Skycoastin Steve

Got to ride Despicable Me this morning during the Annual Passholders preview. Pretty fun attraction, although the actual ride itself is rather short compared to the preshow. I don't know if they upgraded the ride system since Jimmy Neutron (since I never rode that), but it's nothing spectacular. The theming in and around the ride building is top notch, though. It also made me want to finally see the movie, so maybe that was part of the idea, too. Either way, fun times, but I won't be waiting for this at any point during the summer.

^^Trust me, these people won't accept or realize that anything they do is dumb.

Really? I mean, really? That's what I say to you actually believing that the person was serious.

Baffles the mind every time when I see that line. I just want to go down the line and smack every single one of them silly and scream at them for buying an overpriced stick that does absolutely nothing (and one that their child will probably break before the vacation is over).

^The building right by where the Blues Brothers show is, where the Delorean and time travel train used to be parked.

I'll take "Things That Aren't Surprising in the Least Bit" for $500, Alex.

Just let it go, kid. Just let it go.

^I'm going to go out on the father of all limbs and say the kid seriously believed that.

I bet he had a great ride photo planned out where he was acting like he was choking his riding partner.

^I'm going to go out on the mother of all limbs and say that wasn't the real reason it was closed for two days.

He should have cut his legs off, then maybe they would have let him ride.

Yep, but the station design creates basically no line for the magic row, so I LOVE that station!

Car 1, Row 3. That's all you need on that ride. Unless you're a pansy and can't handle airtime (like the people complaining about SkyRush). The back row is only better for the first drop.

And there are dozens of parks that cost a HELL of a lot more than this one. Seriously, on the WTF? scale of expensive parks, with a 1 being your typical FEC and 10 being any Orlando park, CP is at about a 6 (maybe 7) out of 10. I would put places like Kennywood and Holiday World at about a 3 or 4.

Really happy for the Kings, glad they finished the series off on home ice, too.

^The non-wheel seats don't involve your butt sitting directly above the wheels, which makes for a noticeably smoother ride. Even on 4-seat cars. For a great comparison, I would ride Grizzly at KD in the 2nd last row and love it, then I would ride in the row behind it and immediately schedule a chiropractic appointment. Believe me, there's a HUGE difference between the two rows.

^I don't get scared on coasters, but buzzbars on Skyrush would make me fairly sufficiently crap my pants.

What about a dinosaur-themed B&M invert?

Intamin just needs to go back to old school and use ratcheting lap bars.

With those big cushy seats, I think it's possible to do it on a non-wheel seat. But then again, they might make people rotate seats, so who knows. Good luck!

Absolutely worse. BGT has actually been better the last couple times I've gone there this year, but HP was historically bad that day. When you combine the ride closures with the incompetency we saw from the entire ops department, it was one of the worst days I've had at a park operations wise. But like I said, they have some kick ass rides, so you kinda have to deal with it to get the reward of Storm Runner, Skyrush, and Lightning Racer.

^I would be shocked if most of the ops there could handle walking and chewing gum at the same time, let alone a single rider line.

I think we can all agree that something has to be done about that station. I even wonder if there's a way they could build a staircase off the back of the station for people to use as an exit. I didn't look that closely at the back of the station to see if it's even possible, but I find it impossible to believe that there's absolutely no way they could have people unload on the other side and still make it work.

The only place I've eaten there the last four times I've gone is the gyro place near Storm Runner, and those gyros are pretty tasty. However, I can't comment on the rest of the food in the park.

Yep, when you go through the main entrance, the path starts just to the right of the main midway and connects directly to the start of the Skyrush queue. It's a HUGE relief for what could have been a pretty ugly stampede down into Comet Hollow on a daily basis. So at least they got that right. Yeah, I saw nothing but happy faces that day. I will say, I pulled a muscle in my side trying to sit back up when I was bent over the side of the train, which was sore for a few days, but at least it wasn't my thighs!