New construction markings?

Phone booths? Who uses Phone booths anymore? (I am being sarcastic...) For that matter...who uses public phones in an amusement park? (once again sarcasm...?) Sry if I offended anyone, but it seems to be a growing trend...

Well Jillly, in case you didn't notice, but Soak City is an additional charge. And for those of us who don't feel like spending an extra $20, it would be nice to have a couple decent water rides in the park. All rumors seem to be pointing to WWL being removed for what ever gets installed, be it another water ride or a coaster. I'm not asking for a 4th water ride, I'm just asking to maintain 3 and not to drop to 2. Especialy considering that WWL is the only water ride in the park you can go on with out getting completly soaked.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

Yeah, I do. They should just combine the 3 parks into one with one admission (like Geauga Lake) and add a water coaster or ride for 2006. That would be awesome.

You're absolutely right. Michigan's Adventure (another Cedar Fair park) has only one admission price and a much nicer water park, plus, it's 20 bucks cheaper than CP. I can name at least one, if not more, other park that does not have separate admission prices. King's Island is one, unless they changed it, and their water park was comparable to CP's.
*** Edited 7/19/2005 1:03:38 PM UTC by Bogiehead***

It would actually be stupid to combine CP and Soak City into one admission.

There are plenty of resort guests who may only want to go to Soak City on any particular day, instead of both parks. It would tick them off if they needed to pay the higher Cedar Point admission if they only wanted to go to Soak City.

Also, the Ride & Slide ticket is a fantastic deal if you are going to the park two days in a row. You have both CP and Soak City for two days at around $20 less than the price of two Cedar Point tickets alone.

Michigan's Adventure, Geauga Lake, Dorney Park and even King's Island are different animals. I think CP and Soak City have the right admission policy that works well for the majority of guests, given the resort structure that exists at CP.

Sure. Cedar Fair should just throw away all the revenue they get from Soak City *and* make it much more crowded (and therefore less pleasant) by opening the gates to any of the tens of thousands of people in CP. You guys are regular Captains of Industry! It's pure genius!

WWL is the only water ride in the park you can go on with out getting completly soaked.

Or without being four feet tall.

Edited to add: The ride and slides don't need to be consecutive days---any two days in the season is fine. I don't *think* there is any fine print that says you can't share it across two people---only that both halves can't be used the same day.

I buy Ride-n-slides to bring friends on a day visit with our family. Since we have combo passes, giving our guests one day of a ride-n-slide means that if we decide to all pop over to Soak City, we can.
*** Edited 7/19/2005 1:26:17 PM UTC by Brian Noble***

Going back a couple of pages...

CP_bound said:
Does anyone know if Intamin has built their launched water flume for any park yet? It has been on their website for at least a couple years.

Yeah, they built two of them, one for Knott's in California, one for Oakwood in Wales. Flume rides with a launch, Intamin style. :(

(yeah, it's really poor taste, but somebody had to say it...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Wow, Dave. That's almost as bad as my comment to one of my buddies about Holiday World's learn to fly program.

I wonder if the markings on the frontier trail have anything to do with a new ride/ attraction?

I think crazy horse has gone crazy and fallen of the horse at the same time.

Westside7th said:
Is the swan boat pond even big enough for a water coaster to splash into?

Yes, It probably is for a splashdown but probably isn't big enough for the whole ride to fit. But they could place the station where the entrance for the Swan Boats was and have the exit go over the splashdown, go over the water and connect with the walkway by Snake River Falls.

And, are the giant flume rides (like Hydro at Oakwood and Perilous Plunge at Knott's Berry Farm and Atlantica Super Splash at Europa Park) water coasters? That would be cool if Cedar Point built one of those and made it smaller than all the other ones but still be fun and you still get wet.
*** Edited 7/21/2005 5:54:17 PM UTC by CPman***

CP already has a flume ride like Perilous Plunge called Snake Rive Falls they wouldn't put 2 of those flumes right next to each other.

Rideman do you have any pictures of those launched water rides that Intamin makes. What do they launch with.
*** Edited 7/21/2005 7:29:07 PM UTC by CPFan420***

It was an off-color joke: those two flumes each launched riders to their deaths.

Jason,

What was up with that comment?

CPFan420 said:
CP already has a flume ride like Perilous Plunge called Snake Rive Falls they wouldn't put 2 of those flumes right next to each other.

Rideman do you have any pictures of those launched water rides that Intamin makes. What do they launch with.
*** Edited 7/21/2005 7:29:07 PM UTC by CPFan420***

Sorry but I forgot to tell you this. The ride would have a 27 foot lifthill and then it would go down the hill and splash into the pond speeding up the ride. Then the ride would go all around the edges of the pond and in the middle there would be wave makers and there would be four to five feet of waves, splashing the riders on the boat.

Ok, so you've just designed Snake River Canyon. If they add a water ride, it needs to be something they don't already have. A coaster with a splashdown is something they don't have that would reasonably fit the theme of the area. I still say tear down WWL, and rebuild it with its structure integrated with the structure of a new coaster.

Crazy horse, you obviously didn't read any of the previous pages. The entire thread is about possible construction markings. It's even titled New Construction Markings? That is what Jason was talking about.

RideMan said:

one for Oakwood in Wales.

Speaking of Oakwood, I found this on their website.

Oakwood said:

Voted best wooden rollercoaster in the world by coaster enthusiasts, Megafobia is the coaster with character. You’ll get off the train and want to go straight back round!

Wasn't Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce voted best wooden roller coaster?

Boulder Dash received Amusement Today's Golden Ticket. I'm sure there is a European group that does something similar over there.

Crazy, Exaclty what Coasterfury said.