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I feel like it adds a sense of variety to the park, especially a park like Carowinds which is one of those parks that seems to have a little bit of everything in it. However, I feel like with Carowinds and Canada's Wonderland having gigas and hypers, Cedar Point is sadly becoming less and less unique

With the addition of Fury 325 at Carowinds and Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland, we're now at three parks with a giga coaster and a hyper coaster (if you count Cedar Point which has Magnum and Millennium Force, but that wasn't in recent years.) I'm beginning to wonder, is this going to be a trend in parks that have a hyper coaster? Especially a B&M one? Are we going to see parks like Six Flags Great America and King's Island get a giga coaster and follow the trend of Carowinds and CW? '

If the track wasn't red and almost the same color as Diamondback, I'd totally say that this could point to the possibility of King's Island following suit of Carowinds and getting a B&M Giga to compliment the Hyper.

Moe's and Qdoba's burritos must be the best in the world because to me, Chipotle's burritos are heaven wrapped in a tortilla.

My opinion is on Fast Pass systems is this. Before just going for it, try and be strategic about what day you want to visit. When it comes to Carowinds, I've heard that Tuesday and Wednesdays are the best days to go.

1966 Continuing from my last post, I had mentioned that after the successful 1964 debut season of Riverwood Theme Park, Richard Riverwood made plans to expand the park to the left and add more rides....After an equally as successful 1965, he decided to put those plans into motion....And this is what came out of it.... One of the new attractions was a garden with a series of jumping fountains, usually synchronized to piped-in music.... But this is the MAIN attraction....Riverwood Theme Park's first themed area, Old West Town! This is the first of the three new attractions built for the area, Bison-Go-Round is a ride that is similar to a carousell, but instead of horses, riders ride on life-sized bison figures. Bison-Go-Round was built by a company known as Arrow Development, which built another ride in this same general area... The new area wouldn't quite be complete without a comedy show! Last but not least, this new western themed area brought forth Riverwood Theme Parks third roller coaster, an Arrow Development steel mine train roller coaster named River Rush. River Rush is actually only the second mine train themed roller coaster by Arrow and coincidentally at the time, was the fastest steel roller coaster reaching a top speed of 41mph. The first hill of River Rush reaches a height of 50 feet before twisting into a large, descending helix reaching speeds of 32mph. After a second helix, the train enters a tunnel containing a sudden brake run...these brakes slow the train almost to a complete halt before it enters a second lift hill, reaching the coaster's zenith height of 72 feet.... The train then plunges down a 67 foot drop where it reaches it's top speed of 41mph. The sudden turnaround after the drop gives the riders something that is quite uncommon in most mine train coasters, strong G-forces. Another uncommon element for a mine train coaster are the few pops of ejector airtime on River Rush. Due to these elements on the second half of the coaster, River Rush is still talked about in a very positive light, even in this year, 2015. It is known for being a good balance between a thrilling coaster and a family coaster...Nothing too X-treme, yet nothing too boring... And so....with these new attractions put in place, Richard Riverwood expected nothing but an amazing turnout for the 1966 season...And that is exactly what he got.....

Right now, the Fabbri Evolution seems to be catching my eye...It's essentially the love child of a giant Frisbee, a Looping Star ride, and an Enterprise

That is literally exactly how I feel when it comes to coasters. It's purely subjective.

I'm glad to see all the good feedback ERA 1: Park Owned By Richard Riverwood 1964 In the summer of 1964, not too long after Richard Riverwood announced his ownership of Riverwood Theme Park, the park opened to the public to MASSIVE crowds. For the Fourth of July weekend, More than a thousand people were crammed into the small park like sardines! As expected fully, lines for the legendary Harry C. Baker creation Bobs exceeded more than two hours for Riverwood Theme Park's debut season. Now being utilized by the public, the park's second roller coaster, Mini-Bobs has proven to be a great little coaster for young kids that aren't quite ready to conquer the Bobs. High Flyer, being the highest capacity ride, being able to hold 60 passengers a ride, had the fastest moving line out of all the other rides at Riverwood Theme Park. It also offered an amazing view of the entire park! Basically, let's just say this was a Windseeker before Windseeker Richard knew that in order to truly make this a successful theme park and not have the debut season be nothing but a fluke, he knew he had to act fast in order keep the guests coming in...Now, I don't want to give away too many spoilers but let's just say that this portion of the park will soon no longer look empty....

