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I choose to cast aside your "bowel clogging" negativity and resume eating this delicious can of Play-Doh.

^ and if they build a B&M flyer with purple track it could be a Flying Purple People Eater.

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Raptor

Top Thrill Dragster

Nitro; and I'd be singing "Wonderwall" through the ascending helix as tears of sadness gushed forth.

I'm at the park right now. The rain this morning kept people away. The entire place is a walk-on. 3 train operation on Behemoth and the crew outnumber the guests most of the time. I rode Sledge Hammer back to back to back earlier and was the only rider all 3 times.

Please tell me it's not at the Food Lion. Funny. And no, not at the Food Lion.

If it turns out that it was RMC it's probably worth considering reassigning the torch guy with the dropsys to a new area of their construction team.

Resolutely deeming something that doesn't yet exist as "ugly" seems just a bit impetuous to me. And then there's the fact that it might actually turn out to be so mind-numbingly awesome that no one cares what it looks like.

I work in PR, by the way.

It was most likely a complete accident. Anything beyond that would require a shrewd marketing prowess atypical for Six Flags' PR team.

1) Arrange with the local fire department to set a controlled fire and foot the bill for their services 2) Pick a day the park is closed and destroy the top of the iconic lift hill in an incredibly photogenic blaze. 3) Get a staggering amount of worldwide press. "Colossus Has Fallen" was a top story over 2,500 miles away in Toronto. 4) Capture the hearts and imaginations of even non-enthusiasts. 5) Announce months later that, due to damages sustained, the lift hill has been reprofiled in a way not originally planned. 6) Colossus overcomes adversity and rises again as Twisted Colossus to a massive and heartfelt round of applause. Everyone loves a comeback. Of course this is just daydreaming and blind speculation on my part. It probably was just an accidental fire caused by a clumsy torch operator.

This is pretty much the best thing I've seen all day. "My elf slaves have made me rich beyond all dreams of avarice!"

Love the name. Love the "ugly" tower. Love that I finally have a great reason to visit Salt Lake City. Unless the initial reviews of Cannibal are just flat out bad, Lagoon is now on my short list of parks to visit next year.

^ it was a disaster when I rode it in 1993. I can't even fathom how rusty and jerky it must have been when they finally put it out of it's misery in 2011.

The worst coaster I ever experienced was Roller Coaster (aka Tetanus Shot '67) at Chippewa Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Ouch.

All kinds of great ideas there flotus. Thank you. Right now the rough itinerary I'm working with looks like this: PARK 1) indirect flight from Toronto to Stockholm. Full day at Gröna Lund. PARK 2) short flight from Stockholm to Gothenburg. Full day at Liseberg. Non-park, work related stuff for the remainder of the trip. PARK 3) maybe, maybe, maybe a side trip on the final day to one of the following: Tusenfryd, Tivoli Gardens or Djurs Sommerland. If park 3 happens, it will most likely come down to a last minute decision once I'm there. I have a work commitment that I'd have to ditch early in order to squeeze a 3rd park in. That's not likely to be a popular decision; but one I may be willing to live with. Djurs Sommerland is my first choice, but it's also the most difficult to pull off. All of that aside, it hadn't actually occurred to me to fly home via Frankfurt and get a 1/2 day at Holiday Park. hmmmmmm. That is definitely worth considering. Again, thank you. Until these last few days the entire trip plan has only existed inside my head. It's so helpful getting it out there and bouncing ideas off others.

WOW. Really... WOW. I have to keep reminding myself that this is actually real; not just some crazy speculation with wild mock ups. I'm so excited and curious to watch this play out.

An in-house design with an extreme layout is always going to be that extra bit thrilling the first time. You just can't anticipate how it's going to ride. That's worth a trip to Salt Lake City for me. Ok, well that and a gift shop brimming with eyeball soup, bone saws and dismembered corpses.

I personally think that stand-ups are kings of the gimmicky coasters. Flyers are an awkward concept in terms of dispatches and rider throughput; but they do provide a unique and pleasant sensation (at least until the "crushing your balls while you dangle for 15 minutes in the final brake run" part). Stand-ups are just a weird idea that some coked up executive had in the 80's.

This has got my attention. I'm always curious about in-house designed coasters; especially one's that step a bit outside the norm. I really hope they merchandise the crap out of it. I want to see an entire Cannibal themed store with super gory shirts, weird creepy food and severed body parts all over the place.

The B&M flyers are fun. Sure, I probably wouldn't want to wait more than 20 minutes for S:UF, but melting it down to paste would be a bit of an overreaction.

The longer you honk, the more you mean it.

^$70,000 pathway lighting. Great investment. Seriously though, that area does get crazy dark at night.