Hawaiian Coasters 325

That is Copperhead Strike's station

So the drop isn't bigger than the height? It doesn't look like it drops down the trench.

11th commandment!!

I knew that building is important and can't get removed. I say they can find a way to work around it.

The Invertigo/Congo Falls side is another location I thought of. Maybe a zero g stall over the walkway??

A little off topic, but here's a location that I think would be nice for an RMC or something like that. I know it's a stretch, but I could see this area being used in the future. It would require relocating the picnic grove. An upside to this is you would get great views of the coaster from the train and the walkway to Soak City. A zero g stall over the train tracks would be kinda cool imo. I know this is unlikely, but this is an area that caught my attention. Plus it could be another rivertown expansion. The way they could do it is have the entrance in between the log flume and FAAC. I could also see them retheming the log flume back into rivertown since imo it doesn't belong in Planet Snoopy. Plus they could make it hidden like The Beast.

My guess is 2024 will be our next coaster, but I've been wrong before. My guess is an RMC or a Mack double launch. But I could see us getting more B&Ms since the plant is only a few miles away.

I think a construction webcam will be installed after the announcement, but again, Carowinds installed Copperhead Strike's construction cam for a short time before their announcement.

I think that's just a special ERT night. If there was an announcement being made, they would've mentioned an announcement.

Found this on YouTube. This is from Diamondback construction and it shows that track pieces arrived on site before the announcement. I wonder if that'll happen this year.

If this ends up being the case, length wise we are between I305 and Leviathan. So we aren't going to have the shortest track length. We also would be faster than I305. Also @DustinTheNow when should we expect a POV of this thing??

I'm thinking around 2023-2025 is when we'll get our next coaster. I've thought about many things. I'm right now thinking either ground up RMC or a Mack Double launch. But I would look for it to be more closer to 2025 than 2023 because this giga is such a large investment. Part of me thinks the recession had something to do with it. Then again, Carowinds went 5 years between Intimidator and Fury. I don't think that'll be a straight section of track. I think maybe that is a banked turn into the speed hill. Kind of a reverse of Leviathan's where it pops up and curves down. With this one it curves up and pops.

Very rarely do parks celebrate anniversaries with major investments. It's starting to look like CP isn't getting a coaster for their 150th anniversary (even though it isn't confirmed yet). I believe our 50th anniversary will be a throwback/celebration year.

I just gave John Matarese a heads up on Facebook about the footer work starting!

I don't know much about construction, but it looks like a footer or something was dug where I marked.

I think they are going to market it as the park's tallest, fastest, and meanest coaster. They'll most likely will market it as a giga since it has a 300 foot drop. As much as I think them marketing it as the tallest hyper coaster is a possibility, it doesn't make too much sense imo if they have a stat that could make it a giga. Plus they already have a hyper coaster. Imo if we get a second hyper, it should be by a different manufacturer (like RMC) and be a different model.

At Carowinds they have an interactive Plants vs Zombies dark ride experience in their theatre.

I always thought that the higher the drop is the faster it goes.

So once the giga comes out, what coaster is everyone going to speculate and ask for next?

^^On Diamondback last evening after hitting the break run, I said "If you thought this was great, wait until next year." Then this girl turned around and asked what is next year. I then explained that we are getting a 300 foot coaster and she was like she's in. A 300 foot coaster will be talked about all over the area. The locals would go nuts over it.

Wasn't Copperhead Strike's layout leaked towards the beginning of the season at Carowinds?

Both Banshee and Mystic Timbers I believe had the plans shown to the media and such a while before the announcement, but not as early as this one was. I'm sure the park will keep this in mind a lot more. for the next big project that blueprints likely will get out pretty early. Maybe they aren't surprised about this since they know the interest of the fans. Either way can't wait for teasing to start!

I have another theory. I wonder if they are going smaller because of the amount of theming this coaster might have. CF seems to be going all out on theming now (ie. Copperhead Strike). Maybe they'll build a realistic spacecraft model or something like that. Just a theory of mine.

I think the names are okay. Definitely not great though. Although it's better than the whole Mystic Timbers/Twisted Timbers/Yukon Striker thing they were doing before. I don't like either of those names.

Intamin Fountains lol