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"Mother fudger?" Are you kidding me?

I305, Stormrunner, and Maverick.

Year: 2007 Hmmmmmmmmmm...Six Flags, huh? I'm sure it'll be cool and all but.... The first thing they did was DESTROY A PEICE OF HISTORY! They F@ing took out the Amazin' River! The Amazin' River may have not been much, but it was one of the FIRST rides at the park, when it was still named SUPERLAND! I can't believe this! ....at least the new Batman themed B&M Invert they announced looks cool....

nin, that actually looks better than the real ride!

Very nice in my opinion, I LOVE the Morgan hyper. It reminds me a lot of Steel Dragon 2000 for some reason. Keep it up dude!

Yeah, there will be some changes concerning ownership in the next few updates, I can't give away much now though Thanks, Stratosphere will indeed be missed =======================================================================================================Year: 2005 Today, I decided to take one of my best friends to Paramounts Kings Paradise, it'll be his first time going to the park and he's a big fan of roller coasters, so I'm sure he'll enjoy it! Also, I want to go to get my last rides on Stratosphere before it closes forever. In fact, Stratosphere was the first ride we went on, the first thing we saw was these big yellow signs by the queue saying "LAST CHANCE TO RIDE STRATOSPHERE! CLOSING SOON!" And gave a tenative date in 2006 for its closure. I still can't believe they're taking this out..... You'll be missed, Stratosphere. Without you, the worlds biggest roller coaster would not have been possible. The rest of the day, me and my friend just went around the park riding roller coasters and flat rides. His favorite in the park was Renegade, he sure is a good picker He also liked ThunderStrike because of the whole "out of control" feeling that you get on wooden coasters. I just had to take this last snapshot when we were walking out of the park. Stratosphere looked so beautiful at night....its such a shame that we'll never see it again ======================================================================================================= Before you ask, yes I DID pull a Hypersonic XLC with Stratosphere. Next: Cedar Fair buys all Paramount Parks. EXCEPT ONE. (dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn)

Built by Intamin A.G of course...with prefab supports

Year: 2005 I still can't believe this news....last week, rumors started to spread saying that PKP was going to be removing one of their coasters, I thought that they were going to get rid of Venom Rail seeing as how it has low ridership and its rough, or I thought they were going to pull a "Hercules" and get rid of ThunderStrike, I did not expect that Stratopshere, a relatively new coaster, only 6 years old was going to be removed....

In my opinion, LaQua (Tokyo Dome City) is dying a slow and painful death. I think the removal of Linear Gale was the kiss of death for that park. The million dollar WTF for me is Why would they get rid of a totally functional Intamin impulse coaster with no issues or anything?

Thank you for your advice! Unfortunatly, I made the mistake of posting this park AFTER It was already done, I already have years 1957-2013 done on my computer and I plan on wrapping this park up before 2013. But I'm also in the brainstorming process of another park after this is done! And updates may slow down with school soon to take over my life ======================================================================================================= Year:2004 Hi guys, I managed to take another trip to PKP to check out what this Olde Frontier area looks like in person! I hope its as good as it sounds! The entrance to the park looks so much different since Renegade was built! The Old West theming is a bit cliche in my opinion, but it does have a charm to it! Renegade had a pretty nice sized line all day, about a 30 minute wait. I've seen worse though. What I thought was really cool was that on the in-station speakers, they played the song "Renegade" by the rock band Styx while you wait for your train! "The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me. Renegade who had it made, who took all the bounty." Twisting plunge!!! Only one word describes Renegade, INSANE. Renegade is probably the most intense out of all the B&M coasters I've ever been on. I've been on Top Gun at PGA, Vortex at PGA, and Riddlers Revenge, Batman, and Scream at SFMM. They can't hold a CANDLE to Renegade when it comes to intensity! Because there is no MCBR, the trains just BLAZES through the corkscrews! Only one word describes Z-Force, CLASSIC. Stratosphere was closed all day due to mechanical issues (stupid dysfunctional Intamin rocket coaster....grumble grumble...) Drop Zone still gives me the willies to this day! And may I ask, what happened to Steel Python? This ride just seems so dumbed down and tame nowadays. What I think happened was that they added trim brakes in the WORST possible location, the first drop. You see the swooping section? The train actually hangs there at 2mph before the brakes release, reducing the top speed of 54mph to 48mph. And due to that, the pacing is so bad in the first loop, I'm not even kidding. Its sad, this was one of my favorite coasters at the park, then because some people just had to bring heat on the park for it's mild roughness (its an old Arrow looper for chrissakes, not a B&M) they had to put trim brakes on and it dosen't help at ALL! All complaining aside, I'm still very surprised with how Paramounts Kings Paradise suddenly became this massive hot spot for thrill seekers, its currently tied to Paramounts Kings Dominion with the most launched coasters. It also the most intense B&M coaster I have ever ridden, two all star woodies, the works! And I'm proud to call Paramount's Kings Paradise my home park.

