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The water expansion is supposedly to be similar to Dorney's and Worlds of Fun's.

The other half of Goliath I personally hope Hurricane Harbor gets a new addition such as a Proslide Tornado Wave or even a King Cobra type slide at SFGAd HH. Don't get me wrong, Hurricane Harbor is great as it is, but Im hoping for a new addition since Riptide Bay in 2011. They already have a Proslide Tornado.

Hey, Paula, I'm making my first trip out to Holiday World next Thursday. Any tips? I've heard nothing but GREAT things about you guys and can't expect anything but awesome.

Does anyone think that Premier Rides launch coaster will be 2 of them racing side by side? Wild idea, but Superman Ultimate Flight at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom costed $6 million so 2 will $12 million and that wouldn't too expensive as like a B&M.

I'd like to see Cedar Point tear down Mean Streak and start from scratch. Same come, Iron Horse and New Coasters from RMC cost $10 million. They could get more creative. Nice job Tony Clark!

Best marketing crew award goes to Holiday World and Paula Werne is the best "director of communications" or whatever her real title is. Cedar Point wins 2nd, and Tony Clark gets 2nd best "Director of Communications." I really like him for the fact he tweets stuff for the coaster boys. The only thing I wished was that Holiday World did tweet ups like Cedar Point does. You actually get great awards (I one time got a SlingShot pass.)

I'm pretty certain dine-in restaurants (like the swamp restaurant) are cheaper than many of outdoor ones like the stands in the water park. Do you plan on hitting the water park? If I ride everything, then I plan on hitting the waterpark. I've read nice things about the water park, so I'm 90% likely to hit it unless I really, really like the rides.

The trains made by RMC have a pretty deep molding and is a lap bar with a second bar below the knees. I think that's what's going to the be the new restraints for Iron Cyclone. Hopefully, I can make the trip out next year to SFNE!

Is Topsy Turvy in SplashWorks? If not, that's what should be coming next year. The water park hasn't been expanded since 2002.

I have a feeling that Busch Gardens doesn't want to deal with wooden coasters anymore. They let Gwazi go in horrible condition when they could've retracked.

You won't need fast lane at Michigan's Adventure. There are no lines, just the water park. Shivering Timbers is a great ride!

Worst B&M: Mantis at Cedar Point Worst Intamin: Don't have one but I'd like to say Maverick has worst restraints. Worst GCI: Gwazi

Whoops. Didn't see.

What was the worst B&M coaster you have been on? I'll tell you mine. Mantis at Cedar Point.

Holiday World getting a launched wing rider next year.

Is that the new TPR thing?

1. Hypers AIRTIME!! 2. Inverts for tight turns 3. Flyers because they're fun 4. Wing Coaster. I've ridden GateKeeper and it's Top 5 at Cedar Point, but it's gimmickiey and you have to have that wing over drop in order to make it good. 5. Dive Coaster. It's a good model, but it's too expensive for parks to buy and I've never even ridden one. 6. Floorless. Just took out the floor and made it unique, but parks just don't want to for whatever reason. 7. Sit Down. Nothing special. 8. Stand-Ups. Ughh.... hate these. Parks hate these and one hasn't been built in 15 years. Gimickiee.

Does anyone think that the SkyRide replacement will be a wing coaster? The reason CW has high numbers is because there aren't maybe amusement parks in Canada. And CW serves such a huge market. Good job Matt Outimet!

What do you think Six Flags Great America will get in 2015? A SkyScreamer (well.. they haven't applied for a height variance yet.) A Tsunami Soaker in Ragin Cajuin' spot? That'd be nice I don't now anything else.

Any advice for visiting Kentucky Kingdom? I'll be visiting next Friday (7/25/14.)

They're nice and sometimes I miss out on reading some good stuff so that's were I can catch up.

So now we know who's doing The Rampage refurbishment. Kinda wished they had RMC redo instead of themselves. Nothing wrong, it's just RMC Topper Track makes everything better.

I just keep my eyes wide open and try to get as many views as I can. Normally at Cedar Point, if the line isn't too long, I normally do a morning ride (after Wicked Twister/maXair) and then a night ride (after GateKeeper.)

Nice looking park, I think they just need to replace the gates (but I'm a bit picky since I live near 4 Cedar Fair parks.) Maybe CNL will fork over the money.

We add in crappy kiddie coasters just to get the title of "The Amusument Park With Most Roller Coasters" even though half of them are awful and they often park down. We also have horrible staff members. Serious. I have never been there but I read on the SFMM TPR Thread is negative, negative, negative...