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Someone buy this dude a map. I know that Carowinds is very far inland, but when we have all these news sources saying that this storm is gonna be "the big one" for the Carolinas, I can't help but feel like Carowinds is kind of vulnerable to some serious damage. I have no doubt that B&M built those big coasters to withstand extreme weather events though. Hell, SFNO's Batman is now operating in SFFT. I just hope for the best and pray for everybody and their families down there.

I know that Carowinds survived Hugo, Fran, and Isabel...but I honestly hope that Carowinds pulls through, this could be a bad one. I honestly hope that Carowinds doesn't suffer the same fate as SFNO.

1999 The very edge of the century was now upon us as Cedar Plains operates for yet another highly successful season! Lets take a look, shall we? Park-goers instantly took a liking to the new Thrill Galaxy area. Most agreed that Starship was an excellent addition to a park that while it's become known for having cool new coasters, was kind of lacking in the flat ride department, as prior to 1999, the only major thrilling flat was Energizer, the enterprise ride. Invasion was also a very well-liked new attraction, as its been reported that it is extremely smooth for a standing coaster with a fun layout. As it turned out though, Invasion and Georgia Scorcher at Six Flags Over Georgia turned out to be the very last of the B&M Stand Up coasters. Due to having hollow track, Firebird's mighty roar could be heard from anywhere in the park! Despite the recent additions of both Firebird and Invasion, many coaster enthusiasts still regard Demon Force as the king of all coasters at Cedar Plains! Forest Flyer, the park's sole woodie has become increasingly more and more rough as the years go by. While still a loved attraction, the sheer amount of bumpiness and back-slamming during the ride has caused several people to pass this one by. Perhaps sometime in the new millenium, a retracking or a refurbishment is in order.... With the 20th century coming to a close, the only way for the highly successful Cedar Plains to go is up and up!

Speaking of Skyrush, I'm beginning to wonder if they changed the sensors to the restraints between 2015 and now. I'm about the same weight and measurement as I was in 2015 (give or take of course), but during this trip at Hershey, they had to staple the absolute living crap out of me to get a green light. Also, I've noticed that the ride ops made a lot of larger people sit in the winged seats of Skyrush, which unfortunately lead to some train stacking.

