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Mean Streak RMC Conversion Update #7: The One with the Outside Banked Turn
Two new photos of the current construction occurring on a new coaster at the Roller Coaster Capital of the World, Cedar Point, have been released. This new coaster has no name as the park has not announced one, and it has not told the general public about the coaster either. Cedar Point did, however, confirm that this new coaster, a conversion of the defunct Mean Streak, is being constructed at its annual off-season event, Winter Chill Out, on February 25 of this year. Representatives for Cedar Point did tell those attending the event that the coaster would be announced when it made the most sense for the park business-wise. Other than that, the Cedar Point has remained silent.
Coaster enthusiasts have not let the silence of the park stop their curiosity. Many have boated out near the Cedar Point peninsula on Lake Erie and taken photos of the construction of the new coaster. As I mentioned earlier, the new coaster will replace Mean Streak, a 161-foot tall wooden coaster that closed back in September of last year. Rocky Mountain Construction of Hayden, Idaho, was hired by the park to design the new layout and install the new steel track. This steel track will make the new Mean Streak a hybrid coaster, the third of its kind at Cedar Point, after Cedar Creek Mine Ride and Gemini, both constructed by the defunct Arrow Dynamics.
I am going to analyze two photos of the new Mean Streak construction, posted by @coastermattproductions on Instagram on March 11, 2017.
The first photo shows nothing that new. Ledgers can be see on the lift hill, and they basically confirm that the new lift hill will be steeper and taller than the former. The peaks of the wooden structure without wooden track have not been removed.
The second photo shows something pretty interesting that we have not seen before in the new Mean Streak layout. On the right, you can see cranes near the second hill of the former layout. The cranes have placed ledgers pointing at an outward angle on the second hill, which means that the second hill is now most likely going to be an outside-banked turn. This element will be similar to an extended version of the outside-banked turn on Storm Chaser at Kentucky Kingdom's off axis airtime hill
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