Midgetman82

My mondays continue to be the most piled days. Guh. Well, as long as I get through it, I'll be fine for the rest of the week... hopefully.

I love Acrophobia to death, but King's Islands Drop Tower blew me away on one windy morning (no pun intended ). Gyro Drop, with stand-up floorless a close second. After, a simple giant drop (can't wait to try one above 400+ ft.).

Tetrafusion - Spider Silk

The second and last ones, I love how the tree flows with the clouds! I love those kinds of sunsets.

Well, I guess that explains how we got to our modern-day stand-up coasters.

The bucket seating style on those trains would leave me hesitant about lowering that height restriction to there. Besides, aren't the majority of (if not, every) B&M's at 54"? Raging Bull's lap bar can go down pretty far. I think they should lower it to 48". I'm sure they all can come low, I'm just concerned with how low the kids would sit in the bucket seats. I'm sure they're 54" because the shaping of the seat and restraint wouldn't be suitable/comfortable for them. The bucket seating style on those trains would leave me hesitant about lowering that height restriction to there. Besides, aren't the majority of (if not, every) B&M's at 54"? I'm still super shocked at the first post detailing Solar Flare's requirements. If you're within a 13" gap and less than 220 pounds, then you can ride?! Sounds more like a spelunking adventure, to me. A few B&Ms are lower. Most obviously the Wing Coasters, some of which are 50"52". Wildfire is 52", if I am correct. Ah, I never noticed! I just looked up Gatekeeper's, and it's at 52". (Kinda makes me wonder what Banshee's height restriction will be...)

The bucket seating style on those trains would leave me hesitant about lowering that height restriction to there. Besides, aren't the majority of (if not, every) B&M's at 54"? I'm still super shocked at the first post detailing Solar Flare's requirements. If you're within a 13" gap and less than 220 pounds, then you can ride?! Sounds more like a spelunking adventure, to me.

I have to admit, I don't think I've ever gone back to a coaster as much as I am just to add more detail to it. I'm spending extra time on coaster's I've already published to the internet... is that a wise thing to do?

The first time I rode the coaster (Holiwood Nights 2011), I thought it was excessively rough (enough to put Legend as my favorite from the park). When I attended Holiwood Nights 2012 after they retracked much of the ride, it felt much more bearable and went to being one of my top favorite roller coasters. It definitely has its high and low times, and I'm sure what makes it so intense is how fast it roars through the course versus its varying roughness (bumpiness, jerking, etc.).

I'm also sorry if you don't like the word, but it is the technical term for putting up buildings etc. I get paid to work on erections Sounds like hard work! It's his living, I'm sure he can take it all... I hope to see parts of LR erected soon, as well! *Leaves to go wash his own mouth out with soap.*

I was pretty happy to hear the park would be getting another water slide, but I didn't know they'd be replacing another instead. I haven't been on a KrakenRacer, nor to Wet n' Wild, so I hope the replacement justifies it enough to not cause complaints.

A thread on one coaster?! Hmm. Well, I gotta throw my love out there for Kraken as well. Hard to not want to enjoy this B&M classic whenever I'm at the park.

^I think they're referring to when Alan said he wanted to combine the concept of a Zipper ride with a coaster, and then came up with the 4-D coaster. Nothing "interactive," but it was a start. Of course, the new prototype Robb recently got to ride is MUCH more like a Zipper now!

... when you rethink doing a summer college abroad program so you can attend your home park's grand reopening. Check. Started doing that late last summer.

^That's a tough one. My guess is they'd probably be considered true "African American" (while most others who've been in the states the longest are "black"). Besides, don't they put the two together anyways to avoid confusion? Like on a check box, you'll see: "African American/Black".

Harry Gregson-Williams - "Only The Beginning of the Adventure," then "Building the Crate."

Added to bucketlist: Sit silently in studio as an orchestra records film a score... preferably something done by Harry Gregson-Williams.

^^^ Those people are most definitely photoshopped, and that Humungaslide has some serious airtime coming out of that tunnel! ^^ For a water playground, those are some long slides! ^ Their head scratching sums up my thoughts on it as well. "So how's this gonna work again?!" Still, the park continues to look more amazing.

^Incredible Hulk Coaster has one of their, relatively, smaller loops near the back of the ride. Speaking of which, IHC does take all of it's first 3 inversions quite fast, in my opinion.

I was one of those little kids who weren't prepared for it. My family wanted to try it and dragged me along with them. To this day, I still don't feel 100% comfortable with the aspect of teleportation... but in all honesty, I'd give anything to re-live it. Guilty pleasure: Those Intamin 1st Gen Freefalls. Sure was a weird contraption! Only got to try it at SFOG and SFMM. Chaos that used to be at SFKK. When I wasn't tall enough to ride Chang (54") or T2 (52"), I'd marathon that ride a few times! (48", woo!)

Launched, indoor, inverted, heavily themed, and compact coasters have very special places in my heart. Mix any of these, and you have a winner in my book. Some of my favorites include (but are not limited to): -Spongebob's Rock Bottom Plunge -Wicked Twister -Flight of Fear -Dare Devil Dive -Volcano I love it when a coaster takes you through elements and inversions really quickly (front/back row of Wicked Twister), but I don't want to get beaten up in the process.

Fastest I've ever experienced was probably Kumba's zero-g roll and when the train rocketed through the cobra roll. I think Olympia Looping and Mind Bender at West Edmonton would be up there with the fastest inversions, maybe not just for speed, but for how quickly they complete the loops.

Yeah, sorry to hear you couldn't get the racer you wanted. Still, that hill at the end is definitely something that stands out from the others! Sounds great that everything's back on track! Hope all plans and construction goes smoothly!

^^They still have the top-most section to go on this one. But yep. Also, two of the park's tallest slides (including America's tallest body slide) should occupy this view sometime as well!

Quick run by the park.