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Year 1992 The time has come..... When Oregon's Adventure first re-opened in 1990 to massive success, a plan was put in place to build a new coaster at the park. Cedar Fair didn't want it to be any ordinary coaster though. They wanted something iconic, something that will guarantee nothing but success and acclaim, something that will put Oregon's Adventure on the map for theme park and roller coaster enthusiasts from coast to coast.....Only one question remained though...exactly what kind of coaster should be built? A giant wooden coaster? One of those new steel "hyper" coasters? A stand up coaster? A looping coaster? In 1991, Cedar Fair got it's answer when they saw what Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania built...Steel Phantom, the world's first steel looping hyper coaster. In a nutshell, Cedar Fair wanted a steel hyper-looping coaster that was similar to Steel Phantom, but bigger, badder, faster, and longer...By 1992, they got in touch with Arrow Dynamics, and the plan was put into motion.... The result was DEMON FORCE, an absolutely massive Arrow Dynamics mega-looping roller coaster which spans almost the entire length of the park, filled with massive plunges and stomach churning inversions. This coaster also breaks two 1993 records for roller coasters. By 1993, Demon Force was the world's fastest roller coaster at a top speed of 82mph and had the tallest drop of any coaster at a height of 230 feet. The ride starts off by ascending up a massive 161 foot tall first hill into a 157 foot tall swooping first drop, similar to the first drop of the legendary Crystal Beach Cyclone. Unlike Steel Phantom, there is no straight section after the first drop, instead you will break through into the first of five inversions, a large 115 foot tall vertical loop, filled with crushing G-forces! Very similarly to Steel Phantom, the coaster reaches it's apex point after the first drop....Where you go up a 132 foot hill...but then plunge downwards into an abyss at a whopping 230 feet, giving Demon Force the status of a hyper coaster! You will then travel through the tunnel at breakneck speeds of 82mph, giving Demon Force the record for the fastest and tallest roller coaster in 1993. After the drop and tunnel come the next two inversions, a massive batwing double inversion packed with G-forces! After a meandering S-turn comes a high speed inverting one-two punch, a second vertical loop followed by a small, shallow hill and into a corkscrew! After a helix, Demon Force has one last trick up its sleeve before the final brake run...A short section of trick track designed to disorient riders, leaving them not knowing where they're going! As a companion piece to Demon Force, Oregon's Adventure also built "Little Demon", a small Zierer Tivoli model coaster, perfect for the little kids who aren't quite tall enough to ride Little Demon's big brother....Little Demon is also the first kiddie coaster to be built at Oregon's Adventure. Demon Force and Little Demon will open to the public by the beginning of May, 1993!

Year 1992 After the highly successful re-opening season for Oregon's Adventure, another highly successful season was to follow.... At the end of the 1992 season however, parkgoers started to notice something rather odd happening in the eastern half of the park..... Seemingly overnight, construction crews had come to rip out several trees and tear up the grass, effectively clearing out a large portion of land that sprawled all the way from Forest Flyer to Oregon Looper.... What could it possibly be for? Is there a new roller coaster coming soon? Perhaps a park expansion? Both? All that coaster fans could do at that point was wait and speculate.....

Year 1990 Saturday, May 12th of 1990....Marks a very significant date in this park's history. After being SBNO for an entire season, Oregon's Adventure was opening it's doors again as a Cedar Fair property. Dozens upon dozens of guests were lining up across the block for their chance to re enter Oregon's premiere amusement park for the first time in more than a year..... The entire queue line for the Schwarzkopf classic, Oregon Looper stretched was filled to capacity the entire day! Gold Rush Express was wildly popular amongst families and younger coaster riders! Oregon's Adventure's ferris wheel is located in Wild West World and is aptly named "Wagon Wheel". It provides some great panoramic views of the entire park! We can't forget Hurricane, the Arrow corkscrew coaster! It might not be as popular as the Oregon Looper, but it's definitely got its fans! No matter how old you get, a ride on the bumper cars is always a fun thing to do! Of course, most of the crowds gravitated twoards the crown jewel of Oregon's Adventure, the wooden airtime machine known as Forest Flyer! All in all, the re-opening of Oregon's Adventure was a rousing success! A bright future was surely in store for this park, as Cedar Fair begun to make plans for Oregon's Adventure's fifth roller coaster. While the project was in the embryonic stage by 1991 and no details were known...One thing was certain, Cedar Fair wanted this coaster to be something iconic, something signature, a ride to remember... Stay tuned for more...

