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There's definitely some potential here. Looks great!

A Sophomore in high school...if that counts. My dream is to become a civil engineer and hopefully own my own roller coaster design firm someday. Or become a designer for a specific park/chain, similar to what Dal Freeman does at Lagoon. Or own/operate an amusement park. Let's just say it'll be in the amusement industry!

Both have B&M Hyper Coasters. Six Flags Mexico and Seaworld San Antonio

^It'll probably end up being a few pillars with a black tarp for a roof.

Diamondback's first drop in the back right seat is fantastic. It's a solid 3 or 4 seconds of pure 0g.

^It's interesting to hear someone else's opinion on Desperado. I have ridden it a handful of times and none of them have really been "bad". I found Magnum to be much more rough. I still don't have the Manhattan Express credit yet. But I guess that's a good thing?

I'm a little confused by your question. Could you elaborate more?

B&M. While they may not be the company that "pushes the limits", they definitely create solid, reliable coasters that parks go crazy for. Cedar Fair has been a big purchaser from them recently, not to mention a few international parks. They have also expanded their horizons a little more recently with their first giga coaster, first family coaster, and first LSM launch coaster. Who knows, maybe we'll see a wooden coaster or a flat ride from them some day.

Colossus--Six Flags Magic Mountain

Both have a type of Vekoma Boomerang. Silver Dollar City and Islands of Adventure

El Toro. It would be my first and last ride on it!

^Awesome. I'm interested to see all of the little bunny hills leading up to the lift hill...assuming the animation/concept art is correct.

I agree with this. Vortex was plain hell. It proudly sits and the bottom of my list...good friends with Mantis, Mean Streak, and Flight of Fear.

^That idea was confirmed several times several pages back.

To be completely honest, this park looked GREAT until you added that ugly dueling inverted coaster. In my opinion, it totally ruined the park's charm. Otherwise, I look forward to more!

Montezooma's Revenge. A good one, too.

"That's a great way to lose your virginity again!" from the knock-off shuttle loop with the painfully slow lift hill!

B&M is back, guys! Look at those snappy transitions! In all seriousness, this looks pretty neat! And I DOUBT that it was a coincidence that the announcement was on p2015 of the thread!

They both have launched Vekoma spaghetti bowls. Darien Lake and Knott's

I have quite the story to tell for my first Intamin. As you all know, an infamous cable incident occurred on Xcelerator at KBF on September 16, 2009. This happened before I was tall enough to ride. Well one day, on April 26th, 2010, my family took me and my good friend to Knott's, mainly due to the fact that I was finally over 52" and I could ride Xcelerator...assuming it re-opened yet. We didn't know. But we headed to the park anyway, and found out Xcelerator was still closed. We were sort of expecting it, so we just continued with our day. However, at about 5:00pm, my friend called me from the Boardwalk (I was over by GhostRider) and said, "Hey Nathan, Xcelerator JUST re-opened! Hurry!" At first I didn't believe him, but I sprinted straight to the ride anyway. Sure enough, the ride was open, fresh with brand new yellow lap bars, new seats, new paint on the trains, and of course, a new cable. I went straight into the line, a little terrified to be honest (I was 10 years old), and I nervously got in line for the back car (I was too anxious and impatient to wait in a longer line for another car). My mom and sister (who was 2 years younger than me but the same height as me) rode first, in the back car, and I remember seeing them on the brake run with the biggest smiles on their faces! I was so excited. I got in the back car, completely terrified since this was the tallest and fastest coaster I had ridden to date, but after the ride when we pulled in to the brake run, the ride instantly jumped to my favorite coaster. It was my #1 coaster for a few months until I visited SFMM for the first time that following summer for my 11th birthday. All in all, it was a VERY good day, and I ended up being one of the first few public trains on Xcelerator after being closed for 7 months! April 26th, 2010. I'll never forget that day...

Mean Streak, Mantis, and Colossus Backwards are right at the bottom of my 85-credit list.

I've never been to the park, but I've heard that Wild Adventures is always fairly manageable with crowds.

Great report! It's nice to see someone so enthusiastic about an out-of-the-way park like this. Despite the only true custom coaster being Cheetah, it looks like it has a solid collection of rides.

It would have a ton of comfortable airtime and would kick Millennium Force's butt! What if all Intamin Accelerator coasters had the trains turned backwards and replaced with lap bars?