new mantis trains?

I was at Cedar Point on Friday 10/5 and while riding Iron Dragon I noticed what appeared to be new rollercoaster trains next to the transfer track for Mantis.  The cars were B&M with what appeared to be simmilar colorations to Mantis. I could not get a really good look at them but they appeared to be complete cars.  Does anybody know if Mantis could be getting new trains or are they trains for an entirely new rollercoaster?
It is the 3rd Mantis train that I think you saw. They took it off sometime in August I believe.

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2001 Force-259   Magnum-444
I rode Gemini more than once during a day.

It's been there the whole season, wrapped up in a green tarp.  They didn't run it because dispatch times took too long and they started stacking trains.
Mid-July actually Joe...

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Opps, can you get some napkins please???
MF total - 469 laps
VertiGo Launches - 79
June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100

I was at Cedar Point last Saturday and I am almost positive that they were running three trains.  When I saw a train on the ground off of the transfer track it seemed pretty odd, but I guess the third Mantis train is a pretty good explanation of what I saw.
Mantis has not, and will not run three trains at all during the 2001 season.
The third train was taken off in August and that is what is sitting under the transfer track.  Maintenance is just getting an early start since it will not be used.  All trains on all coasters are taken off at the end of the season.  The decision to run three trains had nothing to do with dispatch times or stacking.  There was a reason for it.  Think about it, if the train could have been used we would have kept it there in the event something happened to one of the other trains.  I was the ATL at the end of the season.

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