ERA 3: Pride Cometh Before A Fall (The Downfall of Six Flags Over Virginia) The year 2005 started off like any other year for Six Flags Over Virginia, with the big coasters attracting massive crowds and the park being filled with families and thrill seekers….However, big trouble was on the horizon for not only SFOV, but the entire Six Flags chain as a whole… For starters, while Six Flags Over Virginia was a loved park, it wasn’t without it’s hitches though. By 2004-2005, complaints about the park’s cleanliness, its overall atmosphere, clientele, and operations started to sprout up. Frequent complaints of one-train operations on major coasters on busy days became common. Also, complaints of rowdy teenagers causing problems and dirty, trash filled paths also weren't uncommmon. By the beginning of 2005, parkgoers complained that the seatbelts on Superman-Ride Of Steel had been shortened by at least four inches, meaning that guests of a larger size could no longer fit on the ride, increasing instances of “walks of shame”. In August of 2005, Six Flags New Orleans suffered horrific flooding damage after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Six Flags deemed SFNO too costly to repair and subsequently sold the abandoned amusement park back to the city of New Orleans where it sits abandoned to this day. Also, Six Flags had started to suffer from serious financial issues due to the rapid development of both Six Flags Worlds Of Adventure in Aurora, Ohio and of course, Six Flags Over Virginia in Burkeville, Virginia. As a result, Six Flags sold Six Flags Worlds Of Adventure to Cedar Fair in 2004. However, the financial problems still persisted…as the company had amassed billions of dollars in debt. Then…it happened….September 12th, 2005…a day that will forever live in infamy in the Six Flags chain. It was announced on that day that Six Flags AstroWorld was to permanently close after the 2005 season and that Six Flags Over Virginia was going to be putting two of their major roller coasters up for sale… The two coasters for sale were Goliath and Superman-Ride Of Steel, two of the biggest fan favorites at SFOV. Fans were shocked, angry, and appalled at this decision. Why would a company sink so many millions into building these huge scream machines within two years of each other just to get rid of them a few years later? The reaction to the removal of these two coasters was so negative that some people even considered boycotting Six Flags for their decision to get rid of these loved coasters. Goliath was sold to Cedar Fair where it would find a new home in Harmonic Hills, their property in Orting, Washington the following year as “Renegade Run” Meanwhile, Superman-Ride of Steel sat in storage at Six Flags St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri for three years after its closing before being sold to a company overseas. The future looked bleak for the Intamin hypercoaster, until it finally resurfaced in 2009 at a newer theme park named Prati Mistici in Turin, Italy under the name “Blue Fang hyperrollercoaster” Six Flags Over Virginia was desperate to try and recoup after the loss of two of their major roller coasters. With the loss of their Superman themed coaster, the DC Universe section of the park was rebranded to Gotham City and would only feature rides themed after Batman and the villains in Batman. Superman-Tower Of Power was repainted black and was named Bane: The Ride. The DC Comics Theatre’s name still remained the same, but would only feature Batman movies. However, the loss of Goliath and Superman-Ride Of Steel still left a major hole in the hearts of the people of Burkeville and coaster enthusiasts everywhere, as attendance in 2006 was only half, sometimes not EVEN half of their attendance in 2005. In 2006, one of SFOV's rival parks, Busch Gardens Williamsburg opened Griffon, which was the tallest and fastest B&M Dive coaster at the time, effectively stealing back crowds from Six Flags Over Virginia. There was still more devastating news to come though…Halfway through the 2007 season, it was announced that due to ongoing financial problems with SFOV, Joker’s Revenge was put up for sale and was going to be dismantled after the 2007 season. This lead to another very angry reaction by fans of the park, as the park seemed to be erasing all the progress it made from the last few years. Joker’s Revenge had become a fan favorite at the park, as it was not only an outdoor version of the famous Rock n’ Roller Coaster, but the only launched coaster at the park. Joker’s Revenge was put in storage for several years after the ride closed before opening overseas in 2012 at a theme park named Midori Gardens in Kyushu, Japan as a replacement for their aging Meisho jet coaster. Joker’s Revenge still operates at Midori Gardens under the name “Bullet”. By 2008, the future was positively bleak for Six Flags Over Virginia as rumors and predictions started to swirl around the coaster enthusiasts, all saying that the closure of the park was imminent. Citing Geauga Lake as an example of what was happening to Six Flags Over Virginia. The rapid downsizing of the park seemed to only point in the direction of an eventual closure and sale of the property. The Gotham City area had been a particularly dead corner of the park now that two of the three major coasters in the area were now gone, only leaving the DC Comics Theatre, Bane-The Ride, and Batman-The Ride as the sole survivors….. And then…in the beginning of 2009….The event that all fans of SFOV feared had come true….Six Flags had made the formal announcement that not only was Batman-The Ride put up for sale, but that the 2009 season would be Six Flags Over Virginia’s very last. The park would not be opening in 2010. While not surprising news, it was still devastating to the coaster community. With the loss of their major steel coasters, a cult following had surrounded the legendary wood coaster, Virginia Cyclone. The closing of Six Flags Over Virginia would mean the closing of Virginia Cyclone, a coaster that was considered to be superior to all the other Cyclone clones. Labor Day weekend of 2009 saw the end of Six Flags Over Virginia. Crowds on the last day were massive as lines for all the roller coasters got up to three hours. While the rest of the park was closed and cordoned off to the public at 7PM, the Virginia Cyclone remained open until almost midnight, all giving people their final rides on the legendary woodie. Then…it was all over. Six Flags Over Virginia was no more…Six Flags scrubbed any and all references to SFOV on their website…it was like the park never existed. Batman-The Ride was dismantled from the closed park just mere days after its final closure. It would later resurface at another Six Flags park in 2010, Six Flags Arizona Adventure in Scottsdale, Arizona under the same name, albeit painted purple, yellow, and blue as opposed to the old yellow and indigo color scheme. Strangely enough though, while the former Six Flags Over Virginia laid derelict throughout 2010, it came to light that while the park was permanently closed, Six Flags still owned the property….they never sold it…..

Is it just me, or did they change the restraint sensors on Skyrush? I didn't get walk of shamed, but on this trip, they had to staple the hell outta me. Also, I noticed that this year, the ride ops shuffled a lot of larger people on the ride to the winged seats, almost making the wing seats the unofficial "big boy seats" of skyrush. It's an absolute beast of a coaster though. It's truly amazing with some of the most impressive air I have ever felt on a coaster.

