Skycoastin Steve

I do think it'll be a pretty intense ride. Some of those turns (especially the first one) are taken at heinous speeds and will get some serious positive G's going. With the airtime hills, there's no way to know for sure just how much airtime they'll provide until we start riding it. You have to think that a 150' hill at almost full speed has got to be ejector air. Looks as if this could potentially be a very Maverick-ish ride, just bigger and faster.

A big reason for the short track length is the fact that it's so low to the ground and doesn't have many hills. Hills use more track and therefore increase track length. It's still about a 45-second ride from the crest of the lift hill to the brakes, which isn't bad at all. Millennium Force is about 58-59 seconds from crest to brakes, and it's about 1,500 feet longer, so the pacing is pretty similar.

That is true that just about any park will allow you to bring "special cuisine" into a park if it is something they don't offer.

I don't think I'll ever get over how HUGE that ride looks in the back of the park. The more this ride goes up, the more excited I get about it.

^Awesome, sounds great!

So if we get a Knott's season pass voucher, will we be able to process it that morning, as well, or is that just SFMM?

Here it is from Robb himself. Did I just completely miss that? I shouldn't post early in the morning, my concentration is nowhere near optimal yet.

Wait, wait, wait.......hold up. ERT on Xcelerator????? Have they told you it's going to be open?!?!

^I blame the fact that it's a good ride for being ranked #6 in the world. ^^Well the Aussie said he wanted to tear down Voyage in the "coaster tear down" thread, so that would be a lot worse than tearing down the #6 one!

Good plan! Now what would you do with Prowler?

^Burning it down might not work that well, the structure is steel.

^From the look/sound of the Mammut POV, it sounds like they ride like the Intamin trains, very smooth and quiet. Mammut just doesn't look like an exciting ride, though. Somehow, I thought the Gerstlauers on Boss weren't that bad, and that's the ONLY time I can say that I had a positive experience with those trains.

Millennium Flyers on a coaster that isn't GCI. Should be rather interesting to see how it works out if they use them. It's bound to be better than the clunker Gerstlauers they have on there. I think Cheetah would have been way better with PTC's because the airtime hills provided great pops of air, but those damn lapbars obliterated my femurs.

^^I think only one person has died on Shockwave, and that was because the kid wiggled out of the restraints and got tossed off. Darwin has never been prouder (well, the decapitation at SFoG might have been better). The only other incident was about a year later when a 13-year-old thought his restraint wasn't secured properly and he wiggled out of the coaster and jumped onto the catwalk on the lift hill.

Hmmmm.....let me see if there are any blank company checks lying around the office so I can purchase OzCat and move it to Alabama.

Hasn't there been a small amount of speculation about OzCat going to Wild Adventures in 2011? That would certainly add a little credibility to that park's reputation.

So are they naming this coaster Russian Death Trap?

^I have a pretty big love/hate relationship with both Hurlers. They're both incredibly rough and uncomfortable if you catch them on the wrong day in the wrong seat, but can also give insane airtime on other days. The one year I worked at Carowinds I found that the front left seat was the best way to go on their Hurler. A little track work wouldn't kill them.....

^ I almost want to make one of my big milestone coasters something lame, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself. It has to be epic every time! But I know that one of these days I'll get stuck with a crappy milestone coaster. Right now my biggest goal is getting every available woodie credit in the U.S. However, the Kiddie Coaster at Playland in NY has a max height restriction, so that just kills it right off the bat.

- Favorite new coaster - Voyage - Favorite new ride - MaXair - Favorite new park - I don't think I visited any parks that opened this decade...... - Most memorable park moment - My first ride on Millennium Force in 2000, one of my few speechless moments in 25 years of life! - Most memorable coaster moment - My first ride on TTD, which was the first public cycle of the 2007 season, front row, and a rollback. Epic! - Best ERT session - I had so many great nights during employee ride nights at Cedar Point, the best was probably Magnum in 2007 when they shut the trims off and we had full trains steamrolling through the pretzel. However, NOTHING compares to the Rampage ERT that TPR had this year. Even though I was an employee and only had a few rides that night, I can say that those were some of the craziest rides I've ever had on any coaster. - Least favorite coaster - TOUGH choice, but it's a tie between Rattler and the Looping Star at Beech Bend. - Least favorite ride - Any of the rides I may have ridden at a fair in the last 10 years. - Least favorite park - Another tough choice, but Wild Adventures I thought was pretty crappy. Eight utterly forgettable credits. - Most interesting ride you've seen introduced - I think the 4th Dimension coaster was a terrific innovation, even if the execution of the ride wasn't the greatest. I think in time, with proper engineering, this could become one of the most exciting ride types in the world. - Least interesting ride you've seen intoduced - Roller Soakers. - Your favorite TPR moment (favorite post, trip report, video, whatever!) - Only really had one, the Rampage ERT! Really, the whole day TPR was at AA was a very, very fun day and it was a pleasure to host everyone on the Deep South trip. - The decade's biggest flop - Either Hard Rock Park or Son of Beast. They're really tied for first with no close 2nd place. - The decade's biggest success - WOODEN COASTER REVOLUTION!!!!!! - The best meal you've had at a park - Either the Thanksgiving food at Holiday World or the Backstage Restaurant at Dollywood, both were fantastic. - The worst meal you've had at a park - Seeing how I rarely actually get food at a park unless I KNOW for a fact that it's good, I don't recall having a bad meal at a park. - Best park turnaround - As much as it pains me to say, Six Flags parks everywhere are really starting to improve from their dismal state earlier in the decade. And although Holiday World was never really considered "bad," its status as an enthusiast hot spot has skyrocketed this decade. - Worst park turnaround - Geauga Lake. That was easy. - What was the biggest trend of this past decade? Coaster wars, the "build at all costs" mentality of virtually every park chain in the country. Closely followed by the WOODEN COASTER REVOLUTION!!!!!

I didn't consider doing them in that order, it makes plenty of sense though! IF things work out right with my credits (and that's a mammoth IF), my 300th coaster will happen the day I do those three parks, and it will be on a Friday. So the choice will either be Bizarro or Boulder Dash for #300. Now that's a tough choice!

^Your best option would be to do Quassy, Compounce, and SFNE in the same day. They're collectively about an hour apart. I'm doing those three on one day in July.

I still have it ranked 13 out of 45. I think it's still a decent enough ride, but the night rides I had on it are what's keeping the ranking as high as it is. I was insanely disappointed with my one ride this year that was trimmed up the wazoo and rather boring, except for the double helix, of course.

Quoted for truth (except for the part about Voyage, I shudder at the thought). Mean Streak has one of the most massive footprints I've ever seen, and it's not worth one square foot of the land it sits on. There's so much space in the middle of the coaster that you could literally put a number of flat rides in with room to spare. Even though it's beautiful to look at, tear the wasted lumber down and build something that's worthy of the valuable CP peninsula land.

If you were allowed to ride it with her, we would totally be selling her to everyone at the event. Unfortunatley, adults are not allowed on Percy...AT ALL. Not even if you're with a kid. I haven't even been on that coaster since I was a kid! I actually don't know of anyone, outside of people who work at the park and have to do a safety ride, that have actually been on that coaster, unless they rode it when they were children. --Robb Well that's just messed up. Any way we can bribe them to open both sides of Superman or Colossus?