Project 2025/Caldera: Rapterra (Launched B&M Wing Coaster)

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My biggest mystery in all of this for all these months is this dumbass little footer by the reptilian lift hill. Hard to get a picture now since the vines grew over the fence in front of it but this is the first footer that was there all the way back on March 22nd you think the first one would be important but no it’s just sitting over there chilling ready to be used but yet never used. And this is definitely a new one, the metal pole behind it is from the mountain but this footer is new for this year, and concrete is expensive it’s not like they’re making one for fun either.
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I mean with the official announcement I know this isn’t coaster related for sure but I guess it could be theming related potentially but what for specifically I wonder. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see for the jungle x expansion announcement for that
 
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maybe that building is used to control the trains, so I guess that building will be rethemed to fit with the new coaster
 
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Gavin said:
It’s an air compressor.

KD is a bit odd compared to most parks. Instead of each ride having its own compressor, the entire park has compressed air fed to all the rides via pipes. This air comes from two compressors, one was at Volcano, in what is now that cinder block shack, the other is in HyperSonic’s old station.
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Wasn't it discussed in the past that the building is part of the compressed air supply system the park uses?
Took me a moment to find this again, but yeah, it's definitely not going anywhere too!

I'm curious how it'll be camouflaged into the entire area.

Edit: Found the post referred to , and quoted, after submitting my own post 🙃
 
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S23X said:
Wasn't it discussed in the past that the building is part of the compressed air supply system the park uses?
Took me a moment to find this again, but yeah, it's definitely not going anywhere too!

I'm curious how it'll be camouflaged into the entire area.

Edit: Found the post referred to , and quoted, after submitting my own post 🙃
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Thank you! I knew there must be a good reason for it still being there.
 
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Haunted River said:
Can someone explain why they kept the old cinderblock building that was part of the mountain over by the Reptilian lift. I believe that had something to do with the Smurf Mountain trains back in the day. I took the following pictures of it when it was inside the mountain

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It always amazes me how those madmen managed to build that coaster into the mountain. Just look at how many footers they had to somehow construct around the existing supports for the mountain.
 
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Probably not as expensive as you may be thinking (still millions though) - it was a prototype, so my guess is Intamin probably didn't profit much on it to sell it so they could refine the concept to sell more (which IIRC eventually landed upon inverted impulse models and not full circuit inverted launch coasters), and the mountain structure itself already existed so they only need to cut a few pieces of it out and mold some others to get the ride to fit in it.
 
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joed5263 said:
Well we know that I305 was the largest capital investment in the park’s history and that was $25 million, so less than that…
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According to the CPI inflation calculator, $20 million (Volcano's cost according to Wikipedia) in 1998 has the purchasing power of ~$38.8 million in 2024, while $25 million in 2010 comes out to about $36.25 million in 2024. So Volcano was probably worth more, but with a decently wide margin of error in the inflation calculator and Wikipedia's figures, the difference is probably negligible.

This is not an exact calculation in the slightest and I studied politics (i.e. not math/economics) so anyone who wants to check my work can feel free
 
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From what I’ve been able to find, the original Lost World mountain cost $7 million or $38.7 million, adjusted for inflation. So, the ride Volcano itself may have cost as much as the mountain, plus the original rides.

By the way, I’m also not well-versed in economics.
 
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It always amazes me how those madmen managed to build that coaster into the mountain. Just look at how many footers they had to somehow construct around the existing supports for the mountain.
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I kinda wonder if that’s what ultimately caused the closure—if maybe it wasn’t that Volcano was broken, but that the mountain (having been severely perforated during Volcano’s construction) finally became structurally unsound, presenting an imminent threat to Volcano.
 
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