MrSum1_55 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 ^Well...They basically look the same. The only difference is the direction the train goes through them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterAuditor Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 I can definitely say I prefer dive loops to immelmans. I wish Virginia had a good dive loop but I can settle for the second half of cobra rolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbill Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 I can definitely say I prefer dive loops to immelmans. I wish Virginia had a good dive loop but I can settle for the second half of cobra rolls. Doesn't Griffon have 2 of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterAuditor Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 ^Those are immelmans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 So a dive loop is what Bizarro has w/ the fire, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterAuditor Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Yup hence why I like Bizarro more than Dominator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genx24 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Yesterday at Great Adventure, I overheard a girl telling the person she was with that during Fright Fest they "twist the tracks on Batman" in the opposite direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordyC Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 ^Well, that's a new one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X2coasterfreak Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Dive loops and Immelmanns look very similar, but dive loops enter from the top of the inversion, diving into it, hence the name. Immelmanns enter from the bottom of the inversion. Fun nerd fact, the inversion is named an immelmann after a German World War I pilot who developed the maneuver for aerial combat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 ^What's "gp weird" about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X2coasterfreak Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 ^What's "gp weird" about that? I suppose I was just late to the inversion discussion, carry on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prozach626 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I also think somewhere along the line there was a misconception that I cared about the difference between a dive loop and an immelmann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelwee Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I have some relatives whose last visit to SFMM was in the early '80s. When I mention that park to them, they usually ask something along the lines of, "Do they still have that roller coaster that goes upside down?" It's funny how much of an impact Revolution had on people back then, to where that's the only thing they remember about SFMM after not visiting in 30+ years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF15 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I was at Nickelodeon Universe earlier today and while I was riding Spongebob Rock Bottom Plunge, the person sitting next to me said “This ride hangs you over the edge like the one at Cedar Point in Iowa”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prozach626 Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 I don't know, man. That doesn't seem as strange as a lot of other comparisons for people who don't care about the coaster community. Hang over the edge - At least that's a better comparison than a lot of them you hear. Cedar Point in Iowa - It's not like Ohio is that much more memorable than Iowa, outside of the coaster community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytterbiumanalyst Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 I also think somewhere along the line there was a misconception that I cared about the difference between a dive loop and an immelmann. You don't get it. We need to school these noobs until they can recite the 16 differences between a step up drop down twisty roll and a graviton particle loopty loop. I don't know, man. That doesn't seem as strange as a lot of other comparisons for people who don't care about the coaster community. Hang over the edge - At least that's a better comparison than a lot of them you hear. Cedar Point in Iowa - It's not like Ohio is that much more memorable than Iowa, outside of the coaster community. Having driven through both Iowa and Ohio, there's not a whole lot of difference. Maybe fewer pigs in Ohio? Also around these parts Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is way better known than Cedar Point, Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeelTheFORCE Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Monster's drop is pretty similar to Spongebob's if that's what he was talking about, so he wasn't necessarily wrong, but Iowa has too many cities with "Cedar" in the name. I was there a couple months for work a while back and never did get down which Cedar was which between Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids. Although Adventureland is in Des Moines, nowhere near either, so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThrillDude200 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Found this clickbait thumbnail on YouTube, they aren't even trying. That man looks unnatural and obviously was added into the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF15 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking86 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 ^It was described as 'horror experience' in a Norwegian newspaper... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordyC Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 ^^ Leaving more than 60 passengers upside down Did I miss something, or does Flying Dinosaur suddenly has the longest train in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingCoasting Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 This comment was even better than the article title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarienPoint Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Sigh... It's like The Onion news articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayTheGForceBeWithYou Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 ^^Leaving more than 60 passengers upside down Did I miss something, or does Flying Dinosaur suddenly has the longest train in the world? Seeing three train ops on it, they usually had one train in the station, one train cycling, and one train on the final brakes waiting for the appropriate side of the station to clear. Assuming this, two trains would be outside the station in the event of an E stop, yielding 64 total people stuck somewhere on the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytterbiumanalyst Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Sigh... It's like The Onion news articles. No, the Onion actually has good writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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