What rides need paint jobs?

RCMAC said:

"Hunter green". What is this, an outdated 1980's kitchen we're making here?

1990's family room with fake wood craftsman-like style furniture that you put together yourself out of a box from Sears.

Maverick should not be repainted, atleast for now. The faded red goes perfect with that area.

Maverick00 said:
Maverick should not be repainted, atleast for now. The faded red goes perfect with that area.

And that's coming from maverick itself!

I'm noticing (right now, actually) that power tower needs a paint job. The red towers especially are faded badly.

That would be a tough paint job to repaint the air cylinders inside the white structure!

Lemon chill guy said power tower, wicked twister and iron dragon are getting painted over the off season

God please whenever Iron Dragon gets repainted, please go back to the original color scheme!

If Lemon Chill guy is right I'd be happy about those for sure. Iron Dragon needs a change, either to the original scheme or something other than what it is now.

CPVet said:
God please whenever Iron Dragon gets repainted, please go back to the original color scheme!

+1 Iron Dragon currently is ugly af.

With the possible, permanent integration of VR to Iron dragon, I think this would be a good opportunity to repaint/retheme/rebrand ID.

Speaking of VR on Iron Dragon, when do you think that might happen? Mean Streak is all the buzz on the forums right now when it comes to new things at CP, so when might VR be added??

It could be used as an off year project before something big planned for the following year.

As for an Iron Dragon colour scheme, they could do green and black to go with the trees it runs through. But, whatever the colours, it needs it badly!

You know VR already ran on Iron Dragon this summer as a successful trial, right? So to answer your question, I'm predicting 2016.

Check this out- Europa Park has two rides with VR. It's very successful from what I could tell. They chose to put it on 2 family rides, made it an upcharge attraction, and use ticketed reservations with return times. There's a separate queue, and riders are fit and prepped in advance of being seated in the train. There's also a corporate sponsor. On the two days I was there they only used half a train dedicated to VR, and on the ride that ran two trains only one train took VR riders. I rode both rides as a non-VR participant with little or no delay at all.
It was a darned near perfect way to do it, and I wish Six Flags had given this some thought before implementing a feature that allows for 7 minute dispatch times on marquis attractions. Hopefully other parks, including Cedar Point, will follow Europa's example.

Wicked Twister definetly needs a paint job. Power Tower could use it as well. Iron Dragon also needs a paint job. I'd like to see green track & black supports or vice versa to match the cars on Iron Dragon. Don't know "this one" for sure so don't quote me on it as a definite, but with Cedar Point Shores, I'm assuming that they'll probably paint Magnum during the off-season.

Magnum was painted in the last eight or so years and still looks fine.

Iron Dragon desperately needs to go back to the original scheme. I don't know who picked the current McDonald's color of red and yellow, but it has got to go!

I could really think of a lot more stuff that desperately needs the parks attention over the large investment of repainting Iron Dragon. It may not be the best color scheme but it's hardly an eyesore.

Yes, that is understandable about Magnum. However, I respectfully disagree, only because of the Soak City upgrades to Cedar Point Shores for 2017. The new slide complex will be placed right by Magnum. Also, the existing slides minus choo choo lagoon are getting painted. They were hard at work painting zoom flume the end of September. Also, the new kiddie section is going where choo chop lagoon is now. So with brand new slides, Magnum will probably be painted. Heck, they painted Raptor for Valravn, but it desperately needed it.

XS NightClub said:
I could really think of a lot more stuff that desperately needs the parks attention over the large investment of repainting Iron Dragon. It may not be the best color scheme but it's hardly an eyesore.

Respectfully have to disagree with you, only because ketchup & mustard colors typically don't go with a dragon theme.

I don't see what you're respectfully disagreeing with... that the fact that the park has more important investments to make than repainting ID or that you think it's an eyesore because it's name doesn't match the color scheme?

^^ Agree because red/yellow and orange are the colors of fire and no one would ever associate fire with a dragon.

^ I never made that connection. If they could retheme the trains so the front wheel bogeys had a fiberglass dragons head (ala Dueling Dragons), that would make the "fire" work a little better. Of course that also means the dragon has some explosive diarrhea...