If you're wondering about the panther, well....I gotta get those peeps running somehow! PROLOGUE-Part 2 In the year 1960, a man named Alfred Riverwood bought the abandoned Terrell's Pleasure Park from the town of Kearney after a large portion of it was destroyed in a fire. Alfred Riverwood at that time, was one of the wealthiest men in the United States, having been the heir to a massive 700 million dollar fortune. Prior to buying Terrell's Pleasure Park, he had no experience in the amusement park business, however with his massive fortune, he managed to completely revitalize the park, which included four new attractions. This Allan Herschell Skywheel ride replaced the circus. Taking the place of the swimming pool was an Eyerly Roll-O-Plane named....well.....Roll-O-Plane. The largest of the four new rides built at the park was a Barnstormer Ride built by a company known as International Amusement Installations. You know them now by the abbreviated name, Intamin AG, builder of legendary roller coasters such as Kingda Ka, Millenium Force, Skyrush and Intimidator 305. The fourth new attraction is the park's second roller coaster! This is a very small wooden kiddie coaster built by Philadelphia Toboggan Company named "Mini-Bobs" Due to the fact that Mitch Terrell had no interest in being involved with the project to renovate his park, Alfred Riverwood changed the name of the park to the very generic moniker of "Fun World." At first, you would think that Alfred Riverwood was a great man for what he did. He brought back a once legendary amusement park back from the dead and gave one of the most critically acclaimed wooden roller coasters of all time another chance to thrill riders for many more generations...However, what you see on the outside is not what happened on the inside. The park was rebuilt, but it was NOT open for the public. Instead, Fun World became a private amusement park, similar to Strickers Grove in Ross, Ohio. Fun World was only meant for Alfred Riverwood himself, his family with three children, and whoever was on his payroll. Other than that, the park was 100% off limits for everyone else. If you've ever seen that South Park episode "Cartmanland", that should give you an idea. Fun World became a prime spot for Alfred to throw his lavish parties for all of his fellow socialites, meaning that the only way that anyone can get into the park was with a invitation. Obviously, this severely angered the local populace and coaster enthusiasts. People who have waited so long to finally ride the legendary Bobs had their opportunity taken way from them, much like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football. To this day, it's still regarded as an act of complete and blatant selfishness. Some even took to protest by sneaking into his parties...some succeeded and were able to ride the Bobs...these people soon became legendary in the world of roller coasters, the ones who went out of their way to fight back against Alfred Riverwood's greed to ride a roller coaster. As soon as Alfred was made aware of what was going on, he instantaneously put the kibosh on any chance of people without ties to him getting in. He hired private armed security to guard the entrance of the park, demanding that people, whether they were related to Alfred or not, prove that they have some sort of ties with the Riverwood family before coming into the park. A process that was described by people who tried to sneak in and got caught as "eerily similar to Nazi Germany." Don't worry, Alfred Riverwood got his just desserts in the the end. It was found that he was involved in tax evasion and was actively scamming the people who worked for him out of money...He was arrested, pleaded not guilty, found guilty by jury of all 12 counts of tax evasion and all 26 counts of fraudulent behavior, and was thrown in federal prison....However, the money that Alfred had inherited from his ancestors was given to his eldest son Richard Riverwood, who was about 21 at the time....As it turns out, Richard Riverwood was not like his father at all. A kind, generous man who always gave back to everyone....He felt nothing but shame as he watched his father go from riches to rags thanks to his greed. With his father's money, he bought back Fun World.....And in 1964, he made a press statement about his father's arrest and his plans for the amusement park that his father bought. Richard Riverwood: "Hello....I'm sure by now, if you pick up a newspaper or turn on your television to the six-o-clock news, you've heard about my father, Alfred Riverwood's arrest and incarceration....Growing up in a rich family wasn't the idyllic time you all would like to think it is. Yes, we lived in a mansion, but all the mansions and fancy things in the world can NEVER replace what my father did not give to me. His love. My brother, my sister, and I never knew who our mothers were, so we were left in the care of our father. He didn't beat me up or lock me in the basement or anything like that, but there was one thing he did that hurt more than anything....He simply...was not there for me. He was never there when I lost my first tooth, he was never there whenever I got an A on a test in school, he wasn't there when the varsity football team won the championships thanks to me.....he wasn't there graduated at the top of my class in high school...Instead he was more focused on himself, living a lavish lifestyle, surrounded by glamorous women, eating expensive caviar, drinking expensive champagne....He was too focused on himself to care about his three children, who were left to fend for themselves. I consider the family nursemaid to be ten times the parent that Alfred Riverwood was. However...I will make it my goal in life to right all the wrongs that he made. I've always prided myself on giving back to the community, I was taught by the family nursemaid that generosity was one of the greatest virtues a human being could ever follow...I know that my father angered a lot of people around Kearney, Nebraska and the rest of the United States by revitalizing Terrell's Pleasure Park only to keep it all for himself.....Which is why, under my ownership......" Richard Riverwood: "I declare that Terrell's Pleasure Park, now named Riverwood Theme Park is now OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!! Starting this summer and every summer onward! I look forward to seeing what I can do with this legendary park! Thank you all!!!" And with that said....Riverwood Theme Park was now open....

