Theme Park Discussion / SF: Great America getting a new coaster?

http://www.gurnee.il...ndas/08-21-2013


Let's speculate

Biggest Loop In the World: The Ride

Haha yea, everyone seems to be thinking it'll be a premier. Fantastic choice, as I love Premiers.

As this is my home park, I'm obviously very interested in the project. Of course it seems almost obvious that we'll be seeing a Full Throttle 2.0. I'm still hoping for some sort of airtime machine (A guy can dream right?). Ehh, whatever it is I'll be excited, heck I was originally really hoping for a new, cool flat. Now my only goal is to get on the inaugural ride crew.

Yeah I've been totally stumped as to wtf it will be. I guess Premier is just an educated guess as there isn't much else around that they can have.

When we visited it, they said they were planning something new for next year. Didn't expect it to be a coaster!

If it ends up being a premier, I see it being something more like an extra large superman than any variation on FT. Maybe something with a bit more track and a dual station or along those lines? Not to mention that GAM is a very busy location so capacity really needs to be high. Unless SF wants a people eater where the lines are what eats you.

FT was a very specific coaster for it's location. And Iron Wolfs spot is not to big.

Iron wolf was larger than that.

There have been talks of relocating the go karts, so maybe it will cross the paths and do some stuff there. Whatever it is, I hope it's cool.

Newest rumor from Daily Herald newspaper is 165ft. woodie, breaking the fastest speed record. I would post the link to the article but they may have taken it down because I can't get to it.

Yeah, I was leaning more towards Woodie than Premier.

FT is very specific to it's location, Superman style would waste a lot of space.

If it's gonna be Premier, i'd say we can expect something totally different and possibly more along the lines of Mr Freeze style.

Newest rumor from Daily Herald newspaper is 165ft. woodie, breaking the fastest speed record. I would post the link to the article but they may have taken it down because I can't get to it.

Very interesting! El Toro is currently the fastest woodie @ 70 mph, but is a good 15 feet taller. If this DH is true, we could have something spectacular on our hands.

The only way it would make sense to break the speed record is if it were launched or went underground. I think the latter would make more sense, regarding the teasers.

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The only way it would make sense to break the speed record is if it were launched or went underground. I think the latter would make more sense, regarding the teasers.

A launched woodie... damn. I like that idea.

cool teasers, even if they are cheesy

Gonna be wooden:

http://www.dailyhera...news/708219839/

According to the source (pretty accurate if you ask me) it will be 'the world's fastest wooden rollercoaster'. It will also be 'pulled by a chain' (lift hill) and run on 'polyurethane wheels'.

Now the only wooden coaster I know of that runs on polyurethane wheels (to make it quieter) is Wodan. I'm not saying this will be a GCI (seeing as most people think it will be RMC) but it will be interesting to see what company it will be, particularly going by the layout and height map:

Saw that blue print. If real, the coaster looks like it will have a Dive Loop.