Cedar Point's Next Coaster: Do You Think It Would More Likely Be An Intamin Or a B&M?

You guys almost had me.

This is where everybody laughs at me for falling for it.

Gotcha ;)

At least I got ONE person today. This is all I had time for. Happy April. :)

Nope, you got at least 2. I was wondering why there wasn't more discussion! I thought we were in the 20's of March still. lol

If I hadn't already fallen for an April Fools joke today you probably would've gotten me;well played...hopefully we can start talking about real construction soon.

lol This story just popped into my mind...

The most I've ever been had on April 1st was in college. It was a high-level math class, and the professor regularly gave ridiculous quizzes to us consisting of 1 problem...a proof of various mathematical theories. So, our entire class had grown to accept that this professor would make quizzes over a minute detail that we never really discussed, and it was a game of whipping up pages of BS, hoping for partial credit.

The professor was drop-dead serious and never had cracked a smile. He announced a scheduled quiz on a Thursday, and we came in to take it, never realizing it was April 1st or thinking anything of it.

We never seemed to have enough time to finish quizzes, so I learned to just start writing, possibly figuring something out on the way. The quiz had a crazy looking theory with complex diagrams, confusing wording, etc., and the whole class was working in panic on the 4 blank sheets of computer paper stapled to the problem. We had about an hour to complete it.

Half way through, a student raised her hand and just started venting to the professor about how she had studied everything, read all the chapters, and there was nothing like this in the material. He answered firmly that she needed to pay better attention.

As time was being called, I finished proving the theory. I had all 4 pages packed of BS whipped up with diagrams and complex math. As I turned it in, the professor flipped to my last page, seeing I had proven his impossible theory. I saw the first smile ever out of this guy.

You woulda had me, but the fact that you "were on property" and there were no off season tours that I knew about made me think it was a joke.

Nicely done, though.

^ On the contrary sir! You definitely can get in whether there's an off season tour going on or not. Only past/present CP employees know what I'm talking about.

If only it had not been April fools day when you said that... haha :)

Let me stir up the pot a little bit more on the whole coaster situation. Lets pretend that Ouimet's plan of relocating the dorms off the peninsula is happening after this coming season, and the Turnpike Cars and Calypso area is leveled, couldn't you put a very sizable coaster in that area?

And how cool would that be when you're driving over to the Soak City lot and a coaster is flying overhead?

Just a thought. :)

But in the article, mr. Matt Q made it seem like if the housing was leveled, it would create room for family attractions.

Family coaster? Hey, we can dream can't we? Its a great area, with pristine views, I can't imagine a better place to put the next family attraction.

There would be room for multiple attractions I would imagine; including a coaster

Actually I don't see a coaster going over into the Cedars area. First, you have the logistical challenge of building a coaster over a road. Also, a coaster is very loud and the Cedars is very close to the marina. The boaters pay Cedar Point a lot of money for the marina and I expect they would be up on ends if a coaster was built within 200 feet of their dock.

^^I'm pretty sure building a coaster over a road is actually fairly easy. I mean, Magnum goes over a road, a go cart track, and multiple walkways. Not to mention the walkways under MF as well as train tracks. Corkscrew was built over the midway as well. A road is probably the least of a coaster designer's problems.

I have seen several coasters built over roads, that is not a concern. Just put netting under the track.

dtchris08 said:
Secondly, you shouldn't be keeping a boat in an amusement park marina if you are afraid of noises. I mean it's an amusement park!!

They don't keep their boats in an amusement park, they keep them in a Marina next door. Seriously, some of those boaters have had slips there since before most of the larger coasters were even built. Not caring how the boaters might feel with a coaster being built 100 feet from their dock is poor business. Have you seen the rates to keep a boat at Cedar Point? They make enough money from the boaters to consider them in planning a coaster that might be to close or loud to the docks.

A small (30 feet) dock a few years ago was around $2500. Just that alone multiplied by the 750 docks is nearly two million dollars. That doesn't include the docks that go up to 75 feet and were over $7000 a season. As 99er said, the marina was built in the 50s, before Blue Streak, let alone Raptor. If I'm not mistaken, the boaters compained when Millennium was put in, over 200 or 300 feet away, and it's pretty quiet. The boaters I'd guess have more pull then what you would think.

Which is why I don't think a coaster would be built where Cedars currently sits. Maybe some of that land could be used for a ride of some sorts but not the whole plot. I see it being a parking lot before a coaster is built within feet of the Marina docks.

Think outside the box for a minute about what Matt said in that interview. Moving the rest of housing off point frees up land where Cedars sits. That doesn't mean that land has to be used for future attraction expansion. They could use it to move something like the Merchandise warehouse/parking lot that is actually inside the park. Then that would free up land that is already within the park boundary for a new ride. This is just one example of buildings/offices that are inside the park that do not need to be.

Right there, that's the kind of ideas that make sense. Imagine the room they'd free up moving P&D! Heck, there's probably enough room to house both Merch and P&D. :)