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I'm going with rabbit hole.

I assume that if you ask very nicely, a park might let you have a bit of scrap coaster (i.e. a coaster being torn down for scrap... one car doesn't bring in as much revenue as you'd think.) Sorry, that was a bit weird. Anyway, my point is... ASK before pulling stuff like this.

Funny. I watched the E video and counted two track inversions and enough seat inversions to bring it up to 10.

Ah. The extended XP56.

What they need is a Seven Train Wonder. (i.e. a coaster that runs a shitload of trains.) Rev could do that, but they won't allow it.

I guess maybe it was just his time... I sure hope he is in a better place right now. R.I.P. That was Daniel's last post here. I think it is a fitting epitaph. Requesciat in pace, dude.

^Famous last words. Requesciat in pace, fellow enthusiast.

The reason that divemachines don't do zero-gee rolls is that the twist would provide too much force at the ends of the trains. Remember TTD's themeing.

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To solve the rollback issue, slow the chain down, then bring it up to speed near the top.

I revamped the poll, consolidated the options, and added vertical drops.

Of course, Mitch's poll places SROS@SFNE and EGF as best steelies every single year... because they're both damn good rides. Out of curiosity, in the Golden Ticket rankings, where did Ka place?

S+S woodies (i.e. Falken)are less aggressive than GG and Intamin PnP, and I had run out of forceful SMOOTH coaster makers. GCI makes coasters that LOOK like they're from the 1920s, GG makes coasters that ACT like they're from the 1920s. Old-school B+Ms aren't "just twisty". Ride Kumba a couple times and see what you think.

I tend to merge about 1/2 mile before the closed lane. For getting off the highway, I merge one exit before.

Here's how I see it. GCI = New-school B+M* GG = Schwarzkopf Intamin Plug-and-Play = Intamin hyper Intamin (old) = Gerstlauer S+S = Old-school B+M Vekoma (wood) = Arrow RCCA = Vekoma (steel) *i.e. they look like they're totally badass, but they're not really. Yeah, I know, GCI isn't that forceless, but their coasters aren't all that forceful compared to the other 3 good ones. The last one may seem a bit unfair, but both tend to age rather poorly. I like Intamin plug-and-play and Gravity Group the best, then GCI and old Intamin, then S+S and Vekoma, then RCCA.

It looks like an XP56 with a B+M drop.

It changed from last year, though what does Bakuli have over other Toilet Bowl slides out there? I think we should start the Donkey awards. We should have categories such as these: Best Park Ever Best Coaster Ever Best Death Machine Best Trash Cans (subcategories for Cedar Fair and non Cedar Fair parks) Better-Than-Voyage Award - For some of those great woodies that Amusement Today doesn't even know about Better-Than-Schlitterbahn Award - For the best water park "Taer It Down!1" award for the Worst Ride Ever Most Painful Ride Ever Most Boring Ride Ever Most Overrated Ride Ever Most Underrated Ride Ever Trashiest park Cedar-Fair-Park-With-The-Most-Trashcans award Lamest theming Amazing But I Hate It award WTF? award What about the "We Sat on our Ass and Did Nothing" for the park that did the least that year? (Little parks are exempt from this.)

It LOOKS cool. It doesn't RIDE cool. Much like Manhattan Express.

Yankee Cannonball. (By the way, it was once 85 feet tall, but Canobie had CCI come in and lower it.)

My theory is that a twisted drop allows for good visuals on the way down. With a straight drop, you would see nothing interesting (even in the front car.) You would just see the track. The twist helps prevent that.

The layouts are "meh". Notice that their biggest selling point is the inversions and the helices. Now, I happen to like inversions and helices, but that should not be all there is to a coaster. For example, my list of "best" elements on coasters include the turn-hill-type-thing on the SLC (right after the rollover). There isn't a "signature" element on any of the designs. Think of Mindbender (SFOG)'s third "loop", BMRX's "Psycho drop", and those Intamin non-inverting corkscrews. RideTek doesn't have these. They look like what would happen if Maurer Sohne used B+M track and trains for their X-car.

Get yourself to a German fair. They don't DO programs.

‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉Hi. This little bugger is awesome. Can you do it?

Geauga Lake is unnecessary. I suggest they swipe everything out of it, and sell it to Schlitterbahn or something.