WestCoasterKing

^ Square wheels. Hahaha

One change they should have made was to get rid of Scream and make RR a sit down floorless. I'm sorry. I know I'm in the minority but Scream sucks Schweddy Balls and RR is just horrible as a stand-up. The layout is great but stand-ups are a fad that have run their course. RR could be really amazing as a sit down, but as it is the last few times I've visited those two plus Green Lantern have been the only rides I intentionally skipped completely.

^ That's what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure.

I just got an email from some friends who are at Knott's. They saw this sign while on Iron Reef and are wondering what it means. They thought I might know since I'm since such a Knott's nerd, but I have no clue.

^ That's okay. The Canyon Swing does not look like my cup of tea. I just don't think I could do it anyway. I was hoping to get to ride Cliffhanger though. Oh well. From what I hear the Drop will worth it alone.

I'm traveling to Montrose, Colorado for a job interview next week. If all goes well we will be moving there. But I want to ride the Mine Drop and I don't see myself getting back to Colorado for some time if I dont get the job, so I plan on taking a couple days and visting Black Canyon Nat Park. Colorado National Monument in Grand Junction and of course driving the two and a half hours to Glenwood just to ride Mine Drop. I've been Greenwood Caverns years ago. Back then it was just the caverns and the Alpine slide. This time they have so much more. So I'm really looking forward to it. I also plan on visiting Doc Holiday's grave in nearby Glenwood Springs. I hear the weather is really great in western Colorado this winter. So I should get to do a lot in just a couple days. Hopefully I can get some good pictures.

Took me a minute, then.... oh, right.

^ That's exactly what I was thinking.

possibly a camera? That's a huge arm for a camera. I also noticed there's a track of sorts next to the ride track. That's what made me think elevator or hoist.

Call me ignorant, but it looks like HangTime has some sort of wench/elevator to access the top catwalk. What is that arm sticking out near the top?

^ If Knott's can have three launch coasters......

^ This.

I'd always wondered if they would ever one day do away with Tomorrowland completely. Then when rumors regarding Star Wars Land first surfaced and people suggested a TL makeover, I thought that was it. But seeing as Disney nixed that, it gives me hope that TL will live on in it's intended form. I miss those old rides like Innerspace, Mission to Mars, Innovations and Circle Vision. I would like TL to get away from space and sci-fi, and get back to future. Though it is an 'alternate sci-fi reality', Big Hero 5 would definitely qualify as a look at the future. Which is what TL was always meant to be. It wasn't meant to be Space Land. Space Mountain at least could qualify as looking forward to space travel, but rides like Star Tours, Buzz Lightyear and the Submarine Voyage (which as far as I'm concerned is in Fantasyland) have never really been "tomorrow". Am I crazy and alone in this thinking?

It just occurred to me, and I know it's old, but they have Titan AE now. Which, by the way, is a very underrated film. Forget that it's animated. It's a damn good film in it's own right.

At DL, as of right now, no affect. No changes planned. DHS has some pie in the sky ideas about connecting Star Tours to Star Wars land but I don't see it happening. How likely is it that both rides get re-themed into non-Star Wars attractions at some point in the future? What other "space, sci-fi" properties does Disney have that could make a decent motion sim ride in say another fifteen years?

Does anyone know how the Star Wars lands will affect the Star Tours attractions?

Is the train still stopping a mile from the station and then braking a thousand times taking twenty minutes to pull in? I'm exaggerating but that's what it feels like.

This is what I'm thinking. Disney would be dumb to say no to free money.

I agree. I was just quoting what was listed on the Wiki page. Then again Wikipedia is about as reliable as the Dippon' Dots guy sometimes.

According to Wikipedia Genting is owned by 'Resort World by Genting Group' and Fox World in Dubai is owned by Al Ahli Holding Group. Both parks are only licensing the Fox name, though those agreements are now pending. So Disney does not own those parks. I suspect Disney will allow the agreements to stand however because Disney likes money and those parks aren't going to be a threat to the Disney parks. As for the Disney deal, Fox is keeping the physical 50-acre movie studio plus Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Desportes, BigTen Network, Fox Sports 1&2 and Fox Broadcasting (the network TV channels). Everything else goes to Disney. Now when they say Disney is getting the film and televison studios what they mean is Disney is getting the rights to the studio names: 20th Century Fox, Fox TV, Fox Animation, Fox Searchlight Pictures, FX, NatGeo, Blue Sky Studios, etc. and by extension the rights to everything ever produced by them. So essentially Disney is getting the entirety of the Fox film and TV catalog (unless it was produced by one of the news channels), which includes the rights to 'Star Wars A New Hope' (something Lucasfilm never had) and every Marvel character except those owned by Sony ie Spider-man (I wonder how that will affect Islands of Adventure), plus the Simpsons (I wonder how that will affect Universal) and the Ice Age films. And they gained Fox's 30% share in Hulu, so now Disney owns 60% of Hulu.

Mine says "Video unavailable"

Another question. Is HangTime the first "dive coaster" by Gertslauer? It's clearly the first Infinity dive coaster, but do any Eurofighters pause at the top? Takabisha has an incline at the top similar to HangTime with what looks brakes but I've never seen it stop in any POV.

Probably a dumb question but has anybody heard anything new regarding Xcelerator recently?

Or Wicked at Lagoon By the way, do Infinity Coasters count? I know the trains are different, but some like Junker and Karacho only have two rows, and look just like a regular Eurofighter. Is it the train design itself or that it has two rows that make it a Eurofighter?

I wouldn't be surprised.