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Skyrush was specifically designed to fit into that little corner of Comet Hollow. The layout had to work around (and over) the Comet structure, existing buildings, the creek bed, and the hill on the far side leading to the road. In another park or setting that layout would be awkward. As to who owns the layout, that would be determined by the contract between Hersheypark and Intamin, which we are not privy to. I know in my line of work some of our customers want to own the intellectual property for the design, and we are happy to give them that for a price. Others don't want the IP, and we can reuse that design on a product for another customer.

I don't understand your concern. There's already padding clearly there on the lap bars now. No metal section will be pressing against bodies on the entire ride. Ahh, I see it now. I never expected the 1" metal bars to be the actual restraints (it wasn't a complaint), I just didn't see where the padding is.

I hope the padding on those lap bars was shipped separately, because as they are, OUCH.

Griffon had a major advertising campaign about their new floorless trains, although that is ever so slightly outside your 5 hr radius. Closer in, Six Flags Great Adventure has Medusa/Bizarro, which features two floorless seats in each row that are outside the track, and two seats that are over the track, and is only 2.5 hrs away. Besides, we haven't seen any real advertising aimed at the GP yet, just press releases.

The fact that Goliath is being built on land that is that is 30/40ft above the elevation of the 'DC SUPER HEROS Adventure" area where Bizarro is doesn't hurt

Going out on a limb here, but put me down for 7 as well.

Interesting that it's "Disney's Art of Animation Resort". I thought the 's had been banned, leading to stupid names like the "Disney John Carter" posters and, of course, "Disney California Adventure".

Thanks for that blast from the past. It's amazing how far some of these parks have come in the last 35 years.

Looks like Massachusetts to me.

Xcelerator is coral and seafoam (pink and teal) and themed to 1957 American hot rods, iSpeed is red and grey and themed to modern cars from the mostly-European Formula One. Both these coasters are teal and beige and themed to the New Kingdom era of ancient Egypt.

4 sandpail duckies for me.

Don't know if this has been posted here before, but Machine Design magazine (one of the free engineering magazines that clog up my mailbox at work) had a cover story on the New Texas Giant. http://machinedesign.com/article/box-shaped-tracks-let-mega-coasters-soar-0119 An excerpt: Check out the article for some technical details behind the Rocky Mountain process (hint: plasma cutters, robotic welders, and patented warping compensation techniques) And yes, the printed magazine version had the correct orientation for that first picture (although I can understand why a hurried web editor felt the need to rotate it 90 degrees).

Awsome TR. Thanks!

i305 does have that, but i305 is so massive that the stairs are actually inside the truss:

With all those cracks, that doesn't look like new pavement to me. Looks more like they just sprayed sealcoat on it.

Put me down for 7 as well.

^I had the same problem with red not registering hits from blue in my last match. The Real Art guy also mentioned that the Santa Claw will be going overseas. He clarified that by sea he meant "Atlantic Ocean", and that it will be going "somewhere like great britain."

Looks like the first person to register was #179, mattg. SharkTums is #262 (profile at http://beta.ro-bros.com/userProfile.aspx?userID=262). I'm #312.

My video feed while playing was actually fine. The only problem was that the damage bars never moved (the power bars did, but not the damage bars). Lost a close one, I think (we were both flashing when the match ended).

The website does say that they are in a testing phase until Friday night. Hopefully they can get the bugs worked out by then.

Below are the duckies I found. I only guessed two, because I was in doubt about the duckie with the question mark.

Lock me in for 2 duckies as well.

The amazing thing is that in both the '98 Ecstasy fire and the '10 Splendor fire Carnival offered passengers a full refund plus a complimentary future cruise. In neither of those cases was anyone's life in real danger, nor did people lose all their possessions and in many cases have to swim to shore. A 30% discount is just insulting. It said 30% off on future cruises. Even so, that is still insulting because I doubt that many of these people are going to want to sail on a cruise ship, let alone a ship owned by Carnival. Little by little their rep. is being ruined. I wonder how much it could hurt them? I know it's 30% off a future cruise. My point was that in the much-less-serious incidents they offered a refund plus a 100% off a future cruise.

The amazing thing is that in both the '98 Ecstasy fire and the '10 Splendor fire Carnival offered passengers a full refund plus a complimentary future cruise. In neither of those cases was anyone's life in real danger, nor did people lose all their possessions and in many cases have to swim to shore. A refund plus a 30% discount on a future cruise is just insulting.