Midgetman82

Thanks for the response. Secondly, if I'm forced to go any Saturday of the summeer, which would reasonably have the least amount of crowds of any Saturday... or basically, which parts of what months should I look at the most?

[twitter] [/twitter]My dad's been toying with the idea of taking his RV out here sometime soon. Might push him to make it happen this year. So I gotta ask, what's the locker rule for this ride. I'm guessing no in-station cubbies so you need to rent one before getting in line?

If memory serves me, you also have to be about 54" tall to ride the Himalayas. Rock n Roller's for the younger audience.

I'd like to think of this ride as a "placeholder" for other bigger projects they'll be having at some point. What this looks like it fulfills is being a modern people-eater attraction with a similar ride system that's seen at their other park, Islands of Adventure, that almost anyone can enjoy (though that 40"-48" supervised height requirement is a little funky).

High potential for a forest themed haunt attraction with the Dinosaurs Alive area. Of course, there's also still the potential for that 300+ft Intamin/RMC/B&M we've all been waiting for.

Park wasn't as crowded Saturday as it sounded like Friday was. Of course that was because of the downpour throughout most of the day and threat of storms scaring everyone away, but most of the evening was pretty dry. Morning had of (near-to) in station waits, and the afternoon/evening had me waiting about 15 or less minutes per ride. I was pretty surprised to see every ride, even the tower rides, running in the rain. Also, the new BBQ place is great! The decoration inside that nods to past attractions is a really nice touch. The pulled pork and collared greens I had were very good, and the mac n cheese was alright.

Easily my favorite roller coaster enthusiast event, ever! I love returning to it every year, though sadly this might be the year I have to skip due to other interfering travel plans. I'm sure you guys will have a blast! Just remember to take breaks in between re-rides.

After enough "suggestions", they had them off for last year's Holiwood Nights ERT sessions.

Beta 5 had released Monday, now ready to download/update. RMC Monorail coaster, night mode you can toggle on and off, new lights thrown into the game as well as every flat ride getting light packages thrown onto them, and many other smaller details listed in the changelog. One thing I also wanted to point out was the small, but effective modding community through steam. There's a number of mods the community had made, and I recently stumbled upon a list compiled by the devs of their top mod picks for the game: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1218299577 A few I found really useful were the custom catwalks for coasters, the picnic pack with picnic benches guests can sit on, the RoadWorks pack which lets you design road signage and pavement markings (which goes well with the cars pack). Image/mod source One mod I found especially unique was a track editor, letting you break free of the rigid track editor and go completely freeform!

Volcano Bay, and lots of other very modern slides world wide check your weight before you go on (I see it particularly on modern ProSlide slides). If you seem over/underweight, you might be checked for certain trapdoor slides, including Aqualoops. Hydromagnetic ProSlide water coasters also need to weight your group for a red light/green light so your raft isn't overweight. This incident and the trials were brought up at my workplace today with a co-worker asking about traveling with their kids to water parks within driving distance. When a specific park's water coaster was brought up, they voiced their concerns about Verruckt's incident. I had to tell them they shouldn't need compare other area's water park slides to this one because those others were built by companies who had designed their rides much more thoroughly to safely enjoy, and that it's highly unlikely they'd face a similar problem with those other parks. Regardless of whether it may have eased their worries or not, it still saddens me that this whole thing is now likely going to affect people's travel thoughts or plans to any other water parks.

Oh, absolutely!! And thanks folks for telling me ships that do have them. That AIDA one looks pretty sweet, even if it's a bit slim.

I do seriously hope ships take the lazy river concept to reality someday, though. Even if it's small-ish and elevated almost similar to the Aquaduck on the Disney ships. I guess the problem with that is balancing the ship with the water in the river. The pool are relatively easy to consider since they're usually on the center top of the ship. Plus, nobody would want to get out of it if it was available. [/Wishful Thinking]

The coaster lasts 2 minutes 45 seconds, the ride dispatches in less time than that. And similar to what ZeroGravity55 said, they're usually not even ready to dispatch the next train until the returning train is beyond the halfway point and already coming back.

I believe they use the queue as a haunt during their halloween season (and it was apparently used as an overflow queue for Mystic Timbers when it first opened).

