Rollercoaster Rider

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls "This is my Happening, And It Freaks Me Out" Oogieloves "Her Bunyan's are bothering her and she's gassy... She's got a broken wing and cataracts in both eyes... And she's lactose intolerant"

I see them outsourcing it to a waterpark manufacturer like Proslide or Whitewater or NBGS or whoever. They did bring GCI to retrack Cyclone. Mack brought B&M and GCI to design rides they didn't design before. The flume at Luna Park was Arrow I believe.

Where's the Parking Lot Road?

For everyone thinking about expansion on the Thunderbolt extra land, It's rumored they're going to add a waterpark to that area.

Vekoma Mad House?

Out of Six Flags it will only be Magic Mountain and Great Adventure. BTW, how do you get the users name in the quotation box when using quotes? lol Are you taking 2 separate trips or 1 trip by driving from GAdv to SFMM?

It did get rehabbed awhile ago.

It was like that 10 years ago for me, I can't imagine what it's like now.

Sorry. But I'm glad your posting again.

That would be cool though.

If I can bet anything, I'd guess an Expedition GeForce clone with a Splashdown. Maybe a little taller so it can be 200ft? I woke up this morning and that was the first thing I though of.

Instead of a flat turn, I think it should have been a turnaround like Millennium Force overhead turn after the drop.

What parks are you planning to visit?

Holiday World takes care of their wooden coasters better than the vast majority of parks out there. They wouldn't have spent so long with the Timberliners if they didn't want to take care of their coasters. After going to Holiday World for ten years now, unless you're just extremely sensitive, your opinion seems misinformed to me. Besides, if they are building a steel coaster, I'd rather take their wooden coasters as they are if it means getting an amazing steel coaster. I'll back this up. HW does an amazing job of taking care of their wooden roller coasters. Much much better than a lot of parks, where they probably would have just trimmed the crap out of three coasters like The Raven, Legend and Voyage. I'm not going to sit here and say they're perfect or don't ride rough at times. It's given that The Voyage is going to be rough from the middle of July until the end of the season. Any traditional tracked wooden coaster with those trains and those kind forces will run that rough at that point in the season every year. The park seems to have a dedicated group of men who are working their butts off every off-season to keep the roller coasters well maintained. The park does a wonderful job at recognizing the work these me do too. Here's another question to be asked. Name another park who has two CCI's that have held up better over the years? It's not because they were designed any differently than other CCI's. It's because the park spends money to maintain them every single year. Indiana Beach until Spackman left. Mt. Olympus until the owner got dollar signs in their eyes.

This season is gonna be very sparse. Based on a recent FB chat with the Big Yellow Shirt Dude, He's gonna probably lay it low this season. Also he might retire from coaster traveling in 6 years.

Hate to Double Post, But; It would be better to get a gold pass. Also the difference between regular and preferred you just pay to difference. Depending on which park you buy it from, It will pay for itself with 1 visit. Also if you pay with Discover (Not spamming!), You can get 5% off the cost. You can also get into some parks earlier with the Discover/Gold Pass line.

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Let me guess on the fate of Six Flags Valley Hills' DeJa Vu coaster, I say it's going to last at the park from 2001-2007 then in 2008 Six Flags Valley Hills builds a Tony Hawk's Big Spin/Pandemonium coaster to go in its place! Why? It didn't happen that way for any of the others. SFGAm replaced theirs with Buccaneer Battle, SFOG built Whistlestop Park, SFMM... did they replace it?

That's what happens when the designer of the coaster owns the park. Is anyone still against Zamperla taking over Coney Island?

Long Lines. Now we can start wondering what Ed will do next.

Honestly, I figured a flaming bag of Eeyore would be better. But I don't get what people don't enjoy about Volares. I've been on two (Canada's Wonderland and Coney Island) and I actually thoroughly enjoyed both of them. Are they world class? No. But I enjoy going on them, and I love staring at all the exposed mechanisms for the ingenious spiral lift system. It's not like I don't have anything better to compare them to, I have almost 250 credits under my belt and I have gone on a big chunk of the top 5 Mitch Hawker steel and wood coasters. Either I'm insane, or most enthusiasts are overly picky about the smoothness of a ride. Oh well, less lines for me. Im with you, I didn't find it a bad ride. Pretty fun really. The spiral lift is really cool. I don't hate them either. There's plenty of worse coasters (SLC, Boomerang, Ninja @ SFOG, Mean Streak) and I think the main dislike of them is that the bars hinder the view when riding. I imagine that if someone made a spread out layout version of a Volare (Flying Superman) The transitions could be much smoother and better.

Apparently the park opens today. Someone around, Please post some pics or a TR.

My guess is that they pay construction companies scale (Pay them less by allowing them to work on other stuff while building attractions) to save money.

Is it just me or do those restraints look like B&M Hyper Coaster clamshell restraints?

That might bankrupt Walt Disney World.