"Maverick" Construction - CP 2007

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by redunzelizer

Originally posted by Wing-Over

Plus, if it was a ball coaster, think of the insane lats in that un-heartlined transition.
http://www.pointpixels.com/4images/details.php?image_id=7426

That transition is perfectly heartlined! You just don't see that immediately, cause it's on top of a tiny but still existent hill. [:p]

If you guys just would look closer... [;)]

yeah, i figured that out also, wouldn't be intamin to have technical inperfect tracks, so if the heartlining is low, it should be have with a hill in it

we got a station......( i think)

Call me horny but Holy Crap that turns me on!!!

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[hyyyper]

Originally posted by karremans

we got a station......( i think)

nah, too small for a station, maintence, stacking or storage is more likely

Originally posted by english coaster guy

Call me horny but Holy Crap that turns me on!!!

you are, indeed, horny

Originally posted by karremans

we got a station......( i think)

It looks alto like the building next to Xcelerator's launch track

I would think that is a braking house. On the viper wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Ameraica the ride's brakes start by a brake house which is also the switching devices to add and remove trains.
http://www.rcdb.com/ig10.htm?picture=6

[yoshifreak]

Actually I think that is the electrical shed for what could be LIMs

See here on wicked twister:

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A clim up a hill w00t:


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Awesome. Airtime. Awesome.

If this thing has NO inversions but a ton of air, I'll still be just as happy. The only inversion I really care about is the 0-g roll, as it 'can' have air.

[coolbeans326]

does anyone know when the press release is suppose to come out?

When its done.

[coolbeans326]

A press release usually comes out long before its finished, so don't give me that smart ass answer, mister.[;)]

When the fans stop begging for it.

Ohhh, and do you think that will ever happen?

:p.

I just hope they release it before its completely obvious what the ride is, aka the whole ride is pretty much built.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by coolbeans326

A press release usually comes out long before its finished, so don't give me that smart ass answer, mister.[;)]

the press release for Superman: Escape came out 2 days before the offical opening

[coolbeans326]

^ they had one long before official opening. But they also had another press release 2 days before the ride opened. But with Cedar Point past 2 rides, they have had the press release come out long in advance, and attached to the press release was a Keith McVeen animation. I don't see why this would be any different.

Originally posted by coolbeans326

I don't see why this would be any different.

Maybe because they try to make this a mystery ride...

Well, before I left CP I did get one last good look around the construction area. And there is quite a bit that wasn't shown in the pictures which I believe needs addressing.

Next to the big incline (or decline, whichever...), there is a tiny piece of track that has a very sharp radius with the track on the outside of the curve. This will very likely be the peak of a tophat, and makes me believe that this coaster will be an Intamin Rocket of some sort. Judging by the footers and supports that are already in place, I believe that the coaster will launch, do a wide turn next to the wooden walls by Mean Streak, and then turn up into a tophat with that "incline" as the lead-out, and then navigate through the series of turns with the quick banking transitions. After that, it will enter the turnaround over the lake, and that is all I can guess. The rest is so scattered that I can't even speculate.

GOOD NEWS!
Pieces of track with the running rails on the outside of the turning radius have begun to show up at the Breakers Express delivery site, indicating that there will indeed be hills with some airtime at some point throughout the coaster. Also, the blue tarp is back with a 3-layer tower of something underneath it. And some of the recent track pieces that have shown up are so distorted that I can't imagine what they go to. There is one that almost looks like trick track as it starts banked one way, banks slightly the other way, and then back to the same way it entered, one that is completely straight and then suddenly banks and drops, and hunderds of others that bank like crazy in all directions.


SUMMARY:

WTF? This thing is one of the wierdest construction projects I have seen in quite a while. The ride is being built already and we still have almost no idea what the heck it will be doing. I'm done at CP now, so I will be stuck back to speculating everything from behind a computer screen now. Sorry that I couldn't get any pics, but my camera is still out of commission.

Sounds even more like an Aquatraxx from your description CJD. That layout sounds quite similar to the layout of Atlantis Adventrue. Granted it also sounds a lot like a rocket layout, I'm gonna stick with my original and say this is an Aquatraxx...after all it qould be strange if they had 2 rocket coasters in the same park.

[coolbeans326]

^ yes, unless of course its something me then just a regular rocket.

^I don't think Dragster counts as a rocket... it's in a class of its own. If they made a smaller rocket with a bunch of different elements, I consider it as different from Dragster as night and day.

Some of my friends still out there are banking on the use of LSMs.

I'm pretty confident in the rumor that the track will dive under the station or at least go beneath it. In my opinion 2 rows of supports will be the station. Dual loading is quite possible. And the supports beneath it seem to make a nice turn through it.

But we should start to get a way better picture of everything as the weeks progress, it seemed like they put that track up there pretty damn fast.

The Press realease will come after the soft opening next year. Then the winter they will disasemble the whole thing then rebuild it to open 2008.[:)]

Originally posted by cjd

Well, before I left CP I did get one last good look around the construction area. And there is quite a bit that wasn't shown in the pictures which I believe needs addressing.

Next to the big incline (or decline, whichever...), there is a tiny piece of track that has a very sharp radius with the track on the outside of the curve. This will very likely be the peak of a tophat, and makes me believe that this coaster will be an Intamin Rocket of some sort. Judging by the footers and supports that are already in place, I believe that the coaster will launch, do a wide turn next to the wooden walls by Mean Streak, and then turn up into a tophat with that "incline" as the lead-out, and then navigate through the series of turns with the quick banking transitions. After that, it will enter the turnaround over the lake, and that is all I can guess. The rest is so scattered that I can't even speculate.

GOOD NEWS!
Pieces of track with the running rails on the outside of the turning radius have begun to show up at the Breakers Express delivery site, indicating that there will indeed be hills with some airtime at some point throughout the coaster. Also, the blue tarp is back with a 3-layer tower of something underneath it. And some of the recent track pieces that have shown up are so distorted that I can't imagine what they go to. There is one that almost looks like trick track as it starts banked one way, banks slightly the other way, and then back to the same way it entered, one that is completely straight and then suddenly banks and drops, and hunderds of others that bank like crazy in all directions.


SUMMARY:

WTF? This thing is one of the wierdest construction projects I have seen in quite a while. The ride is being built already and we still have almost no idea what the heck it will be doing. I'm done at CP now, so I will be stuck back to speculating everything from behind a computer screen now. Sorry that I couldn't get any pics, but my camera is still out of commission.

YES!!! That is exactly what I thought. I saw that small outward radius. I thought the same thing. I hope to get an anouncment soon.