chknwing wrote:sorry guys I dont think Cedar Fair is gonna build a world record setting coaster at carowinds and then do something to tip their hand 2 months in advance. I am 99% sure Fury 325 is not the name.
CF's hand has been tipped several times on this project but it was out of their control because the world is too digitally connected. First there was the city council meeting, if you ask for public money, you can't keep everything secret. Then there were the site plans for the area surrounding the entry plaza, again very public information. They probably should have blotted out the coaster info if that was even possible. Then there was the leak from B&M in Germany, again that was out of CF's hands. Honestly on the name thing, we have no idea. In that case we can only hope.
But here is something that kind of supports the 325 number. I have only mentioned this to one person before and that was to Wormy in an email almost a year ago with the council information leak. The first year Intimidator opened, I was in line with a guy and we started a conversation. He was very knowledgeable about the industry, coasters and Cedar Fair. As we were talking about how great the ride is, he warned me that Intimidator was only the beginning. He told me CF was making Carowinds it's east coast destination park and that they had plans to build the tallest coaster in the world here. Of course I immediately dismissed him and thought he was crazy and was making up stuff just to have a conversation. What he said went against all logic in my mind. We had just gotten Intimidator, which I considered to be the best Carowinds would ever get in my lifetime. Also when you factor in 305 was done at the same time, I figure CF still considered Dominion worthy of the taller coaster. Then there was the MF factor which appeared CF was not willing to challenge. Later, Leviathan did not help matters when it was kept under MF's height.
I did not think any more about my conversation with this guy until last year's city council meeting leak. Even then I was like, 'nah the guy I talked to was probably a crack head, it's not possible.' Not until that 325 number came out last did I do a double take and said 'No, it cant be, a guy told me the park's future plans over 4 years'. What he told me was so crazy at the time I never thought to repeat it in a forum. I was not going to mention this conversation until the park released the actual height, and only if it broke a world record. But since I have now gone public, it will be very interesting for me to see if the strange guy in the Intimidator line was correct. And if so, was he just a lucky speculator or did he actually have some inside information?
