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Michigan's Adventure! 2017- nothing 2018-nothing 2019-nothing 2020-nothing 2021-nothing It'll be fun to look back and see if I'm right! (I have a good feeling about this one!)

The problem with RMC working on the ride is that Cedar Point does not need another huge, near-vertical, inverting steel coaster. At least not right now. A GCI should take Mean Streak´s place if it indeed goes to the amusement park in the sky. That or a new launched family mine train like Firechaser Express. Let us remember that a good amusement park can´t be JUST thrill rides. The lowest height restriction for a roller coaster (besides the boring kiddie coasters) is 48¨. If I was a kid at Cedar Point around 42¨, I´d be pretty bored most of the day.

I did, and it´s fixed. Thanks! I agree with almost everyone here. This thread becomes toxic way too much. I can understand Valleyfair or Worlds of Fun fanboys complaining, as there aren´t many other theme parks within a four hour drive. However, KD has a theme park that is hundreds of times better than it just an hour away (Busch Gardens Willamsburg, or Six Flags America if you want to get shot) that actually builds things on a regular basis. And we all know that when KD builds a new coaster, this thread we still be bumped 40 times a day the year after because the fanboys want something bigger. They are getting as bad as the Disney passholes.

Allow me to answer that question in the way I'm sure many people will end up answering it and save them the trouble... Because it's been XXX years since we got a coaster and in that time just about every other park in the chain got at least one new coaster and we "deserve" a new coaster because our XXX anniversary is coming up and you know the park has something big planned for our XXX anniversary since we've been so "neglected by the chain" because complain complain complain insert nonsense about how we think the industry works. In conclusion we need a Hypercoaster or an RMC and not a B&M or a forceless wing rider. ... How did I do? You forgot the classic... ¨How come XXXpark got XXX when they just got XXX? If they want XXX to compete with XXX, we must build a $30 million roller coaster, even though the park attendance keeps going up! XXX deserves more than XXX because XXX does better attendance than XXX!!!¨ What people fail to realize is that KD went big with their last coaster and failed. An Intamin giga coaster should not have lines at short as it does. I305 Opening Day Banshee Opening Day

Enough with this boat discussion. This is bull-ship.

4 way tie between Twisted Colossus, Steelhawk, Valravn, and Outlaw Run.

Pictures look great! The park looks very interesting, and definitely is on my bucket list. I´m not really a fan of flying coasters, but at least they cloned the best version of them.

Nooooo, it just means that you're part of a really awesome bigger picture that just hasn't come together yet! Or it means you´ll be ridden by thousands this year.

Obviously people want them, as they keep on being added. Just think about it really. WOF is awesome for people under 48' right now, and that can't be said about a lot of parks. Their thinking is that if they get them while they're young, they will want to come back when they are old. They aren't gonna add something if it won't make money. A Planet Snoopy upgrade will be awesome for the park. Now WOF will have the most kiddie rides of any park in the chain. It's not like they are just adding something just to add something. Like I've said before, 1996-2009 was all about thrill rides. Prowler, Patriot, Mamba, Boomerang, Spinning Dragons, Thunderhawk, Detonator, and Ripcord. Now WOF needs to catch up in their family department. On the other hand, they cannot neglect their thrill ride fans (even though Steelhawk was added in 2014). I believe something thrilling is in the works.

I'll say Six Flags Over Texas. The skyline is so huge and overwhelming, it's truly a marvel. Especially with the flat land around it. You can see it for miles. Absolutely gorgeous.

RMC- Outlaw Run Gerstlauer- Spinning Dragons Vekoma- Boomerang Morgan- Mamba B&M- Patriot Intamin- La Vibora GCI- Prowler Pinfari- Wacky Worm Schwarzkopf- Shock Wave Dinn- Timber Wolf Arrow- Ninja (technically a Vekoma, but it was started by Arrow) CCI- Boss Mack- Journey to Atlantis (San Antonio) Premier- Mr. Freeze William Cobb- Judge Roy Scream

Worlds of Fun Year 1: Bicentennial Square gets a make over with a roller skater and a reliable, small Ferris Wheel. Year 2: General improvements on theme. Repaint Mamba. Year 3: Triotech Dark Ride themed to a hot-air balloon battle in the sky. Year 4: General Improvements on theme. Repaint most small flat rides in park. Year 5: 200+ foot B&M dive coaster of modest length in the Scandinavian section of the park. Name it Manticore.

