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Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I've thought for a while that a water coaster from Mack Rides would be a good fit for that spot. -
Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The Voyage only has two trains now. -
Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I'm interested in seeing the new control systems for the three wooden coasters. Refreshing to see a park trying to increase capacity even more! -
Dollywood Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to crispy's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^Yes. -
Carowinds Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Ditto. Is there another (seasonal) park that has a better ride list for its holiday celebration? Dollywood is the only other park I can think of that comes close. The last two years I believe SFOG has had everything minus SUF, GASM, Blue Hawk, and Skyscreamer running. It will be interesting to see how many people will still come to these with such limited rides being available. -
Valleyfair (VF) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to the_rock401's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
That's funny because when I was at Kentucky Kingdom last month there were as many, if not more people riding Eye of the Storm as there were riding Storm Chaser. Two weeks later at SFOG and there was constantly a 2-3 cycle wait for Joker too. -
Cedar Point (CP) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
It's almost like Cedar Fair got the benefit of letting the designers get several years of experience converting rides vs being the company that took a leap of faith on an unproven company back in 2009. -
Alabama-Rampage California- Revenge of the Mummy (only coaster I've ridden in California) Florida- Sheikra Georgia- Golitah Indiana- The Voyage Kentucky- Storm Chaser Maryland- Superman:Ride of Steel North Carolina- Fury 325 Ohio- Millennium Force South Carolina- Afterburn Tennessee- Lightning Rod Texas- New Texas Giant Virginia- Intimidator
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What Was The Last Coaster You Rode?
CoasterGuy06 replied to SharkTums's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Goliath at SFOG a couple of weeks ago. -
Hersheypark (HP) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Proslide has been using LIMs on their water coasters since they built Deluge at Kentucky Kingdom back in 2007. I mean there are literally thousands of water slides around the world that go back and forth from tunneled sections to no tunneled sections. Has that really happened yet? -
12 years ago was 2005. Since then the following coasters/major rides have been repainted: Ninja/Blue Hawk- 2006/2016 Georgia Scorcher- 2007 MindBender- 2008 Batman:The Ride- 2010 Great American Scream Machine- 2010 Acrophobia- 2010 Joker Funhouse Coaster- 2016 Superman:Ultimate Flight- 2017 It's trains are nearly 40 years old and built by a manufacturer that went out of business decades ago. If its running one train you can almost guarantee that if you look inside the storage shed the other train will be in some stage of disassembly. Maybe the next project will be to finally get new trains for it like SFMM did for Revolution in 2016. The park supposedly was working on getting both stations/all three trains operational again this year. Maybe the budget was cut for it? I'm guessing the issues with the trains could be the fact they are essentially prototype trains. To be fair their operations were like that back then too. They were decent last Thursday overall, but were better several years ago. While Carowinds had excellent operations last year when I visited on Fury/Intimidator/Afterburn the rest of the rides were average at best. Hurler for example was running one train and had like eight operators in the station and it was still taking them several minutes to send out a train. I do agree that I would like to see them making several improvements to their current rides. When they announced Hurricane Harbor in 2014 they said it was the first of a multi year expansion plan. 2018 would be year 5 of that plan so maybe 2019 will be the year they can do some smaller improvements throughout the park?
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It doesn't have to be. Several years ago I was there on a day where they were often dispatching one train as the other train was going around the curve between break runs. I was there on Thursday and the crew was stacking trains during test runs after the park shut down due to weather. During one test run they didn't even bring the second train into the station until after the other train had run through the course and had been sitting on the first set of brakes for a couple of minutes. They were too concerned with goofing off with each other. Speaking of Thursday: What's the point of having all of these Freestyle machines for people to refill their drink bottles if you aren't going to keep them stocked throughout the day? And while I do hope they repaint Scorcher soon, I would be ecstatic if they finally got Mindbender the ability to have two working trains consistently.
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Kings Island (KI) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
These are my thoughts as well. A solid coaster for a park with a solid lineup. -
Kings Island (KI) Discussion Thread
CoasterGuy06 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
That was really what was annoying. It would just lead to a group of people crowded around pushing on a gate that wasn't opening.