mummyjohn

I say B

4-D's are actually really easy to handle. Clearly you've never used Scream Machines. Personally, I hate building in SM - it takes a lot longer than No Limits, and is not nearly as user friendly - NL has a way better U.I. Though there are a few big hints that NL should take from SM. For example, adding predefined supports in 3-D view, and having mulitple tracks in one area. But about 4-D, it's simple. On every vertex, you can not only adjust the banking roll of the vertex, but the flip rail. There's this little arrow thing that juts out of the vertex, indicating which direction people will be looking on that particular vertex. Other than that, it's just like building any other coaster.

I haven't been on a lot of things, so I'd have to say any Vekoma Boomerang is the roughest (and my most hated). Though Viper at Magic Mountain might be worse...I'm right at the perfect height where the sides of my head are exactly level with the restraints. My ears were practically bleeding. A friend of mine whom I went to the Mountain with had been there before, and knew enough to sit in the middle of the train. I wanted to try the back, though, to see if I'd black out.

Ok I haven't watched Supercoasters yet (it's still sitting in my TiVo depository, along with the Fresh Prince and Futurama) but doesn't Disney have something like this in Downtown Disney at W.D.W? I coulda sworn I heard something like this. As for power, maybe it's a third rail concept like the subways.

I sorta use all of them, I guess. But the biggest for me are 'best ride,' but rerideablility probably takes the cake. Batman the Ride I could do again and again, and that's my favorite ride. This one time though, on Xcelerator, a friend of mine and I wer there on an uncrowded day and rode it 18 times...without getting off.

I don't care about restraints or rockets or even 4-D, I just know we must have FLYING COASTERS! TATSU ALL THE WAY!

I think that's one of the best, it's got fantastic acceleration, and the perfect speed over the hill - slow enough you can see everything, fast enough to give powerful airtime.

Sorry my mistake

When I was there, X was operating in true Six Flags style...one train, and it took an average of 6 minutes per train. The number they give is 1600 riders per hour, I believe. At the rate we were there, they were going 280 riders per hour! The only ride in the park with two trains was Riddler, and so naturally it had no line - I literally walked onto the front seat! It was a weekday in April this year, so naturally the entire place was fairly un-crowded, but even then I waited for over three quarters of an hour for X. I just can't wait to ride Tatsu. That's probably the ride I want to ride the most of the great rides I haven't yet been on (that and Kumba). Though there were some more trains for Scream sitting there near the station, still in packaging (Saran wrap it appeared to be). So, that's good news, and everything Shapiro's been talking about sounds good. He never wants people to come to the Mountain and end up with 4 rides closed, even though they're advertized as "16 (now 17, but without Flashback...) World Class Coasters."

One time I rode Xcelerator 18 times in a row without getting out, except to switch seats every so often. On two of them, one of my friends finished his Dippin' Dots on the ride.

Wouldn't LIMs be silent (excluding the usual track-wheel noise, of course) because there's no contact, all magnetic forces? Superman the Escape, for example, makes almost no noise on the straightaway, it's only that high-g curve.

Coastersims.com is where I got it. NoLimits 1.6 is adding crazy realism. There's a thread about it somewhere in the Roller Coaster Video Games forum.

Dude Kumba all the way! Another favorite of mine would have to be the Togo 'Loopscrew'

That Greezed' Lightnin' looks like a classic Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loop That's so weird the way it's on the side of the park, right by the road! No plants on the fence to block it or anything.

Those things are crazy! I just hope my framerates don't end up in the single digits because of it! Does anyone know an expected release date for 1.6, or have any guesses? A month? Three months? Mid June? EVER?

Riddler's was one of my favorites too - that corkscrew at the end is just super. My favorites are sort of in limbo, because they're all just super. Living in coaster Mecca (So-cal), there's a lot to choose from. My count is only 32 though. (But with repeat rides, it's 125! and 145 inversions !). So, I'd say: And number 3, Scream! Yes, it's in the parking lot...everyone bashes Six Flags for building a coaster in the parking lot, but I think they're too harsh...this is art (the coaster, not the photo). No. 2 - Xcelerator No. 1 - Batman the Ride - I love the forces on this, and it's just plain fun.

