LiftThrill

Exactly. We always want what we can't have

Sure, it becomes so big that the crowds are unbearable and trample you to death. I wish that I was on a roller coaster right now.

Granted, they replace Mean Streak with a Boomerang. I wish to go to Cedar Point and ride everything at least once.

SFOT has both the tallest/fastest coaster in Texas (Titan) and arguably the best (NTaG). However, Titan does not live up to the expectations set by its height and speed and is not very re-rideable. Plus, Texas needs good Intamins. I'd like to see an Intamin giga more than a wingrider or floorless.

Let's face it: Cedar Point isn't going to put out a crappy coaster. What's big on the market right now? That's what we're probably going to see.

Nice TR! Even though I've never been there, I personally think that King's Island has a very balanced coaster lineup.

SFOT might be worth a Flash Pass, but having SFFT as my homepark, trust me that a Flash Pass really isn't all that much worth it. Especially considering the weather policies at SFFT, it can literally be a downpour and as long as the wind isn't too strong and there's no lighting, you can still ride everything coaster/big flats at SFFT 3-4 times with a full day. And everything except IRat, Scooby-Doo, Boomerang, and Batman are a walk-on all day most weekdays (although in August there's usually a longer-ish wait) SFOT advice: hit La Vibora first. Low capacity and terrible in the rain. Save time for extra rides on NTaG, Judge Roy, Shockwave, and Mr Freeze (apparently, as I haven't been on it). SFFT advice: If you're a CreWho, hit Boomerang, Goliath, and Pandemonium first. People say run for the best rides, but Boomerang has terrible capacity and slow crews most of the time whereas Goliath and Pandemonium are just credit coasters if you're from out of town. If you're not a CreWho, start by going right at the fork (Boomerang) straight to Crackaxle Canyon. Hit Road Runner first, and avoid wheel seats with wheels by your feet (the big lump in the floor) if they're not assigning seats as the wheel seats there have very little leg room. It's not too rough but it's very loud. Keep expectations low since it's a mine train, but it's still a fun ride. After Road Runner, go next door to Iron Rattler. It's an awesome ride, but if you have ridden NTaG in the same week you may have expectations a little too high (depending on if you end up on the Edwentag/Jiant or Edwiron/Jattler) side of the awesome Rocky Twilight Construction coaster wars) Resist the temptation to reride right then and there. Trust me, it'll be there. After Iron Rattler, you can head over to Spassburg and hit up Superman. The front is awesome for raw speed and forcefulness, but the back has better hangtime in the loop and such. Take a pick for your first ride on it, then resist the temptation to reride and go to Rockville to hit up Batman and Poltergeist. They assign sides on Batman and no matter where you sit it's awesome and fun and insane. Poltergeist, however, you want to wait for the front car. The back on this ride is brutal when it comes to the transitions and overall smoothness of the ride (it isn't very smooth), but in the front it's a very enjoyable ride albeit not very smooth. Just don't sit in the back or the middle. At this point you've hit all the adult, non-clone credits. Flat rides that may be fun are Scream (S&S combo tower), SkyScreamer (the cliff gives a real sense of height), Frisbee (just really fun), and the two log flumes. If it's hot and you want to cool off, use the Flash Pass to skip the huge line for Gully Washer (rapids) and ride that, or you could just stand at the corner of the Splash Zone for Power Surge (shoot-the-chutes log flume). At this point, you have to make a choice: ride the clones or get more rides on the big coasters. I'd personally opt for front and back row rides on Iron Rattler and maybe a 5th row (very middle) ride if they're applying the lift hill brakes, then ride it a ton of times in your favorite seat. After that you could go back to Superman and get more rides on that if you wanted, and basically free roam the park doing whatever you feel like doing. Eating advice: -Erick's Tacos in San Antonio is amazing if you like Mexican food. -Be sure to try Whataburger at least once if you haven't had it before. I like the #5. -Dan's Hamburgers in Austin is even better if you want to make the extra drive. Their bacon cheeseburgers are glorious. -Cooper's BBQ is by far the best BBQ I've ever had. Be sure to hit that in New Braunfels. The brisket is the best. -If you like Vietnamese food, Hai Ky in Austin is apparently very good (if you want to make the extra drive) Misc: -If you have an extra day, Schlitterbahn is an amazing waterpark and worth the extra day if the weather's all right you have the time. -Get plenty of rides on NTaG and IRat, Shockwave, S:KC, and Judge Roy. If you like Titan, then reride it, too.

