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The more I ride the coaster, the more I like it. It's definitely not forceless (for a floorless coaster) it has a great zero g roll and the corkscrews at the end are a very good, intense finish. Personally I love this ride, but it's smaller and shorter than the others which is probably why it's ranked behind them. It's a very good ride and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

I really do like Magnum. I usually ride it a few times whenever I get to Cedar Point and if you sit in the right seat it can be very enjoyable. That being said it's nowhere near a top 10 coaster... that's just ridiculous.

These coaster protests don't ever stop being funny. Great Adventure doesn't care how many signatures you have on a sheet of paper (or in this case on a website). If you love the ride so much, you should have ridden it more often. They could have had a billion signatures and nobody would care if it wasn't a reflection of the numbers on the turnstiles. If everyone actually loved Rolling Thunder as much as they apparently do now, then it would have had a 2 hour line every day and if that were the case the park would never be removing it. The truth is that Rolling Thunder is a mediocre coaster. We spent the last few years trying to like this ride whenever we went to the park. We rode it in the front, the middle, the back, in the pouring rain, at night... everything. No matter where or when we rode this ride it provided no airtime at all, no good laterals and really nothing to make it an interesting ride. Rolling Thunder is one of the most forgettable, mediocre coasters I've ever ridden and I can't make myself care that it's being removed. The biggest complaint by these people seems to be that without Rolling Thunder, Great Adventure doesn't have a coaster for kids who are too old for the kiddy coasters but not ready for the full sized rides yet but I don't get this argument at all. Rolling thunder IS a full size coaster. Also, they have Blackbeard's Lost Treasure Train, Skull Mountain, Dark Knight and Runaway Mine Train, so they have plenty of rides for this age group. Great Adventure is my home park and I can't even make myself care enough to go today. Even if I did, I'd probably ride it once (or not at all if it had a long line since it's being removed after today) and then go ride Nitro, El Toro, Batman, Bizarro, Kingda Ka or any of the other coasters that are better than Rolling Thunder.

X2, this ride is incredibly rough and is easily one of the worst coasters I've ever ridden.

And Magnum XL 200 solidifies it's ranking as the most overrated coaster in the history of ever by being ranked as the 9th best steel coaster in the world ahead of I305. I love Magnum, but are you kidding me? When will this end?

You forgot about Flying... nevermind.

Dorney replacing arguably their best coaster (which was extremely reliable) with an unreliable piece of crap that routinely valleys, has stranded riders for hours and even when it's working fine it's easily the worst, least popular coaster in the park.

Every single coaster at Dorney has an unnecessarily long queue line. People always say that they get crowded on Saturdays but we go on Saturdays all the time and there is never more than a 5 minute line for anything, even after the waterpark closes. I feel kind of bad for Dorney, it's almost like they really think eventually they'll have a day where people actually show up.

Paratrooper is the least ridden flat? That's terrible. People have no taste, I ride these whenever I see them.

