Surprise 2014 Attraction?

Maybe they shopped with them again and will find a similar attraction from someone else :) I am excited either way...I like the KI sling shot it feels out of control...but I preferred Vertigo the short time it was in challenge park.

These rides look amazing at night too, it should have a nice lighting package.

At KI if you go very early in the morning it can be as low as 10 bucks. As the day goes and the crowd gets larger the price increases. Same for the Skycoaster ride, too.
Not to say that if CP gets one it'll be the same...

Slingshot rides are one of the coolest attractions ever IMO. We rode the one at Kings Island on a "$5" day and it was such an awesome ride. The acceleration up to the sky is an incredible sensation.

I am really excited for this, if it does come.

And I'm the opposite, I don't care for them much. I've been on both types, the one with the fat bungy cords and the Funtime spring-controlled ride. The latter is a little less scary, but also seems more "controlled", if you will, with less frantic action. It also seems to offer a fewer number of flips, two maybe three if you're lucky. Sometimes just one. The older bungy style, while a little less safe, maybe, gives lots of flips and face down hang time.

Anyway, should CP get one in the park it will be very popular I'm sure.

I scored a couple of the early morning $5 tickets to the slingshot ride at KI a few years ago. I thought it was a bit of a snoozefest, but I can see how different passenger weights could change the dynamics of the ride. I pretty much stayed upright the whole time, whereas I've seen other riders get flipped all around.

Perhaps Cedar Point worked out a deal with FunTime back in 2011. Instead of getting sued for backing out of the Windseeker/Starflyer deal, Cedar Point would go with an up-charge attraction through FunTime in the coming years. That's an interesting subject to think about actually.

^^I hear you there, me and my best friend when we went, I couldn't orient myself once the ride started it was fantastic. There was one time I went alone though, and it was, eh..

I'll be honest though best rides for that are Halloween Haunt with all the fog, launching through that and not knowing which way is up or down, damn good stuff.

I hope they use the same or similar lighting package as the Slingshot in Orlando! That thing looks pretty cool at night.

I'll admit that does look pretty cool

I got the chance to ride the slingshot in Orlando, and it was (overpriced) awesome!

I rode the Skyflyer there, it was free for IAAPA attendees. I was the only customer on the ride, it was about 40 degrees, it was night, and it was very high up there- the chairs seemed to swing so close to the other high rides in that little park. I was petrified and was looking in vain down at the operator for help (I kept doing the cut-throat let-me-down-now motion) but he was busy digging his toe into the ground while he sent text messages. So after the longest 2.5 minutes of my life I decided to head for the car and didn't try the slingshot. It is impressive though, dominates the I-Drive skyline, and is so brilliant you can see it from quite a distance.

I suppose after that big wheel is done there it will dwarf the other rides on that strip...

I wouldn't be surprised if CP does this because there not doing much in the Offseason.

Do rides like these make you dizzy/sick? I'm fine on coasters but I can't do any rides that spin. I want to try this but not if it will make me sick.

Did not make me sick at all. It doesn't feel like you're spinning. It might sound weird to imagine, but they're sort of really smooth? You just get launched up, and then flip downward and bounce etc. the spinning isn't fast enough really. i mean, i guess it just depends on your launch though, this is only based on personal experience from last year.

Yeah, I'm betting Cedar Point will go with a Mondial prototype slingshot ride. Mondial's version will shoot riders in the air, but they'll never come back down. :)

^THIS. A large wooden medieval catapult that just flings you across the park hundreds of feet into the air and into Lake Erie.

Or Ocean Erie...so many guests think that is an ocean for some odd reason

Ocean Erie, yes, just proves that people are getting an amazing education in schools.

Lol...totally agree..Trust me I lost so much faith in humanity working on the point..

Like the couple who sat ON the restraints for Corkscrew.

Sometimes..just sometimes, survival of the fittest would benefit the planet