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1. What is the farthest distance you've traveled to specifically visit a theme park? Taking a three-day trip to Xi'an with my family for Lewa Adventure. If it is a whole trip then Texas/Midwest 2013 with TPR. 2. Your favorite coaster in the state you live in? Legend/Voyage 3. Would you rather wait in line for a boomerang (at any park) or a VR coaster @ a Six Flags? Boomerang. I haven't had a bad experience with them yet! 4. Have u ever been the only person in a train during a coaster ride? Yes, Hong Kong Disneyland Space Mountain back in 2005 5. What is your favorite thing to do at your home park that does not involve riding something? Chimelong Paradise - Shrimp steam dumplings!! Indiana Beach - People watching. 6. Better time for ERT: Early morning or late night? Late night because I can't get up for early morning. 7. Name some theme park food that *sounds* gross, yet is oh-so-delicious? Since I'm not from the US, corn dog gets my vote. 8. Name your top three "bucketlist" coasters you have yet to ride. Kärnan, Expedition GeForce, SkyRush. 9. Have you ever been E-Vac'd? Did you receive anything if you did? Yes, Roaring Rapids at Shanghai Disney. Got a free FP. 10. What is the longest length of time you've waited for a coaster? 4.5 hours for Dizzy Love and Whirling Passion, best coaster name btw. 11. Worst flat ride ever. Name it. Spinning cup, eww! 12. Your favorite SWEET treat at a park that is NOT your home park. Disneyland/Silver Dollar City cinnamon roll. 13. Congratulations! After aggressively gambling on the Plinko game you finally won a front of the line pass. Which ride do you use it on? Flying Dinosaur at USJ. 14. If you could have a lifetime fast pass to ONE attraction what would it be? Either Maverick or Outlaw Run. 15. Have you ever been next to someone that puked on a coaster? No and I hope that never happen to me ever. 16. Your home park is getting a new B&M and YOU get to pick what type. Do you want an invert/hyper/dive/floorless/flyer/wing/standup? All of the above is not an option. Flyer, but I get to design the layout. 17. Name your favorite Vekoma. TRON! 18. What water ride delivers the most unacceptable amount of wetness? American Plunge 19. If you were able to help design a coaster would you want it to focus on airtime or inversions/positive G's? Airtime, it would be very dynamic but more floaty. 20. Most comfortable trains/seats for a coaster are... Gerstlauer Infinity w/lapbar, Mack mega and Intamin new gen hyper tied. 21. Choose one: Unlimited front-of-the-line access to your favorite coaster at your home park for one season OR $1,000 cash? $1,000 cash duh. 22. You just got drowned by a flume/rapids/chute-the-chutes. Do you pay the $$ for the dryer machine or do you continue on with your day trudging around like soggy dog? I always change my shirt and keep going. 23. What is the worst food you've had at your home park? Chimelong Paradise - milk tea Indiana Beach - anything 24. You're at Cedar Point. You have a one hour ERT session on ONE coaster of your choice. You choose... Maverick. 25. Favorite (non-clone) dark ride? Pirates of the Caribbean Shanghai 26. What was your favorite park you visited in 2016? Disneyland 27. What's your current credit count? Don't be shy. 352 28. Winner winner chicken dinner! You just won a trip with hotel and airfare included. The catch is its only good for Six Flags America or Mt Olympus. Which do you choose? SFA 29. What is the best Intamin coaster you have ridden? Maverick 30. Your home park has to remove one coaster and one flat for an expansion. Which two rides would you be OK with losing? Chimelong Paradise - Motor Coaster and Crazy Bus Indiana Beach - Hoosier Hurricane and Tilt-A-Whirl 31. Song/music you've heard playing at a park that absolutely has not business being played in a theme park? Taylor Swift. I adore you building a life by pretending you always get hurt but stay the hell out of my life! 32. There's 5 minutes before the park closes. You choose to: Reride your favorite coaster in the park, OR get the new kiddie/junior coaster credit? New credit. And that was actually what I did at Busch Gardens Tampa and Holiday World! 33. Do you visit the waterpark if it's connected to the amusement park? No 34. What 2017 addition are you most looking forward to? Pandora 35. What was the most disappointing addition to your home park in the past 10 years? Chimelong - An SBL Drop Tower. Indiana Beach - Only been there once and I didn't look into what they did. 36. The most overrated coaster ever is... X2. Sorry but the other two are just 10,000 times better. 37. What ride makes you wanna vomit? Spinning cup, HUSS Frisbee, spinning coaster etc. 38. What is the best consolation prize you've won at a games booth? A 5ft tall dinosaur from Ocean Park. 39. And the worst? A knock-off Donald Duck doll bc China. 40. End this questionnaire by posting a picture of your favorite light package (coaster/flat).