So we went to Cedar Point over Labor Day weekend and had a great time. Here's my TR. We left right from my office in New York on Thursday night and got there around 1:00 in the morning. We spent 3 days at the park and got there for early entry each day and stayed until the park closed. The forecast was questionable but every day turned out to be gorgeous with very few clouds in the sky by mid afternoon. This was my first trip since 2006 and my girlfriend's first trip ever. We had an unbelievable time, and though we were prepared to buy Fastlane Plus we didn't need to. Lines were short on Friday, and on Saturday and Sunday they weren't a problem if you started at the back of the park and worked your way forward (Raptor and Gatekeeper had full queues in the morning but got down to about 30 minutes later on). I'm not going to bore you with details on every ride, but here are a few key points. I'll start with the good things... and then get to the one negative (also known as the rain policy). Millennium Force: This has been my favorite coaster since I first rode it in 2001 (I've now been on 197 coasters total, not that I'm a nerd or anything lol) but after hearing the negative reviews from coaster enthusiasts and seeing how Bizarro at SFNE has deteriorated and become extremely rattly I had my concerns. I was actually ready to declare El Toro my new favorite coaster but wanted to give Millennium Force one more ride first to make sure and I'm so glad I did. The first day we were there we rode this coaster in the front first thing in the morning and at night in the same seat. It was an amazing experience. The view from the top is breathtaking, and the speed never lets up. One thing this coaster has over i305 is that it's close proximity to trees, tunnels and buildings enhances the sensation of speed, and speed is really what this ride is all about. The second and third day we were at the park we made this the last ride of the night and sat in the back of the train. I know it seems to be a widely accepted fact that this coaster has no airtime but this really isn't the case at all. You have great airtime all the way down the first drop (we're not talking El Toro here… but it's still significant) and on the hills exiting the first tunnel and entering the second tunnel you get ejector airtime (again… we're not talking El Toro here but it's great airtime). I also loved the last over banked turn and the over banked turn on the island in the back seat because of the way you get pulled through the second half of the turns at such high speeds. Like I said before… the relentless speed is why I love this ride. Millennium Force is still my favorite coaster, it's a front seat ride during the day and a back seat ride at night. GateKeeper: I was nervous about this coaster because I've heard everything from "painful" to "boring" from enthusiasts but this is a great ride. I think it's important that I say that every time we rode it we rode it in the front (though we did switch sides) so it's very possible that that's why we didn't have any issues with it. This coaster is a ton of fun, the keyholes are really cool and the pretzel is great. I did find the bar on the inside seats a little annoying as I kept banging into it but in the outside seats this coaster is exceptional. You really do get a sensation of flight and I think it's one of the best coasters at Cedar Point. We found this coaster to be very smooth, but again we only rode in the front seat. This is now my girlfriend's favorite coaster (she's ridden Phoenix, i305, Bizarro at SFNE, El Toro and Millennium Force, I don't get it but I don't have to I guess, lol). Raptor: I think every enthusiast has at least one coaster that they can't get enough of that everyone else completely overlooks. For me, this coaster is Raptor. I love old school inverts, and this coaster has the great intensity that the newer B&M coasters lack. This coaster can be a little bumpy, but just like Gatekeeper we only ride it in the front and the only issues at all are in the cobra roll and on the last turn and they're very minimal. Every inversion on this coaster is taken at a high speed and is very compact which makes for a very intense ride. I haven't ridden Montu or Nemesis which i've heard are the cream of the crop, but out of the inverts I've ridden (Afterburn, a few Batman clones, Talon, Great Bear, Silver Bullet , Aplengeist and a few others I'm forgetting) Raptor is my favorite. Maverick: When we walked up to this ride I didn't know what to think, because despite the overwhelmingly positive reports it doesn't look like much. After riding it, I think this is my second favorite coaster at the park (right after Millennium Force). I held onto the restraints so they didn't really bother me at all and was reminded a lot of i305 with the insanely quick lateral transitions. This coaster also has some great airtime and that awesome launch mid-way through. Maverick has a little bit of everything, and it completely blew it away. Operations: One thing I've always loved about Cedar Point is the ride ops. They make riding the coasters an event, and walk around with wireless headsets trying to get the people on the ride and in line excited about the coaster they're about to ride and encouraging them to yell and scream. I don't think other parks do this nearly enough, and it's great to see such charismatic ride ops. They're also very quick on all of the coasters (except for Mantis which probably has more to do with the trains than the operators) and rarely stack trains. Rain Policy: Cedar Point's rain policy is completely asinine. From what I can tell, this is how it works If someone in the state of Ohio briefly thinks about rain, Iron Dragon closes. If there is actually a drop of rain anywhere in the park every single ride closes except for the car rides, the covered flat rides, a few random flat rides, the sky ride, the train and any coaster made by B&M. At one point it rained pretty hard (only for about 5 minutes) and Gatekeeper, Raptor and Mantis never closed. And the best part is that if it drizzles, Snake River Falls closes. There was actually a point where Dragster was sending full trains of riders and Snake River falls was closed due to weather conditions (we asked the person out front to make sure it wasn't mechanical). Why you would ever close a ride that gets you this incredibly soaked because of rain I'll never understand. Does anyone have any insight into why this ridiculous policy exists on Snake River Falls? The whole point of the ride is that it creates tidal wave of water that soaks the boats, everyone in them, everyone on the bridge and everything nearby… yet one drop of rain causes it to close. Luckily the periods of rain were brief, and the weekend was mostly sunny, but this policy is completely stupid, and a lot of guests were getting upset. I would understand it on Dragster and maybe even Millennium Force but that's about it. They take it to an unreasonable extreme. -------- Overall we had a great time. We stayed at a Super 8 about 10 minutes away for 50 bucks a night on Labor Day weekend, so with a Platinum Pass you can have a great mini vacation for just a few hundred dollars. All of their coasters are enjoyable except for Mantis, Corkscrew and Mean Streak and they have some great flats to balance them out (our favorite was Maxair which was closed all day Saturday and Sunday for some reason). The park as a whole is beautiful, they have the best location of any park I've ever been to. One day we did go to TGI Fridays at Hotel Breakers for dinner and got to sit outside and watch the sunset on the lake with Windseeker and the Ferris Wheel putting on a light show a few hundred yards away and I couldn't help but marvel at the great location the park has. I think this is going to be a Labor Day tradition from now on.

