Cedar Point | Valravn | B&M Dive Machine

[Intricks]

Re: Cedar Point | Valravn | B&M Dive Machine

Im so confused by this.

WHY?!

And I completely missed that end part there -_-

 

[GuyWithAStick]

Re: Cedar Point | Valravn | B&M Dive Machine

That was good. Nearly got me.

Also, does this mean Raptor will have silver rails again?

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[Hyde]

Maybe? They essentially say both. :razz:

They'll remain the same and will be returned back to their vibrant debut colors of 1994 and 2003, respectively.

And for reference for others, Raptor's rails were originally an unpainted grey in 1994, but painted to a matching green during a 2002 repaint:

1994

2002

 

[GuyWithAStick]

We are now vertical!

From Cedar Point's construction gallery, https://valravn.cedarpoint.com/rise-to-power/construction-photos

 

[cjbrandy]

Another side bit - Raptor and TTD will be getting a repaint for 2016, with the same color scheme for both. Will be nice having the Raptor TLC as complement to Valravn.

https://www.cedarpoint.com/blog-article ... s?mobile=0

Do the artist impressions of the repaints both have the right colors? Hope not because they both look absolutely hideous, Raptor may as well get renamed McDonalds: The Ride and TTD's looks a bit garish and King Da Ka esque.

 

[ThomVD]

Yeah, TTD's looks vile. Why change the colour scheme if it was fab to begin with.

 

[Casio]

Do the artist impressions of the repaints both have the right colors? Hope not because they both look absolutely hideous, Raptor may as well get renamed McDonalds: The Ride and TTD's looks a bit garish and King Da Ka esque.

Yeah, TTD's looks vile. Why change the colour scheme if it was fab to begin with.

Read the bottom of the page: "If it wasn't obvious, I was kidding about the colors. They'll remain the same and will be returned back to their vibrant debut colors of 1994 and 2003, respectively." So no change!

 

[cjbrandy]

^ #Relieved!

 

[Hyde]

And if you want to see video of the first support going up:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GBEtOWIOyg[/youtube]

 

[Hyde]

Track is now erected - looks like the brake run and transfer track.

They also have a webcam now set on the construction: https://www.cedarpoint.com/online-fun/live-video-cam

 

[GuyWithAStick]

From the camera:

Looks like the Lift should be starting soon.

 

[Hyde]

A closer shot of the pre-lift turn around, complements of Tony Clark:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TonyClarkCP/status/662730682100113408[/tweet]

 

[Hyde]

Lift hill ready for assembly.

 

[Lofty]

I still can't get over the colour choice for this coaster - if the track was more of a darker orange and less **** brown, it'd look pretty fab.

 

[Snoo]

^This.

The supports are a fantastic shade of blue but the spine and rails just.. are an offputting orange/brown to me.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

^I agree. Something along the lines of Thunderbird, or even Raging Bull track would work much better.

Bad Photoshop edit, but I guess it works?

 

[Jarrett]

The issue if they did that would be that it would too closely rougaresemble Rougarou. Then the only real difference would be layout, trains, the gray stripe, and the shades of blue. To goons like us it wouldn't be an issue but the GP would be like, "ZOMG is this the one that goes straight down!?!?!?!11!!!??" getting in line for Rougarou all the **** time. Personally I think they should've done golden track with black supports, gold would look awesome on such a big, dominating coaster.

Not terribly excited to ride this one since I'm not the biggest fan of the whole dive machine concept but it should be a fun one to follow. Can't wait to see it go up!

 

[CarolinaRider]

I wouldn't have even made the color scheme orange, I would've gone for a dark magenta like the color shown in the Banshee concept art. Valravn is going to look beautiful when it's finished but the color doesn't fit the theme.

 

[Lofty]

The brown is absolutely vile.

The thing is, the brown won't look nice against a blue sky, it'll make it feel a bit dirty and 'old' actually, which is a shame. A golden track would have looked absolutely lovely.

 

[Pink Cadillac]

Yeah the brown is horrible. It would work a lot better for something rustically themed like SDC's Wildfire, There are plenty of colour combinations the park hasn't done that would have looked fine.