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I like both rides as I've both been on them, and I've never been at SFA, but I agree with the peoples who say it looks more of a family park than a thrillseeker's paradise (of what I've seen and heard of it). This is why I think it's a good addition to the park, and if Six Flags also takes the occasion to improve a whole area of the park, that's even better !

As I just visited Cedar Point, I have to say that Children's Gemini Area was one of the less interessing in the park, with very few rides and nothing connecting them to each other. A little bit like if they bought too many rides in a precedent expansion, and they did not know what to do with them, so they threw them there ! I think both rides look fun, especially the Pipe Scream, and I really like the Flying Scooters, so I think it will be an improvement of the area. My only concern is the pretty low capacity of the Flying Scooters, especially if some peoples ride it alone (as many likes to control their bird themselves) because Cedar Point is a park with huge crowds.

Wow, I just learned that too ! I though it was more of a 81° drop. RMC is crazy !

Last week, I was waiting in line for Millenium Force, and then that happened : Gp girl and her mother : wow that coaster is insanely high ! (Mother)yay, that's probably like the tallest coaster in the world ! Me to my brother, in french so they can't understand us : wow, did they realized Top Thrill Dragster is more than 100 feets higher and it's in the SAME park than Millenium Force ? Wow !

Of course I knew that, it was pretty obvious the coaster was gone . Also, Yes I've been on V2, and it was better than at cedar point ! I think I may not have expressed myself correctly; compared to some other parks I've been to, Great America has a nice selection of thrills, they are not as insane as some others (especially Raging Bull), but definitely worth the trip even for hardcore thrillseekers ! Viper was excellent, as I said, it's even in my top 5 woodies. And, oh, pretty sad I'll miss that RMC .

Time for part two of the TR ! So after our third night at Hotel Breakers, which was a pretty old-looking, but nice hotel, we took the 5 hours drive to the Chicago Area. The first day, we decided to visit a little bit the city, so we went to Navy Pier, where there is a Vekoma version of the very first Ferris Wheel, a mini-putt and 3 rides, and also a huge shopping mall. Sadly, it was raining so it's not photo-worthy . The second day, we went to Six Flags Great America, we took Flash Pass Gold and did not regret, the park was packed ! We got all the credits we could except X-Flight and Little Dipper (impressions about them are coming !). We rode these two the second day, because we did not want to wait the day where we had Flash Pass (for those who don't know, X-flight is Platinum only). Great America was a pretty nice park, very clean; after all, it advertises as the cleanest park in the world ! The coasters are average, but the theming is great all over the park and the flats are nice ! Worth a visit ! I had a really nice trip, and I hope you liked this Trip Report ! Helloooooo Six Flags Great America ! Ready for an awesome day ? Our first coaster with the Flash Pass was a classic... The Whizzer ! Also, it was my first Schwarzkopf ever, and it was very fun ! Of course we don't visit a park like that without getting a Flash Pass ! And it totally SAVED the day ! I think the Whizzer is great because it's a classic Schwarzkopf, and it has a cool layout hidden in the woods. The trees makes the train appear to go even faster ! I can't believe such a ride came close to getting destroyed. Superman Ultimate Flight pursues Six Flags' tradition to copy coasters all over their parks. As I had already been on its Great Adventure cousin, I enjoyed the coaster, but the surprise element was 100 % absent. It's still a lot of fun, tough ! We then reserved for Superman Ultimate Flight, buuuuuuut there was a 20 minutes wait even with the gold. So we decided to ride Ragin Cajun during that time ! And it spinned like HELL ! My last Reverchon spinning dated back to 2009 at Animal Kingdom, so I was amazed at how cool this family coaster was ! (Rumor has it... Ride it while you can !) We only tried the Little Dipper on our second day. A classic worth preservation, and a great family woodie, but for the ride itself, it's nothing mind-blowing (of course... It's a kiddie/family). My 80th credit was the original Batman the Ride ! I'm always disoriented when I go on an original Batman, because I'm used to La Ronde's Vampire which is a mirror image of most Batmans. After lunch, we hitted Raging Bull ! A great Hyper; however I have to say it's my least favorite B&M hyper of the ones I've been on; the trims kill all the airtime, and it isn't forcceful at all. However, it was still a lot of fun : the locals seemed to enjoy it quite a lot by the screams ! My favorite coaster at the park was Viper (it was still running backward, but I think it would still be my favorite even in the good direction). It had everything I love in woodies : airtime, smoothness, a good mix of twists and turns. It also initiates me to the Coney Island Cyclone, which I have not ridden yet ! Here are a few seconds of Viper's 1:30 or so ride ! I so badly wanted to ride Iron Wolf, but sadly it was closed, don't understand why. Even with the sun behind it, Demon is not a brillant coaster. Like most Arrow loopers, it's rough and shaky, and the layout is pretty boring. I did not like American Eagles at all, especially the red side. The blue was tolerable, however the red was very rough, especially in the huge helix. It's just behind the three woodies at Canada's Wonderland and Rolling Thnuder in my list of worst woodies. Of course, since we love B&M hypers, we could not resist to ride it once again ! We also re-rode Viper, my favorite. On the second day, without the flash pass, we went on X-Flight. When we arrived, it was closed, an employee telling us there was a "technical problem". It was testing, so we waited; 5 minutes later it opened and we did not wait at all to ride it ! It was much better than Gatekeeper, smoother and with a very cool layout too. I like Gatekeeper, but it was one of the shakiest B&M's I've been on, making it less enjoyable than its Illinois cousin. My last credit was Little Dipper at night ! My mother's favorite. Also, we are french canadians, and my yonguest brother doesn't speak english very well, so he was pronouncing "Little Diaper". That would not be a very good coaster, wouldn't it be ?

