Bolliger&Mabillard

^Negative-from apex to main brake Tatsu cycles for 41 seconds. Manta is short...but it could be worse, Sea World could have bought a Dark Knight coaster

^^I saw that act. I let it pass as he may have needed to change things around per comedy act Way back when as a RO at Riddler's people would take their shoes off all the time. I told them all the time, "every ride here that has a floor requires shoes". When they asked why. I just told them "This ride's been open since 1998, and the floor has been washed 0 times".

^Ignorance is bliss.

^In Manta's defense...ALL flyers are short.

^FOUR hours? You're a saint! My classes are 85 minutes and I fall asleep! Had a 10 page paper to write that was due today. After stressing sunday night to meet the deadline and get the copies ran off, I go to class this morning to find that the deadline was pushed back a week because no one else was ready.

^^It's just like saying the same punchline in a joke twice in a row.

I have to agree that S:TE overall makes an unecessary amount of noise. For lifts, X used to be insanly loud, but since they retrofitted the rollbacks with rubber it's reduced the noise. Goliath(SFMM) and Firehawk(KI) are two lifts I find to be noisy as well. As for the loudest roar I've heard on a B&M....I'd have to go with Riddler' Revenge.

^^Silver Bullet IMO has more floater feeling, but there's no force to with the exception of the helix. I mean it's almost boring enough to take a nap on. Raptor was...well Raptor's jus there. Top Gun was fun, but way to short.

Nice PTR. I went last summer and I guess I lucked out because the park was not nearly as crowded. The longest wait was Mr Freeze at about 45 minutes. As for Batman as your first invert. Not a bad way to start things off. I've only been on three CUSTOM inverts and Batman totally puts them all to shame.

^In the heart of every child, and on the smile of every baby

^^^ 1. It was a joke 2. What type of magical power outage would interrupt ride power but not the electrically controlled fire effect? Just wondering.

They should have mounted the flame throwers to the mid-course brake. That way you can feel the fire more

^A Mega-Lite.

^I would have to say that Packfanlv summed Knott's up perfectly on pg. 1. With Disneyland litterally down the street and Magic Mountain about an hour away, Knott's is physically and litterally stuck between a rock and a hard place. The old western feel isn't turning a profit much anymore and as much as it sucks that the nostalgic feel of the park is slowly fading, at least you can take solice in the fact that the parks new additions still aren't helping raise/sustain attendence.

^Who's to say they won't?

^If it's older rides, just try using the Flashpass entrance if you're a single rider. In most cases the ride ops will do it to fill empty seats. I'd imagine with Terminator they might want to test the waters to see how fast and effiecient things will be before they decide to include it with Flashpass.

Great find. I laughed when I read this part... I wonder what ride that was...

...It could have a Bizzaro sub-theme.

God forbid that Trevor Ariza put two hands up or jump or contest the shot

^It's possible. Magic Mountain transformed from "Theme Park" to "Xtreme Park" to "Teen Park" in one season...

I agree that although this ride seems a little short, length doesn't always mean you've got a winner. The best example I can think of are Batman clones. 2700ft. and wonderful pacing. Yet other inverts I've been on that are bigger and better still don't pack quite the whollup that Batman does. Manta's gonna be alright. It's no Tatsu, but it'll be alright.

I got into an altercation with Fantasia's bodyguard because he wouldn't move from a restricted area of Xcelerator's Dock.

Daytime testing will most likeky occur more closer to opening day. Untill then we'll all be drooling for more video.

As a ride op in 2006, I worked at Xcelerator at Knott's. I was standing at Load 1(Which is the position right in front of the christmas tree) and there was a couple sitting in row 1. Te guy kept pointing at the lights. unbeknownst to him, when the train launched, is hand was in front of his girlfriends face and the launch caused him to smack her in the face.