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I don't think a park needs to cater to an exceptionally small fraction of a percent of people who would go across the country just to have a final ride on Scorpion. I'm not surprised they're removing an intermediate roller coaster since they just added one.

Kaiser has been telling me for 20 years that a 12 pack of beer or 750 ml per day of vodka, fast food and smoking/vaping was bad for me but I told them I wouldn't let the stress of claims adjusting kill me first. We had two retired LAPD come over to Farmers Insurance and they both said Farmers was way worse because other cops and management have your back. At Farmers, everyone is fighting for the one good "A" tier and a decent raise and not a "D" or "F" tier where you are on your way out before you ever qualified for a pension. Even running my own adjusting company was stressful. I had enough money to close my business and retire 10 years early, but now I guess I need to care a little more about my health. I went to Knotts on Sunday and they sold Aqua Socks at the first gift shop in the water park. I purchased them and then asked and found out that they only work on some slides and I needed to ask at each slide or just look for the pile of shoes on the ground in front of the slide. I didn't go on any of them because the lines were to the bottom of the slides and my family and I went to San Diego Zoo and Mission Beach/Belmont Park last weekend and I got to rid the Moser gyro loop around 20+ times and that made my entire trip. Unfortunatley, the wooden coaster is still slow and tries to kill you. The zoo is depressing as the awake animals just stood there and stared at you like "please get me out of here". I will leave a separate small Knotts update.

What amazes me about Chessington is that looking at this TR , almost every single ride in the park is either new or has been rethemed or upgraded in some way since the early 2000's. From Vampire conversion onwards, I think off the top of my head only the Wild Mouse and 1 or 2 children rides have remained untouched.

Found on Facebook. Joker is testing.

Typical private equity behavior from our friends at UP&E: squeeze everything to the bone and beyond to make line go up faster. Enshittification has come to the theme park industry. Unrelated to that, I think their practice of surge-pricing ECVs is completely and utterly disgusting. (Thankfully, I have a power wheelchair of my own now, after leg injuries severely hampered my mobility.)

I'm sorry to hear that. You've been poisoned by the American corporate driven diet. Eating paleo is what started to change my life. I made it my own from there. It's my lifestyle, not a diet. I'm 39 and have numbers consistent with the average person in their 20's. Avoid the real unholy trinity and you're life will increase drastically: Sugar, wheat, and Dairy. All of the artificial sweeteners and chemicals have to go for your mental and physical health. Good fats. Cut grain down, and eat meat, fruit, and vegetables. Black coffee with almond or oat milk. Water. Unsweetened tea. Practical Paleo is a great book to read. It's half easy to read nutritional education and half easy recipes. Or, just let them kill you slowly. 80% of people in the medical field have never had even a misguided class on basic nutrition. Find the root cause, don't just bombard it with profitable medicine. As far as eating utter garbage food we're all intentionally driven to, there are always cheat days. Pizza and beer nearly kills me, but it's frequently part of a couple cheat meals each week. Exercise is great for the body and mind. Don't overdo it if you're not used to it. Even speed walking and light jogging intervals for 20 minutes a few days a week is a good way to ease into it and make it a normal part of your routine. Sorry for going off topic. This isn't a rant as much as I hope even a complete stranger will red pill their nutrition. Especially when they're facing terrible illness. RFK's podcast has a ton about the American diet and how the money driven big food teamed up with big pharma are killing us. Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson (everyone should listen to opinions they don't like) Calley and Casey Means were on a podcast recently that really sheds light on this topic.

TT2 is now the new coaster for 2025 at Cedar Point. The park announced this today. Tony Clark was right with his statement "this is not an all summer thing." It's an all year thing. They need to rename the ride 6 Day Dragster - SDD, https://www.cedarpoint.com/top-thrill-2-update

I absolutely adore Tom Sawyer Island but I can't deny that it's not popular and the real estate will be better used for other things. I'm just sad I never got the chance to eat at Aunt Polly's. And Villains Land is a dream project so definitely no complaints there!