Save a Classic

With the close of Americana in Cincinnati yesterday, the Screechin' Eagle is now SBNO [Standing, But Not Operating], the limbo of coasterhood.

Now, more than ever, I hope the boardwalk plan goes through, as SE was built in the roaring twenties of CP's own heyday. It would make a nice little centerpiece, 'eh?

If CP does add a new coaster any time soom after the completion of MF, A restored vintage coaster would be a great addition. I been hoping that they would buy and restore a coaster from a defunct park to add to their collection. I'm all for the idea!

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Vince "cpboy"Albertson
http://home.att.net/~vcalbertson/index.htm

Don't count on seeing the Screechin' Eagle at the Point. Also, if CP were to buy and relocate the ride, those of us who have ridden it in LeSourdsville would probably not recognize it. One of the reasons that rides like the Skyrocket...er...Screechin' Eagle need to be preserved is that modern designers simply do not have the intestinal fortitude to build rides like the old coasters.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(edited to fix formatting) *** This post was edited by RideMan on 1/8/00. ***

I've asked about the restoration and preservation of historic coasters, and off-the-record, they'll tell you it is a shame, but not a financial endeavor they're willing to enter. Who can blame them? It's a lot of expense with minimal return when you're a Cedar Point-class park.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point

I keep thinking boardwalk project, and if it's realized, how well a coaster actually from that era would highlight it...

Especially a good one from that era.

This is a very interesting situation down in Cincy. I tend to agree with the popular opinion that Kennywood would be the perfect new owners of Americana. They already have saved one park (Lake Compunce in Connecticut), so the legend goes. However, I don't know if they would be willing to take on PKI head-on.


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Scott W. Short
sshort@mediaone.net
http://welcome.to/midwestcoastercentral

I think it would be like GL and SW is now. They would help each other. If you go to one you would probably go to the other. Of course they would need some major updates to the park.

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I have a dream that all SBNO coasters will be brought back to life at one park.

Hey BodyITL,

Great Idea!!!!
Let's get not just the SBNO coasters, but the ones that must be sitting disassembled somewhere. Think of it.....

Screechin' Eagle
Drachen Fire
CP's old Jumbo Jets

and I don't know what happened to.....

PKI's Screamin' Demon
SFGA's Tidal Wave

Later,
V

SFGA's Tidal Wave is now at SF in Georgia. it was moved to make room for Batman at SFGAm and is now called Viper. if you go to the website you can find pictures of it. it is DEFINETELY my beloved Tidal Wave. what a great ride that is...a Schwartzkopf launched shuttle...

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"

Kings Island's Screamin' Demon went to Camden Park where it became the Thunderbolt Express. I have been told that Camden retired the ride near the end of the 1999 season. No word about whether it has been sold. --Dave Althoff, Jr.

Please please please someone - and as much as I love CP they don't have the guts - save the Screechin' Eagle. I would go to Americana a hundred times to ride this shockingly underrated ride before I would suffer through an hour at PKI. You got more legitimate thrills on one hill of this coaster than you did on an the entire length of some new "record-breaker".

Today I mourn the loss of a legend.

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Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

Financial endeavor they aren't willing to get into? Millennium Force is like 40 million. I don't know how much it is to restore an old coaster, but it would seem less than that.

P.S. CP NEEDS a Schwarzkopf shuttle looper. The station could be the DT building!

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"The Italic Squirrels. Woulnd't that be a cool name for a rock band?"-Dave Barry

The price tag for MF isn't 40 million. It's 27 Million. But CP is spending 48 million this year.

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Millennium+Force=Sweetest Roller Coaster on the Planet

yes, Squirrel, that is what CP needs. a ride that, although BELOVED by many(yours truly included) was built in like 1979 and is really outdated...i love the idea of a Schwartkopf shuttle looper, but in the day and age of LIM, S:TE and others, a Tidal Wave type thing might not go over so well(no pun intended)...that ride was(and is) a part of SFGAm's history and i miss it terribly. but no clone of it could ever come close to it. so let's just go to Georgia and ride the real thing. now that i've made a fool of myself waxing rhapsodic over a 35-second-ride..that IS what you meant by "Schwartzkopf shuttle looper" i hope....

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"