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I remember starting a discussion about this a couple years back. We concluded that while there was indeed a Hulk clone planned for Dubai, there's no evidence that any of its track was ever manufactured. The reason Hulk was replaced was probably the fact that it had operated year-round in a harsh...

Ahh, my bad, shouldn't have skimmed through Wikipedia that long after midnight. As for Philharmagic ... it's a stage show, and as far as I can tell it takes place in a building that was already a theatre. I wouldn't consider it a new attraction.

This is a LIM launch coaster, isn't it? Could it be maintenance or running costs have finally outpaced its guest draw?

Between Kingda Ka and Nitro, SFGAdv would still have a couple of big headliner coasters even if El Toro was removed. But still, El Toro is one of the park's defining coasters, easily overshadowing every single coaster they have built in the years since. Heck, I don't think the chain has built...

I hope I found the right thread. Don't think we had one specifically for the Ultimate.

I've been wondering a lot about that myself. All those coasters built in the early 2000s - in particular, the boom between 1998 and 2006 - are starting to show their age, and some come with pretty big maintenance obligations these days. Just their upkeep - retaining the lineup they currently...

The whole resort is in such a strange position. The Studios park was so bare-bones upon opening that it basically has taken two decades of gradual investments to turn it into a full-fledged park, and in the meantime, the main park still hasn't received any new attractions since *checks* ... Buzz...

To be fair, by using the term "uniqueness", they are kind of asking for it.

Are we even sure that's coaster track, and not part of some other girder arch structure? We've had many, many of these "coaster track spotted on the highway!" threads over the years, and most of the time, it has turned out to be some unrelated support structure for stadium lights or something...

Remind me to check these threads more often. Apparently, the ride opened on May 28.

Wouldn't you know, it happened as advertised and now the thread has been stickied two months too long: https://soakymountainwaterpark.com/attractions/the-edge-watercoaster/ Out goes the pin, then.

That being said, I just realized an unsticky might not be a bad idea. It's not like there have been any indications that the construction will go anywhere. I think we can pull the pin out of this one for now.

In an effort to clean up the Ride Construction subforum a bit, I've decided to move this thread back to News & Rumours. No actual construction of this coaster has been confirmed or even inferred, so while it just remains in storage, I think it would be wrong for it to have a sticky thread in the...

You have made (lots of) threads like this before. They were locked. Please, take a hint.

Let's put the question differently: with only one train, the ride would be out of operation whenever the train needs maintenance. If so, why bother with a separate maintenance depot? Might as well just use the ride station.

Also needlessly long names full of marketing buzzwords.

I think GCI needs Titan Track and the wild stuff it can do to make their product a bit more marketable these days. In the past couple of decades, the market for wooden coasters has pretty much collapsed. Only 9 woodies have opened or are under construction worldwide since 2019. Disregarding...

Just a quickie while the thread is still up here, I wanted to have a quick look at the words and see which are the most popular non-descriptive ones. I.e. words that aren't adjectives, part of the name for "coaster" in some language or other, or that describe what the coaster is doing. In other...

In other words, a depressingly large share of the parks out there have no imagination. Edit: I'm surprised to see "squirrel" so high up, while "ice" is used so little it takes quite a bit of searching to find it.

That's one thing I noticed about B&M a while back: in recent years, they've been very reliant on the Chinese market. Their coasters tend to all be of the "biggest box" variety, and those aren't as popular among Western parks as they were a couple decades ago, and there's a lot of competition in...