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Not necessarily, if they use multiple block sections.

Just keep it on you in a pocket. If the phone is really worth the ridiculous prices Apple charges for that feature-deprived gimmick, it can handle a little splash.

My guesses: -3 Inversions -90 degree drop -55mph top speed -2480 feet of track -4 negative G's going around that outside loop. -77ft peak height.

Are you going on a weekday? There's no way you could possibly need two days to do this park. I went last year on the Wednesday before 4th of July and rode every coaster and some flats by 4 PM (got there no more than 15 minutes after opening at 10). And weather was great. Granted that was without Diamondback, but that will add an 1-1.5 hours at most to the trip. Even if you were to do their water park and re-ride some coasters, you should be fine with one day.

All of my rides on both Wicked Twister and Voodoo/Possessed have been different. I've seen no consistency at all.

Andyuk: I see where you might think that, but the forces acting on the supports for a slow-moving section of the course like a lift hill would still be vertical (gravity and gravity alone), and not along a slant like your images imply. The image on the left would put a lot more stress on the joint between the footer and the beam.

It doesn't seem to have the 2nd station installed...I can't see how'd they efficiently run 3 trains without it.

Here's my entry. A few notes: 1. The G's will sometimes spike over the allowed limits when viewed at less than 100% speed. I blame this on NL. 2. The "barriers" in the launch tunnel are supposed to be holograms, but NL doesn't really allow for that sort of thing so the train appears to "crash through". Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "As your soul begins to leave your body, you see flashes of firey torment. You're flipped upside down and are boosted through darkness until coming to a stop before the gates to heaven. Suddenly, you'll hear the unmistakable laughter of the devil and are shot at 60 miles an hour straight to hell. Once there, you'll experience a 540 degree ascending helix. You're given a moment to catch your breath before being turned on your head ,dropping 100 feet and feeling over 5 gs as you are again inverted before rocketing towards the sky. You'll catch a glimpse at heaven before being turned around, dropping straight down and twisting into a 360 degree heartline-roll. As you slow down, you notice that you're again climbing...was this all just the devil's cruel joke?" Featuring a 60 mile-per-hour launch in just seconds and five gut-wrenching inversions, along with high-tech audio/visual effects in the rides several tunnels, HELLFIRE just may leave you wishing you were no longer amongst the living... Mike240SX - Hellfire (LIM Coaster Contest).nltrack

Except when trying to be manufacturer-authentic...blarg to Primier's over-supporting!

Of currently existing coasters, El Toro easily. If we're including past coasters too, tied for first would be Hercules. Before the "holding brake" on the drop of course. The Beast (again, pre-trimmed) is another very very close second.

You've got something against fast lift hill coaster designs, don't you? I kid, I kid.

The short trains are necessary on extreme drop angles and very quick transitions. Otherwises, the Gs on the last car/row would be too intense. On a ride like Maverick or Farenheit, if the train were to be 5 or 6 cars long the last car would FLY over the crest of the drop hill. Think about how much negative G you already get in the back row...yeah. Mess around in NL and you'll see what I mean.

I'd advise taking Route 35 from Keansburg to Point if you're not in a rush. It takes a while and is kinda not-scenic until you get to Belmar, but from there down its a nice leisurely drive a block or two from the beach. Otherwise, the GSP is probably your only bet if you're not familiar with the backroads.

That's what happens when you do Auto-Supports before adjusting terrain height in the terraformer.

My old strategy was to get there at opening, and do the water park until around 3-5 PM. It always worked out well and I rarely had to miss any rides I wanted to go on due to lines. Last year, I tried something new. Upon arrival at park opening, I blitzed every coaster and many flats. It took less than 2 hours. Went to the water park from noon until they closed at 7 and had almost no lines for any of the slides towards the end of that time. Re-rode Riptide Run (The one with multiple pools connected by slides, cut in to the hill) like 8 times in a row. Then we went back to the rides side and got at least one more ride on each coaster and several flats before the park closing. I found it worked out really well and you were in the water for the hottest part of the day. Either way, you'll do all right. Coming from SFGA, lines are virtually nothing by comparison, and even on weekends you'll never wait for any ride as long as you could at SFGA. Operations are just that much better and capacity is simply less. I'd still recommend going on a weekday to avoid a lot of the Philadelphia crowd that shows up on weekends and can lessen your experience. As for water park comparisons... Hurricane Harbor is nice. I was working at the park when it first opened and was there all time time after or before shift. Aside from the one new slide tower they added two years after opening, it's been stagnant. There's a decent amount of things to do, and the "island" scenery is nice, but the layout is crap and rides are very spaced apart. That said, Wildwater Kingdom is still leaps and bounds beyond. More slide towers, greater variety in slides, two wave pools, two lazy rivers (which unfortunately are not a method of transportation). The layout has gotten weird in the past few years with several dead ends, and there isn't much in the way of structural scenery. At the end of the day, HH alone costs as much as a ticket for both parks at Dorney, and there's more to do at WWK alone. Both have poor layouts (albeit for different reasons). Structural/themeing scenery shouldn't be what you're looking at while at a water park anyway.

