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No it's Big Kahuna from Astroworld ... same name used at SFDL .. White Water West tube slide .. Diablo Falls is at SFNE as Splash Water Falls now.

BTW that slide is being installed, from SFAW ... bastards!

Maybe if the right address was used: http://www.zamperla.com/scheda_prodotto.asp?ID=530

The ride hasn't ran since at least 2000, not 2004. In our 2001 visit it was shuttered.

Well the area is opened up alot more, the photos don't really show it. Now that two of the games are gone, there's more space and the fact the fence of doom and what not isn't there anymore makes the traffic flow a bit easier. And the fact the Troika (Crazy Legs) is a mutant of 3 troikas (SFAW, SFGAm and La Ronde's)

Shockwave at SFOT 5/5/06 ... mmmm schwarzkopf

And that means what? INTAMIN, Vekoma, Gerstauler, Arrow, B&M, S&S, Zamperla all had no history at large rides, launched, looping, etc at some point and they've all proven they are possible ... while at the same time finding flaws with their designs. Just becuase a company hasn't done it, doesn't mean it will suck or be horrible. I must say B&M's first launched coaster attempt was a pretty rad invention, along with INTAMIN's newer launched rides .. sans the breakdowns.

Great tip is to use single rider on certain rides: Grizzly River Soarin' Screamin' Mulholland Madness I'm not sure of all the rides that use single rider, but they work really well except on Soarin' where you may have to wait a few minutes due to the groupings and size of each ride cycle.

And that means it HAS to be a steel loop? The track is wood, plain and simple, just cause there are the hybrid woodies out there (Silver Comet, Twisted Twins, Voyage, etc.) that use steel for structural support, just means that it'll be "stronger" persay and somewhat cheaper than bulking up on wood. I'm sure the loop could of been wood, but that would be a maintenance nightmare, not to metion the cost of the engineering to make it possible.

I can't wait to hit Clifton Hill this coming Thursday, maybe I can burn that POS Zamperla tower down and laugh at the small ferris wheel At least I'll need a change of shorts for the CN Tower.

Steel supports with wooden track in the SOB loop, not all steel. Anything is possible really with the right engineering, just a matter of who wants to invest the time and money into doing it right and not half-assed.

So yeah, instead of celebrating No Pants Day or Cinco De Mayo, we headed to SFOT after work to see the new rides since we were in lame Vegas last week during Media Day Look, outdoor queue with A/C ... now returning finally to SFOT Sidewinder, our 3rd scrambler See, the cows look alot better now Rodeo, looks alot better than it did in New Jersey and really opens up the area La Fiesta de las Tazas ... tea cups for short Part of the new Gotham City Spraygrounds, still under construction El Sombrero's new paint job and relocation and finally off the trailer after 40+ years I'm Crazy Legs, gimmie some candy! Old galveston gus building area .. cool new placement for Caddo Lake Barge Best looking rockin' tug to me .. and over water unlike the others Caddo Lake Barge Cloud Bouncer, yup the baskets do spin really fast tho Boot Scootin' ... it's cute i'd say Batwing in action .. oooooo Batwing! ACME Rock-N-Rocket, still in need of alot of work since SFOG did alot of damage to it

Cinco de Mayo and No Pants Day .. that'll work .. tons of naked Mexicans running around ... *shivers at mental image*

Revenge of the Mummy - USH on 4/27

hmph .. I can possibly go now .. for shame!

I'd be willing to go if this was in July ... just gotta check airfares and we HAVE to hit that crazy new 4D.

^ that looks alot more official than the crayola "map" ...

I have my Carowinds pass with no photo as well. They are using Biometrics with the pass. They ask you for your pass and you scan your hand. The photo comes up on the turnstyle operators screen. Hence why they take your photo and don't print them. I thought this was pretty cool .. but at the same time .. I do like photos on my passes since SDC makes you show an ID every time.

I've got this on my agenda to get these damn DVDs ... eventually I say.

Somehow I can't see them cutting the track as that would require a re-cerification from the state and Cal-OSHA. If this is true, the hell if I'll ever ride it again, plus Arrow no longer welds track in place, so wouldn't it bee easier to unbolt and remove a section of track, rather and CUT it? Most parks will remove the wheel bogies and carry the train by crane or forklift back to the maintance shed/transfer track area and re-assemble the train. They do this with Mr. Freeze at SFOT when it vallies due to power outages or high winds. It's the quickest means of it since it doesn't require alot of time, just a reassemble of the wheel bogies and inspection from maintance.

Wow .. official map in crayola ... wonder what design firm got the privledge of designing this one !?

Sans a few water parks and Frontier City, American Adventures .. it IS on the back of the pass, if you read.

Almost every ride in the park is a museum piece ..

There's also Consign AG .. B&M and INTAMIN use them alot.

Well ArrowVision is just the operator control screen, has nothing to do with the ride operations since Arrow never made PLC's. I assume Arrow used Allen-Bradley PLC's. The ArrowVision interfaces with the PLC to give the operator status on the ride (as with Road Runner Express at SFFT - Powered by Windows 98), but that is usually not used for maintenance as the Electricians and Mechanics who work on the ride would be versed in PLC maintenance.