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I think overall Cole products are better. Regular Coke is way better than the sugar-rush of regular Pepsi (although I haven't drank either in almost a decade). And Coke Zero is the best cola drink anywhere IMO. But, sorry, Diet Pepsi kicks Diet Coke's ass. Diet Coke has the weirdest additive flavor of any soda ever. What is that weird taste? It;s like corn or something. Diet Pepsi isn't anywhere close to the Pixy Stix/Lik-A-Stix flavor of regular Pepsi, and tastes pretty much just like a diet soda should....

It's great to see that a new coaster and a new lease on life as a whole has KK as a park on the rise. My previous visit, just 10 short years ago, it was almost sad, it was such a lackluster park. I'm not far away. I need to get back there...

High Speed Thrill Coaster

I don't know about great quotes, but I simply can't get enough of looking at the huge avatar of a middle aged man with a hat and shades that the OP features. So awesome...

So what I take from this review is that Warcraft is awful and should be avoided at all costs unless you are the hugest WOW geek ever. And even then, those nerds may still hate it. Good to know. Also good to know that most critics also seem to agree that it is a huge piece of crap....

I like HW better as well, but if you live in the STL metro area, one park is less than an hour away and the other is 3-plus hours away. So it's not really a true either/or proposition for normal folks...

I like HW better as well, but if you live in the STL metro area, one park is less than an hour away and the other is 3 hours away. So it's not really a true either/or proposition for normal folks...

I'll add a list of things that affect my enjoyment of dark rides/heavily themed attractions: - people who talk and make loud noises on my boat/conveyance on a themed ride (hey, I don't live here and get to go on this ride 1000 times a year; I want to actually HEAR the spiel) - simple themed elements that don't work (no reason for sound or lighting to not work. We're not exactly talking about a Yeti level of upkeep. It's just lazy) - parks that take out themed elements and replace them with nothing (long concrete tunnel on American Plunge at SDC, anyone?) - no attempt by the ride designers to at least semi-obscure Exit signs on dark rides. I know they are essential and all, but at least don't put them right behind the focal point of the scene. If there is an emergency, pretty much all rides have lights and staff that will lead patrons to the exits anyway. Why the ubiquitous Exit signs? Someone may be able to enlighten me here. - well-themed water rides that get you DRENCHED. OK, on some level I have no problem with it. But is the ride about story and theming, or is it about getting drenched? If the theming is that good, the drenching element shouldn't be so important. This is especially referring to log flumes and water coasters. Splash Mountain and Timber Lountain Log Ride have it right. Dudley at IOA and Journey to Atlantis at SWO do not. There are just my opinions. I'm sure not everyone will agree...

Yeah, the new X-Men isn't one of the best in the series, but it's not one of the worst either. It's still a lot of fun, and Quicksilver is a gas every time he's on screen. And I saw Angry Birds with my son, and it's completely pointless and unfunny...

Indeed..

Thunderhawk (with new changes) Ernie or Bert?

Yeah, virtual reality sucks, unless I'm home on my couch. If I'm out in the world experiencing cool things, actual reality is plenty good enough. The same with simulator rides. Yeah, they're fine when they're done well. But let's not depend on them too much. Because a future with no new attractions with practical effects or animatronics is no future I have any interest in...

Four of the five X-Men movies (not counting either Wolverine stand-alone, of which I liked neither) were really good, and I never read comics. And even the other one (which is The Last Stand for me) was at least average. And the last two with McCoy, Fassbender, and Lawrence (as the young Charles, Magneto, and Mystique) are both really great. I liked all of them better than either Thor movie, any Fantastic Four movie, any Hulk movie, and every Spiderman movie since 2 (the Toby McGuire one w/Doc Ock). I think all 3 Captain America movies, most parts of the 3 Iron Man movies, and both Avengers movies are great (yes, I really liked Age of Ultron). Other than those, I also loved Guardians, Ant-Man, and Deadpool. And can't wait for Doctor Strange. So Marvel-based movies are batting like .700 for me. And I grew up reading few comics, and the superhero ones I did read were all DC....

I can't imagine anyone voluntarily riding Ninja without any sort of true vision that would allow them to brace themselves for the transitions....and the pain. Calling the chiropractor in 4-3-2-1.....

Space Shot is intense and fun for about 4 seconds. Turbo Drop is scary for like 60-90 seconds, and thrilling for another 5 or 10...

It's funny, but my 8 year-old's new favorite show is The Animaniacs (on Netflix). He even said recently that he likes the WB cartoons more than Disney. It's just a phase, and he doesn't get 95% of the jokes. But it's interesting. He just loves Pinky & the Brain. And I turned him on to Bugs and Foghorn and Wile E. a few years ago, so he does enjoy their more adult-ish brand of humor. Of course, I'm a guy who has always loved the WB cartoons. But I also love classic Mickey and Disney shorts too, and I introduced him to those even before WB. So it's all good to us...

Saturday at SDC in mid-June will be so crowded, it will take you 10 minutes to walk between rides. The thoroughfares are tight in many places and they get bottle-necked. That's a park that is much more appreciated when it's not a peak day. If you want to just ride the rides, get the T pass and go for it. But that park normally requires a bit of a slower pace to truly take in all its subtleties and beauty. And it has way more of those things than any other park on that trip, other than Dollywood, which you are also visiting on a Saturday in mid-June. I think that's a shaky itinerary, although with CP and KI in there too, I guess you don't have a lot of choice. So get the Trailblazers and have fun!

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I actually thought the directing was the highlight of the film. Zach Snyder did a great job setting the tone IMHO. I feel like the writers and actors should be blamed more than him. The movie certainly looked good, so Snyder deserves credit for that. As for "tone"? It was completely wrong for who these characters are. Superman, in no comic book iteration, was brooding and angry. And Batman plowing through buildings and shooting random henchman isn't very Batman-y. Isn't that kind of destruction the whole reason Batman wants to kill Superman in the first place? And don't even get me started about the dumb introduction of other Justice League characters as we watch WW clicking on the internet. It's always good to stop the action 2/3rds of the way through to show someone clicking links on the internet. Quality pacing right there. That scene did not thing for the plot; it was put in to tease the new characters for future movies. Is it supposed to be a good movie, or is it a marketing ploy A good editor scraps that scene and probably several others (like those dumb Batman dream sequences?) and get that monstrosity closer to 2 hours than 3. It was a mess. That's on the director. The actors did all they could with the weak screenplay and horrible pacing....

I have a Sega Genesis you can have. It has this cute hedgehog character than jumps a lot and grabs rings. It's kind of like an amusement ride...

As far as steel coasters, to me it's about the restraints 95% of the time. Even bone breakers like Ninja here at SFSTL or Anaconda at KD or the old GASM at SFGAdv would be 100 times more tolerable without the awful OTSRs. Ditto for every Vekoma SLC. I guess I understand the need for those awful restraint systems, but they essentially ruin rides could be so much better with a less-painful system...at least IMO...

Depends on the weather. If its nice, and based on when I went last May on a gorgeous, sunny Saturday (afternoon times): Batman: 20-30 min Freeze: 20-30 Boss - 20-30 American Thunder -15-20 Pandemonium - 30-40 Ninja - 10-15 Boomerang - 20-30 Mine Train - 10-15 Superman - 30-40 Justice League - 50-60 Log Flume 15-20 Thunder River 20-30 Tsunami Soaker 10-15 most flats 15-20