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If they don't care about curbside appeal, Excalibur seems the perfect ride to tear out and run wild with a B&M wing coaster or invert in 2016, but if they want another long out-and-back giga that people off the highway can see coming up the road, they could position it alongside Dinosaurs Alive (or get rid of it altogether as that's their only remaining curbside plot for a giga and have the drop go down under a rebuilt park entrance, then come back up over Wild Thing's turnaround, then it would turn and run out across the parking lot to that patch of land on the other side the they own but have done nothing with it into a turnaround like the one Shambhala has. Here's a very rough outline: Red = Station, Orange = Lift Hill, Yellow = First Drop then Up Over Wild Thing, Green = Hills and Twists, Blue = Turnaround, Purple = Return Hills and Twists, White = Brake Run

That would be 2011, the year I went to Adventureland (IA), Valleyfair, BGW, and KD for the first time. 28 new credits in total. At that point, it had been five years since I had ridden a roller coaster so the binge was called for.

It's occurred to me that every single one of these videos could be misdirection, and the announcement could have nothing to do with any of the attractions they are looking at. Sky Trail's parcel of land isn't all that big. I'd be more focused on the land over by where Ragin' Cajun used to sit. They just opened up a ton of space over there. They could put in a big flat right there. Maybe a Screamin' Swing. It's about time Six Flags gets one of those for a park.

I'm having Ragin' Cajun line flashbacks, only like ten times worse. With its capacity and how many people are going to want to ride it, that's like 4-5 hours boiling on the blacktop without shade... dear god, I pray for you people.

"The Dubai Giant"... you can't make these things up, folks

With Adventureland (Iowa) getting a Windseeker this year, their first ride investment since 2006, I highly doubt we will get anything next year, though I still hold out hope that a Eurofighter or El Loco will come one day.

Found this video from internet critic Mike Jeavons, better known to most as MikeJ on "That Guy With The Glasses", and thought I'd share it here. He's made reviews before about different theme park attractions before but this is the first video review on an actual theme park he's ever done. I hope he does more in the future. It's a very well done video. Check it out [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

I guess this is the time for that... okay, in order starting with the Top 10 Best 1. Gravity 2. Spring Breakers 3. Frozen 4. Saving Mr. Banks 5. The Conjuring 6. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 7. American Hustle 8. 12 Years a Slave 9. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox 10. The Wolf of Wall Street Monsters University Prisoners Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo Blackfish The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Evil Dead 42 Star Trek Into Darkness The World's End Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2 A's This Is The End Pacific Rim Wolf Children Only God Forgives Now You See Me Oblivion Trance Warm Bodies G.I. Joe: Retaliation Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters My Little Pony: Equestria Girls The Hangover Part III Dead Man Down The ABCs of Death And the Top 10 WORST --- 10. We're the Millers 9. Elysium 8. Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony 7. World War Z 6. Man of Steel 5. Iron Man 3 4. Gangster Squad 3. The Host 2. Olympus Has Fallen 1. The Purge

There wasn't anything I was particularly expecting. I'm just saying much of it I'd already seen before. There were definitely things that did shock me, but not as much as the hype led me to believe.

Saw "American Hustle", "Saving Mr. Banks", and "The Wolf of Wall Street" this weekend. "Saving Mr. Banks" was the best. Not just a film for Disney buffs, but a great movie period. A little too convenient, but the performances are enchanting all around and even though Disney is producing it, it never seems like the film is letting Walt be "the winner". In fact, Disney is hardly the focus himself. From beginning to end, this is P.L. Travers's story and what a story it was. "American Hustle" is like a classic Scorsese movie, only slightly more restrained to its discredit. What makes this movie shine is the script, the cast and the soundtrack, and when all three meet perfectly, it is goddamn magic. It also has one of the best cameo performances of all time. "The Wolf of Wall Street" was like eating an entire chocolate suicide cake by yourself. At first, the sugar high makes you giddy and excited as you keep rising and rising, but ultimately it makes you sick and bloated and waiting for your horrible horrible mistake to pass. I could tell this was the intention. It's damning in that it all but says to your face that you, the general public, allow people like Jordan Belfort to exist and do as he pleases. It's a sick reality that you are left with after the bacchanalia has come and gone. I enjoyed it, but there's no doubt in my mind it could have been done better, and it wasn't nearly as shocking as they wanted you to think it would be, though I attribute that to myself being a child of the internet age.

I find it funny that so many people here are arguing that this documentary was just made to provoke people and make money as a result of their provocation at Sea World's expense? If that's the case, do you see this press release as some kind of altruistic reminder of the good that Sea World does? Hell no, they're protecting their assets. The coin always has two sides, but no matter what side you're looking at, it's still has the element of money. What I'm left with most after watching "Blackfish" myself is that there was a long line of incidents of this nature and Sea World gave a blind eye to it for years as part of the workplace as a trainer. When there is a clear view that these creatures routinely and directly put the trainers' lives in jeopardy, as you see in the incredibly harrowing eyewitness videos and trainer testimonies, Sea World shows ignorance for never addressing it for more than thirty years. Of course, no matter what the quality of the Sea World tanks, captivity is captivity but if these animals are well cared for and well treated, there is scarce little that can be done about it. As one person already said, we don't attack people for keeping pets and it is the same principle. This song and dance never gets old to the activists, but the documentary does raise valid questions about Sea World's past practices with previous trainers and it is important to remember that a five ton whale will always be much harder to put into submission than, for example, a fifty pound dog.