Definitely the Crystal Beach Cyclone. I've already been on it's replacement made with its pieces, the Comet, and I love it ! (Even tough they are two completely different rides). Also, I wonder how the most intense coaster in the world was like. Maybe GCI could rebuild a modern, safer version of this lost thriller ?

Le Monstre at La Ronde is my #3 wooden. It rates terribly bad at Mitch's, but I really enjoy it. I love the layout, the second drop is CRAZY (especially on track 1) and I don't find it very rough, compared to what others said about it. Of course it isn't forcdful and aitime packed, but I still love it ! Also my only two rides on Mean Streak were not that bad. I think I can explain that by : 1) I was on the first and the second row on the two rides, and 2) I had read so much stuff about it beeing a terrible ride I had very low expectations about it. So when I rode it I was like "hey, it's not a top 10, but it's not THAT bad !" EDIT : just thinked about it, although it doesn't seem hated, I don't think most peoples like Intamin/giovanola bobsleds. I've been on the Alpine Bobsled @ The Great Escape a lot and I enjoy it !

La Ronde is my home park, so no ! The Great Escape is pretty close from my home too and I've been a lot, so it's a "second" home park for me, not my favorite but I do like it a lot !

I've just posted a trip report with the multi uploader, and it worked perfectly ! The only problem is the place all inline function that places the pictures in reverse order, as mentionned in previous posts. For the rest, it's an incredible time saver, thanks !

I think it was in 2005 when I was 7 years old, when I got my first La Ronde season pass. I started to learn all the stats of the rides by heart, and I was fascinated by the biggest rides. I also followed the construction of the parks Goliath in 2006, which at the time impressed me a lot. My very first coaster, however, dates back to 2001 when I was 3 years old !

I easily grey-out on a lot of coasters, so I could name a lot of intense coasters for me ! However, Id say that the most intense ride experience I've been on is Kingda ka and Top Thrill Dragster. The one I've had the biggest grey-out is Millenium Force.

^Thanks for the comment ! I've not been to Great America yet, the road trip is tommorow . I was also surprised at how light the crowds were, I think most Ohio schools were open, so probably the only guests there were tourists like me. During weekdays, crowds are lighter too, generally. Getting that much rides was awesome ! I will definitely go back to Cedar Point again someday !

