Feb 23 Construction Pics

New pics have been posted on CPs website showing the inside of the station, the tunnel, and the gold train with Maverick graphics.

*** Edited 2/23/2007 9:59:54 PM UTC by realmadrid311***

It's looking good! Less than 80 days now!

hehe! oh boy, i'm excited now..its well on its way to being done. now that the controls are in, shouldn't be too much longer before testing, but maybe they'l wait untill they are done with the canyons, idk.

Things are really coming together now, control panel and transformers installed, rock walls forming and Trains with decals on them. I haven't felt this excited since the initial announcement!

Oh my God, I am like totally excited!

Wow - count me in as very excited as well. Testing doesn't feel that far away right now.

EDIT: Noticed how the "Maverick" logo is different on the train? I thought it would be the same. But I guess it really doesn't matter ;)
*** Edited 2/23/2007 11:18:10 PM UTC by Paradroid[DK]***

My adrenaline's getting up for this coaster. :)

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm trying to figure out how those harnesses come down over the torso. Do they just slide down, or do they pivot around somehow?

Ensign,

The pictures from the newest update on the CP blog will show the harnesses. ;)

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/fun/blog/index.cfm

you can clearly see the dreaded seatbelts.....ughhhhhhh. hopefully these are more forgiving than millenniums and dragsters.

Wow, they are really coming along. It seems like just yesterday they announced it.

Ensign, it looks like they come straight down over your head.

Anyone notice the name "Bart" on the side of the train? :)

It's the green train!!!;)
WOW awsome awsome update, Im totally giddy for opening day!:)

I'm drolling over here. Can May get here any sooner.

I think this might confirm our second row theory:
http://maverick.cedarpoint.com/_upload/gallery/mvt136.jpg

What was the second row theory?

Was it about stadium seating, because it appears there is none.:(

What's there to confirm Craig? It was confirmed the moment I posted it.;)

And raptorTC, the second row of seats on Maverick (as well as most Intamin coasters) are indeed set higher. But they are also set farther apart!
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Oh, now that I look at it, they are a little higher. I don't know why I didn't see that before.

But what was the theory??

Sorry for all the questions, I just joined today.

*** Edited 2/24/2007 3:33:29 AM UTC by raptorTC***

See a while back, when they posted pics of the pullthrough on the Maverick site, I noticed that the second row of seats were farther apart than the first row. Well of course there were some who thought it just might have been an optical illusion....so it was thus called the second row theory...or at least that's what Craig calls it anyway.:)

But all jokes aside, the seats in the second row of every car on every train are both higher and farther apart.

WOW!!! This is great,Can spring fever be around the corner.Great looking trains, and they do look comfi :-),Is it opening day yet!!!,Geeeeeeked.

Oh, I see. Thank you.

I just wish I could make it on opening day. Oh well, it will still be there in June, I hope.:)

GAM man 68 said:
you can clearly see the dreaded seatbelts.....ughhhhhhh. hopefully these are more forgiving than millenniums and dragsters.

They don't look like lap belts to me. They look more like Raptor or Corkscrew's "between the legs" type to me. Good news for bigger people.