KI Guy

Oooh, I haven't heard about this one. Please share what you can. I love to hear about things like this!

Nerd fact Blackpool Pleasure Beach has 5. ^Excellent Find!

There won't be inversions. Also those coasters got rough, but they all ran PTCs originally.

I don't think it's Rocky Mountain Coasters, sorry. CF has no relationship with them. RMC doesn't have the perfect record that GCI has. RMCs are also quite pricey. CF is into the tried and true these days after years of Intamin disasters.

I don't think it could have gone on all that much longer anyway. Once we saw those little "lily pad" footers we would have known.

If this is indeed wooden, I'm super pumped! I've been wanting this for a long time. To you giga coaster guys, be patient. It almost assuredly won't be 37 years, (time since last good wooden coaster) or 17 years, (time since any wooden coaster). I'm sure you'll all love this. GCI's are awesome!

I'm wondering how this is going be when it's all said and done. I seriously doubt that they'd go to the trouble is that tunnel is just for the WWC line. That would seem like a waste.

What live under bridges? That's right, trolls.

Can we please rid ourselves of trolls like this? Good heavens you guys HAVE to get a thicker skin. This is an Internet forum, not a cotillion. Find humor in things and let it roll off your back a little. I enjoy people who break step like this even if it's only to get your goat.

*double post

That YouTube video was the first I've seen of the new WWC line. That really makes me wonder if that is not a future pathway toward an expansion. I wish that they had decided to create a path over or under the train tracks instead of a gate.

You are using hypothetical situations to exaggerate what actually occurred. There was a thunderstorm in my hometown today (I could have been killed by lightning), I took a shower this morning ( I could have slipped and hit my head and died), I drove to work today (I could have been rear-ended by a semi)..... Suggesting that people were "nearly killed" on Shoot the Rapids is about a half step above the people who think that people were killed on Son of Beast and/or The (original) Bat! It is a wild exaggeration that unfairly casts the park industry (And, in this case, Cedar Point) in a negative light that is unfair, inaccurate and fuels unfounded rumors such as those mentioned above, which is why I even came back here. I presume you took appropriate safety measures during that thunderstorm, such as staying inside, that reduced your risk of dying to virtually zero. The odds of slipping in the shower and dying as a result are extremely miniscule. The odds of dying in a car accident are may not round to zero, but unless you had to swerve out of the way to avoid an out-of-control semi barreling down on you in a traffic jam, those odds are still low enough to be insignificant to this discussion. The Shoot the Rapids accident does not even remotely resemble any of those situations. A boat flipped off a lift hill and landed upside down in the water, with riders having their heads submerged and being unable to breathe or escape on their own due to the restraint pinning them in their seat. Without quick action by spectators who rightly decided that it was worth violating multiple park rules to save lives, those riders would suffer permanent brain damage in a couple of minutes and would be dead in three to four minutes, all without the ability to save themselves. The phrase "nearly killed" does not require injuries of any kind. Here, riders were stuck in a position that would have (not could have, but would have) killed them in four minutes or less, and were saved only by the quick response of other guests. If those other guests don't jump into that water, those riders would likely be dead today. That is "nearly killed", and to suggest otherwise is severely trivializing a traumatic experience for those riders. I know that the park would never want to publicize the fact that this happened, but were the bystanders thanked or recognized in some way by the park or the press?

Still hoping. This is two years old. Have gears been turning?

I think he wanted to know if it would be against some kind of KICentral policy to post said pictures here. I don't know if KICentral or the park would care, (seriously doubt it), but of course it would be legal.

This what you are looking for?Sent from an Indestructible Phone Oh, I wasn't looking for the sectional, I just didn't have one in front of me when I made my post.I was wondering if posting any pics taken while flying over the park would be a no-no. This was done sometime in the past. I just don't remember if it was on KICentral or KIExtreme, and I have no idea if permission was granted by the park.

lil.y pad noun 1. a round, floating leaf of a water lily. 2. my coined term for the smaller, round footers/footings commonly found in wooden roller coasters

Don't look into this too much folks... This is not a "leak" in the same way The Bat Wing Coaster "leak" was. Now, I doubt this is a Wing Coaster in the sense that it might not seem all that different from Banshee in the eyes of most guests. The key is to have a change to excite the guests. **Note: IF we want to see a 2017 coaster, we're going to want to see concrete poured soon, (It may have already been out of our sight). Many "lily pads" = wood. Large footers = steel

Little discussed point here. Would White Water Canyon still have it's nice wooded environment if a new coaster is built with the entrance near the current fence? Where exactly is White Water Canyon in that big swath of woods? Would a new coaster necessarily intrude on that land? It seems so secluded at the moment, (except for the part where you can see Diamondback). I'd like to keep that.

Better than an asbestos pile...

You folks are missing the fine print. It is sadly just Canadian Bacon!

I could see Face/Off leaving now that Banshee is at KI. You could put some of those European flats over there too, and maybe plant some trees. It's actually the most intense coaster for me.

Doesn't the clearing kinda resemble that of Worlds of Fun's Prowler's footing placements prior to it's construction? (see photo below)Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk There is no way they build a steel coaster in that narrow of a path. If we see those little concrete lily pads we'll know it's a wood coaster, (and I will be incredibly stoked).

I had thought of those two, (actually three) together. BigSexy, YoungStud and Beast Gal. If it is you, I say welcome back!

If that's the case I believe this to be a giga. A wooden coaster would likely not take up that much land. Darn, hahaEdit: On second thought, I don't think that any coaster could have a footprint that goes from Rivertown over that a large portion of the park and back.

Wow I didn't know that that was the plan for KI's FOF also!