I know this just be my mind playing with me but I noticed on the CP home page where the panarama pic of cp is; the picture is now longer, and the force is now closer to where is says cedar point. Mabye an annoucement soon, even though we already know what is comming, I think it would make my Christmas.
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WoodenCyclone: You do actually make a lot of sense. And that's what it would appear to be like to the GP. You said:
All the sudden Steel Dragon, beat MF's record by 2ft or something close to that.
And it appeared that SD2K was purposely made to beat the height record. Your only problem is, you don't know the true facts. Both rides were planned way in advance and SD2K beating the height record only a short while after MF was built is complete coincidence.
RollerJunkie said:
WoodenCyclone: You do actually make a lot of sense. And that's what it would appear to be like to the GP. You said:
All the sudden Steel Dragon, beat MF's record by 2ft or something close to that.
And it appeared that SD2K was purposely made to beat the height record. Your only problem is, you don't know the true facts. Both rides were planned way in advance and SD2K beating the height record only a short while after MF was built is complete coincidence.
No really? , you can just contact Morgan, and have them whip you up a giga coaster over night can you? , I know the facts , but im sure in the amusment park industry word gets around as to who is building what. understand?. If you can alwmost say its like your neighbor is going to get steeping stones put infront of your house, and the old lady across the street told you, so you had the idea first, but now your going to get the better stones. (That is if you want to put it in lanex terms), and for ur information I happen to know alot about rollercoasters, and amusmentparks, and it is not just little bits I have picked up off coaster websites, Amusment parks have been apart of my life for well over 10yrs easy, or if maybe even all my life.
WoodenCyclone said:
(That is if you want to put it in lanex terms), and for ur information I happen to know alot about rollercoasters, and amusmentparks, and it is not just little bits I have picked up off coaster websites, Amusment parks have been apart of my life for well over 10yrs easy, or if maybe even all my life.
That means nothing. Maybe you should have spent some of those years learning to spell! Try to type like a grown-up, huh?
The fact is many of us have been riding for well over 20 years, some of us have have been to Nagashima Spaland :) , but that all means nothing, just like what you said.
Contrary to what you may think, secrecy is very important in the industry for the very reasons you mentioned. Yes, it is a small industry, but I seriously doubt a firm in CA building in Japan had much contact with a firm in Europe building in OH. It's also to their advantage to keep their mouths shut. They want to have the biggest coaster in the world too!
SD2K was not 2 feet taller, it was close to 10, and you have to remember why it had it's height.....they don't use feet. SD2K cracked the 90 meter height and that's how it was advertised. (My one T-Shirt from it doesn't even say world's tallest, but it does say "taller than 90 meters".)
One last thing: What the hell is "Lanex terms"? Did you mean "layman's terms"? (Concentrate on English class more, and rollercoasters less, huh?)
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Before anyone says it doesn't look 400, remember MF is much closer to the camera, and Magnum is farther away.
A better judge (thought not perfect) would be to compare it to PT in the 5th picture. In the 6th picture it doesn't look that much taller than PT, but PT is MUCH closer.
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Nice, man. That makes it clear for those who dont get it. Also, Magnum looks like about 150 in that pic! 16 is much closer to Maggie than MF.
If you compare it to Maggie's first hill, it looks to be over 500 feet. You cannot compare to anything else there accurately. The only decent comparison I've seen is the 5th picture in todays VirtualMidway update. Compare it to Power Tower. Not great, but much better comparison than in the other pics (especially the ones where the perspective makes 16 look just a hair taller than PT)
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crombie914 said:
I know this just be my mind playing with me but I noticed on the CP home page where the panarama pic of cp is; the picture is now longer, and the force is now closer to where is says cedar point. Mabye an annoucement soon, even though we already know what is comming, I think it would make my Christmas.
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yeah i agree... everything looks a bit smaller... probably so the new one can fit into the pic im guessing?
i dont think its just your mind.... looks different to me too.
http://groups.msn.com/amusementparkphotography/otherphotos.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=88
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