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The title of this thread sounds like a motocross jumping move. Or a sexual technique. Anyways, a superman camel hump pull through sounds really fun, and the photos are nice too.

Does she fall under the donkey category?

Maybe it's named after the classic british film?

I think you should certainly have NL in the contest... it's a simulator with a lot of subtlety and realism, and the very best rides often are the result of insane amounts of work. It'd be nice to see some of the top NL designers get wider recognition, if you were to manage to lure them into posting here. There are certainly a lot of the NL people from coastersims (and I think the other exchange sites too) browsing this site, but I think they rarely look in this part of the forum. After all, it has mainly been RCT oriented, and there is already a site for them to geek out about the shape of patriot's loop and the snap in a B&M invert's corkscrew.

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The loop looks short and wide to me. Less whip at the top, more consistent force throughout the loop. Where's Real when you need him?

^^sorry if this is old hat... but does anyone here follow Boddingtons with a fruit wheat beer? (Ithaca Apricot Wheat or Sam Cherry Wheat are my usuals) It's a meal and dessert all in beer!

Man dies on toilet seat. In 'erotic lock' with bizarre harness. Details at 10.

Drop towers are the only rides that really scare me when they are functioning properly. And that is only when we're about 10 feet from the top till the wait. However, whenever a ride does something different (anyone else had the lift hill slow down towards the top of MF?!) that it is not supposed to do, I get freaked. The creaking on enterprises (Re: Witches Wheel) bothers me a bit. Ferris wheels also can bother me, because I know I could just leap off at any moment. Not that I would. But it would be possible... Freaky.

Unless you're into that kind of thing...

most useful site ever. Thanks!

Robb, did you live in LA and look like that?! Every one of my friends that moves to LA comes back a year later and looks like they've been on the Biggest Loser or Extreme Makeover.

Yeah, didn't mean to tear your head off. It is a pretty ride. And since the good part is mostly what is visible, it's looks are quite deceiving.

That 1st pic is amazing! All of the bobsleds I've been on have felt sluggish, but the old flying turns apparently weren't. I hope Knoebel's can make their new ride more like the old while still being safe. Do I correctly recall (somewhere in the back of my mind) that classic flying turns had maintenance trouble? If I ever read that, it was in the ol' Traver book. If not, pardon me.

MS would be a decent ride if they took that *&$%*$& trim off the first drop and found a way to get it to run smoothly. But a good layout?! Think again..... the first three hills? Yes. The rest? Gentle slopes creating boring dips, and wide slow turns creating boring... well turns. The entire ride is just a wannabe Texas Giant with none of the edge, creativity, or forces that make a good coaster. It is perhaps the ULTIMATE "big numbers not adding up to a big ride experience" coaster. That said, if they truly retrack it every year, I think they're having it done by drunk blind worker elves, since the track always feels worse for the wear when I go. (PS Intamin Wood for '06 please oh please oh please)

A mouse with horsecollars... this is perhaps the worst idea ever. It's gotta be Togo, right?

Even better, it could be like a castle, and you could choose between two dueling tracks. oh wait.... I'm really curious to see what goes in though... it actually might be really great!

Very Nice TR! Interesting read... the vid clip is nice too. The lockdown tricks were nice, as was the POV. Way to go.

^^^I also think many people have memories of Wooden coasters as their first major rides. I'm betting most people lose their coaster "virginity" on woodies. (Yikes... that probably won't make it into the special, eh?). So there may be a certain nostalgia (or distaste, depending on the experience). I also agree that wooden coaster designers are just putting out better product overall-- we've seen a recent surge in creativity from steelies (Hydra, BoosterBike, Storm Runner, Powder Keg), but wooden coaster companies seem to be getting better and better at making similar products... they're refining their craft, rather than reinventing it, and it really shows... specifically, GCI has taken it up a notch, and I think Gravity Group are really doing their impressive best to impress as old timey newcomers. It's important to note, I think, that the curiosity about the GAdv Intamin woodie is more about newness and reputation (Balder & Colossos) as opposed to the interest in the Beech Bend and Holiday World woodies, which is this refinement BS I was talking about. I'm actually really curious as to see if a new intamin hyper ever shows up-- they seemed to be getting really mindblowingly outstanding (SROS SFNE, Goliath, E:GF, MF), and then.... no new hypers. I wonder if parks demanding innovation go to steel coaster designers, and those wanting good old fashioned fun go to wooden coaster designers. It might be market driven rather than supplier driven, but either way... I think there's a touch of love and class coming from GCI and GG that I don't detect in today's steelies.

Okay, I may be an idiot, but WTF?! It seems that the ride could simply run through a couple Seussified turrets or by a couple elevated (rooftop?) platforms that could act as blocking zones, evacuation routes and maybe mini-seuss-scenes -- control the number of driving machines between turrets, and you've essentially got trains, and very little cherry picking to do in an emergency--everyone could be off in a couple minutes. And that is the same thing that happens if something goes wrong while a coaster train is running on the tracks... maybe it's a power-outage worry or something? Oh well, I'm sure someone far smarter than me can explain why this isn't feasible for a park that seems to be able to pull everything else off with such class.

Everest keeps on looking really done (full speed testing and amazing details on the mountain) and then looking not close at all (fields of mud instead of landscaping). When are the rumored soft/hard openings?

As far as togo standups go, I've had one brilliant ride on Skyrider in Canada's Wonderland... insane air in the helix, powerful loop, air all over the place in the second half. The other 30 or so times I've ridden it it's been a steaming pile of crap. As far as sterilizing, as long as you treat it like a bike seat, you should be okay (barring enormity to the point of deformity) I know Arrow pipelines were never really built--- but didn't they make one at their factory in Utah? That might be the most pointless coaster ever built. Isn't Twister II @ SFEG a pretty rotten imitation of a coaster that already existed and was owned by the park? Kings Island Bat is perhaps the most obvious poor planning, but didn't WOF put stand up trains on a corkscrew once? Another idiotic idea.

the idea is that you are immediately supposed to jump off the moment you concieve.

Voyage, Superman: NZ, SFGAdv Wood, and perhaps the SFMM flyer/whatever if it uses the terrain like it should. As far as a new Discovery channel show goes... what I'd be more interested in would be a guide to "doing" parks-- what rides are busiest in the morning, afternoon, evening, when they're busy, where to get discounts, where the best food is... an insider's guide. TPR should be making TV shows (yadda yadda I know you guys don't want to do this, but you could and it'd ROCK:) I think there'd be an special appeal for doing the Universal Parks, Disney(s), CP, SFMM and SFGAdv. Of course Disney wouldn't give you creative control, but the other parks probably would... It'd be like Ask Alvey Live!

Can we talk about cheesus though? I actually have devoted myself to cheese (both in consumption and humor) from a very young age. Really, it's a meta-joke if you think about it. Oh, and the pics are pretty--keep the trip reports coming ***edit*** Maybe they should create little animatronic dogs to keep the kitties from going feral?