I really hope the seatbelts aren't that short as they are in the pic....If they are....then damn, I need to lose a lot of weight before August....

Year 1990 In January of 1990, after a deal with Six Flags had fallen through, it was confirmed that Cedar Fair Entertainment Company of Sandusky, Ohio would be buying Oregon's Adventure for a price of 150 million dollars. Cedar Fair, being one of the largest amusement companies in the US, had big plans for the park in the coming decade, which included at least three more major roller coasters, a dedicated children's area, a park expansion, and more flat rides. Rumors had also begun flying around of a possible name change, but those remain unconfirmed....

Experience the feeling of being repeatedly punched in the side of the head by Eddie Hall, Only on Manhattan Express: Virtual Reality Edition!

It almost got built in 2005 at Hershey. It was ultimately cancelled and Hershey ended up suing the manufacturer that was building it due to a breach of contract.

Hey guys....I've decided I was kind of going to go back to my roots and start fresh with a new PLC park. This park was based off an old park I built in my much younger years in RCT3...This time, I plan to make it seem a bit more realistic and flow a little better....And without further ado.... The Story of Oregon's Adventure Year 1988 When I was a young boy, growing up in Corvallis, Oregon…There was nothing I loved more than spending my summers at one place…The premiere amusement park of the entire state, the aptly named Oregon’s Adventure. It was a rather medium-sized park with an assortment of flat rides and four roller coasters…There was a decent balance between an environment of family-friendliness and an allure to a more thrill seeking crowd. Overall, it was a great place for somebody to just have hours of fun… That is, until 1988, when I was only 12 years old….My father gave me the sad news….The family that owned the park was having serious financial troubles…and the upshot was, Oregon’s Adventure was being put up for sale at the end of the 1988 operating season. The future of my home park, and my favorite place to be….was now in serious doubt….Best case scenario, the park gets bought by a larger company, such as Six Flags, Cedar Fair, or Anheuser-Busch. Worst case scenario, the park gets razed…and replaced with condos and shopping centers. These pictures are how I remembered the park in my younger years…. An overhead shot of the park, showing all the rides…. Wild West World was the first themed area of Oregon’s Adventure, also the location of the first coaster built at the park…A rather modest Arrow mine train known as “Gold Rush Express-Mine Coaster” or just “Gold Rush Express” The shallow drops and turns made this a great ride for families. The Oregon Looper is one of the two roller coasters that occupied the Main Midway. Built in 1978, Oregon Looper was a small Schwarzkopf looping roller coaster, similar to that of SooperDooperLooper at Hersheypark. It featured a single forceful vertical loop and several banked helices and bunny hops, giving a sensation of airtime. The other coaster in the Main Midway is Hurricane, an Arrow corkscrew coaster which was built in 1979. It was a rather average, short coaster…No different than the original Corkscrew at Knott’s Berry Farm. The Main Midway is also home to several of the park’s flat rides, such as Wave Swinger, and an Eyerly Roll-O-Plane named “Twister” The latest area to be built at Oregon’s Adventure was known as The Forest Trail. This area was home to two exciting flat rides. Energizer, an Anton Schwarzkopf Enterprise ride, and the Bumper Cars. The main attraction of not only the Forest Trail area, but also the entire park was Forest Flyer, a massive Charles Dinn wooden out and back coaster. Coincidentally, Forest Flyer was the tallest and fastest coaster at the park at the time. Forest Flyer was filled with many moments of exhilarating air time and g-forces and at the time, it was my personal favorite roller coaster…. As a kid hearing the news of Oregon’s Adventure being put up for sale and the possible closure of the park, it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the sun setting on my favorite place….. Little did I know then, that a new sun was rising on the horizon for the park……

Knoebels would probably want someone to build a completley new wooden wild mouse That would be cool if that happened...

