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I agree, the rear gives you the best bang for your money

^Thank-you. I was starting to feel like I was the only one that felt that way about Nitro. I also agree with you about Medusa. Believe it or not, my favorite steel coaster at SFGAdv. is Batman-The Ride.

Good luck, hopefully the crowds won't be too bad. Edit: Just remember that there's no FOF and IJ:Turd coaster isn't ready yet.

^You still have 3 other woodies to ride.

^Hurler, but it's no big deal.

Nitro @ SFGAdv. It's a very good coaster, just not a top 10 coaster IMO. I would put it in the 15 to 25 range. I liked the helix and the drop after the breakrun, but the first drop did nothing for me.

Once again, great pics Stew. This coaster looks better and better each week.

Great pics, and it's good to hear about the improvements. The only thing missing from the trip report is a little Intamin goodness.

^That would still leave them a good 4 weeks to finish construction. As we have seen the last two weeks, it's more then doable.

That's my response, too.

Since when has that stopped people from suing, welcome to America-the land of the lawsuit.

Who said DarKastle was better than Spiderman? I would say about 99 percent of the people I've talked with said Spiderman is still the best.

nice... It looks like a park from Rollercoaster Tycoon.

The way it's going now, I think construction on ET will be done by early May. That leaves them about 3 weeks to complete Plaza del Carnaval and ET's testing. I think that's very doable.

Then why is SFStL so barren? As far as I know, St. Louis is a larger metropolitan area.... What, a larger metro area then NYC, northern Jersey, CT, Boston, and Philly? I don't think so. Edit: With that said, I do think SFStl. is overdue for a coaster.

Yes, but you can't compare it to Boston, NYC, Philly, and Jersey population.

I agree, but we always have 2007. Edit: Oh wait, but we got upgrades on Darkastle.

I don't want to turn this into a PKD vs. IOA topic, but come on it's not even close. Paramount has turned Kings Dominion into a borderline joke of a park, and IOA is one of the best parks in the world. I try and support PKD, but it gets harder and harder each season. Anyway, enough with that rant. Take it for what it's worth, it's only my opinion. I pick IOA, since it's my favorite park.

I can't speak for Carowind's Hurler, but PKD's Hurler sucked last year. Hopefully, the TLC it's getting this spring will help.

I think I'm gonna have to sneak down to SFOG. Heck, it's only a 6 hour drive for me.

Great pics too, Stew. Thanks, I can't get enough of these El Toro construction pics.

Great pics, rj. Thanks for the update.

Hey Rider117, how was KK running for its first weekend of the year?

I talked with a lot of people who thought the layout looked boring in the announcement photos. Doesn't look so boring now.

^Nice.