Webcam Rotation

I think that the webcam should be rotated about 80 to 90 degrees to the right so that us viewers at home may be able to see the construction of the next overbanked turn. Just something else, doesn't the first overbaked turn look cool?

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Thank you for riding Raptor and enjoy your day here at Cedar Point, America's ROCKIN' RollerCoast!

yeah ithink that would be cool. But what would be cooler is if the got a new cam that could move with our controls. I saw one at a local news channel for the International Auto Show in detroit. They mounted it on the sealling, and it could move up and down side to side. The bad thing was that it took about 15 seconds to load on a ISDN line.

Turning it to the right would reveal the non-over-banked turn on the island, which is already complete.

Turning it almost 180 would reveal most of Mantis, and maybe the final over-banked turn on the former Giant Wheel site in the distance. As far as I know, the supports are up there, but not the track.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point

I think CP should put the web cam on top of snake river falls. Then you will be able to almost the whole ride. I cam we could control would be sweet!

Jeff, I thought that there were two overbanked turns on the island. There is only one? And, have you got any notice if they have topped off the Magnum hill and started down?

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Thank you for riding Raptor and enjoy your day here at Cedar Point, America's RollerCoast!

The first turn on the island is not over-banked, and in fact is quite large compared to the one you can see.

The "Magnum" hill was topped a few off weeks ago, and the track is just off the view of the camera.

Snake River Falls would not be a good vantage point to see the entire ride, because the lens would need a field of vision of about 140 degrees. The truth is, the only place you could really see the entire ride would be Power Tower with a wide-angle or the Space Spiral.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point

...and we prob. won't see the views from there...:(
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Brian
Greensburg PA
Hometown parks: Kennywood, Cedar Point!
97 days until the real "Millennium

The ride is almost done so we should not wory about were they place the webcam.

I say when MF is totally complete, Move the webcam to the station (aimed towards the lift), so we can watch them test it!

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Neil
By popular vote, the Official
start of the Millennium
is now May 13, 1999

I like the station idea!

Right idea Seven, except the cam takes stills. SO we won't really see them physically "testing" it. A test ride video would be great
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Brian
Greensburg PA
Hometown parks: Kennywood, Cedar Point!
96 days until the real "Millennium

If you look now, they have changed the angle, you will now see construction on the first overbanked turn!

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Neil
By popular vote, the official start of the
millennium has been moved to
May 13, 2000

so where is the web cam now? still on Mantis' brake run? and what part of Mf is that in the distance? i ca't seem to get my bearings on it..PLUS, are they trying to show the construction going on in the background???? it's still a pretty cool shot, but nothing will soon beat watching that lift hill go up!!!

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"I think I scrambled my brain!!"

You're seeing the top of the first turn with the "finger" tower. In the foreground you can see the pair of tracks that go over the lagoon and back.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point