And I thought the closure of Stinger was sudden....this is probably the most "here today, gone tomorrow" coaster removal I've ever seen....

The traditional sit-down looping coaster needed a facelift for the modern era and it looks like Vekoma out of all manufacturers, were the ones to do it. Well done!

I know it's been months since I last updated this park....I'm sure you're expecting that the reason why I haven't been updating M&Ms Land is because I've been busy with IRL business, which is partially true....But the whole truth is that...I've kind of lost interest in updating this park, as in trying to come up with a good storyline behind the park, at least with Kings Paradise, Tennessee's Great America, and Riverwood Theme Park/Six Flags Adventure Kingdom, I've come up with a decent story for each of those parks...I just couldn't do that with M&Ms Land, it just seemed incredibly contrived and rushed. However, in the same vein, I'm having a ton of fun playing Planet Coaster and I'm having a lot of fun building coasters and parks in this game....But for M&M's Land, I had so much fun building this park up that I forgot about the fact that I was trying to do a story behind the park too. The next update for M&Ms Land will most likely be the last one and will most likely be a sweeping update about the changes of the park from 2000 to the present. So anyway, what's next for me and Planet Coaster?....Personally, one of the things I want to do is re-create one of my RCT3 parks, whether it's Kings Paradise, TGA, or even Riverwood. With the coaster building in Planet Coaster being way more advanced and better than RCT3 in every way, I feel like I can really make these coasters look like how they would if they were real. (BTW, the reason why I never finished Riverwood was because after I got Planet Coaster...I seriously could not go back to RCT3. I was just so enamored with PLC and I wanted that game to be the tool I use to build these parks.) So anyway, stay tuned for more! Warm regards and Happy thanksgiving!

Dear Mack Rides, BUILD. THAT. SOMEWHERE. (preferably the US) Love, fraroc

OH GOD YES PLEASE! Suspended coasters need to make a serious comeback! I find that Suspended coasters are great starter rides for younger kids who are at that awkward point where they may not be ready for the big scream machines, but are bored riding kiddie coasters.

While we're still dreaming, I'd love to see Intamin try and bring back some of Schwarzkopf's models....

All I gotta say is that what Twisted Cyclone might lack in length, it would definitely make up in airtime, inversions, and intensity. This looks like a fantastic ride.

COASTERS4U.COM NEWS REPORT: M&Ms LAND TO ADD NEW FLAT RIDE AND COASTER IN 2000!

This coaster really seems like it's the best of both worlds. Most of the "bigger" Mack coasters in the United States are spinning coasters while the other major Mack coasters are all overseas. I knew it was probably a matter of time before Mack decided to build a major launch coaster in the US. By making it a spinning coaster, they're keeping up their good track record of making decent spinning coasters in the US while giving us something we haven't seen before in this country, a coaster reminiscent of Blue Fire or Helix.

Thanks for the information...I'm still going to start watching my diet anyway and working out more because I want to make sure I don't have any more problems with walks of shame in the future.

Seeing as how RMC Hurler is going to be a reality, I've read somewhere that RMC restraints aren't that accommodating for guests of larger size. Can anyone on TPR attest to this? If it's true, then I'm definintley going to throw away every piece of junk food in my house and I'm renewing my gym membership. I've been dying to to ride an RMC, and I'm not going to let this opportunity pass me by.

