Dive Coaster coming to Cedar Point?

Well, that still falls under the "someone put a generic, meaningless coaster on this coaster shirt, in the most conspicuous spot there is" part. Again, whether this was done in New York, in Tony's basement or in some Honduran sweatshop, it still seems less likely.

Tony's basement and a Hunduran sweatshop are the same thing.

What's more likely:

1) A generic/stock picture of a coaster on a random t-shirt for a roller-coaster park.

or

2) A secret teasing campaign has officially begun by someone in marketing, all starting with a random t-shirt praying that someone, somewhere will notice and put two and two together. Apparently Kyle is the chosen one.

The correct answer is 1 - a generic, stock photo that happened to fit the desired effect.

Using photos of attractions not at a particular park or even in a different park owned by the same company is not unusual.

Carowinds' 1980 brochure used a photo of Cedar Point's Corkscrew to promote Carolina Cyclone. It's hard to make out from this photo but the train is sporting Corkscrew's paint job and you can make out Sky Ride in the background.

But at the time, Carowinds was not owned by Cedar Fair.

Or-
Next year they re-run the Twisted Steel shirts in black and put Valravn's name in the same font across the top. It's all set to go- voila! Updated shirts!
And then they can add a buck and charge 25.99.

Muwahahahaha.

Thabto: No, it wasn't. Carowinds wanted to promote their new ride and sought ought an image of an existing corkscrew element at a different park. (I'm pretty sure CW used the photo with permission; hard to imagine they'd have just used it and hoped nobody would notice.)

After seeing the picture of that t-shirt, with a definitive image of a dive coaster right in the middle my initial opinion of pure coincidence has taken somewhat of a hit. I completely understand the skepticism and would usually agree, however there is a large spot of recently vacated land at CP where something will be built in the near future. I am also now reminded of the holiday video scene with the white board. If it weren't for that cleared land I wouldn't even give the t-shirt, or whiteboard much thought.

Another theory could be that it was a stock photo. I'm not sure if stock photos existed before the internet age, but there could've been catalogs where you could order them. If they got it from CP, I'm sure they had to get permission, otherwise they could get sued.

Oh, my goodness. Sure there were stock photos!
Only they were photos.

I just did a search on the subject, and stock photos have been around for about a hundred years, the method of getting them, has mostly evolved to buying them online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_photography#History

Kevinj said:

What's more likely:

1) A generic/stock picture of a coaster on a random t-shirt for a roller-coaster park.

or

2) A secret teasing campaign has officially begun by someone in marketing, all starting with a random t-shirt praying that someone, somewhere will notice and put two and two together. Apparently Kyle is the chosen one.

A secret teasing campaign is certainly more fun.

But of course.

As long as it's not one of Hersheypark's unnecessarily cumbersome and downright strange internet adventures (if any of you now what I'm talking about; the Skyrush campaign was a little nutty, to say the least).

It would be fun to get taken on a little treasure hunt of sorts. I just don't think it's starting on a t-shirt. :)

Fun? yes.

Realistic? Probably not. :)

Not if history tells us anything, no, not at all.

Then again, we did all get teased with "blueprints" for SkyHawk in the trash. That's about as exciting as it gets.

Yes, stock photos have been used for a long time. Here's the 1964 Park Guide with Giant Coaster-- I mean Blue Streak featured.

Mondays, ride all day, three bucks!

I've noticed that park officials have referred to Rougarou as their "first" floorless coaster on more than one occasion. Perhaps a dive coaster will be their second. ;)

Once upon a time Cedar point was the pioneer of roller coasters, top thrill dragster broke records and is the second tallest ride in the world. Gatekeeper is great yet it is not the first wing coaster created. Who cares about dive coasters? Mantis is squashed and floorless coasters are old news. Wooden coasters that spiral are the rage, but what's next for thrill rides? I want cedar point too dazzle me like TTD once did.