ERA 2: The Golden Era (Park Owned By Six Flags) By the time the new millennium rolled along, Premier Parks had bought the world famous Six Flags Entertainment Corporation from Time Warner Cable and started to convert their parks into Six Flags parks….Darien Lake became Six Flags Darien Lake, Kentucky Kingdom became Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, and so on and so forth. Naturally, in December of 1999, Six Flags announced that they had bought Greenwood Lake Park, which was to be renamed to Six Flags Over Virginia, a name based off of Six Flags’ properties in Arlington, TX and Austell, GA. Alongside the news of the acquisition, Six Flags announced a large park expansion for their new Virginia property which included a total of five new rides, including two new coasters! A Huss Maschinenfabrik Top Spin named Twister was built next to the old Haunted Mansion ride, Twister was an exhilarating X-Treme thrill ride with multiple gut wrenching inversions and quickly became the most popular flat ride at the park. The entire western half of the park was expanded to make room for DC Universe, a massive themed area featuring several major new attractions. The first of them was a 180 foot tall Intamin second-generation drop tower by the name of Superman- Tower of Power. DC Comics Theatre was an IMAX Dome Screen theatre dedicated to playing movies based on the DC Comics characters! One of the two new coasters for 2000 was a clone of Batman-The Ride, a small yet intense Bolliger & Mabillard Inverted coaster that can be found at several other Six Flags parks such as Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Magic Mountian, and who can forget the original at Six Flags Great America? Like other Batman clones, this coaster is known for its snappy inversions and high intensity. However, the coup de grace of the new additions was Superman-Ride Of Steel, an absolutely MASSIVE Intamin AG hyper coaster with a height of 220 feet and a drop of 216 feet, making it the tallest attraction at the park! Superman-Ride Of Steel was also the fastest at a top speed of 77MPH and the longest at a length of over 5,000 feet! Superman-Ride Of Steel instantly became known as an airtime machine with a total of nine bunny hills throughout the ride, leading to moments of complete weightlessness. These five attractions opened up in 2000 to rave success, putting Six Flags Over Virginia on the map for coaster enthusiasts around the world! SFOV’s Superman-Ride Of Steel was deemed to be the best one out of the other Superman-Ride Of Steel mega coasters throughout the Six Flags chain, some even argued it was better than Millennium Force at Cedar Point! However Six Flags was not done yet…not by a long shot… 2001 brought a much more modern sit-down looping coaster to SFOV, Goliath. Goliath is a large Bolliger & Mabillard floorless coaster with a 120 foot tall first hill and a 110 foot tall drop. It also reaches a top speed of 62MPH and features six exhilarating inversions! Goliath opened to rave reviews and positive feedback, all praising its forcefulness and grace. Most considered Goliath to be the second best coaster in the park behind Superman-Ride Of Steel. 2002 saw the removal of an older ride and the addition of two new ones! Over the years, Hurricane, the park’s TOGO Ultra Twister had become extremely costly to maintain. It was plagued with so much downtime in 2001 that it was pretty much considered SBNO, only operating for a few days at a time per month. With TOGO’s bankruptcy in 2001, Six Flags decided it was no longer profitable to try and maintain the ride and they dismantled the attraction before the 2002 season. Sending the salvagable parts to Six Flags AstroWorld for their own Ultra Twister coaster. One of the two new rides for 2002 was a flat ride that took the place of Ultra Twister, a Chance Rides Double Inverter by the name of Insanity. Insanity was an extremely thrilling new attraction for the park, giving riders the sense of being twisted around while also flipping upside down. The second of the new attractions was the one that really got the most attention…Joker’s Revenge, an outdoor version of Disney’s famous Rock n’ Roller Coaster. Joker’s Revenge is a Vekoma-built LSM launch coaster, the very first launch coaster to be built at the park. Like its sister coasters and its Premier Rides-built cousins, it features a 0-57MPH launch into a convoluted mess of inversions and helices. Joker’s Revenge features a large sea serpent roll and a corkscrew traveled a high speeds, making for a forceful ride experience. However, even after all these new additions to the park, Six Flags was STILL not done! After hearing about reports of people complaining that both the Virginia Cyclone and Wild Dog were getting rather rough and uncomfortable, they researched the market demand for a third wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Over Virginia….And as a result, in 2003, Outlaw opened. A medium sized GCI compact wooden coaster jam packed with twists, turns, and airtime hills. Outlaw became known for being uncannily smooth for a wooden coaster and soon became a fan favorite at SFOV. From 2000-2003, Six Flags Over Virginia became known as one of the fastest growing theme parks in the world. In a span of three years, the park had added two new thrill rides, a drop tower, an IMAX movie theatre, a B&M Batman clone, an Intamin Megacoaster, a B&M Floorless coaster, a Vekoma Rock n' Roller Coaster clone, and a GCI wooden coaster! SFOV seemed to be an unstoppable force of nature, successfully stealing crowds away from both Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Paramount’s Kings Dominion, who simply couldn’t compete with the sheer growth of Six Flags Over Virginia… However, this period was short lived….as it is known that everything that goes up, must come down.... Six Flags Over Virginia 2003.sv6 Download The Park Here

I haven't been to Hersheypark in 2 years, and I'd like to say I'm around the same weight range than I was last time, I'm currently 46-45 inches in waist and weight 285lbs..Should I still be good to go? Did they make any seatbelts shorter?

