track sighted at Cedar Point!!

Thanx Peabody! Another bit of knowledge, yipee!

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Peabody said:

Helios: Setpoint debuted a model of their seismic coaster in 2000. There are some pics here: http://club.coasterbuzz.com/features/iaapa2000/gallery/ It's a steel racer that shares a single track.
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- Peabody

Setpoint Seizmic model (1)
Setpoint Seizmic model (2)

this type of coaster looks interesting. was thare ever any talk of adding a second row of seats below the first set? this would create the first coaster that i know of with riders stacked over each other. opinions?

Actually, a long, LONG time ago there was a coaster where riders were "stacked" vertically....called the Whirl-Fly.....

I yold the guy who runs the www.rcdb.com website about the track sightings at Cedar Point and this is what he had to say. Cedar Point has not revealed any information on this roller coaster at this time. However, new roller coaster track has been spotted behind the Mean Streak. It seems safe to assume the 2003 attraction that has been advertised in the park is a roller coaster. This track appears to be the same as other roller coasters purchased from the Intamin AG company in Switzerland. If the rumors are true, this may be a 420 foot tall launched roller coaster hitting around 110 mph. Basically a very big brother to the Xcellerator at Knott's Berry Farm. A 420 foot tall and 110 mph roller coaster would be the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster. But make no mistake, these are only rumors at this time.

Setpoint Seizmic model (1)
Setpoint Seizmic model (2)

this type of coaster looks interesting. was thare ever any talk of adding a second row of seats below the first set? this would create the first coaster that i know of with riders stacked over each other. opinions?

I was just thinking the same thing looking at the pics. Why leave all that space below the seats , kinda pointless, if its there ya might as well use that space up and add more seats. Wouldn't it also be kinda dangerous to have the wheels that close to the riders as shown in the 1st pic?

Beeman65, I copied this from Cedar Points web site. Nothing intertwines now, but they are planning for the furure.

Cedar Point is not running out of room for expansion. When we added the tallest roller coaster in the world for the 2000 season, we employed strategies that are allowing us to grow in spite of our limited land area. The Cedar Point & Lake Erie Railroad track was moved to accommodate Millennium Force, and the Giant Wheel was relocated to a vacant space along the beach. Such creative use and rearrangement of our current and future rides and attractions will allow us to keep growing in the future

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Actually, I think it is a good possibility that the red and white track will mingle with the Millennium Force track. As long as the Red, White, and Blue [from the Force] are right next to each other [or appear to be] from the drive up the causeway, it would have the same effect. I'm having a hard time picturing where exactly the tophat will be from the causeway view, though.

I think it will be the best in the park.

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Your all a bunch of Honses

DorneyDante said:

Setpoint Seizmic model (1)
Setpoint Seizmic model (2)
this type of coaster looks interesting. was thare ever any talk of adding a second row of seats below the first set? this would create the first coaster that i know of with riders stacked over each other. opinions?

I was just thinking the same thing looking at the pics. Why leave all that space below the seats , kinda pointless, if its there ya might as well use that space up and add more seats. Wouldn't it also be kinda dangerous to have the wheels that close to the riders as shown in the 1st pic?

i imagine it could be dangerous but more than likely thare would be some kind of safety covering and the riders would also probably be at least an arms length away if there isint something restricting arm/leg movement in that direction.

i took a second look at this prototype and realized that the stress that the wheels would be under would be tremendous. this design idea will probably have to wait for new wheel technolgy.

ondrew

beeman65 said:

Spryboy said:

Cedar Point has stated in the past that they are designing rides to intertwine to save space.

They have? I don't recall MF and Wicked Twister intertwining with anything..
Iron Dragon and Mantis intertwine ;)
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If only I could legally drive from Mich to CP at MF's top speed. I could shave 42 minutes off my drive time.

I'm sorry, but I still don't see it opening after 2003. If they were to work on it over this winter and next, they wouldn't be putting up the track now. They would be doing excavating and putting up footers, and the like, maybe some supports as well. They wouldn't be putting up the actual track, and leave part of it hanging there for a year. I don't see how it would take them two years to build a coaster, especially if rumors are correct that they're taking apart Troika and Chaos early in the year. The coaster may be higher than Millenium Force, but few will argue that it will be longer, which wouldn't make it much (if more) bigger of a project as Millenium Force, and with them starting it before the end of the season, had no trouble finishing it by the start of the next season. When Jeff said there's something we won't like about it, I can't see him meaning a year late.

Over the river and through the woods and under Mantis we go :)

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Cedar Point FanBoy since 2001.

did anybody think it could be intamin's first flying coaster? it sounds like quite a stretch but at this point it is very possible.

CP ismyhome said:

Jeff said a while, not a year. CP makes anouncements in October. Just six weeks or so and we will know.

Yeah, unless you count Wicked Twister, Lighthouse Point, Millennium Force, Camp Snoopy...

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"Let's stop saying 'don't quote me,' because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." - Dogma, KMFDM

Hey SigmaCP..........who's to say you can't drive 93 on Michigan highway's?

Ever in a hurry to get to Millennium Mania? You can find someone to follow on 275 down by Detroit, trust me. ;)

Heck just today I was driving home from Lansing, after getting out of rush hour, I was doing about 85 and had some moron on my tail the whole way home! I am sick and tired of people who think just because you have a sports car and you are going fast, that they can follow you and not have to worry about getting stopped!

Anyway.......back on topic, if this is going to be such a huge massive ride, won't they need to start construction soon? Which means that not long after they start construction an announcement will need to be made..........wishful thinking.

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Mantis and Iron Dragon don't go through eachother do they? Don't they just pass eachother? MF Maniac, when did anybody say that it was opening up after 2003?

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I say the colors have something to do with the other coasters. We will just have to wait for the anouncements.

a couple of people. Stitch for one. His thinking was that when Jeff said there would be one thing we wouldn't like about it, it would be it opening in 2004.

PlayerPunk... not sure if it meets your definition of intertwining, but the lift hill for Mantis has supports that cross over the first lift for Iron Dragon. You can see it in this picture www.guidetothepoint.com/gallery/cp99mantislooplift.jpg

well... that is the picture but you can only see it by going to guidetothepoint.com/gallery and look at the "loop and lift" picture in the mantis gallery

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*** This post was edited by probie on 8/22/2002. ***

Yeh, I've been thinking and preeching that all along steelraptor! Good looks.