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It's not officially run by Cedar Point, so you can't trust anything it says as 100% accurate.

^ Easy to relocate but a nightmare to maintain. Viper was 25 years old and had already been relocated once, and with the Schwarzkopf company non-existent, parks just aren't interested in buying these coasters because of how hard it would be to get parts for them. That's why so many Schwarzkopfs are dying...

^ 50 feet is pretty generous in Tokyo anyway! Anyway have you heard anything about what's gonna happen to it? It's just SBNO according to RCDB but it being a brand new coaster I'd expect them to pack it up and either ship it back to Intamin or relocate it...

Well, only 3 Intamin Halfpipe coasters have been built so far, and only 2 of them are operating. One is at Six Flags Elitch Gardens in the US, the closest one to the UK is the one in Finland: http://www.rcdb.com/id1826.htm

...It's happened several times on real coasters you know.

He was still on the train, the guy that got off with the girl wasn't the same one that dropped the camera.

More like a HUGE (180 feet!) Batflyer with better capacity. And I don't think it will be like a zipline, it probably has steel track just like a regular Batflyer. It's listed as steel on RCDB, and if it was just a cable, it wouldn't be a coaster. (Sky Rides aren't credits last I checked anyway! )

I think when it was first built, Big One was actually the coaster with the tallest hill. It's taller than Magnum or Desperado at 213 feet, and Fujiyama wasn't built until 1996. Steel Phantom and Desperado both had longer drops, but Big One was the tallest above ground.

I just saw about a 3 minute clip of the movie on a TV preview, and I can say that the coaster crash looks a lot more realistic than it did in the original trailer. A quick summary: Girl and friends get into train, guy next to her has the camera, takes a flash picture, and the ride op says to put it away. He does, but a guy in another car also has a camera, and hides it inside his jacket before pulling it out near the top of the lift. As the train goes through the ride, the camera repeatedly shows a shot of a leaking hydraulic line on the bottom of the train. When the coaster goes through the loop, the guy with the camera accidentally drops it at the top. Camera falls, and the strap catches on the track, wrapping the camera around one of the rails. Coaster comes through the loop and runs over the camera, simultaneously knocking a wheel loose and cutting the hydraulic line, which releases the OTSRs. Coaster keeps going, the loose wheel assembly and axle drag along the track, causing sparks to fly. Eventually the axle breaks off, causing some wheels to go flying from the train. Another piece of the undercarriage of the train falls off going down the drop leading into the loop, cutting through the track. The coaster stalls at the top of the loop from loss of speed, and everybody is left holding on for dear life. That's where the clip I saw ended, but the obvious conclusion is that the train ends up rolling backwards from the top of the loop, hitting the section of broken track, and derailing. And as for the gum, if you've seen the first 2 Final Destination movies, the big opening crash scene always occurs first as a premonition by the main character, and once the premonition ends, something small and insignificant from the start of the premonition comes true, telling them that it's actually going to happen. In this case, the first thing in the premonition part is the guy next to the girl gets his hand stuck in gum, and then it flashes back to reality after the crash sequence and the same thing happens.

http://www.rcdb.com/pd1376.htm Another Chinese park that just popped up on RCDB with 4 coasters for '06: family coaster, Vekoma Motorbike, spinning mouse, and a clone of Colossus at Thorpe...looks like the inversion record is gonna be tied now.

I still wonder why people think that if BPB built a coaster into the ocean it'd be a first... http://www.rcdb.com/id1258.htm

^ Plus Cedar Point is normally so tight-lipped about their new rides that I don't see why they'd even acknowledge the name this long before the ride is built. I have a new theory...maybe "Maverick" is the key part of a catchphrase for a new ride? Kinda like how "Fly at the speed of fear" is the big thing for Tatsu.

Planning and design for a major coaster usually takes 2-3 years...Dragster was first conceived not long after Millenium Force opened. If it's as big as everybody's been saying it's gonna be, they probably have the ride designed and the manufacturer picked out already and they're just working on all the calculations and tweaks in the design to get all the forces right.

And for those that have been on the boards for awhile just like to have fun with this type of shit. Psh, I heard it's gonna be a launched inverted wild mouse log flume...built by Vekoma! (I know exactly where you're coming from I just don't want this topic to get beat to death with speculation for the next year. -_-)

^ I was one of the non-believers but it was amazing how seriously people discussed the possibility.

"Those who talk don't know and those who do know don't talk." It's a name, that's it. We have nearly a year to speculate so don't be jumping to anything. The evidence points to it being a big coaster (look at the number of different trademarks for this thing and compare them to those for Skyhawk!), but there is no way to tell what it is. B&M Flyer, Floorless, Dive Machine, Intamin multilooper, prefab woodie, Vekoma Thrill Lift, S&S 4D...take your pick, but you just can't tell. And no offense to any of you with "sources but aren't allowed to say anything," but I just don't trust secondhand rumors. I kept my mind open for '06 until the top piece of Skyhawk arrived in the parking lot, even when people had been saying Screamin' Swing for months. Remember the rumor in '02 about "Area 51" being the world's tallest revolving restaurant? Lots of people believed that...I'm sure Dragster disappointed them deeply.

I always wanted to see a coaster with that figure eight loop that Schwarzkopf designed but never built. Crazy man, that Anton guy was.

http://www.amusementbusiness.com/amusementbusiness/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001806256 Harborland and Phoenix Mountain's Happy Park are the same place, and it's not an inverted coaster, it's a sitdown multi-looper.

Look at the source code, and delete "not." That should give you a start.

That zero-g roll looks almost like the top of one of those double twists on an SLC, with how curved it is going in and coming out of it.

Mantis doesn't feel rough to me, I think there's just a certain amount of discomfort that comes with any stand-up coaster. It's one of the largest ones with the most Gs, so the pain factor is probably magnified. The forces put a lot of pressure on your ankles and if you're a guy...well, you get the idea! But overall the ride itself feels pretty smooth.

I think MF is an OK coaster...I put it #1 on my list but that's only because I've only been to CP and Geauga Lake. The first drop is awesome, even the swiftness going up the cable lift is a fun part of the ride. The Gs you pull in the first overbank are pretty intense, the hills going to/returning from the island give some nice airtime (although not as good as it used to be...), and that little bunny hill that runs parallel to the station is another nice pop. But other than that, I feel the layout is kinda boring after riding it a dozen or so times. The whole turnaround section is really dull, and I just feel they could've done more as far as a big twist of steel on the island and made it a lot more intense. It's overrated, but still probably the best coaster in the park.

They won't sell Great Adventure, that's probably their second most important park behind Magic Mountain. And you'd be surprised how much money 2 small parks are worth. I don't think the plans are really to completely eliminate the debt, but get it to an acceptable level. Any major company for the most part has some debt, and even if they got rid of it completely, they'd quickly go back into debt again just from the amount of money it takes to keep the parks running.

I think Six Flags Mexico could be one they'd sell, over the past couple years the company has really withdrawn from the market outside the US. As for the other one, I dunno, Frontier City or Enchanted Village? I just have a feeling it'd be one of the smaller parks they own that doesn't carry the Six Flags name.

I don't think they're counting it as an inversion: http://www.rcdb.com/id3117.htm Loop, zero-g, "Jr. Immelman," and 2 corkscrews. RCDB says 4 inversions, so this must be the odd one out. *Edit* Yeah, if you check the definition for Jr. Immelman it says it isn't a true inversion.