(Let me just preface this by saying that Cedar Plains is not dead, I still have plans to update it more. After getting RCT2 on steam and implementing OpenRCT2, I was blown away by the sheer amount of new features and things I could do with the game compared to vanilla RCT2. That's when I decided to make one of my park ideas for Planet Coaster in RCT2...and you know what? I think it worked better in RCT2 than it would have in Planet Coaster! Anyway, without further ado....) I’m pretty sure that every single roller coaster and theme park enthusiast out there knows about the thrills that the state of Virginia has to offer. From the beautiful surroundings and exhilarating terrain coasters of Busch Garden’s Williamsburg to the tall, fast, “push-it-to-the-limit” X-Treme thrill rides of Kings Dominion….These two parks have become a pinnacle to coaster fans, with the white-knuckle Intimidator 305 and Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion, to the beautiful and thrilling Griffon and Apollo’s Chariot at Busch Gardens…. However, there was once was a third park major park in Virginia…one that stood proud amongst its competitors in the same state, and was once considered the best park in Virginia, having some of the biggest, baddest, and most thrilling coasters in the state…. I’m telling you now, this story does not have a happy ending….Not all stories about theme parks do. However, there are so many great memories from coaster enthusiasts and Virginia natives about this place…It’s still a beautiful story… Its name was Six Flags Over Virginia, or as some remember it, Greenwood Lake Park. This is a story not dissimilar to those old Ancient Greek epics about hubris being man’s downfall. That is exactly what happened to Six Flags Over Virginia….the quest to be the best theme park in the world brought about it’s downfall… Let us start at the beginning, shall we? ERA 1: The Bodacious Beginning (Park owned by Walters’ Amusments Inc./Premier Parks) In the mid 1960s, Greenwood lake was a prominent fishing location in Burkeville, a town located in southern Virginia. Featuring landscaped grounds, a beautiful arboretum, and walking trails. However, by 1970, a wealthy entrepreneur by the name of John Walters looked upon the land around the lake and had big plans for a tourist attraction to draw people into Burkeville. Initially, the plan was for an old west themed open air museum around the lake, similar to Colonial Williamsburg or Old Bethpage Villiage Restoration in Bethpage, Long Island. However, plans quickly changed from that, to an amusement park surrounding the lake…. Greenwood Lake Park officially opened in 1973, featuring the double-decker Grand Carousel, a Ferris Wheel, a mini-cars ride, a Chance Rides Rotor, and Haunted Mansion, a large, extensively themed dark ride, widely considered to be one of the best haunted houses ever built in terms of atmosphere and ride experience. In 1975, Greenwood Lake Park opened their very first roller coaster, Old Shenandoah Mine Coaster, a mine train coaster built by Arrow Dynamics. The Old Shenendoah Mine Coaster was a terrain hugging coaster that had two lift hills and a 42 foot tall drop, going at a top speed of 38MPH, a thrilling, yet family friendly attraction. In 1977, Greenwood Lake Park built their very first wooden roller coaster. John Walters called upon William Cobb, who was known for building the Texas Cyclone at AstroWorld, to build their very own version of the famous Coney Island Cyclone. The result was the Virginia Cyclone, a huge wooden coaster based off of he Coney Island Cyclone, but slightly taller with a height of 95 feet. 1979 brought the very first roller coaster with inversions in the park. John Walters, now head of his own company, Walters’ Amusuments Inc. or WAI for short, called upon Arrow Dynamics to build a new roller coaster at Greenwood Lake Park. The result was the Virginia Tornado, a steel looping coaster with two loops and two corkscrews. This helped bring in a new demographic into the park, thrill seekers. In 1980, WAI had purchased a portable steel looping coaster designed by none other than Anton Schwarzkopf. Initially this coaster was going to debut during Oktoberfest, but instead it was sold to the United States where it was built at Greenwood Lake Park as Lightning Looper. Lightning Looper instantly became a fan favorite with its forceful loop and its intense turns and helices. 1981 saw the opening of Fun Forest, the park’s children’s area, featuring a small E.F Miler kiddie coaster named Mini Tornado, based on the Arrow looper close by. However, after 1981, a five year coaster drought had taken place…The drought ended in 1986 when WAI called upon the Japanese coaster manufacturer TOGO to build one of their Ultra Twister models at their park. TOGO accepted the proposal and in 1986, Hurricane opened to the public. Hurricane was a cutting edge coaster at the time with several moving track sections and stomach-churning heartline twists. By the early 1990s Walters’ Amusements Inc. was bought out by Premier Parks, meaning that Greenwood Lake Park was now a Premier Parks property, alongside parks like Kentucky Kingdom and Darien Lake. The market demand was researched for a second wooden coaster at GLP and in 1992, Premier Parks got into contact with fledgling manufacturer Custom Coasters International to build one of their first major coasters at Greenwood Lake Park. The result was a large out and back wooden coaster similar to Judge Roy Scream at Six Flags Over Texas. The coaster was named Wild Dog and opened to the public in 1992. Wild Dog was known for its extensive amounts of airtime throughout its layout. After Wild Dog, Greenwood Lake Park experienced another short coaster drought which ended in 1997 when the park opened Boomerang, a compact shuttle roller coaster that inverted riders six times, more than any other coaster at the park. While the Vekoma Boomerang model is not a favorite amongst coaster enthusiasts, the addition of a more “modern” steel coaster at GLP was a small taste of what was to come…. Greenwood Park 1999.sv6 Download The Park Here

Also, I think its a smart idea to hear from other larger enthusiasts and hear their experiences with certain coasters, which is why I'm pretty grateful this thread exists. I've heard a lot of people saying that Twisted Timbers is pretty restrictive twoards those of a larger size, so thats why I decided to forego Kings Dominion this year, go to Hershey instead, and try to get my weight down from 285 to hopefully 255 and get my waist down from 45 inches to 40 inches by the time next summer comes around.

