Lagoon battles rumors as its new roller coaster faces delays

It's a good thing those complainers don't live near Elysburg.

The thing I think is interesting is the tower is considered a ride rather than a structure for inspection and safety purposes. And isn't there an elevator lift in that tower? If so, let me start my own rumor. It's the elevator.

The coaster is finished so the testing should not take too much longer.

Based on your experience opening other rides?

The coaster's been testing for a while. There's plenty of vids on YouTube showing it and I thought somewhere there was a park-produced POV, but I can't seem to find it offhand. You would think they were ready for opening, but something has pushed it back. The park isn't saying what or why, especially if it's a serious issue. Safety first.
Anyway, a delay is a delay for whatever reason and it's not uncommon. One day the ride will have its public opening and everyone up there will forget about it. Like they always do.

Beats what happened with Falcons Fury, or even worse, Flying Turns. By the way, does this ride remind anyone of Karnan going in at Hansa Park?

Do we know who built this thing yet?

It's pretty similar to Karnan.

koolcat1101 said:
The coaster is finished so the testing should not take too much longer.

That's what they said about Flying Turns...or Maverick.

^ Okay, if nothing goes wrong the coaster should open soon enough.

Happy?

Rick_UK said:
Do we know who built this thing yet?

It's pretty similar to Karnan.

Karnan is Gerstlaur, but Canibal is built in house by Lagoon.

Are you suggesting they came up with their own track and vehicle system all on their own and it just happens to look like someone else's?

When they say "in house" - I'm somewhat reminded of the Schlitterbahn/NBGS kind of arrangement. Lagoon is in Farmington, about an hour from Logan, UT (home of S&S). Just seems unlikely to me that Lagoon's definition of "in house" includes bending track steel....could be wrong on that.

That being said, it does look Gerstlauerish to me...

Apologies, aware Karnan is Gerstlauer.

I agree with the above, I think Lagoon have commissioned someone else to build it - who doesn't necessarily have a long track record in building coasters. In the same way that when they build Bombora, I think ART the German company built it, but they did mention it was in house at the time?

All of Disney's "in-house" stuff is not actually in-house. It says W.E.D. Enterprises, but it's Vekoma, or Arrow, or whatever.

As far as I know, Canibal is built in house, and I'm going with that until the park says otherwise. If it was another manufacturer, I would guess maybe Zierer.

I think they have subcontracted it, it's absolutely not built in the CEO's garage.

"Lagoon employees and city officials braved the amusement park’s most recent ride, Cannibal, Monday afternoon in the first set of human test rides."

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=35193907

Well there we have it.

"uh... Send the janitors. We'll wait here..."

That pic was taken right before they all fell out. Just like the dummies.