[arby]

I finally got around to writing up something on my travel blog about yesterday's announcement.

http://www.tarheelcamper.com/2014/08/carowinds-announces-the-tallest-and-fastest-giga-coaster/

EDIT: I also added my pictures to the Carowinds Connection Flickr group.

[Wormy]

For those who missed the announcement, or was not there at the announcement, I have placed the entire announcement ceremony on Youtube..... at....

Just a little bump to get your video into this thread as well.

http://youtu.be/BQ_FWSoLFWQ

Also worth a listen is WRHI’s Straight Talk podcast featuring some familiar voices - John Taylor, Chip Sieczko (ACE), and as always Uncle Jerry.


http://www.wrhi.com/2014/08/straight-ta ... ride-96209

Just now catching up to reading all that went on here yesterday, including some very clever and funny spamming (while it was allowed) to get the old thread up to 325 pages.

[Tawny71]

Love the photos and the blog posts! You guys got some great shots!

Arby...I especially love your new tree-hugging profile pic!

[arby]

Arby...I especially love your new tree-hugging profile pic!

We all should do that for a week or two - just for the fun of it.

[TheCoasterMan1]

Since there are no wallpapers on the site I uploaded some photos from the USB I received from the media event on the CC Flickr group. Link below:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1220516@N22/?added=4

Edit: I just came to the conclusion that when FURY 325 opens Carowinds will hold the record for the park with most CUSTOM B&M coaster in the world. The park with the most B&M coasters is SFG Adventure with 5 but 3 out of the 5 are clones and 1 is relocated.

[Tawny71]

Arby...I especially love your new tree-hugging profile pic!

We all should do that for a week or two - just for the fun of it.

But some people hate trees. I guess those people could take a photo of themselves axe-murdering one.

[IsaacMcCalla]

Since there are no wallpapers on the site I uploaded some photos from the USB I received from the media event on the CC Flickr group. Link below:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1220516@N22/?added=4

Edit: I just came to the conclusion that when FURY 325 opens Carowinds will hold the record for the most CUSTOM B&M coaster in the world. The park with the most B&M coasters is SFG Adventure with 5 but 3 out of the 5 are clones and 1 is relocated.

Well that adds another record! B&M coasters are some of the best so carowinds is lucky enough to have all of those b&m's!

[Bigcoasterguy]

Not sure how to add videos so I'll post the link: http://youtu.be/BQ_FWSoLFWQ this is the carowinds ALS ice bucket challenge, fury 325 edition.

[PalmTree55]

Not sure how to add videos so I'll post the link: http://youtu.be/BQ_FWSoLFWQ this is the carowinds ALS ice bucket challenge, fury 325 edition.

That is a link to the Announcement, here is the link to the Carowinds Ice Bucket Challenge: Fury 325 Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrCsK8nrMZA

[Trev32]

It doesn't appear that there are any old school members such as myself still active on the site. Maybe i just didn't skim through posts hard enough, haha. Anyway, I just learned the news of the new ride yesterday, and wanted to pop in here real quick to say I cannot believe they're finally building it. The giga under the bridge we've all joked about for over a decade. I couldn't stop laughing at work last night when i found out, and it brought back a lot of memories of this site from 2003-2006.

Hope to see everyone at the park riding this next year.

Unrelated, but I can't believe it's been 11 years since I joined this site.

P.S. Please correct me if this isn't the same type of ride we all used to joke about haha I'm just pretty sure this is it

[RollerBee]

So who thinks track will go vertical next week?

[Bigcoasterguy]

Not sure how to add videos so I'll post the link: http://youtu.be/BQ_FWSoLFWQ this is the carowinds ALS ice bucket challenge, fury 325 edition.

That is a link to the Announcement, here is the link to the Carowinds Ice Bucket Challenge: Fury 325 Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrCsK8nrMZA

Lol opps, my bad

[Jonathan]

It doesn't appear that there are any old school members such as myself still active on the site.

12 of the original 2003 members have been active in the last couple of days.

[PalmTree55]

It doesn't appear that there are any old school members such as myself still active on the site.

12 of the original 2003 members have been active in the last couple of days.

Original as in signed up on the first day? Month? Year?

[RollerBee]

I am one of early members, signed up in 2003.