VivaLaVibora

I think the blonde is a little too sexy for me to go bathroom there. That's a little too hot for me in the bathroom to see a lady looking at my.... Why can't they put that in the closed stalls. What happens if you feel like yeah? I think the park looks pretty good, but the rides aren't impressing me that much. Led Zepplin is the only ride that's really interesting to me, and you have Incredible Hulk at IOA, so I don't see what would make me go to this park from far. The theming won't make me go there.

I'm so glad that most of you like Maverick so I can run to Top Thrill Dragster, and there will be no line in the morning. Oh, drat. The line is still crowded.

^What ride is that supposed to be if any particular ride?

I really think they need to paint Colossus. When you are riding it, you see all the worn out paint, and in my opinion it's looks bad.

1) Deja Vu (Outside seats) (Magic Mountain / Coming to Silverwood) 2) Screamin' Eagle (St. Louis) 3) La Vibora (Over Texas) 4) Batman the Ride (Over Georgia / Magic Mountain / Great Amreica Over Texas / I think that St. Louis is just good, and not great compared to the rest.) 5) Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Disneyland's is a little better than Disney World's) 6) Mr. Freeze (Over Texas / St. Louis) 7) Georgia Cyclone (Over Georgia) 8) Superman: Ride of Steel (Six Flags America) 9) Top Thrill Dragster (Cedar Point) 10) Space Mountain (Walt Disney World / I don't like Disneyland's at all.)

... you think ride ops are your friends. ... if you regard Coaster Clint, Robb Alvey, Elissa Alvey, Jeff, Gonch, and Erik Yates as celebrities. ... when you can't wait until Deja Vu breaks down just so people leave the line. ... you think you can figure a way for Deja Vu to have 2 sides in the station like Mr. Freeze. ... you know all the colors of Top Thrill Dragsters, and Maverick's trains. ... you know all the sayings on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad train's by heart. ... you rent or watch every movie that has a roller coaster in it during the off-season like Thrill, or National Lampoon's. ... when a perfect date would be going to an amusement park or carnival with your girlfriend, and riding rides all day. ... you can tell if Batman the Ride is running 2 trains or not. It's hard to tell because they don't usually run 2 at the same time, and usually the trains look the same. ... when you can list all the problems with RCT compared to a real park. ... when you can play RCT for 2 hours, but yet you get bored with Sonic the Hedgehog after 5 minutes.

It's not my stomach, but it's the feeling I get from that, that is so good. I used to get this feeling when I was on a boat ride when I was young, but now I don't on a boat ride. This ride still does it for me. The most intense drop ride I have been on was the definitely the one at CYpress Gardens that is a permament park model of the ARM Super Shot. It's taller than the carnival ones. Than, it would the ARM Super Shot smaller one at carnivals. Than, it would be the Fabbri Mega Drop. I've been on it at 2 state fairs. The Intamin Generation Drop 2 isn't that intense to me compared to those. The first version is just rough. The S&S aren't that intense to me either. Thus, my list is this as in intense: 1) Cypress Gardens drop tower bigger Super Shot 2) Smaller Super Shot 3) Fabbri Mega Drop 4) Tower of Teror at either US park 5) Intamin Gen 2 6) S&S Tower 7) Intamin Gen 1- Rough not Intense 8) Moser Spring Tower- It's fun, but I don't think it's "intense". I haven't been on the Chance drop tower.

When I saw that picture, I thought wifey's hot. Great photos. I can't wait to see even more of them.

Since I'm a Deja Vu fan, I just would like to know what is the capacity per hour on your ride.

I would say Universal Studios has gone down hill. I know a lot of people will disagree, but oh well. They used to have the Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, King Kong, and the Jetsons like motion simulator (I forgot the name.) They also tore out Hitchcock, and the Murder She Wrote show, and put nothing in them. They added Shrek, and Jimmy Neutron, and I don't care for either one of them I also don't really care for the Mummy ride. I don't care for the Simpsons. I have mixed feeling at SFGAm. They take out my favorite roller coaster, but give me a hopefully fun mouse ride like Cheetah Chase. They added the Hurricane Harbor waterpark, but I really think they will charge for it next year (in 2009). They also take out Space Shuttle America which I liked. So, I'm half and half with the park. It's still my favorite park out of all of other parks (because the waterpark is included), but yet they did that to my favorite roller coaster. I can't agree with the low capacity statement anymore as I said in another thread. They are putting in a low capacity mouse ride.