1998 By now, you are all aware of the backstory and history of M&M's Land in Reno, Nevada...From the point of conception in 1980 to the building of one of the famous wooden roller coasters in the world by 1993. By the mid to late 1990's the internet had slowly started to become a household phenomenon. As more people started to use the internet in their daily lives, websites about people's interests started to open up left and right. Roller coasters were no exception to this. Coasters4U.com opened around 1998 as a small blog/message board about roller coasters and theme parks..... The story of this park will now be told from the point of view of Coasterfreak133, one of the first users of Coasters4U.com who made a post about his very first trip to M&M's Land. 7/12/1998 Hello everybody! I will be using this website to document my first ever trip to M&Ms Land! But first, let me introduce myself! My name is Ryan, I'm 18 years old and I have been interested in roller coasters and theme parks my whole life. Especially ever since the first time that my parents took me to Six Flags Magic Mountain when I was only 5 years old. I live close to Las Vegas, and despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS activities on the Vegas strip, roller coasters aren't that much of a thing. We have a few that are worth pointing out, such as High Roller at the Stratosphere Tower and the Manhattan Express roller coaster that was built last year. Also, we can't forget about Desperado at Buffalo Bill's Resort in Primm, which is by far the best out of those three. Reno is a good 6 1/2 hour drive away from where I live, quite a ways away...I hoped that the park was worth the long drive away from home....and it was...oh MAN it was! I arrived at M&Ms Land at around 11AM on July the 12th. The park had a decent crowd inside of it, which probably meant the roller coasters had pretty long lines.... Upon entering, I was taken aback at just how large the crescent shaped park was. As far as the eye could see were various rides and roller coasters....I decided to start exploring the left half of the park first. The first coaster I chose to go on was Comet, a small Arrow Dynamics looping coaster. It had a very short, five minute wait! Comet was a pretty good ride. A little short, but good. This kind of ride is perfect for a kid who is just starting to ride the "big coasters." I also found it to be pretty smooth for an Arrow coaster. The second coaster I decided to go on was Screamin' Eagle, the old John Allen woodie that was relocated to the park when it first opened! Screamin' Eagle was a fantastic old woodie filled with many moments of airtime and high speeds! The "S-drop" was a pretty unique and funky element for a wood coaster... Next, I decided to go on one of the park's many flat rides. Enterprise is a pretty nice Huss Enterprise with a long and thrilling ride cycle! Many parks have installed these Vekoma Boomerangs and M&M's Land is obviously no exception. Python's line was much longer than the other coasters and I've already been on the Boomerang coaster at Knotts Berry Farm a few times. I decided to skip it. The one I was really curious about was Scorpion. While it looks like an Arrow or a Vekoma from the outside, in actuality, it's the only roller coaster in the U.S that was designed and manufactured by Meisho of Japan. Long story short, this coaster sucks. It just flat-out sucks. Right off the bat, you are greeted to vicious headbanging on the first drop (by very hard, under-padded shoulder restraints, I might add.) and througout the entire ride, the headbanging just does not stop. The worst was when your head slams full-force into the side of the restraint during the dive loop. Overall, Scorpion is definitley the worst coaster here. It's full of jerky transitions and headbanging. To make matters worse, due to the fact that the coaster only has two four-car trains, capacity on this ride is actually worse than Python and lines can get pretty long. Believe me, it's NOT worth the wait. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything positive about this coaster. It looks cool, I guess...but that's about it. By mid afternoon, I decided to tackle the second half of the park. The addition of a kid's area in 1996 served as an excellent "express route" to the second half. This kid's area is themed to the new M&Ms "spokescandies" that they introduced in '95. You know, the red M&M and the yellow M&M that get in all kinds of mischief in those commercials? This area so far is home to smaller rides such as "Yellow's Whirly Rig", a mini ferris wheel, and "Red's Flyer" a hot-air balloon themed ride. They even built a small Vekoma junior coaster named "M&M's Minis Express" in this area! The path eventually deposited me right in the middle of Dodge City, the western themed area of the park! This section of the park, as I have been told is home to the best coasters in the entire park. First, I decided to do Dynamite Run, the Arrow mine train coaster. I gotta say, for a family mine train, this is a very thrilling ride with a very cool first drop and tons of twisting turns! Unfortunatley, this trip might be the only time I'll ever be able to ride it, as I have been hearing rumors that they are going to be removing this ride before the new millennium. Rustler had been experiencing down time all day until I finally got to the ride, therefore the line was pretty long....However, I knew I couldn't skip it after the several things I've heard about Rustler, how it's the best Arrow suspended coaster ever built....The only other Arrow suspended coaster that I had been on was Ninja at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and I happen to enjoy that ride very much, so I had to see how Rustler measured up. Oh MAN is it a good ride! Rustler blows Ninja away! The amount of swinging action you get on this ride is outstanding! And the layout is full of these amazing swooping drops and turns! The drop after the second lift hill is absolutely amazing and even the slow, wide turn back to the station has some good swinging at some parts! Rustler is by far the best steel coaster at M&Ms Land, Every other steel coaster here is mediocre to good at best. Rustler, in my opinion, is the only great one at M&Ms Land. There was one ride where I intentionally waited for darkness to fall upon the park for....And that is the coaster that I have been told is one of the greatest wooden roller coasters of all time. Curtis D. Summers' Thunder Canyon...which is rumored to give night rides that rival only The Beast's. This is hands down, the most insane wooden roller coaster I have EVER been on. It's slightly rougher than Screamin' Eagle, but not by much. The second drop was filled with ejector airtime and the small hills on top of the quarry wall had tons of floater air! Being nighttime, I wasn't sure what direction we were going, all I knew is that I was going FAST! Then came the best part of Thunder Canyon, the train reaches the top of a hill at the quarry wall and you see the lights illuminating the rest of the park.....suddenly, you plunge downward HARD and immediatley turn into what I can describe as a jumbled mess of airtime hills and tight turns...Thunder Canyon is one of the most insane, the most intense, and probably the BEST wooden roller coaster that I have EVER been on. All in all, I found M&Ms Land to be a very good, well rounded park. The paths were clean, and I found the atmosphere to be very family friendly. My one complaint was that there needs to be another good steel roller coaster at this park. With Dynamite Run possibly being removed soon, Rustler will be the only great steel coaster at the park. Personally, I believe that for the next millennium, M&Ms Land should look in the direction of Intamin or Bolliger & Mabillard for their next big steel coaster.

