Goliath513

I was at SFDK that day as well. Were you the ones with TPR shirts on the back row of Roar several trains in front of us and on THBS shortly after that?

^ Considering everything is in Cali, that's not a bad list. In fact, I agree with you on most of that. My favorite log flume is a tie between Knott's Log Ride and SFMM's Log Jammer. Grizzly River Run at DCA is my favorite rapids ride as well. Behind that it is Hershey's Canyon River Rapids (R.I.P.) and BGE's Roman Rapids. Agreed on SFDK's White Water Safari - I rode it again when I was out in Cali earlier this week. For splash boats, Snake River Falls at Cedar Point. Water park rides - a tie between the Voyage to the Center of the Earth (underground immensely themed family river ride) or Flatline (the steepest of the park's massive dropdown body speed slides) at Denver's Water World. Patriot's Plunge at Dorney's waterpark is my favorite standard innertube slide. Once again, agreed on YSSF at SFMM being pretty good as well.

It's the same here in Colorado with our "beloved" Vekoma SLC.

I'm still trying to figure out why so many of you guys are complaining about an Intamin giga-mega-lite. Seriously, it's not going to be as bad as you all say it will be. In fact, it will probably kick ass! They already spent $25 million on this, so why spend too much more to make the layout longer? Millennium Force isn't very long and it's still an amazing ride. Maverick's OTSR's do not make it a bad ride. It's not like they build coasters to appeal to us overly needy coaster enthusiasts. You guys don't realize how lucky you are to be getting a coaster like this. Sadly, here in Colorado, the most badass coaster is a Vekoma SLC, so consider yourselves lucky.

1. Anything built after you zero clearence once does not have the zero clearences until you restore and again zero the clearences after building. 2. See above. 3. Not sure about this. What version of Vista are you using. 32 and 64 bit home editions should work fine. For all three: Use 8Cars version 1.302 Try attaching the queue to the entrance and the path to the exit before sinking. Be sure the little entrance banner at the queue shows up and that the paths connect. Build the track at the same elevation number/level as the rapids track, merge the rapids onto this new track so you get the boats and don't have to worry about "instant breakdowns" that changing the vehicle type causes. After the merge, change the track type of what you want to become invisible to "circus show" and this will make it invisible. I did this on one of my parks and worked for me. Be sure not to have any of the diagonal (45 degree) turns on this track as it will cause an error trapper when you make the track invisible.

Unable to load. Be sure to go into the game options for the park and check the box "export plugin objects with saved game". That way, we can load it with the custom scenery. Are you using any expansion packs?

The media has to make everything a spectacle. If they didn't make it a major deal, it wouldn't sell to the public. They could always say it was a swine coaster incident to double the percentage of yes votes in that poll. Not surprising some people voted yes because afterall this is the park where someone died on Drop Zone 10 years ago as well as that wave pool drowning several years back.

If the map is not already 256 by 256 big, the max limit, go back into the scenario editor and enlarge it. You would have to rebuild all your rides though. Depending on what direction you oriented your park on the map, you may or may not be able to expand in the direction necessary. The map grows in the direction of southwest, so if you oriented the park in the same direction as real life, it will grow in the right direction at least to give you more room to fit Cyclone Bay. If the map is full size already, then I'm afraid there's nothing you can do.

Looking good man. Can't wait to see Time Machine finished.

Did they have the famous "Taco in a Bag" and "Porkchop on a Stick" in addition to the cheese curds? No Wisconsin fair is complete without those.

^ Same on the Jetstream slides at Denver's Water World. I used to remember them as being fairly tame, but when I rode earlier this summer, it was downright brutal. In fact, most of body slides at that park are almost too dangerous to ride for that reason.

Best - Boulder Dash (GCI's fantastic rework of that final stretch created an amazing stretch filled with airtime) - Phoenix (Not quite as wild as Boulder Dash's ending, but still great) - Top Flight Deck Gun CGA (Love that intense corkscrew and low helix over the pond) Worst - Lakeside Cyclone (Just barely crawling over those would-be airtime hills with barely enough speed to make it back to the station) - Pony Express (In addition to the entire ride itself) - Ninja SFMM (Pretty obvious by now)

I await your ride pictures.

