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* sees thread bumped * Oh thank god it was just a joke post, I was afraid there had been more news.

Skånn. It's a loan word, might as well Norwegianize it.

I wonder if Everland is looking nervously at T-Express now. All the other Intamin P'n'P woodies have been worn to the point of requiring extensive rework in recent years - in order of their construction year, I might add - and T-Express is the youngest of them by only two years.

Checking RCDB: 163 coasters named Wild Mouse. 62 coasters named Wild Cat, in one or two words. No hits for Wild Dog. There's an opening in the market here. Interestingly, though, there are or have been a Wild Elfin, Wild Eagle, Wild Chipmunk, Wild(e) Beast, Wild Hog, two Wild Kitty, and a Wild...

I just checked. From this was posted (and the thread went quiet a week later), it took four months until we knew the name of Steel Vengeance. Commonly referred to as SteVe. As far as I can tell, it is also the only suggested name in this thread that actually came to pass. That is, if you don't...

I can't say I dislike the choice of themeing, but I think it illustrates something quite problematic with making all the attractions IP-based: By the time the attraction is finished, the IP is already quite old. Moana and Zootopia came out in 2016, while Coco is from 2017. By the late 2020's...

*sigh* I remember how we in 2019 thought it was a bit of a joke that the coaster wouldn't be open before 2021. Oh well, time to edit the thread title for the third time.

Looks like two threads were opened about this at the same time, and while this one was technically first, the other has a couple more replies and a more comprehensive opening post. Locking this, then.

Locked at the request of thread starter.

Also, you get a very unique product for a year or so if it's a good product worth iterating on, after which a lot of parks may build a more exciting version of what you've got. Alternatively, you get to be the first to find out why the product isn't worth iterating on. Either way, being the...

Hey, nobody has claimed Mikhail Gorbachev yet. He passed away a little over two weeks ago. One would think that have been the biggest one of the year, but ...

I recognize that site! It's kinda famous in skyscraper enthusiast circles. That "moon" is proposed for the site of the ill-fated "Dubai Pearl", possibly one of the most bungled construction projects in history. It was initially envisioned as a cluster of 300m tall skyscrapers. Construction...

CF runs a for-profit YouTube channel (have you ever noticed that the website doesn't have ads?), so that's a statement that should come with some asterisks. Communication with the parks is essential, though.

The queue for Hogwarts Express at IoA has a very clever one. At some point as you approach the platform itself, you see a view of the queue ahead of you. It appears to go straight into a brick wall. And then you see people walking through the wall as if it wasn't there. You round the corner...

One thing we can tell for certain: the capacity of this is going to be awful. It has one train with 16 seats. The POV ride time, from the train starts until it stops, is 47 seconds. With all the faff of loading and unloading, we'd be lucky to see a three-minute ride cycle. That means 20 cycles...

Not just a maybe. The park needs to be onboard for things like this. Trying to film otherwise could get you into heaps of trouble. Parks tend to be accommodating if asked politely and professionally well in advance, however. You might have to show up really early in the morning to film before...

It could also be that the project has made it all the way to the "let's get some equipment and workers on site to show investors there is ongoing activity, perhaps a few more will take the bait before we hightail it to Bahamas with most of the money" stage. That wouldn't be unheard of either.

How tall is that tower? Has to be more than fifty meters or so. That's 15 storeys. Now there's the question: who would want to climb 15 storeys of stairs in the heat of Qatar and the 100% humidity of a waterpark? It's gotta be like doing the step test in a sauna. You'd be half-dead of heat...

Ooh, that's a fun way to do this topic: *clicks* Dang. Uhh ... 1916: Instead of being torn down, the Scenic Railway somehow attracts more customers and Brandywine Springs keeps seeing business for years to come. 1921: The park builds its third rollercoaster. It's a small wooden thing like...

I'm leaning more towards the municipality demanding a less visually striking colour scheme that blended better into the sky. The coaster is quite close to a residential area, after all. Speed Monster was also conceived as yellow at some point, but changed to blue quite late in development.