MrSum1_55

Honestly, the thing that would dissapoint me the most if they installed a wild mouse is the fact that the park really seems to need a new-high capacity coaster. The last two coasters they have installed usually suffer from slow dispatches, and the fact that they often run single trains on them doesn't exactly help. A wild mouse would not be a high capacity addition. Therefore, if it is a coaster, I really hope it will be a high capacity one. Thankfully, Knott's is rarely crowded. But, rides outside Silver Bullet are rarely run to their highest capacity. I would really like to see a ride that can do better than a spinning coaster with a four car train that dispatches every two and a half minutes.

Yes. There are more being built, and it is very likely there will be more. However, they will not be built on the large and intense scale they used to be, as this type of coaster cannot invert, or go through large airtime hills. Therefore, family ride is the status it has been reduced to. So, I doubt anything like Eagle's Fortress will ever be built. But, I do think that plenty of small to medium sized ones will be built.

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Although, issues with rides like Maverick, I305, and Skyrush have been more comfortability issues, and not so much reliability issues. Manufacturers design based on park request. When a park asks for an intense coaster, and you build an Intense coaster they don't like, that is pretty much the park's fault. So, I have always defended Intamin for I305. Skyrush, on the other hand, I have not always defended them for in all areas. Yes, they did request an Intanse coaster, but the restraints were the main issue. Rides like Cheetah Hunt, which seem to be working just fine, minus a few rip ability issues during opening, prove that Intamin can build rides as they want them. If you went up to Intamin and asked for a floaty, B&M style hyper, I doubt they would reject. On the converse, if you came up to B&M and asked for a hyper with ejector air, I doubt they would reject that request. Parks build rides to be as intense as parks want them. Therefore, IMHO, I don't think Intamin deserves as much blame as others, or the industry may think. Since B&M doesn't make launch coasters, Mack seems to be filling the void in that area.

As much as I hate to revert back to the hyper/giga rumor, that is one of the few types of rides that I can think would use a splashdown as big as that. Or, a dive machine. Really, I actually do not think it will be a family coaster, due to the fact that the last two coaster installments were family coasters. So, my money is on something larger.

I feel like I have to ask: How was the Knight Valley Wood Coaster? Did the trip members think it lived up to the hype?

When you are a single rider, some parks may even let you get away with empty seat nabbing. It is not always allowed, but it can be pulled off no matter how high the crowds are. On rides that lack single rider lines, you can get a seat next to some random person, and you may be allowed to re-ride. Although, it is necessary to be completely sure the seat you are taking is empty, and this almost never works at parks that wait a few seconds to open the air gates. (When they do so, that is probably because this is not allowed) It is not always allowed, but it is always worth a try.

I am surprised this hasn't been talked about more, but, as great as Mack has gotten, their looping coasters have just gotten so "Intamin like", that I would almost call them knockoffs. Now, Mack is now probably one of the better coaster companies out there, and they are light years ahead of any Chinese company, but I still can't help but think that the design just looks too Intamin. In fact, I watched the animation before finding out the stats, and, I completely thought it was an Intamin. After The Storm and this, it seems that Mack is just beginning to clone Intamin's style. With the S-curves, the Pretzel (Norwegian) loop, and even the S-curved airtime hill, this all seems very similar to something Intamin would come up with. I wouldn't be too surprised if Mack entered the hyper coaster market within the next few years, and their hypers turned out to be similar to Intamin's. Still, I am just as excited about this as I would be if it were an Intamin.

The company is called Beijing Shibaolai Amusement Equipment. So, I guess you can really call them B. S. Amusement Equipment?

Also, KD is another park that depends on the ride ops. I managed to score a second ride on Rebel Yell last June. The previous year, I do not think I got any re-rides on anything. I just assumed the policy was lifted. Since RY was the only ride with an empty station, I do not know if this now applies to all rides. At Carowinds, they were allowing pretty much as many rides as possible as long as you could still find an empty seat. Thanks to the best-worst crowd control, I managed to set in seven rides while there was a line to the bottom of the stairs. Since the crowd control ops were letting fewer people in the station than there were seats on the train, empty rows were up for grabs every time the train arrived in the station. At Busch Gardens, they allow a maximum of one re-ride. This means you can ride a maximum of two times before leaving the station. Usually, this was not really that annoying of a policy, as most people are lucky enough to even get one re-ride. However, it did get a bit irritating when I was trying to get in as many Alpie rides in the last 10 minutes as possible, as I kept bolting around the entrance again to get in line, and they seemed to have no problem with that. Dorney Park, on my visit, had a strictly NO re-ride policy. Even on Steel Force. They were running three trains, each one usually getting sent out with less than ten, and they still were not allowing re-rides. I noticed this on every ride in the park. It seems that some parks are a bit more strict on their policies than others.

