Cedar Point's Blog is teasing us!
Also, Kinzel decided to start construction now, not because time issues and construction demand (due to size), but for ****s and giggles. Construction on their new small ride is planned to stop all season. Parks just don't construct off season....
It can be a Dive machine, 4d, dueling, blah whatever. Its big (over 100 at least).
Mamoosh said:
A footer poured this early? OMG, of course I see it now...it *has* to be something REALLY REALLY REALLY huge. There can't be ANY OTHER reason!
Eccentricity: A common quality of the sarcastic. ;)
I don't see this new ride being a record breaker ride. Maybe the largest of it's kind, even cheesier if it's also the first.
The word around the campfire is that Cedar Point will have a scripted response for its employees including the fact that the ride will be large.
(I hope Jeff doesn't have a trademark as that could cause an embarrassing moment.)
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If they do their Farmer's Almanac calculations correctly and build the coaster or attraction over 200ft, they can still work on it during Ohio's worst blizzard season ever! ;)
Anyone notice the latest CP Blog entry? They hint at the content of the next entry and it's gonna jump this thread by a few pages ... any takers on 2:1 odds that it goes up 4 pages in less than 4 hours? :)
(26:1 that there will be a post in there that actually makes sense ... )
:)
-Tambo
RollerCoasterGod said:
I'm actually betting that Ohio will have 200 ft of snow next year due to the fact that Ohio only got about 2 inches all year this past winter. And ANY Ohioan knows that if one winter is weak, the next will be a Blizzard. Obviously CP knows, this, so they have to get a head start.
It's called Global Warming... get used to it! Cedar Po!nt & such will soon be year-round parks if the trend keeps up (or at least opening a month earlier & closing a month later).
On a side-note, if I had a choice between a world record-breaker 500+ foot coaster over a smaller, yet thrilling coaster along with a couple other rides (or even two smaller coasters over 100+ feet). Both ideas could cost the same amount of money invested... since the taller you get in a coaster, the more it starts to cost exponentially.
I'll take the multiple-ride deal instead because the crowds will be a lot more dispersed between the new rides. They need a WWL replacement in a loose way, need a new coaster, and could benefit from yet another flat ride (Huss, S&S, or Zamperla). Those 3 rides vs. a 500+ foot coaster? Hmm... sorry... a gimmick doesn't hold a candle to something better in the long-run.
About the Global Warming, soon the ice caps will melt and all that will be left of CP will be the tops of the coasters and maybe some other rides and buildings. So maybe they will build a 500+ foot coaster so we will always know where CP was if the sea level goes over 420 feet.:)
Global Warming? This is from a liberal government run site and even their estimations aren't as dire as yours.
"Global mean surface temperatures have increased 0.5-1.0°F since the late 19th century. The 20th century's 10 warmest years all occurred in the last 15 years of the century. Of these, 1998 was the warmest year on record. The snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased. Globally, sea level has risen 4-8 inches over the past century."
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/climate.html
Man at that rate we'll all be in trouble...maybe in 500 years CP will be a year-round park.
Please. Global warming is not going to be in any kind of form that needs to worried about in any of our lifetimes. Take an environmental science class. Only so much absorbtion of so many chemicals can happen in such an amount of time. We are just now beginning to see the effects of the industrial age some 200 years ago.
Furthermore, Earth undergoes several climate shifts almost constantly. Traces of weather increasing and decreasing has been going on for millions of years. Yes, since the late 1700s this number has risen, but it is still shifting.
Even furthermore, natural phenomenea more than takes it's toll on the atmosphere. Volcanoes do horrible damage to our ozone layer. Yes, global warming is a problem, but it's not something that is practical to worry about. We cannot worry about what has happened over worrying about what we can do to stop it. Hopefully bioeconomics will get the funding they need to start producing a decent amount of corn energy and hydrogen fuel cells.
....*deep breath*
I sure hope that wasn't just a joke that went over my head. It probably was..
...crap..
Great! So....we're all on the same page here.. excellent.
*thumbs ahead a couple pages*
However if we add another 18 pages of banter then perhaps they might give you a clue... *rolls eyes*
Naturally, it's going to have to get much longer for that to happen, but until actual details are released about 2007, at least all the noise on the subject will be confined to this one thread.
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djDaemon said:
Its funny how the people complaining about the "nonsense" in this thread are the primary contributors of off-topic noise.
Amen.
I just said there'll be no more uber-cold winters in Sandusky due to Global Warming because I reading the big article in TIME Magazine... and yes, MForce2k, global warming WILL be in our lifetime as it's already happening. Polar ice-caps shrinking ...the sun no longer reflects heat from the ice, instead the increasing water absorbs the light and heating it up even more, causing more ice to melt in a non-stop cycle... so yes, it is getting worse and is a serious problem.
...but it wasn't meant to turn this thread serious, it was an off-beat statement (although not a joke either)...
All the parks not near or on the the coastlines are safe, however... so Cedar Point won't sink nor will it get flooded.
That's reserved for Magic Mountain & Great Adventure....
Although with Shapiro at hand, it doesn't need global warming to start sinking! ;)
*** Edited 3/30/2006 1:15:57 PM UTC by DawgByte II***
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