Hey guys, I'm right now trying to plan ahead for summer 2013 since classes already began 2 days ago I've been meaning to ask, I live in Long Island, NY, is Canada's Wonderland worth the trip? I saw POVs for Leviathan and Behemoth and both rides look bad as hell, also it seems to have a very good variety of roller coasters. With your standard no frills but tried-and-true steel track looper (Dragon Fyre) Suspended coaster (Vortex) Inverted coaster (Flight Deck/Afterburner whateverthehelltheycallit) A couple of world-class woodies....I have a feeling I'd really like it there. But then theres the cost of driving from LI to Vaughn, and plus i've never been outside the continental U.S and I have no idea on whether or whether not Canadians take kindly to Americans, especially loud and obnoxious (stereotype ALERT!) New Yorkers, and I have a feeling that it's going to be this big production just to go an amusment park in Canada. My other plan is to go to both Kings Dominion in early June and Cedar Point in late August. I loved KD when I went and I'd love to go again, and I'm dying to ride GateKeeper, but Cedar Point requires getting my weight down from 249 to 195 in a nine month period, which I can probably do. Which plan do you think is better, one vacation to Canadas Wonderland or two vacations to Cedar Point and Kings Dominion?

God how I wish this park was real..... Anyway, you did what you wanted and gave us a Cedar Point esque coaster paradise! Not only is it filled with great coasters, the aesthetic quality of the park vista is also breathtaking! Hell, If I were attempt to make a park like this in RCT3 it wouldn't even look a QUARTER as good as this does, also it would spontaneously combust my computer. Anyways, good job!!!!!

Quick Question, did Cedar Fair ever consider giving Son of Beast the Texas Giant/Rattler treatment?

In my opinion, Gemini needs to be redone so its an actual steel roller coaster with wood supports, What I would do is either use the Mine Train coaster, or the Hyper coaster with the "Wall Girders" in the colored walls section as wood-esque supports. And how are you going to do the supports for TTD? Except for gemini, everything looks superb

For me, although I LOVED Kings Dominion, a LOT. A lot of the people that worked there came off as kind of rude, a lot of the ride ops gave off the "I hate my job" vibe, some were also very friendly too. I did hear though, that Cedar Point has a problem with mean ride ops, even though I've never heard one and they all seemed friendly to me. So which amusment park has the rudest staff in your opinion?

It sure does sometimes "sucks" is too good of a word to describe these sort of things... ======================================================================================================= Year: 2004 Hello, it's Robbie again! After what seems like a period of nothing but bad things happening to my favorite park, good things may finally start to happen. Long story short, I found out via CoasterInsider.net what PKP just announced. Here is a picture that the website released of the "Rodeo Roundup" ride. And here is the TNT Twister! Here is a picture of the new roller coaster for 2004, Renegade! So far it looks very exciting, but I don't understand why they consider the "Renegade Roll" a cutting edge element. It's essentially a dive loop, except with a larger turn before the twist and half loop. And I noticed there was no Mid-Course break run, which will make for a very intense ride with no slowdowns! Also, and the official report didn't mention this, but Paramount's Kings Paradise is participating in a program to save retired racehorses from the slaughterhouse, and are giving them a new home at the park! Its cool that they're saving these animals, because I used to ride horses when I was going out with a girl who was the captian of my school's equestrian team. And before you ask me this question "wouldn't the B&M roar spook the horses?" They did indeed think of that and filled Renegade's track with sand, so the infamous sound that comes from B&M coasters won't reverberate and scare the horses. I can't wait to take a trip here and ride Renegade for myself!