With the talk going on right now, I could not resist.

^^And, if I could, I would happily send Full Throttle to Las Vegas or Melbourne. You need it more than we do. The problem is not so much the ride itself, but the fact that it is going to Magic Mountain. Seriously, if this ride went to any other park in the world, besides Cedar Point or Great Adventure, there would be little to no complaining. But, it is not what the particular park it is going to needs, considering that the mountain has consistently invested in more gimmicky rides over the past few years. It is like eating your favorite meal, but having to eat it every night for two weeks. All the bombardment of good sounds very positive at first, but, after a while, you just want it to stop so you can have something different. And, people from the outside wonder why you are not having fun.

If SFMM had just done a bit more expansion under Tatsu, maybe added a bunny hop finale, enthusiast complants would be way lower than they are now. IMHO, making it that short is missing half the point of building a multi-launcher. Every other multi-launcher uses up every bit of inertia left, and adequate space is given between the launches and brakes. Not Full Throttle. Projekt Helix is exactly what Full Throttle should have been. Is SFMM management lazy? Well, not in this case. You really can't blame a park that knows their audience, and SFMM is probably well aware of the enthusiast complaints that would result of this, but, the actual number of LA county GP comparing Full Throttle to some Swedish coaster is probably close to zero percent. It doesn't matter how superior that Liseberg coaster is. To the GP, it is "Some coaster in Sweden", if in the unlikely event that they have ever heard of it at all.

Really, you get what you pay for. Actually, SFMM gives some pretty good value for its price. You could get in to these mazes for a low as $10 if you are a passholder, wheras you would end up paying six times that at the competetion. Sure, the quality does not stack up, but if I want to spend six times the cash on a great night out, I would head to Knott's of Universal. If I just want a few scares, but don't want to pay the insane prices, I would head to SFMM.

Well, now, to say SFA is a bad idea is almost the same as saying SFDK was a bad idea. Seven coasters were added between 1998 and 2001, while the park would not receieve its next coaster until 2008, and even that was gone within three years. Eleven years went by before SFDK saw a fully new, signature attraction, the same amount of time SFA waited. If the park is turning a profit, it is fine in the eyes of the chain.

For the obvious explanation, it is pretty much a sarcastic joke. With only one having been built nearly 10 years ago, everyone knows that none of the currently rumored new rides will be an Aquatrax, hence the joke.

Overall, the ride was just a terrible idea to begin with. They invested a $20 million budget into building this thing, had it take up space that could fit several smaller coasters and for what? A ride that lasted just nine seasons. (And only ran in its original form for six). I hate to think of how this would be now if CCI or GCI, or even possibly Intamin designed it (depending on if the prefab was on the market by the time this project was brought up. I doubt it was, but even a regular Intamin wood coaster is still better than most other regular wood coasters) Although, they could do a lot with the space. I, like everyone else, am glad to see this go.

I am very glad the senic railway will not be lost. That would be very sad to lose another coaster this old. I would hate to have to go through a SavE tEh Hullámvasút type thing.

Really, it feels like a wild mouse is the exact opposite of what the park needs, as the last two coaster installments have been more family oriented. Well, since SFMM is in a streak of installing gimmicky rides, and they are installing another for 2013, I would not be too surprised if the next installment to KBF is another small family coaster. IMO, it is nice that they are installing family rides, but I really think that two in a row is enough, and I hope that that is not their main market, as SFMM's market is in the type that will fall for gimmicks.

^Or Knoebels, since neither of their wood coasters have seatbelts, or air gates in the stations, I guess it may be possible. Although, I think waiting to see this element in the US will be like waiting for an Aquatrax or a Mega-Lite to be built.

Since this project has had rumors ranging from a giga coaster to a flat ride, I am not really willing to trust any source at this point.

It seems that just about every Cedar Fair park has (or recently had) a coaster that could use the treatment. I would like to say Hurler, but the layouts on these are unexciting enough, so it would probebly be better to see these get torn down. Mean Streak may also have an unexciting layout, but, wih the giant structure, RMC would have more margin for creativity. Currently, CF may be the chain with the most woodies in need of the treatment. However, Cedar Fair has shown no interest in having the treatment down to any of their woodies, except for maybe Ghostrider. The roadblock here is probably the GP who believe that getting the crap beaten out of you is fun.

You drive by an industrial plant, and imagine the chutes and tubes to be coasters and water slides.

Also, how are Chinese operations and waits? Do parks tend to run more than one train? From what I have heard, dispatch times do not seem to be at all quick.

The favorite of the ones I have been on is the drop of Verbolten, but I doubt even that drop compares to any of the rides at Ocean Park.