Synshine
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Great Bear yesterday on the last day (last hour as well!) of Hershey's regular season. It was rolling rather fierce after sundown, especially in the back. My fiancé and I managed 4 rides (plus a trip on Coal Cracker) in the 50 minutes last night.
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A Miler "Kersplash Water Coaster"? I've never even heard of this model.^It's the water coaster at the Puyallup Fair in Washington. Only one made.
What was the ride like?
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I loved the glow-in-the-dark trains on Drachenfire.
Of course it beat ya likea n Arrow, but to see it go by at night was awesome. Most of the ride area was dark as well from what I remember.
I don't know why Arrow never used those on any other coasters.
Sit-down loopers sort of lost their thunder not long after Drachen Fire's debut with inverted coasters arriving a year afterward. Consequently Arrow only managed to make a couple more of those coasters with those cars.
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Is it wrong that the hand dryer was one of the most fascinating things there?Well the Dyson Airblade IS the best hand dryer ever.
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^There's nothing to say they couldn't reuse the BBW theme..
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While the wait on Fahrenheit is crippled by it's capacity and popularity, operations at Storm Runner always feel damn slow. The only time I had a sub 15 wait all summer was in upper 90's temperatures.
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RECC = Reese's Extreme Cup Challenge - Goofy name for a rather goofy interactive dark ride.
It suffers a bit in the public eye because it's non-descriptive name, unobtrusive show building (on a strange part of the midway) and a lack of signage on the midway to attract guests to it. It's like PKD's Grizzly used to be, except it has no following or folklore that got people to seek it out. While it's not bad as shoot-em-up dark ride, it's not that great, either. I've always gotten off feeling as if I was dragged through some journey through extreme "marketing".
They probably would have been a lot better off if they had just opted for the typical haunted house motif. Otherwise, if they should go to better lengths to theming the exterior of the show building if they plan on attracting the crowd they probably want for the ride. (Also, don't overlook the idea of an indoor climate controlled queue for the place.) It's hard to believe the well-themed Boardwalk is in the same park.
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How do you get a ballot for the GTA? I'm as guilty as the rest of us of bashing the GTA, but I've never bothered to try to get a ballot.
Be an Amusement Today subscriber?
While I'm bummed about Intimidator 305, I only really question one thing- how is Aska at Nara Dreamland, which closed in 2006, still ranking as the 34th best wooden roller coaster?It's just THAT good.
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I don't remember it being there last week (Mon)..but my memory is a wee bit fuzzy.
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^^Maybe it'll be like spaghetti bowl coasters and it'll just be a little straight piece of track, not necessarily brakes?
But they are meant for mid-course brakes on the Premier spaghetti bowls; the FoF twins have them for additional blocks with the intention of running 4(or 5?) trains.
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^Somebody needs to do that asap.
[if only because there is a glut of places where that ride could find a great home.]
I thought many places handled a lot on-ride photos digitally (like a CD-ROM, downloads to your phone or some other means of digital access.) Does he mean to actually get rid of the physical souvenir portraits and other junk?
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So... Intamin has given up on lab bars completely?
Well it's launching backwards, right? Would you like a gut punch with that, or would you rather have a shoulder strap to spread out the force?
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I really did like GL (or I should say SFWOA), but man, what a smart thing to do for CF to wipe out any potential competition.
--Robb
Rather brutal actually. Were they really that afraid of serious competition?
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After looking at the spot twice in two weeks, I seriously doubt the station is going to be exactly where the Tilt-a-Whirl stands. There just isn't enough room there to do that, and Comet Hollow couldn't stand to have more supports for track leading to and from that spot invading the midway.
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I've never gotten sick on any coaster, but Europe in the Air at BGW pushed me really close. Strange how the tamest rides can do that...
That's actually not so crazy, simulators can easily trigger motion sickness if the rides movement and the video are out of sync.
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Oh no! Hersheypark has one of those horrifying Tornado slides, too!
Didn't the monorail used to take guests to a bonafide factory tour?
It did, but Chocolate World ended that and now there's just an unused 2nd station in the parking lot.
There is also a unused ramp at the park station to ground level behind the old arena. Does the monorail date back to before they enclosed the park?
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That's disappointing since their competition has brought their "A"-game when it came to new attractions the last couple of years.
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It may not be so much with litigation directly, but probably more in having to do with insuring a ride ( and what potential litigation may have on a parks policy.)
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So what are you saying...that there are more markers like this?
It's probably too early to worry about it.
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I was just at Ocean City on Tuesday and Tidal Wave is back open, and running fairly well for a boomerang.
More surprising considering it is one of the oldest Boomerangs. It rides better than Sidewinder, and the Sea Serpent (atleast the last time I rode that); it's restraints are well-padded and it doesn't lurch to a halt at the end like many seem to do.
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It's weird they would give one to Kings Island AND Cedar Point.
Oh well, I guess I-305 is enough consolation.
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The only thing I can think of is Drachen Fire, having rode it before and after the removal of the first corkscrew.
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Neither park has a dive machine, either.
Lightning Racer x 2- 40 minutes. Great Ride, one of the more smoother woodies I have ever ridden. Green Side seemed to dominate today as I really didn't see red get off to a good start on the hill at all. Still, it was fast, smooth, and the drop was great.
They are well designed and wins generally seem to go back and forth, though I've personally seen Thunder run better in hotter weather, while Lightning seems to dominate in cool or wet weather.
Didn't get a chance to ride Comet, the line was moving at a snail's pace (over an hour wait) and I just got my woodie fix in at Lightning Racer instead.The Comet always seems to load very slowly. Half the problem is dealing with the skid brakes, but loading and unloading is fairly slow paced too.
No Wildcat love?
The Water park seems nice, but it was so packed that the family didn't want to get burned waiting for a 20 second slide. One odd thing I noticed was that there was a line for the wave pool there, first time I've seen that in a park. Maybe on non-crowded days there isn't a line, but I just found it funny that you were forced out of the pool after a specific amount of time.It's not a very big wave pool, so it does fill up on very crowded days. In fairness though there is rarely a line at all for it unless the water park is absolutely packed.
Six Flags Over Texas (SFOT) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Parking lots produce a lot of water run off in even moderate rainfall, and I have a sneaking suspicion they possibly drain storm water their lots right into the creek rather than a storm water management pond. (Or supposing there is a pond, it's far too shallow and it's overflowing too quickly.)