^ Cedar Point could go 10 years without adding a new coaster and it would still be an amazing park. New coasters can only make it better... unless it's something like a Vekoma, which a dive coaster is not.

If you were a coaster engineer, what would you do? I was thinking something along the lines of an RMC giga with a 90mph top gun stall, super twisty overbank madness, quadruple-downs, triple-downs, double-downs, and single-downs in the first half (and a good 3 minutes on that half), then hit the MCBR and go into another 180ft lift hill that leads into an inversion-packed spaghetti bowl with plenty of powerful and forceful positive (and negative) g's. The ride would be located on a giant lake next to a forest that's on a cliff, and the ride would have multiple drops off of the cliff, a ton of headchoppers on the trees, and a splashdown or two in the lake. It would last around 6-7 minutes with no trims. (Now I want to make this in TPS, lol)

Nobody said B&M couldn't make an awesome dive machine, but hoping for one with clamshell restraints and an RMC-like layout doesn't count, sadly. (it would be amazing, though!!!)

I just yell "oh crap" at random moments.

This is what I was thinking originally, but now I'm thinking this: Train 1: red, grey, red Train 2: blue, red, blue I like that even more, actually

It's the same with NTaG. I noticed it all 3 of my NTaG rides, and I don't know what it is, but I noticed it. I have never heard it on IRaT, though.

As for car color order... Train 1: gray, blue, red Train 2: red, blue, red

Looks awesome! Are you able to paint the supports white?

If they made a 500+, I'd want it to be a lifted coaster and not an Intamin accelerator.

I haven't made it up to SFOT yet but I've heard nothing but negative things about the ride ops there. It can't be as bad as I keep hearing. They weren't all fun, but the Judge Roy and Titan ops were fun the days I went. They weren't the most efficient, but the lines were really short so it didn't really matter.

So, rumor-starting time! I was spending way more time than I should have in the boardwalk today, and while riding Pandemonium me and a buddy noticed some construction going on behind the Frisbee's queue line/edge of Scooby-Doo Ghostblasters building. We were curious so we rode the Ferris wheel and there is definitely a crane of some sort and a bunch of landscaping stuff hanging out back there near what appears to be the employee parking lot (?) with what appears to be a half-built queue line divider/handrail. I didn't get any pictures, but if anyone wants to look back there they can confirm that there is definitely something being built, although I doubt it's a ride for 2016. Probably just infrastructure/landscaping stuff for now, considering we've gotten a major attraction every year since 2012, but hey, we can hope!

Oh yeah, our Iron Rattler ride operator the other day was pretty fun. He was encouraging everyone to yell "whoop whoop." We were whooping throughout the whole ride.

My dad actually rode the old Rattler and it damaged his back to the point where he couldn't ride anything else for a few weeks. His favorite ride at SFFT is Iron Rattler. Although you probably have more tolerance than he did, so the hybrid market really is for those who have low roughness tolerance (and yet RMC has yet to refurb a Boomerang or SLC)

GP member on Road Runner Express: "I heard that a skinny guy died on this because the bar didn't lock down tight enough and he flew right out" Me: "Nobody has ever died on this, or anything in this park if I remember right. Plus, if skinny people flew out, I'd be dead since I marathoned this with my friend's little sister" GP member: "Oh. It must've been someone who works at SeaWorld trying to steal more of our money"

I will never be able to understand why people prefer iRat to NTAG... iRat just bores me. NTAG is... relentless, its.. AMAZING!!! It's neat to see how each person views each coaster differently. Iron Rattler is far from boring, but I agree on NTaG being better. Iron Rattler is missing the high positive G that you get between hills on NTaG, and it doesn't last nearly as long. Although the first drop on IRat wins and so does the setting, but as for the coaster itself I prefer NTaG. I also find NTaG more rerideable.

Also I've never seen that mermaid thing running either. Although I'd rather have some sort of Intamin, a family wooden coaster would be nice too, especially a more family oriented Intamin prefab (although I wouldn't say no to a clone of El Toro )

Titan doesn't feel like a B&M to me, honestly. It has the same track and all, but the layout isn't really B&M's style. When I think B&M hyper (closest B&M style to Titan), I think clamshell restraints and out and back with floater airtime hills. SFOT is still in more dire need of an Intamin than a B&M, I'll give it that. Because La Vibora is too much of a novelty coaster to count as a normal Intamin.

People always complain about the ride ops at SFOT, but they were really fun and entertaining most of the time despite not being very efficient.