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Definitely an upgrade if this is accurate. Looks like a fun little ride.

Correct.

The effects will be in the train. No show building.

Grad Night at Disney has been a tradition for 50 years. High Schoolers hear all the stories as to why this night is legendary. I only see SFMM being a budget option for schools whose students can't afford the $80 for Disney's grad night.

So I noticed SFMM has decided to ditch middle school grad night in favor of a high school grad night. Interesting to see them try and take on Disneyland...

If that list is accurate, looks like they learned from HKDL and built a complete park from the beginning instead of a nice park without much to do!

Whatever it turns out to be, what's the over/under on it opening in time? Hope it's not another project they are in over their heads on...

^Well, that also means I won't be spending money on anything except Hogshead brew too!

I suspect I will have the same reaction to this expansion as I did the initial land: I will be impressed by the detail and technology, but have no idea what is going on.

That would make sailing on Carnival much better than it currently is...

^Which is another pleasant change for Knott's, who went from brown painted cement ("dirt") to generic concrete in Ghost Town.

^For the same reason Matt Cassel backed up two Heisman Trophy winners and still went on to be a starter in the NFL: top schools have elite talent.

That plot of land would be perfect for MGM Resorts to purchase and turn into their own anchor attraction for that end of the strip.

He's probably pretty busy getting his park built and ready for opening!

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-sound-efx/0ap2000000316744/Sound-FX-Sherman-and-Crabtree-clash Richard Sherman actually went up to Crabtree right after to try and shake his hand, which can either be interpreted as rubbing it in, OR acknowledging they had a great battle…and was promptly met with a shove. That part was overlooked. Lets also not forget Kaepernick openly mocked Cam Newton and no one accused him of being classless. In fact, most the media laughed it off as a joke. So because a guy shows raw emotion right after being stood up by the guy he tried to shake hands with, he's classes?? I just don't get the big deal and the double standard. To me, classless/stupid is celebrating a big play when you are losing by 40 points and just got a meaningless TD/sack/etc. against the 3rd string defense or offense of the opposing team. Not raw emotion on such a huge play. More importantly, things like this should remind us that sports are entertainment. Richard Sherman said it best: "I was on a football field showing passion. Maybe it was misdirected and immature, but this is a football field. I wasn't committing any crimes and doing anything illegal. I was showing passion after a football game." Personally, I think many of us would have reacted in the same way. Perhaps we would have been more tempered/sarcastic in our remarks toward Michael Crabtree, but lets be honest…if any of us just made the game sealing play on a receiver who was probably talking sh*t the whole game AND just shoved you after you tried to shake his hand, then had a microphone thrown in our face…we would have had something to say as well.

Personally, I prefer the approach of players like Jerry Rice, who was pretty calm and collected after making a big play. As one commentator put it after watching Rice score a touchdown, then just casually hand the ball to a ref and shake hands with his teammates, "You get the impression he's done this a few times before." But not all players are the same--and Rice was a 49er from a different time. That's kind of my point. Back in the days of Jerry Rice, a loudmouth receiver would get put in his place the second he dared to cross the middle. Can't do that anymore. That's probably why he waited to trash a bunch of people in a book he wrote after he retired...

The "Uh Oa!" is quite the drink..they're not joking around when they say it's enough for two people.

^I wouldn't call it a "low" for the game. I highly doubt football was ever a friendly game. The difference between now and previous eras is society is much more sensitive and the media has much more access. There were no such thing as sideline reporters until 1974, and now there are cameras and microphones EVERYWHERE. Not to mention back in the old days, it was much easier to settle it on the field without getting a ridiculous penalty. Receivers and QB's wouldn't be talking sh*t all game because they knew someone would light them up…can't really do that anymore without drawing a penalty unless the circumstances are perfect. Now? Richard Sherman pretty much did the only thing he could do to put two sh*t talking opposing players in their place: making sure everyone knew who made the clutch play. I personally love seeing that raw emotion in football.

It doesn't even seem that Xcelerator could run with two trains. Here is why. You have the mag brake (not a block, it can't stop the train entirely), a main brake that seems to hold one train, and a station. If the train launches with one train on the main brake, and the brakes don't release, the trains will collide. If you release the train from the main brake and the ride doesn't launch, the trains will collide. It seems impossible to run 2 trains. Just my 2 cents. Can anybody produce a video of the ride running with 2 trains showing the cycle? Xcelerator has run two trains on a fairly consistent basis since it opened. When stacked, the second train sits outside the station on the "U" portion of track behind it. It moves into the station only after the other train has cleared the launch. It would take multiple catastrophic failures for there to be a collision in that zone: the retractable magnetic brakes would had to have to have somehow gotten stuck down (their default position is up---power goes out or any fault comes up and they go up by default) AND a train would have to not move out of the "U" portion of track behind the station.

It actually wouldn't be that hard to program into the rides control system. Probably wouldn't require more then a change in a few lines of code. A simple line to hold restraint unlock until the button is pressed again is all that it would take. Any modification of a ride in California requires state approval. So even if the programming is a simple fix, SFMM would need the manufacturer and the state to approve it before it can be put in use.

This is so cool! I'm glad S&S is building a prototype and not just going "it looks good on a computer...lets build it!" Hope this concept can come to life!

USH has all the touristy stuff on Hollywood Blvd (Mann's Chinese, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Kodak Theatre) just two exits down the 101. With the Metro, you can go to just about any touristy spot in the L.A. area.

^I personally loved that. Sports are entertainment. Good for him for being "real."

I predict each slide only being open for one hour at a time. And you must stretch before attempting to climb up the stairs.

Exactly. One train operation on Xcelerator and Silver Bullet are brutal when it is crowded at KBF. They shouldn't get a free pass when we ripped on SFMM for not buying a spare for YOLOCoaster...