[Firechaser]

[offtopic]This off topic but I was just wondering why is Wild Eagle the only wing Coaster with a loop because the loop is like the best part of that ride.[/offtopic]

[chknwing]

am I the only one that would like the new coaster to bring back the White Lightning name? I am not digging Centurion at all.

[RollerBee]

I aint worried about the name itself, I want a kickbutt giga coaster.

[Matt929]

I really hope it's a wing coaster

[saxrokinhomo]

I just want some more solid details other than the plans to change entrance. Granted there are what like footers in the plans but no clue if those are of any kind of final design as far as the ride goes.

[gabed]

I really hope it's a wing coaster

Gatekeepr is only 170 feet tall and left me with a painful migraine, I can't imagine what a 300 foot wing coaster would do to riders.

[Matt929]

I loved gatekeeper and 300 ft. would be a world record and cedar fair said it would be world record breaking in some way

[redrunner97]

I think he means that the force to the "wings" at that high speed, and the inversions, would be very strong on the rider. I genuinely don't think it will be a Wing Coaster.

[tarheel1231]

I loved gatekeeper and 300 ft. would be a world record and cedar fair said it would be world record breaking in some way

Ha! That's stupid. It's obviously going to be an inverted spinning RMC Wooden Coaster that's also a 4D Interactive dark ride themed after Pirates of the Caribbean. You know nothing about Carowinds.

[chunkyskunk]

I would love to see Mack (not Intamin) come over and build us the world's longest launch coaster which could be a cross between blue fire Megacoaster from Europa Park and Helix from Liseberg except spread out more out and back style to fit where we all think this thing is going. I know we do not have the terrain like Liseberg but a multi launch coaster with smooth but forceful inversions (like the two coasters mentioned) and not tight painful inversions and turns (like Maverick & I-305). It could start off into a 310' (+/-) top hat with one launch then the drop would be all that is needed for most of the ride working it's way through some nice twists, turns and inversions and then a second launch would be around two thirds back to get you back to the station. That is just my three cents worth. As for what I think we are actually getting I would say something similar to Leviathan but hopefully slightly longer and taller with that great vertical figure 8 turn around like Shambhala in Spain.

[intaminboy]

I would like an Intamin giga, but a LSM slow launch lift instead of a cable lift. I think this would be ideal because the cables on the cable lifts can snap and break causing many days, if not months of downtime. If there are LSMs the speed a cable lift would be ( the ones found on Maverick), there would be no cable snapping and much less downtime. This would also use a single fin magnet for the brakes instead of the double fin magnets that are found on intimidator 305, Kingda Ka, and Top Thrill Dragster. The single fin magnets would be cheaper because you are purchasing half the amount of magnets with the one fin. you would probably pay more for a cable lift and winch with the maintenance that come along with that system than you would for a more reliable LSM system that uses rare earth magnets.

[tylerSC]

Preliminary groundwork is supposed to begin in the next few weeks as May approaches, so maybe we will begin to know a bit more details soon. I hope.

[Merthecat]

Here's my first drawing in forever:

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This is assuming it's a normal giga, not some fancy schmancy wing coaster with 26 loops and whotnot

[tylerSC]

That's a nice picture. But I just hope it's not yellow.

[intaminboy]

Now that I have a rough visual of how the new ride will look, this is definitely going to be eye candy for the coaster boys like myself.