themeparkman25

What is the name of the 4d coaster?

I mean its not that unreasonable is it? Just take Top Thrill (pretty much), subtract the launch and there is your lift hill. Either the trains are going to be crazy short or you are going to literally get ejector air in the back. This coaster grows more interesting by the day.

The better question is who doesn't like Megan Fox.

^Negative. Each person has a little computer on the restraints that allows them to pick their own song. Universal guarantees that each person will only hear the song they pick and not other peoples songs.

What is with the emo monster on ultimate escape?

^Nope, that was a life long decision made by universal...haha. They will be able to change them.

I'm pretty sure that is going to leave bruises on your thighs when you re enter the building, that thing is going to POP.

^I thought the tentative opening was the 9th of July, so still a couple more days away.

^Yes, and here is the other. Train.

Summer Trip #2 Part B- Nickelodeon Universe We left Valleyfair! around 7:30 pm and headed over to Mall of America, having not been there since it was Camp Snoopy. Because of the timing we were there, we were able to pick up twilight unlimited passes for $20, what a deal! First thing I had to do was check out Spongebobs plunge and ride my first eurofighter. I was pleasantly surprised by the coaster, the elements and the compact yet fun nature it offered. The lift hill literally takes you into one of the pyramids of the roof (talk about a tight fit) and drops you at a pretty good angle into an awkwardly shaped loop. The loop is fun, the bunny hop following it and the horseshoe are cool but the zgr still stands as my favorite inversion. Albeit its not a b&m zgr, it is still fun and is still in a mall. The rest is pretty entertaining, but nothing memorable. Good first impression. I then checked out the half pipe, which seemed like a completely different coaster compared to Elitches. It seemed more than "half" aka beyond 90, the cars were single pieces not three, the pods held 6 compared to 8 and you spun more. Interesting. It was fun to check out another model of a coaster very familiar to me. Fairly Odd Coaster reminded me of spinning dragons at WoF, I wonder why? These restraints seemed to not tighten as much during the ride as SD did, which I enjoyed. Still cool how they built the thing around supports for the roof and other rides. To my surprise, pepsi was left pretty much untouched as was the log ride, both of which are pretty fun. The Zamperla ax thing was pretty fun, though mundane after awhile and ghostblasters was cool too. It was nice to get back to the park and check it out since the conversion. Nick has done some pretty cool things with the park and is a fun experience for everyone in the family. Random cool flat picture. For some reason this coaster will always be timberland twister to me. Fairly Odd Coaster They dug a pit, set the coaster in the pit and then made weird supports hold it up. Nothing alike the other model I have ridden. For real, 4 years of modifications made this a completely different coaster than the one I know. Pretty cool panoramic of Spongebob They pushed the height as high as they possibly could. the jist of the layout of sponge bob rock bottom plunge

Summer Trip #2- Valleyfair! and Nickelodeon Universe My family made a road trip out to Wisconsin and I demanded a side trip in Minneapolis to pick up all the missed credits, and it was definitely worth it. We got to the park at 9:30 to be one of the first in the parks, and to run to renegade. First, the park is stupid and doesn't have a drop off zone, so if you read this please skip the BS of paying $10 and then refunding it and just make a drop off lane. The entry however, is pretty pretty with Steel Venom chillin' to your left and Wild Thing looming everywhere, the buildings also had a nice feel to them. The weather was very overcast, chilly and very humid so it didn't start of feeling like the best day to be at a theme park. After the park opened, we (my bro and I) ran to Renegade and let me tell you the coaster is definitely pretty rad. The first drop has to be one of the sweetest first drops I have ridden and has some crazy turns the rest of the run. To be honest, after riding Prowler three weeks ago, this definitely lacked in the airtime department but it made up for it with side to side turns. It carried its speed well, though again not as good as Prowler, and the station fly by was way cool. Like Prowler however, it was very difficult to photograph much of this ride. Number 2 solid favorite wood coaster. Next up was Wild Thing, it didn't really live up to its name. The first hill after the drop is crazy in both the front and back, but then after that it is rather forceless(and I do not mean that in the sense of low g's) and boring, sound familiar? The coaster is very photogenic, at least towards the entrance of the park, and does seem to be a gp pleaser so I guess it is alright in that sense. However, IMO it was nothing special. From there I got to be the Intamin fan boi I am and rode Steel Venom, my third impulse, and it ranks last in that category. I do not know what ____ hole decided to catch the car on the straight spike for a second and then drop it, but it is an awful idea. One might call it a sterilizer to keep it pg. I am glad they added those extra supports though, it still shakes a lot, I cannot imagine what it looked like without them. To conclude this post, exacliber was the most interesting coaster of the trip, high roller barely made it over some of its hills, corkscrew was typical arrow loop and corkscrew at its best and mad mouse was interesting. Oh ya, and that S&S swing ride is awesome. Overall I thought this park was pretty fun with a pretty well balanced ride selection for the entire family. It was clearly a cedar fair park as there were trash cans everywhere and the food at Coasters Diner still sucks. Side note: if anyone knows how to convert .mov files into a windows movie maker format they should tell me. I have videos from this, WoF and MoA. Renegade: The Outlaw Coaster Renegade through renegade! Sorry for not a lot of pictures for this ride, it was well hidden and similarly graffiti-ed I nominate this for ugliest coaster ever. I had never seen trains like High Rollers before. They didn't fit me very well, and without the pads on the boards my knees would be dead. See what I mean by typical loop and corkscrew. Tell me though, how does this park get away with having this as their only coaster with inversions? When coaster enthusiasts can't sleep, they don't count sheep they count trains jumping over trains. The figure 8 out by the challenge park offered some nice pictures. E.P.I.C. I think this is a pretty cool picture of Steel Venom. Intamin twisted goodness. This part is do-able, the back end not so much. Steel Venom peaking its way through Wild Thing. These photos would be way more epic with blue skies. De ja vu with my mamba lift pic? Wild Thing is the first thing to greet you, it is pretty cool. What is with Morgan supports though, geez, they are everywhere.

