YoshiFan

Agreed, I think go karts and other upcharges like rock climbing walls belong in family fun center type places and not theme parks unless they are included in admission.

I should be graduating in May as well. I'm having more problems with deciding on what I want to do more than searching for a job. My major is accounting but I really hate financial accounting (CPA type stuff), so I am really not sure what kind of job to even be searching for at this point. I think it's also difficult at this point to search because it seems like most companies have already done their hiring for this part of the year. I might just continue to work selling stuff on EBay (which is what my job is now) and then trying to interview in the fall when companies will start interviewing Fall 2006 graduates.

I would keep checking EBay, they seem to be listed from time to time with a buy it now of I think $150 (if Scorpion is the cheaper set).

I have been on 3 (both sides of LR and Wildcat) and of those, I thought the red side (lightning?) of LR was the best

I'd hate to see the Coal Cracker gone, too many flumes are closing and it would suck to lose another one.

I don't think it will be that bad. Even if 2/3 of the people who got free tickets use them (lots of people signed up when it was posted on deal sites where they thought it was for all SF parks and don't live near the park and won't be going), that's 10,000 extra people a day. That's a lot but for a park as big as Great Adventure, it probably won't be too bad.

I'm going to Great Adventure thanks to the free ticket giveaway

You can also start at the smaller coasters in the park that way by the time you get to Apollo, you'll know you did a few coasters already at the park. I would start out with the Loch Ness Monster since it's kind of tame for a looper.

Vapor Trail at Sesame Place, about 30 minutes away

I'd get a Schwarkopz looper (since I could probably get one dirt cheap), a B&M Invert, a family coaster, a log flume and some flats: whip, swings, pirate ship.

Is there a specific reason they can't run it past 6 pm? Seems like a strange rule.

Hercules, Dorney Mighty Mouse, Playland's Castaway Cove City Jet, Gillian's Wonderland Pier Wild Izzy/Wild Maus, BGW Dragon Coaster, Boardwalk and Baseball

Hydra - Front Talon - Front or Back Thunderhawk - Front, you can get a ton of air time and a great view Lightning Racer - middle or back, I found in the front the first drop wasn't as great and you can't get as good of a view of the racing/dueling in the front. Great Bear - Front Comet - Front

I try not to make any major purchases because it makes me uncomfortable. I have a waiting approach, where if there is something I want that is expensive, I wait for a deal on it so I don't feel as bad. Like if I see a video game I want but it's $50, I don't mind waiting for a deal on it even it means waiting a few months to get it for $10 - $20.

Yeah, there was an intereview in Hardcore Gamer magazine a few months ago with the creator of the game and he said he didn't want to make any more games because I think it was something along the lines of the game not being designed to have sequel after sequel. I guess it's similar to Yugi Naka and NiGHTS where he said there would never be a NiGHTS sequel because it could never be as good as the original. On a side note, 1up.com kind of gave Me and My Katamari a bad review of 7.0 and said: "By the end of the game, you will have replayed the same six ministages half a dozen times apiece. That's about 30 minutes of unique content, chopped into pieces and pasted together to give the illusion of length. " Doesn't sound like the greatest way for the series to end.

Sounds cool, but in the meantime, there is this for a portable DDR fix: http://pocketmedia.ign.com/media/reviews/image/dancedance/dancedance_main.jpg

At Hersheypark, the park was empty one day and on Wildcat, althought they were running 2 trains, they had the middle 1/3 of the train chained off (I guess they didn't have the staff to check as many lap bars or didn't want to be bothered). The ride should have been a walk on but was a 3 train wait because of the chained off seats. While waiting, some people started speculating why the middle part of the train was closed. One idea was, "They have that part of the train closed, so it won't tip over because it isn't balanced." Other people in line seemed to go with that theory. I was thinking to myself, if the train would tip over with a full train load of people, it would either never run at all like that or they would never load a full train even on days when the wait is 30+ minutes.

I heard that one of the reasons it wasn't re-located was because some of the clearances were in violation of some code that was put in place but since the ride was built before the code, it was allowed to stay as it was but if it was to be re-located, they would have had to fix those clearances which made it not cost effective. I agree it would have been great if Knoebels got it (and Viper or Greezed Lightning since they could use a steel coaster)

I voted for Talon. I really like the layout and those helices.

Maybe the mean the drop is 120 feet long? I really don't want to see another park lose a log flume. Plus Le Scoot is a really popular ride in the park judging by the line it usually has.

I didn't know they got rid of them. That's too bad since I thought the concept was great. If you don't get to your hotel until around dinner time, you could still go to the park for a few hours rather than with a regular ticket where you wouldn't want to use a whole's day admission for just a few hours.

I'm not sure about other companies with larger seats besides B&M but I know with the B&M larger seats, anyone can sit in them. When I was on Hydra, I saw non overweight people using the 2 larger seats on each train.

I think it depends. No restraint will ever accomodate every person but I think if a ride can accomodate the majority of riders it is fine. What I have a problem with is a company like Intamin where I hear stories of rides like Millenium Force where people with 38" waists are being turned away from riding. I think B&M does it the best where they have the regular seats (which are more accomodating than regular Intamin seats) and then they do have the larger seats which can accomodate evn more people.

I hate how it seems like every arcade has that roller coaster simulator, yet it's always the kiddie version. A few years ago on the boardwalk, I saw an adult sized one that can seat 2 people and had 6 choices (Gemini, Blue Streak, Magnum, Iron Dragon and I think Mean Streak and Raptor). I haven't seen the adult version around since then. I think they asked if everyone was over 18 because the rules (at least at my local CEC) is that you have to be 18 to be allowed in without a parent/guardian because they use that kid check system. I would go to CEC once in a while because the games are so cheap but they have the same video games for the past 10 years. I keep seeing Pump It Up advertised in the commercials for CEC but I have yet to see one. Pump It Up for less than a quarter a game would be great since most arcades charge $0.75 - $1.50 a game.

I just pre-ordered my copy today. If anyone else plans on getting it and doesn't mind waiting, Outpost has it for $24.99 with free shipping (I think the MSRP is $39.99 since that's what EB is selling it for): http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4741309 The only problem is that they may not ship it at release if they get too many pre-orders. I pre-ordered Mario Kart DS from them and got it 2 weeks after the release because it was backordered.