I'm Back... With a Rewind

Well, I returned from Brazil last week (sorry for not posting this earlier, but I was occupied). I have a huge list of news for you:

Spider-Man 4 Scrapped:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/01/11/columbia-scraps-plans-for-%E2%80%9Cspider-man-4%E2%80%9D-in-2011-will-reboot-franchise-in-2012-without-tobey-maguire-and-director-sam-raimi/
That sucks. =( But at least we have something to look forward too =) ...

Intimidators Complete:

December 21, 2009 - Intimidator at Carowinds is complete.

December 26, 2009 - Station roof starting to go up, gift shop looks complete, and maintenance shed roof up for Carowinds.

January 4, 2010 - After being in a crappy situation, the webcam for I305 is back, and Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion is almost done.

January 6, 2010 - Both sets of big cranes for both coasters are gone.

January 9, 2010 - Intimidator 305 is complete with the first bunny hill.

BGA Hyper?!:

From Screamscape:

"2011/2012 - The Next Coaster - Rumor - (1/11/10) Sources tell us that Busch Gardens Tampa has tentative plans in place right now to close down the Skyride in June for up to 7 months. Apparently, if all goes well, this will be to make way for a large project for 2011. So… why close the Skyride? Apparently one of the ideas on table is to reuse the old Monorail side of the shared building to possibly serve as a station for the new attraction.
(1/7/10) Giving a little more credit to the rumor that BGT may be getting ready to build their next new coaster comes a reader report from IAAPA. While this doesn’t mean anything for sure, our source tells us that they happened upon the B&M booth just as some kind of meeting was ending between B&M and a bunch of Busch Entertainment execs.
(12/22/09) While nothing is 100% firm just yet, it seems Busch Gardens Tampa may be trying to pull a very big rabbit out of their hat for the 2011 season. Stay tuned!
(11/9/09) I’ve been sent a report claiming that last week BGT had floated up some balloons over the park for a height check of a proposed new attraction. Could the park be ready to finally deliver the long awaited B&M Hypercoaster project in 2011 or 2012?"

Now, I thought these plans were scrapped, but BGT may be in the talks for their long-rumored B&M Hypercoaster project (it's about time Florida gets one of these). Now today, the latest rumor (seen above) claims that the Skyride will close June for 7 months to reuse the old monorail section as the station. At first, I found that illogical... but it could work. They just have to keep the lift hill away from the Skyride itself, and... well, that's that.

P.S.: The Rockit banner survived the Friday 12/18 storm and they are starting to run it in cold conditions!