I wouldn't think about it too hard. It was posted some pages ago by Paula that they found they had better throughput with two trains instead of three. By the time one train finally dispatches out of the station, the other one is already going over the curve above the lift hill. Gotta factor in people unloading and grabbing their bags, new people loading and putting their bags away, fitting the seat belts, checking restraints, finding that one kid who didn't buckle his belt properly, and waiting for the midcourse to clear. ... but again, I wouldn't think about it too hard. The dispatch times are still pretty decent for the coaster.

And I can't quite think of any other water park in the US with those torrent rivers except the ones at the Schlitterbahn parks. And no, I'm not counting concrete water slides.

A Dolly Parton/Dollywood themed Royal Caribbean Cruise ship... complete with southern hospitality meals... Are they asking for the ship to tip? In all seriousness, I love this! And yay for finally bringing a lazy river onboard a ship!!!

^My exact reaction... what?! I mean, it almost sounded like he fled arrest, but the actual article says he's coming back after learning about it while overseas... at least, I hope that's really the case and his lawyer isn't just trying to protect him from jailtime.

I thought this was hilarious. https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/teen-given-free-cruise-in-exchange-for-snapchat-account

I quite like Invertigo. Quirky, surprisingly intense ride. But I wouldn't go as far as to call it my favorite (that goes to Diamondback, then Banshee, then Mystic Timbers, then FoF). It's nothing compared to other insanely rough steelies I've been on, even Vortex is a bit more brutal than it imo.

I agree, and I was actually very surprised to hear from multiple credible people on this forum speak up (this goes especially to AllenA07). I remember reading that Grantland article some years ago. It's actually incredibly insightful into the history of water parks in the U.S. as well as Jeff's background info. Very well written, despite recent events and light being shed into some very dark areas. This whole case unwrapping itself is such a train wreck to see, regardless of the final outcome.

Well that was unexpected. And it's cool they're letting KK season passholders visit for free once!

Zombies and tanks and broken elevators, oh my! Studios Pack $11 DLC is out, and looks like Frontier really outdid themselves on this pack! They don't have any vids out on Hotels yet, but this was pulled from the team's livestream where they showed off how it works. The hotel addition comes free to everybody who has the game:

The lights in the game will finally be working! Lights will cut on automatically when it rains, and there will be a new night mode! If you create mods for the game (the devs very-much support adding custom elements into the game) then the new version of the Asset Editor should work with lights. "Did you ever feel like your park looks a bit… boring when it rains? After this update that will no longer be the case, because all the lights actually work now." "To fully capture the atmosphere of a theme park in the dark we’re updating all flat rides with hundreds of tiny lights." "And if you like it really dark you can turn on the new night mode whenever you want!" ^The art stream in question is on Wednesdays. http://themeparkitect.tumblr.com/post/172276555907/devlog-update-187-visuals-update-33

The confidence of this is kind of low for me on this considering one of the guys who designed this thing literally had no engineering degree let alone a GED. Plus to make things even better, he's a co-owner of the entire company (Jeff Henry). I just don't know where to begin with this. Everything from the design planning, construction, maintenance, and management of the incident were a complete failure and makes make not want to trust the company as a whole, all together. Watching the wagons get circled as people call Jeff Henry (possibly one of, if not the most experienced water slide designer ever) "inexperienced" when they've been riding his creations for a couple decades is almost too hilarious to me. Everyone wants to believe that this is something other than what it is, which is a industry mainstay and legend being totally exposed. Sometimes parks take chances with us, the guest. Even The Walt Disney Corporation did it in my lifetime, which is how some guy wound up impaled on Big Thunder Mountain. I'm only jumping in here to sort of agree with DirkFunk in that Jeff was a pioneer of water ride attractions (to an extent). We would not have the modern uphill master blaster water slides, FlowRider surf simulators, or those really cool endless lazy/rapid rivers if it wasn't for his "inexperience." Having said that, from what I read so far in the indictment, everything that was Verruckt was when the "pioneering" was taken too far. I'm not defending the man at all for treating such a large and lethal project so shoddy, and inevitably resulting in such a tragic incident.