What's CP building right now by Magnum?

Those footers are awfully big... I would pretty much rule a junior coaster out.

*** This post was edited by Wickedtwist02 on 5/11/2002. ***

Who knows really we'll jus have to wait and see

Three evenly spaced footers can very well be for a flat ride. As for the comment that was made about having more than two flat rides in an area, well there was a time when there was four and five BIG spectaculars in an area at Cedar Point. Before the Corkscrew and Gemini the flat rides outnumbered the coasters at least six to one. Personelly, I think that CP needs more iron to balence out the high rides. Believe it or not, not everybody rides coasters.

15 coasters, 53 other rides.

So the coasters are only outnumbered 3 1/2 to 1. Oh no!

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How could the ride be a Sling Shot? The footers have round bolts/connecters on them. The slingshots are triangular structures, not to mention the fact that they are double the size of those CP footers at the base. Just look at the new one in Old Town, in Florida.

http://www.thrillrideexperience.com/oldtown/images/slingshotnew.jpg

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Those footers in the Dogdem I area are nothing like the footers of PKI's SlingShot. They aren't even close enough to even be able to say that those footers could be a slingshot. SlingShot's footers are a large pad of concrete with three connections to the triagular support. Here's a picture:

http://www.pkiunlimited.com/gallery/workers_on_KC_station_roof.jpg

The only way that the footers at Cedar Point would be for a SlingShot is if they used hollow cylinder supports for the towers, but with the way they are positioned diagonally in the air, that would be a lot of weight on that footer, and they don't want another VertiGo debacle. The footers in the Dogdems area don't spread the weight out like a large pad would.

There isn't just construction in that area. Now, there is a cleared path on Millennium's Island that is in the shape of a bend or a turn. So, I'm wondering if Cedar Point doesn't surprise us with another large-scale ride. Whether it be another Sky Ride or a coaster. People say that they don't put two major attractions in back to back, but even though there isn't a ride put in, they still put in a large amount of money. So it's the same thing!

*** This post was edited by mforcealldaway on 6/23/2002. ***

I have seen a cement truck along with other people in the clearing in the woods by ID. They have been doing some night work or something in the cleared out area. Why would they build a sky ride at night, and why not start it until the end of the season? The footers are around 30ft deep and probably cost around $100,000.

I think that Cedar Point needs to add an X type coaster, to add to it's world class collection! Of course, if Cedar Point builds this type of coaster it would have to top X at SFMM in some form. By the way, what is the latest news on X at SFMM?

It could be many things. However I didn't think flat rides usually required footers. From what I see at Six Flags Great Adventure, flat rides are just set into a lot of poured cement. But I do think that a TA2K is a possibility. I have never been to Cedar Point so I cannot accurately guess how large or small the area is.

Maybe MF has become a "project" and will be expanded every few years so that eventually it will take up the whole mass of the CP penninsula and then people will quit saying "CP is running out of land" they will say "MF is running out of land". lol And another thing. The footers and bolts being different from all other upcharge attractions doesn't mean that it isn't one. Look at the structure on MF. It is different then other steel rides. And the S&S rides. If you didn't know how they were designed and only saw a air cylander you would "guarantee" it wasn't a coaster. For all we know it could be anything from a resaurant to a coaster. Let's think scientifically "only actual evidence will be accepted", no more speculating.

You know what Cedar Point is building by Magnum......nothing. they are building nothing because they havnt announced they were building nothing yet, so i am going to assume they are building nothing.

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The fact that it has 3 footers has been making me think for a while. I was hoping a Top Spin (large or small) would be cool, but the 3rd footer...

Evil CP! ;)

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Me, myself, not that it is proven, if it is true about people and a cement truck in the woods by ID, then im thinking a large Xcelerator type Rocket Intamin, I mean, what other coaster doesn't CP have, besides a floorless, or a 4D, and will never be geting a 4D with Arrow in backruptcy trouble.

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2003: Steel coaster

2004: Wooden coaster

The rumor has ended with this confirmed information.

Confirmed information? But then that REALLY conflicts with their style of every two years. Thats 3 in a row. I could see one this year because WT is a great coaster but its not the record smasher that CP usually goes for. But a steel then a wood in a row? Odd ...

Screamscape has heard rumors about a larger version of Xcelerator going into Cedar Point. I don't know if it is true or not, but there is a lot of weird things happening.

2 launched coasters in a row...

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Yeah, I can see to lauched coasters in a row. They built 14 chain lifts in a row. They were different types I know, but so would these two lauched coasters. It's not like they'd be building a double-twisting impulse and then a single-twisting impulse. They'd be building an impulse then a rocket coaster with a faster launch and it's full circuit.

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