CoasterGuy06

Visited yesterday for the first time since 2015. Had another good visit. Some thoughts: -Mystic Timbers was really fun. Even better at night, but there are still quite a few lights visible from White Water Canyon -Diamondback is still fun. Really wish they would at least repaint the lift supports. Also while the crew was better than the one I experienced in 2015, nothing beats the crew when I visited over 2 days in 2011 -While it never actually stormed while I was there (2:30pm-close) there was a good bit where rides were down due to lightning in the area. Still can't understand why Banshee/The Bat have to be down for lightning while Vortex, Delirium, Congo Falls, and Xtreme Skyflyer can all operate. -Still hilarious that Adventure Express is rated a 5 while rides like Windseeker, Mystic Timbers, and Drop Tower are a 4 -Still love The Bat -Vortex was fairly smooth compared to some of the rides I have had on it. -The Beast night rides are still really good -One annoyance: on almost all of my rides on the two B&M coasters one of their two exit gates was still locked, causing a bottle neck with everyone riding. Ride Counts: Diamondback 4, Mystic Timbers 5, The Beast & The Bat 2, Banshee 6, Each side of The Racer, Flight of Fear, Adventure Express, Vortex, Delirium, Eiffel Tower, and KI&MVRR all 1

Some parks allow you to wear swim wear on theme park water rides, some don't. The park I use to work at didn't allow it simply to be consistent with all rides. Many flat rides are completely exposed to sun light and those seats get very hot. A girl in a bikini top/bottoms or a guy going shirtless can get burned very easy on those rides. Instead of having people try to argue "well we wore this on THAT ride, why can't we on THIS ride?" our management just had a blanket "shirts, shorts, and shoes" requirement on all of our dry park rides.

Removed: The Rattler- SFFT Sideshow Spin- Dollywood Dragon- Beech Bend Wildcat- Cedar Point Disaster Transport Cedar- Point Mean Streak Cedar- Point Big Bad Wolf- BGW Hypersonic XLC- KD Shockwave- KD Hurler- KD Thunder Road- Carowinds Relocated: Deja Vu- SFOG Rockin Roller Coaster- Opryland Wild Maus- BGW Marvel Mania Alabama- Adventure Zoomerang- Alabama Adventure Two Face:The Flip Side- SFA

Lying to investors is illegal. However, not all parks have "investors." Yes, some parks do lie to make rides sound better. When Visionland announced they were building Zoomerang back in 2005 (a nearly 20 year old relocated boomerang) they said they were spending $5 million on the ride. In reality they spend like $3-$3.5 million, but thought saying $5 million would sound more impressive in the media.

There is actually a lot more to that case than a woman spilling hot coffee on her lap. Back to this story, it's good she wasn't harmed worse than she was, but yeah I can't imagine she was following all of the rules of the ride.

While I have not been so far this year, during one of the off season tours the park president did say that in addition to the new paint job that they were working to have all three trains ready to run this year to handle the increased crowds there due to JL opening. Hopefully they got it done.

My last visit was in June 2015 on a day where there was an off and on drizzle throughout the day. Virtually everything operated as normal all day.

That seems to becoming the norm at a lot of parks these days. As much as I miss working at a park, the changes in operations so many have made in the last few years I don't know if I could handle it anymore.

Twisted Typhoon at Wild Adventures last Friday.

They ran one Vekoma train and one Arrow train in 2011 (both were running at Deep South Bash that year). In 2012 both trains were Arrow trains from SFGAdv. I wonder if Blue Hawk's new trains are the old chassis with new bodies/restraints. It would make it cheaper than buying new trains, so maybe more SF parks will upgrade their rides.

^Yes. She was sitting on top of the restraints. That is supposedly why Six Flags then added those giant handle bars on on of their Arrow style restraints.

A small child could fit through there. I might be remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure ASTM guidelines state no gap in perimeter fencing should be 4 inches or greater.

Is there another fence between that gate and the coaster? If not that gap is way too wide.

You don't have to do it that way though. You can just remove the upstops to take the train off. The park I use to work at did that. When ours valleyed between the loop and boomerang they did that and removed the cars, put them back on between the loop and second lift, put the upstops back on, hoisted it up with the winch on top of that lift, and then restarted the ride.

Like many of the documented stabbings/shootings at parks these occurred in the parking lot, where metal detectors would not have prevented these incidents.

I wouldn't be opposed to them bringing in GCI to re-track Georgia Cyclone and to slap some Millennium Flyers on the ride.

Just because they are building a rapids ride doesn't mean that was all they looked at. They could have said "let's build a water ride" and asked for a RFP from several different water ride manufacturers and chose to go with the Intamin rapids ride. Dollywood didn't decide to build a wooden coaster for 2016. They decided to build a coaster and received RFP for both wood and steel coasters, for example.

Y'all do know that Boomerangs are designed to "valley" in the spot right? Once they get everyone unloaded it should take 20 minutes at most to get the train back into the station, unless there is a major problem with the ride.

Joker's Jinx always felt like the "slowest" of all the spaghetti bowl coasters. I wonder if maybe it's launch is slightly slower than the others?

SFOT has pouches on several of their rides, including both Titan and NTAG.

I wish both CF and SF would jump on the junior invert ride, be it with B&M or Vekoma.

They were on last season, but not as bad as when I visited in 2012. You're right though, when they hit hard it really kills the ride.

Six Flags is also contractually obligated to spend a certain percentage of the park's revenue on capital improvements at SFOG and SFOT that they do not have to at their other parks.

No. Mike Fehnel was the GM at Carowinds wile Fury 325 was under construction/opening.

29/62 in North America.