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I'm starting to really like the band god forbid. This is going to sound somewhat racist, but there is a way he(byron, the lead singer) that makes him sound different than many others, and I think it is because he is African American. It kind of makes him sound more throaty, which I like, because, I enjoy high pitched screaming like suicide silence(exhale screaming, generally) but it needs some inhale screaming to balance it out. Also, I like bands that are not just screaming, but still has a lot of screaming, and also has some normal screaming and fast guitar. Also, anyone else like Bodom? (Holy **** they are touring) I so want to go see them in October! I love Follow the Reaper!! Anyone ever been to the Glass House in Pamona? If I go will I get killed moshing(I want to mosh, but will probably need a break at some point)

I work at a water park called Wild Rivers(in Irvine,California) as a cashier, and as I was walking to a restaurant to work I heard over my supervisors walkie talkie.(they must be at a very loud volume in case there is an emergency) I heard over the walkie talkie that someone was trying to see if there was a promotion for people with an Elitch Gardens(in COLORADO) season passes. Why would we have a promotion?!?!? I laughed so hard, though.

Just watched the youtube videos and WoC looks awesome. My expectations have been exceeded already, and I already had high expectations. The show looks beautiful!

That kind of drop(I believe) is only found on Renegade. I really like the name jabberwocky, which is the monster in Alice and Wonderland.

Either SFMM(If my parents let me), I've spent a lot of time at parks so far this summer, and there will be a LOT more time spent at parks this summer, or One of the WDW parks. I am leaving in 8 days(the plane leaves July 29)

I'm kind of mixed about this coaster. I like the layout, but it looks like it's trying to be a schwarkopv, and the drop and the twist inversion(flatspin, I believe its called) kind of take away from the classicish feel.

^ Where do you think we are? Asia It's going to be called Flying Cobra

True, I found a larger image and it does look very drawn out. I would say go with afterburn. Just out of pure curiosity, how would you make a zero g roll look correctly in a model, it seems considerably more complicated than a loop or corkscrew.

I dont know if this is too hard, but what about Mirabilandia's Katun? The tunnels do not really need to be added, but the layout is somewhat similar to batmans(same inversions in besides the cobra roll.) The coaster is fairly unique, but could be pulled off pretty well. It will also allow you to try a helix and a cobra roll. Anyway, just my opinion of a cool looking coaster to recreate. Here is a pov from youtube

Haunted Holidays will still be there right?(Nightmare is one of my favorite movies of all time) This sounds like a cool idea, though. I love the fact that Jack will host the fireworks show and the concept of Ghost Galaxy. This thing is going to have some killer lines, lol.

^ I totally agree. It looks a little like Behemoth and Goliath(SFG) I also love the support work. Keep up the truly awesome work.

I have enjoyed this thread, and it totally sucks about your "GCI virginity" hopefully you will lose it soon(I am still a GCI virgin until I ride terminator sometime in the future) anyways, its cool that on a lot of your vacations you go to parks, I wish my family was more like that.

Awesome work, Derecho is beautiful, I cant wait to see whats next*There will be a particular white coaster opening at Magic Mountain soon that I would love to see something similar to.* There's my opinion, once again, great park and great coaster.

^ I am so confused/amazed by that awesome concept. I cant tell what kind of coaster(eurofighter?) and I cant even tell if that is an inversion(it looks like it) awesome work so far!

All right, I'm in. With my insomnia, I tend to play quite a bit of RCT2.

^ Amazing, reminds me a lot of the Fiesta village at knotts, Awesome attention to detail!

Can you guarantee results will be done in 2 weeks? That seems a bit fast, and I am leaving for Florida in exactly 2 weeks and one day, so I do not want to get involved unless I get some confirmation. I'll start this, and if it is done in 2 weeks awesome. If not, I will just make a mini park.

LOL, when I saw the update picture on the homepage I was like "OMG, thats a huge bug on KT" and then I realized she was drinking a bottle and I was confused why she was so calm, this makes much more sense,lol. If I was a baby and that have been a real spider I would have run away, and probably hit myself with the bottle with the bottle trying to get the spider. Bugs+bottles+KT-awesome.

^^^ Then that brake run is very stopping, you used to get completely thrown off the mcbr, bu now it is not nearly as fast.

I'm not as nice as him^ but I will give this coaster a 7.5. It seems like the airtime hills before the final brakes are too hard to brace yourself for and would cause pain. There were a few(mild) pumps, and there were some insane vertical g's. Overall very fun, but a little too intense, although I loved how it wasn't crazy fast and the pacing was great, so you got ejected throughout, a solid ride.

