Ed Farmer

I have only been on 3 B&M hypers, but I would say Diamondback has pretty good airtime. Nitro has mediocre airtime and Raging Bull barely has any. Cedar Point's Blue Streak has more airtime than those coasters combined. In most cases, the lack up Intamin-esque airtime during the course of a B&M Hyper layout is more than made up for with the first drop (so as long as you sit in the last row). I think they're far and away the best on a steel coaster type. If, for instance, Six Flags decided to recycle all the steel used on Raging Bull's course after the first drop (maybe they could use the money to build the second half of Goliath that they forgot to add) and had it take a 180 degree turn back to the station right after the tunnel, I'd still wait in line for it.

thank you forever

Just because Green Lantern... a) Was relocated from another park and not built from scratch on special order for Great Adventure* b) May be a coaster type that you're not fond of* ...does not change the fact that it is a giant roller coaster (the majority of the customer base likes roller coasters) that was added 4 years ago. *I assume one or both of these are the reason you failed to mention it. Prior to it's installation in New Jersey, Chang was being relocated to SFGAm, where the park had already secured the necessary permits and zoning requirements to build it. Plans changed, Chang went to GAdv, and GAm got more garbage for their waterpark instead. I'm still a bit chapped about how that ended up, especially because SFGAm axed their B&M Standup shortly after this transpired.

Didn't realize that Elitch Gardens wasn't the only US park left with an operating Fire Escape: The Ride. I visited (Elitch's) earlier in the month, and my reaction to their Fire Escape was much the same as yours to the one at Frontier City. This one looks slightly more picturesque.

Deja Vu/GIB. Mr. Freeze (before it was reversed) & Great Adventure's Chiller prior to the ridiculous track modifications are my runner-ups. Really wish I could have gotten a lap or two on Moonsault Scramble.

The removal of Thunder Road pissed a lot more people off than just enthusiasts. Even though the ride never had a line, if you read the park's Facebook page, you can see tons and tons of people don't care for the upcoming water park and would rather have Thunder Road. . Not saying that it did or didn't piss some people off (it probably did), just pointing out that often times, people aren't exactly reasonable when it comes to posting in comment sections.

You can never go wrong with building a Batman The Ride, even if your park already has one. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this mindset.

I probably wouldn't last too long on that thing. Here in Chicago, my heart starts beating a little faster when a Metra train I'm riding in encounters a standing freight train on the adjacent track that I wasn't expecting.

They will Rocky Mountain It.

I could see something like this happening at a Disney or Universal park, maybe Busch, too. Cedar Fair? Hope it's just a gimmicky way to announce their slightly taller and longer version of Griffon.

Yeah this happens to me too sometimes when I completely relax my neck muscles and allow the slightest change in direction to toss my head around accordingly.

World's first Chance Giant Toboggan.

Built by S&S based on a Premier design/concept- can't go wrong with that. More often than not, these compact one/two car train eurofighter-esque rides look great, but underwhelm. Verily. I get the feeling this one will break that cycle. Great addition to a seaside park- looking forward to giving it a spin.

Yeah, I remember really scratching my head when I learned Griffon would only have one load station (much the same way I question BGW for not putting a duel load + transfer on Tempesto... but oh well). The first few years of Griffon, I'm not even sure why they bothered running three trains. With three trains, they have more staffing on the platform, yet they were ALWAYS fully stacked the first few seasons. I think now they have things figured out better. My last visit, they were only running two trains, which means fewer platform workers, yet they were running so efficiently that a train was leaving the station before the train behind it even hit the final brake run (which is pretty impressive for a ride as short as Griffon, especially one with such a tricky loading process compared to older B&Ms). Might Sheikra's conversion to Floorless trains in 2007 be the reason it loads differently than Griffon? It already had the dual loading station (as seen on Oblivion/G5) in place when it opened originally with the Sitdown train in 2005, so the Floorless conversion & station hardware that came with it was more of a retrofit onto the existing station design, whereas Griffon came a few years later and was intended to be a Floorless design to begin with. I think the Sheikra clone in China (built originally as Floorless) might have a single load station like Griffon. Could be wrong, not sure. This is all just bored-at-work speculation by me; I'm sure if Cedar Point wanted to build a quad-loading station on this presumed Dive Machine, they would.

In fact, an Invertigo sounds like an even better idea than a carnival loop!

Maybe place it at the bottom of the first drop to increase super-effectiveness and get rid of maintenance altogether.

Karma is probably the reason they're not around anymore. Building Raven, Legend, Boulder Dash, Boss (I'm in the minority on Boss) will earn you a whole hell of a lot of goodwill, but not nearly enough to offset the negative karma of building Hurricane Category 5 at Myrtle Beach Pavilion.

1) Batman The Ride(s) 2) Montu 3) Great Bear 4) Raptor 5) DD Ice ---------------- Alpengeist DD Fire Talon Patriot Great Bear was the most recent new-to-me Invert, over the 4th of July weekend. It easily exceeded what I thought it was going to be (a meandering fluff ride through a scenic setting). The helix off the lift packed a punch- it felt more like a slightly smaller first drop than a helix, and from about the Immelman on, it just kicks your ass (in a good, old-school B&M kind of way). I think the great setting in Comet Hollow pushes it just past Raptor for me.

Once you get past all the enthusiast generated noise about Boomerangs and SLCs, which I would imagine just about all parks do, I don't see why one wouldn't. I doubt a relatively straightforward sit-down design would come with the issues that affected their GIBs or (early on) their Dutchman.

So we'll finally hear the end of it? I see what you did there. Can't wait to find out what my new closest RMC will be like. It's a bit strange to see a newer woodie get the treatment. I never thought it was one of the worst, though I've heard stories about its poor aging, and it's definitely a lower-tier GCI. Now what are they going to name it? Roar of Goliath Goliath Roary McIlroy's Big Spin Bourban Street Fireball Roarin' Over NoCal Roaring Thunder Justice League: Roar

I've always wanted to see Vekoma build a non-looping 200+ ft. design. I'd be much more excited to see what they could come up with than for some of the extra-tall Eurofighter-esque coasters beginning to pop up. A tall Eurofighter is still a Eurofighter.

Awesome how the gulls flying near Great White are illuminated by it.

That would be excellent, and even though a B&M remake of Paddlewheel Excursions has a better chance of happening, I will be pulling for the upset.

It will. Valrvn is too much of a Busch Gardens Williamsburg name. It will likely be Valthndrhwk.

You can probably get as many barrel rolls as you want if you talk to Intamin.