Cedar Point's Blog is teasing us!

It was in a second rate, questionable publication. Nevermind the fact that no one can quote the man as ever saying that.

Kinzel is clearly ignoring the needs of his company and its shareholders and building something that makes no business sense, but will make the handful of people who follow the indutry remember his name.

Gosh!

(Wow, it is fun to rant with no basis in reality or fact :) )

Viva La 500-Footer!

Can Dragstermania have his own Podcast? I think I'd pay to hear that nutjob ramble for 30 minutes a week ...

"BBT" IS true because it's going to be a 500 ft tall B&M prototype swing that DK invented himself. I already told you alls. DUUH! Pfft-4D. Pfft-Flyer. Pfft-Woody. PFFFFT, I say. ;)

Everyone that thinks those footings are big has no idea how much concrete is under Millennium Force or Dragster. The removal of WWL and moving of the tracks gave them access to 10+ acres of land. Don't think they can't, or won't, use it to its potential.

Just 6 acres have been cleared so far... I would say another 6 is possible, and don't forget there is still plenty of land on the island that MF goes on!!!!!!!!

I never mentioned cleared land. I said they had access to...

No wonder threads here go AWOL, people don't read things.

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It was in a second rate, questionable publication.

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...that uses CBuzz as a "source."

Dang, you beat me to it! ;)

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Dragstermania said:
and don't forget there is still plenty of land on the island that MF goes on!!!!!!!!

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Oh geez, I should have never opened my mouth.

Umm... 500 feet? Isn't it enough that the 'Mine is bigger than yours' coaster war has resulted in parks basically 'erecting' two 400+ foot phalluses?

You can get a whole hell of a lot more motion in your ocean at 100-250 feet than you can at 500. I'm hoping the next coaster concentrates more on the journey, than getting from the starting line to the finish line in 17 seconds at warp speed. :)

Just curious, does anyone have an aerial shot of the park since they started doing all the footers? Someone could try to connect the dots and figure it out.

^^^Probably way too few footers at this point. And by the time that much construction is done we'll probably have a pretty good inidication of what is or isn't coming.

I love how the response to someone disagreeing is to say the same thing LOUDER with more !!!!!!!!'s and more insults. Because, you know, putting more logic and/or sources into your post aren't going to convince anyone.

Geez Andy, don't you even read your own signature? If you have more capital letters or more exclaimation points, it means you're argument's better! It's all about increasing your numbers!

MY POST IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was wondering...with White Water Landing Gone, do you think they will remove the model in Town Hall or keep it? It is a pretty good model of the ride. And it would keep the memory of it :)

I don't see them removing it unless they needed the space for something else. And that would have to be a pretty large something else to force the flat-out removal of the model. *** Edited 3/16/2006 10:04:41 PM UTC by matt.***

Doesn't the town hall show the history of the park and pictures and old parts from old rides?

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Lord Gonchar said:
Kinzel is clearly ignoring the needs of his company and its shareholders and building something that makes no business sense, but will make the handful of people who follow the indutry remember his name!

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I'll remember his name no matter what comes to the park in 2007. Magnum, Raptor, Millennium Force, and Top Thrill Dragster are big enough to remember the man who saw these ride's as a way to get the large regional park into a park that is known around the country.

Actually, I think one could argue that CP is now known around the world.

I think we'll all remember Mr. Kinzel given Magnum, Raptor, MF, TTD, and Mavrick! Mantis may not be the best, but it was the world's largest and it is a B&M.

Picture it: a dark, smokey, run-down Sandusky bar. The time is the future, maybe 5 years from now, maybe more. A Cedar Fair official in a dark suit walks in, and sizes up the joint, trying to avoid inhaling the odor of spilled booze, cheap perfume, and piss coming from the bar. He walks up to the bartender and orders a double, and slowly sits down next to a disheveled, grey haired man, who has clearly seen better times.

"Dick. Listen to me. We need you for one last job."

He looks up slowly from his tumbler.

"I did my work. I did my work well. My time is done now. Now get the hell outta here," he half says, half spits.

"You don't understand Dick. We're in trouble. Ever since Magic Mountain started charging 15 bucks for parking and running 3 trains on Riddler every 3 days they've been chewing up our market like crazy!"

"You know that's not my trouble now. I have to live my life now. A life without Maggie. A life without Millie. A life without....pancakes. I did what I could, why can't you people just leave ME ALONE!?!"

He slams his fist down on the bar and continues.

"I wanted to go out with a bang! A bang damnit! But no. Deuling flyers was too expensive. The 500 footer was too expensive. 5 new Dippin' Dots guys was too freaking expensive for you people!!!! I wanted a bang, damnit, and every reputable newspaper in the country had quoted me on that! But no. It wasn't mean to be. You took that away from me and what do I have left? A bottle of JD and a stomach full of regrets. Now get out."

As the man dissapointedly walked out and the bar patrons went back to what they were doing, shrugging off the strange conversation between the man in the dark suit and the sad drunken fellow at the bar.

And as the juke box played, and the small glasses of booze clinked and chimed in the night, as the billiard balls clicked together and the drunks left one by one, if you listened very closely, you could hear a one word utterance softly spoken at the bar.

"Maverick!" he muttered as he slowly patted his hands on the bar.

"Maverick!"