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Now that would be cool...

it did a lot for carowinds this year...

I think I would actually travel to ride that coaster if it were built! It has the best of everything in my opinion!

Ride outdated??? or theme? For the Island its in I think it fits pretty well. Heck, for that measure all the themeing in toon lagoon is outdated, to kids and young adults. But every island has it's demographics in my opinion.

Biggest dissapointment...OTSR! But seriously? Was anyone happy with anything that happen this year?

Thats not how most construction projects work around here. If you contract someone to do something and they screw it up, its up to them to fix it. Thats the cause of a law suit....but in this case I have no idea. This doesn't seem like intamin screwed up at all. Its just an intense ride that the general public wasn't quite ready for.

Really, people were expecting anything different than widening the turn?

Meh, when it comes to coasters there really isn't anything new under the sun, regardless of company. There's only so much thats left to be done thats really innovative.

IMO, it's not the effect, it's for safety reasons. The trains on Dare Devil Dive and Huracan (Belantis) are a whole row longer than the standard Eurofighter trains like on Rock Bottom Plunge. The drop would produce unbearable negative forces for those riding in the back if it wasn't fitted with a holding brake. Not true. Thats merely 2-3 foot more of car. Thats not enough to take g forces from bearable to unbearable. Also Huracan doesn't stop. in my opinion the forces are counteracted by the larger diameter at the crest vs the small diameter on traditional eurofighters.

No, what I was saying is that just isnt a section of a park for them. This 'is' the wizarding world and J.K. Rowling didnt want this to be a novelity addition to all the parks. Im not saying it cant be done but I dont know how Rowling would feel about having various hogwarts scattered around the world. First of all it would expensive as hell if stayed true and a replica of USO's version. UO already had the basic rides they just built forbidden journey but if its to be a replica they would have to build 2 expensive dueling coasters, all buildings from stratch and a jr coaster. I know I personally wouldnt want to go to USH to experience it when the same thing is right here on the east coast. I think people from all over the world have shown UO they they are fine with it being just there and didnt mind traveling all the way there. Now what would be cool is if UH could build a section like it but themed to a different franchise (world of warcraft perhaps).

^ transformers? Simpsons?

I hope its not true. That defies all logistics of what orlando went thru. They aren't marketing it as a "replica" they are making it seem as you are in the wizarding world, which means there is only one...in the world.

Being that the seats dont rotate and its not a flyer I dont think they can do that??

The same way a heartline can be replaced with a s-turn, a loop can be replaced with a straight section. I dont think they said they are starting at the bottom of the turn to where it starts to go up. Remember the pictures so half of the second hill gone. I personally think an overbank would be harder than widening the turn.

I mean look at IOA. Back near dragons that wall is pretty darn high!

I do a lot of gardening. Right now I have a winter garden going with a variety of greens. I also do photography but as long as planes fly I dont have an off season lol...

If im not mistaken not all of them had crazy downtime like the first 3 did...I haven't really read about any problems with the one at movie world in madrid...

whoa! the vertical loop looks really round and that zero-g roll turn camelback maneuver looks REALLY fun!

I read masterplan...what im taking from that is thats not gonna all be installed in the first year but a glimpse of where they wanna take the park, right?

Its not a loop its a non inverting loop lol...

So far, 2 inline rolls and a dive loop/camel back? I say one more is brewing!

ka8911, I would also suggest (and this is for anyone) that if you have a pass for a park its good to find a good fan site for that park as well. I would suggest http://www.orlandounited.com/forums/forum.php for things to do with universal orlando. If it weren't for that site I wouldn't have known as much about the park and the pass options as I do and did for my trips there.

Personally I knew about it for a while now but im not going. I dont see whats special about it. 2 extra hours to be in the area? I never had a congestion problem so thats not a selling point for me.

Ahhh...I get it now. Thanks.