Canada's Wonderland Discussion Thread

[Johnlloyd]

Nice job. Did you feel dizy or sick at all? How busy is the park this time of year. See any construction work?

 

I did not feel dizzy or sick at all mostly because I don't get sick too easily. The park isn't usually busy this time of the year with only school students visiting who perform in the concerts held at Kingswood Event tent, which is located right beside Kingswood Music Theatre. I didn't see any construction work occurring anywhere within the park yesterday. The land still looked the same around Mighty Canadian Minebuster as it had during my visit nearly two weeks ago.

[williamj2543]

I want an intamin blitz similar to maverick...

 

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[williamj2543]

Please, please, please get rid of Minebuster. That ride needs to die.

Agreed. Wild beast has some good airtime and a great layout. Mine buster has 1 airtime hill that actually gives good airtime and everything else is just forgettable and painful.

I really don't care about a new coaster if it's an rmc or B&M, I just want a smooth one.

 

 

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[williamj2543]

Can anyone on here tell me if the prices listed on Canada's Wonderland's website for items such as fastlane are in USD or CAD? It doesn't say in any obviously location I can find including doing a mock purchase. Just trying to do some research for an upcoming trip. Thanks!

CAD. We bought our platinum passes there rather than at Cedar point to save the exchange rate.

 

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[nicman]

Anybody thinking we will get a coaster in 2018 instead of 2017? We don't have much news and it's already June. What was it like at this time in 2011 before leviathan was being announced?

[Johnlloyd]

Anybody thinking we will get a coaster in 2018 instead of 2017? We don't have much news and it's already June. What was it like at this time in 2011 before leviathan was being announced?

 

There was quite a bit of work evident prior to Leviathan being announced back in 2011. I remember there being many fences set up around that area. I also remember people questioning if 2011 was going to be Dragon Fire's final season. Luckily it wasn't as it's still a fun Arrow coaster!

[RollerManic]

Anybody thinking we will get a coaster in 2018 instead of 2017? We don't have much news and it's already June. What was it like at this time in 2011 before leviathan was being announced?

Geez, you guys are like the weather.

 

"Well, it started raining now, so we better change those percentages from 0-100% quickly!"

 

You guys wait on the arrival of Ziz like it is some prophecy.

Edited June 4, 2016 by RollerManic

[nicman]

Anybody thinking we will get a coaster in 2018 instead of 2017? We don't have much news and it's already June. What was it like at this time in 2011 before leviathan was being announced?

Geez, you guys are like the weather.

 

"Well, it started raining now, so we better change those percentages from 0-100% quickly!"

 

No, it's just I thought that there would be more updates.

[Mossed]

Can anyone on here tell me if the prices listed on Canada's Wonderland's website for items such as fastlane are in USD or CAD? It doesn't say in any obviously location I can find including doing a mock purchase. Just trying to do some research for an upcoming trip. Thanks!

CAD. We bought our platinum passes there rather than at Cedar point to save the exchange rate.

 

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I'm heading to Cedar Point prior to Canada's Wonderland. Will I save money if I bought the pass online for CW, and would I be able to process said pass at Cedar Point or another Cedar Fair park?

[nicman]

^Roughly same price. 4$ more expensive at Canada's wonderland.

 

Based off curency: You will save $46 if you buy Canada's wonderland platinum pass with american currency.

 

You must process at the park were you order the platinum pass, then you will be able to use it for any cedar fair park.

[nicman]

Here's another good view of minebuster, a cool angle. Same old land clearing. Better be something since they started land clearing last year.

[Jaynen]

I think that clearing is going to be for something water park related. I hope im wrong.

[williamj2543]

Anybody thinking we will get a coaster in 2018 instead of 2017? We don't have much news and it's already June. What was it like at this time in 2011 before leviathan was being announced?

I'm pretty sure they actually got ahold of the logo a couple weeks before it was actually released, but I don't remember actually knowing what the coaster was before (maybe I wasn't looking hard enough) because the countdown before they released it I first learned what the layout and type of ride it was.

 

Pretty excited for early august this year, I think they have something in store for CW.

[Dom497]

You know guys....if you take a closer look around the WWC area you might some find some interesting things (yes it does have to do with the red markers). Take a walk through the Timber Wolf Falls queue line and look how the markers are placed.

[canadianparkfan]

^How?

[jtstonge]

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[canadianparkfan]

^Looks great. What course was that for?

[jtstonge]

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[Jaynen]

Did B&M show or tell you how the main spine or box section was manufactured? Im wondering if they used a speciality brake or cnc brake to put the creases in.

[nicman]

That was amazing, how much work and time did you put into that? 100 pages, that's like a book.

 

Coaster name needs work though.

[jtstonge]

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[jtstonge]

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[canadianparkfan]

@jtstonge.

 

Just out of curiosity, did any of you from the engineering project also take part in the ontario coaster design competition a few years back? I believe UW and Ryerson (sorry forget which school you mentioned in the first post) took part.

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[RollerManic]

Did B&M show or tell you how the main spine or box section was manufactured? Im wondering if they used a speciality brake or cnc brake to put the creases in.

I haven't discussed fabrication with B&M and I'm honestly not very familiar with the processes that are used to manufacture the track. All I can tell you is that B&M's are manufactured by Clermont Steel Fabricators in Ohio and they have 1 Cincinnati brake and 1 Wysong CNC brake.

B&M has keep all their track manufacturing processes a secret. It would shock me if they gave away that process or minor details of it to ANYONE.

 

My guess is they've might have outlined what machines they use and maybe a very abridged summary of the manufacturing but surely not any details, correct? If they told you more then that must've been omething else and quite an experience.