JonnyRCT3

In the U.S. Phoenix Salt Lake City Seattle Honolulu

Bizarro @ SFNE or Bizarro @ SFGADV. Not to forceful, yet very enjoyable.

1. Inverted 2. Dive 3. Mega 4. Wing 5. Floorless / Sitting 6. Flying > Great Concept, terrible execution. 7. Stand Up > Why?

Doing it better than SeaWorld! That is truly stunning.

Glad this park is getting something significant. First major improvement/addition since Renegade. I've always personally thought that section of the park could use a bit more love. Had the standard CF concrete river theme. Nice to see management adding these family sections to their parks. SF could learn a thing or two here...

Give it about a week, and it will be just as big as Full Throttle. No excuses then SFMM.

The radii at the bottom of the valley or the "pull out" is all I really needed to know. BTW, the formula I used is; r=V²/Acentripetal

I'm trying to figure out "what" the radius is. When dealing with something like a coaster, THIS doesn't offer much help. This is the situation... Vertical Drop is 64.5 meters (211.6141 feet). Creating a MGPE of 35.5676 m/s (79.5625 mph). The G's at the bottom of the drop will be less than or equal to (at max) 3.5 g's. Assume that this is a single-car Dive Coaster, to eliminate the length issues in the equation. After doing the math I got a r(radius) of 51.599 meters (167.2910 feet). So my question is this. What exactly is the radius? Is it the length of the turn in this picture (below), or what? i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g399/ShippudenMan/RAD_zpsffad8c3c.jpg [not drawn to scale] I know that drop curves (radi) aren't perfect quarter circles, so I'm just going to assume to use a 3:5 ratio for the curve. (3 is vertical distance and 5 is the horizontal distance) Although with a single-car dive coaster, I'think a quarter circle is reasonable. I will most likely be posting more questions like this on this thread. I'll appreciate the help.

Jack Rabbit @ Kennywood. It had some good air on that double-down, nothing to rave about. Besides that, this coaster did NOTHING for me. The most over-rated crap ride ever. Thunderbolt is miles ahead of Jack Rabbit, just my 2c.

I for one would like to see an Hydraulic launch Intamin Giga. Could be interesting, albeit a tad shorter than the rest.

First large project on NL. Very new to this program. Unnamed RMC Iron Horse 200' tall 75+ mph 100° overbanked dive into tunneled helix Negative G Roll. Camelback Hill (-1.4 g's ) Maximum of 4.5 G's. 360* Negative G Roll (custom piece and delivers some great Negative G's)

I know it isn't the "first" drop, but it is the largest drop. Phantom's Revenge's second drop gets my vote. Fantastic!

That bunny hill will either provide some great negative G's, or plaster those restraints onto your body. I'm a bit shaky with this element

The Voyage + Iron Horse (even though It's not needed) = Take my money.

Scream @SFMM. Don't build a coaster for the sake of having yet another coaster. Especially when you put little effort into the ride itself. Like building it a parking lot, giving it a horrible name and letting it rot.

Give it the NTG/OutlawR/Goliath treatment, but with topper track. More appealing IMHO.

Kingda Ka.

^ I don't see why parks don't just go with the topper track route. They can do just as much (Goliath-OutlawRun), and still remain a wooden coaster. This is what mean streak needs, not the Iron horse because then it becomes a total knock off of NTG.

I can see at least one moderately sized coaster out of all of this. Around $15M - $20M max. Maybe another smaller family coaster ($5M). Alot of this could be spent on the minor things like paving and general sprucing up the park. A updated waterpark, new lighting on rides, improved childrens' area, better food options, possible themed areas, and of course some newer up-to-date flats. It would be a REAL SHAME if the majority of this was spent on a coaster. There is SO much more that can be done with a budget like this.

^ Hmm. Lets see. When counting rides only. GhostRider 13m Perilous Plunge 9m Xcelerator 13m La Revolucion 3m (est) Screamin Swing 4m (est) Silver Bullet 16m Total is 58m, a bit over-budget, exclude P.P. and you're back on track(49m). So I don't think it's to far-fetched to see something similar. Hopefully a big chunk of it gets spent on sprucing up the park.

^ What didn't they get is the question. Supreme Scream (1997) Ghostrider Knott's Berry Farm Resort Hotel Perilous Plunge Knott's Soak City U.S.A. Xcelerator La Revolución Screamin' Swing Silver Bullet Minus the hotel, that's about a $50M investment.

With this new investment in the park. I can certainly see it getting the Knott's treatment(from 1998-2004).

Goliath @ SFGAM. That one completely caught me off guard. Was not expecting anything major from the park at all.

Who decides on these colors, like seriously? Merlin apparently has a strong distaste for color. Anywho, this thing is being built at lightning speed. Must be a lot of theming / interior involved with the ride if they are throwing it up this soon.

I doubt anything like that would be put in that spot anytime soon. I'd laugh if Knott's put in a SkyScreamer though.