looper or anything else mentioned above. Say it with me--different. Different is better. Different brings people from long distances and who frequent neighboring parks to visit.
A twisted CCI or GCI with loads of crossovers would be different from anything at CP or SFGAM or for hundreds of miles around. A Setpoint Swing Thing with the Super Saturator package (water cannons, bombs, etc.) would be different from anything for hundreds of miles around.
Better yet, people who visit for these new attractions would find find more of the same. More wet fun in the waterpark, more woodies with ST and WW. They wouldn't wind up coming for just one attraction.
Hyper, shmyper. You want a hyper? Take VF's WT...please. I'll take ST and 2-3 more wooden wonders any day.
-'Playa
Lets not knock Wild Thing until you've ridden it with the brakes off. :)
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From '96-'98, WT rode just great. They started noticeably choking up on the brakes from '99 on...save for Harvest Weekends, cold days and other inexplicably lucky days like 6/25/01. Visiting nearly every Friday since 6/96 makes a difference.
But I'd still have to give the nod to ST for its brakeless course, the helix(!) and the short, sweet turnaround.
If I had MA's flat, plentiful land and could build 2 more woodies and an Invertigo for the cost of a hyper, I wouldn't think twice about Morgan steel. Just my opinion.
-'Playa
(sitting in a cubicle decorated with two '01WWL pennants...usually an employee-only souvenir)
*** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya on 4/25/2002. ***
CoastaPlaya said:
ST put MA on the map because it was different from anything else in the surrounding market. It wasn't another Arrow looper or anything else mentioned above. Say it with me--different. Different is better. Different brings people from long distances and who frequent neighboring parks to visit.
Accually, ST isn't different from anything in the surrounding market. Did you forget, SFGAm has American Eagle, another large out-and-back? The only difference I can see by just looking at the two is the color, height, the coaster's condition, and one "races."
Also, CoastaPlaya, you brought something to my attention, WT can't be called WT anymore because WT is already WT and has been for years longer than WT has been WT! ;)
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Well Wild Thing has been know as WT forever. However Wicked Twister has been WT here lately. No one has been talking about Wild Thing, so we know that WT is Wicked Twister. Maybe we should go WTw or ever WT-CP?
Also CPlaya, do they really need another wood? MIA has 3 already! Maybe a decent steel looper.
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That's like asking if IB needs LoCoSuMo or if CP needs another steel coaster. Of course they do. More lumber for MA! More!!! This time make it really, really twisty with crossovers, please.
And a quick $3 mill Invertigo oughtta hold MA's looping steel fans for a while. It sure is more than the folks at VF have (think CP's Corkscrew with a helix. Oooooh.)
As for VF's WT....there's at least two songs and two other coasters that share the exact same moniker. I don't see how another coaster abbreviated 'WT' changes anything.
-'Playa
*** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya on 4/25/2002. ***
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It kinda is but it's way better than a bumpey Vekoma boomerang.
The impulse is more customizable. (hight, spikes can be two twisted/ two vertical or normal)
*** This post was edited by Goku2216 on 4/26/2002. ***
B.S. ALERT
Ok everyone, here's my prediction:
Based on the mysterious 'small basement' at the former Dodg'em site, Cedar Point will install a slightly taller, faster, and longer version of Xcellerator using this 'small basement' as the pit for the hydraulic launch equipment. It will utilize the same island that Millennium Force uses for it's turnarounds.
/B.S Alert
If this actually happens (which it won't) I want to be first one to pinpoint the location of the equipment...somone else said the earthmoving is for footings, but I say it's the equipment. Maybe I'll create a B.S. Site and see how many people actually beleive my rumors...maybe i'll even come up with some drawings...hehehe..
-seth
B.S. ALERT
Ok everyone, here's my prediction:
Based on the mysterious 'small basement' at the former Dodg'em site, Cedar Point will install a slightly taller, faster, and longer version of Xcellerator using this 'small basement' as the pit for the hydraulic launch equipment. It will utilize the same island that Millennium Force uses for it's turnarounds.
/B.S Alert
If this actually happens (which it won't) I want to be first one to pinpoint the location of the equipment...somone else said the earthmoving is for footings, but I say it's the equipment. Maybe I'll create a B.S. Site and see how many people actually beleive my rumors...maybe i'll even come up with some drawings...hehehe..
-seth
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2001 Magnum Crew
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You can't spell S:UF without UF....Go Gators! Let the pretzel loop tie you in knots...
Closed topic.
