Frankly as long as it has held the title...I hope our new coaster tops MF at CP...they only let MF keep the "est" title so long if they really want to compete in the coaster game...and with Carowinds slated to be the " cedar point of the south" what better way to do it
It will have to be taller than MF or SD for a record. I don't feel Southeast is good enough based on the early chatter. 325 seem like the perfect number to preserve the record for a while. 300-315 will not cut it, competitors could easily trump that.
I originally thought it would be slightly taller than Leviathan, about 308 feet, but not quite topping MF at 310 feet. But recently, speculation seems to indicate they are finally ready to top MF and have a record breaking tall coaster. Although the Fury 325 name could just be a tease. As they are using the Roman theming in their current teasers. Which goes back to the Centurion name. But perhaps they are ready to top 400 feet like Dragster and Kingda Ka. Even though those are not traditional coasters, maybe they are now ready for a 400 foot Giga coaster at Carowinds!
Legoguy1395 wrote:If its not going to be Fury325 I'm betting on a 307 foot hight, based on how the other CF giga's have been 305 and 306 so far, respectively.
That's what I thought originally, but I think they now may be ready to top Millenium Force and have a record breaking height. While Fury 325 may not be the actual name, it could nevertheless be an indication of a taller height.
I dont think making this thing a foot taller to break records is what carowinds has in mind. They want this to be a destination park. You dont do that by just barely beating out another park, you do it by stomping a mud hole into their record, take its lunch money and then kick it down a flight of stairs.
I think it will possibly be 345 feet tall. This will make it 35 feet taller than MF and 27 feet taller than SD2K. If SD2K held its record for 14 years, and it was only 8 feet taller than MF (the next tallest coaster), then that might mean that our coaster would hold its record for another 14 years if it turns out to be 345 feet tall.
Regardless in the next two or three years MULTIPLE coasters plan to top MF (and several already have, obviously), including one "traditional coaster" in the US (polar coaster).
This is the perfect time to top MF's record if it will benefit another park in the meantime. IMO.
