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^ According to RCDB stats, mindbender was a notch above drier looping, being taller, faster, and longer, but apparently the latter pulls a little more G-force. Mindbender: Length 4,198.0 ft Height 145.0 ft Drop 127.0 ft Speed 60.0 mph Inversions 3 Duration 1:13 G-Force 5.2...

Take away all the amusement park stuff around it, if I saw a pic of such a foundation excavation taking place in an empty lot somewhere, I could be inclined to speculate that it might be for the foundation of one of those really tall free-standing triangulated truss transmission towers...

Ohio got so damn lucky to be blessed with the two finest full-fledged amusement parks in the Midwest. If the proverbial gun was at my head and I were forced to choose, I guess I'd have to go with CP for its world-beating coaster arsenal. But in reality, they're both pretty fantastic at doing...

15 from the US, 10 from Europe. Any chance an Asian coaster ever breaks into the top 25? Surely there are some contenders worthy of consideration? But perhaps the world is still just too damn big.....

Wacky POV pacing aside, the ride looks SOLID. Good height, speed, and length; yet another super-legit arrow in Hershey's world class coaster quiver.

With the recent disheartening news that the world might be losing Galaxyland's Mindbender, it's nice to see that its cousin is coming together in Indiana to hopefully carry on the Schwarzkopf compact multi-looper torch in North America.

Oh no! Quick, someone get Gene Staples on the line. He could probably find a way to shoe-horn it into Clementon Park.

Universal's Islands of Adventure has no actual islands. They should have called it "Universal's Man-Made Lagoon of Adventure". :p

"A new Formula for thrills" maybe switching to a Formula One theme?

I don't know how much longer Diamondback at FC specifically has left, but Arrow loopers of all models are a dwindling species. We're now at a point where ~40% of all the Arrow loopers ever built (corkscrews, loop + corkscrews, launched loops, and customs) have gone to coaster heaven. I...

^ off the top of my head, it seems like SV stays the most faithful to the original track-plan of all the RMC rebuilds. Most of the others I can think have at least one significant divergence from the original ride's track-plan. EDIT: Twisted Timbers also follows the original Hurler track-plan...

it likely won't be as revelatory as some of the earlier RMC rebuilds when enthusiasts' heads were exploding, but it's also important to keep things in perspective too. i think most would agree that any RMC >>> no RMC at all. i mean, if we take the jaded enthusiast goggles off for a moment...

"ride duration" is a fairly dubious stat. If CP feels up to taking the "2nd longest duration RMC" record back, all they have to do is slow down the lift on Steel Vengeance. zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Length of track is the FAR more meaningful length statistic IMO, and on that score, its not close...

Thoosie: I want to ask you a question, straight out, flat out, and I want you to give me the honest answer. What do you think the chances are of the Ultimate ever running again? LWV: Well thoosie, that's difficult to say. We really don't... Thoosie: Hit me with it! Just give it to me straight...

"as you know it" Only 4 little words. But an infinity of interpretations. This will be fun to watch.

As for this latest El Toro incident, I've long been of the opinion that if you want a roller coaster that goes really fast, just make the track out of steel and save yourself the headaches. If you're absolutely dead set on being able to market your ride as some superlative of "wooden" coaster...

Hell, some of the earliest Arrow mine trains are now almost pushing 60 years! But even if you just want to talk about their higher speed/higher force multi-loopers, some are now closer to 50 than they are to 40. Two of the original corkscrews from '75 are still hanging on (not at their...

Not shuttle loop related, but in other great news for this park, Silver Comet was reopened yesterday. Scratch another wooden coaster off the SBNO list! Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/silver-comet-back-open-at-niagara-amusement-park-and-splash-world?_amp=true

SPIRAL LIFT!!!! I love everything about this new coaster!

Demon at SFGAm has 4 inversions and a minimum rider height of 42". I'm sure there are others.