This is my first post here, but as a web developer, I wanted to comment on the issue with the website.
I feel pretty certain that is a real website, and it was found before it was supposed to be found-likely from someone just typing in URLs. What you are seeing there is a default placeholder page (obviously on a Windows based server); the actual site-which is more than likely already done and undergoing testing on a development server until the 26th-is not even there. (I would hope that Cedar Fair would hire a company who uses development servers, unlike the one I work for at my day job, who considers a development box an "unnecessary expense"
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I feel sure the site itself-animations, graphics, interactive elements is done-but after what happened with Behemoth's site, I also feel sure that they are taking whatever steps are necessary to prevent the site from getting out before it is supposed to. If they did set up that domain as a hoax (easy enough to do but I very seriously doubt that is what happened, it seems like they are trying to leak the name) it's a good one.
As far as seeing other rides on the Carowinds pages-rides from other parks-that's just a Content Management System working as it should. They likely have page templates for each ride, which are the same or very close for every park in the chain and utilize tokens/variables to pull information from the database based upon a query and put in in the correct field in the template; you could likely make any ride at any of the former Paramount Parks appear in the ride listings for any of them as these all seem to run off the exact same template. What could have happened is that the query to pull the data for those pages did not limit it by park, but without diving into the back end I wouldn't know (and might still not, as 1) I'm not too savvy with ColdFusion, and 2) I'm far more experienced with xhtml/css than dynamic code. [End geeky computer stuff]
Back on topic-this site does a great job of covering the construction, which is why I joined. I feel certain you guys are getting a nice B&M Hyper (even if it appears not to have the water splash-from the footers, it does not appear so) and while I don't know how "record breaking" applies, I do think "history making" will signify the largest investment and biggest ride in Carowinds' history. I plan on heading out there to see when it opens up!
