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"it lieS thRougH the demonS eyeS" SRHSS last message we had: SSA Hmmmmm...................

Maybe the new ride will be ass backwards?

PR's big 228' drop is actually its second drop. The first drop of 160' leads into a hill that's maybe 120' tall (just guessing here) followed by the epic 228' dive down into the ravine, for a total elevation delta of ~270'. Being that the train carries some speed from the first drop up and...

From my (limited) anecdotal experiences, I think there is likely some truth to that. But that's not evidence or anything, just a general and subjective impression. And at the risk of driving the car right over the edge of off-topic cliff, here's my favorite personal story of a Brit not...

CP and KI are still a fair distance from each other, with their own separate major metropolitan area "anchor markets" (Cleveland and Detroit for CP, Cincy and Dayton for KI). As the map I posted shows, the true overlap markets are LA (SFMM & KBF) the bay area (SFDK & CGA), DC (SFA & KD), and...

Well yeah, both six flags and cedar Fair have historically veered much more in the "thrills over themes" direction of the industry. The other parks you mention are considerably more balanced. Still, the sheer number of parks, should this merger be ok'd, is pretty startling to me.

This looks like it might really happen this time. Wow! Here's a map of north america from coast to coaster showing every park with at least 2 "extreme" level coasters (this seems like a decent enough proxy for a "roller coaster park"). The red tags are the current 26 combined "Cedar Flags"...

^ yeah, even though I never got to ride Jetline, it's always sad to see another Schwarzkopf go to coaster heaven, especially a highly-regarded custom one. And not too long after recently losing WEM's Mindbender a little while ago. My count may be off, but I think that takes us down to only 11...

Interesting. A bit of musical amusement parks with this one lately. I just hope it gets refurbed and rebuilt somewhere, someday.

I haven't given Pipeline a spin yet, so I can't speak to whether I think it has "solved" anything or not, but regardless of that, the real evidence of the success/failure for this next-gen stand-up concept will be found in whether or not other parks take the substantial investment plunge to...

Total effing PR disaster. Both for CP and Zamperla. Zamperla finally gets called up to the bigs and gets a promising base hit with their first at bat, then strikes out three times, capped off with a MAJOR unforced error that costs the game. Whoops.

Ohhhh! An exciting new ride sequence!! As if these old schwarzkopf compact loopers weren't intense enough in the forward direction....

^ a nice thorough review, and seemingly pretty objective. I strongly suspect I'm gonna like it a lot too. That old hydraulic blast was epic, but sign me up for a considerably longer, far more complete ride experience. If this thing can remain reasonably reliable, then hats off to ya, Zamperla!

Second this. Enthusiasts who love MF, are probably in for the ride of their lives aboard FF. Enthusiasts who find MF to be a boring, forceless, meandering mine train on steroids will probably not be terribly enthralled with FF.

Yeah, a much more complete ride experience of moving at speed for ~55 seconds vs. the old 16 second mega-blast. I completely understand the nostalgia for that old face-melting hydraulic launch, but I'm utterly incapable of wrapping my mind around the logic of why removing the ride entirely...

1989. I was 13. First trip to CP. Mind = spectacularly thoroughly irrevocably hopelessly eternally blown. My first ride on Magnum was a watershed life event for me, like losing my virginity, or the day my wife said yes to me, or the births of my children, etc.

^ I've had that exact same thought. An absolutely gigantic record breaking vertical loop would've been really cool, and a great way to make it even more of a complete ride, but it probably wouldn't have come cheaply. Oh well, the revamped ride we are getting will still be loads of fun, and...

^ needs more slow pans of the logo at the beginning.

I love that last shot above! Magnum, the world's first hyper, has all the prominence of a wild mouse. CP skyline is nutso.

What, no love for Revolution? Anyway, a trip to IB also gets you Tig'rr, one of the few remaining original Jet Star models left in the world. And if you're in northern Indiana, you're also not too far away from SFGAm and Whizzer, one of the last speedracers left.