Even without 15 minutes of rides on Medusa before the park opens, one can still get plenty of rides on each coaster throughout the day without a Flashpass. Saturdays and holidays are really the only days to worry about for crowds there. The entrance to Medusa is quite a ways from the park entrance, so it takes the GP a while to get down there anyways. The park shouldn't be all that crowded on Friday, so I wish everyone the best for the event.

That's too bad about Lakeside. They already announced that Cyclone would be down, and us locals know that the Dragon never operates (I've never seen it open). I tried for the Kiddie Coaster last year even though I saw only young children riding it with parents standing on the sidelines - rejected of course. As for Wild Chipmunk, you should have waited out the rain as Colorado storms tend to pass by very quickly. Last time I was there and it rained, they got the coaster reopened within a few minutes after the storm passed. During the summer, it rains here about as much as at Cedar Point. Good luck on your second time around today.

Windjammer. You have to admit - despite being a crappy coaster, the station was very good looking. The promise of shade in the queue is what actually got me to ride it after being out on the uncovered Cedar Fair concrete on an overly hot day.

Be sure to ride the alpine slides at Heritage Square / Fish n' Farm when you're there in Golden today. They are worth the ride down for sure. Too bad you won't be in Golden next Friday, the 7th, instead because that's when I am going to be there. If I had a car (or the bus system didn't suck), I'd go down to Denver and meet up for the weekend.

My first ever real credit whoring was on the Roadrunner Express at SFDK when I was 17. Then the following year I got my Jr Gemini and Woodstock Express credits at Cedar Point. But the worst I've done was paying $5 for tickets to ride Miner Mike and Dragon Coaster at Heritage Square here in Colorado. The TPR east coast trip was full of credit whoring as well. Best credit whoring memories from that trip include the visit to a park just for the one credit (Sesame Place), and the night time epic takeover of Lake Compounce's Kiddie Coaster - they sent the train around one time, loaded up the next 5 of us, and repeated that cycle until all 90 or so of us had ridden!

My friend and I were planning to go here during our trip to southern California earlier this year, but didn't because of budget constraints. Looks like an awesome water park. It seems like a larger version of the former Windsor Waterworks in northern California that closed down about 5 years ago...with the the ghetto, yet homemade feel to it. I really need to go here before the talk about its closure becomes a reality.

Sierra Twist Circus Wheel Freefall Spinout Flashback That's just one park. Just had to get that off my chest. Well Circus Wheel was replaced with that 3-Point Challenge game. I think Twisted Twins is bound for removal just because this is a Six Flags park. Look what they have done with other rides that were closed down and removed recently after SBNO for a considerable amount of time -- Zonga at SFDK, Flashback at SFMM, and Two Face at SFA for example. With Mark Shapiro's talk about big plans for the parks in 2011 for Six Flags' 50th anniversary, my guess is a redevelopment of the Twisted Twins area with something like a Thomas Town or a new coaster.

1. My life has changed more over the past year than the 18 years before that (thanks to college). 2. My dad and I were nearly killed in an accident on the Wild Mountain alpine slide when I was 8. 3. I have ridden two roller coasters on their opening day (Tony Hawk at SFDK and Terminator at SFMM) 4. I am distantly related to former US president Lyndon Johnson. 5. I despise competitive sports where a team would depend on me. That's why I took up Taekwondo, since it focuses on the individual instead, and got my Black Belt last year.

Awesome update Robb! Glad to see the rest of these finally coming along. Too bad it rained and we had to leave early, but everything before the rain was great. Fortunately I already had got most of my credits there a few days earlier. Seems so long ago yet it hasn't quite been one year.

My head hurts from reading that.

Does anyone remember the OTSRs on Zonga back at SFDK? Those made it hard for even thin people like me to fit in. What could have been a great classic Schwarzkopf was ruined by the addition of those OTSRs after the ride was moved from Astroworld. Not even Revolution's OTSRs that have that part that sticks out into your chest, Flashback's OTSRs in trains that were comparable to coffins, or Windjammer's "iron restraints of death" made for an uncomfortable ride like Zonga's did. The ride was still fun because it gave that "OMG we're seriously about to die" feeling that not many coasters these days give. On a more positive note, my favorite restraints for steel coasters are B&M hyper restraints and my favorite restraints for woodies are buzzbars like on Phoenix because they allow for incredible airtime.

Awesome pictures! Glad to hear you like Maverick and Millennium Force despite how many coaster enthusiasts complain about them. And good to hear you got your Jr. Gemini credit as well. Has anyone else besides me got the credit without a child?