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This basically confirms Kentucky Kingdom turning into Geauga Lake imo. I think that would be the best move. Chang is gone, the park's ride collection is pointless, other Six Flags parks could get new rides, and SFKK could turn into one great waterpark. While Screamscape was right about Chang leaving, I still think they're wrong about it going to SFGAm. This is the perfect ride for SFA, which Six Flags seems like it is going to keep with Thomas Town coming next year. On another note, I have finally ridden a defunct coaster!

Invertigo (CGA and KI), Firehawk, and T2/Kong are my least favorites. Vekoma FTL.

Were the two people in the front row? I'm thinking they were, and if that's true I'm wondering if there will be some kind of shield in the front of the train or something (I hope not). I do think this a pretty big deal. Luckily they weren't seriously hurt but they could have been.

Wow, so I'm guessing Ghostrider and Xcelerator are both down now...

Isn't there also a little bit of land behind the go karts next to Terminator's turn around? If they did remove the go karts, that'd be a pretty nice amount of land. If they keep the go karts, I still think something small could fit over there.

I'll just do a Top 10 for the U.S. (in no order) for now since it is not likely that I will make it to Europe/Asia in the next few years. 1. Bizarro (SFNE) 2. Boulder Dash 3. Dueling Dragons (Fire and Ice) 4. El Toro 5. Fahrenheit 6. Griffon/SheiKra 7. Intimidator 305 (yeah...already on here) 8. Montu 9. Storm Runner 10. Thunderhead

Depends what kind of coaster...I'd say a Vekoma Boomerang with Vekoma trains is smoother than an Arrow Looper like Viper, Vortex, or Demon. Arrow mine trains a suspended coasters are smooth though, and SLC's are horribly rough. BUT...Vekoma's kiddie coasters and mine trains are smooth and Arrow's 4D is really rough. So I dunno..I'd say Arrow's are more enjoyable (I definitely like the company OVERALL better) but the rides that they do make rough are ROUGH and most of Vekoma's coasters pretty much average out somewhere in the middle imo.

Nah, they haven't hyped it up enough. Since they've just started making hints on Twitter, I would guess that this wouldn't be announced until October... ...if they really want to get us excited and hyped up for a Tony Hawk clone.

Kings Island. The park is very nice but some of the operations (cough Firehawk cough) were terrible and the coaster collection is horrible.

That's good that X2 was running 2 trains, but it was probably just because of a holiday weekend...it'll probably be back to 1 train on Tuesday.

Great...SFMM is now officially playing the "Cedar Point game".

What exactly do you do at the Season Passholder Event? Is there ERT?

Instead of trading something for El Toro, how about we let SFGAdv keep it and we get our own Pre-fab?

^ Which is what's sad. If the ride was at Disneyland...

My opinion on Colossus: I hate the ride. It has to be one of my least favorite coasters and I rarely ride it anymore. It's not as rough as some other woodies (Ghostrider, Mean Streak, Voyage, Legend) and the roughness isn't even the main reason I hate it. It's the layout! I hate these out and back racing coasters like Racer at KI and Colossus. They can be rough but most of all they get really boring and they don't have any airtime. Colossus has a decent first drop but it is so loud you have to cover your ears and the MCBR is really strong. I'd say the least rough/most enjoyable spot to ride Colossus in is the back but really in every spot it is pretty bad woodie.

I black out nearly every time I ride Goliath. It's no big deal, I'm used to it and it adds a whole new thrill to the ride. It's like the helix is in a tunnel for me. I can understand why someone would be jealous.

Is it officially closed? I thought it was just SBNO.

Just curious, what used to be in TTD and WT's spot?

Agreed...not to be a fanboy or anything but X2 definitely should have been in there. One of the best drops around. EDIT: Just saw "Steel Dragon 2000 coming up!" It showed part of Robb's POV.

According to rcdb, Eagle's Fortress is 40 mph. I just can't see that as being true, especially seeing the speed of other suspended coasters. Big Bad Wolf: 48 mph Flight Deck: 51 mph Iron Dragon (also known as Draggin' Iron): 40 mph Ninja: 55 mph Vampire: 45 mph Vortex: 55 mph Iron Dragon and Eagle's Fortress can't possibly be the same speed. And if Eagle's Fortress really was 40 mph, that would mean that it's tied for the slowest suspended coaster...yet it was rated the 2nd best steel coaster in the world last year and is supposed to insane. Another thing I don't get, aren't Flight Deck and Vortex clones? According to rcdb, they are different speeds (see above). So is rcdb just wrong with all of these or what?

Try 4.5. I don't understand how this ride could possibly cost $6 million MORE than Pilgrims Plunge, which not only is 40 feet taller, but also uses an elevator lift, which surely wasn't cheap. I know that this ride has an extra drop, but that second hill is less than 50ft tall, and uses a traditional lift hill. How does that add up to $10.5 million? But that aside, I think this looks like a great addition to the Point. It seems like it will be in a nice location, and the look of the final drop into those "rapids" will turn out to be really cool, I bet. Judging by the fact that the Pilgrims Plunge's boats are dropping from an extra 40 feet, and that you rarely get completely "soaked" on that ride, I doubt you will get as wet on STR as many of you are imagining. Of course, if they end up installing that waterfall as it is in the animation, that may cause problems...by you shouldn't pay too close attention to the 3D renderings on a ride like this. (Remember how large they displayed PP's splash as being? Yeah...that's not how it turned out). With only 7 boats, PP's line never stops moving, and I'm guessing that it also has longer blocking intervals, because of the elevator lift. Therefore, I doubt capacity will be much of an issue on this new ride. Can't wait to ride STR next year! The whole cost thing is interesting. I would think it would hopefully be for theming, but unfortunately I can't see too much theming on this ride.

This looks like a lot of fun! I am a huge log ride fan and this is exactly what CP needed. Looks like you will be able to get some nice shots of MF on it too.

Just curious, what made Terminator better than El Toro?

Yes, I actually have! I have experienced a very rare Xcelerator rollback last April, and it was awesome. The train was going very slowly over the top hat, almost stalled, and I started thinking "rollback?". Then the train started crawling backwards (you don't know how excited I was) and there we went...down half of a top hat 200 ft. backwards. The train hit the brakes on the launch pad and we slowly came back into the station and were let off. The ride then closed...didn't even get a re-launch, but I'm not complaining.

^ For a waterpark it could! But still, Chang is the park's signature coaster...what would the locals think if the #1 ride in the area was removed? If you remove Chang...the park might as well just go like GL and turn into a pretty good waterpark.