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It's one thing to "cheat" your way to a record for notoriety's sake, like adding one extra foot to a height record, or doing some obnoxious hair-split on the definition of something, or word-salading your way into meaninglessness, like "the world's tallest & fastest inversion inside a tunnel on...

Work at KD. CP ain't going nowhere.

We might've run into some financial limitations on what parks are willing to spend for the never-ending maintenance on these super-fast coasters. Extreme speed is expensive to build, but it's even more expensive to maintain, year after year, decade after decade.

^ Right. I should've used a winky smiley or something. I just thought that the non-mention of their 50th anniversaries also happening in 2026 was telling.

What, no love for California's Great America and ValleyFair, both of which will also be celebrating 50 years along with SFGAm in 2026.

If it does go to the scrap heap, it'll be only the second B&M ever to do so (or technically third when counting Dragon Challenge as two separate coasters). And I guess a couple others have been mostly or entirely rebuilt, but there's no way that's in the cards for GL.

So GL is now officially coming down. Scrap heap or relocate/sell? '80s/'90s stand-ups are a dwindling breed.

That seems like a solid guess, with no other info available at the moment. It's always been mildly surprising to me how few B&Ms SFOT has (1) compared to the other major market legacy SF parks: SFGAdv (5), SFGAm (5), SFMM (4), SFOG (4).

The smartest move might be to floorless-convert Green Lantern, and then also convert Medusa to a surf coaster, so as to avoid the whole "two floorless coasters at one park" problem. ;)

I think a fair portion of that "meh" reception is due to all of the ridiculous top-shelf hardware that surrounds Rougarou at CP. I'm not at all saying that the following is likely, but if Green Lantern were to be hypothetically floorless-converted and relocated to a place like Michigan's...

Yeah, it certainly seems that way from the outside looking in. CP's normal MO would be to let a few smaller versions of these get built at other parks, then swoop in several years down the line with a giant custom record-breaking mama-jama. Not that I'm unhappy about it or anything; it just...

What a pleasant surprise! Kinda odd being literally in the shadow of similar-concept Valravn, but whatever, this looks more fun!

Looking strictly at the GTA's top 25 wood and steel coaster lists, the 50 winners regionally break down like this: North America - 38 Europe - 12 Rest of the planet - 0 So, perhaps a touch more than just the most token of considerations given towards Europe, but yes, the "North America" is...

How does any roller coaster get a permit to operate without anti-rollbacks on the lift hill? I'm no ride inspector, but that seems like one of the very first boxes you'd wanna check off.

^ right. It could always be worse. But 5 coaster-less years in a row is a really long time for SFGAm. Next year will be the park's 49th season, and if WoR actually opens on time, it'll be the 24th coaster ever built at the park, for an overall average of 1 coaster every 2 years. SFGAm might...

I just realized that this new coaster will finally break the longest coaster drought in the park's history. The last coaster to be built at SFGAm was Maxx Force back in 2019, which means that if WoR does in fact open next year (ya never know with SF), that would make it 5 full seasons without a...

I can dig it. Looks like a ton of fun, and a very complete layout for a dive coaster. And it puts SFGAm into the 5 B&M club (along with SFGAdv & SWO). And best of all, Demon stays!!!

^ yeah, Marcus Leshock's 172' D7 dive is a very solid guess.

A demon-themed dive coaster with a 75 meter drop to take the record from Yukon striker by 1 foot?

^ Wolfram Vengeance?