Cedar Point Announces New Water Ride for 2010 Season

So have there been any other Intamin flumes with this basic design (i.e. comparable lift hill design/components, similar boats, similar concrete channel, etc.), or is STR the first of this generation of flumes for Intamin?

Also, I was curious if anyone knew the most recent installation of a 'traditional' log flume anywhere, as in one with an elevated fiberglass trough like WWL or Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal at Kings Island. It seems that at some point about 20 years ago, the Snake River Falls-type flume came into vogue and you didn't see the traditional types being built anymore after that. It would be interesting if STR ushers in a resurgence of new smaller boat/smaller splash flume rides.

I know that traditional flumes like Mill Race actually had an elevation change from the beginning of the flume to the end. That is why they usually have a small lift right after the station and the elevation change caused the water to flow in the flume.

Shoot The Rapids probably does not have this elevation change, the flow in the flume is created with pumps, and possibly water falling down into a lower pit at the end of the flume by the bottom of the lift.

Aside from the lift mechanism (and, obviously, drop height), StR is similar in design to Pilgrims Plunge at Holiday World.

Does anyone know why the concrete runouts at the bottom of the drops have cutouts in the concrete and wooden sections placed in the? Could this be part of the way the splash/soaking factor is controlled?

I think it may be to help the water go somewhere once the boat hits the bottom of the hill. The water has to go somewhere and those cut outs probably help the water disperse and settle more quickly. That's my guess ... So in a way I guess it would be minimizing the amount of water getting pushed around. An I'm sure the wooden pieces you see are just temporary ... May have something to do with cleaning the pools.

So it kind of looks like some sort of spraying mechanism has been attached to the rock, right after the boat hits the bottom of the final drop. Black hose or pipe with white dots (nozzles?). This would be consistent with the 'spray' seen in the animations. I am hoping, however, that in addition to this, the water is this area is churning, and I think the rectangular openings at the base of the rocks might facilitate this, perhaps?

^I'm not seeing these hoses or nozzles, could you maybe take a screen shot and circle it? I'm in agreement with you though, I hope that there are many similarities between the animation and the actual ride, in terms of ride experience, especially in the final drop.

As for the comment about the openings at the bottom, you have to remember the shape of the original mold. It looked like an angular V, getting bigger and wider at the top, and then narrower at the bottom. I'm presuming that the openings on the bottom are for drainage purposes, and there are structural concrete molds underneath.

I know I'm knit picking, but come on CP - could you have picked scrawnier looking trees to plant around STR? This ride will look awesome with foliage around it, like in the animation. Unfortunately, with those scrawny things, it will be years before that gets realised.

That is another difference with Disney. They would have spent the extra dime on bigger, more mature trees to quickly get to the "show setting" they imagineered.

Well Disney also has that extra Dime to spend...

And its a really big dime....

In fact, one might consider this dime a quarter...

True, but nowhere near the amount that got wasted on a rejected merger with Apollo.

Are they filling the island pool now, or is that just water that's being used to clean it out?

^I'm pretty sure its just rain water that they haven't cleaned out yet, but I could be wrong.

It did rain in Sandusky today. Not much but it started this morning and has been off and on all day.

^Yea, you could see in the pictures from yesterday the old rain water that was still in that splash pool, plus the water thats now just sitting on the mainland splash pool.

Looks like they filled the island pool... I'd do a screen capture but no clue how. Sorry.

Correct me if i am wrong but the pipes that connect the end of flume to the beginning (3 large blue pipes on each of the two pools) do not yet have the pumps mounted on them yet.

Having looked back at an old blog on Thunder Canyon , perhaps the pump is actually dropped down into the vertical end of the pipe and they are already in place.

Watching very closely today for any signs of water "movement" in the island pool.

Regardless of the main pumps, I am guessing that the waterfall canyon area has its own pumps and could be run at any time now that the pool is full.

cedarman said:
Looks like they filled the island pool... I'd do a screen capture but no clue how. Sorry.

If you have windows XP, Vista, or 7 just go to start, and type snipping tool. :)

Or if your on a Mac, click Control, Shift, and 4 at the same time. Then click and drag until you fill up the area you want to.