Hey everyone ! This is my very first trip report here at TPR, so I hope you'll enjoy it . So here's the story : my family and I were originally thinking about doing a road trip, first to Niagara Falls, to visit our old neighbors who moved last year, and also to visit The Great Wolf Lodge out there. Then, we would visit Cedar Point, as it was "relatively" close to Niagara Falls, and finally come back by Darien Lake and The Great Escape. However, for several reasons that I won't detail here, we changed our mind and decided to go directly to Cedar Point by plane, and visit Six Flags Great America instead of Darien Lake. I think that was a great choice ! Overall, I really loved Cedar Point and it became my favorite park ! The park is clean, there's a lot of roller coasters and flat rides, and most of them are more than excellent, and the employees are dynamic and a lot more efficient than what I've seen in some other parks. Enough talking, here are the photos : Next stop is a visit to Chicago and then... Six Flags Great America ! Just a side note, if Robb comes by this trip report, I just want to say that I used the new multi-uploader and it worked perfectly, and what a time saver it was ! So this is where we are going ! Getting in the parking lot to Hotel Breakers is awesome, you get an overview of all of the coasters, very impressive ! Sadly, we did not went to the park the first day, as we had to pay our tickets and it was pretty expensive. We stayed at the hotel pool, but our first CP visit was the following morning ! The next day, the first coaster we went on was Maverick, during the early ride time. I had high expectations about it, and I wasn't disappointed at all ! It actually became my favorite coaster ! The only thing I disliked about Maverick was the restraints, which were pretty painful. But that wasn't enough to kill it's awesomeness ! The next coaster on our ride list was Millenium Force, as we followed the tips of a local for the order we should ride. This was also a crazy, crazy coaster, filled with airtime and with a dynamic layout ! However, Mantis wasn't so great. I highly prefer it's two neighbors, MF and Iron Dragon ! I would definitely have been on Skyhawk if it was open. Sadly, it wasn't... The Cedar Creek Mine Ride was a totally decent mine train, and I enjoyed it ! (Ok, I have not been on a lot of mine trains... But it was still good !) The Gemini was a cool credit with very violent airtime ! I had to hold on to my lap bar, else it would kill my legs during the hills. Too bad it wasn't racing (only red side was open), I'm sure it would have highly improved the ride experience. It's impressive to think that this was once the tallest coaster in the world ! Then, it was time for a little bit of credit whoring ! Easily one of the best Vekoma I've been on. However, I did not paid a kid to credit whore on Jr. Gemini like TPR sometimes do in the trips. (Although it would have been funny !) Later that day, after Magnum XL-200 (which was just like Gemini in my mind, just taller) and a good lunch, it was time to keep the gates and go "Keyhole-ing". I have not been on DT, but I have ridden a clone at The Great Escape, and this is a very good replacement. However, I found it a little rougher on the outside seats and it wasn't hot enough to win a place in my top ten list. Even with these downs, it's worth a ride ! I think that Top Thrill Dragster was better than it's bigger brother, Kingda Ka, due to the lap bars only instead of the OTSR. The ride experience is pretty similar : a very intense and shaky adrenaline rush ! And our 70th credit isssssssssssss.... Blue Streak ! And what a great woodie it was ! My 3rd best woodie, just behind El Toro and The Great Escape's Comet (but not by much !) Raptor was also a great B&M, the best inverted I've ridden ! However, I don't have a big point of comparison as I've only been on two Batman clones and one SLC. :o Maxxair was one of the greatest flats I've been on ! It's up to Cedar Point's reputation to making the biggest and best rides. On the first day, there was about half an hour of wait on Gatekeeper. On the second, the wait was at half the stairs leading to the station ! Ohio's students are obviously back to school. EDIT : just noticed this is the line for Millenium Force, on my laptop screen it was so small I could hardly see the difference. The previous facts are still true.) On the second day I was at the park, I took the Fast Lane wristband, and it totally saved the day ! It's hard to see on that picture, but there's about 45 minutes of wait at Maverick. My brother shows you the good way of riding it ! With Fast Lane, we were able to ride it 5 times in the day ! That's without talking about our three rides on Millenium Force, our two rides on Maxxair (which had a long wait) and many others ! "Sadly", many rides were walk-ins, so if it wasn't for the three rides above, FL would have been useless. Nerd shot ! That's the whole wait on Gatekeeper on the second day... It goes down the stairs, but that's it ! Good thing I did not take Fast Lane Plus !

I don't know if Maverick counts as a launched coaster, but if it does... Than that's my favorite !

This is going to be an insane coaster ! I really like the teaser with the SOB getting destroyed, it looked great !

^^Send us a picture of you with the suit, I want to see that !

I also think Six Flags St Louis looks like a very great park ! The three woodies seems great (particularly Evel Knie... euh... American Thunder) and the park in general looks very good, I only read good things about it ! Happy that you have an amazing trip so far !

Happy to know you're having a great trip ! I hope that you will get some crazy, crazy ERT on Outlaw Run... After missing the two others RMCs, you highly deserve it !

^go back to page 55 of this thread, I have posted a few photos of the aquatwist. I also have a video that I'll upload soon, but I can't right now because I post from a tablet

Last coaster was The Comet at The Great Escape, it was running VERY well last week-end ! Mmh, a full coaster of Schmeck awesomeness !

The Great Escape has just closed the Canyon Blaster for the week, as they are turning the trains backward for the month of July ! According to a park employee, it's scheduled to open again next monday.

On the GE site it says the comet is closed on wednesday and thursday, however I hope it will be back running this week-end, I'm coming !

^Normal Flash Pass will probably be ok, Gold at the limit, but not platinum; this is a waste of money. Also I don't recommend to buy in advance, buy it at the park after you saw the quantity of peoples there (even if most days are packed, as I said, on some rare days the rides are a walk-in if you're lucky). For the french, don't worry, most employees are willing to help non-french speaking persons and by the way most peoples talk english very well in Montreal. Just in case, "Bonjour" means "Hello" and "Merci" means "Thank you" ! But as I said you will be ok for the language.

^Yes there is parking at the park, it's 18$ for regular and 25$ for premium (closer to the entrance). If you don't get a flash pass, ride Le Monstre first, Le Goliath second, and finally Le vampire. If you're lucky, you may still have time to ride something else, than ride in any order. Even if you don't want to, I strongly suggest to anyone visiting La Ronde to get a Flash Pass, as most days are completely packed.