They're not done yet!

You people are whack if you think CP is just buiding a L TH B coaster just because the footers aren't there yet. They just started building. Look at the pics in the Two Towers sections. There are track pieces with a support connection on the inside of the curve, meaning one thing, a hill. I highly doubt that these pieces would be at the top of the TH. And those huge supports with connections facing every which way, they remind me of MF when the tracks pass on both sides of the supports. I think that the ride will be much longer with some hills and banked turns. CP could always lay more footers later on. Come on guys, you give up so soon. CP has all winter to keep building and a few tricks up their sleeves I'm sure.

One more thing, those silver cages, they look like pieces of a stage or something.

i agreee

The difference between people who say it will be long and the people who say it will be short is that the people who say it will be short actually can look at the construction site and realize they're are two perfectly straight lines of footers and supports.

The people who think it will be long are always looking for "something more", as in more track, more footers, more supports... and the fact is that there isn't anything. The people who think it will be long are looking for stuff that doesn't exist, and trying to find reasons why it isn't there yet that support the idea that the ride will be long. But the fact of the matter is that I can see two rows of footers and supports, and realize that they probably all line up together to make a short roller coaster.

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Jes
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Once again, I'm sure CP has something up their sleeve.

Example,

http://images.mp3.com/mp3s/109/resources/119/836/files/11983695.gif

two straight lines, yet it still fulfills my predictions.

They've only got the two rows of footers so far because that's the most important part of the ride! That's what I think anyway. It's going to be more than L-TH-B.

I think it's going to be Launch-Tophat-Brakes-Elements-Brakes. I strongly believe that the brakes after the tophat will be used to slow the train down because an overbanked turn would have to be very big to support a train exceeding speeds over 100 mph. I also think this is the one thing that enthusiasts would be disappointed about that Jeff said. Why else would they start so early? A L-TH-B ride would be finished in only a few months.
*** This post was edited by pagoona 10/24/2002 9:27:17 PM ***

As of right now, I believe in L-TH-B, as I have seen the foot and structure alignments, and they strongly suggest that layout. However, if I see further developments sugesting a different layout, I'll obviously be more than willing to agree, at that point, that there is more to the layout than L-TH-B.

All I know is it's going to be tall, fast, and short. Everything else is still a mystery.

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LOL. Ok, I gotta say that makes sense. My friend keeps tellin' me that its over, but I am not ready to give up yet. Keep up those high hopes guys!

First time poster here. After reading most of the posts on the site for the past couple of days, I've not seen anyone mention the possibility that their might be elements on top of the tower other than a tophat and twist. I know from what I've read that there is NOT a whole lot of curved/twisted track on-site, but they may not have all the track there yet. We have yet to see the top of the tower so there may be supports near the top of the tower for other unusual elements. I think any inversion at that height would be amazing.

The angled support on the far-side of the tower is angled IN toward the tower. I find it hard to beleive that it will twist all the way around that close to the tower. That would put the riders heads/arms awfully close to the tower supports. Maybe it will fishtail it's way down instead of twisting. Or maybe that support will be for track coming from somewhere off the tower.

One other thing I noticed during the short while that I viewed the ground-level cam is that the row of supports nearest the island does not seem to line up (left/right and up/down) with the track coming off of the tower. Assuming I'm not seeing things, what do you all make of that?

D Matern you read my mind....i've been saying this for a while now, I just cant see how the left side of the tower seen here

http://www.virtualmidway.com/mystery/attraction380.jpg

I just dont see how it can twist again to conplete the tophat. This is my theory, and i know CP_Bound you explained it to me, but still i just cant see it. anyway, this is my theory, the launch side of the tower will go up to the top of the tower, the go over the tower and go into another tower/support and go into other elements and come back up to the left side of the tower and brakes. Anybody else see this possiblity?

again this is just one theory i came up with to explain the track with different radius's in the parking lot and why there is so much of it.

But the supports on the left side of the tower DO acctually line up with the tower and acctually has brake track connected to the tower now.

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*** This post was edited by Big D 10/24/2002 10:46:31 PM ***

How many threads do we need on the same subject?

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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

I did see the brake track connected to the tower Big D, but that looked like it was passing to the right of, and lower than the supports to the far left (the ones that are all at the same height nearest the island). This was my impression from what I saw on the ground-level webcam.

Also, from some of the photos on Virtual Midway, it looks like the supposed launch side track (possibly alternating red/white) will be rising up from basically ground level (or maybe below, out of a tunnel - from the looks of the footers in a trench). Maybe being launched from underground??? Any ideas?

You will not be launched from underground. That's the most amusing thing I've heard about this thing since "It's more than L-TH-B!"

The trench is to supply power to the new ride.

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Yeah, I am sure that those station footers are there just to fool us.

In fact, I'll bet there really will be more than a L-TH-B. You see, all the construction so far has been to fool us. After the season ends, CP will tear up all the brakerun footers and track and finish up the real ride, when no one can see what's going on. Then we'll all really be surpised come May 2003. For CP, its worth wasting millions of dollars and months on useless construction, just to fool around a hundred or so online enthusiasts who are tricked by this silliness about a L-TH-B. Money well spent, I say.

Now that we've figured out what they're up to, they will probably leave it as is just to really fool us. ;-)

LOOKS LIKE THERE WON'T BE ANY ONE GOING TO GET NEW PICTURES TONIGHT. THERE SEMS TO BE SOME WATER ON THE LENS WHICH I BET MEANS ITS RAINING

HEY OTTO CAN YOU STOP SHOUTING PLEASE?

Thanks.

When it is raining there I usually get the rain in an hour and a half or so. Better get the umbrella.

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