vacoaster09 Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Congrats Cedar Point! Also found a cool picture
Myself Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 From the park's Facebook: At 2 p.m. today, GateKeeper officially became a full-circuit roller coaster! Talk about a great way to celebrate T-72 days until Opening Day.
rcjp Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 Wow! The second half of the coaster was built astonishingly fast. That's the way to do it and it is why B&M's are almost never behind schedule. I just can't wait to see it in action with the first test runs coming soon! By the way, there seems to be no trim on the camel-back hill after all (as some videos suggested) and I hope that the MCBR won't kill a lot of speed either.
El loco1 Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 (edited) Gatekeeper TRACK is COMPLETE! Here's a video the park posted. And here is a look at the trains: Edited February 28, 2013 by robbalvey
Mr.Roller77 Posted February 27, 2013 Posted February 27, 2013 WAY TO GO, CEDAR POINT!! How many coasters do they have now, I've lost count!!
A.J. Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Gatekeeper is TRACK COMPLETE! Sorry, but I have to do this...
thrillseeker4552 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I can't be the only one who sees this.. I know this is a minor nit-pick, but aren't the trains supposed to be yellow? Either way, this ride looks simply and utterly amazing!!!
Skycoastin Steve Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 ^I think the trains are precisely the color they intended them to be.
thrillseeker4552 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 ^ Maybe. I'm just curious to why they made them a bright yellow in the animation. These look more like a copper. They still look really awesome!
3Mutts Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Yay Gatekeepers track is finished! Ironic how Gatekeeper was finished today and Full Throttle just started....
Double0Kevin Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 ^ Maybe. I'm just curious to why they made them a bright yellow in the animation. These look more like a copper. They still look really awesome! They also didn't have gaps in the towers in the animation, those aren't 100% accurate. I sure hope this isn't the new thing to complain about.
TyRush Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 The trains look great! I dont know how you can complain about them
JJnCFL Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Kudos to CP for hauling butt on construction! Can't wait to see this in action, regardless if they're yellow, gold, copper or whatever colored trains....
CpBluestreakCp Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I can't believe construction is already done on the track, felt like just yesterday they were pouring footers, *sniff*, Gatekeeper grew up so fast. All jokes aside, kudos to Cedar Point!
robbalvey Posted February 28, 2013 Author Posted February 28, 2013 The trains look great! I dont know how you can complain about them People are idiots. They'll complain about anything just to hear themselves talk. I'm just curious to why they made them a bright yellow in the animation. These look more like a copper. It's because the animation is called CONCEPT ART!!! Not everything ends up looking exactly like the concept art. Deal with it.
thrillseeker4552 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 (edited) The trains look great! I dont know how you can complain about them I'm not intending that the trains look worse. They look amazing whether yellow or brown. I was just wondering if anyone knew why the color was different. It was just for curiosity. Edited February 28, 2013 by thrillseeker4552
cmullin Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 It looks great! I can't wait to see it start testing! I think the trains are fine. Don't see why people are complaining about them.
Tanks4me05 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 mmmmmmmmmmm.... Gatekeeper. Looking forward to eventually giving the Wing Coaster a second chance (WE = rather tame) I totally can't wait until I see videos of this thing testing, but I kinda am not looking forward to it, because then I will see countless posts of people complaining how slow it is (by the way, that is most likely caused by the fact that B&M has made probably only five really good coasters since the turn of the millennium, and that it will still be rather cold when they do start testing so it will be loads slower than it usually will be thanks to the lubricants. And I figure the new wheels need to get broken in a bit as well. I know my soapbox is short and no one will probably listen, but it's worth a shot.)
pyrocoasterkid Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Train colors: Sunset Gold, with Zenith Gold, Meteor Gold and Orion Gold accents From the CP website. I'd say they nailed the "sunset" color on the head. Obviously when the animation was created, they either didn't know the actual color, or CP didn't inform the animator of the specific color and they just made it as close as they could. The exact train color is hardly a detail that matters in a ride rendering video. No matter what, it doesn't matter because it looks amazing (and much better than the bright yellow gold in the animation.)
Randomman295 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 People are idiots. They'll complain about anything just to hear themselves talk. Keep in mind that I'm dead serious when I ask you this. Can I quote you on this?
thrillseeker4552 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Train colors: Sunset Gold, with Zenith Gold, Meteor Gold and Orion Gold accents Obviously when the animation was created, they either didn't know the actual color, or CP didn't inform the animator of the specific color and they just made it as close as they could. Thank you! This is the answer I was looking for. I think other people were taking the COMMENT I made and making it sound like some massive complaint. It wasn't! I never said the trains look worse! All I was wondering were why the trains' color looks different. I'm glad someone understood me.
robbalvey Posted February 28, 2013 Author Posted February 28, 2013 I think other people were taking the COMMENT I made and making it sound like some massive complaint. It was. And it was a dumb comment. Take responsibility for what your write. Don't try to blame other people for you sounding like an idiot.
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