AllenA07 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 So this is my first time posting here which is surprising since I've been coming to this site for many years now... But I've built up a few comments and decided that it was time I share... First off, as far as the media day goes, you could be invited at 13. I believe my first media invite was when I was 15, it was the announcement for X. From that point on I got invited to basically every event the park has put on... Now granted since my website is very much dead (rollercoasterz.com was my project if any of you remember it) so I don't think I'm still on the parks invite list. Now onto the ride itself. I think the biggest reason I've started following it is simply because I would have never of picked the top of Samurai Summit for another coaster. I'm still a bit shocked at just how much room they have up there, as well as the raw size of the rides footprint. Considering that they just started pouring footers, my guess is this coaster is going to aim for a Spring Break opening. Just off of memory from watching other rides go up, land work takes the greatest amount of time. Also tends to be the most boring to watch. Now I do have a quick question for you guys, where did they do the Road kill kitchen show this year for Fright Fest. When I ran that show a few years back we were based out of the old Eagles Flight station. With all the construction I doubt that show would work up there at this point, but I also know how messy that show actually is. I remember watching (I was a sound mixer so I basically sat around making sure the sound system did not decide to walk away between shows) them clean the mess up following shows, and know they needed a place to go and clean up. Anyways just my 2 (long post, so I guess more like 3) cents. Hope everybody here is doing well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldRusheROCKS Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Holy. Crap. Dude I loved your site, and the sfmm one you had with it (right?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Nice to see you, Allen. We did get to meet once, and I think it was on the media day for X and the whole Xtreme Park thing back in December 2000. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 ^^They moved the Galloping Ghoulmet to the place where they have the 'contest' for the cars over by the Magic Moments Theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenA07 Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Ah yeah, that would actually be a decent place to run the show from... Personally I always thought it was kind of a lame show, but I also watched it 6 times a day for a full month. Also... Eric I believe I did meet you at the media event for X... However I want to say that I had actually run into you at an eariler event as well. Did you go to Deja Vu's media day? And finally, yeah my site did have the SFMM Guide. Actually I had taken several months reworking that site on Dreamweaver, and was just about finshed with it when I actually made the decision to stop the website. It looked pretty cool, however it is now confined to a CD that is somewhere back at my parents house. Also though I'm sure it's covered somewhere in the 95 pages behind me, what's going on with Skytower? I know eariler in the project they had dug up the area around it. I assume since in the last 10 or so pages I did not notice any talk about it, that the park has decided to allow the tower to live? Not sure why they'd really bother with taking it out, its got such a small footprint that removing it is not really going to gain them anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PURE Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 ^As far as I know (and, well, logically), it would definitly not make any sense to remove the Sky Tower, for all of the reasons you mentioned above. I would bet thousands of dollars of my life savings that Sky Tower will be at the park as long as the park is operating. However, rumors are buzzing around that it may re-open in 2006, as part of the entire propable "Samurai Summit Makeover" that people are hoping happens while Tatsu construction is underway. Nothing is guaranteed though... To me, it's kind of a typical "Sky Tower may re-open" rumor that tends to fly around every year when announcements are scheduled..and much more convienient and believable now that MM is deciding to pay attention to the Samurai hill again after over 8 years of letting it rot (Since the opening of Superman, nothing up there has been touched). I would be utterly surprised and amazed if media day even mentioned the Sky Tower on the 17th. I'd love to believe they would open the ride, I'm all for it. But I really don't think they care enough about that thing to get it running, even with all the new construction happening around it...cause that's just the way things go at Magic Mountain sometimes...although i'd love to be wrong (And I have to be honest, sometimes I get impressed, and this park comes along and really surprises and wows me). Once again, this is all just speculation, and a reason why I think people are so excited about the 17th is because SO many questions are going to be answered on that day. I guess this shows how excited I'm starting to get too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colossus Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 sfmm spokes person: we are prod to anounce are plans for the 2006 season we will be opening the only flying coaster in california TATSU.and sky tower will re-open.LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLRC7 CP Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 just wondering, but what was eagles flight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XANAX: The Ride Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 ^Bucket on a wire type thingy. Kinda like a ski lift, they have them at many parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 ^^ Think "Skyway" at Disneyland. Same thing. