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Postby JackGlass on January 28th, 2025, 6:52 pm
Cedar Fair will probably invest a lot of money into the park. I'm guessing over the next several years we will see a large infrastructure investment, fixing the kids areas, a flat ride package, a giga coaster and a complete refurbishment of the American Eagle

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Postby GreatAmericanfox on January 28th, 2025, 8:24 pm
JackGlass wrote:That's why Great America got X-Flight, Goliath, Joker, Maxx Force and now Wrath. The park is a cash cow.

Cedar Fair will probably invest a lot of money into the park. I'm guessing over the next several years we will see a large infrastructure investment, fixing the kids areas, a flat ride package, a giga coaster and a complete refurbishment of the American Eagle


I still think the giga is a fantasy, but we do need better flats tbh
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on January 28th, 2025, 8:25 pm
I hope all of those things happen along with the front entrance being fully done. Pavers & all. But I'm most excited for the giga down the road. I just don't see how it wouldn't be an obvious choice for the next major coaster.
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Postby JackGlass on January 29th, 2025, 12:03 am
CoastsToCoasters wrote:I hope all of those things happen along with the front entrance being fully done. Pavers & all. But I'm most excited for the giga down the road. I just don't see how it wouldn't be an obvious choice for the next major coaster.


I would love it if they eventually replaced all the asphalt in the park with pavers. It would look so much better.

Agreed 100% A Giga would be a smash hit at Great America. They would need to build a new storage building behind the employee parking lot in the wooded area next to the neighborhood and demolish the existing storage building in order to open up the space needed. But that's peanuts for Cedar Fair.

I did a photoshop of Orion in the back stage area just to show how easy it is to fit a giga.

I also wouldn't mind one of those 400 foot Mack tower spinners to run alongside the American Eagle. I did a photoshop of what it would look like from the highway.
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Postby GreatAmericanfox on January 29th, 2025, 12:26 am
JackGlass wrote:
CoastsToCoasters wrote:I hope all of those things happen along with the front entrance being fully done. Pavers & all. But I'm most excited for the giga down the road. I just don't see how it wouldn't be an obvious choice for the next major coaster.


I would love it if they eventually replaced all the asphalt in the park with pavers. It would look so much better.

Agreed 100% A Giga would be a smash hit at Great America. They would need to build a new storage building behind the employee parking lot in the wooded area next to the neighborhood and demolish the existing storage building in order to open up the space needed. But that's peanuts for Cedar Fair.

I did a photoshop of Orion in the back stage area just to show how easy it is to fit a giga.

I also wouldn't mind one of those 400 foot Mack tower spinners to run alongside the American Eagle. I did a photoshop of what it would look like from the highway.


I see the "down the road" option (whatever that is) being more realistic than the image above for the giga, if they didn't want to clone Dr Diabolical then forget the Giga, unless they make it twisty and cramped like WOR, but at that point it's just "Raging Bull but BEEG"
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Postby JackGlass on January 29th, 2025, 12:37 am
Oh yeah, it would definitely need to be a custom layout. I just used Orion as an example. of how Great America can construct a giga (and a strata) without removing other rides

I also would like to see a giant Sky Screamer replace this building behind the game's gallery
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Postby Goku1910 on January 29th, 2025, 12:42 am
Although that building could be relocated, I kinda doubt it would. It's position in the park is extremely convenient. That's the games warehouse so prizes are restocked from there daily during summer ops.

The Sky Screamer trend is kind of dead but I think Fling/trudy's would be a more likely location. Gives the park the perfect excuse to widen that midway.

With Rakshasa, both sides of Country Fair have this weird choke point where the midway is a bit narrow.
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Postby HCF on January 29th, 2025, 2:33 pm
Jackglass, is there anywhere were El Toro could fit in the park? I assume no without several ride removals, can you show us if it replaced demon? I once read on some forums that it could fit in the plot of Demon and the former Splashwater falls
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Postby coasterfanatic on January 29th, 2025, 3:01 pm
HCF wrote:Jackglass, is there anywhere were El Toro could fit in the park? I assume no without several ride removals, can you show us if it replaced demon? I once read on some forums that it could fit in the plot of Demon and the former Splashwater falls
The former Splashwater Falls plot is occupied by X Flight, which is not going anywhere.


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Postby GreatAmericanfox on January 29th, 2025, 5:38 pm
Even then why build a El Toro clone
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Postby Blue_Toad_Coasters on January 29th, 2025, 6:16 pm
GreatAmericanfox wrote:Even then why build a El Toro clone


Sure, it's more likely than not that an El Toro clone isn't built at SFGAm, that thing has received buckets of high praise. Bringing that here would be a dream, even better than Viper. When a guy's named his channel after a coaster, you know it's a d*** good coaster. Need I even explain more?
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Postby Coaster Justin on January 29th, 2025, 10:56 pm
Jack to push my own agenda, Could you see if an Intamin 10 Looping Coaster could fit in Demon's Spot?

https://www.bing.com/maps?v=2&cp=39.941 ... &encType=1


Replace a Looper with a Looper I say. Plus Lap Bars are great
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Postby Coaster Justin on January 29th, 2025, 11:35 pm
Blue_Toad_Coasters wrote:
GreatAmericanfox wrote:Even then why build a El Toro clone


Sure, it's more likely than not that an El Toro clone isn't built at SFGAm, that thing has received buckets of high praise. Bringing that here would be a dream, even better than Viper. When a guy's named his channel after a coaster, you know it's a d*** good coaster. Need I even explain more?



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