1998

1.Made by SBF Visa 2.Made an appearance in RCT3 3.Is being built in Ankapark.

I must say I am impressed, these scenarios really do capture the feel of those early RCT1 ones. I mean, if I was totally ignorant to the fact that you made them and somebody told me that Mystic Meadows was an unused RCT1 Corkscrew Follies scenario that was left out of the game, I would 100% believe them. I also really like the coaster layouts you did , a cross between realistic and fantasy.

1998 Before the 1997 season, Arrow Dynamics made the decision to add a series of trim brakes on the banked S-bend after the batwing inversion of Demon Force. They determined that the roughest parts of the ride occurred after the batwing due to the train traversing through the final few elements at a much higher speed compared to most other of Arrow's custom loopers. The trim brakes made for a much smoother ride experience. However, a substantial loss of intensity during the second half of the ride was noticed. By 1998, parkgoers noticed a large plot of land was cleared adjacent to the Wild West area. Due to the up and coming prevalence of the world wide web in the late 90s, speculation was abound. Could it be a new coaster? A new expansion? A new flat ride package? Only time could tell...

Year 1996 (Local Oregon news broadcast about Cedar Plains and Demon Force circa August 1996) "In other news today, the new Firebird roller coaster at the Cedar Plains amusement park in Corvallis has become a fan favorite among adrenaline junkies in the Cascadia region. However, for the rest of the 1996 operating season, the park will be operating without its signature coaster due to an incident that occurred a week prior. "Cedar Plains has been known to be an amusement park that caters to both families and X-Treme thrill seekers. At the beginning of this year's operating season, they opened a new ride named Firebird, an "inverted" roller coaster in which the riders dangle below the ride's rails, similar to a ski lift. Ever since it opened, queue lines for Firebird has been consistently over an hour long with hundreds of riders ready to feel the heat! Firebird was constructed by a swiss manufacturer known as Bolliger and Mabillard, known for rides such as Batman the Ride at Six Flags Great America and Kumba at Busch Gardens." "However, the park's signature roller coaster, Demon Force has been temporarily closed for the rest of the operating season. Demon Force is a record shattering "hyper looping" roller coaster built by the Utah based coaster company, Arrow Dynamics. Demon Force takes the concept of a hyper coaster, a coaster that exceeds 200 feet in height, and adds loops to it's layout. To date, there is only one other looping hyper coaster located at Kennywood in Pennsylvania. When Demon Force opened three years ago, it took the roller coaster fans by storm and put Cedar Plains on the map for coaster enthusiasts." "Last week, a woman reported feeling "dizzy and delirious" after riding Demon Force and was rushed to the hospital. It was there that they found out she suffered a moderate concussion, most likely caused by the woman's head hitting the sides of the over-the-shoulder harnesses during the second half of the ride, which has been criticized by coaster enthusiasts for being very rough. After the woman filed a formal complaint to Cedar Fair and several other people reported that they have received bruises to the side of the head after riding Demon Force, the company decided it would be best to temporarily shut down the coaster while they attempt to make Demon Force a more comfortable and enjoyable experience. There is currrently no exact date on when Demon Force will reopen, but Cedar Fair officials guarantee it will be open by sometime next year."

Year 1996 By 1995, Cedar Fair had completed market research for a new roller coaster in their Corvallis, Oregon location...They had gotten into contact with the manufacturer Bolliger and Mabillard, based in Switzerland. Initially, the idea was for a small to medium-sized standing roller coaster similar to Iron Wolf or the two Vortex coasters. However, in the end, Cedar Plains thought it would be better to have a roller coaster that interacted more with the large lake at the center of the park. After seeing rides like Raptor at Cedar Point and Top Gun at Paramount's Great America, the solution was simple.... The result was FIREBIRD, a brand new B&M inverted roller coaster! At the time of it's opening, Firebird was one of larger inverted coasters with a top speed of 56mph, a height of 122 feet, a 100 foot tall drop, and a total of six inversions! After the first drop, the train goes into the first two elements, an 89 foot tall vertical loop and an 87 foot tall immelmann loop flying over the lake! Afterwards, the train goes straight into a 66 foot tall zero-g roll and then busts right into a 80 foot tall cobra roll element! Unlike most other large-scale inverted coasters, there's no mid-course brake run. Meaning directly after the cobra roll, the train goes into a banked hill and then into a corkscrew, travelling through the element at a very high speed. Finally, the train goes through a large and very forceful helix before traversing through the final brake run.

Year 1995 This past weekend, a roller coaster enthusiast caught a glimpse of some roller coaster track and a few support beams located just outside the main parking lot to Cedar Plains, confirming that the new attraction rumored for 1996 will in fact be, a steel roller coaster! Peeking through the iron fencing, this enthusiast managed to make out the fact that the track is Bolliger & Mabillard/Giovanola's signature style track. However, there really isn't any telling on what kind of B&M is coming to Cedar Plains? Will it be a sitdown twister like Kumba? A standing coaster like Iron Wolf? Or an inverted coaster like Raptor? Only time will tell....

