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  1. I would go to Cedar Point. Six Flags Great Adventure has something amazing rides (El Toro is my #1 wood, Nitro is possibly my favorite B&M) but that is about it.

     

    Cedar Point has an amazing atmosphere that is hard to top. Right on lake Erie, it's a beautiful park that is well run with friendly staff. It has a ton of great attractions other than just coasters. The food is pretty good (better than SF, for sure), there are some decent shows, and there is the whole "activity" area "outside?" the park by Magie, where they have go-carts, minigolf, etc.

     

    Honestly, I don't think there are many experiences that can top staying in Hotel Breaker and having the 'Point as your playground for a day/couple of days. (I went to the ACE coaster con at CP in 04, it was easily the best vacation of my life)

     

    On top of all that, you have some amazing coasters. I'll admit, Great Adventure's El Toro is better than anything at the Point (I have yet to ride Maverick), but just about everything else at the Point is better. Millennium Force and Nitro I guess could be a wash, but the first drop of Millie is simply amazing. It's a great ride.

     

    I prefer Top Thrill Dragster to Kingda Ka. Its basically the same ride, but the theming/experience is SOOO much stronger with Top Thrill.

     

    From this point, Cedar Point pulls away from Great Adventure.

    Raptor is one of B&M's finest inverts, much better than Batman: The Ride. Mantis, while not the best coaster, is still a fun B&M stand-up.

    Maverick, from what I have heard, is an amazing ride, filled with speed, airtime, a great launch and layout. I would say this ride is matched up with Medusa. Clearly, Maverick is far superior ride.

    Blue Streak is a classic wooden coaster that gives fairly good airtime. Rolling Thunder is a pile of kindling compared to Blue Streak.

    Mean Streak... sucks. period.

    Wicked Twister is fun, nothing all that great, but fun.

    Magnum XL-200 is an awesome coaster. It is classic arrow that boast some amazing airtime. There are some who think it can be painful, but I am not one of them.

    Gemini is another classic that is just pure fun.

    Then you have the rest of the stuff (Mine Train, kiddies, Disaster Transport, Wildcat, etc).

     

    So, for Great Adventure you have

    3 Great coasters (El Toro, Kinda Ka, Nitro)

    3 Fine Coasters (Medusa, B:TR, S:UE)

    7 "meh" coasters

     

    Cedar Point has

    5 Great Coasters (Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster, Maverick, Magnum XL-200, Raptor)

    5 Fine Coasters (Mantis, Gemini, Iron Dragon, Blue Streak, Wicked Twister)

    7 "meh" coasters

     

    Clearly, CP has the edge. Also, factor in the history. Cedar Point has a TON TON TON of history. It's one of the oldest parks in the country.

     

    It has a ton of history in respect to rides and coasters:The first 200' ft hyper coaster (Maggie), the first 300' Gigacoaster (Millennium), the first 400' ft stratacoaster (TTD). Corkscrew was one of the first Arrow "corkscrew" coasters, and is a very photogenic ride, right in the middle of the park (or what used to be it).

    As I mentioned before, Blue Streak is a classic woodie that (I believe) is an ACE historic classic.

     

    In my opinion, if you want to ride 1 or 2 amazing coasters with a ton of airtime, and nothing else, well... you could still go to the Point... errrrr.

    OK. Great Adventure has 2 amazing coasters.... Cedar Point has that and everything else. It's a complete park, the best "Amusement" park in the world.

  2. I want to Kings Island yesterday to. I wanted to get my cedar fairs pass and also ride db.

    First thoughts, It looks really good towing over the park. I thought since you could get in early with a pass that it would be testing when i got there about 345. But it was not kinda shocked me. Once i got all my paper work taken care of. i made my way back to db. I wanted to knock it out first not knowing how long the line would end up. Got there a little after 5, Walked to line about a 5 min wait. The ride looks really cool running all the way back to the end of the park. The water splash down area also ends a nice new look to the area.

    My first ride was in the middle of the train since the girl working would not let me wait for the front. SO I get in sit down. Really like the trains. Seats are nice and don’t hurt or uncountable for some one 6'6".

    My thoughts after the ride, I was really really disappointed. Everyone talked about how good it was. i got off and was like well that sucked. First drop was good but feels smaller when your going over it then it is. Then after that there was no air time really no speed hammerhead turn sucked-slow force less.

    So after being disappointed I just wanted to walk around the park and just rode everything else and just walked around and enjoy the nice day that we had yesterday .

