Valleyfair announces Xtreme Swing

Well the large flat rides might cost the same as a new wooden coaster. But your missing some very important other factors to consider why they would choose the large flat ride. The maintenance cost for a wooden roller coaster I am sure is much larger, and over time can be a big difference in cost compared to a flat ride.

Another issue is land. A large flat ride does not take up nearly as much land as a wooden roller coaster. At Cedar Point, MaxAir probably required moving some shops, games, smaller rides, but did not require much more. A medium sized wooden coaster would take up much more land, and Cedar Point or any other park for that matter would either have the space, or require them to remove some decent sized rides. Even the antique cars at PKI had to be removed to make way for Italian Job.

So Cedar Point and Valley Fair thought this ride would be a nice addition that could fit rather easily in the park. Also less maintenance than a coaster, translates into a relatively affordable, marketable, compact, new ride. It is a way of adding something new without breaking the bank or using all the free space you have. A smart move that more parks are doing inbetween years of major coaster additions. Look at PKI, between Son of Beast and Italian Job, they added Delerium and Tomb Raider. Although Tomb Raider is sort of a bad example since it was rather expensive, they still liked the idea of adding large flat rides inbetween those years that they added a big new coaster.

Most of the MiA attendance reports speak of a 20% or greater jump in attendance from the previous year. If that held true throughout the summer, that means their new addition drew as almost many new people through the gates as a coaster at one of the mid-sized CF parks.

It was a waterslide instead of a coaster. So what?

-'Playa

Xtreme Swing?!? I thought we were done with this whole "X" and "EXTREME" thing...

I was there yesterday and took some pics of the construction area.

http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_sign.jpg
http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_1.jpg
http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_2.jpg
http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_3.jpg
http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_4.jpg
http://www.rctarchitects.org/valleyfair/xtreme_swing_5.jpg

What is the difference between riding a Swing in a playground and this ride? This ride looks really stupid, why would you spend any amount of money on a swing. Even the video on the Valleyfair website says "This is not your backyard swing", right it looks just like a big swing?!?

This ride seem like a '"econo" version of a HUSS giant frisbee. Swinging back and forth without the rotation. If Cedar Point would add this ride, it seems like a step backwards from the same ride they just added this year.

Unfortunatly, Cedar Point is getting one, end of story. The piece that sits on top of the ride with the three arch's is sitting in the Soak City lot. I'm really dissapointed with the decision. Why they decided to put thing in is beyond me, it's the same thing as Maxair, and it doesn't spin! IMO a Skyswater would have been way better.

So what if it's like MaXair? People who don't like the spining motion of MaXair can go on this ride and enjoy it. I think that this is a good move for all the people who wanted to go on MaXair, but couldn't because it spins.

MaXair doesn't even spin fast like other flats.

I really don't know about CP and a screamin swing, it does seem like they could have put the money elsewhere.

The spinning motion of the Huss giant frisbee isn't enough to feel the force of spinning. It simply just puts you at a different position on each swing. Which gives the ride much more variety than just swining back and forth.

This isn't the first time Cedar Point has had repeat rides. Even though these aren't the exact same thing, remember Tiki Twirl and Calypso.......2 Dodgems....Antique Cars and Cadillac Cars......

It doesn't matter if you feel the force of the spinning or not.

People with weak stomachs are going to say "It spins, I'm not going on"... now with Xtreme Swing there's a ride they can go on. I've heard similar comments at Dorney near both Revolution and Screamin' Swing. I've ridden the SS at Dorney several times (not to mention the one at Knott's) as well as Revolution countless times, and the feeling is quite different. Screamin' Swing is a lot more open, and you actually feel like you're going upside down... I don't get those feelings on Revolution. It seems to me that the slight spin does indeed change the ride experience.

Question: The people who are saying 'Xtreme Swing is too much like maXair'... have you ever ridden a Screamin' Swing?

I think a Frisbee is more like a Pirate than a Screamin' Swing.

Also, anyone notice that they stole that name from Kennywood?

Xtreme Swing was one of the finalists in the name-that-ride contest for KP's swing. First the Steel Phantom logo, now this. ;)

Perhaps the name came from S&S, and it was they who "stole" it? Just because we call it a "40-seater version of the Screamin' Swing" doesn't mean that S&S would necessarily keep the same name between the models.

Or perhaps I'm wrong and they were straining their necks. :)

Not the name Screamin' Swing. That's the S&S name.

The name Xtreme Swing was a finalist in Kennywood's swing name contest, and now it's the name of a Cedar Fair ride.

I know the original ride's name from S&S is Screamin' Swing.

I know Xtreme Swing was a finalist.

My point is that S&S may have taken the name Xtreme Swing, and decided to name the 40-seat "version" of Screamin' Swing, 'Xtreme Swing' instead of 'Screamin Swing - 40' to differentiate between the two versions.

IF that is the case (which I don't know if it is or not), then that could/would be why CF went with it.

Nice construction photos on valleyfair.com. Check it out ya'll http://www.valleyfair.com/news/the_scoop/construction_gallery.cfm