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- From: cehagen@ugly.ucs.indiana.edu (Christopher E. Hagen)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Kentucky Kingdom 1994!!!!
- Summary: KK plans to install a recordbreaking coaster....
- Keywords: BIG
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.221622.21382@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 03:16:17 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
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- ...I was at KK this week and I happened to run into one of the big shots
- there again. (Well, OK, I chased him down :) Anyways, I asked more questions
- about prospects for 94 and he said this:
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- "We hope to build a record-breaking coaster, something that will put us on
- the map and into the big-league." He feels that they have captured the local
- audience quite well, and now wants to expand to capture a more regional
- audience, esp. people from Nashville, Indianapolis, Evansville, Lexington etc.
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- The only specs that he would tell me is that it will def. be a steel
- rollercoaster... I asked him if it was one of the new B&M rollercoasters and
- he said "no", that he was trying for something record breaking in the sence
- that there would be no others like it in the world, at least at first. Given
- the amount of Vekoma rides and the contracts they have with them (the
- park is about 60% Vekoma rides,) could they be working on some new type of
- design???
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- He hopes to open a whole new section of park for this ride, which will be on
- the other side and behind the gravel parking lot that is next to the waterpark.
- There will be some type of transportation system linking all three sections,
- probably a minature train. The plans for this new section will be released
- in parts, starting sometime this winter (I guess they need investors to help
- expand???)
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- The good news is this: after all the re-investments made to keep the park
- open after the disaster back in 88, they have surpassed their hopes
- this summer by 40%... So this WILL be a major local/regional park for a long
- time.
-
- My worry is this: after 97 or so, they will be less than a mile from the end
- new runway of our airport... I wonder what will happen then?
-
- Oh yeah-- that would also preclude them from building anything much higher
- than 20 stories... they have a 20 story tall vekoma ferris wheel, but I wonder
- how much higher than that they can go..... oh well, I'll shut up for now...
-
- -chris
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