New 2002 coaster

I can't find the original post, but someone had mentioned that there would be a new steel coaster in 2002, perhaps a floorless.

I shouldn't say here, but the new coaster won't be a B&M. If you all promise to keep this a secret...

CP is currently negotiating with S&S to bring an air thruster launch coaster. The queue will take up most of the area where Oceana currently sits. The launch will be from the site of Ocean Motion. The trains will be hybrid water/land vessels (like Journey to Atlantis) seating 24 people each.

The ride (tentatively to be called Abyssmal -- misspelling intentional) will shoot riders out toward the lake and up a 245 vertical wall. Once at the top, riders will be plunged 260 feet INTO the lake. OK, so not actually into the lake, but into a pipe (like Oblivion) that will go into the lake. This pipe will be clear so that you can see underwater.

When the train comes up out of the lake, you'll go into a double helix and head back toward the beach. On the beach, a hard left behind Giant Wheel, and back up to the top of what is now Disaster Transport. That building will be the new surroundings for the dark/water portion of the ride.

Inside the DT building, you'll experience three flume drops (like Splash Mountain), the third one exiting the building and back onto the beach. Instead of the big splash at the bottom, you'll be taken back up 50 feet, then a quick loop (like Corkscrew) before the magnetic braking system (like MF) cruises you in for a gentle stop.

I know this is absolutely true. I can't say exactly where the information came from, but let's suffice it to say that I know a guy who went to CP two weeks ago and spent a LOT of time hanging around the Lemon Chill cart on the Gemini Midway. Nuff said!!

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i have heard something similiar to this. this is exactly what i heard. there is a new 21st century coaster to be done in 2001-2002 on the spot of oceana and disaster transport. i also head that they are going to move disaster transport outside near mean streak. is this true?

What's really scary about all of this is that JB(if you remember him) was this closest to all of us guessing what the next coaster would do!

If this is true, why would CP build it this year (for 2001)

*** This post was edited by CP_genius on 6/8/2000. ***

Wow - I wish I had your sources, Duane. What a scoop! ;)

Maybe if I eat more Lemon Chill ...

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*** This post was edited by Gemini on 6/8/2000. ***

And to think I had stopped at the Lemon Chill stand a DAY EARLIER darn the luck.

P.S. Do you think the Red Cross will auction off the first rides? I'm bidding if they do! (notice I only used one !)

Did he say what they were going to do with DT and Ocean Motion?

Is anyone going to contribute to Coasterbuzz's Rumors page? Just remember once it's posted there, "there is no turning back"-The Matrix.

Hey Duane, I think you've even got thrillride.com beat with that one!

Do you guys really beleive him? Hmmmmm I DONT!!

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um how exactly are they going to deal with the freezing and melting of the lake ????? The pipe will break just like Jeff and other people have said. No coaster will go over Lake Erie.

talking to a lemon chill guy? Come on!!! It was probably the same guy who said MF was clocked at 120 mph!

i did my friends sister works their there negoiating with B&M sorry Correspondence with 1st post *** This post was edited by CP2000andBeyond on 6/8/2000. ***

I could see a Air Thrust there along the beach, but not going into the lake.

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I hope CP puts in a Thrust Air sometime, or a flying coaster :) *** This post was edited by JT Coaster on 6/8/2000. ***

Now I know how rumors really get started...
Someone (an employee, for example) tells a VERY naive person a whacked-out OBVIOUSLY false rumor (most likely as a joke) and then that person tells their friends, and they tell their friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

(PS- Man, I thought that just Duane's original post was funny, who knew that the responses to it would be even FUNNIER)

Although this should be in the FAQ's thread, where are they going to put in the coaster that goes into the lake?

As for my above posts, I should have put in (sarcasm) at the end of the posts.
*** This post was edited by CP_genius on 6/8/2000. ***

First, we have already discussed the zero possibility of going into the lake. Dont you think they would have done it by now if they could? also how are they going to get DT out of the builing and put a new ride in it? That would be extremely difficult to gut the building. Plus didnt they add stuff to it this year?

Why is it impossible for it to go on the lake? Yes, with the lake freezing glass or metal would crack but what about bullet resistant glass? My father works for a glass company and says it could be done. That kind of glass is 8 inches thick and unbreakable! It could take the punishment from the lake with ease.

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They could make the glass as thick as the kind in the move "Titanic". LOL!

Nice, Duane... I really thought by now that SOMEONE would get it.

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