(Coaster 15) Promo Video

After watching the Millennium Force promo video for the God-knows-how-many-ith time, a thought entered my head. What kind of personality will Cedar Point assign to Coaster 15?

Given the promos of the last three newbies in the park, it's a fair assumption that the beach buddy will have an interesting, and mind-bending, premiere as well.

Just look at the previous ones:

Raptor - This green machine is a pissed-off, vengeful bird of prey (upset that it was woken up too soon) that clearly knows more than even the aloof experts think they know. It's there before they know it. It's gonna grab you and show you one mother of a spin-diving flight.

Mantis - This far quieter specimen is a hungry, violent, loveless creature that hunts candidly and continues its search. It takes neither pleasure nor guilt in thrashing its victims. It just works quickly and completely.

Millennium Force - An answer to a question, but perhaps of a magnitude not quite expected. It was already on its way, waiting for us to find it, immortalize it, but not understand it. It's not a creature or a person. It has no sense of reason. It's a random, chaotic law of physics, an enigma, a force that leaves its mark on everyone and everything.

It looks as though it's becoming more and more difficult to top the already formulated promos of such rides. What would obvoiusly point a clearer direction would be a name. That we don't know yet. And what we also don't know is, how will they use it? These are a few of the many questions seeking to be answered.

I'll leave you now to your comments.

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"Hello, my name is *TIMMY!!*" [Ah LIBALOU LIBALOU TIMMAH!!!]
Laugh ye not too hard at my piddly stats. MF: 3; Magnum: 5; Raptor: 2
I understand that knowing is half the battle, but what's the other half, chicken fingers?

Ooooh...your description of MF's promo gives me chills! You captured the whole mystery of the "experience"...it almost has a Matrix-esque theme. Very cool. The other's promo's were less exciting because it wasn't all digital, and there were people talking and such.

I think that the promo really depends on the name. I really think that Ballistic [twister(s)] is a great name, and the promo made from it would be very cool. I guess we'll have to see what marketing and development has in store for us this time.

*** This post was edited by CP_bound on 11/9/2001. ***

Don't forget that the Force promo wasn't all digital either. There were quite a few opening shots of just regular people. The clerk, the businessman, the math teacher. . . all of this was just regular camera feed. It's how you script and manage your material that truly verifies the quality of your work and the craftmanship of your skills. With the new technologies and the high expectations, the release should be incredible.
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"Hello, my name is *TIMMY!!*" [Ah LIBALOU LIBALOU TIMMAH!!!]
Laugh ye not too hard at my piddly stats. MF: 3; Magnum: 5; Raptor: 2
If understand that knowing is half the battle, but what's the other half, chicken fingers?

No kidding CP_Bound...AWESOME description of MF promo. I'm big into brand identity and that description just about killed me :-)
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The Leprechaun
"One of us!"
-The FewER, The Proud, The Po!nter Girls-
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I know that they had video of people, but they jumped around a lot, and didn't have any people give any boring speeches...just "the voice."

...I just had to read it again...**chills** :)

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MF count: 23

I already mentoined this in the unforgiving 900 some long thread. I really hope they get one :)
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I love fall...
The cool, brisk air...
The brightly colored leaves...
The amusement park announcements...

...and soon to be the "no-way-you'll-be-able to-read-this-whole-thing-in-one-sitting" 1000 post thread. :)

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MF count: 23

That's it. Every answer in chemestry class, from now on, shall be 'Millennium Force'.

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Tommy Penner - Future 2002 Season Pass Holder
v2.0 of coolFORCE @ http://coolforce.cjb.net
MF count: 1, going for 2000

Be patient peoples...technically the annoucement is not until Wednesday once the papers get ahold of it..Cedar Point does not always have the promo ready along with the annoucement, but there will be one...just be patient..
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2002:Its gonna shock you!

Since the gimmick is twister, tornado, they're probably going to have something with meteorologists or storm chasers to kick off the promo. I hope they don't succumb to using the sacred footage of the movie "Twister" with Helen and Bill. That's not really cool in my book. I can just imagine seeing doplar readouts with this thing on the screen though. A spinning logo, like "The Mask" trailers won't cut it though. If they want this ride to sound serious after the installment of Millennium Force, they can't be cute with it.
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"Hello, my name is *TIMMY!!*" [Ah LIBALOU LIBALOU TIMMAH!!!]
Laugh ye not too hard at my piddly stats. MF: 3; Magnum: 5; Raptor: 2
If understand that knowing is half the battle, but what's the other half, chicken fingers?

They can't use any footage from the movie Twister since the rights to it are owned by Universal. I doubt CP would try that anyway since they seen quite good at working out their own themeing without having to resort to existing themes.

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-Brian
One of us..
I really should be working.
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I trust they wouldn't need to borrow film clips. Modern technology has grown intensely since the Raptor promo. From the look of the the Force video and simply imagining the growth of technical abilitys now, the park and the marketing company should be able to come up with something incredible.
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"Hello, my name is *TIMMY!!*" [Ah LIBALOU LIBALOU TIMMAH!!!]
Laugh ye not too hard at my piddly stats. MF: 3; Magnum: 5; Raptor: 2 But the Iron Dragon is still my baby!
If understand that knowing is half the battle, but what's the other half, chicken

I hope it will be good, I think the only good promo is the Raptor's. The Wicked Twister's would be good if they would have a meteorologist from News Channel 5, since that is Cedar Point's wheather station, and have him issuing a seveare storm warning for Sandusky. The radar would be right over Cedar Point where Wicked Twister is and have a tornado forming. That would be so cool.

*** This post was edited by CedarPointLover on 11/20/2001. ***

I agree CPLover. Their promos:) always have something to do with something "coming" to Cedar Point. ie-the Mantis escaping, Raptor, and the new force discovered. So I think a giant watersprout or twister on the news would be suitible!

...Ahhem, who was that writing 'pornos' instead of 'promos', Jeff I'm ashamed of you letting such twisted minds on this board...;)

*** This post was edited by force312 on 11/20/2001. ***

It would be good if they would have a meteorologist from News Channel 5 ...

There are no meteorologists at Channel 5.

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*** This post was edited by Gemini on 11/20/2001. ***

Ya there are, News Channel 5 is a news station with the weather, don't you agree?

*** This post was edited by CedarPointLover on 11/20/2001. ***

I love how everyone forgets Sandusky is exactly between Toledo and Cleveland closer to Toledo I believe Ahh yes Toledo the forgotten big town by CP ;)

Channel 5 has weathercasters who present the weather. They have no degreed meteorologists. There's a big difference.

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Virtual Midway
http://www.virtualmidway.com

Oh, sorry, then lets get one of them.

It seems that there's some kind of expectation to see meteorological studies and fear-factor science analyses to be installed in the beginning of the video. If something else turns up, if the promo is completely different from this approach, I'm not sure it will be good or not. It might be ultra, then again it may be crap.
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