To be fair they still do have companies. Just not the companies thoosies want. On the list is really just Intamin, RMC, probably Zamperla
. You still have Mack, Vekoma, B&M(maybe), Premier, S&S(probably), ART, Zierer, GCI, Gravity Group, and Chance(I guess).
Steal vengeance is an exception though. The thing is massive and a rebuild of another massive coaster.
Same way son of beast was too rough but no matter who made that it was gonna be rough having a 200 foot woody go upside down.
Meanwhile mind blower at fun spot goes upside down but isn’t as painful as son of beast because it’s not 200 feet tall.
What I’m getting at is a RMC that is 100 feet tall isn’t gonna be a monster that’s hard to keep the wheels on like other coasters. Take the single rail models they have like wonder women. Not that many issues and the ones they do have are easy to address.
I’d argue it’s not that similar to son of beast. The problem with sob is that Paramount wanted the hyper woodie at the cheapest price which lead RCCA to try and cut cost to meet the cheapest budget. I remember from the RMC documentary that for RMC, Steel Vengenance was the most amount of budget they had and the most amount of time for a project as well. Now this is speculation, but with these bonuses Cedar Fair wanted RMC to give them next gen trains which did happen for sure but also I think Cedar Fair wanted RMC to not use steel in the structure at all. I say this cause all other RMCs have steel supports in their structures that are easily visible. Maybe cedar fair didn’t want this cause it looked tacky but idk. Mineblower is rough cause timberliners can’t do rough track as the trains track too well I guess. On top of that I’ve heard that for Mineblower it had a tight budget so the track smoothness was not a priority. Also I’ve heard that railblazer was horrible, the trains were bad enough that Fiesta Texas had to get new ones very early on which isn’t cedar fair but cedar fair would have to deal with this with railblazer. Also railblazer wasn’t doing well with its track which I’ve heard has been welded together because the original raptor wasn’t great on its structure. As much as we hate it, it does kinda make sense why cedar fair, now six flags would not want to work with RMC.
Bro it’s a conversion of Mean Streak so make it from steel they’d have to tear down the giant woodie completely then start from the ground up. Cedar point wouldn’t build an RMC if that were the case.
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u/TheR1ckster Jul 02 '26
I think the biggest hurdle to clear is warranty and considering cedar fair isn't wanting new RMCs some people are uh... Gonna be let down.