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A couple of weeks the ago, the ride operator at Mamba brought in a rubber snake and making hissing noises into the microphone. He even wrapped the snake around his neck and started talking to it. It was extremely weird, but very entertaining. Also, during ERT one year on Prowler, the operators turned off the station/lift hill lights so we could take a ride in absolute complete darkness. They even held the lap bars as the fell down so we would only get one click.

I think you need to be on mushrooms to believe that sh**.

I've rode Patriot at Worlds of Fun in the rain. Lifesaving Advice: NEVER RIDE A B&M INVERT IN THE RAIN. The top of the trains collect water from the downpour, and as you travel up the lift, the experience is similar to the tipping buckets at water parks.

Our standards are low, but not that low! I would legitimately rather getting nothing.

hey did you know when they first tested lightning rod one of the test dummys heads fell off? its true my cousin works at the park and he told me the ride was unsafe but they opened it anyway. one time me and my friend were riding and the guy beside us got decapitated and the people working in the station just cleaned it off and moved on and the news didn't say anything because the park payed them off.

GCI coasters are great, but their retracking is pretty bad. The coasters turn out smooth, but that's about it. They turn out rather forceless and boring compared to their previous incarnations. Timber Wolf is an example. Use to have ejector airtime and decently steep drops. Now it has a little floater airtime and ramps. Always wish for RMC instead. ALWAYS. Knott's fans are in for a surprise if they think Ghostrider will be the best woodie in California next month. Okay, well I don't care who re-tracks it as long as they do a great job and maintain the airtime! I just wouldn't want to see Mighty Canadian Minebuster get RMC'd as I enjoy this coaster the way it is, especially since it has some historical significance of being modeled after the Shooting Sat at Coney Island (Cincinnati). RMC does simple wooden retracking too. They've done it to plenty of coasters.

Trump is way too old to be riding coasters. He's only five years younger than Bernie! No way he will do this.

GCI coasters are great, but their retracking is pretty bad. The coasters turn out smooth, but that's about it. They turn out rather forceless and boring compared to their previous incarnations. Timber Wolf is an example. Use to have ejector airtime and decently steep drops. Now it has a little floater airtime and ramps. Always wish for RMC instead. ALWAYS. Knott's fans are in for a surprise if they think Ghostrider will be the best woodie in California next month.

Great idea if they replace the regular trains for the new restraints for Boomerang. I know it's Michigan's Adventure, but they can spare $2 million every 20 years I hope.

People will definitely come to see the nice new White Water Canyon facade.

Uncle Matt is a smart guy.

The ride will not be better at a higher speed.You're running a 180 ft. coaster at giga coaster speeds. Not only will that tear itself apart, but the riders as well. There's a difference between some nice ejector and painful, testicle-crushing airtime. Plus some of the hills are so compact that you might be just falling to your seat at the time you were supposed to hit another one. Overall, bad idea to go that fast. I would never ask for any coaster to go 20 mph faster than it should.

I would argue longer than that, I'd say 20 years. The Boss was a cheap alternate to a Hyper. Then we lost our Hyper to SFOG. All the frigging hand-me-downs from Texas (Astroworld, Dallas). I guess the two highlights are American Thunder and Justice League (when it is working). My family used to have passes but we haven't renewed in years. Instead we road trip every summer for a weekend at another park in the Midwest. It was decided a weekend trip is better than a season at SFSTL. This is the modern problem with small corporate parks in the U.S. now. Companies like Cedar Fair, Six Flags, and even Herschend find it acceptable to neglect their smaller parks in order to add huge, expensive rides to their other parks. They are too obsessed with profit that they barely have any insight into the future. That was Six Flags' downfall in my opinion and the reason the wealth is spread a little bit more even between the parks. Cedar Fair will soon realize it has gigantic mega parks with so many people attending that there is little room for growth. Meanwhile, the smaller parks all have 10+ year old aging, small attractions that aren't marketable anymore and need to be replaced. Honestly I believe RMC saved Six Flags. Without their fantastic, cheap coasters, Six Flags would have a very hard time bringing the company back together. Mark my words: If CF doesn't change it's ways soon, they will fall just like Six Flags did.

The problem is Dollywood management is full of a bunch of babies. I say crank it up to 150 mph just to claim the overall speed record. #DOITDOLLY

Another entitled enthusiast! How DARE you COMPLAIN about a ride they specially built JUST FOR YOU. WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE GOT NOTHING?!?

I guess you could say it's not ... Outlaw "Running" at the moment. Haha I'm so funny. i use bad puns to cover up how dead I am inside.

No offense, but I really don't see GCI breaking any records in the near future. Maybe "Most Banked Turns on a Wooden Coaster," which is a record I assume they already hold, but I don't see them going for height or speed. Also, maybe I don't pay enough attention, but Cedar Fair hasn't seemed to go big for anniversaries so I personally would not predict a large addition lining up with Kings Island's 50th. +1. GCI has their niche, and it's not breaking height/speed records. Also, enthusiasts seem to speculate and care more about park anniversaries than parks do... Cedar Fair does not center their attractions around anniversaries. We should already know this by now. It is fact. Ask Kings Dominion, CGA, Worlds of Fun, or Valleyfair how their anniversaries went.

Well... I mean he's not wrong...

Good quote from Matt Ouimet on dark rides (from CoasterRadio's latest podcast) "We are looking at different sizes of attractions so that even a park that's smaller like Valleyfair can get it. So Worlds of Fun can get it. I think this week we solved it mechanically. Now we gotta solve creatively." Take what you will from that.

Good quote from Matt Ouimet on dark rides (from CoasterRadio's latest podcast) "We are looking at different sizes of attractions so that even a park that's smaller like Valleyfair can get it. So Worlds of Fun can get it. I think this week we solved it mechanically. Now we gotta solve creatively." Take what you will from that.

Like some have said before, I'd like a floorless/invert dueling coaster. Only my idea was to have the lift of the two rides connected the the same spine. Invert on the bottom of the spine, and floorless on top.

This...

I'm still hoping for a launch coaster from Premier. From what I've heard, the Sky Rocket II's are very intense and really fun. I'm still hoping for one of those. I'd love a unique layout, but with the park's budget I don't know if we can get something that can pack a punch (length, speed, intensity) like the Sky Rockets can. But I had heard a while back from someone that Full Throttle was ridiculously cheap, so who knows?