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to the best of my coaster knowledge this is closest to whats going on. Apart from the iron dragon (on which I too have experienced this phenomenon) it usually occurs on larger coasters with extremely heavy chain weights. Like on Phantom's revenge. I'm actually at the park right now, and after watching the chain lift for quite a while, I have noticed that the chain has a lot of slack on the return trip. and when a trains chain dogs hit connect, the slack sections bounce, adding probably a thousand or more access pounds of stress to the motor. causing it to slow down and speed up as the chain settles down. Now on smaller coasters it would have more to do with the weight of the train balancing out, like on Cedar Creek Mine Ride at Cedar Point. The trains already have some momentum going into the lift hill, so as train charges up the hill and loses speed, the small motor is charged with the incredible task of catching an extremely heavy load whose momentum and weight has shifted towards falling down the incline the chain is pulling up from. Therefore you can easily tell when the chain engages because the train comes to a complete stop while the motor has a heart attack stopping the train from falling

wow i just realized they got sized all wierd ugh

This is my second TR hope it doesn't suck. But it is super huge wow I got tired of uploading. this is only about a third of what i took. oookaaaayyy geting tired of uploading lol random pic time almost forgot the awesome carousel Cosmic Chaos, Kennywood's new ride this year Why can't all Paratroopers load like this? Most inexpensive food ever!!!! Swear to bob it has a free wheeling uphill section after the first drop, so by rcdb standards its a coaster isin't it? this ride confuses me log jammer excellence The Whip... Classic, hard to find, old-timer scariness awww how wierd and scary awww how precious oh yeah more Jack Rabbit racer Thunderbolt crazyness first drop, stone cold into a valley. no hill, no chain lift. all valley The Jack rabbit's oooooolllld school It literally runs along the ground.....what's up with that? Jackrabbit's awesome double drop. and.......stop Enterprise reborn love the way this sign looks cool buildings are everywhere not recommended if you like having hands the drop is so close to the walkway you can touch it Pittsburgh Plunge turtle Noah's Ark Wave swinger Music express Areo 360 yay top spins OOOOOH Impressive it swings way over the guests in line Swingshot, S&S Screamin' Swing far swooping mountain back-off-the-cliff turn swoop thingie Super cool "bullet trains" insane bucking bunny hops. They feel as if you will perish. Smooth but very insane gotta love the super-fell-off-the-mountain action None of Kennywood's roller coasters have the first drop as the longest. The first on here is 160ft the second is 230ft most of it is hidden now and inaccessible Phantom's revenge, its harder to catch than a rare pokemon Pirate ship, this one actially sprays drenching fountains from in the bushes towards the midway Super giant can of airtime fo' real fallen visitors you can see it over everything Super awesome Pitt Fall The Arrival

that's my home park too, to bad CF is erasing it. My last coaster is the Jack Rabbit at Kennywood. Yesterday Awesome trip report coming too!

its open until April 15. And CP opens 3 weeks later. So if possible it would be cool to have "Ohio TPR" gatherings at both. And tickets are $16.00 from Marc's for the IX Center and 19 at the door

If there are enough people interested maybe we can get a group going...

It was okay.... The Crazy Mouse was the only adult coaster this year, I guess they sold the other one. There are a lot more rides that I wasn't able to take pictures of, but I got most of the major ones. I used to be terrified of them when I was little, but they are pretty fun. Most of them don't have OSR's just huge padded lap bars in a cage. So when its upside-down the riders just kinda tumble around.

from the look of the crown, I think its Chance. They don't have it listed on flatrides.com though. It just appeared. When I go back, Im gonna see if I can find a tag on it or something. Most rides have a company tag plate or something similar on them

The Satanic Ali Baba's comment was too long so I reposted it here Evil Ali Baba's revenge. Okay, they used to havean Ali baba ride years ago but they took it out or sold it or something. And this one looks kinda similar except a few minor things If you look at the counter-wieght, it has the same decorations as a portable chance inverter. And if if you've ever ridden one, you'll know that it goes way to slow. So I was kinda skeptical about it and almost skipped it. But I went on anyway, and it was THE scariest pendulum ride I have ever been on at a carnival. Or ever for that matter. Even though it goes waaay to slow as expected, it TILTS! Like Acrophobia! And not all the time either it does it randomly, and fast too. It actually feels like the whole gondola just fell off the ride. It was wicked.