Last Saturday I saw Catching Fire and tonight I saw Frozen with my fiancee. Oh wow, 2013 may actually be redeemed in terms of movies if things keep going this way. The former is an intensely superior follow-up to last year's blockbuster with better writing that highlights the strengths of the source material and improves on its faults, better visuals, and all the actors are completely settled into their characters. Jennifer Lawrence gave a better performance here than the performance that won her the Oscar. It is that good. The latter was, in a word, gorgeous. Gorgeous visuals, gorgeous musical numbers, gorgeous story that took its time setting its pieces in place so that when the conflict finally began, the emotion was already set in, and oh my what a payoff some of those emotional scenes were. I was a little worried with the marketing being so Olaf-intensive that his presence would overtake the movie, but even that was perfectly balanced and quite effective in lightening some of the movie's darker moments, and oh does this movie have its share of dark moments. Ultimately though, it is the relationship of the sisters Anna and Elsa, both played exquisitely by Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel respectively, that makes this such a treasure. Both get completely earned A rankings from me

Imagine Dragons - "Tiptoe"

Way to completely miss the entire point of the books, Lionsgate. This is what the Capitol would do after the Games, turn them into tourist attractions so people could re-enact and revisit their favorite parts of how the kids killed each other for that year. It was described as a bad thing.

I saw "12 Years a Slave" yesterday. Wonderful movie, though it could have benefited from being another hour or so longer (it's been a long time in the theater that 2 hours and 15 minutes went by so fast!) and made to actually look and feel twelve years had past. Also way too many "hey, it's that guy" cameos that pulled me out of the film. Overall though, it paints a picture that feels incredibly authentic. The horrors of the institution of slavery are neither sugarcoated nor are they exploited. It looks and feels honest throughout the entire performance, which that alone should warrant everyone seeing it. Certainly not the earth-shaking masterpiece that will live on for years to come like I've heard some say, but very good and very much worth everyone's time.

Just got done with my blind Nuzlocke run of Pokemon Y. For those that don't know, Nuzlocke is slang for a type of Pokemon gameplay where the only rules are you can only catch the first Pokemon you run into on each new route/town/area and if your Pokemon faints, it is considered dead and cannot be used in battle again. Doing this without a guide was absolutely grueling, and by the time I was done, only three Pokemon were still alive; Charizard (lv. 79), Doublade (lv. 77) and Carnivine (lv. 68). I'm trading them to my fiancee so I can get them back after I start the game over from the beginning and play it normally.

^ For what? They could have slapped him with a C&D at Sundance. They could have slapped him with it before it got a distribution deal. They could have slapped him with it before it was released in theaters and on VOD. They could have slapped him with it at so many points and they still let it get distributed today. What on Earth do they gain from slapping him with a C&D at this point in the game, when it's already gone public?

The original poster was so much better than the blatantly taunting second one: Truthfully, I am really excited to see it just for the sheer audacity it took to make it. I am surprised Disney did not slap Moore with a cease-and-desist, but I think they are treating this as sour grapes. They will probably be much more strict and watchful of this thing going forward though.

Not counting relocations: Shockwave (SFGAm) Wildcat (Cedar Point) Disaster Transport (Cedar Point) Original Texas Giant (SFOT) Original Rattler (SFFT)

Everything is very clearly framed, but there is a LOT of movement and quite a few POV shots that are very disorienting (albeit they are intended to be as such)

Just got back from Gravity. There's really not much to say about it other than go see it, and preferably in 3D. The movie speaks for itself. I have not seen a breakthrough in special effects to this extent since Jurassic Park. You will believe they filmed this entire movie in space. A gorgeous, gorgeous film with some of the best direction and cinematography I have ever seen. The tracking shots... oh my god, the tracking shots!

Flying Turns is officially the Duke Nukem Forever of roller coasters.

19. What an awful list though.

I saw Prisoners. It's been so long since I've gone to the movies and seen something that was made for adults and treats its audience as such, so I may have loved it a little more than it deserved. The first two acts were positively gripping but it leaned on cliches and some too-neat resolution in its third act. Fortunately, the acting was superb all the way through, especially Hugh Jackman. Easily the best performance I have ever seen him give.

Wow, I'm surprised you ranked Spring Breakers so high. Personally I found it to be one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen. But I've never really been into the whole Drugs, Sex and Violence Indie films. Plus I hate almost everything James Franco has been in outside of Spider-Man. For me my top 5 for what has been a mostly dissapointing year would be: 1. The Worlds End 2. We're The Millers 3. Monsters University 4. Man of Steel 5. Fast and Furious 6 It's surprising my top 3 are comedies as I'm usually very picky about my comedies, but this year those films were the best. It's a really polarizing movie, but for me it just clicked in the most absolute perfect way. I've already talked about this movie more than any other movie this year elsewhere, so I won't go too much into detail here. The short reason is it's such a damning evisceration of YOLO culture and how removed from reality most young adults can be. While its surface is nothing but drugs, sex, and violence, its the motivations to those vices (or more the lack thereof) that makes this such a fascinating and poetic statement. I realize I may come off as pretentious with a statement like this, but its genuinely how I felt every time I've watched and rewatched it. The World's End was a great movie as well and a wonderful cap to the Cornetto trilogy, though it felt they didn't quite know how to end it. It was also a little drier than the two before it and there's a limit as to how dry British comedy can be for me before it's not funny anymore.