WestCoasterKing

Not even. One is a nickname of the existing name, the other is the previous name of a renamed ride.

That would be fraud. There are laws against it. Investors are trusting you to be honest with them. It's not worth it for a park to fudge the numbers, even a little bit. The cost if they got caught would bankrupt even Disney, let alone smaller parks/chains. So then why did Expedition Everest cost $100 million dollars? The ride itself is not that advanced or complicated. No it was the cost of building the freaking mountain itself.

Does anyone think the barral roll bridge is a little much? It's huge and imposing. It kind of overwhelms and distracts from the gracefulness of the overall structure.

Can I still say Monty?

^ the Boomerang comment was a joke, yo.

Yeah Invertigo was a cool ride.

I don't know who said. I didn't see that in the permit either. I think it was assumed because height is the only thing they need permission for maybe?

Yes, in theory it could be 100' or taller Well then maybe they are getting Boomerang? It's just a short truck ride upstate. Think of all the savings. Boom is already paid for. Transport costs are basically nil. They just have to reassemble it! I jest of course. It's a joke. I'm trying to make a joke. Did I succeed?

So it could be higher than 100.

^ So is the filing for a ride that is exactly 100 feet or is it just approval to break 100 feet?

It's not really new, but the Vekoma Stingray is 103 feet tall. https://rcdb.com/4124.htm please no !! I hope the park would shy away from putting in a low capacity ride in the place of a previous low capacity ride. Are you talking about CGA or Knott's?

Boomerang is 116.5 feet. What is the height limit for CGA?

Good point. If you're right then who gets it you think? It still begs the question what this new coaster type is. The Raptor/T-Rex is the only thing revealed in the part grew years that qualifies. I can't see them thinking a launched spinning shuttle coaster with a revolving loading platform as new and innovative.

Hopkins made some nice log chutes. Too bad they tried their hand at coasters and failed so miserably it nearly bankrupted them. Whatever happened to them?

I know this is off topic, but you are wrong. Knott's does not offer passes that last 12 months. Their passes go until December 31st, which is why it makes the most sense to purchase them at the start of the year. They do have a season pass season... it just lasts from January to December! I know this isn't the Knott's thread so I'll just say this one thing and then go away. I remember the season used to be the way I described. Then again it has been a very long time since I had one seeing as I don't live in California. But I got one years ago when I was going to UCLA. I also had Disneyland (Boy that one went up in price. I remember it was around $150 bucks for one back in the day) and Magic Mountain passes. I guess things are different in which case you are correct and it does make sense.

They aren't going to announce until it's almost finished. So picking it apart is all we have.

What do you make of this? They have piled the broken concrete on the slab and the Bobcats are taking dirt from the hole where the station used to be and are piling it onto the debris pile while the backhoe seems to be shaping the pile.

But Knott's is yesr round and they don't have a season pass season. You can get one anytime and it's good for twelve months. It doesn't make any sense to wait.

I did too but I think the OP should've done themselves. Looks really cool honestly. Small but cool. Literally. It's probably around 50 degrees down there.

An RMC Raptor would make sense. Isn't that supossed to be around 100 feet? It's also new and innovative. I no longer think Knott's is getting one of these. They will be ready to start construction very soon and the Raptor is still in testing phase last we all heard. Whatever Knott's has planned has to approved, paid for and ready to go. But CGA appears to still be in the planning stages. Makes more sense than Knott's right now. That leaves me wondering what Knott's will get. I hope the renewed relationship isn't S&S. Anything but that piece of crap.

Might help if you posted a link.

I hope Knott's doesn't do that.

Is it common for a park to go so long into construction before announcing what the ride is?

Knott's Network posted pictures today showing that the work fence has been extended all the around the facepainting building at the south end of the Boardwalk by Johnny Rockets. Someone else noticed that Rip Tide's old mechanical building was still standing as well. I wonder why? The work order Knott's Network posted a few weeks back listed Boomerang, the station, the Hat Shop, a merchandise building (presumably California Sports) and an electrical building as being on the docket for demolition, but not the facepainting building. I wonder if the Rip Tide structure is the electrical building that was listed, or if this is going to be a new round of work going on down there while work begins on the new ride at the other. Too bad we won't be able to watch it on the webcam.

Arrow built the first coasters over 200 feet and they coined the term 'hyper' in 1989, but for a long time every coaster over 200 feet, even those by other manufacturers, were all a certain type of non-inverting airtime coaster. With the exception of Steel Phantom (which only reaches 200 plus feet on a technicality) there were no inverting coasters taller than 200 feet until Manhattan Express in 1997 and then there wasn't another until 2002 with X or 2005's SheiKra depending on your definition of an inversion. Sorry, no, shuttle coasters do not count because the train never reaches the stated height. I don't give damn about structure height. It should be the height the rider reaches. Period! Over time the term 'hyper' has become more synonymous with the type rather than the height. Even Intamin uses the terms 'mega', 'giga' and 'strata' for height, and 'hyper' for style. B&M also only uses 'hyper' for style and doesn't use "giga' or 'strata' at all (all B&M gigas are called such by their respective parks. not by the company). Technically coasters between 200 and 299 feet are still classified as 'hyper' because it was the first term coined, but most enthusiasts that I know only use the term for a certain style of coaster. I don't know a single enthusiast who calls Xcelerator or Valrayn hyper coasters. Not one.