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Reasons Why RMC Mean Streak Will Open in 2018
One of the largest wooden coasters in the world, Mean Streak at Cedar Point closed last September. The rough and rickety giant was one of the most significant coasters at Cedar Point, but not for any good reasons. It was known for being one of the most jerky and shaky coasters in the nation. Luckily for coaster enthusiasts and Cedar Point, there is Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) of Idaho that specializes in converting old wooden coasters into new steel hybrid coasters that typically are very, very well received.
Long before Cedar Point announced Mean Streak's closure, coaster fans were skeptical of the "no plans" attitude Cedar Point had had for Mean Streak since it's final major retracking in 2012. These same thrill junkies were also hoping for one thing: RMC to come in and redo Mean Streak. And, since the coaster's closure last September, we've seen countless hints and clues that RMC is converting Mean Streak, which were eventually followed by photos of RMC trucks and RMC steel track on the site of Mean Streak, which confirmed the coaster would be reborn in the near future.
RMC Mean Streak is perhaps the most anticipated roller coaster ever. You may be thinking that Cedar Point can't be too thrilled about their undisclosed multi-million dollar roller coaster being leaked in images all over the internet, but that's entirely wrong. The park knows its significance and following, so it took advantage of that.
The majority of Cedar Point fans are roller coaster enthusiasts, so the park has used the acronym for Rocky Mountain Construction, "RMC," (which is something that usually only enthusiasts would understand the meaning of) in many instances to tease the rehab of Mean Streak, such as the initials for a character present at Mean Streak's "funeral," Richard Michael Crosby, and on a survey stake on the site of Mean Streak.
Cedar Point has also teased in multiple instances that a capital investment (which is obviously RMC Mean Streak) is happening. The first is a video the park released around Christmas of 2016. The video shows Cedar Point Director of Communications Tony Clark dancing around the park and singing the song "Happy Holiday," popularized by Andy Williams. Clark eventually wanders into the area where Mean Streak once stood. Behind him you can see the removal of wooden track that used to rest on Mean Streak's support structure, and a white truck similar to the one captured in a photo from just after Mean Streak's closure that brought the RMC Mean Streak rumors to a whole new level (these are obviously nods to coaster enthusiasts). In the same video, there was also a scene in which three women and two men surrounded a laptop whose screen showed the words "Classified Document... 2018 Capital Plan Enclosed... Prepared by Richard Michael Crosby" on it. This was the park's way of confirming that Richard Michael Crosby was a very significant character, and that he would be involved with the 2018 capital investment. This was the first time we were given valid proof that RMC Mean Streak would open in 2018. But, the park didn't stop there.
On April 1, 2017, the park released a video on twitter. In that video, footage of RMC Mean Streak was shown, and the words "They're Coming" were displayed (for more on that video and what "They're Coming" means, click here). Though in that video the park doesn't confirm an opening date, they do confirm that RMC Mean Streak is happening, and that video is what I would call the official "first teaser." Amusement parks typically release multiple teasers to create hype around their unannounced attractions, and this video is the first actual teaser we have seen for RMC Mean Streak.
This video, although being vague, made me very skeptical. The actual content of the video ended around the thirteen second mark, and the music ended at about fifteen seconds through, while the video was in total eighteen seconds long, meaning the park made the video 3-5 additional seconds longer than it needed to be. Though it may just be a coincidence, the video was eighteen seconds long, and RMC Mean Streak is expected to open in 2018, meaning the length of this video may have been a hint as to when RMC Mean Streak will open. Both share the number eighteen, which may be something you find to be insignificant, but, trust me, I'm not that crazy. The odds of Cedar Point coincidentally making an eighteen second-long video that is teasing a new project with a suspected opening date of 2018 are very, very slim. (The length of this video may appear as seventeen seconds on mobile devices if you watch it on Cedar Point's twitter.)
Cedar Point and its sister parks have basically mastered the art of dropping small hints that the average person would not notice about new attractions. One of Cedar Point's sister parks, Kings Dominion, released a photo showing their new-for-2017 attractions in 2016, and in the photo were words that would stand the RMC acronym, "There's Really More Coming," and, of course, RMC is working on Hurler at the moment (click here to see what's going on with RMC Hurler). These small hints are undoubtedly valid pieces of evidence that RMC Mean Streak will open in 2018.
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All photos in this article are courtesy of Cedar Point on Twitter
