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I got 39 rides in on El Toro including wasting an hour for Ka, riding every other ride and helping my mom as she wasn't feeling too good. I got somewhere around 85 rides in on Skyrush in a day plus I rode every other coaster that day and man it was fun but really took a toll on me the following day. I've had other mini marathons of like 5-15 rides in a row but nowhere near what i got on Skyrush and Toro.

Either Scream @ SFMM or Batman: TR @ SFOT

Honestly it's hard for me to decide between the two. They're pretty equal cause while SF may have better rides on average, CF is cleaner and nicer. Both have really nice parks and some parks that kinda like um this isn't that great. I've had an equally opportunity to get an fair opinion of them at I've been to 9 of each. CF parks I've been to: CP, KD, KI, MIA, KBF, WOF, CW, Carowinds, and Dorney SF parks I've been to: SFNE, SFMM, SFFT, SFOT, SFGAM, SFSTL, SFGADV, SFA, and SFOG One things I've noticed is both have that one park that is severely overlooked but really amazing. For CF that's WOF and for SF its SFFT. I like both I guess equally but I'll give SF the slight edge due to price and their parks being in better locations relative to where I live.

WOF and the Ohio parks in May followed by a road trip cross country in June/July.

Mine definitely has to be a combination experience from my first visit to Cedar Point back in September. After eating dinner I finally saw a train go over the top hat on TTD got in line just for the ride to down again. About a hour later got back in line got on the ride and was lucky enough to get a first ride rollback and with no one in line got back on immediately. Went for a walk and a few more rides on Millennium and Maverick, but decided to get a pitch black night ride on TTD. With the line being so short I walked on and then ran to get back in line. Once I got on the ride, the ride moved to the launch section and just sat there until the train was moved back into the station. People decided on leaving for the night until only 20 people were left. Once the ride was finally ready and we launched something felt off and then I realized 2nd rollback in 4 rides. The anticipation and the luck of dual rollbacks was so unbelievable. My mom thought due to the inconvenience of waiting nearly 1 hour for the ride to be fixed and the last 20 rides cheering for a rollback that the ride was purposely given a rollback. Either way the memory of 2 rollbacks in the dark on a gloomy day is just so unforgettable.

My season pass or ticket is the only thing I bring.

As I'm doing a very similar trip with my mom this summer having a fuel efficient car using hotels.com and eating cheap is very important. We bought Cedar Fair platinum passes with the food pass and for me eating 2 meals at a park and the free breakfasts at hotels is easily enough food. So $30 a day might easily be enough unless you eat a lot.

Cedar Point: B&M dive coaster, RMC conversion of Mean Streak, New GCI or highly unlikely 200ft Intamin pre-fab, and Sally dark ride all seem like likely possibilities with a great possibility of 2 or more happening by 2020. I see CP going for 20 coaster by 2020. Kings Island: B&M Giga in 2018 or 2021 as the last 3 CF gigas have come 3 years apart i305 (2009), Leviathan(2012), Fury92015) if they wait till 2021 I see in 2018 a smaller family coaster coming. Carowinds: Wing rider seems very likely in 2020 or 2021. Canada's Wonderland: Either a launched intamin or a B&M wing rider would fit in perfectly. King's Dominion: Some sort of launched ride maybe a Intamin Blitz that wouldn't feel too similar to I305 making them launched capital and would continue making the park very unique to other CF parks also I feel going with a non B&M is smart as BGW is a B&M park so the variety would be good Knott's: rumored giga in 2018 if KI doesn't get it or some compact thrilling coaster. Dorney: agreed a new wooden coaster seem perfect. Valleyfair: Either a medium sized invert, wing rider, or floorless B%M would be great, any of the 3 would be good. Worlds of Fun: Small compact some intense looping coaster would be great, being launched would just be an added bonus. Michigan's Adventure: Small steel coaster that's still relatively thrilling.

At least this year Titan's mid course didn't slam nearly as hard and the lift hill went way faster. Titan seems to haul for the first half and the twister section at least doesn't only get speed by the helix but instead almost immediately. Even though the rides are almost exact replicas titan is the far superior ride even without the extra helix I would take Titan any day of the week. I don't know if im the only one who's noticed this but is the mid course on Goliath hitting harder and harder each year? The gap between the rides is huge to me as I have titan in my top 10, but Goliath is not even a top 20 ride to me.

I hope your actually right but it would be redundant unless you build an Intamin hyper that is designed to be like Expedition GeForce or Bizarro. The ride would need to focused on airtime to actually work at the park. I personally really want more Intamins in the US too many B&Ms right now.

I can't agree more with that statement.

That's great to hear I don't know if its already been talked about but why was that rule even in place. Being there in the summer with my mom who that week wasn't feeling up to riding anything I was forced into riding by myself and had to deal with silly rule multiple times and the only explanation I got was it was for safety purposes.