Hey guys! After a few months of debating about it, I've finally decided to get back into parkmaking! I've wanted to do a new park for a while....This was originally supposed to be a park project for Theme Park Studio, but unfortunatley I wasn't that satisfied with the GUI of Theme Park Studio, I feel like I could handle some small parks with TPS, but I feel like I won't be able to build a large-scale park on it....which is why I've decided that for my next park, Seeing as how I was very satisfied with how Tennessee's Great America and Gateway Park turned out, I'll be going back to RCT3. Without further ado...I'd like to present to you....the story of Riverwood Theme Park, as told by a longtime coaster enthusiast Joseph Wallace... PROLOGUE- Part 1 As a coaster enthusiast, I feel like each and every theme park in the world has that one thing about it that makes it stand out from everyone else....Six Flags Magic Mountain is currently the record holder for the most roller coasters in one park, Knobels is known for their amazing food, Dorney has a very solid flat-ride collection, Six Flags Great Adventure has the tallest roller coaster in the world and one of the greatest wooden coasters of all time....You get the idea. Sometimes the special thing isn't really objective rather it's subjective....Namely my home park, Riverwood Theme Park in Kearney, Nebraska. The fact that it has a very solid collection of roller coasters and flat rides put aside, it's also special...just for the fact that it's my home park. It's where I made all my roller coaster milestones. First coaster (in general), first non-kiddie coaster, first coaster that went upside-down, first launched coaster, first hypercoaster....There is a pretty rich history behind the origins of this amazing park and how it became the "coaster Holy Land" of the midwest. It sure didn't become that overnight, I'll tell ya! So where do I start? At the beginning, of course! I'd like to take you back to 1953....back then, Riverwood Theme Park was not called "Riverwood Theme Park"....back then, it was called "Terrell's Pleasure Park" It was a pretty small park, owned solely by one person...an incredibly wealthy man by the name of Mitch Terrell...Who had been the owner and proprietor of his namesake park since 1927. Mitch Terrell originally wanted his park to be like any other nature preserve, a relaxing place for people to go to relieve their stresses and observe wildlife...However, after visiting the legendary Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York and riding the Thunderbolt coaster and then the new Cyclone roller coaster, he had his epiphany...he knew what he wanted to do...he wanted the piece of land that he bought in Nebraska to become an amusement park....He wanted to build the Coney Island of the midwestern United States. (These pictures were all taken in 1953) Terrell's Pleasure Park wasn't that large and didn't have many rides...They consisted of a carousel, a small Ferris wheel, a large slide ride, and a parachute drop ride...In an attempt to attract more families and kids, a travelling circus was paid to become a permanent attraction at the theme park in 1948. The park also consisted of a large swimming pool, and a small horse habitat as two extra attractions. However, none of those attractions were "the star" The star attraction was the legendary Bobs roller coaster, built by Harry C. Baker, the same builder of the Coney Island Cyclone....Mitch's goal for the coaster for his park was something that was both unique and thrilling, and Harry Baker sure did deliver! The Bobs was also Terrell's Pleasure Park's first