I saw a rumor not too long ago that SS Sports was building a TA2K that is over 400 feet tall and TWO 90 degree drops! Now I know that Intamin or safely assuming that Intamin is building this thing instead of SS Sports so I am hoping the ride would be like this: Launch you straight up 90 degrees 420 feet than straight down 420 feet @ 90 degrees, next manuver could be like a 300+ foot clone of Xcellerator's tophat and than 4 or 5 airtime hills after that and thrown in a twist or two. But I would love to see several airtime moments on this ride instead of a one trick ride. But I have no ideas other than from the rumors what this new ride will do. If the rumors do come true (about it being 420 feet) and we DO know for sure that some thrilling new coaster from Intamin is coming than I will have an added reason to buy the $60 Valleyfair season pass for 2003!!! I LOVE extremely tall record breaking thrill rides if they scare the living you know what out of me!! :-)
You might want to read FloridaCoasterRider's thread about "Multiple Tophat Impossibilities"
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I read it but do we know for sure? I still am hoping it would be possible. Improable? Maybe Impossible only a professional designer would know for sure.
Ok, first off, its S&S Power, not SS Sports. I am sure the new ride will have some huge air at the top of the top hat, and a lot of cool overbanked turns.
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Maybe SS changed their name. I could have sworn they called themselves SS Sports at one point. I can't wait the see the layout of the new ride!!
Maybe it will be the steepest curling under itself a bit.
I thought they used to have Sports in the name, too. Cedar Point's website even lists Power Tower's ride manufacturer as: S&S Sports Power, Inc. Sounds kind of silly. ------------------ -RaptorFlyer
Yes, I remember when they were just developing the TA2K that S&S Sports was developing the ride.
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