Cedar Point ties for most coasters

For anyone who didn't know I thought I would share.

Cedar Point will once again tie for most coaster's as B&M track has arrived at SFMM... Sffm will be opening a b&m floorless for anyone who didn't already know in 2003.

Maybe CP will pull that other idea back out and actually take the record for 17 instead of getting stuck in second again in 03 with 16, hmmm...

http://www.westcoaster.net/update.php?id=1023021

Dammit Magic Mountain! You just have to ruin everything for us don't you!

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181 days left until opening day!
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Magnum is Red,
Millenium Force is blue.
I love Wicked Twister,
and Raptor too.

Gasp! Life is over! A park 3,000 miles away has as many coasters as Cedar Point! Oh, the horror! I can't continue.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

CP still rules SFMM's new coaster will 99% most likely be a clone of anything Six Flags has right down to the name and color. How boring is that?

*** This post was edited by angelo 11/3/2002 10:16:20 PM ***
*** This post was edited by angelo 11/3/2002 10:17:21 PM ***

Thank you from coming down from the mountaintop to spread your vast knowledge. Did you read that from the stone tablets you were holding?

Seriously, I don't think Dick Kinzel had any idea until you posted this. He just curled up in the fetal postion to suck his thumb after screaming, "Noooooooo! Damn you Magic Mountain! Damn you all to hell!" a la Charleton Heston.

-'Playa
(who likes CP more for Gemini, DT, Paddlewheel Excursion and good times than anything else)

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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.

*** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya 11/4/2002 10:28:43 AM ***

Get your coasters off our record you damn dirty SFMM. :)

Not that I am big on the "numbers game", but when we visited Six Flags Magic Mountain this past July, three of their coasters were closed (Ninja, X and Flashback) for an extended period of time (weeks). At the same time, for those who have not been there, they do have some very good rides. It really doesn't matter if SF clones rides from park to park if you only travel to one of them, right??? WT is basically a "clone" of the other LIMs (I know, I know, it is the only one that twists on both ends). Cedar Fair will be installing that ride at their other parks. Is that bad? If you lived in California and heard that Knotts Berry Farm was getting a "clone" of MF, would you be disappointed??? The parochialism from both the West Coast set and the CP Fanatics gets a bit old. Good rides are good rides -- I would love to see "X" at SFWoA. I would love to see CP get a "Flyer" like X Flight. Just keep the good coasters coming!!! Just my opinion...

I personally do not care who has the most coasters. We have plenty of them, and they are very good coasters at that.

But besides the Coaster count, we should realize what a real gem of a park we have in Cedar Point.

The employees rival only one other park that I have been to, and that is Disney World.

The park is beautifully designed and laid out. It is very clean, and a great place to escape to. Being on a peninsula gives it a unique atmosphere that no other park has.

I dont care who has the most, the highest, the fastest. We clearly have the best. And that is much more than anyone else, anywhere else can say.

angelo said:
CP still rules SFMM's new coaster will 99% most likely be a clone of anything Six Flags has right down to the name and color. How boring is that?

rrrright, Six Flags ALWAYS clones everything, and CP has NEVER cloned anything... Keep telling yourself that...

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Mike

*** This post was edited by MikeVT 11/4/2002 4:55:43 PM ***

Actually, no they haven't.

- VF's Corkscrew lacks CP's 2nd hop before the loop and adds a helix

- VF's PT is 10 feet taller (ride segment), 25 feet shorter (total height) and has one less leg

-VF's Thunder Canyon has a different layout than CP's and you almost never get wet

- VF"s Challenge Park only has a single unit Skycoaster unlike CP's double-unit arch

- WOF's Mamba lacks the tunnels that SF has and there are slight differences in the approach and departure to the turnaround sequence

- CP's CS has a whip and the other two don't

- WOF's CS doesn't have a Zamperla kiddie coaster

So if you wanna get really, really, really technical....no, CF has never cloned anything. They just got within a nose hair of doing it roughly 18 zillion times. Does this look as silly to you as it does to me? Have I covered every 'did not--did too?' and therefore pre-empted any potential 'clone' squabble?

Of course, without 'cloning' there'd only be one McDonald's restaurant in Illinois somewhere and you'd still be waiting 20 minutes in a restaurant every day to eat lunch. All hail cloning.

-Your friendly neighborhood CAPTAIN OBVIOUS

(who'll be off to chomp on some Krispy Klones now--outta my way!)

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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.
*** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya 11/4/2002 9:57:58 PM ***

lol Playa. You never cease to amaze me in your responses. Keep 'em' coming. :)

Also, the new impulse coaster's stats at VF sure seem pretty identical to the impulses found at Aurora, Oh. and Gurnee, Ill.

Good observations CPlaya. Who really cares anyway? Clones, not clones, we are talking rollercoasters, right? Last I heard, most people here would ride any rollercoaster. If it is a clone is it going to stop you from riding it if you happen to be in a park with that ride? Most likely not.

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cyberdman

Frankly, I have nothing against "clones". So what if a new coaster is a "clone" of a ride in another park? All I'm interested in is having "one of those" at MY park.

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

Damn it, Jeff. You took the words right out of mouth. How can we every continue with this news? ;)

-mikey

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Let your mind go...and your body will follow...

I live in Michigan about 40 min. from Michigans Adventure and would love to see a "clone" of any Cedar Point ride!