Farewell, Wildcat.

I am guessing that the corridor for passing thru the lumminosity area that they assured us was in the plan now goes behind the control booth.

Shades said:

djDaemon said:
After all, Luminosity doesn't start until June, so the extra space won't be needed for a few weeks.

But they don't need any extra space;)

Touche'. :)

It sucks that they don't have another webcam looking on in that area. It is so hard to see that tiny little space. Oh well, If I have to I will upload pictures showing the fence because like normal, I will have my camera ready! :)

I figured there would be comments to this thread after people had a chance to see the area.

In my opinion there is certainly a space issue. The stage justs pretty far into the midway. Add in the curved benches and whatever the large circle things are and I dont see how there will be room to fit in a crowd and have people be able to walk through that section. Count me in as a believer that there really was nothing wrong with Wildcat, it simply had to go to give more space, assuming once they have that area cleaned out they remove the fence.

I think the fenced off area is being used for a staging area for the construction workers while the work continues on Luminosity at Celebration Plaza

That would make sense for the fenced area. I was surprised to see work going on late Sunday afternoon. Nothing like double time for the electricians on Mother's Day.

I think Shades is right on the space issue.With the temporary fence approximately at the former edge of Wildcat, and any kind of crowd watching a show that leaves very little space for through traffic.

While I was riding Mean Streak yesterday, I noticed that the Wild Cat cars are still sitting in the infield. Anybody else notice this? If so, does anyone know what they are planning on doing with them?

I noticed. I'm sure they can be used for parts. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was taken over by the HalloWeekends planners and turned into a prop.

The cars uallasy in frot of Gemini for Halloweekends are from the original Wildcat arnt they?

Shawn Meyer said:
While I was riding Mean Streak yesterday, I noticed that the Wild Cat cars are still sitting in the infield. Anybody else notice this? If so, does anyone know what they are planning on doing with them?

New cars for CCMR. ;)

In talking with Brian at the ACE event. He said they planned on sending one of them to the National Roller Coaster Museum and Archives in Texas. He also said that he wanted to put one in the lobby in the Marketing office, as all the other departments had cool things while they didn't. I would not be surprised if they also used one for Halloweekends.

^ Bryan also said one might go in the Town Hall museum.

Ah yeah, I thought I was forgetting one of them.

Well, Cedar Point is losing more than a 3rd rate roller coaster (personally I would rather see Dragging Iron, the Mine Ride or the Junior Gemini go than WildCat (all three of those are just horrible rides) and this idea that it costs too much to maintain is ludicrous. That style of coaster is moved around with MOVING CARNIVALS. If dirt poor carnies can manage that coaster so can the number one amusement park on the planet! It would cost them next to nothing to relocate it. They could even put it in a small corner of the parking lot near the Blue Streak or something. It takes up almost no space.

Why do I even care when it's not much of a coaster? For one thing, it's got a lot more history than many other rides and Cedar Point seems to have lost most of its classic rides already (and with the loss of Geuaga Lake which was a TRAVESTY but something I just knew would happen if Cedar Fair bought it), there just aren't any classic style rides left unless you want to drive to Knoebels and they don't have everything (I really miss the Rotor, for example).

More importantly, Cedar Point has lost its "Roller Coaster Capital of the World" title to Six Flags now. They SHOULD have moved The Big Dipper from Geauga Lake to to Cedar Point (THAT is a classic coaster!) and passed them up. I'd rather have that than a log ride. Put it on the beach. Make a boardwalk area on the beach and bring back classic rides like the Trabien swing from Geauga Lake (used to be common to all the classic parks and now only Disneyland has one in California!) Cedar Point just doesn't seem to be thinking too hard on how they can best use their space. They've got the beach and the parking lot to work with. Heck, I'd rather them tear down the Mean Streak (awful, just awful ride) and put the Big Dipper there instead for that matter. Really, CP should work on improving their existing line-up like Kennywood did with the Phantom (HUGE improvement).

Still holding on to that, eh?

That sure sounds like the whole first 5/8 of this discussion repeated in one post. :)

In that case, let me take "5/8' of VM's arguement and go off on a different tack:

*If dirt poor carnies can manage that coaster so can the number one amusement park on the planet!

*It would cost them next to nothing to relocate it. It takes up almost no space.

*it's got a lot more history than many other rides and Cedar Point seems to have lost most of its classic rides already (and CF tries to strike a balance between the old & new)

Different Tack: it was a good coaster. Despite its size, Wildcat packed a nice wallop. There is plenty of space in the park to move it to.

BTW, I agree with the "Make a boardwalk area on the beach and bring back classic rides " idea.

Exactly how many "dirt poor carnies can manage that coaster" are there managing Wild Cats today?

See if you can answer the question Why?.

There is a Wild Cat, but it's a wooden roller coaster and it resides in Hershey PA. :)