    So after ridding everything in about two hours. I just thought I will try to get a few more rides on it so that I could find out if it was really that bad or just a bad seat.

     

    Ride 2. This time I need to ride in the front. So I waited about 15 min at the most for my front row ride. The view from the front is really good. The drop this time was a lot stronger and faster. the next few hill gave me a lot of crazy air time. The hammerhead was a lot stronger. And found my self enjoying the ride a lot more.

    ride 3. Want for row 16 the back. The ride in the back is fun. you get thrown over the hill and get a lot of air time as well. mcbr are light and get some more floating air. the final helix at the end before the splashdown sucks slow and force less. In all seats. The water splash down is really big but did get me a little wet on the lift side back seat.

     

    Overall thoughts. the best ride in the park hands down. run ride differently think it passed magnum on my list. but that’s it not the best steel ride ever but a good one. After thinking about my first ride. i think since it was so early in the day the train and wheels had not warmed up yet, so that why it was running super slow. And that’s why the trims were off and just putted around the track. Also this maybe the quietest ride I have ever been on.

     

    over all I get it a 7.5 or 8 good ride for the park and adds a lot to the park and area as well.

     

    Dude, spell check, please.

  3. If only Six Flags could learn to use theming. I'm sooo sick of Batman this, Superman that.

     

    To each his/her own, but I'd take Scream at SFMM over a Disney coaster any day. Hell, they could name a coaster Pooperscooper: The Ride, and I wouldn't care less as long as it's a good ride.

     

    Ugh, I was more referring to Busch/Universal parks, Alton Towers, Thorpe Park; well, basically Theme Parks as as apposed to Amusement Parks.

     

    I'll take Kraken (yes, I don't have the credit, btw) over Scream/Dominator. Montu over Batman: The Ride. Big Bad Wolf over Top Gun. Expedition Everest over any other Vekoma. Theming just adds more depth. Sure, I'll take Parking Lot: The Ride over Space Mountain, etc. But why settle for that? If a park is going to spend millions on an amazing coaster, why shouldn't they give it theming to match? It can only make it better.

     

    I'll ask you this, which would you rather. Scream: The Parking Lot Coaster, or the same B&M coaster, but with theming as good as "Nemesis"...

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    Taken from page 39 of this thread.

     

    That doesn't mean or prove anything. It's all speculation. Look at Great Bear's funky supports because they couldn't put footers in water...you never know. Also, they caught on to us finding out the park and made the "Customer" part a random code. Whats to say they didn't do the same to the "Part Number?" You can speculate all you want, but right now my and your guess is as good as anyone else's.

     

    I used to be like you. I remember in the Maverick thread I posted tons of pictures and deeply analyzed EVERYTHING. All I accomplished by doing that was wasting my time. Now I just sit back, read a few replies, maybe make a couple replies myself, and patiently wait to see what it turns out to be. Changing did me wonders.

     

    Why in the world would they change anything but the customer in formation? Honestly, I don't think B&M care if us nerds can figure out what type of coaster they are building. Their only concern is that we don't figure out where it is going to.

     

    We are just looking at the FACTS and finding patterns. B&M labels their coasters in a very specific way and it is somewhat outlined above. A "track element" of a coaster that has the label "MC" is a Mega Coaster. Period. We have found many examples that back this up, including new coasters like Diamondback. Until you can find a label to the contrary, you really have no basis to say its "Wrong". It's not just conjure, its backed by much evidence.

     

    I understand/agree that the "support placement" theories aren't very convincing, however, the track structure (shape, ties, etc), is very accurate.

     

    The point is, the Yellow Track is for some type of sitting coaster (could be a prototype...) and the Red Track is a Mega Coaster. Period. I would bet on it (no, seriously, I'll make a wager with anyone who isn't convinced).

  5. I'm a huge Red Sox fan and baseball fan in generally. I generally try to watch as many games around the league as I can. I find baseball games are great to practice guitar to.

     

    I don't know quite what to think of the Marlin's at this point. They definitely have a ton of potential, but I just don't see them wining the division.

  6. DisneyKnottsfarm, I used to absolutely LOVE Dream Theater. I own all their stuff, I've been to about a dozen concerts (The famous MSG show w/ the live cellist for Vacant, the 20th Anniversary "Score" Concert at Radio City Music Hall), but they have just become too dark and too "shred" for me. I still enjoy the earlier albums from time to time, but my musical focus is on Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, and other contemporary jazz artists.

