Posted July 13, 201213 yr comment_139067 Just looking through the Other Parks & Attractions sub-forum and realised Cedar Point doesn't have a topic, surely it deserves one as America's roller coast, eh!? Also the fact that with the news of their 2013 rollercoaster; I can imagine there will be a lot of discussion about the place over this years closed season and the coming months when we discover more about their major 2013 project. Anyway, they confirmed this news today on Twitter! Something big is happening. Disaster Transport & Space Spiral will be dismantled this season to make space for @!!$!(*%% Stay tuned 4 more! So that's pretty much what we knew already, should be interesting when more details are announced about that possible B&M Wing Rider! And I wonder if that random spam of symbols will actually have any relevance to the ride or if it's just a filler to just make people think something new is on the way... Hmm. EDIT: The closing date for Disaster Transport has been set for July 29th. Edited July 13, 201213 yr by Luke_A
July 14, 201213 yr comment_139082 It's like a bigger version of Thorpe, but with better Intamins and worse B&Ms... That basically describes it... TTD, Wicked Twister and Maverick are the 3 best coasters, the rest are just there really... Magnum probs the only other one worth blabbing on about...
July 14, 201213 yr comment_139088 Watch out for inversions and (!%!@@!#%(!@!!^ You didn't think we would give away 2013 THAT easy did you? This was also posted on Cedar Point's Facebook page. Things may get pretty exciting now.
August 13, 201213 yr comment_139902 I present to you my No Limits Recreation of GateKeeper, with entrance keyhole feature! Enjoy!
August 13, 201213 yr comment_139903 Beautiful recreation as always JammyD777, I really like the first half the ride but it seems to just die out and drag on the second half
August 13, 201213 yr comment_139915 Cedar Point have released the official animated POV...looks amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fLbdwq8_k
August 14, 201213 yr comment_139926 Now that it's all official, Cedar Point have released the page for Gate Keeper on there website. http://www.cedarpoint.com/gatekeeper It's a good site with both the onride and offride povs, a webcam of the site to watch the construction, the renderings, news and all the teechnical data. Due to the MCBR it will have three 32 seater trains meaning a theoretical throughput of 1710 pph. Overall looks like a solid ride.
August 22, 201213 yr comment_140185 Looks like The Swarm and X-Flight on a serious amount of steroids! AMAZING
August 25, 201213 yr comment_140346 and no theming. Surprise surprise! Well, naturally. Most large American parks build their coaster to big to theme properly, and so the lucky ones who see a bit more money splashed in the ride design and marketing department might see a certain style rather than an actual theme. Cedar has loads of examples of this - Maverick, Raptor and now GateKeeper.
August 25, 201213 yr comment_140348 Raptor? Styled? If you mean styled to be absolutely generic (like most American rides) then yes... I'll give you Maverick though, that's nearly full on themed...
August 25, 201213 yr comment_140357 Yeah, Raptor is styled. Styled after a prehistoric bird thing that picks you up and flies you around a bit, so yes, generic because Talon, Hydra, Griffon, SheiKra, and Kraken (among others) do the same sort of thing. And I don't know why but Maverick doesn't appear to go all the way to theme for me. Point is, GateKeeper is styled as a sort of protector of the park, as in, it's signature purpose is to provide an enormous entrance gate feature and will be styled to a creature that flies over the entrance in order to achieve this. I never took it that a coaster this big was ever going to see all the way to theme.
August 25, 201213 yr comment_140358 I'm still lost tbh... Raptor has little to no theming or styling to link it into anything really... It's station and queue are atypically generic American things really... Very much a case of you could pick it up and put it into a random allocated amusement park (say any other Cedar Fair or Six Flags park) and you wouldn't need to change anything... Griffon and SheiKra are both themed, both rather nicely I might add, and fit into their areas well... Kraken's station and queue is also nicely themed... Maverick's theme is mainly in the surrounding area (rather than just the ride, although CP cheated as the queue/station building already existed), but it gives it an actual embedded feeling, rather than the plonked emotions of nearly every other ride there...
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141034 Just... What? From the mobile video I was gonna call on it being faked... Then an official video appeared... There are no words...
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141038 Hmmm I dunno, Heide Park sinking their Paddleboat Steamer for Krake was pretty damn awesome...
September 12, 201212 yr comment_141042 'MERICA. It looks like it was angled away from anything else though at least. In other news, Cedar Point is the number 1 theme park in the world and Millennium Force is the number 1 steel coaster in the world according to the Golden Ticket awards. Go, go Cedar Fair fanboys!
September 13, 201212 yr comment_141109 its terrible, but I would have laughed so bad if it had gone in the wrong direction.
September 21, 201212 yr Author comment_141517 Here is a more detailed documentary style video; showing an outline for the whole demolition procedure for Space Spiral!
October 9, 201212 yr Author comment_142276 Tut tut, double post. Short video here, GateKeeper's footers are now partially poured with some looking done and ready for steel!
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