I know its about 7 months late...But I've finally had the motivation to finally tell everybody the rest of M&M's Land's story. M&M’s Land: History from 2000 to 2017 Marauder, the Intamin hyper coaster opened in May of 2000 to rave reviews, with coaster fans pointing out its large amount of floater and ejector airtime throughout the layout. And as rumored, Dynamite Blaster was removed and ultimately scrapped that same year. In 2002, M&Ms Land decided to build a follow-up coaster in the Thrill Sector. The result was M&M Land’s first B&M coaster, a floorless by the name of Toxin. Toxin is known for being uncannily smooth and having a good variety of inversions. TOXIN STATS Type: Steel Floorless Looping Coaster Height: 130 feet tall Length: 3,701 feet long Top Speed: 64 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 127 feet tall Ride Time: 2:23 Inversions: 7 (Loop, Dive Loop, Zero G Roll, Cobra Roll, Loop, Corkscrew) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall In 2003, M&Ms Land made it’s biggest investment yet, a huge, beach themed park expansion with two new roller coasters and a new flat ride! The new area was called X-Treme Island and was now home to X-TremeScreamer, a S&S 4D Roller Coaster, and Power Surge, a standard Intamin Twisted Impulse coaster. This area is also home to Gauntlet, an Chance Rides Revolution. X-TREMESCREAMER STATS Type: Steel Multi-Dimension Coaster Height: 160 feet tall Length: 2,880 feet long Top Speed: 68 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 144 feet tall Ride Time: 1:15 Inversions: 2 (Inside Raven Turn, Inside Raven Turn) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall POWER SURGE STATS Type: Steel LIM Launched Inverted Shuttle Coaster Height: 180 feet tall Length: 704 feet long Top Speed: 70 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 170 feet tall Ride Time: 1:10 Inversions: 0 Height Requirement: 50 inches tall In 2005, the much maligned Scorpion, the only Meisho looping roller coaster in the US, which has become infamous for being one of the worst roller coasters in the world, finally met its end midway through 2005, much to the joy of roller coaster enthusiasts everywhere. 2006 saw the opening of Scorpion’s replacement, the much superior Wrath Of Osiris, a medium sized B&M inverted roller coaster with four inversions and a long layout filled with twists and turns. WRATH OF OSIRIS STATS Type: Steel Inverted Coaster Height: 105 feet tall Length: 2,935 feet long Top Speed: 54 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 98 feet tall Ride Time: 1:30 Inversions:4 (Loop, Batwing, Corkscrew) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall However in July of that same year, an accident occurred on Thunder Canyon, the park’s large Curtis Summers wooden coaster. A wheel had separated from one of the trains, causing the ride to suddenly and violently loose speed through the oval section and ultimately valley, causing riders to have to be evacuated from the train. All of the passengers on board the train suffered from injuries from minor cuts and bruises, to severe whiplash and concussions. Two had to be rushed to the hospital. Thunder Canyon was ultimately closed and remained SBNO for the rest of 2006, causing speculation that the ride would be removed from the park. Thunder Canyon re-opened in 2007, but not after receiving what is known as one of the most infamous neuters of any coaster currently operating. Park officials found that the famous Canyon Dive, arguably the signature element on Thunder Canyon caused unprecedented stress on the wheels of the PTC built trains. Unfortunately, this resulted in the Canyon Dive being shortened by 50 feet and given trim brakes on both the top and the bottom of the reprofiled section, completely killing the momentum of the first half of the ride, and making Thunder Canyon a shell of it’s former self. The only positive aspect of this retracking was that the coaster was now less rough, however it’s pacing was absolutely repugnant in the oval section, must like the large helix on Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Rattler. In 2009, M&Ms Land contacted the same company that was ultimately responsible for the neutering of Thunder Canyon, Great Coasters International. A plan was proposed to build a third wooden roller coaster at the park, to make up for what they did to Thunder Canyon. The result was The Lynx, a medium-sized GCI wooden twisting coaster filled with swooping drops and turns, airtime, and lots and lots of headchoppers, making this one of the most popular rides at the park! THE LYNX STATS Type: Wooden Twister Coaster Height: 85 feet tall Length: 2,271 feet long Top Speed: 49 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 80 feet tall Ride Time: 1:21 Inversions: 0 Height Requirement: 48 inches tall 2010 brought a ride that many said was missing from M&Ms Land. A gigantic 290 foot Intamin gyro drop tower named Apollyon (greek for “destroyer”). At the time of it’s opening, Apollyon was the tallest ride in the entire park. In 2011, the Thrill Sector section got it’s first new coaster since 2002. Many rumors surrounded this coaster before it opened, speculation was abound that it was either going to be a B&M Diving Coaster, a B&M Flying coaster, or a large Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter. The new coaster, Virus, turned out to be neither of them, rather it was a small Intamin accelerator coaster. While Virus had an exhilarating 