Major News Update

So here are your 11-or-so stories.

1. No more ride removal from SFKK by SF until an agreement is made.
2. FMP has no plans to open in 2010.
3. I-not 305 opened.
4. I-305 opens Friday.
5. CEO of Hershand(sp?) on CBS's Undercover Boss.
6. Shoot the Rapids is almost done.
7. Demon Drop construction causing rides not to open when Dorney opens.
8. CF - Apollo deal delayed until April.
9. B&M Prototype going to Italy.
10. GL's Big Dipper price reduction.
11. Battle Star coaster delayed due to seats falling off the ride.

There are more coming. Expect the full details to the stories soon.

[slosprint]

Originally posted by Tetsu


11. BattelStar coaster delayed due to seats falling off the ride.

FAIL!

Edit: I wasn't insulting your spelling, but the issue itself.

Ahahahhahahahaa. Good thing they caught that early. Just imagine the op's face when the train rolls into the station with missing seats...

^haha does anybody know why this happened

[slosprint]

Well it is first of its kind so I can only assume somebody attached the seats improperly.

Originally posted by slosprint

Originally posted by Tetsu


11. BattelStar coaster delayed due to seats falling off the ride.

FAIL!

Edit: I wasn't insulting your spelling, but the issue itself.

I figured. But then I noticed the spelling mistake.

We're getting a B&M prototype, and you're not!

"More interesting were rumours of a new coaster style for Gardaland (Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy). It would be similar in nature to Intamin's Wing Rider, Furious Baco at Port Aventura (Salu, Spain). B&M sort of already has this design with its Dive Machines. If the middle seats - those over the track - are removed and the outer seats lowered, you have a ride very similar to what was being described to us. This is a very interesting move by B&M, and we sincerely hope it is true as both of the above examples never really set the world alight for various reasons. Maybe it takes B&M to make the idea work. We also heard that following the Gardaland prototype, another version may make its way to Thorpe Park (Chertsey, England), Gardaland's sister park, sometime shortly afterwards.
Finally, we understand B&M is working on a launched coaster for a surprising park in Europe..."
(first drop magazine)

Shiparo is interested in buying and moving Big Dipper from Geauga, and is looking into buying a flat ride package for Great Adventure. For as much poop as you guys give him, it's nice that he's interested in saving classic rides (and improving the ones already in the chain...all of the wood coasters of theirs I've been on since the buyout have had tons of new wood on them and have run very well).

Originally posted by slosprint

Well it is first of its kind so I can only assume somebody attached the seats improperly.

Nobody ever built a Vekoma before?

[slosprint]

Well the trains look quite different from the other Vekomas that have been built so I can only assume that they are assembled at least slightly differently.

[Mikey]

What did you expect out of a vekoma... if it wasn't the seats it would be the hitch bolts.