CedarFanboy

I absolutely love TPR videos. The channel definitely deserves one million. Keep up the great work! Maybe it won't be too long before you hit two million.

it's hot as hell outside so that's my excuse that i actually watched both videos with my stopwatch app open. i sure don't see those two videos being any different. if it has slowed down, those videos aren't the proof, that's for sure. Never said it's the best comparison, but it's something. When I get home from Dorney on Sunday I'll post my videos I have from August and from December which does a much better job. I love the ride guys, just remember that, but the trims are obvious once you ride it.

It's definitely being trimmed, there's no question about it. Im just telling you what my personal experience was. This wasn't just gravity causing it to slow down, you could feel the trims slowing you down. I watched a few different offride videos and it's rather obvious how different the speeds are going over the top. If I had to compare the trims to another ride, I would compare it to I305, but less abrupt. I also just wanna say here, sorry if I sound like I'm arguing, I'm just sharing my personal experience from last month. I don't want to sound like I'm fighting with anyone. Edit: the video links posted on the previous page do a good job with showing how different the speeds are.

I don't think the launch speed itself has changed, but the trims at the top of the lift hill bite very hard now. The train just barely makes it over the top, at least it did for the week of August 6-12. I personally thought (and hoped) that it was some rumor just floating around, but it turned out to be true unfortunately. Still my #1 coaster regardless!

Out of all the parks I've been to, there's only one ride I've ridden that I wouldn't ride it again, and that was Hurler at Kings Dominion. RMC couldn't have come any quicker. Neither of the Hurler coasters are really good at all, but at least you are given the opportunity to get off the one at Carowinds while still having the ability to walk.

Just thought I should share this here. With the Battle for Kings Dominion app, you can win front of the line passes you can use to skip the line of any ride. It is not valid for Soak City attractions, Grand Prix Raceway, or Xtreme SkyFlyer, but it looks like you can use it for anything else. This would probably be very helpful on those days when Volcano has a 2 hour line, but I would personally use it on Flight of Fear since Volcano isn't really my thing. I hope this helps someone! Rewards Tab Show this screen to the ride operator to skip the line! EDIT: DON'T TRY USING THIS SCREENSHOT

Steel: Fury 325 Wooden: Lightning Rod (also my favorite overall)

Always happy to see some Grizzly love around here. Glad you like it! Great pictures, too.

I would kill to have the experience you did in place of my experience on Saturday. I305 is an amazing coaster without a doubt. I agree with you about Flight of Fear, it was running rough quite a bit on Saturday too. Don't remember it being like that in May, though. It's always been a bit rough, but hopefully they will fix whatever is seemingly wrong with it now.

About Over The Top, there's another one of those rides down in Pigeon Forge, TN, that a girl fell out of over the summer. That ride is now permanently closed, and I think it's a safe bet to assume that's why Knoebels isn't running theirs yet.

