TheRickster

Yup, the building to the right of KCKC in that pic is still there, it's the old pumphouse.

This has been bugging me a lot and I'm sure it doesn't mean anything other than just some assumptions by the drafter but the queue for FoF is using the old Firehawk queue in these prints. I haven't been to the park on a busy day for easily 11+ years but does FoF get a big enough line on those few days a year to need this? lol

I think it just became the maintenance rd behind TRTR and onto the TRTR access pad.

Dive coaster with a 301ft drop.

You know... Of those two names are for KI they could rename FoF to fit with the new coaster... There isn't anytbing tieing those two names are for KI and everyone just immediately jumped on it. The two names are clearly related so that honestly made me think it wasn't for our new ride.

Yup, I could see them putting out some stuff before then, but just to have some fun with the enthusiasts. Nothing that the GP will start really caring about for awhile.

Did they announce they were coasters then though? Also like I said it depends on how the construction and stuff will impact it. Lots of variables. I'm willing to be there is some teasing starting at coasterstock.

They likely won't start heavily teasing things until much later in the year depending on when vertical construction is beginning. They don't want people to say "Well we should wait and go next year for when they have the new coaster" and then not go this year.

The Vekoma junior inverts also used tire LSMs as the lift method.

Yeah from what I've seen the only thing we can really gather from the overhead print is the layout length. Not the track length. People are too caught up in numbers that even experts would probably be disagree g with each other on based on how they are getting them. Furys layout doesn't look that great either if this would be all you have to go by. Same with pretty much every coaster.

If it is a giga it'd be nice to finally see the first giga with inversions. Just a fun thought for something that hasn't happened yet.

Morning! Yeah lets all try to keep it on the positive side lol. I really hate for our park to be known as the one with all the "entitled fans'

Yeah, the thread is just overwhelming to find stuff. That's why I was asking about where the numbers are coming from. What I've seen are very simple civil maps to know where to start leveling off land etc, Very very basic, with hardly any math figures. Hopefully one of the people doing something can chime in. There are then more detailed prints, but you're talking about like the fastener for the foundation of the lift base. Which will not have any numbers with significant enough attachment to the layout to get anything remotely close to a track length.

To me it looks like everyone is going from the picture and just guessing the adj side total length and just leaving out that it's actually only that length when running parallel to the ground. For instance the lift hill would actually be the Hypotenuse which you would have no way of getting without knowing the opposite and adjacent lengths or a for sure angle (which I get people probably know from prior builds) and either of the other two sides. If you were to actually do the trig calcuatlions to adjust for height the "5500ft" number would actually be a good amount higher to adjust for the slopes. If I just had to throw off a totally random number probably at least a lot closer to 6500 which puts it right with the other gigas. I think my point is just that it's waaaaaay to early to be getting ourselves out of whack about this. Just enjoy the trip and love the teasers and information when we get it. Guessing information, and imagining could be's can be really fun to some people, but lets not let that ruin our ride before we have anything even remotely solid to go on.

Yeah, even assuming that all this is real, I'm like... how are they coming up with a figure. I've seen the pictures and stuff on reddit and a lot of people I think are just expecting something to be bad based on someone who was able to piece together the most logical discussion that still confirmed something. There really isn't even anything to use as a good scale for the picture without knowing the dimensions of any of the buildings in the shot. Also hills add to track length immensely. So from the top down angle of a print, Something going up is going along the paper... AND up at you. So what would look to be 3 inches horizontal would actually be say 5 inches diagonally raised off the paper if it were 3D. Just for example, I haven't been to sleep at all tonight so I'm not breaking out trig functions for everyone lol.

Alright... so I was late to the chase on this. How are people coming up with a track length based upon what's on the internet?

Wicked Twister is just a total crap shoot. I'm a bit bigger than Boddah and was able to ride it last year. There just is a super huge tolerance on whoever cut those seatbelts.

He was still going there as of 04-08 and I know exactly who you're talking about. I'll randomly think about him and his brother and hope they are doing well.

And now Disney owns pretty much all of 21st century? Still haven't read all of that lol. Just ironic considering the discussion.

I still thought Disney owned at least part of MGM. TIL.

Nah it's clearly a path with not even a curb going from the front of the restrooms around the back part of tiques. I guess that big yellow rectangle could be a gate that's open?

I think MGM owned the Indiana Jones amusement park rights because of the show they had at MGM in Florida. I'm sure it just comes down to Disney/MGM having more licensing permissions and control that Paramount did.

I was really not expecting the area to change THAT much back there... I bet Vortex will have a new entracne sign because the one all the way back there won't be visible at all. It also looks like you might be able to walk around tique's. So you can approach the bathrooms from the left or right side in that picture.

Glad to have you back around, oddly it's like you never left to me LOL. I had a good gap to before I came back to just enjoy things again.

Never got to ride it... That's sad, but it makes complete sense with the downtime it's had. Hopefully they'll get something else really unique.