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But...this doesn't neuter the ride at all. The on-ride experience is exactly the same, second for second. It has been neutered in terms of capacity (along with KK) and you don't get the added effect of a coaster train passing you (like you do on LL:DoD.) I do know that LL:DoD sways more than any other drop tower I've experienced even without S:EFK launching - does Z:DoD sway?

I don't live in NJ (I'm Ohioan.) But they seem even more controlling on amusement parks than CA. I'm sure there's some way a rider on the outside edge of SEFK could toss items at LL riders, but CA didn't force timing like this. I'm pretty sure that if you offered to pay the insurance premium differential, Six Flags would change the ride. Out of curiosity, is Six Flags self-insured? I know Cedar Fair is, but I don't know about SF.

I don't live in NJ (I'm Ohioan.) But they seem even more controlling on amusement parks than CA. I'm sure there's some way a rider on the outside edge of SEFK could toss items at LL riders, but CA didn't force timing like this.

So Zumanjaro has been neutered from the start... Come on, what are the chances that somebody will be hit by an article while climbing the tower? I understand the roofs, but do they REALLY have to stop Ka whenever Zumanjaro goes? You have the lifting device above the gondolas, and I doubt that somebody will drop an article on the face of a rider in the 5 seconds that the ride drops without the lifter overhead. Wasn't the whole reason Intamin came up with the vest restraints on their rocket coasters due to problems at GAdv as well? Storm runner had them before KK. If this is true at all, I can't help but wonder what's wrong with NJs government. This is a state where you can't pump your own gas!

A Disk'O doesn't do it. The coaster boys don't go there when it's just a bunch of flats. Since CP Is my HOME park, I do go to it often. I think you're forgetting Cedar Point DOES indeed have a family market. Hence why there are three children areas, multiple family attractions around the park, and CP offers a variety of family packages. If coasters were the only thing that brought guests in ever, every park would be like Magic Mountain. Why would a park waste money with family rides if there was no market for it? Unfortunately, I must point out that SFMM does attract kids that are more into thrill rides. They have Ninja, 42" restriction on a fairly awesome ride for kids of that size. Gold Rusher should be lower than 48", but unfortunately SFMM has made the restriction higher than any other SF mine train (I don't know why - California, maybe?) Finally, Revolution could have a 42" height restriction like every other SF Schwarzkopf if the damn OTSRs were removed! Also, SFMM has more kiddie/family coasters. Other Six Flags parks have even more rides with low height restrictions. Cedar Point should make several of their rides more family-friendly. Blue Streak doesn't need a 48" height restriction. CCMR could do away with their restriction if the restraints were modified. Thunder Canyon probably doesn't need a 46" restriction. Iron Dragon has run for years as a 46" ride (except its first year, when I believe it was 48") before being upped to 48"... while its more intense Six Flags cousin has a 42" height restriction.

To be honest, the whole idea about a "classic" side and a more intense Iron Horse side of Colossus doesn't make much sense. Not only would it look strange, the Iron Horse side would be much more popular since the target audience of SFMM cares more about intensity than nostalgia. I agree 100% that a 'classic' side and a 'new' side sounds dumb, but I wouldn't say that the SFMM crowd likes intensity. I mean, even here on TPR people are total babies when it comes to GL. Well, Iron Horse Colossus is not going to be a torture device like Green Lantern and I think it's pretty obvious that the Magic Mountain clientele wants fast, intense, loopty-loop coasters. If they really want intensity, then GL shouldn't have been neutered. Babies? The ride would be smoother if it rotated into the points of sudden force rather than continuously stayed upright due to balancing...

To be honest, the whole idea about a "classic" side and a more intense Iron Horse side of Colossus doesn't make much sense. Not only would it look strange, the Iron Horse side would be much more popular since the target audience of SFMM cares more about intensity than nostalgia. ' Yeah, YOLO-SWAG-NIKI MINAJ!

I mean, it is quite a bit different than Afterburn. I even needed a sec to register why this was stupid.

Actually, what if the "one of each" supporters made a petition to keep one side? Compromise, everybody's happy.

What if there was -1g all the way down? It wouldn't be harmful - it would be the same load as hanging upside down for 5 seconds.

