Oh, looky here: "After a lengthy evaluation of all alternatives, the decision has been made to remove the Son of Beast roller coaster to make room for future park expansion. The dismantling of the ride, which last operated in 2009, will begin later this summer."
Again, I wonder about Kings Island getting Disaster Transport IF it is being moved..
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Besides being pretty impossible due to the topography, SOB's land is a bit large for Disaster Transport, you can fit at least 3-4 Disaster Transport sized rides down there, if not more.
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There's far too much land available from SOB use just for Disaster Transport. It's heading for the scrap heap; bobsled coasters never seemed to be very popular, and it's a very mild ride with an unimaginative layout. I would guess there are at least a coaster and maybe a few flats planned for SOB's plot.
Cedar Point announced on their Facebook page the plans for 2013 will be revealed on August 13 @ 3:30 PM. They added a countdown to the date also with the blue wing-like logo in the background.
JForceFC014 wrote:There's far too much land available from SOB use just for Disaster Transport. It's heading for the scrap heap; bobsled coasters never seemed to be very popular, and it's a very mild ride with an unimaginative layout. I would guess there are at least a coaster and maybe a few flats planned for SOB's plot.
Since they have said it's going away completely, than it is but bobsled coasters are popular. The whole thing as in why they have gotten moved is all about capacity, and when it rains even little rain, the ride shuts down because it's too wet for it operate. They are counting how many people are able to get on these coasters everytime you exit, and most bobsled coasters don't have many trains, and most of them only fit 3- 8 people at a time. Disaster Transport actually had one of the most seats on a bobsled coaster though -that being 10 people.
I think the reason why the guy is taking out the ride especially is because he is more a Disney guy, and when you ride the ride, the theming is almost non-existant. A Disney guy won't be able to stand how Disaster Transport is themed. Besides that, for as you said a pretty unpopular ride, the ride lasted 27 years somehow. How many 5 minute waits /walk-on did you get on Disaster Transport? I kind question his decision when the park has a much worse coaster in which everyone hates at the park being Mean Streak. Why didn't he take that down instead? I don't think Disaster Transport was a great ride (It was good to me.), but out of the coasters to take out at Cedar Point, it just doesn't make sense right now when another ride should have be torn down instead. This is unless he has no clue that the majority of Cedar Point guests hate Mean Streak.
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^ bobsled coasters are not popular, and they never were. Take a look at how many are left at various parks, and how many were actually built to begin with.
Whats your point about capacity? Are you saying it had good capacity or poor capacity? I personally though the capacity wasnt horrible, for it being a boblsed coaster.
The reason the ride is being torn out is because it unpopular, not because the new park CEO is a "disney guy." I dont know a whole lot about how decisions are made for new attractions, but im sure its not just the CEO making a huge financial decision as this, single handedly. Plans for this ride to be removed have probably been in the works for a couple years, at the least.
Mean Streak should not be torn down and will not be torn down for quite some time. They just retracked a good portion of it during the last off season. I rode it this summer and it actually had smoothed out quite a bit. With a little more TLC in a few select spots that ride could be a great ride again. Its not going anywhere anytime soon. I could actually see that ride potentially getting the same treatment as the texas giant at some point down the road.
^Now, you are talking about parks buying them as corporations rather than the customers liking them or not. If you base it on that, than you can say Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad rides are not popular either because only Disney parks have them...
In general though, the early Intamin rides, parks didn't buy that many because they wanted Arrow, and they bought Shrawtkopf. It wasn't as much as we need as many coasters as possible in our park like today. Look at all the parks, and how many OLD Intamin roller coasters are there? Most of the ones out today are from the late 90's or 2000s. There are also only 4 rides like Superman Ride of Steel (Intamin Mega Coaster) in the US in which you say if there aren't many, than they aren't popular. Though as I said already a park is looking at capacity, and a bobsled doesn't have that high of a capacity espeically if you don't have that many cars being run on the track. It has a bigger layout, and not a high capacity. This doesn't mean that riders don't like it. It means the park itself wants a higher throughput for the land it takes up.
Now, you take a ride like the Vekoma Boomerang, and there are so many of them out there everywhere. Is it because the customers just love those rides to death? I don't think that's the real reason why. I think it's because these parks were looking for a cheaper addition, and considering a Boomerang takes up such a small space, they are keeping them for the most part. The capacity is not great, but the cheapness factor, and the small footprint is a reason they sold so many of them. I know a lot of enthusiasts would probably say they hate the regular Vekoma Boomerang as compared to the other versions.
You contradict yourself with Mean Streak. You say this ride is going nowhere anytime soon, and than you say hopefully they do what they did on Texas Giant in which they completely tore down Texas Giant, and rebuilt it as a wooden structure, but now it's a steel track which looks completely different than the old Texas Giant.
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Gatekeeper! I think it looks pretty impressive. These are screenshots of Gatekeeper's page a Cedar Point that was accidently let out but they were shortly removed.
Awesome! Gonna have to visit Cedar Point next year for this thing.
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I won't lie, it kinda looks like it was built just for the sake of being long. The corkscrew should be a nice element, but it just sort of feels stretched out to me.
Good addittion but was kinda hoping it was a 4d or a new first coaster that no other park have. I guess they are trying to compete with our home park because were taking some of their guests/tourists with gas being high people are going local not driving.
Coastermonkey61 wrote:I won't lie, it kinda looks like it was built just for the sake of being long. The corkscrew should be a nice element, but it just sort of feels stretched out to me.
I agree....when you look at X-Flight, part of the uniqueness is the fact that it's more compact and stays relatively lower to the ground (which heightens the thrill of it because it does interact with the ground that much). I'm just not seeing that same feeling from the renderings that have been put out by the park.
I've been watching the construction for awhile now and I feel like I'm the only one who cares. Haha. But, in case anyone was curious, they just threaded the keyholes over the new front gate. Here's a link to the web cams:
I usually don't post on here, but was unable to find it so I was wondering if any of you know. Cedar Point is hosting a private event on May 10 (day before opening day) and I was inquiring if any of you know if Gatekeeper would be open for that or not until opening day. Thanks for the help!