Carowinds Discussion Thread

[MillenniumChild]

I think its time to update this topic.

 

Now let's see what they do in the way of landscapeing.

 

[BeemerBoy]

I think it's time to update this topic. Trains are almost ready and trackwork & pain are complete.

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[cfc]

^And some members wonder why we're so "buggy" on spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

 

It's a Boomerang. The "pain" will come soon enough.

[MillenniumChild]

LOL.... Yeah that too.

[silvercrew1]

I think it's time to update this topic. Trains are almost ready and trackwork & pain are complete.

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

You beat me!

Oh the irony!

[jarmor]

I wonder if the park will give me some of that good wood!

[Electerik]

The new restraints look like they're designed to swing down and punch you in the gut!

 

/Come on, it's a Boomerang. Snarkiness is totally called for.

[scruffy]

Does anyone know if that little train ride will be taken out also? Part of the ride did go under the log flume.

[MillenniumChild]

I think the train is safe but this does give them the chance to really make it look nice and maybe theme it up.

[The Alex]

Why does the paint already look faded?

Did they decide to age the color scheme by 5 years to add to the "rustic" feel of the ride?

 

 

Come on, it's not a painful ride

It's a rustic experience.

[Goliath513]

This is starting to look like Xcelerator... and I do NOT mean that in a good way. Why? The paint.

[Shavethewhales]

The lighting and the quality of the camera have a lot to do with how faded the ride looks in those photos. Don't complain too much, it's just a boomerang. In two years you won't even remember that it's there.

[The Alex]

The lighting and the quality of the camera have a lot to do with how faded the ride looks in those photos. Don't complain too much, it's just a boomerang. In two years you won't even remember that it's there.

 

What boomerang?

[MillenniumChild]

Well. If this does not confirm 2010 then i don't know what more will.

 

If you scroll down you'll see Carowinds.

 

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Lwo-gysAXVYJ:www.plans-online.com/planning.php+carowinds+2010&hl=en&gl=us&strip=0

 

Now we just have to wait and see whay type of coaster it will be.

[robbalvey]

My guess would be something by X-WORKS.

[TurboWagon]

VERY nice find. Now just to determine the coaster type of the mysterious track, if that is indeed what will be the new coaster. Very interesting indeed.

 

It appears though that they are planning a bid to actually build the project; actually within the next few days. Hopefully it gets an "all-go"

[montezooma]

This is a very interesting find. Something else that can be drawn from this is the location of the coaster (not that it isn't already obvious). It will be located on the South Carolina side of the park.

 

I was hoping that the location of the log flume site would would enable them to utilize the entrance bridge as a tunnel for the first drop. That would have been a spectacular visual, but that would require the coaster to cross state lines and I don't see an application for NC.

 

The lazy river crosses state line and when that was constructed permits had to be filed in both states.

[BeemerBoy]

The part number does appear to denote the model of the coaster. This one is SC, so we can assume a Sitting Coaster or a Stand-up Coaster. I know which of the two i'd bet on!

-Dave

....or South Carolina

[RollerNut]

Here is some food for thought, Diamondback was labeled MC where SC is on the yellow track. B&M used to call "Hyper Coasters", "Mega Coasters".

The B&M website now calls them Hyper Coasters.

http://www.bolliger-mabillard.com/products/products_en.aspx

 

It was make sense for MC to mean Mega Coaster, so there for SC would mean sitting coaster or standing coaster but no standing coasters have been built in 10 years so I doubt it is a standing coaster. Chances are SC does not stand for South Carolina. If I had to guess the yellow is either not for Carowinds, or it is and the track section that looks like a loop section is for where the coaster crosses over the Dora train or another structure. The factory that makes B&M coaster had to change the labels so SC could just be there to confuse us.

[MillenniumChild]

I guess the whole "Ride Confidentiallity" written in the info box didn't work out like they hoped.

[jamesdillaman]

^ Uh.. yeah it did. As far as I've seen no one has released plans for the ride, yet, so they've remained confidential, have they not?

 

-James Dillaman

[MillenniumChild]

No we don't have details so i guess that part did not leak out but the fact that Carowinds is getting a coaster in 2010 did so someone still dropped a huge ball somewhere.

[Speeddeamon128]

Hopefully it will be better than their new boomerang

[KDCOASTERFAN]

Perhaps they're getting their own floorless rather than a mega for 2010? I just don't see CF spending that much capital on a massive project like a hyper for Carowinds,but a mid sized floorless is a possibility especially given how Dominator was so well recieved last season at KD.

[jarmor]

Here is some food for thought, Diamondback was labeled MC where SC is on the yellow track. B&M used to call "Hyper Coasters", "Mega Coasters".

The B&M website now calls them Hyper Coasters.

http://www.bolliger-mabillard.com/products/products_en.aspx

 

It was make sense for MC to mean Mega Coaster, so there for SC would mean sitting coaster or standing coaster but no standing coasters have been built in 10 years so I doubt it is a standing coaster. Chances are SC does not stand for South Carolina. If I had to guess the yellow is either not for Carowinds, or it is and the track section that looks like a loop section is for where the coaster crosses over the Dora train or another structure. The factory that makes B&M coaster had to change the labels so SC could just be there to confuse us.

 

I have a more solid reason it wont be a standing coaster...the park ALREADY HAS ONE!!! lol

 

and about the bridge thingy...I dont think it will go under since its a tight space and there is a maintance road that is used to get from one side of the park to the other but hey, what do I know (other than the fact that it wont be a standing coaster lol),