NEWS FLASH!!!! Track and supports sighted

I completely agree with Ken. There are some rides out there that I want to have the restraint down tight. X-Flight and Xcelerator come to mind first. Some rides are downright painful if you're allowed to move around too much.

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Scott W. Short, Rail Junkie
mailto:scott@midwestcoastercentral.com
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I'll buy that guys, thanks for the info and your opinions. I agree that there is tons and tons of air on MF - but then again I have been known to cheat the system. ;)

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cyberdman

Millennium Michael, I don't know by "spring" in the lapbars if you mean that they are soft in nature or if they move a little. They have infinite locking positions because of the hydraulics used to keep them closed, so they can't move until released in the station.

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

Could someone please be a pal and tell me what the guide-track with silver thing (it looks like the cable lift on MF) is? http://community.webshots.com/photo/50750385/50751091pqDhYm
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weezer

Those track sections are just the brakes. As mentioned before they're permanent magnetic brakes like those on Xcelerator. That guide in the middle is a rail for the proximity sensors to be bolted to.

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2002 Raptor Crew
"Hey, Cool. My voice is on the lift"

what does everyone think of the triangular shape of the tower now gonig up?

obviously, there isn't a tower/supports like that on Xcellerator. Xcellerator's tower has two supports like that on Wicked Twister. If this thing is going to be supersized, don't you think it should have more than one support structure for the tower?

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Millennium Force Laps: 8
Wicked Twister Twists: 1
Hey, I'm from Florida.

The last time I looked this new coaster wasn't even built yet and you're so sure it's definitely going to cross to the island? OK then, where are the tracks going to cross and lay on the island then? Tell me. Here's the reason once and for all why there are 2 dams by the island.(plain and simple). If you read my post on 9/15 thoroughly you'd see that I said the area where the PWE boats were stored recently had to be blocked off and filled in with dirt. Well, a week later that is EXACLTY 100% what happened. They drained the lagoon (hence the dams on both sides by the island) to put in a "metal" dam along the dirt shoreline behind where Chaos used to be. This new area was then filled in with dirt so CP could put in footers there, where water used to be. End of story. **Gemini, I'm so sure that CP isn't putting in new footers on the island for the new ride, that if I'm wrong I'll treat you for dinner at Berardi's by your place. That's a wager. Care to counter?

"The last time I looked this new coaster wasn't even built yet and you're so sure it's definitely not going to cross to the island?" No one on this web site has been more specific in their speculation than you have.

Besides, I have never said anything about footer or track placement. I haven't speculated, all I've done is point out things that are obvious.

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Virtual Midway
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*** This post was edited by Gemini 9/25/2002 6:32:36 PM ***

CPfan76 said:
The last time I looked this new coaster wasn't even built yet and you're so sure it's definitely going to cross to the island?

This from the guy who questions whether or not it'll be a rocket coaster, all the while saying it could be like S:TE.

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Jeff
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

Gemini, I'll take that as a compliment. You're right nobody has been more specific in their speculation than I have;agreed but I can back up what I'm saying by just suggesting a friendly wager, that's all. Nobody but myself has told everyone where the new rides entrance would be, where cueue lines would go, and what the structure of the ride would look like, the fact that the ride wouldn't go over to the island, and would shoot up and return to the station. I respect everyone's "opinions" and comments on this board, no matter how much I disagree with some, even though mine are not looked on as popular. We'll see what happens when the announcement is made. Take care.

Uhh, I think the reason for that is because those of us that do have contacts or info about the ride aren't about it spout it off here just to prove a point.

When a person receives info, it is usually supposed to be for them only to hear. Not so they can turn around and blab it to every coaster enthusiast on the Net. If they do happen to do that, they won't have that source of info the next time around. The amusement industry is very small, and stuff like that gets around, so pretty soon you could be shunned from receiving any info.

No matter how much you think you know about the ride, if you are just going with your gut on this one, you're horribly mistaken.

Also, there's really a possibility that the ride will have an "L" formation...at least the beginning of the ride...no like you are saying though. It will go on the island.

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy
*** This post was edited by CP_bound 9/28/2002 1:42:10 AM ***

There is definetly land clearing on the island now, from the cam you can see trees down and some large construction equipment parked. This is all i can see from michigan.

CPfan76 said:
I respect everyone's "opinions" and comments on this board, no matter how much I disagree with some, even though mine are not looked on as popular.

They aren't looked at as non-popular, just wrong.

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Jeff
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

When you can explain the brake fin track and the twisted track, you may gain a few fans, but untill then.....

With all this brake track I am seeing, and the similarities between the supports on the pullout of the tower now....Im thinking that the location of the white supports on the MF side of the tower will be the beginning of the brake run...hence making the enthusiast dissapointment obvious. This is clearly just a guess!

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Ripcord Crew 2002

Yep Josh. Just up the tower and back down to the station, for an overall "L" shaped structure (backwards "L" actually; looking from a side-view) just as I've been saying. I guess I'm not too "wrong". I'm still waiting for the supports on the island. Riding MF, I still don't see them. Oh well....

CPFan76, you said it was going to be a bigger S:TR. You said thats 'exactly' what it is going to be. Check the link below. You changed your mind once already so dont act like you have got the whole ride figured out.

http://www.guidetothepoint.com/cpplace.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=8674&page=18

Just wondering if you might have to change your mind again. I hope you do or else this ride will only be launch, tophat, brakes. But hopefully we can at least get launch, top hat, huge airtime hill, huge overbanked turn brakes.

What about launching up the MF side of the yellow tower coming down the midway side, huge airtime hill going along the midway then an over banked turn by ID then the brake run. That would work very nicely for me, and goes along with CP's history of coasters 'interacting' with the crowds on the midways.

Just a reminder Josh M. and CPfan76, but if you will look in the gallery on this very site you will find pictures taken in November 1999 of freshly poured footers on the island for MF. I'm not saying your theories are wrong, but that it is way too early to rule out the possibility of this ride crossing over to the island.

I personally think that there is more to come, at the rate this tower is going up I would be very surprised if it is not completed by the end of october, and that would leave a lot of time for more construction. Why would CP have started construction so early if it would not take long to build? The only reason I can think of that would make sense is if it were full of untested technology, and as far as I can tell there is not any new construction. I believe there is still a lot of construction left to be done including a major portion on the island.

just my 2 cents
*** This post was edited by OHCoasterfreak 9/29/2002 3:53:28 PM ***

exactly, OHcoasterfreak. Its way too early to rule out anything (in regards to the ride's layout). We've had about six week's active construction, and based on that people are already assuming all footers have been poured. That's crazy. I don't presume to know anything about this ride's layout, but to say that simply because we haven't seen new footers means there won't be any is ignorant. There are a thousand things that might be limiting construction right now, including obvious ones like the fact that the park is still open. I'm not saying it won't be launch/tophat/brakerun, but saying either way right now is silly.
*** This post was edited by mk468zz 9/29/2002 3:56:23 PM ***

I was just looking through the new shots at setecx.com and image 35 is very interesting. It seems as though the footers in the picture are in a circular pattern, could this be a turn? I just wanted to point this image out to demonstrate that we just might see a few turns on this new monstrosity.

Later,

Chris