Big Dipper to CP?

I bought the Big Dipper for 5K and am putting it back together in my back yard. It only cost me $50 to move it. Discussion settled. :)

So it was only 500k less to build a coaster 1/2 the size of The Voyage? Interesting.

Of course I'm speaking of Ravine Flyer II which was $6 million. Heck, Evil Knievel was $7 million. It's shorter than RF2 and only goes 82' in the air.

Fine you win. Moving Big Dipper will cost millions of dollars because taking it apart and putting it back together is really complicated and will take lots of people a really long time. Plus they'll need to buy some new wood (for nostalgia?) plus some new screws and whatnot. I'm just trying to understand why some company would blow a few million dollars on something they're going to set up and look at.

My guess: this mystery company is not remotely planning on rebuilding the entire structure. Maybe fifty or sixty linear feet of track, and a train to sit on it. Like as a backdrop in a restaurant or a mall or something. The rest would be scrapped.

The only information that was worthwhile from the news coverage that I got was that Schlitterbahn is building a water park closer to me than Texas. :)

Mostly old information, but there is some new info about Apex (the company who bought dipper)Story

From ACE's website

Perhaps Evel Knievel cost so much to build because of the sheer quantity of CONCRETE under that ride. Evel Knievel has no footers; the whole thing is sitting on a huge concrete pad...

Ravine Flyer II is perched on the edge of a cliff, and parts of the ride are actually built on steel bridges stretched between several enormous concrete piers up in the park.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I love that ACE calls them "Cedar Fair, LLP," because the company is not an LLP. It's an LP, and they don't even use that name anymore since changing to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. I hate it when coaster nerds have to slap an extra letter on every company name to sound important (like "SFI" for Six Flags... just call it Six Flags).

I'm still of the semi-informed opinion that various people in the organization acted on their own interest and there was a total leadership failure. Someone should ask Sanderson what really happened.

I still find it interesting that ACE never put a bid in. Even if it ended up being a losing bid, at least they would have tried. Instead it sounds like they are whining because they haven't just been given the coaster outright.

And I can't really blame the guy who bought it for trying to make money off of it. Sure his company is going to charge you an arm and a leg for removal and transfer of the ride. But then again, he did bid on it and win rather than sitting back with some cheese and crackers.

It's interesting that www.marketwatch.com didn't bother to do any type of investigating for their "news" story. Rewording something from a biased source and posting it somewhere doesn't constitute news, that's more like Fox's way of doing business.

That was the press release issued through a wire service, which MarketWatch subscribes to. It's not their story.

Ahh I understand, thanks for clearing that up. I don't know how I missed: PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX.

I still stand by my Fox comment. :)

Oh, you mean the 'fair and balanced' Fox News? *Rolls eyes*

No, they've actually fixed that problem by hiring Mossberg. ;)

In this article it sounds like Herschman has withdrawn their bid on the Geauga Lake proporty.

Aww poor ACE. It's enjoyable to see the coffin get nailed even tighter on their dreams of keeping BD where it is. I predict that the coaster will either just get torn down and the $5k chalked up as a loss or just a piece of the ride will be kept for memorabilia's sake and placed somewhere as a centerpiece.

It's too bad there wasn't some sort of stipulation in the bids where if accepted you were held to it because I would have loved to see this company get screwed since they only bid on the property for one reason.

I don't know what the future stands with the Big Dipper. The whole thing reminds of a soap opera. You have to tune in for the next day as the plot unfolds..... I just hope what ever is the future for the Dipper is will be better than the Double Loop which is not a pile of scrap!

^^What's your problem? I'm confused by your post, are you saying you hope ACE is screwed or Apex? By the way, there were stipulations. Their bid was contingent on the coaster staying where it is. Which is why they pulled their bid. People qualify their bids all the time.

I'm curious why they didn't make a bid on the coaster as well. Heck, I'm sure if they had paid X for the coaster, they could have re-worked their bid to account for that.

Its not like BD was a last second addition to the auction.