  7. Are we defining "rush" as the "butterflies in your stomach" feeling, or just a release of adrenaline?

     

    For me, I never get that "butterflies" in the stomach feeling at theme parks (although, I still sometimes do get it before going to a poker session if I'm on a bad downswing...). However, I still often get the adrenaline rush.

     

    The big rides (El Toro, Nitro, Superman: Ride of Steel, etc etc) will always give me the adrenaline rush and get me very exciting. New rides/roller coasters always get my blood pumping as well, but as for the "butterflies", those are long gone in theme parks. Anyways, I don't really care for the "butterflies", its all about the adrenaline for me.

     

    I guess, though, it does suck a little that a lot of us no longer get adrenaline on normal/small coasters.

  8. Canobie Lake is my home park, about 30 minutes away, but I will probably only go there 5-6 times this season. I would go far more often, however, they don't have season passes... and I don't feel like spending $25+ every weekend.

     

    Funtown is about 1.5 hours away in Maine. I haven't been there in a long time, so I'll probably go 2-3 times this summer and get my credit on Excalibur.

     

    SFNE is 2.5 hours away and I'll probably get there 4-6 times.

  9. 18-1 = Easily the biggest "FAIL" of the decade, if not longer.

     

    18-1 still means we did better than 30 other teams and were on the cusp of making history. Don't worry though, with Brady back this coming season, we'll get that elusive 19-0.

     

    Back to the thread, I'm relieved that you think the trains might improve thunderbolt, if anything.

  10. Intamin, and it's not even close for me. According to Mich Hawker's rankings, 5 of the top 10 Steel and 5 of the top 10 wood are ... you guessed it, intamin. Think about that, the #1,3,4,5,8 steel and #1,3,6,8,10 wood. B&M is great and all, but they don't even make woodies, let alone the best.

     

    To me, its between B&M and Intamin. To compare, I look at the best of each company as well as their overall ideas/rides.

    B&M basically have 5 types; looping (including floorless and standup), hyper, Dive Machines, Inverted, and Flying.

    Intamin have 9 types; looping, hyper, inverted (inc. impulse), launched, bobsled, 4-D, halfpipe, (pipeline), and wooden. They have 8 types currently operating (pipelines are gone).

    So Intamin have the greater variety of rides. They also have more overall coasters, 115 to 77.

     

    Comparing types, B&M definitely has the better loops (opinion) and inverted (loopers). They have Dive Machines and Flying coasters, which Intamin does not. I have yet to ride a Dive Machine, so I can't comment on that, however, I have ridden several of their fliers and I find them very boring.

     

    Intamin has the better Hypers (opinion), has great launched coasters, some of the worlds best wooden coasters, and a slew of other types of roller coasters.

     

    I would say that the two companies are fairly close, when considering steel roller coasters. I'd probably give the slight edge to Intamin for their extremely strong lineup of hypercoasters and launched coasters. However, the fact that Intamin ALSO makes some of the world's best wooden coasters, where as B&M doesn't do wood, puts Intamin clearly in the #1 spot for me.

  11. The park looks absolutely great. I'm a bit taken back by the new lapbars on Thunderbolt... Oh well. I can't wait for Bizarro to be complete, I was fairly skeptical early on, but it just keeps looking better and better.

     

    I'm also a bit surprised that they wouldn't use a Patriots logo on the field, but the Redskins I don't mind. They haven't won anything in a long long time.

     

    Oh, and the Patriots are the team. Don't get me started. The Eagles...? What a disaster. TO - fail. McNabb - fail. Benching McNabb - fail. Downgrading the Offense - fail.

     

    Back to the topic at hand, I'm thinking of heading down to SFNE this friday. Got to check out my home(ish) park.

  12. It's because the park, as I've experienced it, is most concerned with cutting cost at all costs. Just about every time I have visited the park, they were doing something wrong, whether it was well understaffed/untrained (mid-season), opening rides late/closing early, etc. Now, I expect that from Six Flags, but that doesn't mean I have to be content with it.

     

    I am fairly tolerable with parks. I was there opening day and, although I was disappointed that Nitro and Kingda Ka didn't open, I understood that Six Flags couldn't do anything about it, the weather didn't allow it. However, there were still a bunch of rides/coasters that weren't open and had nothing to do with the weather, but I still just accept that because its early in the season. Doesn't mean they don't need to do better.

     

    Robb is right on. You can't expect to have a perfect day with bad weather conditions. You are always taking a risk when the forecast is rainy/stormy/windy.

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