When I was a kid I always wondered what it would be like if the Eifel Tower had a roller coaster added to it. Ater seeing a recent picture on RCDB of the Tower of Terror coaster at a park in South Africa, I began to entertain the thought again. Perhaps a dive type coaster could be added to the outside frame of the tower or perhaps it could be a giant Demon Drop. I dont know I just like to entertain these thoughts in my head, the what ifs...

Hmmm. I can just hear the uproar now. I wonder if people would try to say the Eiffel Tower is now a historic structure and should not be modified!

Yeah a giant Demon Drop on the back of the effiel tower would be cool since it wouldn't mess with the grand fountains view, and it would start and end where IJ:ST is.

The line would be like 3 hours long haha.. no joke.

while demon drop is cool, it needs to be something cooler than that. How about a rocket coaster that goes up the side and down the other. could start where the international showplace is (of course that would have to go) swing up the side, come down near coney and then return.

Didnt you here, Cedar Fair is moving Demon Drop to KI to replace Eiffel Tower

rofl^ that probly isn't a bad idea.

while demon drop is cool, it needs to be something cooler than that. How about a rocket coaster that goes up the side and down the other. could start where the international showplace is (of course that would have to go) swing up the side, come down near coney and then return.

Is the tower strong enough to hold a coaster on top of it? Well hnestly I guess so so I don't really wknoy why I posted. I don't know, it just sounds impossible I guess. Takes up to much of the room?

I think its a cool idea though, I'd love it to happen, but most likely won't(never say never haha)

Demon Drop Rocks best non coaster ever!!

Demon Drop is very good...

If you have No Limits - one of the coasters that comes with it is called Eiffel Tower Extreme - and is actually this. It is a LSM launched B&M Strata Coaster that launches up the side of the tower, through the tower just below the observation deck, and then does a vertical drop on the other side. Then it does all kinds of other cool stuff.

Now the tower they used on it is like 500 feet tall - but it gives you an idea of what a Eiffel Tower based coaster could be like. It is actually pretty cool.

Didnt you here, Cedar Fair is moving Demon Drop to KI to replace Eiffel Tower

I think you need to re-cheak where you get your information as that is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. While take something out that is the parks signature monument?

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Wow I think someone missed the Sarcasim...

Aren't they going to move FOF to CP and basically switch buildings with Disaster Transport. Can't wait till I can ride DT at Kings Island next year

How about the always rumored and thrown around idea of the Fish Hook coaster idea that was supposed to go down the side of the Stratashpere Tower out in Vegas.

The Stratosphere proposal was a serious one. The local zoning authorities and neighbors nixed it. Apparently it was too tacky and distracting even for Vegas!

I know that always killed me about that. Maybe if they would have built the entire structure out of neon tubing it wouldn't have been so tacky.

Too tacky? In Vegas?

It was supposed to be an Arrow too! I miss teh t00mz!

Too tacky? In Vegas?

It was supposed to be an Arrow too! I miss teh t00mz!

Go to your closet.

Get a coat hanger.

Bend it.

Feel better now?

I tried channeling the creative ability of Ron Toomer to make a No Limits Corkscrew type coaster - but it didn't work. For one I don't have any of those fancy track smoothing tools. And for two - I had the whole idea wrong. I set out to make a coaster Ron Toomer would love - but then he doesn't ride coasters.

I feel he was on the verge of his best creation yet - and it was never realized.

whats dt?

You ressurect an old topic to ask a question that makes no sense?

Nah, he's a Monk, and a deaf one, too. Doesn't know how to use teh intarwebs.

Maybe Disaster Transport? Old Skool Intabobsled?

Wow, nothing like a bump of a topic.

The tower is the apple of your eye at Kings Island; to me it symbolizes the start and end of everything thrilling. You look at other parks and look for something that stands out, and monument, a ride, anything that will pop up in your head every time you think of it. For example the first thing that comes into my head when I think about Disney World is Epcot and the giant dome. In Universal Studios Florida it's the spinning globe outside the two parks. And when I loved in South Korea, there was a park called Lotte World Sky Plaza, and I always picture the Castle that presents a pyro-laser show at the end of the night. And then there is always Kings Island. The tower can be seen almost anywhere in the park. Back to the original topic, it just would not make sense to edit or build something on the centerpiece of the park. The tower is what represents the park.

Yeah the tower is indeed the icon of the park. Although PKD has one as well - as does a Six Flags park in Texas. But for some reason - its the symbol of PKI.

Does anyone know if the one in Las Vegas is built by Intamin AG like the others? I know its 1/2 scale where ours is 1/3.

When I was a kid I always wondered what it would be like if the Eifel Tower had a roller coaster added to it. Ater seeing a recent picture on RCDB of the Tower of Terror coaster at a park in South Africa, I began to entertain the thought again. Perhaps a dive type coaster could be added to the outside frame of the tower or perhaps it could be a giant Demon Drop. I dont know I just like to entertain these thoughts in my head, the what ifs...

Interesting concept-that I'd like to see

Yeah the tower is indeed the icon of the park. Although PKD has one as well - as does a Six Flags park in Texas. But for some reason - its the symbol of PKI.

Does anyone know if the one in Las Vegas is built by Intamin AG like the others? I know its 1/2 scale where ours is 1/3.

Uh, the one in Texas is an oil derrick. Not a tower.

And, in true Six Flags fashion, it is almost never open. Has a sign on it that says "Closed due to High Winds" on even the calmest of days.

Well the core is the same structure. The towers at Kings Island and Magic Mountain look very similar except for some extra structural steel on the Kings Island tower which makes it look like the Eiffel Tower.

And the one in California is almost never open, either!

Paramount and KECO, like Taft before it, always had the tower open if at all possible.

Yeah the Uh, the one in Texas is an oil derrick. Not a tower.

And, in true Six Flags fashion, it is almost never open. Has a sign on it that says "Closed due to High Winds" on even the calmest of days.

I visited SFoT probably 20 times during the three years I lived in Dallas, and the oil derrick was never open during any of my visits...

And the one in California is almost never open, either!

Paramount and KECO, like Taft before it, always had the tower open if at all possible.

The one at SFMM has been open everyday since they opened Tatsu in the Summer.

-Jake

Nope. Not EVERY day. The day I rode Tatsu it was NOT open. . . .