Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Just Messing Around... Or Something More?


So Great Coasters International has posted the above image on both the Interns site and their Facebook... both times with no explanation of any kind. Now, are they just having fun with all of us or could they be showing the work going on for a real ride, perhaps a big one for the 2011 season?

There's one park that's currently being rumored to receive a shiny new GCI that year, so I guess it's possible. What do you guys think?

If it is for a real park, well, that's some intense terrain they're working with!


7 comments:

BnM Lover said...

Which park is the rumored park?

Crystal said...

That is certainly some intense terrain! This image has had me pondering for quite some time...

Ryan said...

SFFT? Lake Compounce? Kennywood? Silver Dollar City? King's Island? Some new park? Somewhere overseas?

I don't know. It also reminds me of the Knoebel's mountain where the chairlift is. I heard there may be a Boulder Dash-like coaster going in there someday (though I would think it'd be internally designed... and they have their hands full already).

We can rule out a bunch of parks for being too flat (most Cedar Fair parks, most of the Six Flags parks). I would also venture a guess that a park with this topography wouldn't already have a GCI, so Dollywood and Hersheypark are out. The thing that concerns me is the cutout in the middle, which looks like it could be an existing building, or maybe it's there for the layout?

NewsPlusNotes said...

Silver Dollar City keeps coming up in reference to what park might get a new GCI... but I honestly do not claim to have any inside info!

Unknown said...

Muahahaha.

The next in series is now on Facebook!

Unknown said...

Maybe a replacement project for the Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It looks similar to the terrain at that park.

Unknown said...

^Can/will you confirm that this is a real project Evan? Or maybe you already did, I didn't see. It'd also be cool to know when this will be built, if you can give out such information at this point.

It does look similar to part of SDC's terrain, minus the weird wedge... The same could be said of a lot of parks though, so I'm not going to get my hopes up.

In any case, this is shaping up to be one of GCII's best coasters. Even though there's not much to look at yet, there's so much space between the lift and the turn on the far right, and so much good terrain. After Prowler, this can only be ten times as good.