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No that ride is dead. Sorry. A few years ago there was a park near me who's then-operator pulled out of the deal suddenly and ran off with as many assets as they could get off the property in a couple days. It was incredibly fishy and the dismantling of rides was super scuffed - our Technical Park Street Fighter's feet were cut off because it was faster to do that than unscrew the supports from the rebar. When the manufacturer found out they freaked out and declared it decommissioned. They could have welded them back together, but suddenly that creates four new fault points. All of those perfectly good attractions pulled out were rendered unusable, partially because they'd forgotten the paperwork and also no company would advise on repairs. But would cutting it along an existing weld suffice? Not really. Two years before Claw opened there was Maelstorm at Drayton Manor, which is the exact same attraction. Those supports were delivered onsite as one piece and if you look closely the weld line exists in the same spot on the columns, as it'd been fabricated that way. If you ever spot welds on rides they either came from the factory or were constructed that way and can't be relocated without new manufacturing. The structural integrity of a ride is compromised the moment you cut it up, and the only way to fix that is by replacing the entire piece. The park is in close touch with Intamin so if the ride found a buyer I doubt they'd have been allowed to cut that weld, let alone have a TBD third party outside of their control modify their hardware. Believe it or not manufacturers keep an eye on their rides even after they're in the park's hands, and a lot of the big ones have very strict (in certain cases enforceable) guidelines for operation. In the unlikely scenario that someone else attempted to set up The Claw as it is now, Intamin is more likely to disallow it.
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It's funny that you mention these examples. Gold Rush isn't huge by any means and has already opened and soaked up industry attention at this point. Disney is notorious for not allowing manufacturers/contractors advertise their projects in their own portfolio and would rather announce it on their own platform (something Universal is also inclined to do). Anyways the Goods & Services listing is def an indication; Also I seem to recall this being a thing;
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Not unusual for SBF Visa, they do that as well on their smaller spinning coasters, or at least on the ones that I've done. Weird design, really.
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Cedar Point did explicitly confirm at Winter Chill Out that Iron Dragon would reopen for this season, it's going nowhere. There were also some major permits filed a little over two weeks ago, calling for the pouring of "Phase 1 Foundations for Cedar Point Attraction". Don't think this has to do with the flats being being relocated into their new Boardwalk area this year. So much analysis into every van that appears near the coaster and yet nobody seems to notice major permits like these;
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Between 2016 to 2019, Vekoma made no fewer than 28 different "Crazy Taxi" junior coasters for Indonesia's Trans Studios mini-parks, to the point that they mass produced the trains. It's entirely plausible that one of those coaster trains never got shipped and just ended up remaining at the warehouse.
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And the red hot Aussie coaster streak continues; https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/coffs-harbour/big-banana-lodges-plan-for-new-rollercoaster-at-coffs-harbour/news-story/13734a848b08dd26bed436ad2bb0d82b
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Good evening from Canada, ladies and gents of down under. I visited the Proslide Technology production factory in Hamilton today and I've been permitted to share some stuff that has your name on it. Only found the one stack, seems to match what's already been posted in this thread. Was told that this forum might appreciate the heads up, so do with these what you will;IMG_7894.HEICIMG_7900.HEICIMG_7902.HEICIMG_7901.HEICIMG_7893.HEIC IMG_7894.HEIC
