rain2836

Hello rain2836... While we appreciate your eagerness to post to the TPR forums, we ask that you take the time to post using proper spelling and grammar. Text message shorthand is not allowed on these forums, per the Terms of Service you agreed to when joining the forums. That being said, the ride was in extremely poor condition when we saw it in 2006, and as you saw in the video previously posted, taking this thing down to begin with was no easy feat. At a certain point it makes more sense to put the money spent on refurbishing, rebuilding and repainting a previously operating ride towards the purchase of a new attraction that will inevitably have a longer service life. Few parks get the value for their investment when taking old rides like these that were already worn down by the time they were taken down only to put them back up. BMRX didn't pay off for Camelot when they rebuilt it as Knightmare (and they had the extra work that went into removing the mountain facade that wrapped around much of the ride's structure), Starliner didn't pay off for Cypress Gardens Adventure Park and Flashback certainly didn't pan out for Six Flags Magic Mountain despite its long time in the park (four of its fifteen years spent Standing But Not Operating). Rare examples of the successful relocation of rides include Phoenix at Knoebels and Dominator at Kings Dominion. It isn't to say that rides cannot be successfully transplanted to a new park to operate for many additional years (Six Flags used to cycle their rides throughout their parks semi-frequently), but it is a matter of maintenance and cost for these attractions that allows them to be moved with value to new homes. Hard Rock Park/Freestyle Music Park's entire catalog was distributed across several parks with the selling point being that the rides were lightly used and practically new. Had those rides not been maintained during the park's years of closure, they would not likely have been as appealing to a seller or prospective park to reinstall it. Poor maintenance of the already poor ride is the reason why that standup coaster was not fit or worthwhile to rebuild inside of Darien Lake. Ok and I will restate that I used to work for the park so I already know how the ride looked like when I was working there. It was due to another site talking about it or a ride to replace it, the only reason that I brought it up is the location of that the site.

Oh ik that's why parc n cnl bought motocoaster instead, but it was accidentally dropped.

It's because I was looking at a rollercoaster site and they brought it up.

Where is that? One location was down in front of the park by ride of steel, and the second one was in the back of the park where they would of destroyed the gokarts and would of put the lift out to the lake over tins and back towards the overflow area of the campgrounds.

Why do we even think that the park will even get a new coaster if they do, cnl/premier would Pennypinch and either but the second train n switch it with the other one every other year or not buy one at all. Plus it's cheaper to have it sand blasted and fixed right but the majority of the Money would go to the trains which is why we have motocoaster instead of the stand up.

Yea it's been exposed to the elements, the only thing that caught my attention to it on that site was the location if where they were talking about, that was parc's original area of where they wanted to put it.

I have never visited that site before, but after a quick paruse, I would not put much into what they are saying for 2017. That old stand up coaster will not ever be built at DL or any park for that matter. It was not taken down properly, so putting it back up is now impossible. Oh I used to work at the park but it does bring up a few points, even though it was taken apart wrong the only issues that it had was the cap off the lift whch dropped which was what I have heard from people in maintenance when I was there, but whoever knows at this point.

Just a quick question, does anyone know if ultimaterollercoaster.com, has any valid creditable information on anything that is posted on that site?