Spent the past day and a half at the Point visiting Emily during CoasterMania and spent the first day alone. I rode pretty much everything I was interested in riding early in the day since the park was dead, so I grabbed a Millennium Force handstamp and walked around the top of the peninsula to get some photos.
Heading back through Area 3 on the Gemini Midway, this will be your first glance at the on-site Jack in the Box they are building in the plot where Mean Streak used to sit before it was torn down.
Got Alan over here loving to manipulate the nature of vector mechanics, putting what should be two small forces together to create one thigh-bruising wallop of negative force here. You'll have some classic second law airtime mixed with some classic centripetal force around that curve, should really throw you.
RMC just throwing two double whatevers in here because they can.
As an avid RMC fanboy, I know how much Alan loves to make his inversions pure zero-g floater bliss while ejecting the hell out of you over hills. This is probably going to feel very floaty and very freaky, I love it!
RMC Mean Streak as seen from Frontiertown
Enough action in park, let's go outside! This was taken in the Cedar Point Shores parking lot walking to Lighthouse Point.
This was a very active construction site and you could hear beeping equipment, hammers, and power tools in full force to get this thing up. Visible near Lighthouse Point is the entrance to the construction site, complete with this fat stack of beautifully machined track.
Classic wooden trusses meets cutting edge manufactured track and it looks perfect together. <3
RMC Mean Streak is behind the trees. Honestly with some of these shots I was getting through the band of forest surrounding the ride, Sasquatch would make a pretty good name if they go with it.
Ledgers waiting for track.
By far my favorite shot of this coaster as of now.
Gorgeous shot of the top hat thing. If that lift is really 218 feet like we think, this is a pretty small thing to be shooting through right out the drop.
Drop ledgers going into place!
The Sasquatch theme would be really cool with it being so close to a campsite, though the teaser campaign seems to suggest a very different theme more similar to the conventional Western theme in Frontiertown.
Twin top hats!
Work on the drop, you can see the two ledgers getting all the attention right now pretty clearly.To me it's still obvious that they aren't exactly vertical. Steep, but not stacked right atop each other.
More goodness from Lighthouse Point!
It looks like a straight up dive off a cliff from out here!
This tight bank is RMC's newest element! It's called "that maneuver when your girlfriend won't get her lazy butt out of bed and you're already ten minutes late so you go full Incredible Hulk and flip the mattress and she just about kills you and makes you sleep in the tub."
(Another record for CP to claim: Most normal element name on an RMC)
I had no idea there was a little dock back behind Lighthouse Point but this is the first place I will go to get a good photo of this thing when it's done! This is my new favorite photo op at the park!
Another decent shot of it! Fun fact: A couple years ago some CF members, me included, played beer pong until 4 am in one of these bungalows.
After cooing over this sexy photo op for a bit, I headed back into the park to meet up with my friend Mary for the end of the day...who just told me to "meet me at Raptor." I could barely get Millennium's belt so the exercise was welcome, but did I really appreciate walking all the way from the very back of the peninsula to Raptor? Not really!
Another angle on the lazy girlfriend tossed from bed element. Notice how only two ledgers are completely horizontal? This thing barely qualifies as a stall in my book, more like a screwy cutback or something.
We ended the day on Maverick, Mary's number one, as the sun set over this modern marvel in the making...
