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Haha, good stuff. Reminds me of the movies my friends and I used to make. Add a go-kart, murder scenes, and a trampoline, and you will get my movies almost exactly. Those were good times. Actually, I'm kind of inspired, a bit scared, but inspired none the less. *Runs to get the videocamera*

The ride will sit untill the land it is on is needed, I think that can be agreed upon by most. However, what happens from there? As others have said, it is one of a kind, so will it be carefully taken apart and put into storage until a proper home has been established? The flip side from that argument is that there hasn't been a clamoring for parks to contact Intamin for a ride of this type, so there isn't going to be a huge market for this coaster to be sold, so would MM just cut their losses and tear it down and scrap it? Discuss

Wow, your Grad Night was crowded. We didn't wait more than 5 minutes for anything. It doesn't matter, though, since very little of it is about the rides.

Just got back from my Grad Night at Disneyland. No photos as I didn't want to worry about my camera. Anway, here goes. We got into Disneyland about 11:30pm, and they dropped the ropes to Tommorow land shortly after. Our small group decided to look like idiots and make a break for Space Mountain. We ended up getting on the 3rd train out. "Rock It" mountain was good. This was a my second ride on the new Space Mountain, but my first on "Rock It" mountain. We were all digging the music they were playing, but I still miss the Dick Dale soundtrack. For Grad Night, they injected new intro audio, congradulating the Class of 06 and such. Still my favorite ride at Disneyland. On our way out of Tommorow Land, we rode Buzz and Star Tours. Star Tours is still a classic, a bit outdated, and only good for one ride, but a fun ride to make fun of. We had a lot of fun on Buzz, although we all sucked. We then made our way to Peter Pan, Mr. Toad, and Tea Cups. All very nostalgic rides. The train thing on Mr. Toad still gets me. We caught up with another group of friends and headed to Big Thunder. Our train got to the beggining of the first lift, and stopped. It turns out that someone was trying to highfive a person on another train whilst on the station platform. The ride-op stopped the ride, and then the computer wouldn't let them restart the ride. We walked out of the ride and went to Splash Mountain. Still a great ride. Next, we wandered over to Indiana Jones, but it broke down before we could get on the ride. We got some food and ate it on the Jungle Cruise. We got a pretty good skipper, who made some good jokes, and even pulled of a Broke Back Mountain joke. We all wanted to ride SM and Buzz again, so we headed over to Tommorow Land. We hit Buzz, and walked toward Space Mountain. We got some drinks, and fooled around with the water ball thing in the plaza. Then came the highlight of the night. I told my friend Byrant I would buy him a churro if he could jump and slide over top of the giant water ball in the plaza. The first time, he got a large running start, and didn't get much of a jump. He hit the ball and bounced back off of it. He tried again, and did the same thing, only he fell down this time. At this point, everyone is laughing their asses of. We decided to get the ball rolling and then he would jump on top and ride the ball over the top. Well he did it, and it was the funniest thing ever, he did it twice, and he earned his churro. We hit SM, and hit Autopia. It is so great if you don't stear and let the car just jump around all over the track. We walked back to the end of Tommorow land and decided to ride the Astro Orbiter. This was the suprise ride of the night. It was really fun, with a fun, relaxing ride at the top of the cycle (it was misting/raining all night, but just enough to keep you cool) and some fun forces at the bottom. We then headed to the Matterhorn, which was only running the Submarine side. An incredibly rough ride, but I love the pop of airtime on that side, and the ride is pretty fun. We did the Alice in Wonderland ride, and the Tea Cups once more. Then we hit BTM, and Indiana Jones, and were able to get on both with no problems. We got some more food and ate it, again, on Jungle Cruise. We had the same skipper, and my friend got a sticker from the skipper for having a decent comeback. He didn't use all of the same jokes, but my favorite is still the "extremely tall leopards". We sat down for a while with another group of friends, and hit Space Mountain, Buzz, and Astro Oriber (x2). As well, Bryant rolled over the ball again, which I got video of on my phone. I'll post the video here when I figure out how to e-mail it off my phone. Then, the girls wanted to dance, so we walked on the main stage thing. The girls danced, and we stood around and talked for a few minutes, and decided to go back to SM and Buzz again. We did Buzz 3 times in a row, and 3 of us were able to break 200,000. Then, we did SM 3 times in a row. We all did Astro Orbiter one final time, and walked out to the buss. At this point, I had been up for more than 24 hours, and after sitting on the buss for a few minutes, I felt the full effects of that. The buss left DL at about 6:15, and we got back to the school about 7:30. Overall, we all had a great time. Fooling around with friends, no lines, and good rides makes for a good night.

Here are a few I like Cool perspective A personal favorite of mine Took this one as I was walking by

Thanks. I'm pretty much a master of the fast pass system by now. Are any of the fast passes disconnected from the others? Ala Grizzly Rapids at DCA? As well, would it be possible to do IOA and Universal in one day and not miss anything?

I will be in Orlando from June 28th through July 3rd, and have 5 full days to visit parks. I just have a few questions: 1. Which hotels are best? Centrally located, relatively cheap, easy access to parks or transportation to parks, perks at parks (IE Early entry @ WDW parks). Right now, the hotel I'm looking at is Port Orleans. It's in my price range and got good reviews on Trip Advisor. 2. As I only have 5 days, which parks should I cram into my schedule? I'm willing to have a bit of a hectic schedule, but I would prefer a bit of a leisurely trip. 3. What shouldn't I miss? Ride wise, food wise, experience wise, all that good stuff. 4. Crowds? It is early summer, so I wouldn't expect the crowds to be too hot n' heavy, but I don't know for sure. 5. How long does it take to get from Jacksonville to Orlando? I'll be in Jacksonville for 3 days before being in Orlando, so any advice about things to do there will be helpful as well. Thank you in advance. Have a great day!

I'm not too worried about their being a lack of e-ticket attractions being installed. My view is that they are looking to install 'Goliaths' only when needed, which will leave a few parks without a new high-dollar scream machine for a while. I'm willing to part with a few high budget attractions if the result is that the park will be better maintained, though. I'm interested to see how they deal with MM's situation. I don't know if they will get the attendance boost by adding family rides, as it's proximity to Disneyland will present some stiff competition. Sure, cleaning the park up and fixing ride operations will help, but that isn't very marketable: "Come to Magic Mountain! Now with 90% less trash!". It will be a very slow process to change SF's image, but I'm looking forward to it.

^That is a Mack e-Motion coaster, and it isn't powered.

New Mexico Rattler has an extremely fast lift hill and chucks you over that awesome first drop.

To me, it doesn't matter what size the park is, or what rides they have, the best parks are all about atmosphere *cough*Kennywood*cough*, so for me, it is all on a park by park basis for me.

Top 3: 1: Zierer Fireball (RIP Tampico Tumbler) 2: Rock-O-Plane 3: KMG Tango

John Denver crashed into the ocean.

You can thank South Park for this one:

Nice Pics, makes me want to drive back to Albuquerque and visit Cliff's again. Sigh, good times at Cliff's, and Albuquerque in general. Not much beats Rattler's first drop in the back. Even more so after the ride has warmed up a bit (this thing kicks some serious arse later on in the day).