My friend and I went to knotts yesterday and we had an awesome time. We went to the park at about 1:00 and our first ride of the day was sierra sidewinder,(credit #1 of the day) as both of us had never been on it. The crews(at pretty much every ride besides accelerator/ghostrider were kind of slow) so we had anout 20-30 people in front of us and waited about 15 to 20 minutes. We had a pretty good first ride, but nothing compared to what was to come, there were two trains running, and one train had a back car(we waited for the back each ride) and we got the less spiny car. We then headed over to silver bullet where we waited for one to two trains for a ride. The ride was as forceless as ever, but still fun, and there is a nice pop of air before the second final corkscrew. We also decided to ride the mine train ride(calico mine, I think its called) as we had both never been on it not during haunt. The "conductor" spoke in a country accent was not comprehensible, and the ending is just so WTF its awesome(Oh no, dynamite) We then ate at Johnny Rockets, and the meal was pretty good(the shakes there kick ass) and I rode riptide, but my friend does not like topspins(he called it a flip ride, but I'm assuming that's what he meant as riptide is a topspin) I love these kind of rides because my body does not know how to react to the extremely slow and really fast inversions. We then rode accelerator, and I had never ridden in the back before. I have never got such ejector airtime in my life, in fact, I think it is now tied with apollo, and tatsu for my number 1(it was #4) In the video it looks like we are trying to stand up going over the tophat, and trying to fly after the vertical drop, it was running sooo well. My friend then decided to conquer his fear of Supreme Scream(its good that i am an enthusiast, cause when i asked what could happen he said a girl got her legs cut off, and i explained why that would not happen) It was fun, but I seem to remember it being a lot more intense than it actually was. The smaller one at the OC fair seems much more intense and is my favorite ride at the fair. We then headed into fiesta village and rode la revolution(huss giant frisbee, i think) and we also rode Montezuma revenge,which was only ok, but later on(a little later in the tr) it was running amazing. We also rode Jaguar, and it seemed like a lot of the original theming was gone(there were very few skulls) can anyone confirm the theming being gone. I did not like sharing a seat and there was no airtime. We then decided to take another ride on sierra sidewinder, and we barely spun this time, and it was the least favorite ride of the four we took. We also took another ride on silver bullet, which was slightly better in the back(a little force) We headed into Calico for a ride on the second row front car of the bronze ghostrider train(silver is my favorite for some reason) it was a rough, but not really painful, but the bar was down pretty far for my friend, but Ghostrider always seems better at night, and it always seems to be running best during haunt, imo. We rode boomerang cause my friend had never ridden it,and pony express was closed. It sucked. We then went back on Accelerator for another back seat ride, it kicked ass, but was not as good as the first ride. We then rode sierra sidewinder(its so fun) and we waited a few extra trains and it finally paid off, not only did we have the spinny back seat, but we also had very different weight on the other side of the car. We spun insanely, and the ride was actually pretty forceful.(i now love mack spinners) We then went on la revolution again and then waited 5 trains for a back seat on monte, it was worth it as when you come back from the station we got tons of floater air(my#2 coaster in the park after accelerator) We went to timber mountain log ride to beat the heat, and it was lamer than i remember(its been a while since i rode the non haunt version) the animal statues with the sound effects were kind of lame. It was getting dark so we decided to ride pony express(credit 2 of the day) it was a fun ride(the launch was actually a little faster than expected and caught me off guard) but was just kind of weird. It really was too short and not nearly as fun as sierra side winder, we got two rides in because we were waiting for it to get darker for ghostrider. We then rode Ghostrider, and waited for the back, even with the trims, there was still airtime abundant(especially on the hill following the first drop) My friend was starting to get kind of tired, so we rode silver bullet and sierra sidewinder again, and then got amped and left. It was a fun day. The coasters are fun, but the park is not great. It lacks atmosphere, pony express had very little theming. The crews were generally not that great, the ride ops were annoying and were occasionally texting) and the park needs to refurbish the mine/log ride, they are classics, and in no way should they leave, but some of the faces are scarier than haunt monsters. Knotts original charm in now pretty much 100% gone(the straw that broke the camels back was replacing the calico western show on calico stage with a skate show) If you can read this you do not need glasses Thanks for reading. Ride ratings for the day 1.Accelerator 2.Montezuma's Revenge(back row) 3. Sierra Sidewinder(back row, super spinny car) 4.Ghostrider/Silver Bullet 5.Jaguar 6.Pony Express 7. Boomerang

I read them, thay are very entertaining. I love to read about trip reports.

LOL, your dad either looks really bored or really confused. Is the "deth drop" on this coaster as intesnse as everyone says, becasue if somehow fun forest gets bought or something in the future, a norcal road trip may be in the works for next summer(unless I can convince my dad to let me go on a tpr trip) I am liking this TR so far, and you are lucky you are getting so many credits this summer(I got 2 today, but may only get like 10 more) have an awesome time on Flight Deck(supposedly awesome) and also, have a good time loosing your canadian GCI virginity.

Totally agreed, but the london maze will need impressive theming. It will need to make people think they are in london. Also, I would be surprised if Sweeney Tod is not in the maze.

Knotts on Tuesday, Disneyland on July 18th(season pass buying as well as my birthday) and since I will be a passholder I will get the birthday fast pass of awesome.