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The thing with Mystery Mine is that it's almost 2 coasters in one. The first half isn't that great, and can be brutally jarring at times, but the second part of the ride is balls to the wall fun, I have a very love/ hate relationship with MM, if they got the lap bar trains like Daredevil Dive it wouldn't necessarily make the first half more exciting, but it might cut down on the complaints of roughness.

All this talk about prices, make me so glad that all my season passes are given to me as gifts, I guess that's one perk to having my birthday a week after Christmas.

Amen! I've been LOVING all of these "Magnum Memories" posts. I find them genuinely interesting, as opposed to something like 5 more pages of '17 vs. '18 bickering. Besides, it's the off season. I seriously doubt any of us nerds have anything better to do with our time than taking a little stroll down memory lane. But perhaps Magnum nostalgia is now getting played out in this thread for the time being, so lets switch gears to something that I think everybody will enjoy: Disaster Transport virginity loss stories!!! A Disaster in the Making It was the winter of '89/'90 and the whole world was waiting with baited breath to see what CP would do as an encore for Magnum. I was 14 years old by that time and now a CP veteran. My getaway guide for the 1990 season arrived sometime in early spring and I flipped open the cover to find the big announcement for the year. They planned to turn Avalanche Run into some kind of space-themed dark ride. uhhh, ok. wait, what? Avalanche Run is lame as hell. WHY? Thoroughly underwhelmed, I still went back to my parents to plead my case for another summer trip to CP because I desperately needed more Magnum (who doesn't?). They made arrangements for another trip; I was over the moon all over again. We stayed at the breakers again for a two-day stay, and somewhere in the middle of our first day, we made our way down to DT. Anticipation levels were low and for good reason. The line was long, about 90 minutes I think, and as a build up for the ride that followed it, it was a painful 90 minutes. We didn't bother riding it again over the course of that two day trip. And I think I only rode it maybe a small handful of other times on subsequent CP trips. Disaster Transport was probably the most aptly named amusement park ride in the history of amusement park rides. I mean, they put the word "disaster" right in the name of the damn ride, basically warning you ahead of time that it was gonna suck. And starting from an Intamin bobsled, how could it ever hope to be anything other than mediocre. CP spent $4M (in 1990 dollars, mind you) trying to polish that turd and all they managed to do with that sizable investment was take an existing mediocre ride and make it ever so slightly less mediocre and orders of magnitude more ugly. What the hell were they thinking? Avalanche Run was certainly no great shakes, but I could at least appreciate the absurdity of locating a snow-themed bobsled ride right on a bright and sunny beach. However, with the DT transformation, any small amount of ironic charm that the ride might have previously had was obliterated with big giant beige boxes festooned with cryptic lettering hanging in the sky with tubes protruding out of them here and there. ugly, ugly, ugly. As for the themed queue, I guess you could say that they tried, but the story line never made much sense to me (Alaska? Why are we going to Alaska? And through space? WTF?) and despite the vast sums spent on the theming, it was still way beyond apparent that you were definitely not at a disney park. The ride was the ride; I guess it was made a little bit cooler being in the dark where the twists and turns were harder to anticipate, but it was still just a lame old Intamin bobsled coaster: way too many MCBRs and way too short. For 4 million dollars they could have knocked-down Avalanche Run and built a medium sized wood coaster like WoF's Timber Wolf which was built the prior season for $3M (I know Timber Wolf is held in very low regard these days, but when it first opened it received A LOT of high praise from the enthusiast community). To me, the only really surprising thing about DT was that it managed to hang around for as long as it did, though that was probably helped in large part by its former themed queue areas being taken over for halloweekends stuff. Inertia is also a pretty powerful force. TL;DR: The Disaster Transport transformation has to rank as one of the all-time worst ride investments in CP history. I figured this would be one of those I thought it would suck, but I was pleasantly surprised type stories, I kept waiting for it to get better for you.

That's what I'm curious about.. the last 3 times I visited last year LR was open all 3 times, but never with both trains, towards the end of the season it was less of a reliability issue and more of a capacity one it seemed.

I visited SFOG last week and even though JL isn't open yet, it was still on the flash pass and it was good for only one reservation.

We're leaving Nashville around 8am saturday, and spending some of the day Saturday and most of the day Sunday. The earliest I've ever visited in the past has been mid April, at least it's not supposed to be as cold as it was in Atlanta last Sunday.

Jealous.. I wanted to for season preview pass day, we're heading down Saturday morning and staying at Dreammore, since my friend couldn't get Friday off, not to mention I would have had to ended up working thanks to mandatory overtime. I've never been to Dollywood on opening day, so I'm excited.

