The Big So-So

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I was a disgusted 15-year-old when I visited Tomorrowland in 1998. The new color scheme made me sick, and I hated Rocket Rods.

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1. Goliath 2. Terminator Salvation: The Ride 3. Tatsu 4. X2 5. Viper 6. Colossus 7. Ninja 8. Batman: The Ride 9. Revolution 10. Gold Rusher 11. Riddler's Revenge 12. Superman: The Escape 13. Canyon Blaster 14. Scream! (not short enough to ride Déjà Vu)

They could replace Colossus with El Toro, and the GP would think they just stripped the paint off Colossus and renamed it.

Disneyland - I don't this park will ever lose its luster for me. As a kid, I visited once every one or two years, and it was my favorite place in the world. Now that I live in SoCal, I visit the park all the time, and somehow the magic is always there. I pretty much always want to spend a full day there. Knott's and SFMM - I visit these two quite frequently as well. I get burned out on them every now and then, but there are a few attractions at each that I never get tired of. I usually am ready to go home after four or five hours at these parks, but those are a quality four or five hours. Universal Studios and Sea World - These are once every couple years parks.

I've always liked the classic white and red woodies. < Giant Dipper, for instance.

My home park is Universal Studios Hollywood, and it only has one coaster, which I don't care for all that much-- Revenge of the Mummy. For the other nearby parks that I frequent, I would pick: Six Flags Magic Mountain - Goliath Knott's Berry Farm - Xcelerator Disneyland - Matterhorn Disney's California Adventure - California Screamin'

I'm surprised so many people here immediately dismiss this as a terrible idea. I'm sure I would quite enjoy a Rollercoaster Tycoon movie.

Yes, I did-- around 11:00am.

I rode Ninja: Karate Kid: The Ride today. It was nice to get back on it after being closed for a while. The park was pretty quiet early in the day. Goliath was a walk-on, with an instant reride. Terminator was only about a ten-minute wait. I skipped Tatsu, which had about a 30-minute line, and I didn't bother with X2.

I just rode on Scream! at SFMM for the first time in over a year, and I was reminded why I stopped riding it. It is the only coaster in the park that I consider pretty much unrideable. I can ride X2, Viper and Revolution without pain, but Scream!'s constant vibrating kills my head every time, and there's nothing I can do to prevent it (except not going on it in the first place).

I heard the ads are permanent and once they add them to every car on all the trains, they're renaming the ride El Strideo.

Alien vs. Predator would make a great theme for a dueling coaster. I'm not sure what type of coaster would be best. Pretty much anything big, steel and intense would work.

I grew up with Splash Mountain (DL), so it's hard to go with anything else. Even looking at it objectively, I still think that's my favorite.

I rode four times in an hour this morning. The ride is great every time, and no one was assigning seats. A couple of kids (around 10 years old) were really eating up the theming, which was good to see. After the final preshow, as one of the kids was walking up the stairs, he was yelling, "Run for your lives! They're coming!" I figured he was a first-timer, but before he even made it to the station, he said, "Sector 1! I need to be in Sector 1!" A couple other funny things people said: -"See, they changed more than just the name." -"This ride has actually been here since the '60s."

At Tower of Terror (DCA): "This ride was better when they let you stand up, but I guess it's safer to sit down."

I am 26. First coaster: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Disneyland) It was probably around 1989 or whenever I finally reached 40 inches. I remember going to DL the previous year and just missing that height line, but for some reason I was afraid to go on the Matterhorn, even though I was tall enough for that one. I don't think I rode Matterhorn or Space Mountain until a year after I rode BTMR.

I'm mostly silent, with the occasional whoop. I'm tall and have long arms, so I'm generally afraid to put my hands up, though I will throw them up on airtime hills as long as there's clearly nothing above me.

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I like the signs on Colossus at SFMM right before you enter the lift hill. The sign warns you to keep your arms down and has a picture of Bugs Bunny with his arms in the air and big red X's at his elbows.

California Screamin'

I still haven't come down from my WCB high. I didn't get a single ride on X2, but it didn't matter. From riding Goliath five times in a row without getting up during night ERT to having some of the best rides on Viper I've ever had, it was quite a memorable day.

I just noticed on Everland's website that T Express has a maximum height limit of 195cm (about 6'5") for its riders. Anyone know the reason for this? Restraints? Low-clearance headchoppers? Do ride ops regularly measure people? I'm in the early stages of planning a trip to Korea, and I've never been so excited for a single coaster as I am for T Express. I'm right at the height limit, so I may or may not get to ride, depending on how they measure. I'm already coping with the fact that I can't ride Atlantis Adventure at Lotte World (190cm).

Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson at Disneyland