Cedar Point Announces New Water Ride for 2010 Season

Its hard to tell, but it looks as if Diamondback has a similar feature.

If you look at where the train wheels are, I think it still looks like it's painted. Though the color is not quite the same. This could be simply that the surface where the wheels are is beginning to wear or the surface where the wheels aren't is beginning to get dirty or a combination of both. I was looking through the Carrowinds Intimidator photos and couldn't find any indication of the feature.

Here's a closer shot of Diamondback. You do see a stripe there. But, I believe it's for the reasons I mentioned above. I believe the track is completely painted. Maybe they have a different painting process or use a different paint. Or, maybe Intamin thinks the stripes look cool. ;)

You may be right, but keep in mind that the stripes on Maverick aren't nearly as noticeable as those on MF. It seems they used a color for the stripes (which may make sense if its a primer - assuming they used gray for MF, and red for Maverick) that is similar to the final color of the track. That's why I was wondering if those stripes on DB are a result of wear, or just nicely-disguised versions of wheel stripes.

However in all the Intamin examples, the "stripe" is a lighter or less brilliant color. Diamondback "appears" to be a darker/brighter color. Though I think it is only because the rest of the track has gotten dirty/dusty while the trains constantly riding in the same spot has kept that section of track shiny and clean.

No Stripe

And, perhaps, the best example.

haha^

Jason Hammond said: I was looking through the Carrowinds Intimidator photos and couldn't find any indication of the feature.

Looks like the same for Intimidator 305. See here and here. Wonder why Intamin didn't do it for this one but did for Millennium Force.

New photos have been posted to the gallery. It's amazing how much concrete they've poured already. I've been watching the webcam and the cement trucks have been coming one after the other for quite a while now.

Just between 11:30 and 4:30 today I counted 16 trucks. I believe each truck holds 10 cubic yards.

Can someone explain the "first splash pool is receiving cement" picture? To me, it just looks like a giant piece of cement... is the ride going on top of that?

I'm sure that all they've poured so far is the bottom of the pool. I'm sure they will build the sides up later.

What's weird is, they poured the big slab (blob?) without any steel reinforcement. I wonder what keeps that slab from crumbling under the weight of the water.

If you're still talking about the first splash pool, there's rebar in there, we just didn't capture a photo of it. There's also a concrete "base" layer underneath that, deeper in the ground. You can sort of see what I'm talking about now on the webcams, as they're preparing the final splash pool. They've poured a base layer of concrete under that footer form.

Also, if you watch the animation, you'll see that this is only the first phase of concrete - there will eventually be concrete poured all around the island around the flume, sort of like a lake.

Wow this is a lot harder to follow than coaster constructions. I can't picture anything from the updates.

I notice on the web cam that they now have the framing up in the splash pond for the sides. Hard to get a sense of scale, but doesn't seem like the pond will be very deep. Maybe that is how they will help limit the soak factor - by giving the boats a long splash down run in shallower water. The old Jet Stream at SFMM used to have this (don't know if it is still in operation)

Based on the location and orientation of the supports that are now visible, you can make out the paths of the two lift hills. It looks like the first splash-down area will be largely out of frame, unless the camera is moved. I'm guessing the loading station will be in the lower-right portion of the screen.

The loading station will be pretty much dead-center near the bottom of the screen.

I've been capturing the construction web cam for STR, so as to create a time-lapse video of the construction once it is complete. I'm still trying to figure out what works best in terms of image capture frequency, playback speed, etc., so I created a sample video of what I've got so far. I've only been capturing images since early this month.

For those interested, the images in the video are captured every 3 minutes, and each image plays back for about 0.3 seconds. Clearly, the final video will need to be much faster overall. I'm thinking a capture every 6 minutes, and a playback speed of 4x of this sample. That should put the entire finished video at about 15 minutes in length.

djDaemon said:
I created a sample video of what I've got so far. ]

I'm actually very happy someone is making this video, it will be fun to show people.

*cough* we're recording a time lapse *cough* :)