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They're. This looks pretty interesting. Is that moon and night setting an actual environment? If so, it looks really nice. Any idea of where I could get it?

^ Good job. Don't screw it up. Don't take things too seriously. Have lots of fun. You're only 17. For me, I think I've given up.

On Twister II at Elitch Gardens in Denver, there's a pretty amusing sign telling you not to spit or throw missiles. And, if you stand up (or swing your hand in the air) on Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knott's, a recording shouts, "sit down!" No missiles.

Thread of the week.

A few miles west of Amarillo, Texas, on Interstate 40 is an art installation you may have heard of. Ten Cadillacs were placed face down halfway in the ground, and people spray-paint on them. My brother was in town, and he wanted to visit it, so we bought spray paint and went to work. I get jokes. The end! Gotta nuke something. Someone wanted to spread the word of the giraffe conspiracy. A face. He painted the eyes. Artsy shot. Durr. More war bonds. He's so 1940s patriotic. He got inside a car to write stuff. Ruined! Look. An apple! My brother dashes to another car. Someone decided to go on a lake break. Then it was ruined. Aw. Two women before us made this. He wrote the first thing that came to his mind: "Buy war bonds." My brother got on a car to paint. Here's what it is.

The only part of mine I'm going to change is a few "Y's" to "N's." The only wooden coaster I rode this year was Blue Streak at Cedar Point.

I really like that the second hill is a crazy-looking helix.

Great work on that Intamin drop ride.

You really should talk to an adviser or a counselor. Or perhaps write a letter to someone at an amusement park. Don't rely on the Internet to help too much with what you want as a career. Chris Benvenuto's right. Cedar Fair President and CEO Dick Kinzel started working in foods. One of his vice presidents worked night trash.

For those of you who don't understand, let's try to put this another way. Gravity moves at the same rate no matter what (unless you're on the moon or something, but let's not get into that). Imagine building a scale model of a 10-story building. Let's say it's 5 feet tall. If you put a little Lego man on top of it and drop him over, he's going to hit the ground pretty quickly -- much faster than if a real person jumped off a real 10-story building. But if you put a real person on that 5-foot building, he's going to fall at the same speed the Lego man falls. So from our perspective, it appears that the Lego man is falling at the speed of light. But you can't scale back gravity unless maybe you're in a vacuum. Now just convert that to these roller coasters. If your CoasterDynamix set is 6 feet tall, it falls at the rate of gravity. If you somehow have a B&M that's 6 feet tall, it will fall down at the same speed.

I don't watch the show. In what context was this? Does the comic in the background have anything to do with it?

Can we change the sub header for this subject from "They are resurrecting a classic ride!" to "Opening fall 2013"?

Actually, that's the reason I don't like simulators. They just jerk you around. Back to the Future was horrible with that. This kind of makes me want to plug my computer into my TV and ride NoLimits coasters in it. I've got a 40-inch TV. Just watching it without any of that VR crap might be awesome.

^ What an odd thing to point out. I don't think they're trying to lurch you forward. They're just tilting you forward because the first drop makes your body point downward. Because you're not actually on a coaster, your body's going to lurch forward.

In short, those trains are proprietary to that company, Great Coasters International Inc., or GCI. They're called Millennium Flyers. GCI makes those trains, and only GCI coasters can use them. The coasters at Holiday World are Custom Coasters Inc. and The Gravity Group. Those use Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters trains, or PTCs. Though The Gravity Group has come up with and tested some articulated trains similar to the Millennium Flyers. It's the company, really.

What the heck?

^ You're 14. Don't worry about it.

It's just a coincidence that three Intamin cables have snapped this season. Intamin has nothing to do with it, as Robb pointed out. These coasters opened years ago, and these cables had been changed numerous times. But we should make a poll. What Intamin cable snaps next?

Reread what I typed. I said, "playing with the stereo," not playing the stereo. Changing CDs, manually trying to find a radio station or fixing the treble while driving is a bit dangerous because you take your eyes off the road and a hand or both off the wheel.

I'm all for this law. I get that it also should cover a variety of things while driving: eating, putting on makeup, playing with the stereo. But the popularity of texting has exploded, so it's really the first thing that comes to mind. A friend of mine has been in numerous wrecks, and one of the last times I was with him, we were on a trip, and he was constantly texting or talking on his phone. He's like that anyway, regardless of whether he's driving, but he can't even stop when driving. Just has to be connected! I no longer go on trips with him when he's driving. It's just too terrifying. The fact that a few wrecks he'd been in weren't because he was texting is enough to keep me out of a car while he's driving.

Huss' Web site has specs of all its rides. Pick something from there.

It looks a bit oversupported, especially that low turn. And it looks really weird with the wooden and steel supports, but you're changing that, right?

Saving the brake run as an element won't save the settings. You'll just have a straight segment. Try uploading your ride in the NoLimits help thread. That way we can download it and see what your problem is. But I think you need to look at settings on other rides' brakes to see what you're doing wrong. You also should read the instructions because brakes aren't that hard. Turn the deceleration G-force setting of the brakes up, play with the speed in which they activate and the hysteresis. Change the position of the train and the position of the segment. There are a few reasons your brakes probably aren't working, and those really are the only reasons. Or is your brake too short? You can't have a 10-foot brake segment stop a 50-foot train with realistic G-force settings.

Turn the G-force up, or make the start of where the brakes kick in at the beginning of the segment. Can you take a screen shot of your brake settings now?

What's wrong with the brakes?