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Cedar Point | Steel Vengeance | RMC I-Box (Mean Streak Conversion)

Imagineer Josh said:
All I'm hoping for right now is no idiot to get hit by a coaster and have the announcement delayed.
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Well, what are the odds...

Probably won't delay the announcement, though, since it happened at a completely different park a continent and a half away. Still, people aren't hit by coasters that often, so it's quite a coincidence that it was reported on the same day as you said it.

EDIT: Seems like I was wrong, the incident actually happened a couple of days ago.
 
Pokemaniac said:
Well, what are the odds...

Probably won't delay the announcement, though, since it happened at a completely different park a continent and a half away. Still, people aren't hit by coasters that often, so it's quite a coincidence that it was reported on the same day as you said it.

EDIT: Seems like I was wrong, the incident actually happened a couple of days ago.
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He's referring to when the raptor death caused a delay for I believe the valravn announcement.
 
I've heard from a friend who went that there will actually be five inversions! And a crap ton of airtime at the end! He said no name, no stats, just a POV played once and that's it.

EDIT: He just told me he screwed up and mistyped that, it's 4 inversions. Said something that looked like a stall towards the end?
 
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Here's another report from the same Mean Streak preview: "Viewing finished. No details regarding name, height, etc was given. Just an animation showing the cart coming out of station and going through the layout. At the end, lots of small airtime hills over and over again it looked like. As soon as the animation ended, we were sent out. No questions. So, we got basically no details. Still, cool to see a finished animation."

I also had the chance to cruise around the Sandusky Bay this weekend. Was sure to bring back photos. :)
 
Oh c'mon. Is anybody actually surprised they gave zero details at all? You honestly think they'd just give these people all the information to share to the world?
 
Bryan Wagner said:
So no views of the trains either? Huh sounds like a straight teaser with no real information.
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It turns out, when you want to keep information classified until it's official announcement, you don't share it with all of your staff. ;)
 
Yeah the branding is right next to her wanted poster just like Blackjack's card is. It certainly stands for Chess Watkins. Nothing for Digger yet, though, so maybe that's coming.

I'm actually going to this announcement! So I'll probably come back with a construction update Tuesday and announcement coverage Wednesday, anyone going as well that wants to meet up shoot me a PM!
 
Jarrett said:
Yeah the branding is right next to her wanted poster just like Blackjack's card is. It certainly stands for Chess Watkins. Nothing for Digger yet, though, so maybe that's coming.

I'm actually going to this announcement! So I'll probably come back with a construction update Tuesday and announcement coverage Wednesday, anyone going as well that wants to meet up shoot me a PM!
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No, don't forget that Digger has the Bullet Holes.
Also, I would totally come, but gosh darn school gets in the way of things.
 
Nice!! I knew they were going to beat the inversion record :) I can't wait to see the fourth inversion and the third lap.. First time in a long time I've been excited for a Wednesday of all days lol
 
Another description of the shown pov:

The video began as a pov. The car slowly rolled out of the station and quickly hopped over the bunny hills before the lift. The chain lift caught the train and pulled it up at a decent rate but not Millennium Force or Maverick speed. The drop was very gradual and rounded like Millennium Force, but quickly dropped into a vertical drop. I'm certain it was at least 90 degrees. At the bottom of the hill we smoothly flew over the small airtime hump and rocketed up first major airtime hill. When we reached the top of that hill, the horizon seemed to crash into the top of the screen as we flew down speeding toward the outward banked hill. The same as the first major hill, we are thrown over the hill at extreme speed. Never slowing down we are lifted over a double up into the first inversion. We dive through the lift and curve around back toward the lift structure. The curve being somewhat downward picked up more speed and zoomed through the second inversion at break neck speed. After we double down, we speed up and veer up to the left into the MCBR. The flat track gave no indication of slowing down at all. A slight turn to the left and a fast dive under the track of the first major airtime hill. Extreme airtime over the next hill, dropping down and curving up toward the right and immediately diving down slight left into an extreme bank that looked almost upside down. We dip down fast into a low inversion and go into a small airtime hill leading to the fourth inversion. It seemed almost like a stall but was going so fast it's hard to say how we exited the element. The end is kind of a blur to me. After that last inversion, the elements get closer and closer together, exponentially. I'm sure the track probably looks similar to the jagged lines on an EKG. Up and Down several times, and not very far off the ground. I want to say there was an outward turn in there (at least one). The very last hill into the brake run is killer. Goes up pretty high and dips down at a steep drop into the brake. The brake is not very abrupt like Raptor. It reminded me of Millennium Forces brakes.
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