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1. What is the best park visit you had in 2017? Dollywood 2. Have you ever traveled to a park with a specific ride in mind only for it to be closed all day? Yes. La Feria has Montana Rusa and Quimera closed. Also Lightning Rod in June, 2016. 3. GCI or Gravity Group? Pick one. GCI. Prowler and Renegade are both better than Voyage. 4. How many different parks did you visit in 2017? About 13 or so. 9 of which were new. 5. How many times did you visit your home park in 2017? Twice. 6. What was the first RMC you rode? Twisted Colossus during a commercial shoot before official opening! 7. Best view from the top of a lift? Wild Eagle? Wildfire (SDC)? Steel Dragon? Millennium Force? Superman (SFM)? Thunder Dolphin? 8. What new-for-2018 roller coaster are you most anticipating? Pick one. Steel Vengeance 9. RMC or Intamin? You can only choose one. I would've said Intamin until I rode Lightning Rod. But now def RMC 10. What was your favorite new-to-you ride of 2017? Lightning Rod. Best coaster ever 11. Money is no object. You can travel to any park in the world right now by snapping your fingers. Where are you going? Well, it's February, so there's a lot of closed stuff. Warner Bros Aus for DC Rivals, or Tokyo Disney. 12. Have you ever made out with someone in a queue line? Not full-on making out, no. 13. What is the last coaster that changed your top 10? Prowler. Way better than expected 14. Disney or Universal? I LOVE IOA, but Disney is better by average. 15. When is the last time you witnessed someone puke at a park? Don't think I ever really have, only the aftermath 16. How many new credits did you pick up in 2017? If you don't count, take your best guess... 47 17. You're at Magic Mountain. You have a one hour ERT session on ONE coaster of your choice. You choose... You're wrong if you don't pick Twisted Colossus 18. Name a coaster or ride that you passionately dislike. Time Warp at CW. What a piece of trash 19. What is the most amount of money you've spent on a Fast Pass? $70? 20. Skyscreamers or Windseekers? The really tall Scyscreamers (Texas, Mass., Sweden) 21. What is your most recent B&M credit? Patriot at WoF. Lot less bad than so many here tried to convince me 22. Best adult beverage at a theme park? (under 21: whats your favorite beverage you can only get at a park?) SWSD has a great selection of local craft brews. Not even just Busch products. 23. Most irritating coaster nickname/abbreviation? "Maggie" for Magnum bothers me a bit. 24. Butterbeer or Dole Whip? Butterbeer for sure 25. Favorite steel coaster *under* 100 feet? Mega Lite 26. What's the best bathroom at your home park? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 27. Nighttime ERT on Lightning Rod or all-you-can-eat Cinnamon Bread? You can only choose one. Lightning Rod. You can barely finish one cinnamon bread as it is - That shit is heavy, but so good 28. If it were in your power, what coaster would you relocate to Knoebels? Boulder Dash deserves a better park than Compounce. 29. What is the last thing you remember eating in a theme park? Funnel Cake 30. Your favorite coaster got equipped with on board audio x Spotify. What's your hype track? LCD, Dance yrself clean. 31. Name the most disappointing ride you took in 2017. Cannibal kinda disappointed me. The drop was fun, but the rest, mehh 32. Airtime hill or Zero G Roll? Airtime > anything else 33. What is your favorite coaster/ride built before 1970? Coaster at Playland in Vancouver 34. What's worse - splashed by malaria lake flume water or dripped on by chain lift grease? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 35. Name an Intamin coaster on your bucketlist! Hyperion at Energylandia 36. You just won a 3 day trip with hotel and airfare included. The catch is you have to choose between Disneyworld or Cedar Point. Which do you choose and why? Cedar Point has more that I can't normally do/ride. 37. Floater or Ejector? Ejector 38. What was your worst park experience of 2017? SFOG, only cause the rain never let up all day. Many coasters never opened or only did for 1 hour. 39. Name your favorite coaster under 41 feet tall. There might be one I can't think of right now, but Manta (SWSD) keeps popping in my head 40. End your post with an aerial shot of one of your top 5 coasters. Still under construction, but I really like this one.

