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There is a shin bar. Well, it’s more like a “pad” than a bar, just like every other Premier 2nd-gen train. Look closely. Just confirming again that there will definitely be a shin guard here. Side rant ahead: IMO, Premier's trains have always been the worst features of all their coasters. Every single type of train they've offered is awful for some reason or another. They tend to go with a deep "bucket seat" design that when paired with the shin-guards ultimately gives your legs zero movement. I am tall and often get leg or hip cramps in Premier trains - I simply cannot sit comfortably or relaxed. They've got to rethink their trains and more specifically the seat-restraint interface. RMC has the same exact restraining system (floor-pivoting lap bar and shin guard), but it's somehow implemented so much better. It will be funny for guests riding Electric Eel consecutively with Manta, which might have the most comfortable trains on the planet (and ironically are capable of performing the same maneuvers as Premier coasters).

Electric Eel train revealed (No surprise, it's got OTSRs like Tempasta). Question for people that have ridden both Tempesto and a standard two-train SRII: Do the longer trains produce stronger airtime in the front or back rows? [second picture from CCK facebook]

http://www.listchallenges.com/every-north-american-wooden-roller-coaster-in-2017 Revisiting this since last February and my count has increased from 57 to 66! I rode Lightning Rod, Prowler, Renegade, Adventureland's 3, Legend (Arnold's Park), Timber Wolf, High Roller, and Roller Coaster (Lagoon) in 2017!

Save isn't working for me on Macbook Chrome. But dragging is! Also, it would be nice while dragging if the screen autoscrolled whiled holding the dragged item near the top of the screen (It already does this on the bottom of the screen). Right now there's a lot of drag, drop, scroll, repeat which can be tedious.

I love the idea! Hope this can be fully fleshed out I've noticed a few problems within the ranking page mechanics: - You cannot drag at all in Chrome. - You can drag in FireFox, but cannot save your ranking after. - You can drag in Internet Explorer, but cannot save your ranking after. (I don't have any other browsers to test on) Some notable (in my personal rankings) that are excluded in your database. You may want to consider adding: - All of Six Flags Over Georgia (Or at least Goliath and Mind Bender) - Santa Cruz Giant Dipper (I love that coaster) - Monster at Adventureland (Arguably best Gerstlauer in the US?).

Here ya go

Topping off of lift tomorrow. Also, that drop

Update! The ones with an asterisk are on the books for 2018! First Tier, Second Tier, Third Tier North America *Steel Vengeance *Phantom's Revenge *Mystic Timbers Twisted Timbers *RailBlazer / Wonder Woman Twisted Cyclone Ride of Steel (either) Mindbender Galaxyland Quimera (La Feria) *Ravine Flyer II Rampage Time Traveler Mine Blower Boardwalk Bullet Europe Hyperion *Expedition GeForce *Wildfire iSpeed *Goliath (Walibi) Piraten *Helix *Troy *Balder *Taron Icon (Blackpool) Shambhala Nemesis Katun Alpina Blitz Storm (Etnaland) Colossos Lech Coaster Karnan *Blue Fire Star Trek Dragon Khan *Karacho *Lost Gravity Speed Monster Junker *Black Mamba Olympia Looping *Silver Star Megafobia *Wodan *Twister (Grona Lund) Joris en de Draak Elsewhere T Express Flying Aces Mountain Flyer (Knight Valley) DC Rivals Hyper Coaster Flash Nefeskesen Atlantis Adventure Superman Escape Coaster Through Clouds Do-Dodonpa Formula Rossa Pyrenees Starry Sky Ripper Python in Bamboo Random new B&M Hypers in China ~ The rest of the Mega Lites That's about it...

I couldn't find if this was confirmed either way, but is it known what type of restraints Valkyria will have? Standard or vest (Like Valravn)?

Came across the gorgeous picture...

Can confirm, I was a ride op for Sub Quest all last summer and no one should be interested in that thing, even three year olds would find themselves bored. I've never encountered a "dark ride" that had so many issues either, I can't tell you how many times we had to evac riders off that thing. Definitely not the type of attraction you would expect from a park like SeaWorld. Submarine Quest was definitely a miss on the parks part. I have a feeling they will end up removing it in the future. It has soooo many technical issues. I wouldn't be surprised, that thing is a disaster

It's pretty hilarious that Liseberg's official account "liked" the post! If it did end up happening, Dorney's ride would still be inferior to one (maybe two) other Intamin Accelerators under 90 mins away.

