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One of my biggest pet peeves! I read a sign the other day while driving home. "Expect delay's" *facepalm*

Looks great! My little sister loved Log Peeler and Charlie Brown Speedway, but maybe I can get her to ride these new rides. Out with the old and in with the new!

I agree 100% with this statement. Helix looks phenomenal.

^ Every time I visited Knott's (even on some very low-crowd days) Timberline Twister has quite the line. I don't know if it is the capacity, but families are almost always lined up for it. It's a very good kiddie coaster, but is aging and getting rough.

^ The large inflatable Snoopy that sits on top of the bounce house has been gone a for quite a while now, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it removed.

I prefer Option 1. I think it looks more complete, and the Twitter feed is an excellent touch! However both are definite improvements over the current one.

Fire! Skyrush or I305?

Wow! Banshee is looking REALLY good! It's nice to see a B&M Invert with a little more unusual layout. Can't wait to ride it!

I've never been on an Intamin 1st Gen Freefall; I was a couple years late for the one at SFMM. They look pretty sketchy though (in the good way)! Oh, and I don't know if this is important, but it has really been bugging me that there is an apostrophe on the word "Free Fall" in the title of this thread when "Free Fall" is plural. I have no intention of back-seat moderating, but I just thought that I would point this out.

Knott's - 1 hour SFMM - 2 hours Disneyland - 1 hour

I would combine Cedar Point and Disneyland. It would have a great selection of rides, thrilling and family-friendly, and have great theming!

^ The same reason CW built Leviathan.

^ Agreed. It's nice to see a B&M Flyer for a change rather than one Wing coaster after another.

It looks great! It's going to be an insane ride... I'm curious about the restraint system they're going to use. It better be comfortable if you are going to suddenly slow down after falling 230-ish feet...

^^ Krake is more expensive than Griffon and Sheikra?

A Giga coaster with massive inversions would be really cool to see. Imagine a 300-foot drop and a 220-foot loop!! Probably wishful thinking though...

Like others have already said, it looks like a perfect mix of Manta and the Superman clones if the concept art is true.

I definitely see X-Flight being cloned at other parks. It can sit on flat ground, and can go to basically every Six Flags park because SFGAm is the only one with a Wing coaster (although I hope it doesn't go to SFMM. It will "be the same as X2 and Green Lantern!").

^ Other El Locos seem to be generally quiet, however this one is indoors so the sound could be amplified a little, like Canyon Blaster. I doubt it would be as loud though due to the small cars as opposed to trains.

REVOLUTION! It would be such a good coaster if the trims were turned off and those pointless OTSRs were removed!

^ Interesting. 2014 is KD's 39th anniversary, but 40th season of operation. I guess I'm just taking the terminology too literally. Six Flags Magic Mountain opened in 1971 and celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2011, so I guess Cedar Fair looks at it differently.

^ Yes, I was just looking at it differently. As for it being Alpengeist, I have no idea. I guess only Busch Gardens and Mr. Walter Bolliger have the answer.

^ Yes, because, as said before, Alpengeist has a zero car, so the limited pivot point is not between the first and second cars, it is between the zero car and the front car.

But that would mean that the first and second car would remain at the same angle relative to each other. But from the pictures they don't. If you look carefully, the area between the first and second cars don't have as much flexibility as between the rest of the cars. They can still bend a little, but not as much as the others. With the exception of Alpengeist, in which the zero car acts as the "special connection" with limited movement.

That's how nearly all coaster trains work. That "special connection" is in the front on B&M, Intamin and most of them, and at the back on Arrow/Vekoma. Yes, but remember that a lot of sit-down coasters have a lead car, like B&M's Sitting, Hyper, and Stand-Ups, as well as a lot of Intamin Hypers, LSMs, and Looping coasters, with the exception of the Floorless and Dive coasters, in which I assume they use that "special connection".