1993 1992 was a rather quiet year for M&Ms Land, they had just recieved Python which was a moderate success....However, halfway through the season, large billboards were placed in various parts of the park bearing three words and a year...."Storm Is Coming-1993" Despite the fact that there were no details surrounding the context of the billboards, one could reasonably assume that a new, large scale attraction was coming for the following year. To impact this further, this coincided with a large amount of land clearing in the northeast corner of the park.... So...what is the "storm" that is coming? THUNDER CANYON, a brand new gigantic Curtis D. Summers wooden roller coaster! Throughout the early 1990s, market research had shown a demand for a newer, more modern wooden roller coaster, and so in 1993, the park delivered on the customer's demands! When Thunder Canyon was built, it was the tallest attraction in the entire park at a maximum height of 150 feet, ten feet taller than the previous title holder, Rustler. The first drop of Thunder Canyon was downright puny compared to the rest of the ride at only 50 feet.... However, it's not long before the train enters the much larger second drop, measuring in at 97 feet tall and bringing the train to a speed of 52mph! The train then goes through several moments of ejector airtime as the track snakes around the quarry wall... Then, halfway through the course, the train enters Thunder Canyon's signature element, a 110 foot tall "Canyon Dive", the tallest drop on the coaster! The "Canyon Dive" bears down very high Gs to the riders as well as a top speed of 56mph! Shortly thereafter, the train goes through an "oval" section, consisting of several twists, turns, and floater airtime hills before turning to the final brake run! When Thunder Canyon opened to the public, it nearly instantaneously became an overnight legend with coaster fans noting its speed, its large amount of G-forces and airtime moments. The Canyon Dive had become one of the most photogenic elements of any roller coaster, seeing the train dive down the massive drop and seeing rider's reactions to the drop was for some, a picture perfect definition of what a roller coaster is.

