southpuddle

I really hope they relocate Firehawk to (insert crappy local park here) !!!

Prozach, you’re right on with the freebee Fastlanes - I think they already give too many away. Certain points in the year, such as during season pass renewals, Fastlane lines are jam packed with guests who got theirs for free. I’d be pretty pissed off if I payed $150 for my Fastlane only to find out that I’m still waiting in hour long lines full of other guests who didn’t pay a penny for theirs.

There could be a dual station as well. If Universal wants it to have good capacity, it’ll have good capacity.

A lot of the members here are poor college kids whose main focus is getting the cheapest room possible. I get that, I was that kid once. But once I grew up and started making some decent money, I decided to stay at Breakers, and have never looked back. It really completes the Cedar Point experience for me.

Mike, this isn’t really the site that will give you extra blowjob points for snarkily telling someone they’re wrong about some roller coaster fact and providing them with a link to RCDB, just FYI.

Do you expect him to come out and say “Don’t get your hopes up because the next coaster won’t be nearly as good as Steel Vengeance!” ? It’s marketing - don’t look to far into anything.

B&M would build a ride with more than 7 inversions if a park wanted it. So the better question is why don’t any parks want a B&M with more than 7 inversions. I mean, there are only a handful of coasters in the world with 8+ inversions, and Intamin and Gerstlauer are the only companies making them (I think - I’m sure someone will chime in if there’s another) B&Ms are a lot more expensive than ether of those companies, so I’m sure that’s the main reason. Edit - looks like S&S is trying their hand at 9 inversions wth Steel Curtain, but my point still stands - B&M is by far the priciest way to go about getting a big looper.

Interesting despite the very vocal Magnum hate on this site, that it appears near the top of basically everyone’s top 10 I’ll do top 5 and bottom 5, since the middle ones are all kinda a draw, and I’ll only include traditional hypers: Top 5: 1- Magnum (thigh-bruising, teeth-chipping airtime. love) 2- Phantom’s Revenge (see above) 3- Nitro 4- Mako (B&M’s only good hyper since they introduced the new trains) 5- Apollo’s Chariot (love the setting more than anything, I think, though I’ve had some terribly boring rides on it) Bottom 5: 11- Diamondback (not a fan of the staggered hyper trains, as they all seem to just crawl over every hill) 12- Behemoth (see above) 13- Goliath/Titan (how can a 250+ foot drop be so boring?) 14- Intimidator Carowinds (same. Ditch those trains, B&M) 15- Raging Bull (hate to be that guy, but THAT TRIM kills what could be a fantastic ride)

I'll say it again, Viper is a criminally underrated ride... The only thing that was awful was the corkscrews which was due to excessive trimming right before them, not the fault of the ride. Corkscrews shouldn't be taken that slow. Viper is in my top three at the park, but I also don’t get why the second half needs to be taken so slowly. The first half is balls to the walls intense. Viper at SFDL takes its batwing at a decent clip, and every other Arrow corkscrew is taken faster. Although maybe that’s part of its charm to me? As I said, I love the ride, and if the excessive trimming is a maintenance thing, I’ll gladly take a trimmed ride over Viper’s removal any day.

I’m surprised the names were kept so PG, considering it seems like something a 14 year old would do.

I know that someone else already mentioned it, but I’ll second: I’d be totally willing to pay for an upgraded subscription to TPR that was ad-free. Also wanted to thank you, Robb for your transparency!

Aha, I did not see that. Much thanks!

Hey, Robb. I didn’t see this addressed anywhere else, but I can’t be the only one put off by the recent addition of excessive pop-up ads. I totally get that the website depends on some ad revenue to function, but ads went from barely noticeable to super intrusive overnight about a week ago. The one down at the bottom pops right back up when going from page to page, and there are ads in-between every two posts while scrolling through topics. Just wondering about the sudden change is all - I’ll gladly be the whipping boy if this offends in any way!

Based on this, I don't think Disneyland is the park for you. Have you considered Magic Mountain? Yeah, I mean DLR is kinda ALL ABOUT the non-coaster rides. If your main goal while visiting DLR is to grab the coaster credits first and foremost, you’re doing DLR wrong.

Yeah the similarities of Riddler and Kumba kind of stop after the first couple of inversions, and that’s really only superficially. If Riddler had sit-down trains, it still wouldn’t be nearly as zippy and snappy as Kumba - Riddler is far more drawn out. And as a sidebar, in my perfect world, Riddler would be converted into a floorless, and Scream would be moved to a park that could actually use it. I know it will most likely never happen, but I’d rather have Riddler’s unique layout as a floorless than Scream’s generic parking lot experience anyday.

Some years yes, some years no.

Viper is in my top 3 at the park - TC is number 1, but then it’s pretty much a three way tie between Revolution, Viper and X2. Second to last row on Viper is my magic seat. The whip over the first drop... pure bliss. Just ride it defensively and soak in the Arrow magic.

Love the juxtaposition of “It’s Amazing Here” and “Firehawk is Closed”

I guess word has gotten out that Fridays are the only days during Halloweekends that are bearable. Maybe they’ll have to rethink having half the rides closed Friday nights... but that’s a whole new can of worms to open.

I think maybe there was some exaggeration there. Still four hours of traffic ... THREE HOURS AFTER close?

The biggest problem is/was definitely phones flying out of peoples’ pockets, not phones flying out of peoples’ hands.

True, but CF has a long history of building inverts. Almost every one of their parks has one, most of them built when CF owned the park. CF themselves have built exactly zero fliers. That’s what I was getting at. I don’t think they have any interest. I mean after Firehawk leaves (and I realize it could be sent to another CF park, we don’t know yet) the entire chain will only have two fliers left. All I ever said was it would be interesting if the others followed suit. Before the hints started getting dropped, I would have thought Firehawk was the safest of the three fliers in the chain, being the most modern model. Just goes to show parks have a lot more data on this kind of stuff than us enthusiasts can imagine

It’ll be interesting to see if CF is on a mission to rid their parks of fliers in the same way they are hellbent in ridding the parks of stand-ups. For those hoping Firehawk will be replaced with a B&M version... I think if CF had any interest, they would have jumped on that bandwagon back when fliers were in vogue. It just ain’t happening, and the removal of Firehawk just solidifies that.

Ugh. If it’s any of the big coasters, please be Firehawk... last time I rode it, I was damn near rattled to death. That, and I also have a huge soft spot for Arrow loopers. SFMM’s Viper is one of my favor rides. ‘Nuff said for Bat.

Definitely waited through the entire queue on multiple occasions the first couple years Goliath was open. Didn’t remember waiting absurdly long though - but I’m sure back then they were running three trains, weren’t stacking for minutes on end, and FlashPass wasn’t really a thing yet (or if it was, wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now) so the line actually moved like it was intended to.