I was saying to put the lockers on low capacity rides. That's what I was saying. People think that they don't want to wait an hour for Deja Vu. It's always has a long line. For Tatsu, you can't send another train out until the other train passes a point on the ride. So, you can be speedy as heck, but it won't help because you have to wait some time for that train to pass a block. It is going to reduce some time with this new policy, but how much? I know that Deja Vu's target capacity per hour was supposed to be 640. It usually reached around 400-440. Heck, Vekoma says it's even supposed to be a little higher than that. Anything to help that slow moving line would be such a benefit for that ride. At SFGAm, they had to check the seatbelts, and than go back and chek the harnesses. It was a long time for each cycle. Add in people going to the other side, and putting things in the bins, and the time really added up. Part of the reason why they removed Deja Vu was because of capacity. The other reason was because of maintenance. If they cared much about increasing capacity, they would do this locker policy on that ride. It sounds like they don't really care about capacity for that ride. I wasn't saying that this idea wasn't going to help the lines at all. I understand it's going to help, but I still think they want more money so they put it on more popular rides. The more popular rides are probably going to have tv screens so you have to watch them, and they can tell the advertising people that people are forced to watch the tvs. They can't take anything with them that's valuable because they have the no loose article policy. So, people are bored in line, and watching the tv network. The park is making more money both ways. I got this from the horses mouth himself. Shapiro said this in the a conference call, about people being bored in line with no loose articles, they have to watch the tvs. He acts like he's trying to help, but in the end he wants to make more money. It's kind of obvious to me why he's doing the things he's doing. Yes, the lockers won't make much money as the advertisements, but who knows, maybe they will charge even more money next year. With the lockers alone, they will be making money whether it's a $1.00, or not. Yes, they are paying 2 extra people, but how much more money are they making? Money adds up over time. If you get $50 for 2 hours on the lockers. Than, let's say that's $450 a day. For the workers, that's costing only $63. For 150 days, they are making $67,500. Workers are going to cost only $9450. They are doing 4 rides, and how much money is that. Oh, they aren't making much money at all. Right? That's the lockers alone. Add in the tv's as he said in the conference, and there is a reason for this policy. If this works out good, they will probably do more next year, and make more money.

^I understand what you are saying for part 2, but I don't agree with part 1. I think it's a whole lot more important for that train to go as fast as possible when there is only one. Those rides have really low capacity, and to increase it, I think the park should try this policy. In my opinion, I think who cares if Tatsu gets 1200 people, and this solution gets 1400 people flowing through. Deja Vu only gets 400 people, and now it will get 600 people. That's a huge difference for a ride like Deja Vu compared to Tatsu. Yes, they are gaining 200 people (pretend), but is 200 people a big difference when you already get 1200 people right now? Obviously, they are going for more popular rides (as in more people in line), so they can make more money off of more people. With 2 trains going or 3, you have to wait a little bit until you can send out the next train anyway. For Batman, it can't be released till the other one reaches the brake run. You think this policy would be used for the mice, boomerangs, and other shuttle coasters, but it doesn't seem that's what they want it for.

If you are trying to move the line quickly, why in the heck don't the two slowest loading rides have lockers? These would be Deja Vu, and Superman. Am I missing something? It sounds to me it's more about money than seeing how fast you can get people on rides. I went to Busch Gardens Africa, and my brother put his hat in a bin on Sheikra. They must not have a locker policy than if he can do that. I thought In the Loop said that Cedar Point had a locker policy, and than they stopped it. Only on a ride like Top Thrill Dragster, you couldn't bring stuff with you because of two stations. I don't know about Sea World. I imagine they would be just like Busch Gardens because they are the same company. People don't complain about Universal because it's free for a certain time. People complain about Six Flags because it's a chain wide thing. It's affecting a lot of parks.