Is that why Dodonpa's launch is so mild? Or how Kawasemi has mild airtime? Or Flying Dinosaur has a mildly forceful layout? Oh wait...

Are you drunk?

That's an excellent sentiment

Because rebel is apparently racist now and the SJWs cant have that, instead they want sh*t names like Racer 75 WTF are you even talking about?

So this is what CGA is looking at right about now - Encircled in red are the removed rides. Also, keep in mind that Firefall's lot is still vacant

Don't forget that Fastlane at Cedar Point is not a "front of the line pass". On Maverick you can easily wait 45 minutes and generally wait about 15 with Fastlane. On Millennium Force, Magnum, Dragster and others you're waiting at least 20 (assuming of course that you don't want the front). At Hershey you pretty much get dumped into the station (usually up the exit path) and board the next available train with seats reserved specifically for people using the pass. Obviously if they sell a lot of these the experience might be diminished but if they keep the price point where it is and the experience stays about the same then you're arguably getting a better product at Hershey (although you can't always pick your seat which is unfortunate). Yoshifan just pointed out that old system changed. There's merge points just like CP now. And still, I like the merge points better because I can wait for a back/front row ride for hardly any time instead of always taking row 5 or whatever.

Cedar Point charges a similar price, no? Would we want it cheaper where its affordable for more people therefore making the fast lane lines long and the standby wait even longer? I paid maybe $70 for FL+ at CP in 2016. Which I found incredibly fair at a park with unlimited amazing coasters (and long lines) $110 seems awfully steep for a park like Hershey. From my experience, only a few coasters had long lines (Fahrenheit, spinner in a box, kinda Storm Runner?). Maybe I've just been lucky? Hershey admission is already on the higher end to begin with. That being said, if I only had one day and I could never return to Hershey, then I might consider it.

Lol, that reminds me. My school's yearbook misspelled the word "school"...

How did the rest of us not notice this? (well, I guess that's how it slipped by...) That's so embarrassing... That shirt design was awful to begin with, but come on...

Here is the beautiful engrish translation on that facebook post.

Alpengeist Behemoth Coaster (Playland) Diamondback El Toro Fury 325 Goliath (SFOG) Hollywood Dream: The Ride Intimidator 305 Joker (SFDK) Kraken Lightning Rod Maverick Nitro Outlaw Run Phoenix Quicksilver Express Renegade Skyrush Twisted Colossus Ultra Twister (Nagashima) Voyage Wicked Cyclone Xcelerator Y - Missing (Only 9 coasters ever exisited started with 'Y') Zoooooom (Oak's, lol)

https://www.kingsdominion.com/blog/breaking-news-the-first-train-for-twisted-timbers-has-arrived And from their twitter:

Me neither, both were uncomfortable and unremarkable. I think you're only surprised because you're seeing Six Flags construction timelines in relation to three other CA parks that have really kicked it in gear this off-season (All 3 CA coasters had completed trackwork by mid-January for god's sake). I wouldn't expect either SF park to begin vertical construction on their rides until April at the earliest.

Even if it's the "standard" clone, it's hilarious that the likely best coaster in the region is in somebody's backyard.

http://www.cdapress.com/local_news/20180123/best_grandpa_ever Fred Grubb is building a Raptor in his LITERAL backyard... Woah

Is this English? A purer form than you or I could ever comprehend.

Never been to West PA, unfortunately. Maybe later this year with Steel Vengeance?

