Alright can we keep all the news and rumors for all things 2012 in this thread.
Dollywood will stay separate since it is a 'local' park and is CONFIRMED getting a large coaster, but yeah don't want too much clutter on the main forum page. Every park, especially parks thousands of miles away don't need their own 'rumor' thread, as this is a simple forum for Carowinds. Thanks guys.
Repost from the threads I closed..
{Rumor}
From Screamscape:
http://www.screamscape.com/html/canada_s_wonderland.htm
2012 - New Attraction - Rumor - (6/27/11) According to the latest pictures posted to CWMania, many more survey markings have been spotted in the picnic area to the east side of Dragon Fire as well as in the employee parking lot.
(6/16/11) Screamscape has heard from a reader that Canada’s Wonderland may be working on adding some kind of new steel coaster, possibly from Intamin, that would feature eight inversions. While the record for inversions globally is ten, an eight inversion coaster would take the record for the most inversions in North America. The ride’s rumored location would have it runnin from the Dragon Fire area over towards the old dolphin theater. While this may be a good idea... I have to admit I’m a bit skeptical myself about this rumor too. So far Cedar Fair has never proven to be ‘inversion” crazy with any of their coaster, so this is a bit out of character. More on this when I find out...
Would be cool to have an 8 inversion or more coaster in our part of the world.
[Rumor For Now}
From Screamscape:
http://www.screamscape.com/html/knott_s_berry_farm.htm
2012 - Giga Coaster - Rumor - (6/27/11) This rumor is a bit out there… so please take it all with a big chunk of salt in case it’s entirely bogus, but I’ve been sent a short list of very impressive stats for what Knott’s next coaster project MIGHT BE. As I said… this is all very out there right now, and if these stats are even close to being true for a possible 2012 project, Knott’s is going to have to start work on this project very soon.
Now, you might be asking yourselves, if the rumor is so wild, why do I post it at all? Simply because the stats match up with what I’ve been hearing about for the past year… that Knott’s was in the process of designing their version of version of Intimidator. This is said to be an Intamin Giga-coaster of the highest degree, with a custom layout inspired by both Intimidator 305 and Millennium Force. In short, Knott’s could be on the verge of building what many might consider to be the best roller coaster in the world.
While I don’t know anything really solid about the layout, it very well could travel throughout quite a bit of the park. Many might recall all those crazy survey markings that appeared throughout about half of the park about a year ago. The overall length of the ride is rumored to be just shy of 6000 feet, putting it just slightly behind Disney’s California Screamin’ coaster in overall length. As for the height… we’re talking about a coaster that could stand just shy of 340 feet with an amazing 85º first drop back down to Earth. As long as the actual height of the first drop was at least 328 feet, I believe the top speed of this coaster would hit at least 100 mph. That would make this ride the tallest and fastest NON-LAUNCHED coaster in the entire world. One for the record books for sure… now if only our crystal ball is clear on this one. Wait and see… wait and see…
Don't see either of these happening to be honest. I went on Colossus at Thorpe Park, an Intamin 10-inversion coaster. It sucked.
