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It's going to be really difficult to go to Cedar Point and not spend 8 hours at the back of the park.

Well I certainly hopes one of these pops up on the east coast soon! Even though I am semi-planning a Texas trip with a potential SFFT visit in December!

My one visit to SFGAdv I planned to be on a Wednesday in the middle of the summer hoping for minimal lines (this was college budget time so flash pass was not an option unfortunately). Almost everything except Batman seemed to have an hour wait at least on a Wednesday. We were there from open to close and only rode Green Lantern, Superman, El Toro twice, Kingda Ka twice, Bizarro, Nitro, and Batman. Granted it was a ton of fun regardless. El Toro was just absolutely amazing. But I agree the crowd levels definitely do not appear to be predictable for this park.

Wow that looks rough. Well hopefully next year it will look significantly better. I'm pretty eager to see what all these new flats will be in addition to the Family Vekoma that in my opinion looks like a blast based off the videos of Orkanen. Definitely will be a solid add to Dollywoods lineup.

Does SFFT keep all the coasters open for Holiday in the Park? I am looking at going in December. I figure they do since they're in Texas but figured I'd check. Would very much like to ride Iron Rattler.

Vekoma is very different from what they used to be known for. I highly doubt one of the new Vekomas will ruin the coaster collection in the state of Pennsylvania.

Yeah, I get that. It just didn't bother us. I even went in with those complaints in the back of my head and it didn't bother us. I think part of that is that we pretty much like everything and we're really not as critical as most, and I get the complaint and see how that could bother people but I really don't mind it at all. I think the vast majority of the rides at Universal are amazing (even the ones that generally get less enthusiastic reviews from the community). I think honestly at the end of the day whenever I go to the park I won't care I'll just have fun as I typically try to do at parks.

It's not really a matter of screen based rides as I love Transformers, Spiderman, Curse of Darkastle, and I really enjoyed Gringotts, it just seems like USO is becoming saturated with screen based attractions. It will never actually stop me from going to the parks in the future especially once nintendo stuff starts showing up. I am bitter they took out Dragon Challenge because I think amazing intense B&M Inverts should exist as long as possible damn it! Also I need to really go and experience the other great Florida parks because as of right now Universal is the only two parks I have been to in Florida (except a weird freak visit to Typhoon Lagoon when i was 7 years old).

Fast & Furious Superscreens! No but really I've all but concluded my next few florida trips will consist of SWO, BGT, or Disney since I've never been to those.

If Dorney ever gets a new coaster my guess is it would be a GCI or maybe a RMC Raptor. This is assuming hell freezes over though.

I was honestly expecting Carolina Timbers

^That is at max enthusiast levels.

I’d honestly prefer just “copperhead” but at the end of the day the names of the rides don’t matter so much.

^No lie that also makes justifying a Carowinds trip difficult for me as well. I’ve been several times I’ve never ridden Fury 325 because I haven’t been since 2012 and still knowing that when I go it’s like “alright we rode Fury, I232, and Afterburn......now what? Nighthawk?” I mean sure there certainly is still fun to be had but man does it drop off hard in quality after those three.

It is certainly interesting they seemed to directly hint to specific RMC products as not coming.....

I would think on a Friday in April nowadays Tempesto won't get much more than a station wait. When I went to the park on Easter both Tempesto and Apollo's Chariot had station waits. Tempesto spilled a tiny bit into its queue sometimes.

When I was there on Easter I definitely got solid air on AC. I think it was in the 60s that day.

Great reports for my two home parks! It is nice being a Virginian with KD and BGW less than 2 hours from where I sleep (and some kind of Six Flags park I've only been to once that doesn't interest me really up in Maryland). Alpengeist was my first ever WoS from a coaster. I could of rode the big boy seats but I was literally sitting in the front ready to go and I wasn't downgrading to the 5th row. I like Tempesto a lot which makes me eager to ride a Sky Rocket II without the obviously useless and silly comfort collars.

Considering I am planning on a potential move to Houston in 2 years this development has me very interested. Been spoiled for so long with BGW and KD in my home state. Houstons closest full size park is SFFT in San Antonio.

^Guess I will start figuring out what day to go then. Does anybody know how accomodating Impulse is? I can't find anything online for that or Wicked (has similar restraints) which honestly is probably a good thing.

Tempesto

It's so difficult for me to fathom riding a roller coaster where the track is 1 foot and 3 inches wide.

Phoenix is so high on my bucket list right now I may need to make the 4 hour day trip to Knoebels just to get a few laps. Also because I've never been to Knoebels and people frequently sing its praises which makes me want to go real bad. A little concerned I may not be good for a majority of all the other rides there (like Impulse) but the airtime buffet may be worth it alone .

Agree 100%. I have never been to SFOG so this just adds to the list of reasons to go there asap. Cedar Point I would of been more than willing and excited to go to regardless of whether Steel Vengeance was added or if they tore down Mean Streak and built a B&M or something less insane than an RMC. (They could of added "Ocean Snoopy" and I would still go there ).

For some reason I have been more enamored with Twisted Cyclone as well despite its far less exciting layout than Steel Vengence. Maybe it's like a weird "of course Cedar Point you just HAVE to have the most amazing RMC ever don't you?" type of thing.