Schwabinchen to be removed?

Sunday will mark the last day of operation for the Schwabinchen spinning ride. Built in 1970, the Heinrich Mack manufactured ride will be disassembled this winter as part of the park’s improvement program for 2003. Originally located on the “Million Dollar Midway,” where the WildCat roller coaster currently stands, the Schwabinchen was relocated to its present location in 1985, across from the Cedar Point Aquatic Stadium, where it replaced the popular Rotor. Schwabinchen has thrilled more than 15 million guests in its 32-year history.

When did you hear this? Oh, my beautiful lady will only be alive in my dreams.

Glad I got a ride on it when I did. I guess it will be one of my few defunct rides I've ridden.

If this is true, my question would be why??? Certainly there are numerous locations where Troika/Chaos can be placed. I still say one or both need to go over in the MF/Mantis area. It's all coasters over there - nothing else to do!

-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew

I have a good source that I got this info from. I believe the press release will be tommorrow. Definitely before the weekend.

So much for your good source.

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Virtual Midway
http://www.virtualmidway.com

What do you mean by "So much for your good source."?

I wasn't sworn to secrecy on this matter. I have some other quite interesting information though. Unfortunatley I was sworn to secrecy on it. :P

Somehow I doubt CP will issue a press release to say they are removing a ride! :) If they indeed are removing something, it will likely become known when they announce the new coaster - and if that were happening tomorrow, I'm sure we'd know by now! :)

-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew

It was originaly going to be removed, yes, but the fact is, that this wasn't a cut & dry descision by Cedar Point. Some full-timers wanted it to go, some felt it needed to stay. Believe what ever you want, but your "good source" didn't tell you all of the story.
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Jes
Jes's Roller Coasters DJ Jes
Six Flags Worlds Of Adventure 2002 Ride-Ops Crew! Have fun trying to find me!

I'm told they are releasing this along with a "this is your last weekend to visit before closing for the season" types of deals. We'll soon see how good my source is. I'm betting he is right, since I know what his job is there. :)

My mistake - I thought you were referring to the new ride announcement which will not be before the end of the season. I don't doubt we will see an announcement on Schwabinchen soon.

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Virtual Midway
http://www.virtualmidway.com

Ummm... anyone can quote a press release.

Good source my ass...

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

Maybe they'll put in a new footer there for #16.

I might have to ride that on Friday...I've never ridden it before, but I'll have to convince my friend to ride it before I can. Don't want to miss out on something I haven't done before it's gone like so many other rides removed from CP.

I think that the woman on the rie could be one of the reason. To me, it seems that she will suffer the same fate as "Lusty Lils"...

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Ah, the press release brings back fond memories of the Rotor!!!

Chaos is supposed to go where Schwabinchen is now. Troika is supposed to go in front of WT, where exactly I don't know. I think a great spot for Troika or Chaos would have been in front of the MF bunny hop. Thats a pretty good size area.

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Steve Sergent
MF count: 222

I never really thought I'd say this, but I'm kinda sad to see her go. It was actually a pretty fun ride to run most of the time, especially in '01 before they locked the music cabinet. There was nothing like hearing kids tell their folks they wanted to ride the "Booby lady." Depending on the operator you could even get a little airtime. The lines this year were certainly longer than years before, but I guess sometimes it takes a little more than that to be a deciding factor.

So long to the Bar...uh...Maid. ;)

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

Edit: Nevermind. Jeff, correction on the press relase URL. It's here

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
Cedar Point FanBoy since 2001. || Cruiser Boy since 2002.
"Pessimistic people are the happiest people on the planet. They're either right or pleasantly surprised."
*** This post was edited by MiLLeNNiuMRiDeR 10/22/2002 8:56:15 AM ***

Well atleast they were nice enough to make a press release BEFORE the park closed so people could get their last ride in. Unlike Fascination were they waited to March to announce that the attraction was already gone! I'm still bitter about that.

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Dan Haverlock
"How do you own disorder?"

They still didn't announce it until pretty close to the season's end -- those of us who can't get there closing weekend will miss out.

Fortunately, I took a ride last time I was there, "just in case".

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