attraction. One of the most prominent features of Bobs is the large, 87 foot drop, making the train hit a top speed of 55 miles per hour! It may not be as fast as Cyclone, but it beat Cyclone in the height department by two feet! This picture makes the Bobs seem like a racing coaster, but all of that is all one coaster. Because of it's layout, including the immediate turnaround hill after the first drop, it's considered a "triple out and back coaster". At 4,000 feet long, the Bobs was the world's longest roller coaster until it was dethroned in 1978 by Colossus at SFMM.... From 1927 to 1955, Terrell's Pleasure Park was an incredibly successful theme park, riding on the fame of the Bobs roller coaster. For all intents and purposes, Mitch Terrell's dream came true....He DID own the Coney Island of the midwest..... Suddenly, it all came crashing down. On August 17th, 1955, an electrical wire to one of the lights on the Fun Slide short circuited. This caused the wooden structure to the slide catch on fire. Due to the fact that it was a very hot and dry day, the wooden structure and the trees surrounding the slide might as well have been pure gasoline...Within minutes, the entire structure was on fire.... The fire spread across the pathway and nearly reached the Ferris Wheel before the fire department came. You could imagine that at this point, complete pandemonium was ensuing. Through the news archive in my local library, I managed to dig up a newspaper article with an eyewitnesses account of what happened that day. "It was complete chaos, the slide ride was engulfed in flames, the fire was spreading to the trees, the paths, the parachute ride and the ferris wheel.....people were running for their lives and soon, a large portion of the slide collapsed. At that point, the horses in the adjacent habitat attraction went berzerk. They both escaped from their containment and ran straight into the fleeing crowd...a few people were knocked down, some were trampled as every patron in the park tried to escape the way they came in." Thankfully, despite the fact that there were plenty of serious injuries, no one died in the fire. However, it was found that one of the horses, the chestnut mare was found dead in the park, presumably due to smoke inhalation. The other horse, the bay stallion presumably escaped the park, for the animal was never seen again. When it comes to rides, the Fun Slide wasn't the only casualty. The parachute drop ride was severely fire damaged and had to be demolished. The Ferris Wheel was also scorched by the fires, but was not deemed structurally unsound. After the owner of the circus (unsurprisingly) pulled out of the park, they obviously took the tent with them.... Soon, all that remained was the carousel, the ferris wheel, the remains of the horse habitat and a now empty swimming pool, and chief among them, the Bobs roller coaster. Despite being close to the fire, the Bobs received little to no fire damage. Mitch Terrell tried many times to sell his park to different landowners, however none of the owners he talked with had any interest in restoring a fire-damaged amusement park. The town of Kearney then bought the park, presumably the park was to be razed within a year, including the Bobs....However, it never came to be. Instead, the park remained abandoned, eventually to taken over by mother nature and rot, like Chippewa Lake Park in Ohio. Then, another wealthy man came into the picture. A man by the name of Alfred Riverwood. (CREATOR COMMENTS: Well, here it is! The debut of my new park! I honestly hope you enjoy this! I can't wait to see where this takes me!)

