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I like the Intamin the best if we have to replace Eagle Fortress, but my personal opinion IRL is call Vekoma and have them rehab the ride and make new parts so it can reopen.

I really love Aftershock's, Sidewinder's, Raging Bull's, and SFGAm's Demon's.

Timber Terror and Tremors both have drops that are like this, and that is why they are amazing (other than airtime). But Timber Terror has the edge due to buzz bars ;D

Any Zipper is a favorite of mine! Also A.R.M./Larson drop towers, Intamin drop towers, and frisbee rides.

Your park looks nice so far! I really like the coaster layouts and you have a nice selection of flats. Can you send me the links for Sandscream, Coastline Carousel, Dolphin Theater, Pineapple Action Theater, and Marina Monster? Thanks if you can!

I am honestly so happy Anaconda is staying! Hopefully Vortex at KI soon gets these improvements as well (2015 maybe?). Love the other improvements, nice Quimet is adding the charm back!

475ft going to make it the tallest tower ride? What about the 500ft Observation Deck at the State Fair of Texas? That is the tallest I'm sure...

@djboss302 - Thanks! Today you get Fright Fest, AND the announcement! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hey everybody, I'm here at Fright Fest! Not many people in the walk-through mazes but it's getting late and many people have left (It's 1 am now). I have many pictures to show you the amazing things the park did this year for Fright Fest! Welcome to Fright Fest! The Main Street Gargoyle is back! A creepy gravestone! Time to stop at our first maze, the returning Vampire Mansion! Some new effects, some old effects. The skeleton in a crow's nest. After the success of Happy Mountain Haunt's Skull picture place, Vampire Mansion got this scenic piece to to take a picture with! A new exploding grave skeleton effect has been added. Here is the most expensive piece of Fright Fest, the Giant Tree! It is over 100ft tall! Here is a massive skull! Zombie Camp returns this year! Relatively similar to last year, but still great! Here is the new picture taking piece for Zombie Camp, a warrior who died fighting the Zombies. The Zombie Room is back! Vortex got creepy Demon Hands as an effect for the prelift. Bones showed up around the Go Kart track! A scary tree! Happy Mountain Haunt has returned also! This maze (along with the other mazes if you haven't noticed) got a queue line and an exit path. No Flash Pass for mazes as of right now. Frankenstein. These open up to reveal the spikes inside! The Giant Skull is back, ready for pictures! A new Mummy effect! The firepit! Another new thing this year is the Pumpkin Patch, a more family orientated haunt with staff passing out free candy to kids and for you can by one of the pumpkins! Here is an Overview of the new site, between Boomerang and Happy Mountain Haunt. Boomerang got some weird bones as a head chopper for Fright Fest. I like them! I'll end with a nice picture of Terror Twister in the dark! Fright Fest has been amazing this year and it has been a huge success so far, starting in September and going to the end of the year. I can't wait for next year!.. On that subject, I took pictures at the new ride announcement for next year and forgot to post them here! My apologies. Be excited, because for 2002 we are getting V2: Vertical Velocity! Press release: "New for 2002 is V2: Vertical Velocity. Powered by state-of-the-art Linear Induction Motors (LIMs), V2 challenges conventional thrills by boldly going higher and faster. Originally developed for use by NASA, V2: Vertical Velocity's LIMs harness magnetic power to provide pure acceleration, launching riders at 70 M.P.H. in less than four seconds. V2: Vertical Velocity rockets suspended riders through 630 feet of U-shaped, twisted steel track. Once fired out of the station, the vehicle rockets up a 185-foot spiral tower providing the ultimate vertical twist! After traversing the first peak, the guests swoop backward through the station and up a second, 185-foot tower. The ride repeats twice with riders going vertical three times to the front and two times to the back of the track. At the completion of the powerful, lightning-fast journey, guests have ridden over 2,700 feet of steel, challenging the laws of physics and gravity with pure V2: Vertical Velocity." Aren't you excited? I know I am! Here are 2 pictures from the announcement, looking at the plot of land. Here is an overview of the plot. V2: Vertical Velocity will be next to Boomerang and Chaos. That's all for this update! Check back in next year for V2: Vertical Velocity's media day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yes I borrowed and modified the press release of V2 (SFGAm) from RCDB. I'm excited to build V2 and am proud of Fright Fest for the 2001 season. Thoughts?

@All who replied: Thanks for commenting! I'm not revealing which coaster it is, but the answer is 1 of those 4 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ It's not quite Fright Fest yet, but the park is making improvements before next year's coaster (confirmed as a coaster!). Take a look! Some flowers! More will be added in upcoming seasons. Here they come! Vampire Mansion, awaiting it's reuse this fall. Viking Voyage got a major themeing update! 4 anchored boats in the splash pool and other effects/scenery! Full view of Vortex! It's scary being more than 200ft up! Safely on the ground after a frightful drop! 2 flats, 1 shot. Buccaneer is flying! What are they thinking right now? I'll end with a nice picture of the Go Karts. With it coming quickly, we have to get ready for an even larger 2001 Fright Fest! 2 months long, and MUCH more scenery! See you then! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thoughts on Viking Voyage's new themeing? I personally like it! Are you excited for 2001's lengthy Fright Fest? Or does 2002's new coaster intrigue you more?

