WestCoasterKing

I'm going to make a prediction. Just putting this out there. The new ride will be a coaster. Specifically a giga dive coaster. It will be at least 330 feet tall and 5,000 feet long. It will have 2 vertical drops, one dropping below grade, one beyond vertical. 5 inversions including the first vertical loop on a dive coaster. The name will be Centurian.

I read a report somewhere that CF recently bought a new Vekoma MK1212 train last month. So along with the care with which they are dismantling Boom it looks like it is going somewhere in the chain.

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I've heard for years that Sky Cabin can't be touched because the 'K' is a historical landmark. I was told that it's exact location in the sky is protected. I do know that Knott's originally planned to put Windseeker in Sky Cabin's spot but it would have to have been the same height and that 'K' replaced exactly. SC is 100 feet shorter than WS and it would have cost too much to refit SC into a swing ride.

That's okay by me. I can't remember the last time Aftershock valleyed and Silverwood is rarely open when temps are that low and I don't go to haunts to ride the rides anyway so it's all good

Yellow is roughly the space we are probably looking at for Boomerang's replacement. It is roughly 425' x 170'. Coral is Xcelerator's footprint, for comparison size, roughly 450' x 180'. Black is space that could be theoretically used but would require having fly over and around existing attractions. Roughly 550' x 300' in the longest directions of the "L". Intimidator 305 is 5,100 feet long and 305 feet tall with a lift hill ground length of 300 horizontal feet and sits on rectangle of land roughly 935' x 520' square. Fury 325 is 5,498 feet long and 325 feet tall with a lift hill ground length of 520 horizontal feet. It sits on an "L" shaped piece land 1,380' x 260' x 1,290' x 250'. Leviathan is 6,602 feet long and 310 feet tall with a lift hill ground length of 500 horizontal feet. It sits on an "L" shaped peice of land 1,450' x 360' x 1,135' x 250'. Based on those numbers I doubt Knott's is getting a giga or even a "hyper". But Valravn, for comparison, sits on a plot of land roughly 270' x 200'. It is 3,415 feet long and 223 feet tall with a lift hill ground length of just over 100 horizontal feet. Now I don't believe Knott's would get a clone but it gives you an idea of the space that a big dive coaster could fit in. Maybe this could be the first giga dive coaster. Maybe even be longer than GhostRider's 4,533 feet.

So far two segments plus the catwalk (three separate pieces) in one night. Watching Boom come down is like watching paint dry or water boil, no it's watching two snails race and dang it's exciting.

All this talk of gigs and hypers has me asking, is a hyper purely height or is a style of coaster? I conform to the latter school of thought. When I think of a hyper coaster I picture no inversions and lots of airtime hills and pure speed. I don't consider Xcelerator or Karnan or Cannibal or Valrayvn to be hyper coasters. Giga and strata are heights I will give you that, but hyper should be reserved for a style, a specific type of ride like launch coaster or inverted coaster or wild mouse. Am I alone in this thinking?

Why do some have these emergency catwalks and some don't? Personally I think they ugly up the simple beauty of the boomerang design, especially the giant inverts. Aftershock at Silverwood, my second favorite west coast(er) park, looks beautiful. Goliath at SFNE is butt ugly.

Could be cutting bolts. So far we have seen them carefully remove at least two segments intact. I doubt they start getting destructive now.

Can you tell was it isn't?

So we are all correct. It's a beyond vertical giga indoor dark dive water eruofighter coaster.

Yes there are. There weren't until GR and SS and then people complained. Prior to that they had never had a tall enough ride that the sound escaped the park to any significant degree. By the time SB was built the city made noise restrictions. They aren't crazy because the city knows Knott's is it's bread and butter and you can only quiet an amusement park so much, but they did set some limits. I also believe, but don't quote me on it, but they can't build any rides in the north or west overflow lots (the ones across LaPalma and Western Avenues). I think I read somewhere that the park boundries excluding parking lots are set at LaPalma, Western, Crescent and Beach. Soak City is different because it isn't open late at night.

Why close a decently popular coaster before summer for anything less? Any flat would take a month at most as we saw with Sol Spin. A planter a week. If they were planning anything smaller I'm sure they would have waited until September like they did with Plunge. Hurler disproves this entire post. Hurler had a whole host of issues. I don't think it's remotely similar. Plus RMC is doing g a project at KD as a sort of replacement, I thought.

Why close a decently popular coaster before summer for anything less? Any flat would take a month at most as we saw with Sol Spin. A planter a week. If they were planning anything smaller I'm sure they would have waited until September like they did with Plunge.

If they were planning to extend a coaster beyond the Boardwalk then leaving the stage where it was would have been the smarter. Better to have a long giga jump over and paralell Pony Express. Someone actually sugessted that on Knott's Network awhile back.

What you see occuring first? The announcement and ground breaking party or grading and footers and THEN an annoucement?

When's the last time Knotts built a substantial roller coaster? Expect this to get much, much worse. Substantial? Bullet 2004. Since then we've had: Sierra Sidewinder 2007. Pony Express 2008. Coast Rider 2013. Ghost Rider refurbished 2016.

Isn't it California Sports?

Disney has a discount outlet?

California Ports Oddly enough that shop is no longer on the official park map. Weird that it's still open. Knott's Interactive Map Looks like they are removing merchandise from it now that the park is closed for the day:[attachment=0]knottsmerchremoval.jpg[/attachment] I wonder why today. Why not after this weekend? Not last weekend? Why the middle of the week? I mean it looks they still have stock to sell. Why not just close it when they put up the wall And get it over with?

California Ports Oddly enough that shop is no longer on the official park map. Weird that it's still open. Knott's Interactive Map

Hey I figured it out! This were posted over on Knott's Network's Facebook page. All rights to them. This is from Tuesday showing what they did Monday night. This is from Wednesday (today) showing what they did Tuesday night. Looks to be a segment per night like I said earlier.

Or they are cleaning it up so they can start marking our the footings

What kind of work?