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKI Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 I once got stuck on that thing right over Golrusher's lift for about 20 minutes. A mother wanted my friend and I to escort her two kids to the other side of the park in the ride. Which was all fine and dandy until we got stuck. The kids wouldn't stay sitting so the thing was rocking every which way. The people on GR were laughing and fliping us off and the kids in our car started spitting on them. I told them to stop, but it was kinda funny. Their mom wasn't too happy when we got over to the other side, but soon cooled off a bit when she found out what happened. That was around 1989 or 90 if I remember right. Anyways, back on topic. Never been on a flyer. Sounds like it may be easier on one's spinal column than say a sit down coaster. Anyone got info on that? Bruce "Who only has a few posts and went right off topic, newbie foul. But tried to correct it" R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted November 5, 2005 Author Share Posted November 5, 2005 Hey everyone! New Photos posted today! http://www.themeparkreview.com/sfmmnew06/current.htm LOTS of footers being poured and a lot of activity on the mountain. Also, as we had a hunch last week, the rapids area is now closed. At least the mountain is still open, along with Ninja and Superman, and there were a lot of people working today. Quite a few footers being poured in some really interesting spots. Anyway, check out the new update and post your thoughts here! --Robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Nice update, and I predict that next week we will be seeing a majority of the footers done, and it will give us a better idea of the layout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowfanman Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Nice update! ^How would the footers being done give us any more indication of the layout, than the markers did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 If only someone could get close to those plans with a camera... That "business office" looks like it still has the menu board up! Eric "Less than two weeks till we find out the details" L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy T. Koepp Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Do ya think we'll see any supports in the next two weeks? I'm heading out tomorrow with tha kids to look around. Guy "Lets get vertical." Koepp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patriot Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 they probly wont go vertical for another month so the footers will dry and cure. the patriot at worlds of fun took almost 2 months to go vertical from the first footer. rob when you were there were there any more track pieces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdude5 Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Wow, things seem like they are really start to pick up! Nice update. And sadly, Tweedy is a male. One of my old teachers was a Tweedy fanatic and she wrote a letter to Disney or something like that and they told her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Oh yeah, forgot to mention, no pictures of the track and support because it was all EXACTLY the same. Nothing new and cool there. As for Tweety...I wouldn't trust what Disney told you about the character! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfmmFREAK Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 as you can tell, i don't have that many years under my belt. so this is pretty much the first coaster construction i have followed. so i have one question, do they all take this long or is this coaster going at a speedy pace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 It's going pretty slow, especially when you look at stuff like Goliath at Georgia, ET at SFGAd, and other stuff...the only reason I'm not giving the park crap about going so slow is: 1. They actually need to do a lot of prep work for where they're putting the ride (unlike building a ride in the parking lot!) 2. Earthquake rules! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIDelirium Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Wow, they're really going slow at the Mounting! I like the Big Pile of Dirt captions! I wonder if the end of Ravolution is approaching, or if this is temporary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 ^Temporary...I can't imagine them EVER taking that headbanging evil thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XANAX: The Ride Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Up Date says: A bunch of new footers were in the process of getting installed. This one has a 30 foot marker on it. That's deep! Can anyone tell me if this indicates something significant on the ride (hight, special inversions, etc.) or is b/c of the earthquake codes or the fact that it is on sloped areas or is it b/c of soil type... Anyone plz add input if they have a therory, THX! ~Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 ^ I don't think it's anything significant, it's just how deep the footers need to go into the earth. Take a look at the photos from last week where the guys were working on the rebar for the footers. Those things were pretty long! Probably at least 20-30 feet each. Those footers have to go in the ground pretty damn far to keep the ride supported. --Robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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