Year: 2003 I am still in shock after reading this article in my local news paper, and the scariest part is, all this happened just a week after I visited the park. This is what it said. No fan of amusment parks or roller coasters ever wants to hear about their favorite rides causing people to die, but sadly, it has happened twice at Paramount's Kings Paradise in Laramie, Wyoming just this week alone. The first death occured on August 18th, 2003. When a woman with a pre-existing heart condition died of a sudden heart attack on the Star Trek- The Ride roller coaster. (Star Trek The Ride, The roller coaster in which a person died riding it on August 18th) Michael Tibbits, the person that was riding next to the woman reported in his affadavit, "I was sitting next to her on the ride and after we launched, she started making these weird gurgling noises with ther throat and after we hit the final brake run after the corkscrew, I was sitting next to a corpse." Premeir Rides, the manufacturer of several rides across the USA commented that the "Spaghetti Bowl" model roller coaster was not meant for infirm individuals, especially those with heart conditions. The second death at the Paramount Park was the result of a horrific mechanical failure on the Top Gun: The Jet Coaster, another fairly popular coaster at Paramount's Kings Paradise. Reportadly, one of the Linear Induction Motors which launches the train from 0 to 70mph overheated and malfunctioned during launch and according to eyewitnesses and people who were onboard the ride, it "literally exploded." Here is a picture taken on a moble phone of what looks like the malfunction occuring. The result was one of the passengers dying of fatal burns and the train being damaged. Ride operators reported hearing "a loud bang" as the coaster launched and the train not having enough momentum to make it past an inversion on the top of the mountian. The damaged section of LIM was taken back to Intamin A.G, based in Switzerland to see what went wrong. The Swiss company has also agreed to pay the family of the victim $100,000USD in compensation. Both Top Gun: The Jet Coaster and Star Trek- The Ride have been shut down for the rest of the 2003 season for saftey reasons, but are scheduled to reopen in 2004.

Ok, I like what you did, I really do. but please do us a favor, upload your pics as .JPGs. For some reason .BMPs take forever to load in.

Yeah, well the reason why it's small is because its supposed to be like a "prototype" strata coaster, and theres some killer air on that tophat! ======================================================================================================= Year: 2003 God, its been four YEARS since I've been to Paramounts Kings Paradise. Now that I have a car, I can basically go here anytime I want! So, now it's August 3rd and I decided to go to the park! to check out all the changes that occured in the years. The first thing I noticed was that Acrophobia is gone! It became too costly to maintain and it's capacity was terrible. They replaced it in 2001 with a Zamperla Wild Mouse coaster named Ricochet. In 2002, they built a huge Intamin A.G Gyro Drop tower named Drop Zone, It's the first ever 300 foot tall ride at PKP and It looks bad as hell! What I really wanted to do was to ride Stratosphere. Upon doing so, I had to wait on probably the most EXCRUIATINGLY LONG queue line I have ever waited on for a roller coaster. It didn't even look that long, but I waited at LEAST 2 hours. Supposedly, the ride only reopened last Wednesday. In the beginning of the season, the launching cable frayed suddenly while launching and a wheel fell of the train, causing riders to be covered with cuts and bruises and a 3 month period of it being SBNO. The real reason why the line was long was due to the fact that they were only operating a single train! And the train itself only seats twelve people at a time, so like Acrophobia, its a capacity NIGHTMARE. After that ordeal, I FINALLY Got on. Unlike with Star Trek and Top Gun, the Stratosphere had a built in countdown from one of the Apollo missions "T-Minus 5....4....3....2.......1......Liftoff." I thought that was a cool effect even though it takes away from the unexpectedness of a launched coaster, which I love. All and all, it was an ok ride, not great. Very overhyped in my opinion. I'm sorry, but I'd rather ride something more substatial. All was not lost though, thanks to Stratosphere's popularity, lines for Top Gun and Star Trek were non-existent! I noticed something else, a massive plot of land was cleared near the Frightmare Villiage area. According to my favorite roller coaster fansite, CoasterInsider.net (fictional) they are adding a new themed area to PKP. Better check it out next year!

