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Eh. Roller coasters and other attractions don't need "official" logos. Half the time the official logo isn't actually used at the real entrance to the attraction anyway.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Swat / Catapult have a lot of downtime? Those of you from the UK, how's Slammer doing? Swat was supposed to have an over two-minute spinning cycle when it opened, but recently Sky Swatters have only done three spins one way, three spins the other.

I mean, unfortunately they have to do the best with the space they have. They'd have to redesign the entire plaza to accommodate for the extra security procedures for that sort of thing to not happen.

But keeping it in "great condition" comes at what cost? Ripsaw could have been a money pit for the park, and they likely decided that the cost to maintain it was too much to justify keeping it going.

Totally fair comparison, and now I'm curious. I wonder - what kind of ridership does the Big Manhattan Roller Coaster Apple Express get that isn't already staying at the resort? Is it a popular local attraction?

Respectfully, I'm still not sure what the point of these things are. With a traditional park development you can change and evolve as the years go on but when the big coaster is effectively your only attraction I feel like the buzz is going to die down sooner rather than later. Sure, the nightclub will help, but I don't think that it's going to be enough for the development to remain popular with anyone other than locals with too much money and the occasional tourists ten years down the road. As always, willing to be proven wrong...

Twenty on Phoenix one day a few years ago, and I still got to enjoy the rest of the park.

The big coaster looks great, and I really like how compact the park is. Nice work! HOWEVER... It would appear as though you posted this park in another forum and thought you could just copy and paste the text and code to ours with no problem. Please be aware that we use a slightly different kind of board code around here, and please don't make me go through and make edits again. That's what the "preview" function is for!

I know they're pretty intense, but are Mega Lites family-friendly only in terms of at the very least being able to be ridden by more than just adults? I know that Piraten has a 140 cm / 55 in height restriction, but what about Kawasemi and the Chinese ones? I'm wondering if they're appropriate to act as an older child's / younger teenager's first "full-size coaster", if they were to design one without the first intense low-to-the-ground curve (basically, just being all about the hills). I don't really have a family myself so I thought I'd ask...

Honestly, I would skip all the technical mumbo-jumbo and just say that they look bulkier.

"Sorry, to see this ride in 3D you have to have to be on a two-year contract with a $10 monthly glasses fee."

Interesting approach, for sure.

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Very slight differences, but likely helpful. Maybe if Flying Aces is well-received they'll replace the ones on Skyrush, but that's solely on Hersheypark.

Yeah, I'm in the camp that the video was shot pretty close to the IAAPA Attractions Expo, otherwise we would have heard about it, right? They made a big deal back when they first stuck virtual reality headsets on Blue Fire, and that was a while ago.

Parks with crammed roller coaster lineups, specifically Great Bear / Coal Cracker / Sooperdooperlooper / Skyrush / Comet, and Kvasten / Twister / Jetline / Vilda Musen.

To add to this, another part of the reason why Rocky Mountain trains, Premier trains and Zierer elevated seating trains have the knee bar is because the cars have completely open fronts and are close together - freely-moving legs would be dangerous in those situations.

I'm pretty sure that's the big difference and what makes it suitable for inversions. In case of a failure it opens upward instead of forward, right?

So they don't care about the quality of the assets, does this mean that they pretty much allow the parks to keep their independence, without any major interference from the firm, so long as they keep performing well?

I don't think that we need to be able to put our own textures on the cars, but a plain, solid-color, graphic-free car design would be much appreciated.

I'd bet on single cars based purely on how quick that drop is. The back seat of a multi-car train over that drop would be downright painful.

Pilgrims Plunge wasn't a bad concept, it was basically just a gigantic shoot-the-chute. It wasn't marketed as a roller coaster (was it?). You're better off comparing Pulsar to Divertical.

If anything, Great Coasters brought in one of the things that most wooden coasters at the time were missing - twists and turns. Before Great Coasters came in all you had were wooden coasters with straight hills and elevated level turns (and the VERY occasional twister layout). Really, the only variance in that formula came from coasters like Texas Giant, Mean Streak and others, which had some sweeping curves. We may think that Great Coasters' coasters are missing certain things, but they as a company have helped the wooden coaster as a whole.

If Disney takes over the world, I'm going to go live on Deep Space Nine.

Both Talon and Hydra at Dorney Park are incredibly smooth. They're both like gliding.