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QUESTION:Is this guy nuts? A spinning ride and a family coaster -- isn't that the ho-hum
expansion at IOA this summer? And these are pretty basic off-the-shelfers --
why will it take almost two years to set them up?
The Wild Mouse sounds like the cool spinning Exterminator at Kennywood -- only
stripped of all its theming. Disney is being outDisneyed by an amusement park
and beat to the punch too.
ANSWER: As I've said elsewhere, I believe this will be the same kind of coaster as
Kennywood's Exterminator. (aka: Reverchon Crazy Mouse). However,
I've heard a couple of plans over the last year as well and how this might go
down.
1) At one point I was told Disney had a model that looked like someone
had merged two of the standard Crazy Mouse coasters together so that they
would have two tracks... but kind of "duel" in the hairpin turns. It also
sounded like these would be generic and exposed, much like the Mad Mouse
at DCA, and would fit in with the tacky carnival & tourist trap theme that
they would use in Dino-Rama.
2) They would take the idea and look of the old Excavator... and apply it
to a custom track layout that would use the same style of cars as the Crazy
Mouse. Meaning... lots of tunnels, rockwork, waterfalls, dino bones,
scaffeling, and spinning little coaster cars all over the place.
I'm hoping #2 is still the plan because they could set up #1 in about 6 months
and have it ready for Spring 2001 if that was all they were doing.
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