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http://www.screamscape.com/html/kemah_boardwalk.html I hope this doesn't equate to trims. Does anyone know what's going on?

Tatsu > Vekoma

I was a huge Batman nerd as a kid. I probably have hundreds of Batman comics in an attic somewhere. Batman Begins was vastly superior to any of the other Batman films. Maybe it's because Tim Burton is a joke who freely admits that he doesn't read comics. He's too cool for that. The major flaw in Batman Begins was the villains. I just couldn't jive with the idea of Liam Neeson, formerly cast as a jedi, as a bad guy. His lethargic performance didn't help matters. Maybe Ledger will do better. He has big shoes to fill as Nicholson was amazing as The Joker.

Oh, duh. Let me drink some Iron City Beer, and see if I get it.

He said he wants to live in Europe, not the Middle East. Not really. Of those cities only London is in the top 4, but all of those cities are in the top 10. http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/15/pf/most_expensive_cities/ Either way, it's going to be $$$ to live in those cities.

These baby hypers are such an awesome idea. They'd be perfect for some of the smaller US parks. Maybe Holiday World could install one for their long awaited steel coaster.

The passes for Kentucky Kingdom, my closest Six Flags park, will be $37.49 under this deal! This feels like buying a stereo from a crack head.

Yes! I have no expectation to get several Intamin woodies in the US, but we need more than 1. With all the woodies that are going up, can't we get a few more?

Hell yes. Mind Bender is probably the best coaster at SFoG with its highly forceful loops, lap bar restraints, amazing drops in the back seat, and ejector air in the front seat. Arrow never made anything 1/10th as good.

I have purposefully avoided this story. I can't stand witch hunts and the orgies of false piety that ride in their wake. The pressure placed upon athletes is beyond our comprehension. Sports fans demand god-like performances and then hypocritically lash out in righteous indignation when athletes do what it takes to muster up these inhuman acts. Like it or not, the human body has a finite capacity for athleticism. Sports records often represent the fringe of what is humanly possible. It should come as no surprise then that breaking these records demands pharmaceutical enhancement. This story reminds me of the so-called scandal with Kate Moss's cocaine use a few years back. People feigned shock and disgust that a 30-something model required hard drugs to maintain her prepubescent physique.

It would still be better than calling a Bat-clone "Goliath" What about "Really Big Coaster"?

Give me a break. What are they going to do? Fly over to Spain and burn down the corporate offices of Parques Reunidos? Kinda hard to appeal to a bunch of decision makers on another continent through a language barrier and all. Changes would be slow and subtle, not cowboy-like. Let's hope that Parques Reunidos is as hands off as people are claiming.

The line for Hypersonic is absolutely a joke. We rode all of Kings Dominion's coasters in about 4 hours last July, and about 90 minutes of that time was spent in queue for Hypersonic. I don't think it's particularly hard to do Kings Dominion in half a day, provided that you're not there on Saturday or something.

Hahaha. Cedar Fair just makes it too easy to laugh at them. Those names smack of the cheap knock offs that are the very hallmark of the firm. I fully expect for Kings Island's hyper to be dubbed, "Big, Tall, Fast Coaster". Anyone ever see that film Repo Man? Everything in that film is generic. When he opens the fridge it's full of white cans labeled "Food". That's kind of how Cedar Fair rolls. I wonder when they're going to give up on paying marketing people to come up with these crap names, and will just start giving coasters numbers. Kings Dominion Coaster #1 Kings Dominion Coaster #2 etc.

Or maybe it's the coat hangers that they designed their coasters with. Tubular steel track was a big innovation to be sure, but no bigger than John Miller's under friction wheels or his anti-rollback dogs. And if you're going largely on the basis coaster inventions, Miller wins hands down. He had over 100 patents. Rockin' Space Mountain and Rockin' California Screamin' were total train wrecks. As long as they don't play "Stairway to Heaven" at all on Led Zeppelin - The Ride, it should be good though.

Maybe someone could call PTC, and politely ask if they would be willing to divulge which coasters have that style of headrests. That would get us pretty close to an answer. Any skilled social engineers here?

^Train could have been modified, or maybe that's the other train. How common is that ugly headrest? I don't remember seeing it anywhere, but on J2.

My guess is J2, but the blue on that train looks slightly lighter than in this picture.

I'm with you on this. Mark the calendar! B&M is way too conservative to be #1.

^Were they any more important than Schwarzkopf? Heck, I don't think so. There isn't a doubt in the world who had superior engineering. Stengel v. Toomer Toomer wouldn't even ride his own creations. Arrow's biggest legacy is the prevalence of OTSRs on steel coasters, which is hardly something to be proud of.

I love B&M inverts and hypers, but I give the edge to Intamin because their rides are a little bit edgier; give more forces, etc. Like the launch on Xcelerator, or the ejector airtime on El Toro. B&M would never take the intensity that high.

Bwahahahahahaha. You're comparing the rides by watching POVs? Talk about losing credibility. Ride Nitro, and then get back with me.

I can think of about 50 coasters that I like more than Millennium Force. Here are a few of them: El Toro Maverick Phoenix Nitro Heck, I like CP's Wildcat more than MF. And I'm not making that up. MF is a snore fest that needs a lot more airtime. Unique doesn't equal good. Son of Beast is unique.

Probably the worst ops I've ever seen were on Hades. Between cycles they would slouch in the corner with their backs facing the guests. It was funny to watch. Oh, and one of the ops on that stupid kiddie coaster that they won't let you ride was super rude in rejecting us. She wagged her finger at us and gave us a disapproving stare. Mind you there were no signs anywhere saying that we couldn't ride it.

^I consider Rumbler and Thunderhead to be roughly equal. Last year Thunderhead seriously underwhelmed me, but this year was a different story. I got one ass kicking ride in the back seat. It was super out-of-control with a lot of great pops of "GCI airtime". GCI seems to be stunningly competent at what they do. Their rides hold up a heck of a lot better than CCI/GG. Problem is that I'm just not that into twisters. Give me drops and airtime any day over curves.