TheCoasterKid211: Thanks However even though Scorpion looks like an Arrow, it was actually manufactured by Meisho and is the only Meisho coaster in the United States... 1991 The year 1990 brought a VERY long overdue attraction to the park. After hearing several complaints of guests how there aren't any ways to cool you down in the heat of the Nevada summer, M&Ms Land listened....And brought Snake River Falls, an Intamin AG "Shoot The Chutes" ride to the park. Snake River Falls was not a large log flume, however the main drop did it's job in cooling down guests in the blazing summer sun! The following year brought a surprisingly controversial attraction to the park. Originally, M&Ms Land had plans to build a large ground-up roller coaster at the park, which led coaster fans to speculate the possibility of a new large wooden coaster or a possible Arrow Dynamics hyper coaster...However in 1991, they got Python, a Vekoma Boomerang. This caused a lot of controversy as several coaster fans accused M&Ms Land of blatantly ripping off their main competitor, Hersheypark by building a Vekoma Boomerang at the same time they were building theirs... However, despite the bit of bad press M&Ms Park got for Python, it still was a moderate success as it drew a pretty large crowd, despite being a cloned coaster. PYTHON STATS Type: Steel Track Looping Shuttle Coaster Height: 116 feet Length: 935 feet Top Speed: 48 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 110 feet Ride Time: 1:48 Inversions: 6 (Cobra Roll, Loop) (traversed twice) Height Requirement: 48 Inches Tall Soon, it became apparent that the hopes of a new ground-up coaster were not totally dashed....I can't give away too many details...but lets just say that this quarry wall will never look the same way ever again.....

1989 For the past several years of M&Ms Land's operation, they have recieved an assortment of new attractions on the left hand side of the park, the most recent being Scorpion. As the park's tenth anniversary neared, Mars Incorperated knew that it was high time to add something new to the western-themed Dodge City area....After about a year of hype and anticipation about "the largest attraction to date at M&Ms Land".... Rustler, a large Arrow Dynamics suspended swinging coaster opened on May 5th, 1989....Rustler was the sixth Arrow suspended roller coaster to be built and at the time, was the tallest and fastest Arrow suspended coaster ever built, with a maximum height of 140 feet tall and a top speed of 57mph. Unlike Iron Dragon at Cedar Point, Rustler is a fast-paced Arrow suspended coaster, filled with high speed turns and drops and several occasions where the cars make large swings. The focal point of Rustler was after the second, 140 foot tall lift hill where the train turns and suddenly plunges down a steep, 100 foot drop reaching its top speed of nearly 60mph! Afterwards, the train suddenly goes straight into an overbanked turn, a highly unusual element on a suspended coaster before turning back to the station. RUSTLER STATS Type: Steel Suspended Coaster Height: 140 feet Length: 4,322 feet Top Speed: 57 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 100 feet Ride Time: 2:40 Inversions: 0 Height Requirement: 48 inches tall From the moment it opened, Rustler almost instantly became a fan favorite among coaster enthusiasts with its very intense layout. All throughout the 1989 season, full queues were not an uncommon sight to see on Rustler!

1987 After the park expansion to the left of the entrance was deemed a formidable success, Mars knew that it was time to take things to the next level with a park expansion to the right...Over the next few years, several rides and the park's fourth roller coaster were put into place.... In 1985, the first of the new attractions was built, a long-overdue classic ferris wheel named Candy Wheel. This gentle ride gave great views of the entire park! 1986 brought another thrill ride to M&M's Land, a Huss Enterprise named....well, Enterprise! This ride definitely appealed to the thrill-seekers of the park with it's high amount of G-forces. 1987 brought the biggest of the new attractions, the park's fourth roller coaster, Scorpion. Scorpion is a rather interesting specimen. On the outside, the track looks similar to an Arrow Dynamics or a Vekoma roller coaster, but Scorpion was really designed by a Japanese roller coaster company named Meisho. At the time, Scorpion was considered to be a rather cutting-edge coaster featuring several elements that were very unique at the time... For example, Scorpion was the first roller coaster to ever feature a "Dive Loop", a rather commonplace coaster element today. Also, Scorpion was the first roller coaster that wasn't a Togo Ultra Twister to feature heartline rolls, another element that's commonplace today. Overall, Scorpion was considered by many to be one of the first "modern" looping roller coaster with it's unique elements and it soon became one of the most popular attractions in the park SCORPION STATS Type: Steel Twisting/Looping Coaster Height: 106 feet tall Length: 1,978 feet long Top Speed: 44 miles per hour Tallest Drop: 68 feet Ride Time: 1:19 Inversions: 4 (Loop, Dive Loop, Double Heartline Roll) Height Requirement: 54 inches tall M&Ms Land had grown from a small tourist attraction with rides in the middle of the Nevada desert to a full-blown theme park in a span of only seven years...and it has no signs of stopping growth any time soon!