^Thanks for the feedback! Yes, next year will have MUCH more scenery _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm coming from opening day 2001. The park has lots of visitors today! I will show you our new-for-2001 attraction, Chaos! I will also show you pictures of lines from rides were the Flash Pass was removed. Here is Chaos, the park's first ride ever to be built without Flash Pass. Double Shot doin' it's thang! It did not get Flash Pass removed. Frisbee was the first ride to lose Flash Pass. Happy Mountain was next. Tea Cups had it's line completely redone when Flash Pass was removed. Buccaneer's new line. DragonWing now lacks Flash Pass. Frightful Ferry was the last ride to lose Flash Pass. Remains of Happy Mountain Haunt. This site will be reused again. Zombie Camp site stripped bare. Guests enjoying Vortex. Jet Scream's signature element. I'll end with a picture of Boomerang. Just to inform you, Vampire Mansion, Happy Mountain Haunt, and Zombie Camp will return this year with more themeing. More Halloween scenery will decorate the park as well! Also, for 2002, we plan a new ride. It will be the same model as a few rides that opened at other Six Flags parks this year. I'm excited! Can't tell you what it is yet, though. I have sealed lips! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ What do you think the new ride will be?

Sidewinder @ Elitch Gardens

Would it be funny or terrible if SFMM got SFNE's Flashback for their 20th coaster?

@sackninja - I may add something to Viking Voyage, just not in this update. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello again, it's Jared Hensley. I am proud to announce that Fright Fest was a major success this year, and for 2001 we will be extending it through September and October, making it the longest lasting Halloween event in the world! I took some pictures the night before the start of the event, and the mazes are so creepy to go through alone! Fright Fest! Creepy monster effects have been added everywere! Terror Twister got a nice foot chopper during fright fest, it is right before the sidewinder element. Our first haunt, Vampire Mansion! You walk into the mansion were terrible vampires find you! You run out the back down a dark scary path through the woods! Demented trees are all around! The forest is terrifying! (I love the look of Vortex at night) The effects are so realistic! You escape the Vampires' clutches. Our next haunt, Zombie Camp! You find yourself walking through an abandoned camp... Run as the Zombies are awaiting you.. You are chased around the camp, looking for shelter... But the building you find is the Zombies' gathering place! Luckily you find your way out before the Zombies eat you! Our last maze, Happy Mountain Haunt! You walk down one entry/exit path to get to the main area for this haunt! The creepiness begins! The pure terror behind an innocent kid's coaster... The haunt's main effect, the giant skull!! Yes you can go inside it and get pictures.. Skulls on sticks... Here is the last part of Happy Mountain Haunt, with the cauldron of fire! After this, you exit down the path you entered. To close off the pictures, here is Boomerang at night. With how great the park's been going, especially with this event, we hope to have Fright Fest every year from now on!On a side note, next year we plan on removing "The Flash Pass" from a lot of attractions that don't need it. Update on that next year! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ What did you think of Fright Fest? I loved making it. See you in the next update!

^I think the POV looks great! So does the ride! The left side looks better than the right from this, Is that agreeable?

So Far: Silverwood 1x. Elitch Gardens 5x. Plans: Elitch Gardens 2 more times. (Just a possibility) Lakeside.

First drop, or any other drop with the "dropping feeling". I live for that, which is why I love drop towers.

^Oh. Makes sense it held the double loop (In a row) record till 1980, which is a lengthy period of time to hold a record, considering how fast records were being broken during that time period.

It actually wasn't the first. That one was the Knott's Berry Farm's Corkscrew, opening in 1975. It was the prototype, so I'm pretty sure it was originally built in 1974, on Arrow's site in Utah. In fact, Geauga's Corkscrew was built in 1978, 2 years after Cedar Point's Corkscrew, and either 3-4 years after the original.

I think if it was still around, RMC could have done great things. Or remove the trims and add Topper Track...

If SFMM was going in the direction we all dream of, the next 2 years would hopefully look something like: 2015: 3 new flats - A giant frisbee and 2 family flats. Viper, Scream, Goliath, Tatsu, and Riddler's repaints. Building rehabs and repaints. 2016: Iron Colossus. New family coaster, something Gold Rusher sized. Maybe Zierer? Remaining needed ride and roller coaster repaints and rehabs, including new trains for Viper and Revolution. 2017: More new flats. Hurricane Harbor expansion. These would be really nice additions, if SFMM would go for them.

I wonder if Extreme Supernova will be similar to Silverwood's Spin Cycle?

Before I knew it was getting moved, Iron Wolf's removal shocked me the most. GASM, Big Bad Wolf, SFDK's Pandemonium also shocked me. GASM for it being a pretty large coaster. BBW for being so famous and popular. Pandemonium for being one of SFDK's main family coasters and that it was 3 years old.

^In case you hadn't noticed, all the rides that have Timberliners that were built brand new are very smooth and low maintenance. If CBC was rebuilt by the Gravity Group, it would (obviously) brand be new. Hades 360 was only partially retracked and the vast majority of the ride is old and has been damaged by the many years of PTCs.

I think the Gravity Group with Timberliners or RMC Topper Track would be the best Ideas. I would ride!

The Elitch Vekomas and Arrow are pretty crazy, but so are Aftershock and BTR (SFGAm). I'm tied.