CrashCoaster
CF Legend
I'd love to see what everyone's reaction would be if Maurer were spotted on site welding a rack and pinion system to the track on the top hat.
Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024
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Lori Marie Loud
Giga Poster
The top hat exists. That's literally all the track that remains.
My theory is that they'll remove everything except for the track related to the top hat. If they're re-imagining it then that's how I see it.
TPoseOnTantrum
Giga Poster
Track being stored off site;
Forgive me if already shared, but one of the cleaner videos I've found to render what a swing-launch TTD could look like:
One thing in here that I hadn't really thought of is the length of hypothetical back-spike needed - in many ways, it could need a lot of footprint overlapping with poor Iron Dragon, which has continuously lost footprint through the years to other coasters.
One thing in here that I hadn't really thought of is the length of hypothetical back-spike needed - in many ways, it could need a lot of footprint overlapping with poor Iron Dragon, which has continuously lost footprint through the years to other coasters.
AidanCKY
Mega Poster
It's cool, but the bit where there's launch fins going up a twisted bit of track is impossible.
Was at the park over the weekend. To confirm, all track save the top hat is now gone, with other general demolition of supports and walk way also visible.
As @Indy is alluding to, wouldn’t be surprised if we are to see a full scale deconstruction of everything as part of the “reimagining”.
Wazzupnerds
Mega Poster
I'm still thinking this thing is demo'ed at this point. Rumors of Intamin not being involved, everything is getting cleared, I think they are just going to wait and remove the top hat in 2023 and use the land for something new.
Surely they'd be less meticulous with the deconstruction thus far if they were demo'ing the whole thing? Track pieces are being loaded into shipping containers at the laydown yard off-site as well. Why take such good care of scrap metal?
Gonna chop it up for the gift shop?
MLDesigns
Hyper Poster
This is what I'm stuck on. The park isn't loading all that brake, station, and launch track into Hapag-Lloyd shipping containers to scrap it. I see that track being sent back to Stakotra (the track manufacturer in Slovakia), being refurbished & retrofitted with LSMs. The clearing of the station platform could be explained by accommodation for new trains & air gates.
I'm just not sold on this ride entirely going away just yet, but I also don't have a guess of what "as you know it" means.
Indy
Hyper Poster
I'm also not sold on this ride entirely going away.
I am sold on this though. TTD track slice paper weights priced at $200.30.
Matt N
CF Legend
I wonder; is it a possibility that the park might even be undecided on what exactly they want to do with TTD?
Any TTD Mk2 would surely have not been in the planning stages very long at all (I’m assuming that they didn’t jump into planning as soon as the accident happened, which would have left them less than a year for conceive a plan assuming they knew exactly what they were doing when they announced its closure), so I reckon the park could know that TTD can't return in its current form, but are unsure on exactly what form they want its replacement to take (hence the careful handling of the existing track).
Any TTD Mk2 would surely have not been in the planning stages very long at all (I’m assuming that they didn’t jump into planning as soon as the accident happened, which would have left them less than a year for conceive a plan assuming they knew exactly what they were doing when they announced its closure), so I reckon the park could know that TTD can't return in its current form, but are unsure on exactly what form they want its replacement to take (hence the careful handling of the existing track).
Crazycoaster
Giga Poster
No, that’s not really a possibility.
While they may not have been “planning” the new version since the accident, you can guarantee that they were having crisis meetings to decide what exactly to do, and from that the plan going forward would have been blue skyed.
They have a plan for the ride, and I’d imagine that the first part of setting the plan in motion was the closure announcement. If they did not have a fully fledged plan, they would not be paying money to remove the track yet. It’s a huge cost to remove track and not one the park would undertake on a whim.
While they may not have been “planning” the new version since the accident, you can guarantee that they were having crisis meetings to decide what exactly to do, and from that the plan going forward would have been blue skyed.
They have a plan for the ride, and I’d imagine that the first part of setting the plan in motion was the closure announcement. If they did not have a fully fledged plan, they would not be paying money to remove the track yet. It’s a huge cost to remove track and not one the park would undertake on a whim.
Wazzupnerds
Mega Poster
uhh they have a brand new wild mouse they are building....
Hate to be one to piss on the parade but yeah no