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Had one one time where Kings Island (my home park) had torn down Son of Beast (this was before they did it) and replaced it with a clone of Millennium Force (my favorite coaster) but replaced the second camelback with a giant loop. The name of this coaster? The Game. Yes, I lost the game in a dream. Another one I had was where I was at Costco (no idea why) and we were in the parking lot of this Costco on a hillside looking down at a massive theme park in a valley. I had another where I was at KD and Dominator was a B&M flyer for some reason and on the lift hill the train stopped and out of nowhere the restraints flew open and the riders fell to their deaths. I had another where I snuck into Alton Towers at 5 in the morning and talked a maintainence guy into starting up Thirteen...and woke up before the VD element. I had yet another where I was at CP and all of the rides were completely forceless, even Dragster's launch. And Gatekeeper never ended and just kept going. I woke up still on the ride. Last one, I had one where we were getting on Joris en de Draak and the station was heavily themed and the seats were just tubes of padding on a bar and you had just a seatbelt to hold you against it. Meanwhile, a while ago I went to Dollywood with a friend and got her on Wild Eagle, Thunderhead, and Mystery Mine and ever since she's been complaining about having Final Destination-esque coaster dreams.

I've had this crazy idea for a while. It might be hard to support, but RMC could redo racing woodies (Colossus, Rebel Yell, ect.) with the ability to perform zero-g rolls over onto the opposing side of the track. Kind of like a high-five on that Gravity Group in China, but a full roll over/under the other track. Of course, one side would get a bit ahead of the other and unless this is done twice it would make the coaster a möbius loop (unless it's done to Grand National at PBB! They should do it!) Also, Intamin should start rehabbing woodies with plug and play track. Older historic ones such as The Racer or Cyclone that are aging could use track that is more durable to keep from needing retracked but still gives the nostalgia that RMC track would kill. If I'm correct it's just normal wooden track that's made better, and could probably save a few historic gems that are reaching the end of their lifespans. Also, parks could start buying Carolina Cobra-style Vekoma trains for their Arrows that are getting rough. Vortex at KI could easily make these work, as could newer Arrows such as Tennessee Tornado. And I think Arrow hypers could also use the B&M trains that Steel Dragon has. Magnum XL-200 would ROCK with B&M seats. I haven't ridden it but I bet Big One wouldn't be half bad with B&M trains also. Just a few coaster rehab ideas I've had...

Adventure Express at my home park Kings Island. It was also my first full sized steel coaster.

A little kiddie coaster in Pigeon Forge called Dragon Wagon...and it was my 72nd credit.

Well going to Dollywood this week with a 30% chance of a storm, all these reports of their coasters make me excited! I've only ridden Maverick in a small sprinkle but it was great!

E&F Miller: Python Pit (Jeepers in Detroit) (cred #1) Arrow: Adventure Express Vekoma: Barnstormer (WDW) Premier: Flight of Fear (KI) Capirio: Scooby's Ghoster Coaster) B&M: Vortex (Carowinds) CCI: Hurler (Carowinds) Mack: Ricochet (Also Carowinds) Schwarzkopf: Mind Bender (SFOG) Gerstlauer: Mystery Mine GCI: Thunderhead Intamin: Intimidator 305 PTC: Beastie I still have to ride an S&S, a Chance, a Morgan, a GG, and a Maurer. My life isn't that exciting.

