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Looking at the palm trees, it doesn't look fast-forwarded, but photoshop is still possible.

I don't really understand the shock, it's just the usual Orlando price creeps. Disney'll follow suit in the coming weeks, and another year will pass. Yes, it sucks, but it's the nature of economics that parks will charge what people will pay, and that that amount rises every year with gas and inflation. I don't know who'll hit $100/day first, but it'll happen somewhere in between the openings of New Harry Potter World and Avatar Land (that's if Universal even keeps offering 1D/1P tickets when new HP World opens...)

And a company that put OTSRs on Intimidator 305. I think the idea of Drop Tower Lapbars are brilliant, especially since Intamin's Drop Tower OTSRs have had so many incidents in the past (not saying they were Intamin's fault, but it's bad publicity either way).

I guess the race has begun. Which will happen first: completion or announcement? Also, will they finish this before the end of the season?

I can't decide what looks best: the pictures, the trains, or the skyline's twisted mass of B&M goodness. Anyone know why the park went with water jets rather than a scoop-based splash a-la Diamondback?

^ I love the way the description for that video specifies "...and works." As though there was some great fear that it wouldn't...

I hate to say it, but this looks like just another recent B&M to me: smooth and forceless. I'll be surprised if this is really any better than Swarm. It just seems to be going much too slowly to generate any real force in the tightest and twistiest bits. Of course, I've been wrong before, and I legitimately hope I am again in this case, but I just don't see anything exceptionally wonderful here.

Yep. All courtesy of the Hebei Zhongye Metallurgical Equipment Manufacturing Co.,Ltd. Somehow, I can never see these people going to IAAPA.

It seems one of this company's deathcoasters malfunctioned spectacularly over the weekend. I figured it would be better to put it in this thread rather than making a new one. The ride was built in 2005. All images from coastercrazy.com, where the (Google-translated?) story is. Link.

The eh's make me wonder if he's (pretending to be) Canadian, eh?

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll keep an open mind until I see how it actually works. Maybe now they can finally open up the express lines at HRRR and HP...

^But what if, like me, you're a naysayer in the other direction? I can only see this as worse for the people who buy Express when compared to the current system. I could see this making it impossible to, for example, do all of the houses at HHN on a single night (something I have done for the last 3 years and which makes HHN infinitely better than waiting in lines).

^Express Plus for hotel users is unlimited. Express Plus is the term for all of the current Express passes, to differentiate them from the original Universal Express, which was like Disney's Fastpass, and free. Normal Express Plus parkgoers who aren't staying in a hotel are limited to one use per ride per day. I'm willing to wait for hotel users, since they're paying upwards of $150/night in the offseason for the privilege.

^I've never been "raped" by express users. The worst I've ever seen was a roughly minute long additional delay on the Hulk. It was less than one train. The existing system limits you to one ride on each ride per day, which keeps it reasonable.

Yes, but WHY is it the best invention ever? If the same job can be done more cheaply and with less hassle with a simple piece of printed cardstock, why bother with Q-Bots? Where's the advantage to the guest?

I don't mean to be a GP, but what makes Q-Bots any better than the existing ticket system for the guests who use it? It seems like it's much easier to just scan a ticket and step into line than to fiddle with a Q-Bot and wait a set number of minutes first. In addition, Q-Bots are water-sensitive, need to be returned, and require an educational video that makes lines longer and slower at every location that sells them. I have no problems with line skipping or improving existing systems, but, to me, this seems like a step backward. Sorry to dissent from the majority, but can someone help me understand why this is the majority opinion?

If they absolutely had to have something floorless on the list, why not Griffon? It DOES hang you over a 205' vertical drop, after all. Clearly, the person who made the list did something like google "scariest roller coaster" and just jot down the first 5 results.

Of course. All six flags parks started out as just a parking lot, with things built on top of it to make the park. Didn't you know that?

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^Not just their own system, but their own, better system. I would rather have a paper ticket to skip lines without waiting than hassle with a q-bot and wait for reservations all day. This could remove a lot of the advantage of HHN express...

^I doubt BGW, they just added one this year...

They already have one...

The B&M codes make perfect sense. The first is an LC, which is the abbreviation for a Flying Coaster (I'm not sure what it actually stands for, Lying Coaster, maybe?). SC is Sitting Coaster, which works because Floorless Coasters are just Sitting Coasters with different trains. MC is Mega Coaster, which Leviathan was for all practical considerations, just taller. DM is Dive Machine, that second pic is from either Sheikra or Griffon (I'm not sure which). This is a WI, which is a winged coaster. I don't think B&M has ever switched it up to fool people.

Here's a thought. Maybe it's for somewhere in S. America, or at least south of the equator. Seasons are reversed down there, so the timing would fit better.

^CP makes sense, given the time it's been since they built a new coaster and the fact SFMM will be regaining the crown next year. ^^I doubt SFA, they got Apocalypse this year, so they probably won't get another "new" coaster for awhile.