I recently refined my ranking style which kinda helped make my list - It's still hard for me to rank wood/steel combined. I'm only really ranking coasters that I give an 8/10 or higher. I can't bother ranking coasters I like less than these ones. It becomes very tedious Some notes: Intamin can make some truly incredible coasters, five are a perfect 10. None of the 10 ridden RMCs have ranked lower than a 9/10 for me - In fact 3 are a perfect 10! I think the top-tier GCI coasters deserve a LOT more recognition and are much better than made out to be. Although they can feel a bit samsies, I love me some B&M Hypers! Finally, everyone should fly out to Vancouver and ride Coaster, like, right now. 10/10 Roller Coasters 1. Lightning Rod RMC at Dollywood. 2. Intimidator 305 Intamin at KD. 3. Maverick Intamin at CP. 4. Outlaw Run RMC at SDC. 5. Skyrush Intamin at Hersheypark. 6. El Toro Intamin at SFGAdv. 7. Medusa Steel Coaster RMC at SFM. 8. Phoenix PTC at Knoebels. 9. Mega-Lite Intamin at HVSH. 10. Coaster CarlPhare at Playland. 9+/10 Coasters 11. Fury 325 B&M at Carowinds. 12. Iron Rattler RMC at SFFT. 13. Twisted Colossus RMC at SFMM. 14. Superman the Ride Intamin at SFNE. 15. New Texas Giant RMC at SFOT. 16. Prowler GCI at WOF. 17. Behemoth B&M at CW. 18. Joker RMC at SFDK. 19. Renegade GCI at VF. 20. Mako B&M at SWO. 21. Diamondback B&M at KI. 22. Voyage GG at HW. 23. Storm Chaser RMC at KK. 24. Goliath B&M at SFOG. 25. Goliath RMC at SFGAm. 26. Gold Striker GCI at CGA. 27. Millennium Force Intamin at CP. 28. Lightning Run Chance at KK. 29. Nitro B&M at SFGAdv. 30. Leviathan B&M at CW. 31. Wicked Cyclone RMC at SFNE. 32. Diving Coaster B&M at HVSH. 33. Sheikra B&M at BGT. 34. Storm Runner Intamin at Hersheypark. 35. Flying Dinosaur B&M at USJ. 8+/10 Coasters 36. Boulder Dash CCI at LakeCompounce. 37. Thunderhead GCI at Dollywood. 38. Steel Dragon 2000 Morgan at Nagashima. 39. Griffon B&M at BGW. 40. Superman el Último Escape Morgan at SFM. 41. Tremors CCI at Silverwood. 42. Goliath B&M at LaRonde. 43. Intimidator B&M at Carowinds. 44. Alpengeist B&M at BGW. 45. Hollywood Dream: The Ride B&M at USJ. 46. Montu B&M at BGT. 47. Raging Bull B&M at SFGAm. 48. Legend CCI at HW. 49. Xcelerator Intamin at Knotts. 50. Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit Maurer at USF. 51. Beast Dinn at KI. 52. Top Thrill Dragster Intamin at CP. 53. Superman Krypton Coaster B&M at SFFT. 54. Cheetah Hunt Intamin at BGT. 55. Raven CCI at HW. 56. Apollo's Chariot B&M at BGW. 57. White Lightning GCI at FunSpot. 58. Valravn B&M at CP. 59. Magnum XL-200 Arrow at CP. 60. GhostRider CCI at Knotts. Also, can I just say that I'm really happy with my Top 60 here. All 60 of these coasters are so much fun and so great and I'm so lucky to have ridden them!

Are you allowed to be operating this drone where you are? It sure looks like it's over CF's property, which without permission is definitely against their rules

I'm hoping for another B&M Hyper

That was my first thought too! I think VR and hard OTSRs is borderline dangerous.

I'm really hoping that I'll be able to ride this when I visit in late June! I may be cutting it close

Right! I forgot to say that I really do enjoy the layout designs and launch accelerations that Premier uses! They often incorporate airtime and inversions and don't shy away from strong forces. Just those darn trains keep those coasters from being great to me. Disclaimer: I don't think Skyrush's restraints are even that bad.