31/100, so many coasters I could've been on and where TF is Dodonpa???

Those are very innovative and the family invert system looks beautiful, but also the slow turn/s-track plus the braking, stopping and the huge transfer section that moves the entire train plus LSM etc seems like it is excessive and not efficient enough.

I don't know how I feel about this Twisted Looper concept. From a park's standpoint, yes it is huge and it is a low budget ride, but If the price tag comes close to Premier's SRII I would still buy from Premier. SRII has much smaller train(s) (32 vs 12/18) which means way less electricity consumed (plus this one requires 4 launches and additional boost on every cycle) and usually medium sized parks that need a new big thing doesn't require such high capacity. Plus this is basically a non-inverting loop but SRII is way more dynamic and flexible.

Scenery aside, I think MF is loved by so many people because Millennium Force stays fast af the whole time without any MCBR. Steel Dragon is more forceful than MF but the first two hills are sort of like B&M hypers, you go really fast then slow down and float through the top of a hill. I mean you float through the second hill of MF too but you stay really fast when you float through it so air is constantly rushing past your face. On B&M hypers, while you're floating, the train is relatively slow as you top the airtime hills.

Since you'll be riding that thing like a motorcycle, I wonder how the crowd management side will work out. I mean Tron works well because it is in China and it is a roller coaster...

I don't know how I feel about the 10% off Christmas sale on the front page. http://www.rides-beston.com/

Rest in peace. It's terrifying how unsafe these city parks in China are.

There is also no speakers on the train which is very not Disney.

For a Mack, I would say it looks about full speed.

Universal Studios Orlando!

Over Water Roller Coaster (Wasn't tall enough to ride it when it was open, shame!) Happy Valley Shanghai?

I sure wish Disney wouldn't put a naked train on one of the most beautiful coasters out there, but there's also California Screamin'

It's the most basic MK1212, Literally naked! But the train looks nice so whatever...

Goliath Indiana Beach?

It's very different because it was during the time when people are still figuring out how everything works. Someone took the risk and someone paid for it. Of course, there are far better rides at CP but Magnum is always the one that started everything and the one with the most character. Now can we talk about how Arrow used up stop plates on Magnum even though Moonsalt Scramble, which was taller and had inversions, has been running for 6 years in Japan?

Wood: Outlaw Run Python in Bamboo Forest Legend Voyage Beast Steel: Maverick Mega-Lite Dodonpa Top Thrill Dragster Fujiyama

Splash Mountain. WDW/Tokyo versions are better engineered but DLR has the better soundtrack.

I agree with 100% what you said about Shanghai. My initial thoughts about the park was excellent and during grand opening day, I put it in my top 3 parks. But that was because about 1/3 of the people in there were Disney fans from Japan and US, lots of CM were from Hong Kong or overseas, they only let about 30,00 people in, almost all the effects were working well etc. Then the second time I went there during winter break, I would say the park is rather chaotic with Mainland Chinese CM not well trained enough to handle a lot of the situations. Hong Kong has been going really strong lately, I have high hope for that park's future!

Simple rule, make a list of your top 10 rides in Disney/Universal/Six Flags/Cedar Fair/Merlin/Sea World, Busch Gardens/Herschend whatever park chains you can think of. Just another thread to help everyone get through the horrible off-season!

Yeah I will go if I hang out in Disney Springs and at least I can say I've been there then.

Is it worth visiting there and spending $45 on ticket at all? Thinking about stopping by during spring break and see what it is all about.

Damn I'm glad it stays in the scrap yard now.