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I think Cedar Point should expand to another island because the island that they are on is getting packed with rides and mabey make a long boardwalk with food, restrooms, and other attractions. This offers many more possibilities!

Cedar Point is on a peninsula and not and island. Exactly what island do you have in mind?

Take over Pelee Island :P

There's alot of room left on point, it's just not exactly noticable to most guests.

That is an amazing idea to do something like toy story I think it should be a game where you shoot all the garbage off the ground in Cedar Point and be like the clean up man and then you'll get your score at the end of the game.

I was reading on a different page that I responded too lol.

DSShives said:
Cedar Point is on a peninsula and not and island. Exactly what island do you have in mind?

Thank you for correcting me!

I don't think anyone posted about this, but Tony put up a new blog post with the new colors for Monster along with a picture.

in the new cedar point blog, tony reveled the new colors of the monster. it will be red, orange, and yellow with blue lights.

The colors are a little generic if you ask me. It will be interesting to see if this gets a lighting package.

I agree, and honestly I didn't mind the paint colors, it was very different. I don't see this as a "monster" anymore. Plus alot of little kids called it "Octopus" and it was quite fitting IMO.

It's still not as bad as KI's paintjob..All black cars, I'd hate to work that job during the summer, cotter pins and red plastic was hot enough, couldn't imagine with that much black everywhere

The paint jobs isn't bad, it is just not anything spectacular. Something tells me there will be a lighting package. That is something that has been improving recently under Ouimet.

Just curious, has there been any indication that Gemini itself is getting some cosmetic touch up/lighting package on the station and/or ride?

The station will remain the same since it was already spruced up with colors a few years back, but the structure will be painted lime green with purple hand rails. ;)

I don't think anything will change with Gemini's appearance. It would be cool to ride it on media day of the refreshed midway.

if only there would be lime green supports....

I forgot that they gave a fresh coat to the station, thanks.

I think it would be cool just to light up the structure park side with some flood lights.

I like the new colors for Monster. That ride has been with us at Cedar Point since 1970 and hasn't seen a change since. When I worked at CP in the 70's the crew had shirts printed that said "The Only Orange One", as most Monster rides had black arms and black cars. The light bulbs and florescent tubes were yellow and green. IIRC, there was a ride at Busch Gardens, or someplace like that, that had either yellow or tan colored cars. I've also seen pictures of the ride that ran at Rockaway Playland, which I believe was a portable model, and it had the red orange cars, too. (so maybe that 1974 Monster crew was wrong...)

But the re-done Monster will look nice, and the blue lights are a hoot. I fear, however, they may use a programmable LED light package that will make the ride look like a bright, bright, hot mess at night. While Giant Wheel and Windseeker are ok, especially from a distance, I'm not a fan of that trend, they're too glaring for me, especially on a low lying flat. Many carnival midways are retrofitting their ferris wheels, Himalayas, claw rides, and swing rides with LED's and they can be headache inducing just to watch.
Or, you can call me old fashioned, I guess... :-)

You're old fashioned. ;)

I personally love the LED trend. Not only do I prefer the uniformity and/or lack of burned out bulbs, but I also love what they can do with them.

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I wouldn't be surprised to see LED packages follow the trend in the automotive world, where they've shifted from discreetly-identifiable LED's to LED "pipes", which look a lot like neon tubes.

LEDs are trending everywhere. About 50% of my house lighting is LED now and I'm planning on being 100% LED in a few months.

Got any Philips Hue bulbs yet?

I agree somewhat with the lighting thoughts, the new LED lighting can look very sharp but there is something nostalgic about the classic carnival lighting I really enjoy. LED is a great idea for your home, the resort I recently left was just starting converting all of their lighting when all is said and don they will save in the area of 2.5 million a year in electricity alone.

I also hope in the next few years we see rides like Matterhorn and Calypso restored and with improved lighting. As well as dare I say some Disney like improvement to landscaping and restoring some of the classic lighting such as the lights on the midway from the marina gate. Those classic worlds fair lights would look great sandblasted and painted then the important part kept free of their collections of dead bugs.