john10693

This is only what I’ve been on in the last 365 days or so. 1. Steel vengeance ( I tried not to like this coaster, however it the absolute best ride I have ever been on, I like that it does not want me to ride it and constantly tries to evict me from the ride while on it.) 2. Maverick, I am most upset that this got beat. Even after riding Vengeance I still think this coaster is and will still be my sentimental “best ride ever” 3. Tie. Millie and 325. Millie because she’s Millie and 325 because It’s even faster. 5. I-305. Yes I love my speed. 6. Tie. TTD and KK. TTD wins only for restraints. 8. El Toro. I understand that this should rank higher, however, look at my list, I can only be honest with myself and this by far it is the best (IMHO) true wooden coaster. 9. Twisted collossus. I don’t know why, but I just could ride this thing all day long, I got three days at MM last year and it was my most memorable ride by far on a great list of coasters and honorable mention for Tsatsu. 10. ROS (Darien Lake). There are 20 coasters better, this one however is in my home park and I have learned to appreciate what is in my back yard and no one should ever discount Intamins first hyper.

Yeah, but there was nothing better to do, so why not.

Here is a mini trip report from my day at the park. I was at the park Friday and there was a large group of about 20-25 from six flags corporate (I know this because I asked one of the group) taking pictures, notes, video and asking a lot of questions to the hosts showing them around. There were no coasters even cycling until about 10:45 and those two were viper and pos scl eraser. One in the group noticed and asked why, the host kind of responded with a shortage of maintenance answer, he just shook his head. I followed them for a while to see if I could overhear anything and got to the fountain near the games midway and I noticed a lot of head shaking from the group. They noticed, as did I that even the planted flowers and such were not even put into the ground, just kind of dug down and left in the original nursery pots and clearly no mulching for a long time. I followed them down the midway with only about 2-3 games even open (it was about 10:20) and more head shaking. I went over to tantrum where my family had gone only to find out that they were not even close to running cycles, probably at least an hour the ops said (Tantrum did not open until 12:45), so we took a quick break from not being able to do anything. A few minutes later, the six flags group was at Tantrum and asked the host a lot of questions. I only overheard a couple questions from the group and the one that stuck out was if they were done with the theming, which the host responded that she thought so (There is little to no theming.). Then the group went towards the giant wheel so I followed due to nothing better to do yet. A question about no lights or theming came up and more head shaking. I followed them until about 11:45 when Ride of Steel finally started testing and remember a lot of questions followed by head shaking. This to me, pointed to Six Flags having their hands full just to bring the park up to standards. I only saw the group once later at about 3:30 down by Ride of Steel which of course had no line but 30 minute wait do to one train ops. I believe their heads were sore from shaking them so much. On a brighter (or sadder depending on your viewpoint) note, the park was totally empty at 5:30 due to the school groups leaving and we were able to walk on everything. I, of course I do not know what capacity this group was for six flags, I can only report what I personally heard and saw. It is my opinion that they were there to build a preliminary report for corporate, but what do I know, I can only hope for the best, right?

Seven seems right, considering they opened zero this year, and in previous years four were overwhelming for R.M.C. Seven spread out over 2 years makes sense.

jack rabbit, Seabreeze 1921.