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There were several different signs. Some of which dropped clues, some intentionally misled.

When the doors of perception are cleansed things will appear as they truly are.

Some people need some Windex :P

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And after it is announced, some will say: "I can see clearly now, the crane is gone..."

Terpy, who just had to...

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I remember the poyurethane wheels and SunCor wood that Son of Beast was to have...the parking lot renovations that were to rival Universal, and then of course there is the incredible landscaping around what is now Backlot Stunt Coaster, which was planned to be far nicer than the rocky thing it is....

Interesting...where these things announced explicitly, or are they based on artists renderings and things of that nature?

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I remember the poyurethane wheels and SunCor wood that Son of Beast was to have...the parking lot renovations that were to rival Universal, and then of course there is the incredible landscaping around what is now Backlot Stunt Coaster, which was planned to be far nicer than the rocky thing it is....

You're forgetting my favorite-- "the lush tropical landscaping" at Boomerang Bay.

I'm sure a lot of that boiled down to late budget cuts, but the hyerbole coming out of KI always seemed more extreme than the releases from the other Paramount Parks...

I bet there's a lot of lush landscaping and "fantabulous, Hollywood-ized" attractions on their way to the Schlitterbahn even as we speak ;)

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Do you think its possible the 4200 ft is based on the lenth of the footprint, not the length of the track because it was measured from a plan perspective. maybe the fact that the ride will not be a flat projection but have hills will bump the length up closer to 5000, or maybe i just want it to be longer.

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Do you think its possible the 4200 ft is based on the lenth of the footprint, not the length of the track because it was measured from a plan perspective. maybe the fact that the ride will not be a flat projection but have hills will bump the length up closer to 5000, or maybe i just want it to be longer.

Sounds reasonable to me. The vertical dimension certainly adds length to the track, which is not represented on a 2D overhead plan perspective (unless they use something like USGS countour lines to indicate vertical rise of the track).

edit - what would be even better is if 4200' is indeed the length (or widest dimension) of the footprint itself - which would mean the track length must be at least 8400'. But I doubt that :P

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Not really a surprise, no news at all. First Drop magaizine had this back in November of 2007 (reported by screamscape). Seems the 3 turns could be mistaken as "loops" but other than that fits the article nicely.

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4884/ki9745wb8.jpg

Todd

The information on this site seems to be consistent with the information reported by First Drop magazine. Of course one of them may have quoted the other.

http://www.trips-n-pics.com/tips/comingsoo...amp;continent=2

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Yeah but Maverick information came out long before the Press Release. Maybe it is just how CF opperates now, just like we knew about XFlight coming long before it landed in the parking lot.

Hmmmm, any day I'm guessing CF will put that Press Release out on the Eifel Tower being built?

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Not really a surprise, no news at all. First Drop magaizine had this back in November of 2007 (reported by screamscape). Seems the 3 turns could be mistaken as "loops" but other than that fits the article nicely.

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4884/ki9745wb8.jpg

Todd

The information on this site seems to be consistent with the information reported by First Drop magazine. Of course one of them may have quoted the other.

http://www.trips-n-pics.com/tips/comingsoo...amp;continent=2

I remember when the rumors just started about this the FD magazine article and this website had the same facts and came out at the same time. So maybe this is going to be what we expected a long time ago...

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The first drop layout now seems to line up with what I've heard and the clearing behind TR:TR. If First Drop is saying over 5000 feet, the layout may only be going in horizontal dimension as we have speculated. It will be interesting to see how that final helix goes as it seems to be right where The Beast Ace landmark is.

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Still wish The Beast Hunter theme would have been used, PKIC Survivor anyone?

If I do a 3rd season this winter, it will still be Congo. I have a good chunk of the plans finished. Who knows, applications just might start going out in a few months...

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Still wish The Beast Hunter theme would have been used, PKIC Survivor anyone?

If I do a 3rd season this winter, it will still be Congo. I have a good chunk of the plans finished. Who knows, applications just might start going out in a few months...

Sounds good, I would always be up for making an apperance or two as a Survivor AllStar, I like a good challenge every now and then.

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Bless this reporter for the nice "zap" for KI. "If you won't give us info, I'll look it up myself." I love it!

At least we finally have some information!

By the way, I love the "I can see clearly now, the crane has gone." Can we say, a classic Terpy-ism?

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how do you know what classic terpy-ism is? you haven't been a member long enough to know the real classic terpy things... or whatever... actually I'm pretty sure I've been here longer than terpy and I still don't know what his "classics" are...

anyways, whatever about the whole "to short thing" I was thinking of a different type of coaster. And really, looking at averages of how long the dive machines are... that's WAYYYY to long...

vl2

edit- that first part was talking about 2 posts above me...

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Thats awesome! Who would have thought that the original plans we saw in the first drop magazine were the correct ones all along! I expect an announcement soon! I am so glad we got the behemoth style trains! They look really cool! This ride looks longer than 4,??? feet, doesn't it? Finally Kings Island will get a "first of its kind B&M" with the behemoth style trains AND a splashdown! It also doesn't look like it will interfere with The Beast at all, so thats good! Can't wait until the official announcement!

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Thats awesome! Who would have thought that the original plans we saw in the first drop magazine were the correct ones all along! I expect an announcement soon! I am so glad we got the behemoth style trains! They look really cool! This ride looks longer than 4,??? feet, doesn't it? Finally Kings Island will get a "first of its kind B&M" with the behemoth style trains AND a splashdown! It also doesn't look like it will interfere with The Beast at all, so thats good! Can't wait until the official announcement!

I say teaser by next week if not an announcement. We already know, so why keep us waiting?

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Thats awesome! Who would have thought that the original plans we saw in the first drop magazine were the correct ones all along! I expect an announcement soon! I am so glad we got the behemoth style trains! They look really cool! This ride looks longer than 4,??? feet, doesn't it? Finally Kings Island will get a "first of its kind B&M" with the behemoth style trains AND a splashdown! It also doesn't look like it will interfere with The Beast at all, so thats good! Can't wait until the official announcement!

I say teaser by next week if not an announcement. We already know, so why keep us waiting?

So where did she get 4200 ft? I cannot get close enough to the plans to read it without it getting blurry.

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