The restraints are the same but Carowinds seems to require one more "click" on Intimidator than Busch does on Apollo. This was an informal survey, of course. In my experience, with Apollo's Chariot, if you can get it to click once, you're golden. I was able to get it to click twice even thought it was a pretty tight fit.

Okay, this has kind of been nagging at me for a while now...For anyone who went to Media day and rode Fury 325, did you see any fatty walks of shame? Were there guys who were big in the 240-50lb range riding? I'm working on some weight loss right now so I'm defnitley smaller than when I went to Busch Gardens last year...Apollo's Chariot was a bit of a tight fit, but I got in.

I love the fact that Fuddruckers has the futuristic Coca-Cola machines and their seasoned fries are just...God they're delicious I guess I'm just not used to the fact that we don't have places like Fuddruckers, Hardees, Cracker Barrel,and Sheetz on Long Island. For the longest time we didn't even have Sonic or DQ....that is until we got Sonic in 2011 and a DQ in 2013. Lines still get pretty bad for both in the summertime.... We are just getting our first Sonic in Buffalo this summer...I have never eaten at one before. And our local Dairy Queen went out of business about five years ago. I guess having winter for seven months of the year will do that! They're thinking about putting a second Sonic on Long Island, but what they should do is put a second DQ because I thought the lines for Sonic were bad, the lines for DQ were unimaginable.

I sort of breathed a HUGE sigh of relief when I saw that picture of the larger guy on the ride. I figure that if he can fit, I can. Although I'm still dedicated to slimming down, I'm not stopping!

I love the fact that Fuddruckers has the futuristic Coca-Cola machines and their seasoned fries are just...God they're delicious I guess I'm just not used to the fact that we don't have places like Fuddruckers, Hardees, Cracker Barrel,and Sheetz on Long Island. For the longest time we didn't even have Sonic or DQ....that is until we got Sonic in 2011 and a DQ in 2013. Lines still get pretty bad for both in the summertime....

Exactly. Getting stuck on a ride is more of an inconvenience than a traumatizing event, especially getting stuck on Magnum XL-200 for at least 10 minutes on the brake run under the most intense Ohio summer sun And there are times at Hershey that I've hoped for a rollback on Stormrunner

Hello! I believe that's actually me you're referring to. It's been a while since I've logged on these forums so I don't know what's allowed here, but I will say this. The tactics you guys use to advertise this game, in my opinion, are really unnerving. Please stand by your game for what it is, and if it's good, people will come! I simply find it hard to recommend this to my friends with all these strange tactics being disposed. Perhaps some openness in that regard can help you out. Me and many others would like to see TPS succeed! More competition in the market is never a bad thing, and I do believe Pantera has some ideas to bring to the genre. I still keep an eye out for progress on this title. When TPS was first announced, the only thing close to it coming out was No Limits 2, which was going to be a full-on amusement park simulator as opposed to just a coaster simulator. It seemed that TPS was going to be the holy grail, the "RCT4" we've all been looking for. Then, after an entire DECADE of waiting, Atari announces the sequel to RCT3, Roller Coaster Tycoon World. Then Frontier announces Coaster Park Tycoon to compete with RCTW. So it seems that TPS isn't the only new coastersim that's coming out and I personally believe that Atari severely delayed RCTW to make it more realistic and life-like for the sole purpose of competing with TPS, because if you looked at those preview screens in the RCTW topic, there was no way in HELL that could stand a chance against TPS or No Limits 2.

Okay, if you're going to go to Hersheypark. One word, FUDDRUCKERS. Holy Jesus those are good burgers.

That's exactly it, you kind of have to adjust yourself away from RCT3 when it comes to TPS. While they are similar, they're also pretty different. If I could describe the coaster building in TPS, I'd describe it as RCT for the big boys.

It may be easier than no limits, but as a TPS user, it has one HELL of a learning curve. You need to have some sense of what to do, which means you gotta watch those tutorial videos.

Why not only certain seats then? I doubt people with disabilities represent 100% of the guests that will ride Tempesto. And while it's indeed great to trying to accommodate as much guest as possible, well, at some point it becomes ridiculous. And right here we're close to that, because those harnesses will induce longer loading time and unnecessary discomfort for a great part of the riders... If they're trying to make it more big-person friendly then I'm gonna laugh....Because I'm in the process of slimming down so I can fit more comfortably in coasters. Hey, already lost a few pounds, go me

People complained about OSTRs on I305. Ironically, it's now one of the highest rated coasters in the world and my personal favorite....Anything can happen.

After pretty much four years in a row going to Kings Dominion, me and my mother would like to try Carowinds sometime in June. I'm wondering if you guys had any tips on when is the right time to go to Carowinds, what to ride first, etc.

The park is WAY beyond saving at this point. I know, I had hoped for a while that a company like Herschend or Cedar Fair would jump in and save the park, but it looks like it's not happening at this point. SFNO has basically become the United States' version of Katoli's World, and if you don't know what Katoli's World is, it was an amusement park in Taiwan that was left COMPLETELY abandoned after an earthquake. However, it was torn down somewhere between 2009 and 2013.