YoshiFan

I sometimes go out of my way to ride kiddie coasters now that I started counting coasters as credits. I wouldn't pay a lot to get into a park (like Storybookland in NJ for $17) just to get a credit on a kiddie coaster but in a pay as you go park where it might only be $2 or $3 to ride, I'll go on it to get the credit.

I really am glad that Hershey is adding a dark ride so I am excited about their 06 plans. I'm not so sure about the theme but I really like Buzz Lightyear Spaceranger's Spin at WDW so having another shooting dark ride closer to home sounds great. As for 07, I really don't care about the water park since it seems like it won't be that much more than a few play areas and a slide. Water slides have horrible capacity and if there are very few, then the lines will be ridiculous considering how popular rides like Roller Soaker and the other water rides already are. If Hershey wants to build a full size water park, then I think that's great but I think it should be away from the main park (even if it wasn't a seperate gate, then keep it like Dorney where it's away from the amusement area). I also think you may be right about the water park going to Dutch Wonderland instead. They keep adding to that Duke's Lagoon area and that part of the park seems very crowded with the wet dry slides being popular as well so it would make sense if they added some real waterslides and other areas to make it a bigger waterpark.

That POV made the ride look kind of boring. It still looks like it's interesting but nothing it would seem that the view is more exciting than the ride.

I would like to see parks offer the option of a covered splash boat. Like if they have 3 boats running, maybe run 2 without covers and 1 with a cover. That way on days you don't want to get soaking wet or when it is too cold out to get that wet, you can still go on the ride and enjoy the drop.

Rained here as well. I don't like rain but I hate snow even more.

That looks a lot better. I didn't know they painted it again

That sucks it is being removed. I was looking forward to riding it whenever I get to Vegas (hoping within the next 5 years)

I really don't like the color scheme of Batman The Ride at Great Adventure: http://www.rcdb.com/ig32.htm?picture=7 I like the old colors better: http://www.rcdb.com/ig32.htm?picture=3

I feel the same way. I have never been to the area but I know I will go eventually but not sure if I will go to Knott's or not. I really have a bad impression about the place from what I have read from bad operations (like the 1 train empty, 1 train full on Jaguar and many 1 train operation coasters), rude employees like the ones mentioned in this T/R and just a whole negative attitude about the place.

Even if Steel Force is old, it's still popular. On my last visit to Dorney, it had more people in line than any other coaster (still only a 3 train wait but all the trains were full compared to Hydra and Talon which had trains that were barely 1/2 full and had 1 train waits). When it opened, those overflows were used. I think when I was there in 1997 or 1998 the wait was 45 minutes.

The last concert I went to was Green Day on 9/7/05 in Philadelphia.

Hot Dog and Soda combo for $1.50 at Costco.

1. Magic Kingdom (WDW) 2. Hersheypark 3. Epcot 4. Dorney 5. Busch Gardens Williamsburg 6. Morey's Piers 7. MGM Studios (WDW) 8. Dutch Wonderland 9. Universal Studios Florida 10. Playland's Castaway Cove

First coaster, Flitzer at Playland (Ocean City, NJ), April 2005 Last coaster (unless I got to Disney at the end of this week), Sooperdooperlooper at Hersheypark, October 30th, 2005 Highlights: Going on my first invert, hyper, floorless, going on a coaster with an inversion other than a loop, and also my first time on a B&M coaster, first boomerang, first time going on a coaster in it's opening year (Hydra).

It sucks no other Six Flags park wanted them with some of the smaller parks not having a new coaster in 5+ years. Seems better than just throwing them out.

Why would they do that? I understand about the Texas Cyclone but couldn't they just re-locate Greezed Lightning rather than scrap it.

Not going to vote because I have only been on a Boomerang but I think Shuttle Loops look like a lot more fun.

Here's a picture of Talon at Dorney with a full queue. I wouldn't have believed it without the picture because it's hard to imagine any coaster at Dorney with longer than a 10 minute wait, let a lone a full queue: http://www.dorneyonline.com/stuff/talon/fullqueue2.jpg

That was from Wild & Crazy Kids on Nickelodeon. It was the first episode I saw of the show (I also remember one of the other events from that episode was kids jumping off a diving board trying to catch a football thrown by a NFL quarterback). The coaster was Colossus. It was funny because the hosts were acting like they were scared to ride it and then at the end of the show, I think it was Donnie Jeffcoat who they tricked into getting into the car and dispatched the train before he realized it.

There is a Pokemon park in Japan: http://www.rcdb.com/pd1218.htm http://www.pokepark.jp/ I think there was also a talk of XBox villages in some Six Flags parks

With all the problems with Temple right now (at least that's the way I feel since I have had a ton of them since I have been here) I think Bill Cosby would understand. When I transferred there, they actually had him show up at the beginning of the year for everyone's "first course" Cosby 101. He basically just gave advice of how to act in college (with regards to studying and other things).

1. Flip Flap Railway 2. Had too many G-Forces due to it being circular and people got Whiplash and other neck injuries. They tried to modify the seats but it didn't help. 3. Loop-the-Loop 4. It was eliptical shaped so the forces weren't as intense 5. Not sure but, they might have held people upside down for an extended period of time?

Congrats, it looks like a cool place. I remember when I got a letter in my mailbox from Penn State (Abington campus), I was so nervous I could barely open it. I was so nervous that I didn't even notice on the front of the envelope it said congratulations.

I think it did exist. I read about it in the book "The Great American Amusement Park" a while ago.

Agreed about the crowds at USF. I was there Christmas week 2003, everything was 90+ minutes (even Twister). Men In Black and Shrek 4D were 150 minutes each. I used Express passes but without them, I don't think I would have went.