VoyageVinnie

Kind of funny, if you read through the description for the Boomerang it states that the rides finishes by "gently stopping in the station".

In my opinion you're much better off finding an area with a high concentration of parks and hitting all of those (i.e. Pennsylvania- Dorney, Hershey, Kennywood, Knoebels). You're going to be asking a lot of your body to try to pull that trip off, not to mention the amount of money that requires. Even if you wanted to make the trip a little longer you could always go right down the east coast and hit parks along the way.

Just so you know, the 3rd car on Chiller did actually become detached from car 4 when it vallied, thus causing the shutdown of all the Six Flags Premier launch coasters.

I really enjoy riding B&M's no matter what the element layout is, but I find that the thought of a B&M just doesn't excite me the way an Intamin or Gravity Group or GCI coaster does. Really I find myself traveling for Intamin or GG over every other company. B&M makes a solid addition to a coaster line up at any park because you know it will be smooth and for the most part be a tremendous ride. It just isn't as exciting as what some other companies can put out right now. Maybe this is just me, or do any of the rest of you understand where I'm coming from with this? My perfect example is Hershey Park. I pretty much went there for Storm Runner and Lightning Racer, but enjoyed riding Great Bear while I was there. Maybe if B&M started doing something fresh and new it would renew my desire to see them build more. They sort of started that by building Tatsu, which I need someone to let me know if that is worth my flight out to LA from Cleveland Ohio. Thanks

Wood ~ Son of Beast, J2 Steel ~ Viper @ SFGAdv, FoF with OTSR

Cedar Fair reuses the names within the entire chain. Cedar Fair knew they were going to purchase SFWoA way ahead of the opening day. In fact I was at WoA the last weekend during the Halloween season before it became Geauga Lake cleaning so the park would look nice for the Cedar Fair executives. So they had plenty of time to think up creative names for all the rides they knew they would not be able to keep the names for. Cedar Fair just isn't creative with their names. They really need to get someone on board with them who can think up more creative names. My RCT parks have some awesome names, maybe Cedar Fair should hire me.

Not because of the height or speed but Kingda Ka now scares me. Too many big problems. 128 MPH metal parts would probably hurt.

Just so you know, I worked at Six Flags in Ohio ever since it was a "Six Flags" park. I know how it was and I know how it is now. There is a reason that the attendance went from 2 million when it was SFWoA down to 700 thousand as Geauga Lake. To say that PKI is a children only park is a little ridiculous. If you are going to say that then you might as well say that Cedar Point is a 48" and up park only. There are too many people out there, especially enthusiasts, who want only these huge roller coasters to go in these parks and criticize every park who doesn't do that. I would much rather go to a park like Kennywood or Holiday World than to a park like Cedar Point due to the quality of the coaster and the excellent variety of flat rides at each (especially Kennywood). As you will see, the move of the waterpark at Geauga Lake was a bad one for a few reasons. The biggest reason it was a bad move was because the local people who only attend the park once or twice a year, who make up the majority of the attendance, had an emotional tie to Sea World. Six Flags new this and instead of trying to build something all new they used what was there and people loved it. By Geauga Lake tearing all that out, they have really upset a lot of people. Plus if you haven't realized it yet they moved the water park in order to charge a separate gate admission. Boo to separate gate admissions. I fear for The Beast, that it's fate may be the same as Mean Streak

I personally am disappointed with this news. Kings Island has been one of the parks I really look forward to going to every summer. Now I have concerns as to how it will be maintained in the hands of Cedar Fair. While I still think Cedar Point is a great park it has slowly gone downhill since the days when I used to visit as a child and all through my teenage years. Cedar Fair is not exactly the best in the industry at maintaining a family park. Cedar Point doesn't have a flume ride anymore and their children's areas are just so- so. Kings Island has prided themselves on making their park a family destination and have been very good at doing so. Just because these parks are in the hands of Cedar Fair doesn't mean huge new coasters all around. Perfect example is Geauga Lake. Cedar Fair has done a very good job at driving the crowds away from that park by doing nothing but making the park smaller. Cedar Fair needs to watch that they don't fall into the same pit Six Flags did by becoming too big too fast. Also, knowing cedar Fair there will be an additional charge added onto any season pass purchase if you wish for your pass to include Cedar Point and Geauga Lake. The normal Cedar Point pass is $99, if you want to include Geauga Lake the price is $130. I just hope they don't rip the park apart like they did to Geauga Lake.