I have it but you don't need a kid to ride it. If you go to town hall over by Skyhawk (that museum where all of their Golden Tickets are) you can get a kiddie pass to get on kiddie rides without a kid. I rode it by doing this and honestly, the bunny hills on the diagonal part of the layout were very painful and I felt like the thing was going to collapse under my weight but a credit is a credit! The restraints are more forgiving than Woodstock's (I managed to cram all 230 pounds of my flab into it) but the issue is leg room. If you watch the video I'm about to post of me getting the credit with a kiddie pass, you can see that even in the front car where most of the leg room is my knee was still sticking out the entire ride. I didn't like how the train jerked to the side a bit when it latched onto the lift chain (I had a scare the first time and thought the structure had collapsed) and I was able to reach out and grab a handful of leaves on a nearby tree on the final turn into the station but it was fun and I get to say I did it. The retro feel of that part of the park is really partially completed by this coaster and even though I think they should get rid of the kiddie rides and move them to either Camp Snoopy or Kiddie Kingdom, but I think Junior Gemini should stay. So... HOW TO GET THE JUNIOR GEMINI CREDIT: THE JARRETT WAY 1. Go to Town Hall over by Skyhawk 2. Tell the person behind that glass desk that you are an enthusiast trying to get the Junior Gemini cred and ask for a kiddie pass. They should just fill it out and give it to you no questions asked. 3. Ride Junior Gemini Voila! Now you don't have to ask parents if you can ride with their kids!

In no particular order: *Cheetah Hunt *Montu (should knock this and CHunt off this October) *Manta (Orlando) *Iron Rattler *Boss *Xcelerator *Superman: Escape from Krypton *X2 *Goliath (SFMM, but I'd be fine riding Titan at SFOT too) *Tatsu *Skyrush *Farenheit *Boulder Dash *Kingda Ka *El Toro *G-Force *The Smiler *Nemesis *Th13teen *The Swarm *Nemesis Inferno *Colossus *Psyke Underground *Shambhala *Furius Baco *iSpeed *Fluch Von Novgorod *Wodon *Blue Fire *Projekt Helix *Steel Dragon 2000 *Knight Valley Wooden Coaster (does that thing even have a name???) *Gravity Max Long list, but I'm just 19! I've got time!

Yuck! Forgot to add that! I definitely want Montu, I plan to make it my 75th credit, how could I forget that? It was in no particular order, just the order in which I remembered them. I thought I was forgetting something when I posted that list. Honestly, I'm not that worried about Gwazi. Son of Beast was at my home park, so that might have something to do with this. But I walked into Cedar Point this May hoping to get some more credits (walked out with five more) but I had heard all these horror stories about how rough and painful Mean Streak is and how I'm going to have a huge dental bill and how I'll be in a full-body cast until I'm thirty and have to walk across the stage at my college graduation and get my diploma covered in plaster if I get on it. That thing wasn't rough at all! We sat towards the front and I have no idea what people are talking about! It's now my third favorite wooden coaster (behind Thunderhead and The Beast) and I found it to be very smooth for a woodie of that size. So is Gwazi worse than Mean Streak? I'm curious to see what people say...

This thing's going to ROCK!!!! I like wing coaster restraints, and I think they'll work very well on an invert. Also can't wait to see how they pull off that station, as well as whether or not they'll put the headstones around the lower parts of the ride (bottom of the batwing, for instance). It looks like Banshee's theming will be up to par with Maverick's.

Can't get down to the park tonight due to transportation reasons, but are they streaming it live? I really can't wait to see the aesthetics of the ride. My guess is that the Banshee logo looks similar to the one used for Mantis but with the shrieking spirit instead of the phantom. We've almost confirmed that the supports are blue, and if it's called Banshee with blue supports, I bet we see track that's either charcoal gray, dark purple, or a very light ghostly blue. MAN I'm excited for this! I really hate having just two flagship attractions at my home park and seeing it actually start to get something else big to add to its ride lineup is great!

So we plan to go the 17th of October, spend all of the 18th there, and part of the 19th flying back. We will leave on a Thursday and get back on a Saturday. Sound like it would work? We can hit all of the rides we want in that time frame, right? Rides we want: *Cheetah Hunt (TOP PRIORITY) *Gwazi *Kumba *SheiKra *Air Grover *Scorpion *Sand Serpent *Serengeti Railway *Skyride (confirmed a miss) *Maybe some kind of animal exhibit tour

With all the ha-ha at BGT right now (Gwazi, Skyride, Crown Colony) would it be best to postpone our Tampa trip? We really wanted to ride Skyride and I need every credit there including Gwazi. Should we still go this October?

