coasterbill Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 This is pretty much proof that Tony is reading this thread so behave yourselves. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakelemay23 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Now he is making me reminisce on this past season. Miss that platform! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Thank you Tony for making Monday morning suck less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 So, I was looking through this trip report from Winter Chill Out in (Feb?) 2015, and this really stuck out to me: . . . They were teasing us with a shot of a rocky mountain coaster. . . Has this RMC Mean Streak stuff really been going on this long?? I can't believe that it's finally happening. . . dunno bout the actual teasing from the park but i'm pretty sure everyone has wanted this ever since New Texas giant That's was one of the best winter tours I have ever went on because of the snow. But yeah, they had a teaser in the slide show. I believe it was a shot of Texas giant if memory serves me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestreak Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Tony you are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRice92 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 So, I was looking through this trip report from Winter Chill Out in (Feb?) 2015, and this really stuck out to me: . . . They were teasing us with a shot of a rocky mountain coaster. . . Has this RMC Mean Streak stuff really been going on this long?? I can't believe that it's finally happening. . . I can confirm from Winter Chill out Feb 2015. Jason McClure & Tony Clark were clicking through slides, going through the slideshow and 1 slide was a picture of Outlaw Runs double barrel roll. They both go "Whoops!" and quickly clicked to the next slide. Later in that session there was a Q&A and if anybody asked about that slide before the people asking could finish their question Tony or Jason would respond with "I don't know what you're talking about" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT325 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 ^That is hilarious. They are having such a great time with this. More power to em! I'm betting you all money, once the holidays are over and Cedar Point sees an adequate amount of platinum passes purchased, they will announced RMC Mean Streak and market it alongside with Cedar Point Shores. How much can you bet? Just kidding. That is an interesting theory you have, time will tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Zo Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I think the first RMC teaser was a Twitter "to-do list" post from September 1, 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkFunk Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I'm betting you all money, once the holidays are over and Cedar Point sees an adequate amount of platinum passes purchased, they will announced RMC Mean Streak and market it alongside with Cedar Point Shores. How much? You have my attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeelTheFORCE Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 The best part about the positioning of those cameras is imagining all the innocent, unknowing people who are excited to go back to Cedar Point, so they check the cameras every so often to see what's up, and see all Skyride all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakelemay23 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 The best part about the positioning of those cameras is imagining all the innocent, unknowing people who are excited to go back to Cedar Point, so they check the cameras every so often to see what's up, and see all Skyride all the time. *sees Skyride* *buys platinum pass* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storms555 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I honestly wonder what a 500 foot coaster would be like. The 500 ft tall version of an Intamin or B&M hyper coaster would be awesome. Imagine if it had a drop like Mavrick too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 ^ Hmmm. Yep. Even thinking about 500 feet... makes me faint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prozach626 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Fury 525. Mother of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoinItForTheFame Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Oh come on. . . As much as we would all like to dream. . . Let's be honest, when Cedar Point does finally go over 500ft, it's going to be a Polercoaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyknottsville Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 First look at Boat streak the new RMC at CP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBad Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 (edited) I honestly wonder what a 500 foot coaster would be like. The 500 ft tall version of an Intamin or B&M hyper coaster would be awesome. Imagine if it had a drop like Mavrick too. I did that in FVD++, or at least I started one. The drop exceeds 500 feet and pitches beyond vertical, though I don't remember the stats beyond that. Edit: I do know that I design my FVD++ tracks to have reasonable, even if intense, forces. Edited December 6, 2016 by BigBad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonni Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Fury 525. Mother of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyto Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Oh come on. . . As much as we would all like to dream. . . Let's be honest, when Cedar Point does finally go over 500ft, it's going to be a Polercoaster. i can only imagine how often a 500 ft polercoaster would be shut down at cedar point. wind 500 ft in the air can get pretty bad, and that's not even considering lake erie being within feet of where the coaster would be, adding even more wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devins3 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 With what seems to be a success at Six Flags with Holiday in the Park. Does anyone think Cedar Fair may follow suit at Cedar Point, or is the winter weather just too much in Sandusky? With Cedar Points operating schedule only being from May-Oct it is among the shortest of major amusement parks. I would guess with all the hotel renovations they would want them to be open as much as possible. They could decorate breakers for the holidays and have hot chocolate at the fire pits out back. Even if only a few coasters were open I would probably make a trip out as long as there was one good one open. Maverick seems to run well in cold and high wind situations. Opening week 2015 it was the only coaster open when there was 50 MPH winds and 45 degree temps. Any thoughts? I would love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password121 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I assume that if they intended to do so, they would've already had one at Cedar Point at this point given the opening of three more next year. Like how Great Adventure started theirs before SFA, if that makes sense. I just don't see it, unfortunately, but I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keetz Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 With what seems to be a success at Six Flags with Holiday in the Park. Does anyone think Cedar Fair may follow suit at Cedar Point, or is the winter weather just too much in Sandusky? Carowinds will start having "Winterfest" in fall 2017 which makes a lot of sense given the NC/SC location. The amount of inclement weather Cedar Point gets would likely not make the best location for a winter event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 With what seems to be a success at Six Flags with Holiday in the Park. Does anyone think Cedar Fair may follow suit at Cedar Point, or is the winter weather just too much in Sandusky? I don't see any chance of this ever happening. Winters at Cedar Point are cold, snowy, windy and miserable. The average temperatures for the month of December are more than 10 degrees below the averages for parks like Six Flags St Louis and Great Adventure and this doesn't factor in the high winds that Cedar Point is notorious for. Unlike Six Flags, Cedar Fair actually listens to the manufacturers for some reason so if that forecast is correct for the rest of the month then between now and New Years there are a grand total of 2 days where the temperature would allow them to open a coaster. Maverick seems to run well in cold and high wind situations. Opening week 2015 it was the only coaster open when there was 50 MPH winds and 45 degree temps. Any thoughts? I would love it. If you opened Maverick you would need to open and staff almost the entire park. I guess you could cut off the the midway at Corkscrew and close the train gate so everyone walks through Frontier Trail which would be awesome for Christmas.. but still, sadly there's just no way. The weather is way too awful. There's a better chance of Cedar Fair expanding this to every other park in the chain before they get to Cedar Point, probably including Wonderland. To me, the next logical step is Kings Dominion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerstlauerguy Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Fury 525. Mother of God. *Opens NL2* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 With what seems to be a success at Six Flags with Holiday in the Park. Does anyone think Cedar Fair may follow suit at Cedar Point, or is the winter weather just too much in Sandusky? With Cedar Points operating schedule only being from May-Oct it is among the shortest of major amusement parks. I would guess with all the hotel renovations they would want them to be open as much as possible. They could decorate breakers for the holidays and have hot chocolate at the fire pits out back. Even if only a few coasters were open I would probably make a trip out as long as there was one good one open. Maverick seems to run well in cold and high wind situations. Opening week 2015 it was the only coaster open when there was 50 MPH winds and 45 degree temps. Any thoughts? I would love it. I'd say no because of the lack of non local visitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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