0-75MPH in 2 second launch, the ride was criticized for being simply too short and a bit of a “one trick pony.” VIRUS STATS Type: Steel Launched Twister Coaster Height: 150 feet tall Length: 1,967 feet long Top Speed: 75 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 144 feet tall Ride Time: 0:50 Inversions: 1 (Zero G Roll) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall In that same year, M&Ms Land decided to put one of their least popular roller coasters, the Vekoma Boomerang Python up for sale and at the end of the year, it was bought by a small family owned amusement park looking to build a “thrilling attraction” to replace their old Pinfari Zyklon. Python was ultimately replaced in 2012 with Tropical Tornado, an absolutely massive HUSS Giant Frisbee. In 2013, it was announced that Dodge City was going to get it’s first new roller coaster since 1993 in the same spot once occupied by Dynamite Blaster. The result was Steel Stallion, a Maurer-Sohne extended Skyloop roller coaster similar to Abismo at Parque de Atracciones de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. The first of it’s kind in the United States. This coaster features not only a massive “sky loop” inversion, but also an airtime hill and a cutback before the train makes two passes through the station, forwards and then backwards before going back into the station. STEEL STALLION STATS Type: Steel Twister Coaster Height: 151 feet tall Length: 1,476 feet long Top Speed: 65 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 144 feet tall Ride Time: 1:20 Inversions: 3 (Skyloop, Cutback) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall In 2014, it was announced that the now infamous Thunder Canyon, was going to be demolished by the end of 2014 and urged parkgoers to take their final rides of the coaster before it goes on the chopping block. Surprisingly, many coaster fans were upset at this news. While many people did not enjoy Thunder Canyon for the fact that it was so badly neutered in 2007 and the fact that it has become incredibly rough and uncomfortable, many viewed that if the park were to completely demolish Thunder Canyon, it would be a loss of an incredible opportunity for the world famous manufacturer known as Rocky Mountain Construction or RMC to completely rehab the ride with steel track and new exhilarating elements. Initially, the plan was to tear down Thunder Canyon entirely to make way for a completely new coaster, however after doing research into RMC and seeing their track record for rehabilitating old, decrepit wooden coasters into masterpieces…Park officials made their decision... In 2015, Thunder Canyon became Steel Stampede, an RMC Iron Horse coaster! Steel Stampede brought about many new elements to the former Thunder Canyon. The first drop was changed to a 96 foot tall Barrel Roll Downdrop and the first floater airtime hill was changed into a massive Zero G Stall. Then the train snakes around the quarry and into a Zero G Roll before an ejector airtime hill. Also, Steel Stampede saw the triumphant return of the 110 foot tall Canyon Dive in it’s full length and steepness! The painful and long oval section was completely removed and replaced with a giant floater airtime hill and an overbank before the final brake run! STEEL STAMPEDE STATS Type: Steel Hybrid Twister Coaster Height: 155 feet tall Length: 2,585 feet long Top Speed: 58 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 110 feet tall Ride Time: 2:30 Inversions: 3 (Barrel Roll Downdrop, Zero G Stall, Zero G Roll) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall Then…in 2017, M&Ms Land became home to possibly one of the most intense roller coasters known to man. It took the record of the tallest and fastest roller coaster at the park and the second tallest complete circuit roller coaster in the world…In 2017, Berzerker Rage, an absolutely immense Intamin Winged Giga coaster was built at M&Ms Land. This coaster has been described as the perfect love child of Skyrush at Hersheypark and Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion. Only one word describes Beserker Rage, unrelenting. It’s layout is fast paced from the beginning to the end and is absolutely just FILLED with tons of ejector and floater airtime. The outer winged seats give riders a sense of impending danger as they are going through these intense elements outside the confines of the track. Riders have been known to grey out several times throughout the ride’s layout. This roller coaster is NOT meant for the faint of heart… BERZERKER RAGE STATS Type: Steel Giga Coaster Height: 315 feet tall Length: 5,571 feet long Top Speed: 93 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 310 feet tall Ride Time: 2:53 Inversions: 0 Height Requirement: 54 inches tall By 2017, M&Ms Land has become known as an absolute coaster Nirvana rivaling that of Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain with a total of fourteen unique and thrilling coasters! M&Ms Land is known for also having one of the most extensive varieties of coaster at any park…. A classic out and back Woodie (Screamin Eagle) A classic family friendly looping coaster (Comet) A suspended coaster (Rustler) An inverted coaster (Wrath of Osiris) A modern looping coaster (Toxin) A modern wooden coaster (The Lynx) A 4D coaster (X-TremeScream) An RMC conversion of a crappy woodie (Steel Stampede) A launched coaster (Virus) A hyper coaster (Marauder) And finally… A giga coaster (Berzerker Rage)

