From: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: New-4-93, 1994 & 1995
Reply-To: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:31:27 GMT

Below is a compilation of the NEW-4-93 Coaster Contracts/Rumors
(compiled as of 21-JUL-92):
    
    * Six Flags Great Adventure is heavily rumored to be installing a B&M 
      Suspended Looper in 1993, similar to the BATMAN ride put in at
      SFGAm in 1992.  SFGAd is yanking it's Lightning Loops dual-shuttle
      loop attraction at the end of 1992 to make room for "a new
      attraction".
     
    * King's Island will be getting an Arrow Suspended coaster, to be called 
      Son of Bat (SOB).  Look for the attraction to be situated over the 
      park's lake.
    
    * Dorney Park will be installing a suspended coaster in 1993.  The park
      is looking towards a contract with Arrow Dynamics and Bollinger and
      Mabillard (rumor says they're leaning towards the latter of the two
      steel coaster firms).  The park will be getting a brand new train and 
      and an Intamin River Rapids ride in 1993.
    
    * Kennywood will be installing a Vekoma Wild Mouse ride in 1993, as
      well as the Traver CIRCLE SWING ride, which they have purchased from
      Dorney Park.
    
    * Kentucky Kingdom will install a Vekoma Roller Skater kiddie steelie.
    
    * Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO will be getting a heavily themed
      Arrow Mine Train.
    
    * The MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park in Las Vegas, NV will install a 
      heavily themed indoor coaster...designer yet to be decided.
    
    * Arrow Dynamics will be completing a suspended coaster for Tokyo
      Summerland and also one for Yong-in Farmland, and a custom looping
      coaster for Yang-San, Korea.

    * Strickler's Grove in Hamilton, OH, will be debuting a Junior wooden
      coaster in 1993.  The ride will be similar in design and layout to
      the Schmeck/PTC junior  woodies of the 50s (although this one will
      be slightly taller, coming in around 55' tall).

    * Aero Park America near Tuscon, AZ, will install a 3,500' long wooden
      coaster AND a 2,500' long non-looping steel coaster.  Designers for
      both have yet to be decided, but the latter sounds like the 
      Schwarzkopf "Muncher Bahn" coaster!
    
    * Bolliger and Mabillard are slated to install *at least* two new steel 
      coasters in the USA.  One, for sure, is an Inverted Looper -- rumored
      to be installed at KECO's Great America in Santa Clara, CA.  The other 
      is a Stand-Up coaster...no location announced as of yet, but rumors
      are circulating it's slated for one of the Six Flags parks.
    
    * The Pier at Santa Monica will add a roller coaster in 1993. 
      Originally announced as a wooden out-and-back style coaster, the
      town expressed concerns over noise, and thus the project has switched
      to a steel coaster instead.  No news on what company or design will
      go into the new park, but from the artists sketch, it looked to be 
      an Arrow Multi-Element-style coaster.
    
    * World's of Fun *was* to install a new giant woodie, contracted
      through Curtis D. Summers Inc.  With the passing of CDS from this 
      world, WoF is not sure if they will be able to put the coaster in
      under a different contracter or not.  This was the sole reason WoF
      was to host the 1993 ACE Convention!!  Stay tuned...
    
    * Cedar Point IS NOT getting a new ROLLER COASTER for 1993!!!  Look for a
      5 million dollar water attraction at CP next year!
    
    * "Some" (how many?) RCCA/TOGO wooden coasters are slated for installation 
      in Japan in 1993.  No concepts of design  or location have been 
      announced.


...and the New-4-94 'new coaster' info (compiled as of 21-JUL-92) is
looking like this:
            
    * Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the UK to built a 235' tall steel coaster
      by Arrow Dynamics.  Will look much like the Magnum XL-200, but with a
      230' drop at 65 degrees, and a top speed of 85mph (This is confirmed!).
    
    * Mega-Steelie going in at Fiesta Texas; San Antonio, TX  (to be built
      cliff-side, and rumored to be around 250' tall!).  Contract looks
      like it will be going to TOGO.  Speed and superelevation stats not
      yet speculated.
    
    * Mega-Steelie going in at Kentucky Kingdom; Louisville, KY.  Rumored 
      at this stage of the game to be around 180' tall, with multi-looping
      elements (possibly 6 or 7).
    
    * COMET wooden coaster (1946 NAD) at Lincoln Park; N. Dartmouth, MA,
      to re-open after a 1993 re-build.
    
    * Leap The Dips at Altoona, PA should be re-built and running again
      (hopefully!).                                             
                                                                
    * Hopefully the COMET (ex-Crystal Beach) will be up and running at
      either Great Escape or Fantasy Island in Upstate NY.


and for 1995, so far we have:


    * Dorney Park installing a large, non-looping steelie.
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