laqueefa

No matter what RMC does with Roar, I have no doubt that it will be a spectacular ride! This.

Can he make it if he watches the parade from the Train Station platform, then rides the train over to New Orleans Square.

I wonder how many times I can marathon ride this?!

I rode it on Friday, I did not think it had a rattle at all. That said, I really only ride B&M Inverts in the front row. You get some serious whip action if you ride in the back of CGA's Flight Deck. Totally worth it.

Agreed. I'm hitting Disney the Friday before WCB. It looks like steak and eggs are going to be a must as well.

I'll take a stab at it. Looks like they could move the offices and storage thats currently behind Toon Town here, and expand the land within the park for more attractions/new land. Didn't Disney upper management said there would be no 3rd gate in that investors call?

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you there. Flight Deck's forcefulness tips the scale in its favor for me when compared to Medusa. Everything else you said it pretty spot on.

When it comes to businesses taking on more work, never say never. With the proper project management I'm sure RMC can do 4-5 projects in a year. Just when you think a park can't fit a new coaster on to their property, boom, they make it fit. Companies expand, they can contract out sections of work to other companies to make up time. There are so many ways to take care of business

I have always found it interesting how European Intamin installations don't have anywhere NEAR the trouble that US installations do. Hmmm.....

There's enough of me to go around, people!

Ok, here's my dumb question du jour ... what is a "chaperoned event?" Seriously, in all my years, I've never heard of such a thing?! An event with chaperones, i.e. kids under the age of 18. Well there goes my idea to neck on with a preacher's daughter! ....unless there are a couple as chaperones.

Uh oh...it seems to be a chaperoned event. In my experience that's never a good thing. Looks like I'll be going for a drive during the day, guys! Or toss back a couple beers at BarYolo!

I'll be sure to wear the shirt that's in my avatar

Ticket purchased! Now my boys just need to get theirs. I need to change my shorts.

Got back from the park. Within an hour we were able to ride: - Goldstriker, row 9 - Flight Deck, very back (cycled twice due to no one in line) - Goldstriker, row 5 - Goldstriker, row 3 All walk on, with both rides running two trains with stacking. Not a bad lunch break!

Going to the park now for some night rides on my lunch break!

THIS! I cannot stand the elitist attitude of most of the AP holders, Disney Social Club members, Disney super fan boy types. Thankfully my friends like to have fun and appreciate what the parks for what they are. I'm exhausted reading these type of posts...

Pay day is this Wednesday! Hopefully we can still get ours!

Yeah, on Indy the movements are randomly generated. Really? Then I must randomly get the same program EVERY time I ride it.

Hahaha, so true.

Yes, please. Just use the Waze gps app.

Dude, that's like trying to argue that chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla. People are going to react and have different experiences with a common factor. Don't make me laugh, come on.

Giant Dipper does not fall into that category, but the other three do. Giant Dipper could be made smoother, but as it's a historical coaster I really think making it smoother would ruin it. It's not rough to the point of being uncomfortable now anyway, unlike GhostRider and Apocalypse. Though GhostRider would probably benefit most from topper, it's unlikely to happen for a similar reason as Giant Dipper. It would probably need to get a lot worse before CF considered it. CF will never change GhostRider's layout, topper is the only thing they'd ever maybe do to it. That ride is as sacred to them as the Timber Mtn Log Ride or Calico Mine Ride. I don't personally agree, but I know that's how CF feels about it. I don't think SFMM cares to makeover Apocalypse, I think they'd sooner demolish it and build something bigger and faster. Grizzly might happen later, but won't be happening this year since they're already redoing a different coaster at CGA this year (Vortex). It's Roar, no doubt about it. Honestly, I don't see how it DOESN'T fall into that category when my statement was pretty plain. Being a coastline ride its exposed to a lot more elements than others, and sure, the argument to not topper track it could be nostalgic based but honestly it would benefit from the upgrade. Some rides on it (depending on the car) just plain beat the piss out of you. Is it likely to happen"? Nope. Would it benefit from the upgrade? Yup. GhostRider is probably the one, out of all the woodies I listed, in need of it most! Consideration if it gets worse? IMHO if it gets worse its going to seriously hurt someone. Even in a middle car I was hurting bad... almost to the point of tapping out on rides and the park for the rest of the day. Now I avoid it like the plague. Just give me a full day of marathoning Xcelerator and I will be happy until that happens. Demolishing Apocalypse is not best for business when it comes to the bottom line. You're going to pay double right off the bat for a new ride! Starting with the demo cost (which isn't cheap - we are talking equipment rentals, labor costs up the wazzooo - not to mention all the permits for said demolition, the cost of disposing of its materials, etc). After thats done you're taking on the price of designing and implementing a new ride (more parts, labor, permits, etc), when all they need to do is topper an un-altered layout. Topper it off, forego the redesign of an Iron Horse treatment and keep it the way it is. Just make it smoother and capitalize off TC's promotion. "Brought to you by the same company that brought you Twisted Colossus!" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Cash in. I'm Laqueefa, and I approve this message.

Coasters that could benefit from topper track in CA? - SCBB: Giant Dipper - CGA: Grizzy (although its newly refurb's parts of track have made it a better ride) - Knotts: Ghostrider (yes please) - SFMM: Apocalypse