Economical Wishes for Future Projects

I'd love to see Thunderbolt get some paint this year, but how cool would it be to retrack it the way Texas Giant is getting redone? Add a nice coat of paint, some metal track and new trains. Run two trains, some seats backwards, add some airtime... Make the old girl into a modern ride LOL....

Oops that was just a daydream. While Im dreaming- how about retrack and smooth out Cyclone, add some more airtime? :LOL:

How about adding an indoor haunted house somewhere with seated cars? Like where Looney Toons is currently. Scrap those junk rides. Retheme the Wiggles to Looney Toons, and build a haunted house- along the same idea as the mine ride at Canobie? Some fog machines, nice theming....

-Or remove Shipwreck and turn it back into a boat ride, build a new covered building to navigate thru- add fog, strobes, phneumatic figures etc....

Okay - maybe not so economical I guess but its a wish project

Cyclone would be a great coaster to get the Texas Giant rennovation. With some re-profiling, this coaster could become amazing again!

Cyclone would need a major overhaul before steel track could be practical and I doubt you will ever see it happen. Also it can't help it all that much. and definitely not worth nearly 10 million they would be better off getting GCI to build a new coaster.

I would love a dark ride. question is will the new Management fight with the city to add such an attraction . price is not all that high a few million at most unless they get a complicated ride system or go hog wild with the animatronics.

How is cyclone not worth the 10 million dollar overhaul? If it happened to TG then there's no reason why it couldn't happen to Cyclone. They could bring back the old first drop or make it even steeper. Cyclone is one of the main attractions at the park. Just because not a lot of people like it doesn't mean its not a star attraction. Remember when they were vamping Superman into Bizzaro? The commercials around here all showed Cyclone as being the main coaster at the park with Batman and Mind Eraser as the back ups. The park can greatly benefit from redoing Cyclone and honestly its only a mater of time in my mind until they do it.

Why do you say that it wouldnt help all that much and where did you come up with the 10 million dollar figure for a smaller coaster than TG?

screaminkid2005 - A 10 million overhaul on any coaster is a loosing investment. It isn't going to pull in a large boost in attendance. So the investment won't ever pay itself off. Yes they could bring back the first drop. the first drop was removed to accommodated the PTC trains not because it was a bad drop. Gravity Group trains and GCI trains would both operate the coaster as is with the original drop returned. So it could be done with new trains and 1.5 -2 million retracking.

Mr Scary - Tx Giant in 7 years newer and better supported the Cyclone. They would have to add further supports. Also Cyclone is much more compact requiring more work and possible sections to be removed to get track into the center of the coaster All that extra work will off set the 1,300 foot deference in track.

^ G' Damn you know a lot of stuff

I can tell you no one in NE at this point is looking to get a Unicoaster but Chance has three contracted for 2012!

But on topic. I am a dark ride fan. I like to have a mix of rides. I like having some dinner and hit a couple slow rides before getting back to the big ones.

Another down fall with any costly rehab is that is money not going to to other attractions. Just think if they got new trains, re-tracked cyclone restored the drop, spend 3-3.5 million. thats a 6.5 indifference. Thats another coaster, may flats, or best yest thousands of gallons of paint.

An evolution flat ride like excalibur at Six Flags St. Louis.

its interesting to read this from the beginning. A couple of things actually hapopened- for example Cyclone and Thunderbolt (sort of)

id like to see either a vertial drop coaster like a B&M version like with a water splash and with more inversions

how is that "economical"?