1. They wanted a giant hyper coaster
2.There is a giant vacant plot of land they own behind Dragon Khan
3. Placing the lift over Dragon Khan was the best way to keep the station near an existing area of the park and the best way to use that land to accomplish the first two points.
My sources tell me this coaster is the beginning of a grand plot to copy all of busch gardens' coasters. You should expect to see copies of Shiekra, Scorpion, and Gwazi in the coming years....
This would be great as long as they don't replace the trains. Those beautiful four benchers are almost signature of that ride now. There one of the last operating examples of four bench trains today as well...
Wow, that thing's hauling ass even without people! Hopefully they don't trim it down within the first month like they did with montu . But knowing montu, it probably will still kick ass anyways
Bout time they use that empty plot of land. I always would design coasters for that section on No Limits for fun. Never thought they would actually use it soon but that's cool. Dragon Khan will be a little dwarf no though! Not that i'm complaining about some hypercoaster that will probably rock
Dang, there's almost too many projects to follow now
The blue paint looks awesome on California screamin'. I remember my first ride in 2004....Ahhh what a great coaster. That rock work looks really amazing too
Millennium Force. I was waiting in line about five minutes to park closing. The whole queue for the front row was filled and the yellow train was in the station. All the sudden i heard, "we need a single rider in the front row". And nobody in front of me was a single rider! I jumped through the line and got right on the yellow train on a beautiful night right as the fireworks were going off. Ahhh...what a great ride. Didn't think much of it during the daytime but after that night ride.... Definitely a #1 coaster there.
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