Id say I305 at Kings Dominion because four years after they added it, fanboys were already crying about how CF neglects the park and how they deserve a new coaster before any other park gets one. Invest in a park where people will appreciate what they have, CF! Not to mention the ride is fairly unpopular for what it is.

I think people have their hopes set too high for new stuff. If I am being brutally honest here, I will put money on the fact that Valleyfair, CGA, VF, WoF, and Dorney will not get a new roller coaster til at least 2020. That is how Cedar Fair spends it´s money now. But that does not mean some awesome park improvements could be coming their way, GCI being most likely. Knott´s will finish their GCI retrack of Ghost Rider in 2016, Worlds of Fun will finish TimberWolf in 2017, and I could see Valleyfair of Dorney being next. Also, dark rides are a clear possibility of all the parks listed as well.

Only thing I agree with in your post. Let´s be honest... the only thing SFSTL has on WoF is the TPR thread.

Honestly it does not really bother me because I usually work at my homepark´s HAUNT event (Worlds of Fun) so the fact that I don´t get to use it does not bother me. I can see all those parks switching to a separate ticketed event in the future, which again would not bother me.

Accidental double post. Please delete.

I´d disagree with that entire list there. Best Giga: Fury 325 Best Invert: Montu Best Launch: Full Throttle Best Wing: Thunderbird, by far. Best GCI: Thunderhead Best Dive: Griffon Sure, you may disagree, but that's the whole point. There is no ¨best coaster¨. It is all subjective and depends on the person you are talking to. And you failed to mention best hybrid, in which SF has dominated the whole top 5. Cedar Fair takes it safe, leading to really none of their coasters being extraordinary (excluding their lovely Intamins such as Maverick and I305).

The Plants vs. Zombies thing is not a "dark ride" necessarily. More of a 4D experience. The only reason they are building that is to bring back some life to existing 4D theaters. I'm 99% sure that WOF will go Triotech.

Just a side note, Boneyard at WoF is not a graveyard. It's themed to orcs.

Most likely not. WoF seems like it doesn't want another upcharge. That's why they didn't order a Slingshot.

The only thing that is "cheap" about the company is that they allow parks to market a transformed coaster as a new attraction for only 1/2 the cost. The products RMC provides, are anything but low-budget. The only thing I meant by cheap is that they don't cost parks too much money. Example of that would be Outlaw Run. It's a very large and innovative ride, but it only cost 10 mil. These conversions that they do probably cost around 4/5 million. A hybrid conversion costs the park about 10-20 million depending on the project. Storm Chaser will be about 12-13 million.

While in line for Bloodshed at Worlds of Fun, someone pointed to the set for All Wheels Sports and told me that it used to be an old slide from Oceans of Fun.

Prowler is running great and is still the best roller coaster at Worlds of Fun to this day. I've heard Renegade has gotten very rough, however. Nowadays I agree with you. But you can't forget the fact that unlike those other parks, Dorney was at one time all set to become the region's heaviest hitter, right around the time they received the first hyper on the east coast. If you grew up with that image in mind then it's hard to shake. I'm not quite as eager as everyone else for a GCI woodie, because old GCIs just typically aren't that great and Dorney wouldn't keep it pristine. If we're speaking strictly realistically, then I would want a small tightly plotted wing coaster with a second half as intense as Thunderbird's except twice as long. Which, btw, wouldn't be that long. So it could happen. I think Cedar Fair is done building B&M's at small parks. Last one was Patriot in 2006. They also appeared to be done building Giga coasters. Before 2010, the last one was Millennium Force in 2000. It's much harder to buy a B&M for a small park than it was in the 2000's. Back in the day, you could buy a B&M for around $15 million and it would get you a good 3-4 years of ROI (Return on Investment). Now, you buy a B&M for about $18 mil, and you get one good year with a sophomore slump the second year. It's not worth it for smaller parks nowadays.

The only thing that is "cheap" about the company is that they allow parks to market a transformed coaster as a new attraction for only 1/2 the cost. The products RMC provides, are anything but low-budget. Well I'd argue that Outlaw Run ($10 million) had some of the best value I've ever seen in a coaster. But I think prices have gone up since then.