If they were going to open it I would assume they would now want to wait until later because with Florida schools starting again in two weeks, thus taking out a nice size piece of the crowd, they would want to hold off until their next big event, HHN.
The logic that they're holding off for some sort of milestone is flawed at best. The only thing they're waiting for is for this ride to be ready by their standards. When that happens, it will open - be if when school is in, for HHN, for Christmas season of 2027 - when they are ready. That's all there is to this one.
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You just said they put them on SoB...
I said that Cedar Fair bought used trains that ran since 2000 on a different coaster and put them on an existing ride. Gerstlauer had *nothing* to do with that. They were commissioned to provide trains to Hurricane - a ride of *completely different layout* and more importantly, *completely different scale and forces.*
Have you been on Son of Beast? Did you feel like your spine had just collapsed afterwords? Everybody I was with that day felt that way. Worst wooden coaster ever.
I've been on over 730 different coasters. Of course the allure of the world's tallest and fastest anything drew me in opening year. I've returned to Kings Island several times since and have never again gotten on Son of Beast. It's absolutely awful; there's no disputing that fact. That's not even a matter of opinion in this case. The sad truth is it's not the roughest wood coaster I've ever been on (of course the asterix is that my last ride was 9 years ago when the ride was a *month* old. I can't even imagine how it runs nine years later.)
Word on the street is that Son of Beast is being removed after its latest legal issue. Yeah, latest - in that not surprisingly, it's had quite a few. It's been closed almost all season.
Ok, so they bump up the theming on the Eurofighters for Mystery mine. They're still the short, stumpy, ugly trains. I'm saying that a probable reason for Universal picking Maurer was because of their X Cars. They just look futuristic.
That shows a lack of understanding for how the industry works. *No one* signs a contract for a new ride because they like what the trains look like. The look of the trains comes later. Do you like the look of standard Vekoma trains? Because Battlestar Galactica has trains that look more like rocket ships than Space Mountain does. That all comes after the fact.
Well I haven't been to Cedar Point (or any Cedar Fair park) since '04 so that probably explains it.
As an aside, something distrubing that proved to be a consistent trend on my three week trip was that *every* Cedar Fair park I visited was *not as well run* as *every* Six Flags park I've visited. CF as a company has gone WAY down hill on quality, while SF, as much as it pains me to admit, has improved leaps and bounds. The fact that you haven't visited a CF park since 2004 isn't so much a bad thing these days!
That's what I like to hear. I've been saying that all along. Why rush it? There's no clear reason.
Again, have you LOOKED AT some onf the other forums out there? Holy cow. :bang::bang::bang: