Update - June 14

Guy with a name said:

Checkit3 said:
I think this clearly shows why Iron Dragon was painted...

redsox5 said:
I personally think it's very intresting that they have been planing this for years. I know that they do that with all of the coasters, but the fact that they already had the colors for Project 2007 picked out way back when they painted over Iron Dragon.
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omg are you people serious? I doubt that they had the colors planned out that early...some of you are looking into these things too closely...like Mr Scott said "Iron Dragon was painted because it was very faded and needed paint". Not because headquarters was sitting around saying "hmmm...ya know...that new ride were building 3 or 4 years from now is gonna have the exact same color scheme as Iron Dragon....George...send someone up there to CP and have the slap on some new colors on Iron Dragon...I cant have two rides with the same color scheme" and even if that was the case...why would they have painted it so early to the building of the new ride in 2007? Why wouldnt they have waited till sometime around now or next season? not three or four years in advance....Dont get me wrong here...Im not here to bash on people I just cant stand it when we make ignorant suggestions...."I heard they've planning the building of project 2007 since they layed the first footer of Switchback Railway"...c'mon people....

Most CP coasters are planned years before they are built, who know's if they had a color scheme and then decided to repaint iron dragon because it was fading and they were the same color? You don't know any better than the rest of us.

Want to know why the argument that they repainted ID because it was similar to 2007 holds no merit?

Because TTD is the same color as Iron Dragon.

yeah... ummm. Thinking helps before you post, not after.

I think that it should have had a rustic feel to it.

http://www.blk.mmtr.or.jp/~sanwa/Page4/Rustic23mmW11ColorChart.JPG

The supports would look good as the W114s and the track as the W112s.
*** Edited 6/15/2006 10:14:30 PM UTC by CPGuru***

What's the "plug" for on the support in this picture? http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4034 Ooops..already been asked.
*** Edited 6/15/2006 11:23:22 PM UTC by Joey Stewart***

I like this color better.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4739/untitled8we.jpg
*** Edited 6/15/2006 11:54:02 PM UTC by Coolman01231***

Checkit3 said:
Someone asked how they were delivered. I saw some other pictures that showed the supports still in an enclosed trailer. I was quite surprised to see the amount of supports stacked and lodged into the trailer. This could perhaps explain why there are some visible scratches on a few supports in the pictures posted here.

Yep, I couldn't believe how many they fit into one trailer. All of the supports came from that one trailer by the way. The maintenance guys were just climbing up on the supports and what not to get to them; there was nothing between them at all; just sitting on eachother.

Coastern3rd said:
Want to know why the argument that they repainted ID because it was similar to 2007 holds no merit?

Because TTD is the same color as Iron Dragon.

yeah... ummm. Thinking helps before you post, not after.

Well you can actually say that without being a total ass but yea you are right, forgot about that.

But if I am correct TTD and ID are similar but not that same color?

http://www.cedarpoint.com/_upload/inside_the_park/wallpaper/CP_Aerial_1600x1200.jpg

Thinking helps before you post not after.

Sup Redsox5, I live in Boston so the Sox rule imo. Anyway, the TTD support had 2 verticle supports, while the support for the new ride are definatly angled.

I think CP's getting the new Intamin prototype train, given all the low supports (2+2). Regarding the launch, heaven help me, it certainly could be (arg) a launch, but it's way too early to tell imo.

I love the "windwalker" trains and hope the cross bars can withstand the G's of loops and airtime hills.

Another launch would be fun, don't get me wrong, but i would prefer a lift. A mega looper (launched or lift) would rock with those "windwalker" trains imo.

Sure Sema, I could... But when your post consists of supporting a ridiculous claim that they changed the color of Iron Dragon to a similar color that TTD has, so that it does not match the colors of 2007, it's kind of hard not to be an ass. I'll make sure I step carefully so as not to upset your fragile being.

So which is it, am I correct or am I wrong? You contradict yourself.

Get your own smart ass comments to use, it's not very flattering when you copy a poster.

Well, I am not crazy about the colors, but I don't really care as long as the ride is good. I believe, like a lot of others on here, that the ride will mostly be low to the ground and probably won't have any significant high points. Also, given the track pieces and a few comments from Jeff, I'm fairly confident the new ride will have loops. However, I don't see CP installing an ordinary looper. Unless it has the most inversions (which I think it probably won't considering the new Japanese 4D is considered to have 14), I think a multi looper would be too expensive to build considering it would not be very marketable. After all, they already have 3 coasters with loops, and, although that isn't enough by some standards, is enough to probably make most of the GP not really care if the new ride has inversions or not. So, unless this is an AquaTrax, and I don't think it is, I am sure it will have some sort of gimmick to it and I believe that lies in the trains. I am betting on the Intamin prototype like Port Aventura's all the way.

Come to think of it, looking at all of these pics, I have not seen a single straight piece of track, all of them have some sort of curve or twist.

I thought the same thing Gordo. Launches and lifts usually need straight track though, so more has got to show up.

There was one piece that seems like it could be something going from straight to curved, or curved to straight.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4031
^The one with wood under it.

http://pointbuzz.com/gallery.aspx?i=4022

at least we know what the styrofoam blocks are for in the top of the footings. I didn't realize supports had these on the bottom.

so, the ones without this little i-beam "nipple" would be tops to the taller supports.

what a fun puzzle!!! :)

Only Intamin supports have those things that stick out of the bottom.
*** Edited 6/16/2006 2:40:42 AM UTC by DBCP***

Tom said:
Sup Redsox5, I live in Boston so the Sox rule imo. Anyway, the TTD support had 2 verticle supports, while the support for the new ride are definatly angled.

I think CP's getting the new Intamin prototype train, given all the low supports (2+2). Regarding the launch, heaven help me, it certainly could be (arg) a launch, but it's way too early to tell imo.

I love the "windwalker" trains and hope the cross bars can withstand the G's of loops and airtime hills.

Another launch would be fun, don't get me wrong, but i would prefer a lift. A mega looper (launched or lift) would rock with those "windwalker" trains imo.

Oh yea Red Sox rule:). Yankees suck:(.

I agree that the trains will be like the Port Aventura ones. Are they "Windwalker" or "Wingwalker"?

Also sorry to all that I said they painted Iron Dragon so this ride could have its own colors. I was just making an inference.

they must be new - TTD doesn't have them. i see that kingda ka does though. *** Edited 6/16/2006 2:08:07 AM UTC by halltd***

DBCP said:
Only Intamin supports have those things that stick out of the bottom.

I beg to differ: http://www.rcdb.com/ig3244.htm?picture=25

DBCP said:
Only Intamin supports have those things that stick out of the bottom.

Tatsu's(B&M) supports also had I beams at the bottom.

Jugga they do look similar just one is at more of an angle.

I didn't contradict myself? I aggreed with you and basically said I was wrong.

But I also said that you said they were the same and they arent, a taste of your own medicine, I guess you didn't get that.

And yes you can be polite about that, I didn't say it was going to be a b&m 500 ft. floorless or something, but you decided not to be. I have no clue how old you are but you don't act mature one bit.