The THEME...*MIGHT* be here!!!!

[Coaster Punk]

There is no such rumor or yellow other than that design i think his name jon made out of his imagination...

Thanks for clarifying I thought I seen something on here about yellow track supports! Anyway aren't you supposed to be a photographer? How bout you add some color to the black and white photo because I dont have photoshop!

[Edwardo]

Love the totally inconspicuious "Revise by 7/23/09" sticky.

This smells of viral marketing to me.

[JamminJ]

^That is the first thing I thought of as well.. everything about the pic is just a little too perfect and coincidental. I am along for whatever ride they take us on though.

[Coaster Punk]

So your saying this was intentionaly sent out by carowinds?

[carowindsman6654]

So your saying this was intentionaly sent out by carowinds?

If yes, wouldn't there be one for Kings Dominion too though?

[coasternut30]

if they were going to leak something you'd think they would come up with something better than WL

in the original WL concept, wasnt it suppose to do battle with Thunder Road? maybe its coming back to win the battle and tower over the coaster?

[Coaster Punk]

IDK but things are really geting interesting...I'll be glad when we know for sure so we can just sit back and watch construction and stop debating over it all!

[Jonathan]

I think it's cool to see a bone tossed towards people on here (if that's in fact what this is); definitely an interesting way to generate a little more buzz.

Perhaps I will be eating some crow on Friday about what I said about nothing being revealed at Coaster Stock. Guess we'll see.

[Dude]

If the red track at the B&M plant is ours, then the theme White Lightning doesn't seem to fit very well. Just my opinion.

but there is another coaster that has a name that dosent go with the colors of it!
-silver bullet at knotts berry farm-

[Jstbcool]

So your saying this was intentionaly sent out by carowinds?

If yes, wouldn't there be one for Kings Dominion too though?

Not neccesarily. While both parks are part of CF, both parks i'm sure have their own marketing departments. While the main decisions for the coaster likely come from higher up, how to hype the ride could be left up to the individual park. Right now KD had tons of track sitting in its parking lot and a twitter update that keeps hinting August 20th is a good day to go to the park. KI used the website and a countdown to the official announcement to draw attention. This could be Carrowinds ways of sparking even more attention from the enthusiasts as i'm sure this picture will spread to other forums.

[Coaster Punk]

Just to give u an idea without the little piece of paper in the way

[Jstbcool]

Looking at the picture again, I'm most interested to see if this logo shows up in the press kits since the folder below the logo clearly says press kit.

[coasterbruh]

So your saying this was intentionaly sent out by carowinds?

If yes, wouldn't there be one for Kings Dominion too though?

Of course since they have the same management team at both parks...the only parks in the chain to be staffed by the same people should obvously leak info on the same day from the same office, since both parks are getting the same intamin coaster!

[Edwardo]

Don't jump to conclusions and think that White Lightening is definitely the name. Jarsh at GAP made a comment similar to Jammin but he added In How its the name a lot of people want.

If it is viral marketing then I think the revise sticky and the draft notes are telling. And think of that date. What happens the day after the revise b date? Haven't we been promised surprises that day? I really wish I could go to coaster stock but the timing didn't work for me.

But the press release file and the blueprint sticking out, I'm really leaning towards viral marketing. And I'm glad it seems to be starting here since we are kind of the only group of Carowinds fans on the net.

Can't wait to see Keiths animation, that's for sure!

[Diamondback FOF]

From Screamscape ( http://screamscape.com/html/carowinds.htm ) this morning:

A very interesting picture slid into my inbox this morning... one that confirms a rumor we had heard about the 2010 coaster way back in December. Yes, someone apparently found an semi-official logo for the new coaster which is going to bring back the White Lightning name.
At first I thought about not posting the photo out of fear that the photographer might get in trouble, but upon a closer look at the photo itself with Photoshoped, I started to make out little indicators where it appeared that the photo itself may have been doctored. Just look at the scene in general here... everything is all set up neat and clean... every folder tab is visible and appropriate, and the logo itself is almost perfectly squared off to the camera at a near perfect and level angle. Just managing to do that by hand with a real camera, let along a small cell phone camera, is almost impossible itself without some post-production help from Photoshop. Then look at the letters in the logo... they too are squared off perfectly to the camera, especially the long running white bar along the bottom. Perfect... too perfect. Something doesn’t smell right... and if that wasn’t enough there is the over the top Post-It Note in the top left corner, saying that logo had to be revised by July 23rd, 2009. Why is that date important? Because Coaster-Stock is taking place the very next morning on July 24th.
Does this mean the photo or logo are a fake? No... I don’t think so... I’m just thinking this could have been a carefully planned “leak” on the part of Carowinds, just days out from Coaster Stock and the big announcement. In short... an attempt to create some serious buzz well in advance of the announcement, which they certainly have.

I do think that was probably sent out by Carowinds.