I tried looking as well and couldnt find the name of the park though I did find it is German made and in Slovenia. I don't know how true that is though.

Does anyone else think it is funny that they have Daft Punk - Stronger Faster Whatever song and then also have Kanye - Stronger? I am not too impressed with the playlist, especially two bestie boys? Mix it up Universal, there are millions of songs out there so why pick two of the same band?

If it is anything in fact like that, my excitement level just dropped a level. Sure it is full of speed and overbanked turns, but it was nothing special.

I actually think this project, and the vekomas are coming together nicely. I think they are a long way off though from opening, but then again they have a little less than a year. I cannot wait to get a review on the new vekoma track and trains though.

According to coaster-net: First paragraph.

Great pictures, you have a talent with the camera. One thing I still dont get about so many intamin helixes is why are there so many supports? Why not just make it a 3 or 4 bar track and then eliminate some supports? I'm looking forward to whats next. Any b&m, cci happy valleys in the future?

I thought the trackwork was incredibly smooth and the airtime on this was awesome, I also thought the layout was pretty good as well. I didn't mind the ending and didn't really feel it was bad, but it did seem a little different than the rest of the coaster. It was a fantastic coaster and you did a great job, but one thing I would advise is incline the station, pre lift and last segment of brakes so that you can eliminate the transport wheels. Keep up the good work, this was awesome.

^What did you use as a train? I could only assume a marble because of the age and project, but I could be wrong.

The mini golf looks a little excessive but the rest looks really good. Keep it up.

^I would agree with the foliage, but not with the rest of the park. Its not bgsa or thrill point but its certainly not the worse. Yes, there are blocking issues on the coaster and the splashdown looks way short on the splash boats but he is trying and that is what counts. He has a pretty decent hack in the roto drop pirate ship concept and has spent some time with stations and I think it shows. Constructively, the park could use some terrain as well as a change in foliage but besides that I think it is a pretty decent park.

^^^Cool, I am glad you are doing that. I don't know if you have started buying stuff yet or planning anything but I agree with mcjaco, check out styrene as well. I cannot wait to start using the material and it should make for a promising final product. Plan away though! ^Something about the structural integrity of a pretzel makes me not want to use it. One bump and don't goes the model.

I would agree if it had speed but I am pretty sure that the coaster just got dispatched and will not have a ton of speed. One question I have though is will there be themeing on that section or anything, because it looks rather bland right now and I don't know why S&S would do that. In regards to the video, it looks slower than I had imagined. I mean with over 126 mph of speed I just feel it should bust coaster butt through there. But then again when you look at the little animation pov of it where it has a speedometer in the bottom right, they show the speed dropping significantly and never recovering it. Even after the curves when it goes back into the building, the animation shows it with half of the speed. Does anyone know more about that? And does anyone know how I get my hands on the track driving atv?

I personally really like the station on the GCI, I think it is very creative and looks well. And the station fly bad is pretty rad. There are pictures of Goliath doing loops and then there are pictures of Goliaths hammerhead, I am confused as to what kind of coaster it will be. But I think the supports are much better, good job.

Wait, what model are you building? I thought you were doing led zep?