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

Gold supports would look pretty legit! I'm all for the gold supports with light blue track

So if there is a coaster coming, when do you think we could start to see some signs.

Hopefully opening day

Early June.

It's a B&M.

^It's official now

You heard it here first! :)

We're picking colors now? :)

You guys are so cute.

Colors are very important in the roller coaster speculating process!

Color is the first thing I see in a coaster.

It's just like a book I'll only read it if the cover looks good. lol

So I was bored today and decided to get on Bing Maps and try and scope out some possible roller coaster locations.

http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg551/Steven_Linn/Random/CPplans.png

Here is the first picture and what I believe to be the most realistic at this point in time.

There have been rumors that a new B&M coaster would take the place of turnpike cars. I think it would be great, but I just can't really see a B&M fitting in just that location. I have heard rumors that we could be seeing the employee housing being removed soon so that could open up a lot of space to make the roller coaster go over Perimeter Road and take the location of the employee housing.

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Here another possibility, but much less probable in the near future. This is Thunder Canyon, I don't really expect to see the ride going anywhere in the near future because it is very VERY popular on those hot summer days. I really do not think that Cedar Point is planning on removing this ride anytime soon. However, if they were to remove it, it would definitely open up some room.

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This is the final picture. It is located in between Mean Streak and Gemini. I belive the buildings are used for storage. I'm sure they could be moved if needed in order to create space because that is a pretty decently sized piece of land.

I don't see why Cedar Point hasn't bought the old J.D Byrider building across from T.G.I.F, that would be ideal for storage or ride maintenance during the off-season. As far as your Bing maps SSL488, I like the #1 rendering drawing that you did. Have never figured out what those red building are for, but I know they have some value. Also what parking lot would that drawing being coing into? That looks like Famous Dave's area?

I think the #3 is the most propable. Matt mentioned moving those red employee dorms but i think that's his idea and if we're getting a coaster in 2013, it would of been planned by Dick and the location would already be set.

I think #3 is great. An entrance near Gemini would really benefit the area. Get more people over there and hopefully get rid of that ugly hot blacktop.

I guess we will just have to wait and see

If you expand a little bit on #3, you end up with an area a bit more like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v175/Dragster420/possible.jpg

From my perspective, this seems like the most plausible area to build a nice sized ride. The building in the pic is the P&D (planning and designing) building and I think that if they were to move the employee housing out of the park, that lot would work really well for a new P&D building. And before anyone starts worrying about Boneville and the train, I think you can still keep them the same and build around it.

p.s.- Shawn, those red buildings are the employee houses that some people believe are on their way out (which would be great).

Wow, that really did open up a lot more. I feel like the long strip where the train and Boneville are would be where the lift hill would be. Especially if it is a B&M Dive. I can totally picture the turn around once you reach the top of the lift. And then the remainder of the ride would go where the P&D buildings are.

Has anyone ever considered moving the midway along the beach? This would include the removal of the aquatic stadium and DT. It creates a lot of space, and (in my opinion) creates much more of a "beachfront" midway

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I vote for a 4 tracked wooden Flying Turns model ;) Oh, wait...

TTD 120mph said:
The building in the pic is the P&D (planning and designing) building and I think that if they were to move the employee housing out of the park, that lot would work really well for a new P&D building.

Take that one step further and move P&D off point altogether. This is something I think the park needs to do with a lot of the buildings that do not actually need to be on the peninsula. Some that I think need to go are P&D, Central Receiving, Employee Dorms, Human Resources, Merchandise Warehouse, Halloweekends Storage, Construction Shops, Wardrobe and Linen Services to name a few. All of those buildings could be removed from the point and they would free up a LOT of land.

Aso think outside the box for a bit and realize that a new coaster does not need a lot of large open land or a square piece of property. Magnum, Millennium Force, Corkscrew and Blue Streak do not take up much land. If its an out-and-back you could run a coster outside of the park to just about anywhere. A B&M Hyper does not take up much land if you run it through a parking lot.