neil009

WAIT, I have the solution. Locks.

I'm pretty sure I've been on raft slides where you board at the bottom and it's got those wide black belts that take you to the top, why couldn't they use that here? Space issue? I mean this is Kansas, how could you possibly run out of flat empty space?

I seriously would rather see them get an SLC. I wish I was kidding.

Wawa sandwiches are so bad I finally stopped forcing myself to eat them. Now whenever I go I get an everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato and cucumber, mmmm. Last time I tried one of their hoagies I could barely choke it down, the bread in particular is just miserably awful. Not a top contender particularly in Philly but nowhere else either.

^I'm guessing the joke is sending them down the slide, but when I first read your post I honestly thought you meant stone-cold throwing them over the railing.

Then don't ride it. One less person in the queue. I think we're having some kind of reading comprehension issue here. I didn't say the ride is going to suck, I said I won't be excited until I see the layout. Launch doesn't necessarily mean fast pacing or forceful elements.

Even if it were a B&M launcher, I wouldn't be that excited until I saw the layout. Because let's face it, it's still B&M. It's not the launch I'm worried about, it's what comes after it.

That would be pretty hilarious if they were referring to Roller Soaker as an "old classic".

I'm totally out of the loop on this. I thought Corkscrew Hill was a charming, well-done kids' ride. Why did it get replaced with a new mediocre attraction? Also, why the f$@! would they build a Superman clone??? I thought Busch was supposed to be all about quality over quantity.

I was thinking something like an Alice in Wonderland-themed 3D dark ride/show. Only problem is I could never see this being built at Hershey, not bland enough.

I'm pretty sure the clue just means they're removing the midway tent to make room for the ride. As for the playing cards, clouds, and flying hippo, that's anybody's guess.

I'd only want to play paintball at SFGAdv if members of Six Flags upper management would also play and I'd get to shoot them in the face.

If Steel Force was at Cedar Point everybody would still be nuts over it. You know it's true.

I also don't understand how other, better hypers being built after it somehow makes it a worse ride than it was when it opened.

I don't understand how a glass smooth hyper with solid air during the return run loses to a sluggish rattly floorless.

I haven't been on Steel Force in almost 10 years. The last time I rode it, it was my first hypercoaster so I didn't really have much to compare it to. I found it to have tons of airtime while being glass smooth. I plan on hitting up Dorney again sometime in the next year or two and I'm interested to see how it compares to the Intamin and B&M mega coasters I've been on. It definitely doesn't compare. The drop is like coasting down a hill on a bicycle. There's absolutely no " force" on Steel Force. But it does still run pretty smoothly for being almost 20 years old. Next time you get to Dorney, definitely prioritize Talon, Possessed, and Hydra over Steel Force. Hydra over Steel Force, seriously? You are very sadly misguided.

I'm not really clear on this since I haven't been on the ride yet. Is the shield you're talking about over the loading area, not at the top of the tower? If so, what's keeping them from putting some netting beside the top hat track at the top of the tower and completely eliminating the danger? Also, don't the gondolas themselves have a clear plastic roof directly overhead? Wouldn't that also protect riders?

^^Makes sense, except for the fact that Christopher Columbus died over a hundred years before the voyage in question. Maybe this is the Chris in question?

Well then you might want to take your head out of the sand. If you combine the loose item incident that happened on Dueling Dragons at IOA with the Kingda Ka accident you could be looking at serious injuries. If you fail to see that as a "possibility", even if a remote possibility then I can not help your ignorance. In this day and age even if the chance for severe injury is virtually impossible, municipalities and/or lawyers are going to legislate and suggest change to make it completely impossible. I don't even really get what you're talking about. Ka's launch system could experience a catastrophic failure and riders of Zumanjaro might get hit by flying debris? Besides being incredibly unlikely, wouldn't that pose a danger to anybody in the Zumanjaro loading area as well? And what, something is going to fly out of someone's pockets on Ka and hit someone riding Zumanjaro? A) Ka never directly faces Zumanjaro, it would have to fly out and at the *perfect* angle (unlike on Dueling Dragons), B) wouldn't this also pose a threat to anyone in the Zumanjaro loading area? Maybe you can clarify. There's lots of remote possibilities in the world but like I said, I don't buy that there's any HUGE danger, and I fail to see how running the rides this way insures anybody's safety. In any case call me ignorant all you want but I don't think you have any more information than I do, did you call up someone from the state and ask them why exactly that decision was made? EDIT: I was thinking more about the flying cell phones problem and I've pretty much decided it's impossible. Think about it, a cellphone isn't going to fly FORWARDS from somebody's pocket as if it were shot from a gun, it's going to fall down and backwards (relative to the pocket it fell from). Even if it were to wrench itself free at exactly the right point during the pull-up to continue flying at the level of Zumanjaro, think about how far left it would have to fly, why would it do that? It would continue going straight ahead, the way the train was going. Anything coming out of anyone's pockets poses way more danger to people on the ground than people riding Zumanjaro. The only danger for those on the ride would be from above, and haven't they already put in protection from that?

I don't buy that there's any huge danger in running the rides together (there's always plenty of opportunity for people to throw things from roller coasters at non-riders but you wouldn't do that unless you were deliberately trying to hurt people and most people aren't psychopaths), and I also don't necessarily believe the park had any way of knowing the state would impose this ridiculous rule prior to building the ride. Six Flags screws stuff up but never THAT badly. Until more info emerges, I'm assuming the state is totally to blame for this.

That's a ton of $$ for one ride for that park, but, obviously, they have accountants that have figured out the ROI for that type of huge expenditure. Maybe they figure these types of rides can greatly expand the population of visitors (I hope so because it is an awesome park!). Here are my guesses at the clues that matter from the Blog: My wild speculation is that this will be a long terrain coaster, over a mile in length. I actually don't think it will have any inversions based on the blog. I hope I am right. (now watch it be a break-the-inversion record B&M!) My guess, a mile a minute = 60 MPH top speed, which would roughly fit with the 103 ft height. (Assuming that's what that clue meant).

Bizarro is still #4 in the Mitch Hawker poll and yet the best coaster at the park is Batman???

This. I actually thought it was better than Bizarro last year. This year it's the worst coaster in the park after Mind Eraser. Wow better than Bizarro? I'm planning to visit here soon mainly because I've been led to believe Bizarro is one of the greatest steel coasters ever made. In your opinion is this not correct?

^Can't help you there, that was the only thing I was willing to wait in line for when I went (not much of a water park guy and the lines were terrible). But I'm sure that's the most intense thing probably in all of Disney World. You'll have a lot of fun on the tube slides with your kids, the line for Summit Plummet is very long and slow-moving so you may have more fun just watching them go down it (they have bleachers at the bottom for watching all the extreme wedgie-picking action).