I put Xcelerator, just because it's amazing. Perhaps the best outside tophat EVER. The speed and airtime over the top of that thing is perfect, not rushed, but not so slow I feel like I'm not going to top the hill (though that would be cool). But obviously Superman The Escape gives Xcel. a run for its money. That thing is just amazing. I mean seriously 100m.p.h. The only other time I've been moving that fast (airplanes excluded) was in my dad's 1970's diesel MBenz. The best part though, I think is the airtime, not the speed. 6.5 seconds of NOTHING - it's just great. It is so amazingly quiet up there when the car gets down to zero.

So Tower of Terror...not even a contest. I've been on several, and would have to say that Walt Disney World's is by far the best. There is a TPR dude that had a wicked new design for one, where the plotline is that the hotel was built on an ancient burial site of something, (somehow the witch hunts were tied into it). So next, you go up and see a ballroom suddenly collapse from weak foundation, and you fall down a story or two with it, revealing the burial chamber. Next you get shot up and proceed witht he normal drop/launch sequences. The art he did of the tower is INSANE. It's so good, I just can't even describe it. But half of the hotel has literally cracked off, and just fallen down about two hotel-size stories.

Does Batman the Ride at Magic Mountain count? That thing could fit on my block, and that's saying something. It's super twisted and compact. But usually parks looking for small coasters don't have $16,000,000 lying around. So without Batman, I don't really know. I've been on more Wild Mouse coasters than I can beleive...those things are death traps of whiplash! I've never ridden a toboggan, but those are so small, that'd probably be my pick.

It's a tough choice, but I'd have to say B&M. I mean not only do their coasters look great, but provide a SUPER ride. Plus, they are major pioneers. I'm pretty sure they invented flying coasters, and floorless, and of course dive machines. The overall ride is very smooth, but very fun. A coaster doesn't have to have a maddeningly insane launch to be great. Like it was said earlier, B&M is about what happens once gravity takes over, Intamin is about overtaking gravity. Whoever says things about 'forceless B&Ms' is really mistaken. There's Batman the Ride, and of course Tatsu, that's just off the top of my head. Oh yeah, and that final corkscrew on Riddler's Revenge - uber tight. Though I do gotta give Intamin props for that whole Superman the Escape (magic mountain). Dang that's incredible.

Ok, I don't know if someone's said this already, but I really like Kingda Ka because it translates from Swahili, meaning 'lose your lunch.'

Xcelerator is probably the best, because its top is completely unsupported. But then there's this weird thing:http://pictures.rcdb.com/picmax/gold-reef-city/tower-of-terror2.jpg It goes vertical!http://pictures.rcdb.com/picmax/gold-reef-city/tower-of-terror21.jpg I took this picture!

I enjoy just about every coaster at Magic Mountain, they are each really unique. Unfortunately, Revolution was closed when I was there because of Tatsu construction, Psyclone was closed, and [go figure] Deja Vu. I have heard that they've butchered Revvy. But Schwarzkopf coasters don't need OSTR'S - they're made that way. I mean look at the shuttle loop. Montezooma's revenge, at KBF, is a looping coaster, with just lap bars. But my list: 1. Batman 2. Scream 3. X 4. Riddler's Revenge And, next time I go, I'm sure Tatsu will be no. one on the list. P.S. It'd be cool if they have another sleepover/media day thing if they fix up Flashback, which I'm begging for.

I know someone just said this, but I think Riddler's Revenge is a really good one. Having it right next to Batman's grey, they sorta set each other off. I can't stand X though...god I hate those colors. A lot of my friends say 'Scream - blue, yellow, and PURPLE! What is this! That's so ugly.' I ca't imagine why, though, I love it.

Isn't California Screamin' a two tube track? And if anyone here uses NOLIMITS, then there is a really good replica there, by GoliathGuy, I think. All scene pieces, and superb realism.