KBrylczyk

There's plenty of jokes to be made about a friggin Hasbro-themed amusement park, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not interested in a Beyblade ride. Dueling Mack Spinner, please.

Holy crapsnacks, lap bar restraints?! Gimme summadat Gerstlauer insanity!!!!

With the kind of gangbusters business Comcast has seen from Universal Park & Resorts recently, I'm guessing they're looking to expand on the cheap. Buying Port Aventura has to be cheaper than building Universo épico or whatever.

How hard would it be to move this bad boy to another park? I never got the chance to ride but I've heard nothing but raves about it. I have to imagine the structure is partially incorporated into the building itself, though, right? If it's actually a standalone coaster maybe we can convince Indiana Beach to grow their garden, so to speak.

^ Mikey doesn't realize M&Ms are owned by Mars, not Hershey.

You know as well as I do (and the rest of the y'all wackadoos here) that the turntable will be used for the first year until they take one boat into permanent "maintenance" (read - parts bitch) and they're stuck with one boat that still needs to be spun around every single cycle, resulting in even longer cycle times and lower capacity. It's the Six Flags Way*. That being said, we also all know that when your ride is complete you're still going to be sitting in the boat for five minutes until they finally check and clear the second boat to rotate you back into the station. It's the Six Flags Way*. * - Does not apply to SFFT.

Hershey's whip was terrible. I'm certain the antique cars were faster and pulled more Gs.

Hey now, I've been on Pulsar at Walibi Wavre. These things are WAY better than any Shoot The Chutes ride I've been on. I would happily marathon a Powersplash any day while I would happily walk right by a Shoot The Chutes. I say this after I almost didn't ride Pulsar because I was being a pansy about getting wet. I was essentially shamed into going on the ride because I was afraid my socks and underwear would get squishy. Pulsar ended up being one of the highlights of that entire Europe trip and it has a refreshing splash rather than a "soak you to the bone" splash. If you want to get drenched you go stand next to the splashdown pool, but if you're in the boat you get a very fun thrill, a surprising amount of airtime, and a nice splish of water to cool you down. SFOT still sucks, though.

If a full-size Aldi can be built in a week down the road from me, I don't understand how this ride is taking literal years to be built. I'm not kidding about the Aldi, either. It was a dirt pit for a while, then the construction equipment showed up in early January. It opened ten days ago.

^ The two recent Jumanji flicks have made nearly $2 billion combined. They're massively successful flicks and it's a pretty well-known IP overall.

Just make sure you're on a Jeffrey before you ride!

That's a whole lot of words to not say much. Interesting concept, though; they have my curiosity.

^ Your space bar has become self-aware and is rebelling.

They're gonna Do-Dodonpa this thing. New launch, add a massive loop after the tower.

Seems silly to repaint a ride and change the name just to be able to re-use a sign, especially when another massive coaster at the same park has the same color scheme already.

^ It really is amazing to me how much of an effect becoming a father has had on my patience and understanding. He's not even two years old but we've done Disneyland, Adventureland, SDC, SFGAdv, and maybe one or two other amusement park days. I'm no longer the "go go go get on everything ASAP" guy and now I'm the "take your time, enjoy the day" guy. Even on my honeymoon I wouldn't take an afternoon to just relax, I was too busy trying to see and do everything we could in a limited time. Hindsight is always 20/20 and looking back I wish I was able to better understand the beauty of taking your time.

April 1st, eh?

Something about best laid plans and all that? Someone at Cedar Fair needs to read Of Mice And Men. This park is Lenny.

The only feelings someone has about Galveston are "deep depression" and "thank god we're leaving." Source - Worked on Carnival for four years. Galveston is...galveston.

You'd think they'd have done a modicum of planning and research for year-round ops.

I find it strange to see people mentioning the park's failings because when we visited in September the place was kicking ass and taking names. Every ride was open, no downtime, no big lines, etc. We had an absolutely incredible day with multiple laps on every coaster (except Powder Keg because those are the worst, most uncomfortable trains on earth and I've ridden a Screaming Squirrel) and that was while taking our sweet time to wander around. We never felt like we had to rush; just a chill, relaxing day. Hopefully Shavethewhales went on an off-day and that doesn't become the norm.

Yes, their POV is absolutely godawful, but damn this ride looks wild. Those barrel rolls over the midway buildings look pretty intense.

It's hard to tell with the wording of the article, but is the conductor going to be a Disney character like Mickey or are they just getting some nice, smooth-talking voice actor to be a new character in the Disney universe?

They were beaten to the punch by Guardians, it seems.