This post didn't get the attention it deserved. It made me laugh out loud at work. All kidding aside though, this thing looks outstanding. I rode Lex Luthor earlier this year and was very impressed, I'm sure this will be even better.

Knoebels just posted this picture of it at night, and is now responding to stupid posts again. lol They also said that it won't be open this weekend but they're close. EDIT, and I'm sorry to post one more of these but they're just ripping into these people (as they should) and I thought you would all enjoy it. In other news, Knoebels wants you to know that "Screamscape lives in a fantasy world".

I rode this when it was at Blue Diamond Park and I really enjoyed it (we were on the way to Rehoboth beach and stumbled upon the place by accident). It's nice to see it finally has a new home. It's been sitting in that field for years since Blue Diamond Park closed.

I'm happy with this addition... it looks like it will breathe some life into a dated looking area of the park.

I agree 100%. I've ridden Rolling Thunder quite a bit over the last few years and don't find it rough at all. I find it horribly boring in every seat, but not rough.

If this is true, it sounds like the drop tower rumor may be true since it's probably designed to blend with Kingda Ka (I'm sure we all thought of this already, it's not like I just made an amazing discovery). If that's what they're doing, then I wonder how we're going to get to it. I know the Rolling Thunder rumor has been popular lately but I don't see it, mainly because I don't see this ride being marketable if they move it anywhere and I don't see why they'd bother demolishing it because it's still mildly popular. The same can really be said for Bizarro. Not only is it a really long walk from kingda Ka, but I see no point in removing this coaster (though I think it's more plausible than removing Rolling Thunder). Maybe they can use part of the now-closed Golden Kingdom path or Safari Discoveries area?

The teacups the way we ride them... last time we rode them at SFNE when we stopped spinning everyone else was already off the ride. Usually I feel the same way leaving that ride that I do leaving the bar at 4am.

Viper at Great Adventure was just ridiculously terrible. It's the worst coaster I've ever ridden and nothing else is even close.

I can't even tell if you're being serious. The reason why responses like this are so ridiculous is because the stupid thing has been built for years now, why should ANYONE be surprised by the height/size/layout? It was always meant as a family coaster. And it should be obvious that they're doing it for the love of it, not because they're worried about how much business they're going to attract. Are you seriously comparing it to a new marquee attraction at Universal, as of the two have anything to do with each other at all? Or are you doing your best impression of all the dumb Facebook commentators? Because if so you forgot to add some spelling mistaeks.

Are there any rough B&M inverts? I've never ridden one. I actually think the inverts age better than all of their other coasters.

The realism of the video is amazing. Notice how at the start of the ride Windseeker is at the top of the tower. And at the end of the ride the riders are all still stuck up there. They left no stone unturned!

I really couldn't be any more excited right now. The inverted coaster is one of my favorite coaster types, and it's been way too long since one has been built in the US. This layout looks really unique and the ride looks absolutely massive (did anyone catch the height of the ride)? I always thought that inverts maintained their B&M smoothness longer than all of their other coasters, so this ride should be completely awesome for decades. I'm absolutely making a trip to Kings Island this year and I'm thrilled to see the invert come back to the US!

And so it begins... lol

Dinosaurs Alive Expansion! Woohoo!!!!

This stream is failing hard right now. lol There are an insane amount of people watching it.