Is this real? (CP's new coaster)

LOL at Mamoosh. I wonder what's it going to be like when the first track is installed.

Rollin Eyes

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Come on Get up...Before you make, me change my mind!

Don't let Mamoosh fool you. He's sitting there drooling over that picture just like coastingohio is.

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'Let's fly close to the sun. Let's do it just 'cause it's fun.' - The Wedding Present '2,3, Go'

Goons, chris...goons ;-)

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"Mmmmm....forbidden donut!" - Homer Simpson

Givens:
CP has footers
CP has steel
CP's winters are nasty for high steel work
(I cringe every time I look at the pictures
of MF being topped out in winter)
This is likely a prototype that will need
lots of start up time.
CP's financial year has been good enough that the
market isn't going to cringe at some 4th quarter
capital spending.

With these givens, CP would be crazy not to start vertical construction.

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*** This post was edited by Jim Fisher on 9/13/2002. ***

Where have all the folks gone who keep insisting Cedar Point is out of space? :)

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-Vater
Coaster Count: 116

If someone faked a picture like that they are just sad and perhaps need a hobby or better yet a life.

I bet those supprts are for the new Lemon Chill stand in the Sky. They are yellow.

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BMCOASTER

bmcoaster@wi.rr.com

That is obviously real, even at a glance. You guys are all crazy. I can''t believe you are even debating it.

This just in: It's not fake. I was informed that steel erection has commenced. The plan was to install tower sections this week in area 51... and by looking at these photos, it's obvious that Cedar Point has done that. Now the real question, is how were the photos taken (How did they gain access to perimeter road)?

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Jes
Jes's Roller Coasters DJ Jes
Six Flags Worlds Of Adventure 2002 Ride-Ops Crew (Have Fun Trying To Find Me!)

Not going to argue if the pictures are fake, but one of the pictures not in question shows a dismantled Chaos and another has some ride cars and what looks to be a Cedar Creek Mine train.

Does anyone know why a mine train is there? I assume they are storing a not needed train but I am sure someone knows for sure.

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Waiting for the CP announcement to be made so that about 1000+ posts will be made complaining about it.

Matt, I thought the Mine Ride had 4 or 5 trains, more than they usually run nowadays. Perhaps they are getting a jump start on some winter work. Perhaps they will have other things to do later in the winter... :)

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- Peabody

Matt said:

Not going to argue if the pictures are fake, but one of the pictures not in question shows a dismantled Chaos and another has some ride cars and what looks to be a Cedar Creek Mine train.
Does anyone know why a mine train is there? I assume they are storing a not needed train but I am sure someone knows for sure.
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Waiting for the CP announcement to be made so that about 1000+ posts will be made complaining about it.

Maybe they're going to get a huge launched mine train coaster and that's the train. ;)

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This is a message from don corleone it says lucabratzi sleeps with the fishes.

I think the crane is real.

Duh. The crane IS taller than Millenium Force in this pic. Hmmm... maybe it's because MF is way in the background.

C'mon people. It's a crane and the supports for the new coaster. Nothing in that pics is over 1000 ft.

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I just checked the live park cam and it doesnt look like there is a crane. But I'm not sure if you can see area 51.

Jeff said:

You mean other than Power Tower and Wicked Twister?
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Whoops. Did I say CP hasn't started before an announcement? I mean to say that this isn't the first time CP has started before an announcement. That's what I get for trying to get a post off right before I leave work for the week. :)

Anywho, more examples. Ground clearing for MF started in the '98-'99 offseason when the CP & LE was rerouted a bit, as well as when some of the clearing began. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Mean Streak clearing started before an announcement as well. Basically, any large project needs some sort of a head start.

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Scott W. Short
scott@midwestcoastercentral.com
http://www.midwestcoastercentral.com

*** This post was edited by ShiveringTim on 9/13/2002. ***

I think the photos look fake... the trees right in front of the supports on the first one look too dark compared to the rest of the trees around them. Also in the second photo, it looks like there's a tree right in the middle of the magnum track. Maybe I'm wrong... this p.o.s. 14" monitor isn't the best for viewing pictures!

I'm going to the park tommorrow, and I can find out if it's true or not.

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You wanna know what Millenium Force is on a scale from 1-10? That's easy, a bajillion out of ten.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Who took those pictures, where is this young fellow. The pictures are real.

Cedar Point voted #1

Millennium Force voted #1

Have you seen it (the real thing, I mean)?

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You wanna know what Millenium Force is on a scale from 1-10? That's easy, a bajillion out of ten.

rollercoasterfan, Trees that are different colors? OMG! Who's ever seen something like that before? ;-) That's crazy. Of course trees are different colors. Look outside. And the tree that you claim is in the middle of Magnum track is in front of it. Like everyone else said. It's not so unbelieveable that they've started vertical construction.

Get over it.

Eric

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A one that is not cold, is hardly a one at all.