larrygator

When I saw the 1,600 acre comment I was stunned until I read on and realized in likely includes the campgroun, hotel and golf course. Thanks again John, I added this Souvenir Book (like all of the others you posted) to the Park Index.

I painstakingly went through and numbered all that I have ridden individually. My Top 20 Favorite Wood Coaster (Phoenix) 1 Bizarro SFNE 2 Tele2 Insane Grona Lund 3 Nemesis Alton Towers 4 Nitro SFGAdv 5 Expedition GeForce Holiday Park 6 Millennium Force Cedar Point 7 Afterburn Carowinds 8 Magnum XL-200 Cedar Point 9 HeiBe Fahrt Freizeitp Klotten 10 Fav X SC2000/3000 (Dragons Fury) 11 Winjas Phantasialand 12 Behemoth Canadas Wond 13 Apollo's Chariot BGE 14 Goliath Walibi World 15 Speed Monster Tusenfryd 16 Top Thrill Dragster Cedar Point 17 Piraten Djurs Sommerland 18 Ride of Steel Darien Lake 19 Superman - Ride of St SFA 20 My Bottom 10 Great American Scream SFGAdv 249 Fav Chance Toboggan 250 SkyRider Canadas Wonderland 251 Le Cobra La Ronde 252 G Force Drayton Manor 253 Fav Zamperla Volare 254 Space Mountain Disneyland Paris 255 Shockwave Kings Dominion 256 Goudurix Parc Asterix 257 X:\No Way Out Thorpe Park 258

You're still spending too much time at SFA!

^If I remember correctly, Divv was one of the people (like myslef) who was attacked by the restraints. It's hard to believe you called a spinning coaster amazing.

^and Thumper is a bunny! "Thumping" just sounds like a roller derbesque term. Much personalized thought went into my suggestion.

and I downed all 3 of those beers fairly quickly. I had seen those bacon chips that they gave us with the beers all over Scandinanvian parks but this was the first park I tried them out. Outstanding! Overall, I have hard time deciding between Liseberg and Grona Lund as to which one was my favorite park of the trip. Both are so awesome but with completely different ride/coaster packages.

It's great that it will have a unique layout. However, I don't think it is fair to blame B&M for not building unique coasters. I'm sure they have a portfolio of ideas that they share with parks (but not the general public). If a park has the money and wants something unique, if B&M thinks it is feasible they will build it. Unique coasters will always have higher costs than an existing model and many parks will settle for a tested product.

Shout it, Shout it, Shout it out loud!

Thumper Toro

Affected! It's hard to say for certain to what extent the project will be affected. At the very least expect delays. Many of the financial lenders have over extended themselves and now need "bailout" loans from the oil men. Projects are likely to get further scrutinized and those that are not far along could lose funding unless their success is certain. The success of an amusement park in a desert is not a sure thing.. There are a lot of articles from reputable sources regarding Dubai's current financial states. I would read those before trusting anything you hear on TPR. Just my opinion!

Reading Danny Rogers quote about wanting to build on the site of a former park in New Orleans, he should not give up. rcdb lists 7 others parks that were formerly in New Orleans. If at first you don't succeed try again.

So they can rename the coaster after Alan Kulwicki. Polish Power!

^You know what hope is when spelled backwards = epoh it means nothing, does this guy really have any credibility left?

Funny thing is that many Europeans are jealous of the Americans for having the biggest/fastest rides/coasters.

Hopefully Six Flags will never sell passes at that price again with their current financial situation. You might think that low a price is good for you. While you save a couple of dollars in the short term, it has destroyed the company.

Do you have a picture of facade of the Spook House/Dark Ride/Ghost Train that is hiding behind the carousel in one of your photos?

^^WOW, that's an incredibly awesome photo. Thanks for the in-depth coverage.

I think lot of people just find coasters free of multiple and redundant safety features to be more enjoyable. I certain do. I could care less whether it is called an "ACE Classic Coaster" or a "old school coaster free of multiple, rendundant and unnecessary safety features". However, I must admit that "ACE Classic Coaster" sounds better.

The craziest ERT (or if this case EFT) of the day was about 8 of us bum rushing the Mexican Buffet as soon as it opened and having only 20 minutes the stuff our faces and rush back to the bus on time as to not be left behind in the middle of Sweden.

^damn I remember sliding all over the bench/seat, guess the seatbelts really didn't do much for me. I'm sure larger people fit into the seat (and belt) more snuggly. I guess the fact that the seats were relatively high in comparison to the sides of the car played a factor also.

^I agree with you about dead ends but: Golden Kingdom conects to Boardwalk and Plaza del Carnaval. The entrance to Kingda Ka is at a dead on, possibly purposely done due to the nature of the launch and the length of the ride. However, the exit is not that far from the paths to the other areas. Plaza del Carnaval connects to the a few areas. Possibly when you were there the bridge behind El Toro was still being refurbed and not re-opened yet (in which case El Toro and Rolling Thunder were at a dead end). However, the whole Movietown area dead end is a mess until they re-open the passageway through the old German area that is now Rental Cabanas.

^No seat belts or restraints of any type. Those riding with their arms outstretched would then brace themselves with their hands in your back when the speed of the ride adjusted.

Maybe 15-20 minutes, certainly not 45-60 minutes. Can you give a specific example of where the line was backed up to a 60 minute sign and you got on the ride within 1-15 minutes?

No prob, done!

^I added a 1/2 cup of sugar and a 1/2 cup of Hershey Dark Chocolate Syrup to the batter and it turned out awesome (tastes like a brownie now), except for the fact that it needed to stay in the oven longer now. It collapsed like a bad souffle in the movies when I removed it. It was a little undercooked, but yummy. My test tasters said it needed to cook a little longer, but they kept nibbling at it. I'm going to try again on Wednesday night by cooking it an extra 15 minutes and using a toothpick this time to test it before taking it out of the oven.