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Funny thing is, I think we've all said the same for at least ten years. The park has long appeared to be doomed, but has somehow chugged along for years regardless. That being said, they might have made just enough money to pay for operations and daily maintenance, but not enough to compensate...

The connections between the elements are the weak links, after all. When two pieces of track hit the ground together, the force is more likely to tear off the bolts that connect them, than the solid steel tubes they are assembled from. Same with supports held together with bolted flanges, or any...

Gotta wonder how Falcon's Flight will be different in that regard. If the world's tallest coaster can't draw enough people to New Jersey to be worth the operational costs, I can't imagine one will draw enough people to Riyadh to cover operational costs that will surely be three times as high.

Literally everything that has anything to do with Parques Reunidos. Its owners don't care one iota about amusement parks anyway, the money is all they're after, so they could feasibly have gone and mucked up another industry instead and left the theme park world alone.

That's exactly why, and why we should keep it as it is. This honey pot keeps catching flies that would otherwise have bothered us elsewhere.

Nah, it's a bot. This thread is like a pot of honey for them.

That depends on the rides, I guess. If the idea is to rely solely on transportable fairground rides, getting everything else up first may be easier than the other way 'round.

Heck, I recall following its construction thread, and having it pointed out that a guy we used to see regularly on CF was up there with a harness in one of the pictures, supervising its construction. I thought it impressive even back then, that somebody I used to have arguments with on these...

Apropos of, uh, nothing in particular, here's my Top 10 for the year: 1. Helix, Liseberg 2. Expedition Everest, Disney's Animal Kingdom 3. Balder, Liseberg 4. Formula Rossa, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi 5. Piraten, Djurs Sommerland 6. Swarm, Thorpe Park 7. Dragon Challenge, Islands of Adventure 8...

Wouldn't the EU put the Intamin execs on the medieval rack if they did business in Russia at that scale? Not to mention the dire straits of the Russian economy. A big coaster is probably the last thing anybody needs over there at the moment, and in the coming years.

I've been thinking that we're definitely seeing the end of some era recently, but I'm not quite sure why exactly, it's a combination of many factors. It just seems that the coaster scene I grew up with is coming to an end. In many cases, this is true in a very physical sense. Several of the...

If there is a safe direction for it to fall, I guess they might topple it using explosives. Otherwise, there'll be a lot of work with large cranes and cutting torches.

The two companies used to be each other's fiercest competition. Now, they've cornered the market together. That means there's less of a reason to maintain the most impressive coaster lineup in each park. They axe some of the least popular ones, because there's no longer a risk of losing...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is 18 million SEK really that much in this context? It's less than two million dollars. Recall that Funtime was fined $310 million for their involvement in an accident in Florida recently. Would this really be one of the biggest fines incurred by a company in Sweden?

I think it makes sense to have a "send-off event" for the closure of a big coaster if that coaster is the only one to be closed within a moderately short time period. But suppose that Kingda Ka's retirement is followed up by, for instance, Superman Escape from Krypton next year, then SFOT Titan...