Thank you! Unfortunatly, I can't do Intamin track due to the limitations of RCT3 so I had to stick with the default Vekoma track. LOL To be honest, It depends on how a park takes care of their SLC, I heard T2 at Kentucky Kingdom is really rough while Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach isn't that bad. I highly doubt that! if Top Gun at PKP was real, it would undoubtly be Intamin box track. Thank you! I'm surprised no one has ever attempted a Volcano recreation with RCT3. Unfortunatly, buildings and custom scenery are my achilles heel when it comes to park making. I love designing coasters though....I'm surprised you liked ST-TR (Star Trek-The Ride) because I unfortunatly had no idea what the rest of the layout was after the Cobra Roll and Immelmann so I just winged it and added a corkscrew at the end. Thanks for the compliment!!! ======================================================================================================= Year: 2000 Hello, hello!!! It's Robbie again! Guess what? You know how in the last trip report, I mentioned the big plot of land cleared by Z-Force and I told you that a resturaunt or some flat rides may go there? Well, according to what I just found out via the official Paramount's Kings Paradise website, I was wrong! Just feast your eyes on this artists impression of whats to come this spring! This is the statement posted on the website! "NEW FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM!! Stratosphere is the worlds first roller coaster launched with hydraulic power, making for an exceptionally quick launch of 0-70mph in less than two seconds! This exemplary new thrill also includes a 145foot vertical twisting ascent and a 145 vertical twisting descent before the ride ends! (Creator comments: So you thought that Xcelerator at Knotts was the first Intamin rocket coaster, didn't ya? But anyway, if your wondering why the graphics are so low, lets just say that this artists impression was made with 90s computers )

I would gladly buy it and build it in my backyard ...if my backyard was 70 acres...and if only I had a million bucks...

There's AirCoaster, but it's kind of a pain to use. Its fun but It's kind of a "wannabe NL"

Year: 1999 Hello! It's Robbie again! After hearing about the new Top Gun coaster. I realized that I HAD to go back to Paramount's Kings Paradise to ride it! Now It's the beginning of September so here I am! One last fling before school starts! The first thing I saw was droves of people clamoring to the edge of the park where the mountain is. Me and my sister decided to ride the coaster, but unfortunatly we were met with probably the longest line I have ever seen for a roller coaster.....we surely wasted an hour and a half waiting to go on. But it was worth it After a turn out of the station, the train slows down then suddenly accellerates to 72 miles per hour faster than you can blink! This overbanked turn is very intense, much more intense than it looks. Then, the train re-enters the mountain and a second launch accellerates the train again, bursting out into a massive Immelmann loop! Just like it's sister coaster, Volcano-The Blast Coaster at Paramount's Kings Dominion, the train goes through a series of in-line twists and goes into a spiraling plunge into the mountain, but this ride has a trick up its sleeve. Instead of a brakerun, a giant Wraparound Corkscrew was put in place! The only other roller coaster to have this inversion is Drachen Fire at Busch Gardens Europe, which unfortunatly is no longer running. A final turn and brakerun follows this. Its safe to say that Top Gun: The Jet Coaster is my new favorite roller coaster here at PKP! Another thing I noticed was that near Z-Force, a rather large plot of land was cleared. I've been hearing rumors that for 2000, they will expand the park to the north and add probably a resturaunt and a few more flat rides. Of course these are just rumors.... I hope to be here again soon!

Looks like a good start to me, and I can guess that an Arrow or Vekoma mine train is coming!!! Keep up the good work man!

Do you think it's sad or funny that when a park posts a computer animation of the new ride, people automatically think or say "herpa derp iz dat roller coaster tycoon 4????"