Year 1995 As expected, Twist And Shout, Cedar Plains' Eyerly Roll-O-Plane finally bit the dust in 1994 as it had become too costly to maintain. By 1995, it could be plain to see by all that a huge plot of land has been cleared where Twist and Shout used to be. Not only was land cleared at the former site of the flat ride, but also around the lake; nicknamed Cedar Lake, as well. What could this possibly be, a new coaster? A new flat ride package? All we can do is wait and see....

Year 1993 When Cedar Plains opened for the first time under it's new name for the 1993 season, people instantaneously started flocking to the new coaster on the block, Demon Force! Even with an efficient three-train operation, multi-hour long lines were still reported for Demon Force opening week. Another full house about to plunge down the first drop!! All in all, despite being the most popular attraction at Cedar Plains, reviews for Demon Force were rather mixed. The new coaster relieved large amounts of praise for its first half. The first drop and loop have received tons of praise for being forceful and thrilling and the 230 foot second drop into the abyss is widely considered to be one of the greatest elements on any coaster. However, the second that the train traverses through the batwing inversion, is when the not-so-good part of the ride begins. Why? One word. HEADBANGING. and lots of it. Especially during the batwing and the corkscrew after the second loop. However, the most painful part of the ride with the most headbanging happens during the very last element of the ride, the trick track. Where both sides of your head slam into the restraint in succession with one another, leaving you with a pretty intense pain on both sides of your head before the brake run. While Demon Force has a lot of elements that are fun and exciting, some parts are very rough and a bit painful, leading to a rather polarizing coaster experience. Some people love it while others hate it. However, one can't deny the sheer popularity of the ride as it became known all throughout the country, appearing in magazines and roller coaster books everywhere. Other rides at Cedar Plains are still getting a lot of love! A good example would be Energizer, the Schwarzkopf-built Enterprise. Twist And Shout is closed again due to maintenance issues...While this Eyerly Roll-O-Plane is a classic, it has become rather costly to maintain...It's definitely foreseeable that this ride could get removed in the near future. GoldRusher Express still provides a gentle, yet fun ride experience perfect for families or thrill seekers looking to mellow out! The park's sole woodie, Forest Flyer has been getting some not-so-good feedback for being rough at times, however it still gets a lot of praise for it's high amount of airtime!

Please please PLEASE don't let this be bullshit. I want to believe this so badly but I'm also so skeptical because I know Screamscape has said inaccurate things before...

I dont know if this counts as a SLC, but I've been on Stinger a few times. I didn't find it to be that horrific of a ride, in fact, when I went on it one year during Haunt, it gave a pretty cool night ride. However, the bulky restraints did make the experience seem more confining as opposed to the roomy and comfortable vest restraints. It does make you feel like if you have to ride an old Vekoma coaster, you'd rather ride Sidewinder, because at least that ride has comfy restraints that make the ride go from painful to fun.

Year 1993 In 1993, after two years of debate, Cedar Fair finally decided to change the name of Oregon's Adventure to coincide with it's new ownership and usher in a new era of thrills for the park, especially with the construction of Demon Force, the world's tallest and fastest looping roller coaster. Initially, the park was going to be renamed "Oregon's Great America", but was dropped in favor of "Cedar Plains", a reference to their flagship park in Ohio, Cedar Point. (The "Great America" suffix would later on be used in Cedar Fair's Tennessee location.) When Cedar Plains opens for the 1993 season, Oregon's Adventure merchandise will be sold for 90% off. A good opportunity for people to nab some retro park memorabilia!

On my first ride, one woman had to exit the train. Now, I consider myself fat (im actual american standard obese). I am 5'8" and weight is between 255-265 at times. I had to get a push or two to get completely green light-ed but I was still able to ride. My weight is fairly distributed and I do have some muscle mass as well so I can see how it can be a problem with some larger people riding. As far as the ride . . . I have said, even from the beginning before it was confirmed it was getting converted, Hurlers layout would be the weakest layour RMC would have to work. It's basically a coaster with 4 right hand turns and some airtime hills after the initially drop. I have to consider that while riding it and can only compare it to what it replaced honestly. I think they did a good job with revitalizing this coaster by building up on the current layout and structure. Loved the first drop-version while riding in the front, liked the 3 back-to-back airtime hiils as they were not as violent as some coasters I have been on, LOVED LOVED the middle part of the ride (from the cutback to the first 90 degree turn). Aside from the drop-verison, I didn't really feel the stomach-in-throat feeling. There was plenty of ejector air, especially on the three hills, but not much "drop tower" like air as far as my two rides went. However the two sweet spots for that, to me, where before and the drop after the photo spot. They put that in a very sweet spot! NOW should carowinds follow suit? Not right now. I think hurler at carowinds has a different condition and among different company than KD's. KD still has 2 more adult size wooden coasters so hurler really isnt a major loss. If I ran the world, I would ONLY convert hurler under the condition a new wooden coaster were to be built prior to it happening. And I wouldn't want both RMC hurlers to have the same layouts, but I would keep the middle section the same lol, its damn near perfect. Well, I'm about your height, so I figure that if I lose 20-30 lbs by August, I won't have that much of a problem. Thank you for telling me this, it actually makes my goal of riding TT seem more doable.

Okay, time for the elephant in the room.... Are the restraints to Twisted Timbers accomodating or restrictive to larger riders?