Awesome woodie idea for CP! :-)

As we know CP loves to do records if they can get a good ROI out of it and they usually loves high capacity rides. True CP has a racing coaster called Gemini and it IS a good ride with AIRTIME! :-) But they do not have an out & back racer or dueling coaster and a record breaker racing style would not be that hard to do. A single track out & back woodie like Shivering Timbers as great as it would be would not be as unique as a racing one since CP has Blue Streak. Here is my suggestion: Have CCI or Intamin do a design on the beach behind WT and DT similar to Rebel Yell with a 135'-165' lifthill and a 148-150 foot drop (which I think is CCI's limit) with a 70-72 degree first drop than make the track at least 4800' which should break the record breaking 4650' length of the American Eagle. The ride should also be designed to handle 3 trains per side to have it handle 3000-3500 pph. I think CCI could easily do this ride for $8-12 million which is CHEAP by CP standards and provides a WORLD CLASS AIRTIME MACHINE. that would still be smooth enough for the GP. Also it would hurt to throw in a few tunnels to the ride either.

Wow...wouldn't that be nice! Like I said in the footers on the beach post though, I don't see Cedar Point building right there on the beach, behind Wicked Twister and Disaster Transport. Although, the more I think about it, it would be an awesome location for a CCI woodie. Maybe soemthing reminiscent of The Great White at Morey's Piers. Just think....CP would have a steel coaster with wood supports and a wood coaster with steel supports :)

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-Eric
Indiana Beach Online

Well, whatever, they do, I think Cedar Point needs a world-class woodie. Not to say that I don't love the ones they already have, but as far as I know, Cedar Point does not have any woodies that currently have a worldwide reputation. A new wooden coaster at CP would be AWESOME! Oh man, thinking about Cedar Point is getting me excited...must...find...paper bag....wheeeze...

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Agent Stinky

Wait...don't they have a woodie with a worldwide reputation? OH, you mean good reputation! My bad ;)

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-Eric
Indiana Beach Online

Sounds Interesting, I will also check when I go on Wed., I'll take a look from a few different places.

Couple of things: Correct me all if I'm wrong but Son of Beast, the hyper-woodie at PKI, has a drop of 215 feet I believe, and was designed by CCI. Also, 4800' wouldn't do justice for the longest woodie. Shivering Timbers, as you mentioned, is over a mile I believe. Also, The Beast and Son of Beast have 7000'+ track lengths.

Now I know that Cedar Point does not have a space problem™, but personally I don't see the space for a 7000+ foot long woodie.

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
"You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same!"

That wouldn't break any length records...The Beast and Son of Beast destroy that length.

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SOB was not done by CCI. No chance of that.

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Jeff
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The original post was referring to longest racing or dueling woodie... not the longest woodie overall.

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probie

Yes you got that right probie I was not talking about all woodie records just the racing and deuling woodie records since they are not as hard to beat.

I don't think they will build a racing or dueling wooden coaster, or any coaster for that matter, because they already have Gemini.

But Gemini is a twister (figure 8 style) and with a steel track and what I am suggesting is an out & back design with a wood track and structure which is a completely different ride. Now a tera coaster would seem much less likely since it would be too similar to Magnum and MF. I'm not counting on CP to build this ride but I don't think it would be a bad fit either plus they can make it BOTH family and thrillseeker friendly like Shivering Timbers.