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Yeah, this company is done. This opens lawsuits from anyone who has as much as stubbed their toe at any of the parks, so financially they won't be able to continue. Also, since the company is named in a criminal complaint, I don't know if they can even continue if there is a conviction. This will either lead to the company folding or sold off. If someone buys them, or they somehow restructure as a new company, any rides they built themselves would probably have to be removed. I'd say it'll come down to a park by park basis as to what happens.

Wow. Just wow. I read that whole thing and the lengths that guy went is just mind boggling. I mean, I get the thought process behind designing their own ride. It's stupid, but I get how it happened. But repeatedly ignoring the flaws and problems, then intentionally suppressing injury data is just stupid. He deserves to have the book thrown at him.

I could easily seeing them doing an almost identical billboard up and down 75 and 71 in Cincy. It's not that rare to have extensions off billboards.

It has similarities to Vortex's station

What building did they move for MT?

I think people here are really going to be upset if KI gets an RMC. Because it probably won't be a ground up build.....

The park already has a multi-lauch coaster....

It's not just the parking fee. It's the parking fee on top of the constant gate increases, insane hotel prices, overpriced restaurants, constant up-charges, nickel and dime-ing, staff cutbacks which increase waits, and on and on. Couple that with having to book all your meals 6 months out and your rides 2 months out, and it's rapidly approaching the breaking point on whether its worth doing Disney any more.

I wonder if the upside down boat was in the book?

I'd be interested to see a non-inverting hyper type standup with really good floater air. Something where you could pick your feet up and just float. Before you get to the bottom and it slams your tailbone into the seat...

Saying that it almost killed people is definitely going overboard. The fact that the problem didn't get caught in the engineering phase and got that close to opening is just mind boggling.

As long as it's an Intamin......

The Bat train swings out over top Banshee's footer. They are not going to route a single coaster track through there, let alone both the track leading out and track coming back through there. Whether or not they could get the track to that station or not, doesn't really matter anyway. They won't save that much money reusing it. Even then, they'd still have to retrofit it for a steel coaster. Building a $30 million park icon coaster, they aren't going to say, hey we can save 1/2 a percent of our costs reusing that station.

As the two racer coasters share a queue and essentially the same ride path, for the space taken up and crowd flow discussion, they are pretty much one coaster.

From a logistics standpoint, it makes little sense to put it in the SOB station or anywhere in Action Zone. You already have Banshee over there pulling crowds to the area. It makes more sense to put it in Coney somewhere, like the DA plot, to redistribute crowds that way. It puts more people around food and merch that doesn't get as much traffic currently.

It has operated in the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. It has operated in parts of four different decades. KI's statement is factually and technically correct.

I'm sure the extra staffing costs, between security, cleanup, etc, would be part of the issue. A lot of local bands would do it for free for exposure, but there is still additional costs to the park. But does the park see a chance for ROI? I just don't know that they'd get enough extra ticket sales to cover their costs.

Coincidentally...

I was referring more to seeing a new or relocated camera pointing towards the DA area similar to how they added the Banshee camera when construction started there. I don't think any of the existing cameras will show the anything relating to eventual Giga construction.

When were the webcams for the last three coasters added? If something big is coming, I'd think we'd get a new or relocated webcam. I know Banshee's was there prior to the announcement, but don't recall when it actually was put there.

This matters more than attendance numbers, and these are straight from CF in 2015.

Announcing that for 2018 the park is doing "general park improvements" and building a restaurant that is essentially a copy of another restaurant already at the park will not sell passes or create buzz. Well, not good buzz. They are better off not announcing anything at all.

Plenty of room for a Giga Station

And they cite the same article linked above, which got it's info here. We've known for months that it was going to be a BBQ restaurant.

They did this same thing when they converted Top Gun into The Bat. It's happened on Diamondback. It's not that unusual. Steel wears out over time. Rails take the brunt of that.