The meme that won't die

Swung by the park after work - Lots of growth in the past couple days! Plus a little surprise The train!!!!!!

This is all true. Two other possible reasons: Crane access and staging area locations might be different and might require certain areas to be erected before or after others. Also consider that the RMC install crew may be trying different installation techniques in order to optimize Raptor construction for future projects. We are constantly trying to optimize on-site install time at my waterslide company.

Here's something interesting you don't see too often. Removed track pieces on El Toro's second hill. Carpenters are doing a little track work apparently. Photo from reddit

Right about here.

I can finally see Electric Eel from my house! Although I'm not completely enthused by the choice of coaster, I can't help but be excited watching a roller coaster grow in my backyard!

That thing is possibly the best ride in that place! The animatronics are hilarious

Interesting topic! It's been a relatively quiet year for me, so this might look strange. The only major parks I visited were Disneyland, SWSD, SWO, Dollywood, SFOG, Lagoon, Castles 'n Coasters, Valleyfair, World's of Fun, and Adventureland. 1. Lightning Rod, NEW - Not only best of the year, but best of my life. 2. Prowler, NEW - Surprisingly amazing, I was not ready for how fun this was. 3. Mako, NEW - Definitely one of the better B&M Hypers, very fun! 4. Renegade, NEW - Also great, just like Prowler. Second half is powerful. 5. Goliath (SFOG) - Only a couple rainy slowish rides this spring. Still a top 25 ride, especially once warmed up. 6. Tennessee Tornado - Such an amazingly solid looper. I simply love this one! 7. Monster, NEW - The best Gerstlauer I've ridden. Some great parts, but the elements are pretty laggy and strange. 8. Mamba, NEW - A lot less lame than I anticipated! The first few hills have some stellar floater, plus I love the length! 9. Cannibal, NEW - It's ok. The drop is incredible, the following inversions are fun, but the second half is pretty weak/meh. 10. Manta (SWSD) - A wonderful family coaster, I'm so glad to have this less than a mile from where I live.

My favorite on-ride picture - Diving Coaster at Happy Valley Shanghai. I'm sure everybody can tell where I am. Almost every single person here looks terrified for their life.

At least they got the enormous ill-fitting suit and terrible hair right. They could've toned up the orange spray a little bit though.

Did Elissa also stop counting? I remember talking to her about counting a little bit on the trip in 2012. Yes. 2012 was the year we did that big China trip and we had all those horrible credit whores on that trip that kept insisting that we add crappy little parks to ride garbage credits, which we succumbed to (and yet more reasons why we don't do public tours anymore, but that's a whole other thread...) We probably rode at least 25 garbage kiddie coasters on that trip, maybe more, just so that people could pad their count. We got back from that trip and when we sat down to add them to a list, first of all, we couldn't even remember half of them because they all sucked, and we realized at that point how dumb it was that people would go out of their way to ride total crap just prove to the world that they had a higher coaster count. Unless you're talking to another sad and pathetic coaster nerd who also meticulously counts coasters like Rain Man, just saying "I went to China to ride roller coasters" is usually enough to impress the masses if that's the kind of thing you are into. I feel you, just being in China is stressful enough. I couldn't imagine figuring out all the logistics to go out of the way to multiple lame, boring China credits. I'm sure I would resent this hobby if I were in your position there. I'm down for the Mega-Lites, but why waste your time with monotonous stuff you'll surely forget?

Honestly, none of the 5 Eurofighters I’ve ridden were great. They all fall into a fun, but ehh category. Some are rough, some are just slow or have bad pacing, but none stand out to me. Maybe the European ones are better? Id rank them as follows: 1. Monster (great drop, but every element feels like it was designed to almost stall the train. You barely make it through like 6 elements here) 2. Mystery Mine (very interesting, but the first half is quite uncomfortable.) 3. Rage (smoothest, but shortest) 4. SpongeBob (Ehh, it's ok) 5. Dare Devil Dive (Boring and forgettable) I really love the designs, layouts, and innovations that Gerst comes up with, but I feel like they never quite mastered the basics.

Update after this year: 1. Fire Dragon (RIP) 2. Alpengeist (better pacing than Montu) 3. Montu (what happened during that second half? slowwwwww) ... Bit of a gap here 4. Banshee 5. Afterburn 6. Patriot (underrated) 7. Ice Dragon 8. Raptor 9. Flight Deck (so good, just wish it was longer) 10. Silver Bullet 11. Batman (I've ridden 7, they're all about the same) 12. Great Bear