My dad was at a Reds game last night and said he spoke with a news reporter with an in to Kings Island. If nobody is lying here, it will be the tallest and fastest inverted coaster in the world. Keeping my fingers crossed!

I hope it's a wing coaster but it is most likely an invert. The plans might make for a good wing coaster. It could justify putting the Immelman exit on the batwing, since batwing a exit parallel and close to the entrance. Only things I could see that could kill the wing coaster are the smaller loop and shaping on the zero-g roll. Not sure if Gatekeeper's swerves like that when seen overhead or not. My final guess is on a B&M invert called Banshee, but I could be pleasantly surprised with a wing coaster. I'd prefer the wing coaster, but any large B&M at my home park I'll take and love.

I wanted to eat at Crown Colony when we go in October, this is sad. Desert Grille? Is that place any good? Where should we eat now? Thanks for the help, guys. Only thing we're still wondering is if that's enough time to ride everything and what the rain patterns are like in October.

This. A million times. Ninja at SFOG was the worst coaster I'be ever ridden of my 71 credits. Son of Beast was a close second.

It's not weight, it's size. You have to be able to fit into the restraint with the belt buckled.

Rain is not as bad as it is now, but it is variable. Howl-o-Scream is in October, so it could be busy during the day and closer to the day closure, which I believe is 6 or 7pm. Just do the test seat outside Cheetah Hunt before riding. I know about the test seat, I was just wondering if I could fit now. I fit into Maverick's no sweat when we went to Cedar Point two weeks ago. Should I be fine on Cheetah Hunt's or does it not have as much slack? I'm posting a picture of myself in Maverick's seat here in a bit so I should get an accurate opinion from that. I tend to avoid distressing situations in public (such as haunts) because there's something about my personality that makes it almost always end badly. I borderline raised my voice at a TSA agent last time I flew because I was getting claustrophobic in the scanner and he wasn't hurrying up. Apparently my tone of voice was respectful enough that he didn't raise an eyebrow (or just understood that I didn't do well with enclosed spaces such as those scanners) but as soon as I did it I got really scared that I would be arrested. We're avoiding Howl-o-Scream because knowing me, it'll end with me in a cop car for punching out an actor or something. XD So this is me showing off that I was able to get all 230 pounds of my flab into Maverick's test seat. Will this guarantee that I can get the same amount of flab into Cheetah Hunt's with the same amount of space to spare? My mom said that Florida rains come in short 30 minute squalls daily. Is this still true in October?

So my dad and I are flying down to BGT this October to ride Cheetah Hunt. It's a lot of money for this trip and I want ever cred there. We fly down Thursday, spend the full day Friday, and spend half the day Saturday and take a flight back Saturday afternoon. Should this be enough time to get everything, particularly Chunt? I know Florida has odd rain patterns and Cheetah Hunt's an Intamin so it breaks down a lot. Any tips on how to get around these? We technically could spend all of Saturday and come back Sunday but it costs money and that could be time we don't need. Any tips for this? Also: *How is Florida rain in October? *We are looking at the second or third weekend in October. Is one better than the other? *I'm 5'11 and about 215 pounds. I managed to get about three inches of slack in Maverick's test seat a few weeks ago. Does this clear me to to into Cheetah Hunt as well?

