[pproteinc]

I'd like for it to be either a lime green or a red/magenta similar to Banshee.

Well considering Ricochet is a variation of Lime green, I'd say no because it's to close to Vortex and there's enough lime greens and teals going on in that section leading to Fury even the store on the corner have green LED lighting. I'll agree with magenta, purples, browns, white, greens outside of Lime green more darker greens and please no gray/grey or white supports.

[Jarsh]

I'm drawing a blank here and can't remember... Was anything in the spot where Super Saturator was prior to its installation? Part of me is thinking it was the water cannon/tank tag thing but I don't remember it being in that spot.

[RollerBee]

Yes, Blackbeard's Revenge. Blackbeard was removed after the 1999 season for Saturator.

[uscbandfan]

Those swinging boats were there. Kind of like the yo-yo but sitting in boats. Can't remember the name of them now. Loved to ride them.

EDIT: The Flying Dutchman

http://www.carowindsearlyyears.com/dutchman.html

[Jonathan]

The most recent thing immediately prior to Super Saturator was Boat Tag, which was removed for construction of the coaster. It was purchased by Knoebels and operated there until last year when Impulse opened in its place.

EDIT: This is not correct.

[RollerBee]

^I thought Boat Tag was removed after 96. Blackbeard stayed until near the end of 99.

[cwgator]

I'm pretty sure I did Blackbeard's Revenge in '99 when Top Gun Opened before it was removed that year. I think the Boat Tag was also gone before that as well.

[Jonathan]

Looks like you guys are right, Boat Tag was already gone before 1999 but Blackbeard's Revenge was still there.

[swampfox43]

Boat Tag was between 1993-96.

[aoriole19]

I think this will be the first year since 2008 that I won't go to Carowinds.

Lol, I was wrong, I went on Sunday. Notes:

-It was really empty, most things were walk-ons. Maybe the water park was crowded, I didn't go (I had a sunburn from Wilmington the day before so I didn't want to wear a swimsuit out in the sun again..) The new slides looked really nice from the outside (:

-Plants vs. zombies was really cool!! My mom beat me though.

-On Vortex, my seat was a lot harder to adjust than I remember! I had to put a lot of force to make it go down. I'm not super light either, probably average weight for a female, and I don't remember having any difficulty at all except when I was 12 lol. Anyway, after I got it adjusted and it was locked, I was just standing waiting for it to be checked and they unlocked them! It hurt really bad!! I didn't hear them give any warning at all. Never have I been so glad that I am not a man.

-I'm actually pretty thankful for our ride lineup. I have been to 3 other parks this summer, and I hadn't been on a giga coaster, a flying coaster, a stand up coaster, a wild mouse (Would Pandemonium- a Gerstlauer spinning coaster- be a wild mouse technically? I think of it as a different category) or a drop tower until Carowinds. I really love drop towers. Wow

[arby]

I did a little more digging on the Polaris site. Below is a yellow line that I had hoped (dreamed, ASSumed??) would be a road. After looking more closely, I also see the construction clearing continues to the lines in red.

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So I started following the clearing/environmental black protection barrier to the east:

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Where it ends to the east, there is a crew installing underground pipe.

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Where the construction ends to the west, there is also work going on. I have no idea what is going on in the area in red (nothing Carowinds related, just curious) but the area in green belongs to Charlotte Meck utilities.

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It seems very doubtful that the clearing has anything at all to do with Carowinds, other than to possibly be bringing them more/upgraded utilities. So no road rerouting from what I can tell. That's what you get when you start ASSuming things.

[FamousAmos]

That's why I'm thinking that the state just got the construction rights to build this.

[jeffdavis]

It's safe to say we discovered a utility right-of-way where an upgraded sewer line (possibly water line) will soon be added.

[SuperWeenieHutJr]

I would venture that this is a utility easement. Specifically Duke Energy, since the park has been having electrical issues earlier in the season.

[MarkD]

That's Awesome Arby!!! Thank you. I didn't see any kind of "road" relocating which is why I was so confused.

I didn't think about following the trail, although I did see it continue on the other side of Carowinds Blvd.