Hersheypark 2008 - 'Lost meets the Maverick thread'

[PAShawn]

I have not received anything, that email account must not be an auto reply account since it is a ckret (secret) in case you did not see that. I didn't at first, will post as soon as I hear something.

[Homer]

*kicks back and whistles*

 

Wow, I like how Nantimi made this thread into a cross between an episode of Lost and the Maverick thread (on a smaller scale).

 

Time to edit the title again.

[NewsPlusNotes]

Here:

I think the beer made me solve it faster!

[XanderLee]

Haha..I was just about to post mine....all that pointless work It was fun, though.

[Axman]

The track looks like a Mack water coaster's

[natatomic]

"Thanks also to ‘natatomic’ for keeping it light."

 

Wow, I got a shout-out in the interview. I'm flattered. :}

 

 

-Natalie "I don't even have 40 posts yet" Visage

[natatomic]

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but the Nantimi site now has been updated with this:

 

Donan Michael, formerly with Hibernate Systems in Boston, has accepted the position of Web Security Developer. He comes to us with twenty years of security expertise, starting with his post-graduate work on the IAB Privacy Task Force. He is a specialist in BASE64 encryption, and his landmark paper on Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail, completed in 1987, helped define many of our modern-day encryption standards. Donan graduated from Grinnell College in 1982 with a Ph.D. in physics. His favorite colors are silver and orange.

 

I shall hazard a guess that we now know what the colors of the coaster will be.

[Cheesey]

^Actually, that's how you come about the latest clue. Donan is a specialist in base64 encoding. If you encode silver and gold in base 64 you get another web address, which is where the newest picture comes from. I had to ask them for a few clues to figure this one out...

 

silver and gold in base64 is c2lsdmVyIGFuZCBvcmFuZ2U=

 

Add that to the nantimi url and you get:

 

http://www.nantimi.com/c2lsdmVyIGFuZCBvcmFuZ2U=.html

[natatomic]

^Oh, wow. Yeah, definitely didn't catch all that. I thought that there might have been more to the paragraph other than just the straight-forward colors (Base64 did catch my eye), but I definitely have no knowledge on any of that other stuff.

 

I mean, come on...I'm a girl, so I think that me being this much into roller coasters is enough geek-dom for me.

 

But yeah, I was wondering where that puzzle picture came from...

[Cheesey]

I emailed nantimi with a few questions and they said to focus on the "specialty" which I found out was base64. Eventually I (with a little more help from nantimi) I found that you had to put silver and gold in a base64 encoder. I had no idea about what base64 even was until this...I looked it up on wikipedia

 

Keith "there's really nothing to do in my town on a friday night" Perez

[ghost007jas]

"Thanks also to ‘natatomic’ for keeping it light."

 

Wow, I got a shout-out in the interview. I'm flattered. :}

 

 

-Natalie "I don't even have 40 posts yet" Visage

 

I was wondering who he was reffering too.. Interesting.

[CoasterEricHP]

That's a lot of track!! Geez... It sort of looks like a smaller version on Maverick second hill after that.

 

That looks like way more than a 12.1 million coaster tho..

 

Nice shout out Natalie! That's awesome.

[coasterdude5]

What if Natatomic is in on it all? That'd be a pretty big twist, haha.

 

I finished the puzzle, it took me a while, but I'm glad I finished it... I haven't done one in years.

[gymvideo]

It's the same as wicked... http://www.rcdb.com/ig3534.htm?picture=15

[alpengeist04]

I have to admit, Wicked did cross my mind when I saw the puzzle.

 

With that said, I think I'll just sit back, enjoy this thread, and wait for the official announcement.

[jpdupuis]

I had an idea, what if it was a 4th dimension coaster!

Track seems to be almost the same!

[CoasterEricHP]

What if Natatomic is in on it all? That'd be a pretty big twist, haha.

 

That thought crossed my mind too.. I don't trust her anymore.. haha. Just kidding!

 

I don't think you can really look at that track and try to determine track type though. However, a 4D would be crazy!

 

Eric "Off to Knoebels!" Geiple

[coasterbilly]

so are we almost to the conclusion that this won't be B&M? Because (I don't know if anyone came up with this idea) obviously we heard that HP made a deal with another beemer to come to the park. The initial clue was "What's better then a perfect ten?". I love the idea of 11 coasters, or possibly the 11 inversions. But, if HP made a deal with B&M, Great Bear was built in 1998, and what year would this new coaster debut....2008, 10 years. So, that is an interesting fact I just discovered, don't know if it works or is right, but I found that intriguing haha

[natatomic]

What if Natatomic is in on it all? That'd be a pretty big twist, haha.

 

Yeah, you're not kidding - that would be a twist. I mean, especially for me. I never even suspected myself. Wow, I'm my own double agent.

 

Dang, I must be good.

[Wes]

so are we almost to the conclusion that this won't be B&M? Because (I don't know if anyone came up with this idea) obviously we heard that HP made a deal with another beemer to come to the park. The initial clue was "What's better then a perfect ten?". I love the idea of 11 coasters, or possibly the 11 inversions. But, if HP made a deal with B&M, Great Bear was built in 1998, and what year would this new coaster debut....2008, 10 years. So, that is an interesting fact I just discovered, don't know if it works or is right, but I found that intriguing haha

 

Because the "Multiple ride deal with X company" rumors are always complete and utter bullshit. The same claim has been made about so many parks and companies, it's stupid. Unless you can point to some sort of document that proves that this sort of agreement exists, perhaps it's best to stop spreading stupid rumors like this.

[imbordisux]

This was the first time I've really looked at Wicked... I know I said I was hoping that it wasn't another looper, but holy ****, I'd be perfectly happy with this - it has those Clamshell restraints, which is what I really wanted to see come to HP.

[Team Thriller]

Whatever it is...another credit is all I ask!

[Ccron10]

I've heard that Wicked had some track and matinence problems with it on another forum.

 

The track looks like SR's track being square shaped.

 

The interview brings me to another idea. Maybe it's a new type of coaster and the guys over at HP are too excited about it to hold it in.

 

I might be heading to the park on Saturday or next week so I plan on taking a lot of pictures on what I see.

[CoasterEricHP]

I saw this on another site. Looks like a match of track type.. and its Intamin.. and it would fit around the 12.1 price tag if that's really how much they are spending.

 

Tobu Zoo Park

[naniel89]

http://www.vekoma.com/rides_thrill_mega/ten_loop_coaster/ten_overzicht.htm

 

I was reading back through this topic and saw the puzzle and though i had see that before somewhere. so i found the picture above. I know its not intamin but i sure looks similar.

 

Its it fits in with the 10 thing. The picture being Vekomas 10 looping coaster.

 

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