My issue with all the kiddie rides at the Point is how many there are in all those different spots. They have the area around Maxair/GateKeeper, Planet Snoopy, AND the Gemini kids area. They can afford to give up one easily, maybe move some of the Gemini ones to Planet Snoopy or the Maxair area and demolish the rest. Planet Snoopy I get since it's the biggest one and it's themed, and I get having the ones by Maxair since it's near the entrance. But honestly, are you REALLY going to drag your kid all the way to the back to Gemini for some (pretty mediocre and outdated) kiddie rides? Clear out everything there bar Junior Gemini and that area could get a nice facelift. It feels like that part of the park around Magnum/Gemini got frozen in the eighties and I like it, but they could do so much more back there while keeping the area's charm. Maybe put a very large drop tower back there? They already have Power Tower, true, but honestly, the drop side isn't exactly that scary and it feels wrong that that's all the best amusement park in the world has for a drop tower. I think its main selling point is launching you down, too, not the height. Maybe Cedar Point gets their own version of Falcon's Fury opening at BGT but a little taller. Maybe I'm being stupid, but I feel like they could support a drop tower with guy wires like they do radio towers. Build a large antennae on the top and put some guy wires down and you could probably have free standing structures reaching as high as 375 feet tall. That would look great if they put a drop tower over where the park's Frog Hopper currently stands over by Gemini and painted it beige with red accents and supported it with guy wires. It would look nice and fit the area very well. One ride I hope they don't mess with in that area is Junior Gemini. It still gives families something to do back there. I credit whored it last time we went (see that here: ) and as painful as it was (those bunny hills HURT) I felt like I was riding a piece of history on Intamin's first coaster and I think that doing something as simple as lifting the height maximum on it could draw in credit whoring enthusiasts enough to give the ride some popularity back. As far as another coaster goes, they could probably fit one of those new Intamin loopers (like the one going up in Italy with 10 inversions) where Corkscrew is. Cedar Fair isn't that inversion crazy but they could test the water. After all, the best amusement park in the world deserves something with a lot of inversions and the national inversion record seems like their kind of thing. That, or somebody on RCTLounge had pointed out that the park has three car rides; one in the Frontier area, the other two right next to each other at the park entrance and that if they tore the two down, they could fit a GCI woodie there that could overlook the marina entrance. Just a stream of thought about the park brought to you by Jarrett.

I don't get why people thing GateKeeper is rough. I rode it on the outside left in the front and I found it to be butter smooth. A tad forceless, but smooth and a much better ride than Eagle. I agree that TTD needs repainted badly. That red looks HORRIBLE now. Though I personally like Mean Streak. That section where you're actually tearing around inside the support structure rocks. I agree that Corkscrew's on the chopping block. GateKeeper also has that selling point of looking nice going over a path and Corkscrew, while I found it smooth, it's not in the league of their other coasters. I vote if they have to tear it down that they put an inversion crazy Intamin in like the one being built in Rome. None of CP's coasters are exactly inversion crazy and I think that the most inversions in the US seems like a good record for CP. Great trip report! Loved those GateKeeper shots!

^I highly doubt it's a flyer given that Firehawk's at the same park. So I don't know if anybody saw the plans posted to YouTube, but with a little help from RCT3, I made this recreation of them! The discus is approximately where Delirium is. Plans put on YouTube. There's always a chance that they're fake, but I doubt it because they're extremely detailed and as somebody who has taken a few engineering/mechanical drawing courses, these are done correctly and it seems like a lot of effort to put into fooling a few coaster enthusiasts on the internet. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be] So excited!

Silver and blue? I wouldn't mind if that was right. Afterburn's a beautiful coaster and my second favorite invert, I wouldn't mind this one looking like it. However, if it carries the Banshee name, I would prefer either very light teal track (which could give I more of a spectral appearance) or darker charcoal gray track. Dark charcoal gray and blue would look great IMO.

I just recently made a lot of good lifestyle changes after really having to shove the Maverick restraint down at Cedar Point last May in order to make the belt click in. I might have had an advantage here because I have a pretty physically demanding job moving heavy boxes around at a Walmart so I get a lot of exercise already, but I went on the <2,000 calorie diet for a while. Look at all this slack I got from our trip last week! So that was just 2.5 months and I managed to do that. I am no longer worried about flying all the way to Tampa to get turned away from Cheetah Hunt this coming October and while I will still need to lose a lot of weight if I ever go to Silver Dollar City, this goes to show just how easy it can be. If you're going to Silver Dollar City, just do what I did and you'll be fine! Don't get discouraged! Enough about me being fat. I honestly think this is a temporary fix for this situation. If they turn enough people away and get enough complaints about this, they'll probably add belts or something in the off season. There's enough people with 36+ waists that this should have a decent effect on ridership.