2) If I visit the park for 2 days, will I have enough time to do everything? It really depends on what the waits are for the rides. I went on a weekend in August, and Raptor was like 2 hours wait. Blue Streak was 45 minutes. Of course, this was in August. On that trip though, I wasn't really worried about getting on all the roller coaster. It was more about Chaos than anything else. I did get on coasters though such as Blue Streak, Wicked Twister, Maverick, Gemin, and Top Thrill Dragster. 3) Is the Hotel Breakers worth it for the 1 hour morning ERT? It really depends if it's going to be a really packed day at the park. The thing is this. I didn't realize this at the time. I went to this ERT thing, and it said Maverick, and Millenium Force were going to be open earlier. I admit that we came later into the park than we should have been, but Top Thrill Dragster was open, so I said forget those other two, and I'm going to Top Thrill instead. We went on Maverick the day before, and it was nothing for me to get excited about. 6) And finally, as more of a subjective question, do you think that Cedar Point has a better collection of coasters than say SFMM or Six Flags Great Adventure? The difference I see is that CP has a lot of aging coasters such as Blue Streak, Gemini, Wildcat, Iron Dragon, Cedar Creek Mine Train, Corkscrew, and I would even say Magnum. Magic Mountain has Colossus, Gold Rusher, Viper, Ninja, and Revolution. It's a 2 coaster difference only, but I would like to point that out. I think that the flats at Cedar Point are aging also. Magic Mountain doesn't have a lot though. The aging flats are the Scrambler, Flying Bobs, Super Himilaya, Scrambler, Swinging Ship, Enterprise, Monster, Ferris Wheel, Sky Tower, Wave Swinger (At every Six Flags park, they are aging too though), Troika, and so on. They look really old. Of course, you have the newer flats such as the Huss Giant Frisbee, Chaos, Skyhawk, and the S&S Tower might be in the 90's? For an old Tilt-A-Whirl (if it is old), it looks darn pretty good. For Magic Mountain, you have the aging bumper cars, swinging ship, Himilaya (looks kind of old), and the Yo-Yo might be really old. Maybe, it's just the fact that Cedar Point paints a lot of rides neons, and to me it's makes a lot of things look really old. I know the Enterprise at Cedar Point is not new, but look at that one, and go to Six Flags Over Georgia. What a difference. I just think that Cedar Point should cool it with the neon colors. They are everywhere in that park. This isn't a neon ride, but the paint they put it makes it look ancient. This looks really old to me (CP): http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/rides/thrill/witches_wheel/index.cf m This doesn't look that old (SFOG): The thing is that Cedar Point has great roller coasters in which you think they would have like Raptor, Mantis, Top Thrill Dragster, and than they have the not so great like Corkscrew, Cedar Creek Mine Train, and so on. Of course, this is my opinion. At Magic Mountain, I thought that Colosuss might not be that great, and so was Ninja. I was completely wrong. I really liked them. To me, Cedar Point, and Magic Mountain are tied right now without me going on Tatsu. However, Cedar Point has some flats that I think are great while Magic Mountain doesn't. So, that means to me that I think more roller coasters are great at Magic Mountain compared to Cedar Point. It's the flats, but I seems like you are more interested in coasters which is fine with me. If you like hyper coasters, I would say go to Cedar Point though. I don't care for Millenium, and Magnum at Cedar Point. If you like unique rides, go to Magic Mountain. They have X, Deja Vu, and Tatsu plus they have the stand-up Riddler.

I only say what I think on this site. I do think that Six Flags does some stupid stuff, but they have so many great rides chainwide in my opinion. Go to SFGAmWorld, and you will see some older members that feel like they are better than everyone else, and bash anyone they feel like it. No one complains, and they get congratulated while everyone picks on people that are new.

Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom (Disney World).

I went on it once as Tidal Wave when I was young, and I kind of forgot if it was good or not. I went to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, but it was before Greezed Lightnin', and they still had Chaos. Anyway, how does this ride work. I remember that wheel on Tidal Wave, and wondered how does it work?

I've been on: California Screamin' Revenge of the Mummy (Florida) Joker's Jinx Vertical Velocity / Steel Venom Wicked Twister Mr. Freeze I would say that Joker's Jinx was the weakest, and Vertical Velocity is the strongest. It thought this was funny: http://www.mgmdizzeeworld.com/ I was looking at Rock N Roller Coaster seeing whether it was LIM's or LSM's. It's LSM's. For LSM's, I did: Rock N Roller Coaster Superman the Escape Maverick I would say Maverick is the strongest while Superman is the weakest.

It's a nice picture, but I don't understand why do they still have a picture of the older Shockwave ride with the older paint scheme. It's baffling. It looks completely different with the new paint scheme. I want to find the blue roller coaster, and I can't find it. http://www.sixflags.com/overTexas/rides/ShockWave.aspx

^I think it's like this. http://youtube.com/watch?v=-m6JA6-WDFI Noah's Ark has one, and I thought why in the heck did you spend any money on this stupid ride?

To me, that brown/beige color looks horrible. I love what they did with this roller coaster making it's theme Riddler. The question marks, the green track, and even that old name make it perfect for Gotham City. I kind of think that Shockwave is a little better though.

Mean Streak is like heaven compared to Texas Giant. Texas Giant is the roughest ride in the history of rides, and pointless to me. The roughest woodies I have tried are 1) Texas Giant, 2) The Boss, and I would say 3) Villain. Gwazi is another ride along with Georgia Cyclone, but GC actually gives me something (airtime), and I really like that ride.

They had problems with El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure. That's a problem company, Intamin. The chain lift at SFNE for Superman broke, and they had to get a new one. You can talk about Drop Tower accident, and you can talk about the Superman accident. I really want to see more companies get Premier rides, but that company had that accident at SFGAdv. I don't think the maintenance is up to standard though at that park. The problem is that they have a lot of low capacity rides too, but I think they are awesome.

I thought the ride was just boring. I was forced to go on it twice. I really think the reason for me to ride a wooden coaster is for airtime, or a rough "butt banger" like someone on Colossus said. It didn't give me that at all. I think Blue Streak is so much better.

Than those two parks shouldn't act like destination parks because that's what they were and are doing. Magic Mountain has hotels around it, but they aren't Magic Mountain's. Cedar Point is limited to an island, but look at it's huge attendance. It's no all year round park, but that's pretty big for being an isolated park. I think someone said that Busch Gardens Williamsburg isn't by much of anything, and they are getting 4 million +. Magic Mountain could have invested in hotels in front of the park if they could have bought that land. Maybe, they never could buy that land. That sign at Magic Mountain is really bad, and old. They need a new one.