DirkFunk

Universal Studios and Fun Spot Kissimmee next month. Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Michigan's Adventure at various points in the summer. I've got plenty of ideas - I always do - but until the trips are booked, they're just that. I got to 1000 coasters last year, and almost everything left around me (like as in hundreds of miles in any direction) are kiddie coasters and I'm not that motivated to kill myself for that stuff right now.

It'll be a few more events, actual details on the boat ride they had just greenlighted (which apparently has next to no budget) and Forbidden Frontier Adventurewhatever being relegated to a tombstone for Halloweekends.

The B&M answers are just people trying too hard. Trailblazer, Bandit @ Movie World Germany, Coaster Express, PGA Grizzly, a litany of japanese jet coasters, I mean there's a ton of real answers to this that aren't rides where the other complaint is that there's too much vibration from all the positive Gs.

More like an hour and a half if there's no traffic, which won't happen. Probably 2.

So if I were you, I would concentrate on those nuts and bolts and not fun things to learn about as much as you do what coasters sound good. You're going to need to think about, for example, methods for covering up the windows so you don't get ticketed or acosted by police while in the vehicle if parked overnight as much as you are about QBots. If you just want credits, you can stay in LA/Orange County and go hard at the Castles, Pacific Parks, Adventure Citys, etc. It'll save you time in the car and potentially money. Nothing there is a top ten attraction, and if that's the specific experience you desire, you won't find it.

I'm not just saying this to be negative, I'm being very honest: if you are serious about living in a car, this is not the forum you should be reading for tips. Places like vandwellerforum.com are where you need to be looking. This lifestyle is more akin to homelessness and will need to be approached as such with people who have tips about how to live out of a vehicle safely. This is not Europe, and at this point the rural US' crime rates aren't much different than that of urban areas. If you're planning to cut corners by flying Spirit from Dallas to points north, you may end up blowing that money anyhow if/when they cancel your flight. just a warning. Be smart and look at all your options w/re: to rental vehicles.

So here's the thing: 95% of the time when people ask for advice, what they want is mostly reinforcement that they have a good idea with the added bonus of information valuable to them and their idea. It's not just that heat is somehow unique to America that we are telling you this is a bad idea, for example. You being a single female trying to sleep in your car in either parking lots or truck stops is simply unwise for your own personal safety in a nation with 300,000,000 firearms. Like, why not just hitchhike while you're at it and save on the car rental? At least buy yourself a tent and air mattress and find camp sites along the way at minimum. It isn't as if you're backpacking if you have a car. You could alternatively do a one way rental from Dallas to Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Detroit/Chicago and go from Texas through to Silver Dollar City and then up to the Cedar Fair parks in Ohio and/or Six Flags Great America and St. Louis before flying home. It would give you a great cross section of the central United States and there's a ton of routings you could do.

I looked a little harder and this dude got brought to court by Pillsbury because he tried to copyright "Dough-Boy" for casino games he was designing. He's a wannabe patent troll.

This place looks like unwashed ass. Let me know when they actually bother to finish.

Does anyone even know what rides will be operating opening day? There's precious little info, which suggests to me that there's nothing inside there working.

You know, I'm gonna guess that Cedar Fair is probably not too broken up over "we could only fit 65-70,000 people in our park" to want to change anything substantially.

Unless you rode the Beast the first few weeks it was open, you did not get a trimless ride. There were always skid brake trims that didn't turn off which were replaced with magnetic brakes that do not turn off a few years back. Just sayin'. I don't even think it was first few weeks: IIRC there was video from before Day 1 and it had it then too. But you still see people claim that they rode it without one to this day (like in this thread). People tell all sorts of stories and it's always easier when they happened a long time ago. I've heard stories about ops riding Montana Rusa at Chapultepec standing on the side boards with seat belts strapped around their wrists. I heard about people getting nosebleeds from riding Weiner Looping, Mindbender, and Thriller, as well as that only Thriller's accordions came down on riders hard when it moved to Texas (ie when people started to ride it en masse) but the other Schwarzkops were all perfect (LOL). Colossus at Heide Park was the # wood coaster in the world until everyone rode it. Same with Tonnere De Zeus. Aska (which was literally a duplicate of Viper at Great America) was supposedly a top 3 coasters. There's always always always nonsense.

