A look back...

Off topic, but will there be a construciton journal with Monty Jasper on the Cedar Point web site? I know that they have done this in the past, but this time construciton started so early. I didn't want to start a new topic since there are so many already.

With TTD he didn't start the journal until after the announcement. I would imagine he will do the same here.

He didn't do one with Skyhawk. Those were all T&T, so we'll have to see.

Personally, my favorite comments were those claiming that the WWL station would eventually be torn down (after they had carefully removed the "guts" during the off season), and was just left there for aesthetic reasons.

He didn't do one with maXair either. The construction of both those rides is so short compared to a coaster that there isn't really a point to it.

I remember maXair. In one day they had all 4 legs up and the motor attached. The next day they had the arm attached. A few days later, the spokes were on, and shortly the seats. In less than 2 weeks they had gone from nothing to assembled.

With a coaster, the construction is much more drawn out and less of it is "behind the scenes". With maXair and SkyHawk, the main erection took days, a couple weeks tops, and then lots and lots of wiring and stuff that just doesn't translate well into a blog or a construction journal. With a coaster, all the stuff is going on while track is still being put up. And the track takes months to get up and lends itself very well to a blog or diary. There are some very key milestones that can be documented for a coaster (topping the hill, building the station, theming installation, testing, first riders). With the flats you've got "Yeah, so yesterday we put the whole thing up, took us about 12 hours, but we got it up." and then 3 months later when the wiring is done and been tested - "So today we finally loaded up some water dummies and began our break-in tests". There just isn't as much to cover with the flats.

OK - so now that I've talked this to death, what were we discussing again?

(Oh, and don't count MrScott wrong yet, I also still think water will be involved with this ride)

No, the station's staying there because they're somehow going to place track through it for a station fly-by. OR it was left because of the high speed turn through the station. Cause, you know how light track is and easily moved in tight spaces. ;)

Monty is now the corporate construction guy, right? Maybe it will be someone new giving us updates.

I would imagine it will be done via blog entries. It will be interesting to hear the progress relayed via a PR person rather than the construction guy.

PR is PR. Construction is construction. We'll hear it from PR, not a construction guy.

MrScott

I'll be the first to admit I was wrong about them tearing out the station. :) But, I knew it wasn't going to be used for a fly-through. he he!! As a side note, I think it looks awesome combined with the new station. That was great thinking on their part.

The funniest thing I remember from the anticipation was the whole wingwalker, flyer, invert and aquatrax thing. There was just nothing to support those ideas, yet people still claimed they were POSITIVE that's what we were getting. LOL!!

Monty covered the construction in the past though, and I wouldn't call him a PR guy.

My favorite part was all the bickering and arguing. It sounded like two 75 year old people arguing about politics.

I know it's a little early (to say the least), but I'll bet they build a Top Spin in 2008.
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I like Monty Jasper. So he may not do the whole construction thing now? Did his position change?

I want to know...

I don't know if his position changed (although I think he is in charge of construction for all of CF now), but with the blog, there is no reason for him to do a construction diary. I think what we'll see instead are some interviews with him conducted by the T's.

Oh. Thanks, Jugga.

I like when he does it.

I have to say my favorite thing is the three people in here who think they know everything who constantly ripped on everyones ideas but their own and then turned out to be completely wrong. Feels good.

I have to say my favorite thing is reading posts by this one person in here who uses little or no punctuation because it makes the post seem like it was written by a second grader although the spelling is quite good so that is a plus at least.

I think my favorite thing was watching people get bashed for starting a new thread about something that was already posted in another thread about 5 pages in, but the original thread was about something completely different. I read through almost every topic and every post in here, and I would say that about 99.9 percent of topics after about 1 1/2 pages gets completely off topic, and personally, we shouldn't have to read through pages and pages of crap that has nothing to do with the original subject of that thread.

Welcome to the internet. And trust me, this isn't the worst site for thread off-topicness, nor for flaming people that create pointless threads.

Oh don't get me wrong I know it isn't. This is actually one of the better sites that I belong to. I belong to some other ones that have nothing to do with coasters and those make this site seem like we are all best friends and would loan each other money in a heartbeat.