There's More

I still feel that there's more to this ride than meets the eye. By looking over MF construction photos, I STILL feel this is not just a blast up and down for 15 seconds. MF was capped in January 00 and that was preceeded by the building of a 300 foot structure, footers for the overbanked 1st turn, footers and the start of the tower for the 3rd hill, as well as the start of the loading station. After all of that, and in less than 3 months, CP was able to construct an additional 5,960 feet of track and footers. The blurry (all of them are) web cams don't show full detail of anything other than the tower. The brake track construction photos don't line up. Just look at the blurry Demon Drop cam, (what's with the track being off-centered). And don't reply with photo 20 & 21 from http://www.setecx.com/pics/cp102602const/imagepages/PICT0236.html .
Look at the columns holding up the track. Yes the track is the same height but the colums don't line up. If they do, please post a picture of the thick track actually touching the thin brake run (which has the ONLY brass brake fins attached), from another source other than setecx.com.

No way is this train stopping in that short of a brake run.

Enjoy the winter.
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see ya at the point........

Way. The brake run isn't just 20 feet long. Have you looked at the webcams and seen just how long of a footprint this ride is taking up?

It'll stop.

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don't get me wrong.. but you soo are.
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Yes, I've seen the Web cams as I'm sure you've had. So this is what you feel is it? By the way, back in 99-00 when Cable/DSL online access was in it's infancy, you got nothing on a day to day basis on the construction of MF. Just updated construction photos on the CP.com website.

C'mon, deep down you ALL have to know there is more to this ride !!!!!

Dude, if you want to say SOOOOO, say SOOOOO. Not soo, you sound like you just saw another crane lifting up another piece of tower...............

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michael Corio said:
The brake track construction photos don't line up.

Yeah, I thought it looked like that as well...
That isn't the gap in the track where they left that piece out, is it? I don't have a picture in front of me now to take a better look, so forgive me if that gap has been filled, or its at the wrong angle for that possibility, etc...

It'll be interesting to see how this develops...and I'm referring more so to the string of posts to follow than the roller coaster itself.
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Thanks G-money, at least someone out there has a sense of perception...................
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see ya at the point........

michael Corio said:
Thanks G-money, at least someone out there has a sense of perception...................

Perception...what's that?

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Here is a pic with the 2 rail track connected to the 4 rail track. Sure looks like the end of the ride to me.

http://www.virtualmidway.com/mystery/attraction457a.jpg
*** This post was edited by Photonix 12/11/2002 1:32:43 AM ***

yo mike.. back in the day (which was what less than a 1000 days ago?) before MF existed.. it didnt take a cable or dsl modem to have 'webcams'. As a matter of fact.. CP had a webcam showing the whole construction.. they just didn't have 3. I know for a fact because I had a website called coasterhost.com and i posted a slideshow of the whole construction taken from a still of their webcam each and every day.

as for more to this ride.. yes.. it isn't done. But are you seriously expecting a huge overbanked turn or loop or something to just start popping up? We can see the basic blueprint and I'm expecting track work to be done within the next 2 months. Why so early? I don't know.. maybe because this is going to be a launch coaster that goes faster than all others. Maybe CP doesn't want to have a delayed opening due to problems (like the flight of fears, the chiller, mr. freeze, Volcano, Superman: The Escape.. and the list goes on and on....)

use your noggin dude.. you have one for a reason.

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It's early because there's more and think of that blueprint that CP is showing on their blurry web cams? C'mon, you know there's more to come. And yes, there's room for it also, just look at the blue print of Intamin's other coaster at KBF.

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see ya at the point........

Definatley gonna be more, just cant wait to see the posts when its announced!

Ok Michael, My dad is employed for one of the companys working there and he even seen the blue prints for the footers, AND he even said that the footers made a BIG OVAL!! NOTHING MORE!

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*** This post was edited by fat chris 12/11/2002 6:25:34 AM ***

Besides, with all the cold weather now and what not, don't you think that they would have the foresite to have already poured the extra footers that they would have needed to make the ride more than it appears?!?

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cyberdman

Footers can be poored in the winter. I also have to agree with Michael on this one. It just seems to me that since Xcelerator has elements, #16 should have them too since it's just a bigger version on it.

Someone said on thepoint.com that ther isn't anymore track or supports in the parking lot anymore, so it's what you see on the web cam is what you are getting,

The truth is out there....literally.

I am aware that you can pour and cure cement in the winter, but think about the whole project from a construction crew stand point. Having the construction plans / blue prints in-hand before the project starts a construction contracting crew just wouldn't pour half the footers, do some work, wait for it to get cold, and then pour more. That is ludicrous to think that. Think about it. How much more would it cost to do that? A lot more. Later in the winter to pour more footers, you wouldn't have the equipment on site to do that work anymore and it would have to be brought in again. Secondly, if they kept it on site for that long not being utilized you are just wasting a ton of cash not utilizing your resources as a construction firm. Do you actually think that this is this construction companies only contracted job. Get real. The facts speak for themselves, and so does common-sense.

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*** This post was edited by cyberdman 12/11/2002 8:32:24 AM ***

CP will be spending the remaining time (after this thing is topped off) working on the building that will house the computers and electrical equipment, building the station(s?) and I would bet they are going to begin testing as early as possible. They do not want the same delays and problems they had with WT and Xcelerator.

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It's like we took a giant leap 2 months into the past with all these people believing in something that just won't happen. Don't get your hopes up for anything extra...you'll just disappoint yourself. There's no evidence that would suggest that there is something extra.

Structurally, this ride is set in stone. All they have to do is add a few supports, and the track.

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