I was at Waldameer over Memorial Day weekend and took some pictures. I will get them posted shortly.
The new spinning mouse looks great. I'd say it's about half built. When we were there, they were doing some welding to what looked like metal that will be used for a station.
Next year? I am not sure about that -- I'd be pretty doubtful actually.
They are getting closer to getting all the permits and clearences that they need, but that's not to say that the nieghbors won't try a few more legal tricks to delay things.
Hey, if it's by the end of June... I'll be happy. I think I'm going to make a pit-stop here on the way to CP.. considering it's free parking & free entrance, I'm only going to go in for the un-named spinning mouse, their log ride & possibly their Comet.
I called Waldameer just a few minutes ago (trying to decide whether or not to head up to Erie tonight or tomorrow) and they date they gave me is July 4th.
Damn... so much for hitting it opening date... The park is packed on the 4th of July. Oh well... I wouldn't be suprised if it didn't open until aroun July 10th or so...
Well, I took a ride out to the park today... surprising... one of the developers from Maurer Sohne was at the park helping to get it running. The coaster started testing today around 12:30. I never realized how fast the lift on this puppy is (although it might actually just because it is only 50ft tall).
The coaster has 8 cars... very nice cars to, although the test car is still in the back lot (the test one is exactly the same as the one we saw over at Alton Towers for their test car). The cars are very nice, with a big dragon decal on the side.
The ride has yet to be named, but the ride will open on Friday, July 2nd.
The ride was running fast today, but they were just doing physical along with running the diagnostic tests. 2 of the ride ops there were kind of annoying.. they kept yelling when I was just sitting there watching... but whatever. (forgot camera too, make me mad, I wish I lived closer, but I didn't feel like driving a 1/2 hour home and back to take pics).
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