https://www.sesameworkshop.org/press-room/press-releases/seaworld-entertainment-and-sesame-workshop-announce-expanded-partnership Sea World had to have a new Sesame Place theme park by mid-2021 so they picked the classically underperforming and landlocked water park in San Diego that probably should have been shuttered years ago. Makes sense on a lot of levels. I think they'll have some serious challenges though because that puts them in direct competition with Legoland for the same patrons in the same area. Still their best overall option vs. a ground up mini theme park in Williamsburg in part of the current parking lot (which plans for leaked on a year or so ago) given how other attempts at that like Ferrari Land went.

There were pictures of this thing on Twitter (and probably from Reddit) a few days ago. The seats looked like they were positioned well above the track and looked like they had the ability to rotate.

There's no shortage of tourists to the region these days and it seems to expand neverendingly (Helen, GA is now Gatlinburg 2.0). But you have to be willing to invest.

Glad I went on Wiener Looping before it got to Mexico since it's probably a death trap. I'm also 100% OK with the operator losing their license to run this park - if a car breaks apart and kills people due to bad maintenance (which is exactly the situation) then I'm fine with criminal investigations.

The Miler at Fun Spot Atlanta isn't rough at all. I also just rode it about a week and a half ago. What is rough is how it and the rest of the park looks. Woof. Place is a dump.

Cedar Fair's made some strides here hiring executive chefs at parks and bringing in brands like Melt and Chickie and Pete's, as well as the food truck thing. I can't think of any unique foods at Six Flags parks that are still there (I suppose they have Pink Thing flavored ice cream at Texas), but can think of Cheese on a Stick, Blue ice Cream, or Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches. I don't really want to see them then go backwards then and remove those types of things from the park. Taking Melt out of Cedar Point now would be criminal.

Six Flags is the larger company in terms of market value.

This is exactly how I feel. I hate the idea of a park like Knott's with great theming and an incredible haunt event being run by Six Flags where both of those things would go to sh*t quickly but I also hate the idea of a park like Great Adventure being run like a Cedar Fair park, potentially opening in May like Dorney and losing everything that's cool about their Holiday event if they actually adopted the Cedar Fair style of management (which is probably less likely to be fair). Both of those things suck. I agree that I feel better about Six Flags now than I have in years but I appreciate different things about each company. Imagine you get the worst of both. Six Flags drags the Cedar Fair Halloween events to hell and all the franchised restaurants are closed for mediocre inhouse replacements while seat belts are installed on everything and coasters are closed for Winterfest. I might just do 3-4 trips a year to Knoebels, Orlando, and overseas where they didn't ruin everything yet.

Or supplier.

I honestly like Six Flags more now than ever. I can see how this makes sense by allowing the Six Flags power vacuum to clear out with Zimmerman coming in as the combined CEO in the deal. But Six Flags is the bigger company and the one making the acquisition. I don't know how their managers would deal with Cedar Fair style management. I don't know who would win the battle of liability questions between Six Flags and Cedar Fair. I don't know if Cedar Fair would convince the chain to go upmarket in terms of maintenance or if it would take everything back down below even Kinzel levels of "Just buy trashcans." Most of all, I want parks that look and feel different.

Let me take a big swig of coffee. What news could there be today? https://nationalpost.com/pmn/technology-pmn/six-flags-in-bid-to-acquire-cedar-fair-sources

Had a limited amount of time but got in two rides on Cyclone and one on Justice League (stuff that opened since I was last there of interest to me). Really impressed with Wicked Cyclone. I know, "it's short" - but that layout is really excellent. Nonstop action/good pacing and a lot of good visual elements with the mix of inversions and such.

Cedar Fair has the money to build something there, and a chain like Six Flags would probably be more willing to simply rehab like they did to Viper at this point. Having said that, I hope the long term solution isn't Grave Digger rides.