Well, if you hope to sell it in the US, you will need a copyright attorney. I don't mean to belittle you, and I'm sure you're a well-respected expert over there in your country, however you are obviously unfamiliar with trade practices here in the US. Here, if your product is anywhere near quality and/or popular and not trademarked, someone will rip it off, claim it their own, and then sue YOU for copyright infringement. Which is why you will need an attorney, to ensure that you have the IP trademarked before you even show it in the US let alone sell a single copy. Have you even tried e-mailing the legal departments of any companies? Here's contact info for Cedar Fair corporate: http://www.cedarfair.com/ir/company/contactinfo.cfm One of those e-mail addresses should be able to direct you to the legal department. Of course, a thumbs up from them in an e-mail isn't enough. You'll need notarized statements of permission to use, and likely a contract stating that you will not use it any negative manner and any possible royalties back to the company from your sales. While an attorney isn't necessary to enter into a contract, for someone as clearly unfamiliar with business practices in the US, it would certainly be advised that you use one. I'm sure I sound like a dick but that's not my intent. I don't really know what kind of help you're looking for here. Any one of us telling you "it's okay, don't worry about it" doesn't have to face the consequences and is in no place to tell you that. If you want to be on the 110% up-and-up, you're GOING to have to contact the legal departments of the copyright holders for any properties you wish to use and get official, written documents showing permission. Or, you could do what most do, and do what you want and hope nothing comes back to bite you; webcomics use trademarked names and likenesses all the time.

False. See El Toro at SFGA.

No offense, but if making long-distance calls is "too expensive," how do you plan on getting this thing published? Write it using whatever names you want. If publishing time comes around, your attorney (who you will have to ensure the publishing company isn't going to screw out out of royalties/intellectual property rights) will advise you as to what you are and aren't allowed to use and may contact the places in question in an attempt to secure permission to use their names. You sound like you really haven't thought this through. If you're just going to "publish" this on the internet I doubt you'll have anything to worry about. Unless you're badmouthing the places or somehow profiting from use of their name, they likely won't care. Don't use trademarked logos without permission. Do you see Cedar Fair or Six Flags suing every poster on these boards for using the names of their parks/rides? No.

A modern park with a Condor and Jumbo Jet...wow. I need to go there. Does the Condor still run fast enough that the cars swing out?

I love the layout and the terraforming and I was glad to see you didn't use Relative Roll, which can screw up a wooden coaster sometimes (especially with auto-supports). All in all, not bad for a first attempt, but you did make some of the classic "rookie" mistakes: -Banking was WAY off quite often. Sometimes too much, other times not enough. -Pacing could use some work. -A few anti-realism qualities: --For this (and almost all) coaster types, brakes while the track is curving is a no-no. --Using "hidden brakes" to enable an extra block section. --You've got a MCBR heading uphill...yeah, you've got the LIMs on there, but still not great. --Train is way too long for PTC 3-bench cars. IMHO, spend a little more time working out the banking angles through either trial-and-error or the are calculators over at the No Limits Development Center. Personally I'd stay away from tools like AHG and Elementary until you've reached the pinnacle of what you can do free-hand.

Pay attention, I already asked that. Just the track segment as seen as in the editor.

+1 on the above comments, and a layout that long really should have at least one, if not two, block brakes along the course to enable more trains/greater throughput.

::shrug:: The station box with the X is purple on my screen. Clarifying the "inversion" question (I know what one is thanks )...The rules say "must have 3 inversions." Does that mean EXACTLY three, or AT LEAST three? I'd also like to know if you count an inverted top-hat.

Questions: When you say the "station must be in the purple box" do you mean the entire station building as displayed in the simulator, or just the orange track as when viewed in the editor? For the inversion count, is that a maximum/minimum/exact requirement?

Thus the brown-outs that the "east" side of SFGA saw back when they were launching both sides of the Chiller at the same time during the first two years.