SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted January 14, 2018 30 minutes ago, silver2005 said: With Knott's new coaster, I wouldn't count out Gerstlauer either. What's interesting is that Cedar Fair primarily worked with Intamin and B&M for their parks which dominated the industry. Now you start to see a shift to companies like GCI, Gerstlauer and even RMC. I personally think this shift comes from Cedar Fair's unsteady relationship with Intamin and the strive for something unique and dependable. 4 silver2005, westcoaster, Hmrapp and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silver2005 23283 Report post Posted January 14, 2018 Intamin has also kind of gone stale as of late. They haven't come up with anything new in quite a while and are focused in the Asian market at the moment. Most other companies can now play the 'me too' game with Intamin on top of continuing with churning out new innovations while also having better ROI and reliability. 2 Hmrapp and SonofBaconator reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tera Ryzing 363 Report post Posted February 10, 2018 On 1/14/2018 at 6:47 PM, silver2005 said: Intamin has also kind of gone stale as of late. They haven't come up with anything new in quite a while and are focused in the Asian market at the moment. Most other companies can now play the 'me too' game with Intamin on top of continuing with churning out new innovations while also having better ROI and reliability. That turn-around is crazy. Also this is in Poland... 2 Shawn Meyer and Hmrapp reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDMC01 7464 Report post Posted February 10, 2018 On 1/7/2018 at 12:31 PM, MaestroFanatic said: There might be the small wrinkle that the first ground up I-box is going to Energylandia in Poland: http://coasterhub.com/archives/23520 . Would still be really cool to have a ground-up RMC (though personally I'm not sure that there'd be a difference between I-box and topper when built from scratch, does anyone else know if there is one?). 1 Hmrapp reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MDMC01 7464 Report post Posted February 10, 2018 Not sure why it wouldn't let me post more outside of the quote (maybe because I was going to originally copy/paste the quote and my response after reading the rest of the thread, but that didn't work...), but what I was going to say was that if you look at the link in the quote, Energylandia will be possibly be receiving a Tilt Coaster... a tilt coaster! I love that these are still being made in 2018. 1 Hmrapp reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted March 26, 2018 I think that we'll see a T-Rex coming to the Cedar Fair chain in the upcoming years. As to where, I'd say possibly WOF since they don't have a good inverting coaster in their line up aside from Patriot. 1 Hmrapp reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted April 11, 2018 If each park in the chain would receive only one RMC, this is how I think it would break down. I included current RMCs as well. I excluded S&S freespins because literally any park could receive one. Ibox- Cedar Point, Kings Dominion, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds Topper Track- Kings Island Raptor/ T-rex- California's Great America, Valley Fair, Dorney Park, Knotts, Worlds of Fun Nothing- Michigan's Adventure (maybe a free-spin but even that's stretching it) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creed Bratton 14484 Report post Posted April 11, 2018 8 hours ago, SonofBaconator said: Nothing- Michigan's Adventure (maybe a free-spin but even that's stretching it) Poor Michigan's Adventure! 4 Shawn Meyer, McSalsa, SonofBaconator and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dtk1378 1489 Report post Posted April 18, 2018 Lol, even in enthusiast fantasies Michigan's Adventure doesn't get new rides. 2 Shawn Meyer and McSalsa reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
McSalsa 4230 Report post Posted April 18, 2018 ^ LOL, I will fix that! (Fantasizes Michigan's Adventure with a B&M Giga, B&M Dive Coaster, B&M Wing Coaster, RMC'd Wildcat, GCI Wooden Coaster, Intamin Blitz Coaster, B&M Family Inverted Coaster, Vekoma Mine Train, Intamin Strata Coaster, as well as a huge waterpark expansion with multiple waterslides including water coasters and also a bunch of new flat rides and theming that is as good as Disney World) MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I MADE MICHIGAN'S ADVENTURE THE BEST PARK IN DA WORLD!!! (Because I forgot to upgrade Hotels & Infastructure, Michigan's Adventure suffers the same fate as Geauga Lake and dies from over-expansion and all that stuff I listed above gets sent to other Cedar Fair Parks instead) Oh...uhh...oops... WA WA WA! 2 3 WailsLikeABanshee, dtk1378, bengals fan and 2 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rivertown Rider 1415 Report post Posted April 21, 2018 It is a shame Michigan's Adventure doesn't get more love. It is a nice little park and deserves a nice coaster addition. Something small like Railblazer or Hangtime would be great there. 4 BlondyRidesOn, westcoaster, Shawn Meyer and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted November 30, 2018 I found a cool list about which coasters should/ should not be rmc'd https://www.thecoasterkings.com/10-coasters-that-should-be-rmcd-and-10-that-shouldnt/ If any Cedar Fair park should get the next RMC treatment it should be Canada's Wonderland but with the edition of YS, we might have to wait a bit- however there are rumors going around about Mighty Canadian Minebuster getting RMC'd 2 1 westcoaster, MDMC01 and Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honorarius 689 Report post Posted December 30, 2018 That started at least a few years ago from CW fanboys yelling 'we want/need an RMC' into the echo chamber until more people saw it and spread it... Person A says it on site X, Person B agrees with it, Person C chimes in, Person D sees it and regurgitates it on site Y, person E sees it on site Y, goes back to site X and says 'I saw it on site Y too! CoNfIrMeD!!!1!' and after enough repetitions , it goes from 'speculation/wishful thinking' to 'rumor'... 1 Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rivertown Rider 1415 Report post Posted December 30, 2018 Of the two big woodies at CW, I enjoyed Minebuster more than Wild Beast so if I were going to RMC one it would be Wild Beast instead of Minebuster. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted January 10 On 12/29/2018 at 9:56 PM, Rivertown Rider said: Of the two big woodies at CW, I enjoyed Minebuster more than Wild Beast so if I were going to RMC one it would be Wild Beast instead of Minebuster. I agree, there are so many Wildcat clones that I wouldn't mind sacrificing one and seeing what RMC could do with it. 1 Rivertown Rider reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted June 11 Double Post. I never realized how "cheap" RMC coasters are as they average around $10 million. Compare this to B&M whuch averages as around $20 million. At this rate I wouldn't be surpised if every park in the chain has an RMC in some form or another... ....except Michigan's Adventure. 1 Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIghostguy 1409 Report post Posted June 11 10 minutes ago, SonofBaconator said: Double Post. I never realized how "cheap" RMC coasters are as they average around $10 million. Compare this to B&M whuch averages as around $20 million. At this rate I wouldn't be surpised if every park in the chain has an RMC in some form or another... ....except Michigan's Adventure. Steel Vengeance has been having a ton of issues. It isn’t even opening until after noon every day now. I would love for Cedar Fair to work more with RMC, but since Steel Vengeance has not really pulled large numbers and has been beset with problems, I would honestly be surprised to see Cedar Fair work with them again. 1 Logan reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
malem 19244 Report post Posted June 11 ^ Steel Vengeance been reliable this season after it's opened for the day. They've been temporarily substituting Magnum XL-200 on the Early Entry schedule. The frustrating part about opening late is that it's hard to avoid waiting in a long line, unless you happen to be close when they get it ready. 1 Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SonofBaconator 10264 Report post Posted June 11 @KIghostguy True, but SV is a huge scale coaster. I was talking about coasters like Twisted Timbers, and Railblaizer. 1 Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FUN&ONLY! 678 Report post Posted June 11 I just don’t see us getting a ground up RMC topper track or I-Box track coaster anytime soon because Cedar Point is super close and literally has that as their signature attraction. It also just came last year! 1 Shawn Meyer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
