Luke_A Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by Luke_A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackR Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMMYD777 Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 I present to you my No Limits Recreation of GateKeeper, with entrance keyhole feature! Enjoy! kinnaird, pluk and JoshC. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam T Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster XTREME Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Cedar Point have released the official animated POV...looks amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fLbdwq8_k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC! Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Looks like The Swarm and X-Flight on a serious amount of steroids! AMAZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Hutson Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 and no theming. Surprise surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPGG Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Those gate fly-throughs are enough for me tbh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_A Posted September 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 BOOM and Space Spiral's gone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 Just... What? From the mobile video I was gonna call on it being faked... Then an official video appeared... There are no words... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 Best way of taking out a ride ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 Hmmm I dunno, Heide Park sinking their Paddleboat Steamer for Krake was pretty damn awesome... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Users Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 '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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_A Posted September 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 And this is Space Spiral now... Cornflakes, JackR, Sidders and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 Intamin?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPGG Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Can't see it doing much spiraling anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbles1 Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 its terrible, but I would have laughed so bad if it had gone in the wrong direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_A Posted September 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Here is a more detailed documentary style video; showing an outline for the whole demolition procedure for Space Spiral! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_A Posted October 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Tut tut, double post. Short video here, GateKeeper's footers are now partially poured with some looking done and ready for steel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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