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Back to Ocean Kingdom for some Mack goodness. Wait till it gets warmer.

So I guess the "Japanese TOGO's are better than foreign TOGO's" theory is still valid on this one?

The Cove

Any fan of Shameless and Raising Hope here?

^ They can call it the most compact roller coaster... Just make the layout even tighter. I think a Premier Spaghetti Bowl looks great enough to attract people.

Thanks for the pictures!

Love that ride! Put it on my top 15 this year. Great photos Hanno!

Ocean Kingdom kicked HK Disneyland and Ocean Park's a$$. I love that park!

Mt. Olympus must think they have RMC no-maintenance track. CCI quality approved.

First off I agree B&M as a company now doesn't need launches, They are doing very well. But Your statement about other company's variety in products have to disagree. If were talking about in terms of most offerings, I would give that to Intamin, Mack, and Zamperla They offer not just a variety of different coaster styles but as well as a huge selection of Flats. If you were talking just in coasters, Intamin or Vekoma would be my picks. According to there websites Vekoma has 10 different styles of coasters while Intamin has 26 styles (water coaster Included). but If you want to go off how the trains are set up like how B&M is then just for the sake of typing I'll write down the different styles of Intamin provides, Half Wing Style, Sitdown OTSR, Sitdown Lapbar, Spinning Coaster, Mine Train Coaster, Wing coaster, Half Pipe, Zach Spin, Wooden Coaster, AquatraX, Inverted, and Motobike. While not every single product hasn't had the success of B&M's products I don't see many people (enthusiasts and GP) wanting to go back to CP (for example ) For Raptor, Mantis, or Gatekeeper. So in terms of success differs whether your saying whose sold more or what people like. Not to 8 of the top 12 in Mitch hawkers 2012 steel poll were Intamin and 2 B&M or on the 2013 wooden coaster poll 3 in the top 10. The key to my statement was the word "success". Sure, Intamin offers a lot of different styles, but how many of them are actually solid products? Zac Spins get very mixed reviews and have low capacity and few installations. They only have 1 wing style (FB, which is apparently unbearably bumpy), one half-wing (Skyrush, another allegedly painful experience), and the spinning coaster/mine train/inverted coasters are dominated by other manufactrers. What Intamin does best (and has the most of) are blitzes, mega-lites, accelerators, amd gigas...but even then, hypers/gigas/blitzes/mega-lites are practically the same ride, just with different sizes. Sure, you can list all the different coaster types they OFFER, but if they actually install very few of them with true success, then the argument is moot. Sure, Intamin offers different vehicles, but they usually dont change the ride experience for the better. I believe that when you get too many choices, it's very stupid to stick to a particular coaster type. The amount of drop tower types that Intamin offers is already catching up with B&M's total coaster types. On the other hand, Miler's kiddie coasters and Zamperla's family coasters are all over the place but it doesn't means that they are good coasters.

It actually looks pretty smooth. The transitions looks not nearly as bad as Manhattan Express but I did noticed the train bangs around the track during the helix. Sure it is an intense ride and hopefully I can ride it some day. POV cannot judge a ride. *cough* Hades360 *cough*

^ I remember hearing the sound of trim brakes while watching B&M Invert POV's which means those trim brakes are on. Just a matter of how much Banshee got trimmed down because there are a few of them installed on the track already.

About the music CD, I'm 80% sure Liseberg would sell it if people keep saying that Sign me up for the next Scandi trip! Can't wait to go there when I'm 18!

There is something I don't understand, is B&M making their prototype of their earlier coaster types more intense than the later ones to test if the train and the track can handle the speed, force etc? Iron Wolf/Apocalypse, Batman, Kumba, Medusa/Bizarro, Apollo's Chariot all seem more intense than most of the coasters on their type.

I'm sure the seat would be more comfortable than the IKEA one on my bedroom

SkyRush with improved lap bars cloned everywhere.

CGA

Hell Cat

Also partly because I can experience (and have) each element of that ride on another B&M, whether in the sit-down, floorless, or even stand-up models. Heck, Bizarro @ SFGAdv (and thus Scream at SFMM) have the exact same structure of elements (and are nearly the same height/speed). Bizarro to me delivers a much better ride experience; I didn't care for Scream. (FWIW I don't consider the floorless element to be a significant differentiating factor like I would with inverts or dive machines or wing coasters or flying coasters.) B&M's with interlocking corkscrews generally deliver the same experience across the board. B&M's with cobra rolls generally deliver the same experience across the board. There's nothing special about them that sets them apart from any other similar model. At the end of the day, Kumba doesn't give me anything I can't get at most any other park I've been to in the US. Have to disagree with this, elements might be the same but the speed it takes through the element can make it a lot different. Monster and Raptor are almost the same but Monster does not have trim on it's MCBR thus it gives an insane second half. Sleeping Bull and Nitro both has camel backs but Sleeping Bull is trimmed to death and Nitro has some speed through the camel backs thus Nitro has a lot better review than Sleeping Bull. Even barrel rolls, those slow ones on Colossus and the fast one on iSpeed would never be considered the same. Same thing goes to Anton's loop on Mindbender. Speed decides the riding experience a lot more than the actual element.

The knock-off SkyLoop at Chuanglord Manor.

^ Cheetah Hunt is more forceful than Kumba? That's news

I always afraid that those slides and climbing stuffs would fall off because of how unsupported they look like. Great TR! I didn't even have time for photos because I ran around all the time.

^ I was just about to post it

Don't feel like starting a new thread. Mega-Lite is getting a new paint. Seriously? Whole white? Photo credit: RCD

Hershey's Intamin trio: Stormrunner, Fahrenheit and SkyRush. Cedar Point's Intamin line up: MF, TTD and Maverick. Their Arrow line up is pretty good as well. Corkscrew, Gemini and Magnum. Hansa Park's Gerstlauer/Schwarzkopf trio BGT's Kumba, Montu and SheiKra. Ocean Park's Hair Raiser, Mine coaster and Dragon. Mirabilandia's iSpeed, Katun and Divertical. Liseberg's Balder, Lisebergbanan and Helix SDC's Outlaw Run, Powder Keg and Wildfire.