The website says "Lightning Rod (limit one ride per person)" for TimeSaver. I've never been to Dollywood but I don't recall TImeSaver being explained like this last year. Here is what the website says for this year: Rides To receive expedited access to lines at select* rides, simply look for the TimeSaver entrance at your selected ride and show the Host your wristband. One tab will be removed from your wristband by a TimeSaver Host to allow entrance to the attraction. Unused tabs will be forfeited. I haven't been keeping up, it seems they're moving from the qbot system, to a wristband valid for only 10 rides. Which, for $35 still isn't that bad of a deal.

I wonder if LR will finally be added to the timesaver this year??

NEVER! It's still a little surprising to me that SFGAm has the only new-build B&M in the SF chain over the past 11 seasons. I was surprised as well that the wing riders didn't multiply like the Joker clones have, of course B&M's are a little more expensive but I thought on would have popped up at either Magic Mountain or Great adventure.

On Saturday everything started out with two trains, but I know Cyclone, Mind bender and Goliath all went down to one, I know Goliath was because of a breakdown. On Sunday, I was only there for a bit but Batman was the only thing I witnessed running two trains, it was really dead though because of how cold it was.

Nashville got it, luckily I left for Atlanta early Saturday morning before it started, but there were some rural areas that got almost an inch, which isn't a lot, but for us it's like a national emergency.

I really wish TN weather would get it together, it's been crazy all year.

Did they finally get Mindbender up and running?? I know it constantly went down all day yesterday, and this morning they had maintenance on the break run. I got 2 laps on Goliath, 2 on Batman, One on Scorcher and Acrophobia today, so it wasn't all that bad for an hour and half at the park, Plus I got 20 something laps in yesterday, Mind bender and Superman are the only coasters I haven't ridden this season. Come to think of it I think Batman, Scream Machine and Scorcher were the only rides not to go down yesterday, being the first day and all I expect some hiccups but it seemed like once something went back up, another one went back down yesterday, but I do have to commend them for getting everything running for the most part. They need to get the kinks out now, prior to spring break and then the summer season I think some the kinks were definitely related to the cold, while it wasn't freezing yesterday it definitely wasn't as warm as opening weekend past.. The weather down south has been bipolar I live just outside of Nashville and we went from tornado warnings Thursday night to snow Saturday morning.

Did they finally get Mindbender up and running?? I know it constantly went down all day yesterday, and this morning they had maintenance on the break run. I got 2 laps on Goliath, 2 on Batman, One on Scorcher and Acrophobia today, so it wasn't all that bad for an hour and half at the park, Plus I got 20 something laps in yesterday, Mind bender and Superman are the only coasters I haven't ridden this season. Come to think of it I think Batman, Scream Machine and Scorcher were the only rides not to go down yesterday, being the first day and all I expect some hiccups but it seemed like once something went back up, another one went back down yesterday, but I do have to commend them for getting everything running for the most part.

How late did you end up staying?? I got me some food and left, the lines were great, but I can't handle cold on coasters like I used to be able to lol.

Yea I thought he was joking as well, yes the uncomfortableness was the worst part, I probably have only one active sperm left in my entire body.

Getting stuck at the top of Acrophobia for 10 mins in 40 degree weather wasn't exactly how I planned my Sunday out.

To be fair the first drop is decent, it's just everything afterwards sucks.

I was surprised when I visited Kings Dominon last summer and I305 was pretty much a walk on for the majority of the day.. then again it seems CW and CP are more heavily visited in general so that might be it.

Personally, I don't like Riddler's paint job, the old one looks A LOT better.. BUT JUST WAIT! Give it about 2-3 years and we'll see more ugliness if they install one of those damn Joker 4-D Free spins with the god awful color scheme. Since they have a zac spin, do you think they would really put A Joker clone in?? I mean La Ronde has two inverts and SFNE has a boomerang and a GIB, but I don't see the biggest park in the chain Installing two similar rides.

Super man looks really good, and I get why they spruced it up, with Justice League and all, but they need to repaint Scorcher like 50 years ago, especially since it's in the front of the park. Superman was just faded, Scorcher is just an eyesore, luckily it's still a kick ass ride.

I thought this was neat We're now the Hillary Clinton of Six Flags

I got one last year with a regular season pass that wasn't a membership, hoping maybe it'll happen this year as well.

Indeed I am! Im ready for the stress! EDIT 7:48. Look what has arrived! One train! And also here's a view out of the station. Looks like a picture booth is beIng installed. © KingsIslandPR Of all the coaster trains in the world Millenium Flyers are probably my favorite visually, followed by B&M Hyper Trains.