Darien Laker

Steel: One of the mirror S:ROS's probably. SFDL's at day time (flying into the water) and SFA's at night (No lights engulfing the lifthill-pitch black!) Wood: Either Roar at SFA or the Hershey Comet, but it's been a real long time on the second one.

Some rough coasters are okay, but there really is a line between roughness and pain. To me, roughness is part of the fun on wooden coasters. SFA's Roar was shaky, but I loved it. It didn't hurt, but I was shaken up a lot through the craziness. SFDL's Predator, on the other hand, not only shakes you up, but BEATS you up in the process. You slam into the side of the car, as well as the front of the car, you even get your head beat up. Stay away. I don't like rough steel coasters really though, they're usually painful. Shockwave at SFGAm beat the crap outta me. The inversions weren't bad from what I remember, but that ride had some deadly turns. I remember getting off rubbing my head with one hand and my shoulders with the other.

That was my first roller coaster. I was about 7 I think. I remember getting my head banged around a lot, but it was still fun I think. I wish I knew what a Bowtie element was back then, I really would have appreciated it more....

Dragon Mountain. I can't believe early Arrow Looper trains can look this good http://rcdb.com/ig185.htm?picture=6 My other two are probably X and Dragster.

I know it isn't Intamin's fault, but there seems to be a lot more ejections from their coasters than other companies. Hopefully that doesn't ruin their name, but it may have something to do with it, as well as why Ka has OTSR's but Dragster doesn't. I love Intamin Hypers. I wish La Ronde's was an Intamin, though i'm sure the B&M will be great.

Martin's Fantasy Island is a great Small Park. Silver Comet is great. There used to be a nice Schwarzkopf Wildcat there too, but that's gone now.

I had a feeling this one was on its way out. This park has never seemed to fit in at Six Flags. It was only there because it was Geauga Lake and Darien Lake's sister park back in the funtime days, and Premier bought that chain (before they bought Six Flags.)

Close your eyes if you need to. I did this on my first SLC ride. Also, keep your head facing forward and touching the headrest if there is one. If you have a bad first experience on a ride, it may turn you off to the ride or even to all coasters (Predator once did this to me....ugh)

I guess Raging Bull. It was a really fun ride, and the tunnel was amazing. I was just a bit disapointed with the gentle airtime. I enjoyed SFDL's S:ROS much more that same year.

Chaos was rotting at Old Indiana until recently. The train was auctioned and the track had already been scrapped. I guess the Screamin' Delta Demon is the only coaster still at Old Indiana.

At SFGAm, I enjoyed Demon more than any other coaster in the park except Raging Bull. I was young and know I skipped something, but I know for sure it beat out Shockwave, Iron Wolf, B:TR, and AE.

Yes. SFDL is probably my favorite, or at least tied with SFGAm. It's just such a nice little park with a great signature coaster, and several other decent rides. SFA would have been better if it wasn't run so horribly.

I dedicate this to my homepark's very own SLC Tune: (Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go....) Out of the station and up the lift hill, On Mind Eraser we go! The train knows the way, To make our ears pay by smashing them to-and-fro, Oh. Past the Rollover and Sidewinder, We think well be okay But the ears will bleed and the shoulders will need a massage later today.

I'm Wicked Twister I was hoping for Magnum or MF, but I guess i'm just impulsive.

It's always sad to see a park close, whatever the reason. I hate how uncertain the fate of the whole chain is right now. Hopefully they won't need to close anymore parks. Selling some to another chain wouldn't be too bad, however.

Loch Ness Monster always looks so nice in pictures, I can't believe Mr. Toomer designed that thing. (Other than the typical Arrow lift hill, Track, Supports, and Trains....lol)

It's probably a good thing that they wait a few years between major coasters now. It shows that Cedar Fair cares about all aspects of their parks, not just thrill rides. They probably learned from Six Flags's mistakes. Besides, CP usually adds coasters that are worth waiting for.

Millenium Force

The design is custom fit to SFGAm, where it replaced a Schwartzkopf Shuttle. That is why the design is so narrow and long.

In Europe, they've also got the Pepsi Max Big One at Blackpool. It is an Arrow, so it's probably a bit unevolved for a hyper, and the hills look shallow. But you'd have to ride it to judge it, I guess.

B&M MCBR's are not all that bad. The train just rolls through it as if it was a flat piece of normal track most of the time. Not much of an interrution when you compare them to say, Arrow MCBRS (click click click click stop....slow roll off on awkward drop).

Millenium Force is a tough one....but at that same park, Magnum is the perfect example of an out and back. S:ROS at SFA and SFDL are out and backs, the helices are just to turn the train around. SFNE's starts out like an out & back, but the ride also has twister moments at the end. Nitro and Apollo's Chariot are out & backs. SFMM's Goliath is not really an out & back, it's more of a twister.

Six Flags obviously hasn't been handling their large market parks correctly either. Look at how much debt they're in because of all of those "needed" attractions at SFGAdv and SFMM. I don't know, hopefully Shapiro will dig them out....(but let's just hope his plans don't backfire in his face)

SFMM's Viper. I've seen it on TV shows and in Movies so many times.

It's kind of understandable why SFDL has gotten so little since the name change. Darien Lake had a major expansion project back when Premier first bought the park, while the other Premier parks did not. Most (if not all) of them got Mind Erasers....but for some of them that was the only (modern) coaster they got until Premier got Six Flags. Darien Lake got four coasters in four years back when it was still Darien Lake (The Intamin Hyper was planned before the park was flagged, it just obviously wasn't going to be called Superman.) The other Premier Parks (SFA, SFNE, SFMW, etc) didn't get major expansion until after the Six Flags name change, though i'd imagine that Adventure World (SFA) and Riverside (SFNE) were going to get their Intamin Hypers anyway as long as the Darien one went well. Also, I don't think Darien would have lost Nightmare if the park wasn't flagged. There would be no Batman Show. Nightmare was a decnet coaster (I'd take it over Predator any day), though I can see why it would be removed for a show.