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At the end of the school year last year we had to fill out course request forms for next year and I filled mine out and got a probable list back a few weeks later with all the classes I'd expected and wanted (Engineering, Spanish (I didn't actually want to take it but I'll explain that latter), Cross Country, English Honors, and Biology) except my math class which I had a waiver to take online but I was signed up for Algebra 3/4 Trig. I talked to the counselor who had gotten me the waiver about having it fixed which it was. A few days ago I got another one with the same mistake on it and contacted the counselor who helped me and she told me that some some idiot in the bureaucracy decided to have an intern go over the course assignments and make corrections and the intern had changed it back. The class I wanted to take instead of the math class was drafting which I wasn't going to get anyway because it was only offered one period which was the same as the engineering so there wasn't any loss there but since I only got notice of this now all of the other interesting classes are gone with only classes that take any number of students like the band, orchestra, theater, and choir were still open. So now I have to get a petition to have the math class changed to chem at freshman orientation and I'm going to end up having a basis of four academic classes, one fun class (engineering) and Cross Country with my easiest class being Spanish because some idiot intern screwed up, I mean come on. Although I do plan on only ever taking normal bio and just studying the AP textbook while taking the class so I can just take the AP test once I finish and never take AP bio. Another one of my rants is that my school only offers three languages as actual classes, French, Latin, and Spanish. They used to offer German but that got cut and they promised to have other languages like Arabic and Mandarin instead. I was went to a bilingual school through second grade and spoke Spanish fluently and I can still understand simple conversations so I didn't want to take that as my language. I don't want to take French since I have no real interest in going to France for a long period of time and don't know any people that live there. Latin I consider to be the stupidest language option because it's very similar to Italian but it isn't actually spoken by anyone. I have some friends who think that it will "make learning other languages easier" which is true but you might as well learn Spanish which can be used to understand both Portuguese (to a limited extent) and Italian to a large extent while also being genuinely useful when living in Southern California. I personally would have taken German since my mom has a lot of friends in Germany that we visit regularly and it is a place I might genuinely consider going to college and living. So really my rant is why did the damn bureaucrats decide to cut a useful language and keep a pointless and useless one. So I'm stuck taking multiple years of Spanish to relearn what I already know and could relearn in one year.

Also Dauling Dragons and Fireball are both over 105' tall and they aren't "full sized".

I personally really enjoyed Fahrenheit but thought that the rattle in the cobra roll was just sad considering that it's only four years old and it really detracted from a really great ride in my opinion. As for Wildcat it was fine except for that one turn which was absolutely brutal but it had some airtime. As for Skyrush I forgot to hold on during the first pull up (I did this on all my rides to minimize stapling) and ended up leaning out of the train, the rest of the ride was awesome with my hands in the air.

The issue with the PTCs is that they tear up the track more than how the ride, if they are used on all topper track it should be fine since they can't dent steel track very easily although I'd love something with more comfortable lap bars.

Nope, where the topper track replaces the top two layers of wood with steel filled with concrete and has the exact same shape as the original wood track. There are quite a few coasters with topper track in only a few places in their layout (Georgia Cyclone, Tremors, and quite a few older CCIs).

Concrete, since they fill the space between the steel with it. Actually I'd call it wood because all wood coasters have a strip of steel over the top layer of wood and topper track is effectively just making the steel a bit thicker.

Yeah but I think rust tracks would be really beautiful on a wood structure, or they could paint them electric blue and be awesome.

I think that Ghostrider is definitely a ride that I'd describe as aggressive but unlike some other rough rides (KD's Hurler, Thunder Road) it actually does something and isn't really that rough if you ride towards the front and in the back it's rough but not unbearable and when I last rode it (at WCB 2012) it was better than Voyage's last half when I rode it about two weeks ago. The MCBR trimming is just really sad though.

Yeah a Screamin' Swing is on my list of stuff every park should have, along with a carousel, an good drop tower (Intamin, Larson or ARM), a good woodie, a Schwarzkopf a log flume, a rapids ride, and a shoot-the-chutes type ride.

Hyper Should SFStL get SFOT's Flashback or a revived version of SFMM's Flashback?

What it looked like to me was that they were going to announce it on August 13 but CP's announcement stopped them and they had to reschedule it but already had the Au13 thing out on facebook.

^Management already confirmed that it wouldn't be a B & M at the WCB Q & A session.

^ I don't think you quite understand the size the turns have to be on a giga to avoid another wheel melting incident. You'd basically need to rip out that entire section of the park including the KOD building, PP, Boomerang, the Skytower, Riptide, the top spin, as well as most of the midway to make space for a twisty Intamin giga like I305, an out and back Leviathan style giga on the other hand is certainly doable by having it go around the park's perimeter. Personally I'd love to see any coaster go there as long as it has some airtime and is well themed to help extend the 50's theme across the entire boardwalk. I think a B & M hyper would go really well with KBFs current coaster line up especially since its different from anything else west of the Rockies.

^^ & ^^^ Overhead layout of the coaster I posted pics of on page 437 of this topic It's only 53 meters (~175 feet) tall with a 45* lift hill but it fits while only using up space that is currently used for vendors stalls, PP and a small bit of the midway.

This, heartline rolls are amazing and the g's and head choppers on the diving part a beyond amazing, also I count it as one element despite it being two inversions. Runner ups are Storm Runner's Cobra Loop, so messed up it's awesome, and zero-g rolls in outside seats on inverts and inside seats on most sit downs.

Behemoth. Do you secretly wish that SFMM's new for 2013 attraction will be bench the ride?

Skyrush and Coaster (Playland PNE)

I agree with the above, the only things that Carrowinds has over KD are that their Hurler is better (not saying much), Nighthawk, which is unlike anything KD has, and I enjoy a lot, and Afterburn is significantly better than Volcano (IMO). Other than that I305 is a really great coaster and definitely better than Intrimidator (which can be wonderful on select rides but is just okay about 85% of the time), both stand-ups are decent but KD's is frightening with the airtime, Rebel Yell was running great at ECB but the last time I rode Thunder Road it was dire, as for every thing else KD is better by a long shot.

They're both gross but Lay's less so. Do you think Maverick is better than I305? (I do)

I'm finally home from my 9600 mile, month-long road trip and finally have access to a decent internet connection. Oh and the weather here is lovely (25* C)

I'll just post a few pics of an NL coaster I made a month or two back using PP's spot and Skyrush as an inspiration. First drop into a sweeping turn and an extreme airtime hill over the midway. After the airtime hill it does a little slalom in the space currently occupied by vendors in the midway. That leads into an overbank over what would become the entrance and then into another airtime hill. After that is a low, flat turn and then a twisty airtime hill followed by another overbank and airtime hill. The ride then ends with a hop up into another turn and a final little hop into the brakes. Also note that even with a 45* lift hill I could only fit in a 53 meter tall hill into PP's spot.

I suspect that part of why construction of Outlaw Run started so early was to make it so the RMC people could directly oversee the entire construction process of both rides and still have them finished on time. As for the tunnel I could easily see them making it bigger with axes or a little TNT.

^ Phoenix has seat belts ride Coaste (Playland PNE) which has no seatbelts and tell me you were standing up on Blue Streak.