Here in Cleveland, before all the super-awesomeness that happens in Sandusky, and the meidiocre-suckiness thats currently happening in Aurora opens. We have the IX Center. For those who don't know about it, the IX Center (International Exposition Center) used to be a tank factory, out by the airport here. It was since converted into the largest expo center in the world. And every spring they host the world's largest indoor amusement park. Some pictures kinda suck, and I wanted to take more, but my camera was havinging issues, so im going back to do this thing proper soon. So bear with me. P.S. They were doing this "lights on and off thing" while we were there, did anyone go through that before? Some midway shots Demonic Ali Baba, ring of fire, and Freak Out I love you KMG!!!! Evil Ali Baba's revenge. Okay, they used to havean Ali baba ride years ago but they took it out or sold it or something. And this one looks kinda similar except a few minor things If you look at the counter-wieght, it has the same decorations as a guess Why do they always have the small stupid wheel when the giant one is like 60ft away Lazyman's paratrooper. It's waay slower then the old-fashoned one, and doesn't even go as high I love this ride. OOOOOH Flashy!!!!!! super shot drop tower. It goes all the way to the ceiling largest indoor Ferris wheel. They actually cut a hole in the roof for it!!! Needless to say its permenant. Crazy Mouse Bumper cars on stilts more mouse crazyness Ring of fire Lights out small-figure-eight-super-catapillar-semi-credit thing-of-child-endangerment-mega-uber-death-and-destruction bored kids on the broken Crazy mouse games an' stuff

It seems most indoor parks are smaller than I thought. Im used to the the IX Center here, though its temporary that place is huge

Freakout is the best one ever. they have it at the ix center every spring. Better then Huss, better then Mondial, best one. Ever Its completely ride-op controlled and the ones running it are sadistic masochists

Geauga Lake is my home park, and I dont understand why they would continually sink so much money into that giga-lame water park when, A. the weather here is usually to cold or rainy B.nobody even really goes to water parks in ohio, and they all suck here (see A.) And if they are just gonna close the park, (I said it since the day they anounced it) why waste the money?

LOL Thanx! Most under-rated ride in the park!

I remeber riding it the year "Escape From Pompii came out" it was a great ride. The 1st. inversion had so much airtime, it was the scariest thing for me! I totally thought I was gonna fall out. I remember seeing the running light's from Loch Ness' lift hill, but I never rode it at night.

I thought that they just had that type of layout copyrighted

Personally I like all elements on some coasters. Meaning the ride should be taken as a whole not by parts. You can't just take one fraction of time in space, and compare it to something else. It like saying "the 3rd second during the fall on Demon Drop is way better then the 3rd on Freefall". If a B&M had an Arrow Cork it wouldn't be the same. B&M coaster and Arrow coasters are designed for completely different reasons and to me niether are outdated. B&M coasters are design to look and feel much faster and larger then they are. By utilizing the same " swooping hill, Giant Loop, Giant Inversion, Other Giant Inversion, brake run, jumbled twistedness, small Inversion jumbled mess formula on every coaster." And Arrow pretty much makes dramatic coasters. the first vertical loops are usually very powerful and the rest of the layout gets more and more relaxed. Like SFMM Viper that was mentioned earlier. The first three loops are very strong with positive g's the whole time. Then after the brake run, the inversions get more stretched out and dramatic, and you spend as much time upside-down in each of the small final four as the B&M giant inversions. So I love both. The only thing I can honestly say is outdated is the GD cloning of everything! If it's not exactly the same it's close to it or reversed. " Oh have you riden Scream at SFMM? It's like Medusa east but with pavement!" (Vekoma) "We have perfected the Flying Dutchman! Yep by tightening the corkscrews to twists and adding a helix, they'll ride it like its not Stealth" Same for GOLIATH "Titan" GOLIATH "Apollo's Chariot" and GOLIATH "Nitro" at least over seas they painted it different (Goliath I mean). Parks need to realize that people travel now, if your gonna build something "world Class" stop building it like everyone else in the world.

ugh If you look online his real identity is easy to find. I found it accidently. He really doesn't hide it. But in real life he kinda seems to have issues so I really don't want to disclose it. He's from CA and he's 28 years old.

Cedar Point Geauga Lake Kennywood King's Island Knoebles Dorney Park Hershey's Park Paramount's Great America? Six Flags Marine World? (Yay Shouka) Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Sometimes its cool sometimes it annoys me. At CP there was a girl how screamed the entire Witches' Wheel cycle omg it was so annoying. But then there was a girl who got on the ride before us and she was so scared and it was unbearably funny. So I guess it depends on the ride and the people. Oh, when I was younger me and my sister, had a rule that the the only way you can beat a ride you afraid of is not to scream and show you're afraid. So it kinda stuck. But I laugh a lot if its a great ride.

