Stinger?(Invertigo) - Dorney '12

[Leo C]

Zephyr Train is now closed for the 2012 construction. : ( I'm so glad I got on it about 2 weeks ago. Those small tracks have to be removed like they had for the Voodoo's construction. We don't want excavators and front end loaders to crush the track.

My question is: is there still remains of the pool that probably have to be removed for the excavation and installation of regular coaster footers? I remember seeing the portable Laser on top of gravel and the pool walls resembling curbs filled in on the corners of the Laser lot. The whole area used to be a pool. It's a more extreme like scenario at Darien Lake. Motocoaster is built on top of gravel and filled in swimming pools.

[steel]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this make Dorney the only amusement park in the world with 3 Inverted coasters? I'm racking my brain, but I can't think of any other park with this distinction. Yeah, that can be their marketing tool. Like SFGADV can boast claim to the only park in the world with 5 B&M coasters. Although general public don't care about these fatcs.

This is a really old post, I know, but it got me thinking. It depends really heavily on your definition of "inverted coaster," so I don't know that it would be the most successful marketing tool. Kings Island has Flight Deck, Invertigo, and Flying ACE; Canada's Wonderland has Vortex, Flight Deck, and Silver Streak; Magic Mountain has BTR, Ninja, and Deja Vu and IOA has Horntail, Fireball, and Pteranodon Flyers. Not sure if you don't count suspended coasters, but technically they do use inverted track. And it would maybe also make sense to count flyers, especially B&Ms, since apart from Air, none of them really spend any time noninverted. So that adds SFGAM and SFOG a couple years ago with BTR, Deja Vu, and SUF. And it adds a fourth to SFMM with Tatsu. And then there's Carowinds with Aferburn, Flying ACE, and Nighthawk, but that's probably a stretch, as it doesn't start inverted. You could even say SFMM has five if you count X2, but that's for sure going to far. So basically, it is interesting to me that DP would have 3 major inverted (not suspended) coasters, but like SFGADV, it could be ambiguous to GP.


BUT THAT IS UNIMPORTANT and I'm glad this is going to Dorney. MIA needed it more, I think, but it will fit nicely in that area. It's interesting how early they've started. It's not exactly a megacoaster.

[Leo C]

A new copyright request in June was found for Cedar Fair: the name Stinger. It's requested to be used on a ride and a whole list of possible merchandise. That merits a coaster name. I always thought a boomerang and an invertigo resembled a scorpion.

[KodiakAaron]

A lady told me in line for face/off that they were running two trains that day.

Oh dear Lord, it's like CP in high school to the pre-AP teachers.

[Leo C]

Reports are in of earthmoving finally on Laser's old spot! Excavators and bulldozers are working on the site according to NewsNotesPlus. The pool curbing that I mentioned prior that was a part of the large pool filled in and Laser was built on top of was removed. It does not seem as much concrete as I thought. Maybe the base of the concrete will be left there until digging for footers will take place. There is a mound of dirt in the corner of the plot. The concrete work going on right now seems to be for drainage.

[Leo C]

Drills have arrived for the big footer installation.

[Leo C]

The attraction will be officially announced tomorrow 8/31.

[Rick B]

...at 10:30 AM.

[Leo C]

Most likely going to be Stinger but since the Philadelphia EAGLES just signed Michael Vick to that $100 million 6 year deal they should consider bringing the Michael Vick Experience attraction there as well.

[Rick B]

He'd want 10 million a year from the park for that...

[Wes]

No, he'd want the park to pay off his $19MM and then he can keep his $100MM, after Uncle Sam gets his cut.

I hope Vick has learned his lesson, he seems like he has.

[Leo C]

NewsPlusNotes is at the announcement. They posted on Twitter a pic of the announcement with a banner reading "Stinger." It's here. http://lockerz.com/s/134551067 Thanks to their photos of the track in Allentown earlier in the summer the track is light blue, the supports dark blue.

[Leo C]

The few footers needed for an invertigo have been poured.

[Leo C]

All the footers for the small coaster have been poured. The pieces to Stinger have begun to arrived from the off site paint job via trailers. There is a large crane looming in the area. Looks like the erection of these steel pieces will start shortly.

I can't believe the Monster ride is rehabbed and back. It's an old Spider or a Polyp. These rides usually get retired.

[Leo C]

The first supports have gone up! Newsplusnotes reporting.

Could this ride be fully erected tracks and supports wise by Halloween? Wes could Carolina Cobra gone up that fast? This inverted version of the boomerang looks like it has less pieces than the standard boomerang.

[Brian H]

We need a fix for this in the database. We are showing a min height of 74" and a max of 78". I have a feeling the first one should be 54"?

[Leo C]

At least 54" in height.

[Leo C]

Station supports, station track and a track piece that bends up into the first lift have gone up.

[Leo C]

Home PageThe park has a webcam for Stinger. It appears all the track for the station has been put up as well as the bottom entrance to the cobra roll.

[Leo C]

The first half of the cobra roll coming out of the station is up as well as the second set of large supports for the lift hill. The last big one still has to go up. Will this be done by Halloween?

[Leo C]

Going into closing weekend the cobra roll was completed. This morning it appears the loop is completely done. It appears the two ends to the lift hill are all that is left to build track wise.

[Leo C]

All inversions on the ride are completed. Just the very ends of the lift hills need to be installed.

[Leo C]

Track and support wise Stinger is complete!

[Wes]

Another CGA credit for me to pick up now.

[Leo C]

The roof has been finished on the station to Stinger. The station is completely new as the ride did not have a covered station at all at CGA as Invertigo.

Provided by the park via facebook:

[Wes]

Wow they did a nice job on the station, like twice the size of the one for Carolina Cobra.

Slowly but surely it seems all the CGA credits are coming East. Carowinds already has Stealth...wonder if we'll get our swings back? Put them up front of the park!!!!

[Leo C]

It's warm this winter but the Lehigh Valley falls under that realm of the Poconos, reaching into New York where snow falls. They need that bigger roof I suppose. More snow falls there than in Philly and New York City itself. They still don't get as much snow as Upstate NY-Finger Lakes-Syracuse.

[Leo C]

Stinger First Rider Contest | Dorney Park, Lehigh Valley PA
There is a Twitter trivia contest to get on the first train of Stinger. #DPStinger is to be in the answers.

Hehehe No one noticed it was testing.

Why is Dorney Park getting Fast Lane when I pretty much never had a line at Dorney?

[Wes]

That makes no sense to me either, maybe during Halloween that's the only time I've heard they are busy.

The trains look odd not being painted to match the coaster. Kinda like Cobra.

[Leo C]

Thunderhawk told me he rode Stinger this past weekend. New credit for him. Not much fanfare.