Nah. I'm guessing the problems were related and the ride has been completely fixed... if it is torn down, I'll never hear the end of it from my "semi-enthusiast" friend - FoF is his favorite ride at KI.

Yeah, and for the first half of Haunt, the floor will turn upside down and the dynamite will stop while it does so, but the second half will remove that feature (I heard the loop was smoother while it was there.)

Plot twist - It's a haunt built below Banshee on the old SOB ground. No actors, though. It's just a memorial haunt to SOB and you walk in a circle twenty times. Walk in a circle twenty times while dynamite goes off below the floor repeatedly and the floor is rotating at about 80mph. This would be a true SoB memorial haunt. (I can't confirm this, considering I don't remember SoB that well.)

First we had Centurion for that (which has since been canceled.) Now we have Fury 325. I can't imagine what else could be "Fury 325" besides a giga. Except if another CF park is getting a giga for 2016 or so.

This accident was due to an enthusiast during an event attempting to join the "one click club." An open buzz bar would have resulted in the same incident. If Raven had belts, I think what happened is she also unbuckled her belt. While dangerous, one-click rides cant turn deadly without seatbelt failure (assuming the belt is tight.) Didn't the Stark Raven Mad accident turn Holiday World into a very strict park, including forbidding riding with items in zipped cargo pockets? Anyways, that is a really sad event. It is sad for somebody to die on a ride, whether or not they are breaking the rules. On another note, some PTC lapbars lock at different points. On KI's woodies, I felt that "one-click rides" couldn't possibly be that dangerous.

Why hasn't anybody engineered a newer buzz bar? Actually, didn't PTC show some off at an IAAPA recently? By the way, the "standardizing" arguement is the same arguement used to justify upping Iron Dragon's height restriction. The "rushing complaints" arguement was the same arguement used to butcher ID's capacity by removing the third train. I was going to say, how do parks like Knoebels take care of their woodies? I know they have less coasters to take care of, but how can a little park keep up buzz bars while the giants immediately switch to ratchet bars? Not all giants, actually - Six "NEUTER IT" Flags keeps many of their buzz bars!

Why was Blue Streak neutered? Was there really THAT many morons standing up to justify completely destroying the trains?

Intamin. S&S towers (at least CP's Power Tower) have the potential to have airtime which is less intense than it should be, and said airtime usually is short-lived. The freefall on Intamin towers lasts the whole way down. S&S has the edge in restraints for larger people - I can barely fit on Kings Island's drop tower. That said, the Lex Luther style restraints are better on larger people, but still are tighter at the lap than the S&S variety.

If you think Parrot coaster is rough, you are not ready for Baco! Parrot Coaster's experience varies a lot from train to train. There are three trains with different LED colors: red, green and blue. The train with red lights is GateKeeper rough but the train with green lights is Boomerang in bad shape during the boomerang element rough. Imagine going over the boomerang element on a bad Boomerang with the old Arrow train for two minutes. Holy hyperbole... I'm not exaggerating at all. This is my personal opinion. I think Wing Coasters are either too rough (Parrot Coaster), too boring (X-Flight) or too rough+boring (Gatekeeper). GK is still rough in some spots - sometimes more than last year, it seems - but seems to be extremely smooth up front.

Grey and orange would look good with the TRACK as a bright orange and the supports as a grey. Think Bat at KI.

Wing Coasters are not a curse on humanity.

To Iron Horse a coaster I guess you need wood to reprofile and add support to the ride.

Question - What is your favorite animal at SFDK? I like the walruses. Specifically Sivuqaq (siv-OO-kak), the male with mid-sized tusks. He loves to follow kids back and forth, and he'll clap his flippers. It's damn adorable. I think he has as much fun watching us as we do watching him. By the way, the other walruses are the long-tusked female Uquq (UK-uk, rhymes with "hook") and the tuskless female Siku (SEE-koo.) Also, does anybody have any info about Qiluk (I think that's KEE-luk, rhymes with "hook"), the walrus that died a few years ago? From what I've seen, she was a female who had mid-sized tusks like Sivuqaq. Yet another "P.S." - If you love the SFDK walruses, the movie "Fifty First Dates" stars Sivuqaq as "Jocko" and the other females (including Qiluk, who was alive at the time) with cameos as Candice, Bernice, and Rose.

Iron Streak?

Just thought of that- Could this also be a haunt name?