I point was made that SF removed several classic rides when the park was switch over. Which in itself was tragic. But atleast they replaced them with new rides. When CF removed them, they were just removed. And as for the riding policies, part of the charm over cp was that small park mentality, the fact that you could ride rides over and over again without waiting. Especially during frightfest. People would chant and shout on the Texas Twister to have them add extra spins to the ride (on slow days the sometimes let the ride ops control it). And last rides on the Villian and Batman used to last multiple runs. And now that CF runs it all that charm is gone. And TT got spayed. (and it had nine settings I know them all by heart) And the new waterpark is very overrated, by ohio standards its a great waterpark, because ohio doesn't really have a market for them so they all suck. Last season the waterpark was split across the lake. That means if you were in the waterhouse and wanted to go to the wavepool you would have to either walk all the way around the inner edge of the park, or wait 30 min. for a 20 min. ride across a less then quarter-mile lake just to swim. Plus the new pools are very small and in no shape or form constructed for actual capacities. And there are only two slide complexes, 1 pool, an awesome Lazy River, and a small watercomplex. In a climate thats usually chilly. It sucks. I agree with the majority of the posts on this page. CF's whole point was to take control of a financial threat. Whether or not the park stays open probably doesn't matter to them. Six Flags had gotten partial approval to build another coaster along the side of the park, if CF had wanted to build the coaster half of the work was already done. CF knows 100% what works, they 100% knew that waterpark was gonna suck. How many years has Soak City at CP gone without any promotions of new rides or anything? Of course they mention the park is there, but they know theose crowds come 98% for the park. So why blow that much for a waterpark? Because if you are killling a 10 year old you can at least say you tried.

Not only that but they LOST some major rides! Silver Bullet (Huss Enterprise) and Mr. Hydes Nasty Fall (1st gen freefall)

I'm not sure why, but ohio has an extremely empowered history of killing classic, awesome amusement parks. From Coney Island to Euclid Beach, Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio has slain many parks for almost as many reasons. Rcdb list twenty-two ohio parks that have met their fate from bad management to freak twists of fate. Unfortunately, soon we will probably be adding Geauga Lake to the list. If your not familiar with this parks history its actually quite amazing. Poeple often overlook Geauga Lake as its constantly overshadowed by Cedar Point and Kings Island. But Geaga Lake has held it's own through the roughest and toughest times foramusement parks. Even while Ivy-league parks such as Euclid Beach and Idora, as amazing and iconic as they were, closed their doors and slipped into the cold darkness of history, Geauga Lake managed to survive. Even when Cedar Point itself was unsure of its future and struggling to keep the paint on its rides, Geauga Lake still managed to perservere as a family owned park. Throughout the parks long and enduring history it has had its share of owners. But in the mid-90's what some would consider the unthinkable happened. The park was bought by premier parks. And amazingly pretty much stayed the same. In my opinion they pretty much snuck in there, and gave the park a much needed boost to thier ride index. They kept most of the original rides and brought the Top Spin to the U.S.A. They also brought the first Intamin freefall over to the park. (Even though it did make the killer rides list at SFGA as The Edge). And even survived a Six Flags Invasion as Six Flags Worlds of Adventure while reaquiring the land once occupied by Sea World. But it seems as if Geauga Lake has met the Grim Reaper cleverly disguised as Cedar Fair. Who in two seasons killed the traditions, sterilized the personality and spayed the octoberfest & halloween events. As Six Flags I got to make a cool friend (who is now an employee) by talking with her, for almost an hour on the Mind Eraser (vekoma Boomerang)! Somewhere after our 35th consecutive ride we parted ways and have been cool ever since. As Cedar Fair's Geauga Lake, in the middle of july, "new policy" denied my friend Travis and I re-rides on the Double Loop. Even though we were the only two on the train. Even though there were only five people in the entire station and queue line (the two of us and three ride ops). EVEN though there was another train with 'A' passenger on it and they had to run it anyway. So they ran it empty instead of letting us stay on or waiting for the guests runnning up the station steps. The also; killed the Animal shows (which were incredible), reduced The Texas Twister (top spin) to its tamest setting (the 'official reason was its too intense for the park after 11 yrs. of operation), got rid of rerides and other such niceties, dismantled their only drop ride, spent 23 million on a tacky waterpark in a cold climate area, took out the pop hits soundtrack and started blasting their own radio spots on loop throught the park, turned Thunderhawk into a traffic cone, attempted to abolish the bus line from Cleveland to the park (thwarted by the riders though), Defaced thier B&M trains (ground out the batman logos with a power sander), killed employee morale (I know a few of them and all hate it there now), assasinated halloween, and, according to screamscape, won't build a coaster til 2008 which would be SEVEN years since thier last one (X-Flight 2001)

Hey, My names Aaron, i'm from Cleveland Ohio U.S.A. I love to talk about Amusement Parks. I have been lucky enough to have "america's roller coast" as my home park (Cedar Point) as well as America's.... roller... Lake?? (sister park Geauga Lake). I love talking about Geauga Lake vs. SFWOA, and Ohio parks in general. I am 22 years old. And ran out of stuff to say =^_^=

Geauga Lake and Cedar Point are my home parks. I'm not sure how far Waldameer is from Geauga Lake, but if it is close enough, you can do both and still make it to CP by five. Since Cedar Fair drove the remaining crowds away, it only takes at most 2.5 hrs on a busy day to ride all the major rides at least twice. ( seriously)