New for 2015

To be clear - My conversation was about the need for painting, not the need to change colors.

noggin said:

Final Force 505 said:
My point being, they painted ID different colors to make Maverick stand out.

I don't understand. If Maverick and Iron Dragon stood side by side, then different color schemes would certainly make sense. Who, well, cares if different coasters in different areas of the park have similar color schemes?

Exactly. I don't see why it would matter at all. I mean Gemini and Mean Streak are near eachother. They don't even have actual colors and still people can tell one from the other! :/

I think even if they only paint the bottom portion of TTD (the launch, run up to vertical, run down from vertical, and brake run), it will look way better. The tower might not even need it (although I'm sure they'd just paint the whole ride)

djDaemon said:
You kids and your imaginations.

Well, it was just an idea. Do you know what will be built? Because if you do go ahead and share! I'm listening! :)

Rougarou will be.

djDaemon said:
Why does Mantis need a different color scheme? It's one of the most unique and beautiful color schemes in the park. How many red (4 existing) or blue (4 existing) coasters does the park need exactly?

CoasterGuy15 said:
raptor needs to go a different color for sure.

Again, why? The park has more than enough reds and blues, and Raptor is one of the few that stand out. The only color more fitting for a bird of prey would be brown, which wouldn't exactly be appealing on the Main Midway (nor would it be unique).

While I agree on the mantis having a unique color scheme, so is the color they are testing. The park doesn't have a true green coaster (except raptor but it's more aqua and lime than the forest green they have tested on mantis). It just makes sense to change it to green IF it is getting renamed to the swampy and eerie "Rougarou".

And I didn't say I wanted raptor to be red or blue. I suggested purple, which again the park doesn't have. If they were going to repaint it eventually (because every coaster gets painted eventually) why not change it to something more unique and new?

Kevinj said:
Rougarou will be.

Well, yeah. I was referring to what type of ride it will be exactly.

Oh that's what you meant.

:)

I would say black, grey and maroon would be great for Raptor except that the bird doo doo would show up even better than it already does. I don't like the orange on Iron Dragon. I don't remember exactly what it was when it was new but I think dark greens, black and purple would be nice and have a nice medieval dragon feel to it. Mantis probably should have been green to begin with.

Can we please not discuss Raptor changing color? I like the green monster the way he is. Carry on....

topthrilldragster4lyf said:
When was Demon Drop over by Point Pavilion? It's final location in the park was on the opposite side of the main midway.

I'm referring to the one random pavilion that faces outward toward the employee parking lot/preferred parking. You know, the one that's right next to Ocean Motion (which is the same area DD occupied.

EDIT: And with how much I second guess myself, I'm starting to have a feeling that pavilion was demolished when Gatekeeper was put in?! Shows how often I use the main gate.

Guy's! I did it! I hacked into Cedar Point's file server. I found a file in Tony's share titled, CP2015.docx - dated April 1, 2014.

It's actually going to be an update to Kiddie Land. Here are the rides that will be installed:

- Linus' Nightmare: It's an old mill ride where you get to see Linus' nightmare in 3D! The story involves Linus doing the evil bidding of The Great Pumpkin King. Some of the pictures are disturbing. One of them has Linus bowling with Charlie Brown's head. I will leave the rest up to your imagination.
- Snoopy's Dogfight: It's a Zamperla Air Race! It has a twist, for an upcharge of $10, (figures, Cedar Point is so greedy) you can have live ammunition for your plane. It's going to be advertised as a, "great way to get rid of your annoying younger brother."
- Charlie Brown Fails Again: They're going to re-do the Ocean Motion ride. They are going to change the ship to a foot. There will be a large animatronic (now who said CP doesn't do animatronics) of Lucy with a football. As the ship (I mean foot) gets close to the football, Lucy knocks it down. But as the ship returns she flips it back up again. Bound to teach children the frustration of life at an early age!

[Sadly I ran out of ideas to give a dark twist of real rides that fit the Peanuts universe. I really wanted to come up with a dark version of Kite-Eating-Tree. I do hope you realize that this is all just good fun.]

A dark version of the Kite eating tree? Simple, it eats PEOPLE!!

I thought Tonys comment saying magnum force was interesting. Maybe a dive machine over 200 ft with millenniums intensity. Idk but that just maybe my wish list. I really have no idea what's gonna happen

phillies2 said:
I thought Tonys comment saying magnum force was interesting. Maybe a dive machine over 200 ft with millenniums intensity. Idk but that just maybe my wish list. I really have no idea what's gonna happen

Wait, did Tony make a reference to my username? Can someone please fill me in?

Kevinj said:
Oh that's what you meant.

:)

Yup!:)

MagnumForce14 said:
Wait, did Tony make a reference to my username? Can someone please fill me in?

Tony's tweet here

Hmmm... Magnum is 200', Millenium Force is 300'... add them together as Magnum Force and you get the 500' coaster I've been talking about!

Maybe the B&M hyper coaster that I've been hoping CP would get???

It would be a combination of Magnum and Millennium. Its smoothness would resemble Millennium but its airtime would complement Magnum. B&M hypers are a completely different experience from anything else the park currently has.

Plus those clamshell restraints...they are perfect.

Also, I remember a while back (a year or two ago) Tony mentioned something that he'd like for the next coaster to have lots of airtime. Simple opinion or was he referring to a project that, at the time, none of us knew about yet?

Allright I'm back to being serious now. In the tweets that follow Tony's someone mentioned about some construction near Dragster? Now I haven't been to the Point in about a week but there wasn't anything going on around there that I saw, just wondering if anyone else noticed anything - could have just been someone painting a door for all I know...