I got a chance to visit the park for a few hours on Saturday. Unfortunately, my family left later than usual, and we also ran into probably the worst traffic I have ever been in over my 16 years here on Earth. Because of this, I arrived at the park only to discover plenty of long lines. After buying a piece of wood from Hurler and a Twisted Timbers shirt reading "Get Twisted in 2018," I made my way straight to Grizzly. Anyone who has been to Kings Dominion knows that you will never wait more than 15 minutes for any row on Grizzly, regardless of what day it is. After an amazing back seat ride on Grizzly, which I believe is the most underrated coaster in the park, I went over to Ricochet, which seems to always have a line of 10 minutes no matter how crowded it is. Unfortunately, the clientele at the park that day was not the best group of people. A foreign family, seemingly not understanding how lines work, cut in front of my group and two other families waiting to ride. Of course the grouper saw this and kicked them back behind the people they cut in front of, which I was glad to see. After riding Ricochet, I took a break to get a drink while my siblings went to ride Bad Apple. Unfortunately, the drink place ran out of ice, so that kind of sucked. When we were done at Bad Apple, we went to Backlot, where the operators were flying. For a line that looked long when you enter the queue, we flew through it relatively quick. Backlot's helix is still one of my favorite I've ridden. I can't remember a single time riding it without graying out. This was my fourth trip to the park this year, but only the first time I rode with the fire effect actually working, so that was pretty cool. After riding Backlot, we started walking towards I305, which I was shocked to see, for the first time in my life, the line stretching out of the queue. They only had one switchback open, but I don't think I've ever waited more than 10 minutes to ride I305 before Saturday. Flight of Fear looked long too, so we went to ride Dominator instead. Dominator is sort of a weird coaster for me. It's the only roller coaster that gives me a headache. I usually force myself to sit in the front row, as it was nearly rattle free on all my rides... until Saturday. Maybe it had a bad wheel, maybe its the awful kink in the loop, but I came off the ride with a headache from the front row for the first time in my life. The coaster is great, I just want to clarify that, but for some reason it's just this one roller coaster that constantly gives me a headache. It's actually kind of sad, because it is really a spectacular ride. The only reason I like Hydra more than it is because Hydra, despite being seemingly shakier, doesn't give me a headache. Enough about me though, back to the coasters. After Dominator, I was contemplating on riding Volcano, but the 2 hour 30 minute instantly made me change my mind. I'll never wait more than a few minutes to ride, what in my opinion, is the most overrated coaster in the park. I made my way back to Intimidator and waited about half an hour for it. I love the second row on this ride a lot, and definitely recommend it to anyone who wants the smoothest ride without having to wait for the front. I feel like Intimidator's airtime is very underrated, but that's just me. I get super close to blacking out every single time I ride it, but for a positive-G lover like me, that only makes me love it more. It's up there in my top 3 with Lightning Rod and Fury 325 for sure. After my amazing ride on I305, my group decided that we would roll the dice with Flight of Fear and wait an hour (according to the wait times on the app.) Shockingly, the app was very accurate, which I can't say for any of the other rides I rode that day. Waited just under an hour and got the second row. I still think the front row is my favorite row on this coaster, but second row is nearly just as good. It's not the most thrilling or most intense ride, but it's definitely one I want to ride for hopefully many more years. It was starting to get dark, so I went to Grizzly to get a front row night ride on it. Amazingly, I waited an entire 20 minutes for the front row! That was certainly quite the experience. You get some great views of Twisted Timbers from Grizzly's lift hill. They are making a lot of progress, and I'll show that in the pictures posted below. A lot of ledgers for the barrel roll drop are up, and they are making some progress with new supports just after one of the far turnarounds. The airtime hills look insane, about half the height of the lift hill. I can't wait to ride that airtime machine in the spring! Back to the coasters... my last ride of the night was a second row ride on Dominator, and I'm really glad it was my last ride of the night. It beat me up even worse than my ride on it earlier in the afternoon. We stopped at Krispy Kreme on the way home and got some amazing donuts, and that made me feel a lot better after being in the car wreck of a coaster named Dominator, though still nowhere as bad as Hurler was on my final ride back in August 2015. I apologize if this report was a bit lengthy, but I just had a lot to get off my chest about my very interesting day at Kings Dominion. I wish I could explain some things better than I did, but I'm not really good at doing the whole "explain it in a way that most people will understand" thing, so it is what it is. I hope everyone enjoys the pictures! Log flume! Don't worry, this is my only blurry photo. I see you, Twisted Timbers! Was gonna ride this, but the queue was literally full. Barrel roll ledgers going up! Fun little wild mouse (has nothing on Hershey's.) View from Ricochet. This will look a lot different next year! A couple of decent flats. A great family coaster! Sorry Anaconda, not today! (I'll get to you in a bit, I305!) I'll express my hate for this ride, but I LOVE taking pictures of it. This loop is one of the best I've ever ridden. The cobra is one of the smoothest I've been on! Sorry Volcano, maybe next time! Such a fun ride! See you in a few weeks, KD!

I wonder if Twisted Timber will be a candidate for ERT for passholders. Thoughts?

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In an interview, RMC said that the 2018 US coasters would be getting new train design, or something along those lines. -Edit: Late response

Was thinking the same exact thing.

Here we go!!!

I LOVE Super Loops! I will never understand the hate for them. Super fun rides in a tiny layout. What more could you want?

Interesting tweet from Kings Dominion... https://twitter.com/KingsDominionVA/status/897636689748926464

I was one of the lucky people in the park today. I had something like 6 rides on Lightning Rod today, and multiple re-rides on everything else. I got my first ever ride on Lightning Rod last night, and was happy to see it open today with no issues, though only 1 train. Maybe I'll post a trip report when I get back from vacation if I remember.

I see they are still missing a couple ledgers for the lift hill. Wonder what that's all about.

Favorite: Knoebels. No need to explain this one. Least Favorite: Carowinds. Has 3 amazing coasters, but the rest of the park is just... boring. My family made the mistake of spending 3 days down there in August last year. We actually left Carowinds early on the first day because of how bored we got. Spent most of the second day down there doing other stuff in the area. Also, the flyers are overrated.

New teaser

New teaser.

Sounds a lot like 3 inversions to me.

1) Skyrush 2) Phantom's Revenge 3) Intimidator 4) Steel Force 5) Apollo's Chariot