Would looping gigas really be more expensive than "normal gigas"? Why would a loop be harder to make than an airtime hill? This does sound logical. However, aren't there quite a few people (often mentioned here) that say "this ride is no good because it has no loops!"? I mean, I generally do get the feeling that most people are more comfortable with non inverting coasters but I also feel that the height factor is more important so if someone will ride a 300 ft tall coaster wouldn't they ride a 300 ft tall looping one? Agreed at least to me if a giga were to even have inversions doing inversions the way RMC does would be the logical way of doing them. If not I could see the ride being too intense, intimidating, and of course need OTSRs thus appealing to much smaller group of people. A 200ft zero-g roll ,dive loop, or stall of that magnitude might be the greatest element ever made. Maybe just maybe if RMC enters the steel coaster game we would have a better chance of inversions on hypers/gigas as they're already doing them on wooden and hybrids and people love them.

Educational purposes and you're not filming the ride but instead just have a monitor attached are the 2 reasons that come to mind.

Agreed X2 can be an absolutely horrible ride if not in the correct seat but when you get a good ride it's absolutely amazing. When it's good it's tied with Maverick for my personal #1 but when it isn't riding good it's just awful. Tip always ride of stair side as close to row 7 as possible for the possible ride.

All 3 B&M hypers I've been on Goliath(SFOG), Nitro, and Raging Bull I guess I don't like floaty airtime and prefer ejector air as all my favorite rides have ejector air of some sort.

I looked and didn't see a topic about this and thought it would be interesting to see what rides people find disappointing. For be it's the 3 B&M hypers I've been on(Goliath, Nitro, and raging Bull) All 3 are still good rides but I was expecting a lot more and got off the rides in a more bitter/ disappointed mood than I have off any other ride I've been on. Other than those 3 no rides have ever really been disappointing.

1. GIB's 2. Wicked Twister 3. BTR (SFGAM) its smoother feels faster and is a much netter ride than any of the other clones The SFGAM has just a little extra something. 4. Raptor 5. Rest of BTR clones

Either Batman The ride at SFOT or Scream at SFMM can't remember which was one was first.

X2 after it got redone ,Full Throtte, Tatsu, Goliath(SFGAM), New Texas Giant, Dare Devil Dive,one or two of the pandemonium rides when they were Tony Hawk Big Spins, and the relocated BTR clone at SFFT. Will be adding Fury 325, Tempesto at BGW, Rougarou if that counts as one with a possibility of Thunderbird and Twisted Colossus. Pretty such those are all of them.

For things like dark rides theming is very important For roller coasters I could care less I rather that money go into other parts of the park first like general upkeep and maintenance. I knows its different for parks like Disney and universal but for the parks I've been to the most Six Flags and Cedar Fair parks other than a dark ride the theming has never made me think oh I like this ride more than another ride. If people didn't always talk about Scream at SFMM and the parking lot I would go as far as to say Scream is better than Bizarro(SFGADV) because the wait is 95% of the time shorter for Scream. When going to most amusement parks I go to ride the rides not to enjoy theming so no theming like Scream creates shorter lines than I'm for it so I can get more frequently getting more bang for my buck. And rides like Bizarro(SFNE) I'd say the theming just looks childish and pathetic which at times takes away from the ride itself.

Really like this topic mainly due to it can go off in many directions and is all encompassing topic. Don't like wood very much and haven't been on enough yet. Top 3 though are: El Toro Goliath(SFGAM) Apocalypse Hybrids: Iron Rattler by a landslide NTG Gemini Launched Coasters: maverick Xcelerator Dragster Giga: Millennium Force will be adding the other 3 North American ones very soon though Hyper: X2 (it has a 215ft. drop so IMO it should count) Bizarro Titan Magnum Goliath(SFMM) Titan is way better even though they are nearly identical except for the extra helix on titan B&M hypers the 3 Ive been on (Goliath(SFOG) Nito and Raging) were complete crap to me I know im in the minority on this Flying: tatsu not by much Superman(SFGAM) Superman(SFOG) Superman(SFGADV) The 3 Superman's actually feel drastically different in terms of intensity and fun compared to each other Suspended: Ninja will be adding the other 3 this year Inverts: GIB's Wicked Twister BTR clones Raptor only had 1 ride that can't remember that much of might actually be a lot higher Stand-Ups: Riddler's Revenge (Favorite B&M thus far) Green Lantern Georgia Scorcher Wing/4d(very similar seating): X2 X-Flight Gatekeeper Dive: NA Classic Looping; Mindbender(SFOG) Shockwave cant remember any other good ones B&M Sit-down/floorless: Superman Krypton Coater without a doubt Bizarro/Scream I don't notice much of any difference Batman(SFNE) Under 50 ft. and themed rides: Don't have any that come to mind This list will change a ton in the coming 4 months a lot of really good new rides this year

Thanks for letting me now. However I would say this topic is at least different because the other just asks for your favorite airtime ride while this one justs asks for a certain moment on a ride even if the rest of the ride sucks or has no airtime.

If this topic has already been done or there is a thread really similar to this one already just let me know. Personal top 3: 1. The airtime hill on Iron Rattler that dives over the quarry wall 2. Any big hyper or giga coaster first drops giving pure airtime the entire drop 3. First drop of Maverick in the back row

Simple advice I would give is hustle around the park and don't dilly dally. I never buy any sort of skip the line passes at any parks and never have any problems. When I was at Cedar Point last year on a Saturday got on everything in 1 day easily with plenty of re-rides and still had time. Just have a plan of attack and stick to it. Your legs can be your best friends at a park if used properly.