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Mean Streak RMC Conversion Update #3: No Wooden Track in Sight
Mean Streak, Cedar Point's defunct giant wooden coaster, is currently being dismantled. But, only the wooden track is being removed. The supports are staying, and that is because Cedar Point has hired Rocky Mountain Construction of Idaho to convert Mean Streak into a steel-hybrid coaster. Cedar Point really didn't try to hide the conversion of Mean Streak, so guests took pictures of the conversion while the park was open. When the park closed in October, the picture output slowed as guests could no longer take pictures of Mean Streak on the closed-to-the-public property. Some people still found ways to get pictures, and I have made sure to share them on the Roller Coaster Daily Blog when they were posted. (Every Mean Streak RMC conversion update and related articles from the Roller Coaster Daily Blog can be viewed here.)
In December of 2016, pictures were posted on cpamericasrollercoast.com of Mean Streak, and absolutely no wooden track could be seen still on any part of the structure of the coaster that was pictured. I have the best of those pictures below. (Sorry for the photos being poor in quality, it is not in my control.)
As seen in the first two pictures, new wood has been added onto the existing structure, and the wood reaching the apex of the lift hill has been left alone. This is most likely because RMC is going to build onto the existing structure to make the new Mean Streak taller.
This conversion of Mean Streak is a promising sign that Cedar Point is finally going back to its roots of creating innovative and extreme roller coasters. Even though we coaster fans bash on Cedar Point sometimes, especially lately when the park didn't add a coaster for five consecutive seasons, and then when it added two Bolliger & Mabillard coasters that weren't well received, we should appreciate that there is a park that will do extreme and innovative things from time-to-time. For all we know, this coaster could end up well over 200 feet tall. We'll just have to see.
And, yes, I still think it will open in the 2018 season.
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Photos courtesy of cpamericasrollercoast.com
