[Carowindsman]

They are installing track today thats why the camera is off.

Just kidding I dont know

[carowinds.captured]

This will be my first ever media event at the park, could not be any more excited and cannot wait to finally meet some of you guys!

so glad your coming!!!!

[carowindsman6654]

Surprised how dead this thread and forum are one day before the largest announcement in Carowinds history. It was a lot more busier when Fury 325 was announced if I recall correctly. Times change I guess.

[bradbeane88]

Surprised how dead this thread and forum are one day before the largest announcement in Carowinds history. It was a lot more busier when Fury 325 was announced if I recall correctly. Times change I guess.

I was thinking the same thing. I am super excited for tomorrow and keep looking to see if there is any new information but nothing. Tomorrow can't get here fast enough!

[Carowindsman]

Its normal, We all have pretty much said what we wanted to say about it now its just a waiting game to see what we have right and what we had wrong.

[Jfranchi82]

I’ll add my 2 cents since it’s too quiet. Really holding out hope over here that this thing has some crazy stats. Hope its speed is in “F” and not “C”. Will it make it a bad ride if it only goes 50ish? Of course not - but I think this park needs more “thrill” rides that really get your heart racing. They’ve made good progress with Intimidator and Fury.. just hope it keeps going in that direction, but getting more and more extreme.

[Jfranchi82]

Maybe everyone can comment on what they think the 530 is since that seems to be the head scratcher.

[aoriole19]

No idea but I think it is 530 and not 53.0

[dirkdiggler1992]

Surprised how dead this thread and forum are one day before the largest announcement in Carowinds history. It was a lot more busier when Fury 325 was announced if I recall correctly. Times change I guess.

Yeah old school forums just aren’t the first means of communication with stuff like this anymore. Go look at how much Project Alpha got covered on TPR vs Reddit or Instagram, huge difference. Unfortunately logging in and reading require more effort than many want to put forth, it’s all pictures and videos now, easy to digest stuff.

Also just about everything got leaked, we know the make, type, layout, and pretty much the name too. All we have left are the graphics, POV animation, and confirmation on the name and spinner or standard.

I wouldn’t read too much into the biggest announcement stuff. A couple recent CF parks have used the same phrasing when their announcements were questionably the “biggest”. With that said a $20M coaster and hotel may end up close or exceed 2015 in cost, who knows.

[bradbeane88]

No idea but I think it is 530 and not 53.0

I agree if it was meant to be 53.0 they would have included the "." It has got to be 530. I would love it to be height but as stated before it is very unlikely...

[psychoticbiotic]

...I wouldn’t read too much into the biggest announcement stuff. A couple recent CF parks have used the same phrasing when their announcements were questionably the “biggest”. With that said a $20M coaster and hotel may end up close or exceed 2015 in cost, who knows.

I would have to say I agree with this. This company is responsible for the construction of Fury and the expansion of the water park, but they're also the comany that overhyped PvZ and classified a Daughtry concert as a "world class" event.

A.

Daughtry.

Concert.

Assuming that the big announcement is the hotel + the coaster, my concern is that the general public very well may not see it this way. For example, my sister isn't as into coasters as myself, but she has ridden Fury and LOVES it. When I showed her the page making the 'biggest announcement' claim, her immediate response was "Bigger than Fury?? In short, I'll repeat my concern that I hope they know what they're doing.

In general, I'm certainly appreciative of the massive amounts of TLC the park's been receiving in the past few years, but I think we'd do well to remain cautiously optimistic about this.

[dirkdiggler1992]

Yeah but Canada’s Wonderland just announced Yukon Striker, a coaster smaller in scale than Leviathan (cost may be debatable due to inflation?) as their biggest announcement in history.

I’m willing to bet 530 is 53 mph and will eat one of those gross Chickie’s and Pete’s sandwiches if I’m wrong. 53 mph is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s gonna be a compact coaster so it’ll seem even faster.

[Jfranchi82]

...I wouldn’t read too much into the biggest announcement stuff. A couple recent CF parks have used the same phrasing when their announcements were questionably the “biggest”. With that said a $20M coaster and hotel may end up close or exceed 2015 in cost, who knows.

I would have to say I agree with this. This company is responsible for the construction of Fury and the expansion of the water park, but they're also the comany that overhyped PvZ and classified a Daughtry concert as a "world class" event.

A.

Daughtry.

Concert.

Assuming that the big announcement is the hotel + the coaster, my concern is that the general public very well may not see it this way. For example, my sister isn't as into coasters as myself, but she has ridden Fury and LOVES it. When I showed her the page making the 'biggest announcement' claim, her immediate response was "Bigger than Fury?? In short, I'll repeat my concern that I hope they know what they're doing.

In general, I'm certainly appreciative of the massive amounts of TLC the park's been receiving in the past few years, but I think we'd do well to remain cautiously optimistic about this.

I think we can weed out the hotel announcement being coupled with the ride announcement..

https://www.carowinds.com/blog/2018/new-carowinds-hotel

I def. agree that I hope they know what they’re doing. I’m one of the ones that will be crushed if is not some epic ride. I read somewhere that they may be doing a sports complex? Hopefully that’s not part of it...

[saxrokinhomo]

I highly doubt the hotel is included being that it is already listed on the park website under places to stay.

[Jrlooney88]

I still don't think this is going to include the hotel announcement, for starters, the Hotel has already been announced (in Feb.) and is currently on their website as "New Hotel announced for Carowinds" (https://www.carowinds.com/blog/2018/new-carowinds-hotel). To follow that up, on Aug. 9th (a couple days after they revealed this to be the "Biggest Announcement"), they posted on twitter "IYMI: We're building a brand new hotel adjacent to the park" (https://twitter.com/Carowinds/status/10 ... 4277754880).

I'm sure there is fluff in this "biggest announcement", but I don't think the PR and Marketing team is going to announce something, re-iterate the same announcement months later, and then re-re-announce it as part of the "biggest announcement".