Around 4:15 PM EST today Intimidator got the green flag and took its first test run with the train flying through the ride’s mile long track. While neither of the ride’s 2 trim brakes appeared to be on and the mid course brake run barley slowed down the ride, it’s pretty obvious that this ride will live up to its theme and be just pure speed, not to mention the airtime that will result from it. Intimidator opens to the public on opening day, March 27th.
The park did a great job getting the word out that the ride would be testing today allowing fans to come see the first test in person, in fact there’s already a great video on YouTube:
What did you think of the first test run? Does it make you want to take a trip to Carowinds this year? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts!
Planet Snoopy has been announced as the replacement for all of the Nickelodeon Central and Hannah Barbara’s Kidzville areas in the former Paramount Parks. These new Snoopy-fied areas are all currently in the construction phase and each ne is set to open in time for the 2010 opening day.
Cedar Fair recently launched a new Planet Snoopy website for each of their four new locations in California’s Great America, King’s Island, King’s Dominion and Carowinds. Each website comes with a video, a link to the parks home page, operating schedule, and a park map. Below is one of the park maps from California’s Great America.
The park maps are not the updated versions sadly but they do indicate the park entrance (what every theme park enthusiast needs to know) as well as the location of the up and coming area. Check out the website here. Be sure to leave your Park Thoughts on Planet Snoopy below.
The last week has seen very significant milestones for both Intimidator at Carowinds and Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion and the rides are getting closer and closer to opening.
First off, the first of 3 trains arrived at Carowinds yesterday and has been placed in the storage sheds. It’s pretty hard to see due to the fact that the trains are still wrapped in the photos that the park has posted, but the front of the first car certainly look just like one of Dale Earnhardt’s stock cars, and they should look even better once the decals are added. As for testing, Public Relations manager Dani Swords has said that it should start around the beginning of February. There have also been mentions of more announcements coming from the park, so it should be a very exciting month for fans of Carowinds.
Intimidator 305 clearly had the largest of the two achievements the last week, its final piece of steel was hoisted into place on Saturday. Certainly a comeback for the construction crews, after being so seemingly behind schedule with the lift hill, it seemed doubtful that the ride would open with the park, but they really picked up the pace on the last portions of the ride over the last month. Trains for the ride are expected to arrive in the next few weeks, it should be interesting to see the restraint system.
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After what was probably the shortest construction of a coaster of this magnitude, Intimidator, Carowinds’ 13th roller coaster, was finished today around 2:00. Lucky for the Charlotte area, barely missing the huge snowstorms that has hit the east coast over the last week, ...
Carowinds surprised fans today by releasing a full list of rides names for the Nickelodeon Central retheme to Planet Snoopy, becoming the first of the five Paramount/Cedar Fair Park’s to do so. Here’s the rundown of all of the renames announced:
I was able to make a quick stop by Carowinds today to check out the progress on Intimidator. Unfortunately I wan’t able to find time to go inside the park, but I did get a few photos from right outside.
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