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It's too early for this sh*t...

Wow. I think this is almost approaching "Dragster Status Page" levels. Did I just date myself or does someone else remember this?

So anyway. I'll spare you all the trip report but we were down in North Carolina for the weekend and on the way home we decided to swing by Carowinds for a few hours (this has become kind of a tradition for us). We only has about an hour and a half but we got on Fury (as the first and last ride), Afterburn, Intimidator and Plants vs. Zombies because we wanted to try it since it's new. That was easily the best ride I've ever had on Intimidator. We sat in the back row and got some nice pops of air. It's still the weakest B&M hyper I've ridden but it was fun. Afterburn was it's usual self. It's a tremendous coaster with a really forceful whip into the pretzel. I really wish more B&M inverts did pretzel loops, it's absolutely their best element on both Montu and Afterburn. Plants vs Zombies was pretty cool. I wouldn't wait more than 15 or 20 minutes for it but it was a fun, re-rideable attraction and I loved the team element of it. Honestly I'd love for every Cedar Fair park with one of these old theaters sitting around to do something like this. It's nothing amazing but it's undoubtedly a lot of fun. I'm confused though, is there any benefit to shooting anything else or should you just be shooting the gnome things? That's basically all I was doing. lol And finally... Fury. I'm a really harsh critic of B&M. The rides they built pre-2000's blow all of their modern rides away. There's no such thing as a bad B&M except the old standups (minus Vortex at Carowinds which I enjoy) but it blows my mind that the company that gave us Montu and Kumba now builds forceless, uninspired rides like Intimidator, Leviathan, Hydra and Banshee. They're all good but B&M for the most part is a shadow of what they used to be. I wanted to mention that because I wanted to let you know where I'm coming from when I tell you that Fury is an exception to that rule (probably the only exception). Fury is the best B&M I've ever ridden. It's an elite coaster... I'd rank it up there with rides like Maverick, El Toro, Millennium Force and Phoenix. I don't know what order they fall in, nor do I care... but my rides on it yesterday had me seriously questioning whether or not I'd ever been on a better coaster. Our first ride was insane. We rode in the back and got incredible sustained floater air all the way down the drop. It has some forceful air back there and the transitions feel more like an Intamin than a B&M. We were blown away. For our second ride we sat up near the front and good lord. The first drop didn't have the same airtime back there but on the hill after the trim I was expecting a nice moment of B&M floater and was instead greeted with OMFG ejector air that felt more like El Toro's Rolling Thunder hill than anything B&M had ever built. The 2 bunny hops after that sent us flying into the restraints too. I'd have loved to have stayed all day and ridden it at night once it really warmed up. I couldn't believe how fast that thing was running and we rode it right at park open. Fury is an absolute beast of a ride. I really hope B&M continues to move in that direction because Fury blows all of the recent (deserved) B&M stereotypes to hell. Everyone needs to ride this coaster. It's mind blowing.

Any invert except Banshee would be an acceptable answer to this question. Banshee is smooth too of course but the traditional style ones are flawless.

Yeah that was me... Now you know my alias.

I love that someone actually referred to the Pierogie map. No. They're actually different. The other Pierogies are smaller and like dry Pierogie nuggets. The good ones are huge, cooked differently, better tasting and served in a bowl.

Just far enough so your back isn't touching the seat. You can use the grab bar on the front of the train to pull yourself forward too. This method turned Mean Streak from "metal trash can rolling down a hill", to extremely fun. I didn't even pay this guy to say that. I promise.

There I was... enjoying a nice Monday afternoon drive and Boldikus had to text me with this lunacy. How is it that everyone's been fine for almost a century but now they decided that people have obviously gotten dumber and might get themselves run over by a roller coaster train if there wasn't a gate there to force them to not be idiots? WTF? (To be fair this won't impact operations at all though)

At the park now. Every single ride in the park is currently closed and cycling empty. That's really weird. Ire never seen anything like that before.

I never knew that but the thought of ever being in the park with the Millennium Force line that short is just a distant fantasy anyway. Lol

My wild speculation is that you've been smoking the good stuff.

Millennium ERT is the best ERT... not just because it's the best ride in the world, but once the line gets short they have a gate they can open that goes right from the unload station to the queue immediately outside the regular station so you don't have to walk around. That doesn't sound like a big deal but after walking around Cedar Point for an entire day it really is.

You can't take pictures on Sky Ride? Seriously? Lol oops

I never minded the snap either. People just like to complain.

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Riding Raptor with your head slightly forward is pretty good advice. I always do that instinctively. There's nothing you can to to prevent the snap so the best advice for that is to stop being a b**ch and embrace it.

Really? I would expect the ride to run slower during Halloweekends but as the day goes on it should speed up (not to the speed of a summertime night ride but to a faster speed than it ran earlier in the day). It should be running the slowest early in the morning. Nitro for example would often almost valley during Holiday in the Park at park open when it was in the 40's but after it ran all day it would run much faster, even as temps went down into the high 20's.

Between the back left of Montu and the back right of Kumba that park has 2 of the most ridiulous B&M coasters anywhere. I really wonder if BGT locals know how good they have it.

I love Gatekeeper but we never ride anywhere but the front seat. I agree on the metal bar so my personal favorite seat is the front outside seat on the left wing (station closest to the midway). Left wing is the best wing... remember that (are we still talking about coasters?) Oh and I'm glad someone else appreciates the Cedar Point Sky Ride as much as I do.

Yup. Wicked Cyclone is open.

Thunder Road was an incredibly mediocre coaster. Fury and Afterburn are by far the best coasters in the park. Intimidator is a great supporting ride and I'm one of the few that enjoy Nighthawk, Vortex Cobra and the others too. Fury really rounded out that park nicely and the flat ride package coming next year will help make it even better.

I'm looking forward to the trip report. I agree on Fury, the ride is absolutely insane. It's so good that it really changed my entire perspective on the park and brought the whole place up to the next level.

Maybe you blacked out and didn't remember it. Yeah, Montu in the back row is insane. I'd love to know how many g's it pulls going into that batwing. Good lord I love that thing.

In all seriousness I didn't think that your post was an issue at all, it's just that Prozach's response was hilarious. Relax. It's all in good fun.

If you can't handle a 10 minute wait on a beautiful Saturday in the summer for the best coaster in the park I really don't know what to say any more.