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With WT now outta there, the old stadium theater gone, and you move/remove the giant wheel and other flat rides in the vicinity, does that perhaps free up enough ground space for my little dream of GCI coming in and doing a modern interpretation of the old beach-side Cedar Point Cyclone? I...

CGA and WOF are both high quality guesses. My pet wish is Michigan's Adventure, as a ride like WT would really shine there, but I know it won't happen.

So long WT. May you find a new home where you won't be so ridiculously overshadowed.

Wonderful to hear that the Ultimate may just yet live to roll another day again! Regardless of where things "ultimately" fall, this news is certainly still a development in the positive direction for the time being.

A minor quibble, but of B&M's 6 "major" coaster types*, CP lacks both a flyer and a hyper. Though, with Millennium Force and Magnum already there, I don't think the lack of a B&M hyper at CP is a glaring omission just waiting to be filled, or anything like that. That said, there are 13 parks...

back in the Marriott days, Great America actually had a pretty decent and cohesive Americana theme. but ever since the six flags era, it's done nothing but drift ever further from those roots, particularly with the onslaught of the non sequitor superhero stuff all over the park. what does...

I always assumed Carowinds' Vortex would eventually get the same floorless conversion treatment as the other two CF B&M stand-ups (Mantis & CGA's Vortex), but maybe CF came to the conclusion that the ROI wasn't worth it?

Illinois really only has SFGAm as far as notable coaster parks go, so I'm gonna cast my net out a little further to the 5 states that made up the old Northwest Territory from the frontier days of the American Midwest - Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin (collectively known as "the...

^ outstanding! my anticipation level is through the roof right now. the last time i was this excited for a "local" coaster was probably SFGAm's Goliath back in 2014. and even then, i'm such a schawrzkopf nerd that this probably still tops that for me.

Man, this Gene Staples guy is like some kind of small defunct amusement park fairy godmother. Perhaps someone on the other side of the pond wants to send him a note about the current state of Lightwater Valley? ;) I obviously wish him nothing but success in his endeavors, but I also have...

Ravine Flyer II uses PTC trains, but it's a Gravity Group coaster. The last coaster that RCDB credits as being actually designed/built by PTC is SFSTL's Screaming Eagle way back in '76, though they've continued building wood coaster trains, and brakes, and other coaster systems since that time.

You know we're living in a brand new world when freaking "family" coasters look this fun!

^ Agreed. I've never ridden coasters outside of North America, so I can't comment on Helix or the other Euro coasters being mentioned here (though Helix does indeed look like one hell of an amazing and varied coaster from its POV), but within that constraint, I'd have to say that Maverick is...

Yeah, it doesn't look good, does it. I don't want to believe it, but the tea leaves don't appear to be aligning themselves in a terribly favorable arrangement at the moment. What a shame. Thanks for your in depth reply.

So what do people think the long-term prognosis for Ultimate is? Seeing it removed on the new park map really drove home the point for me that it might truly be gone forever. As a yank, I've unfortunately never ridden it, but it's always held a place of mystique for me due to its extreme...

I think the bigger issue with the super-sized woodies was that many of the parks that built them found them to become non-stop maintenance headaches. Once a traditionally tracked wooden roller coaster gets beyond the 60 mph range, they tend to start tearing themselves apart. Hence companies like...

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like an ever so slightly larger version of CP's Wicked Twister. Curiously, it even shares the same yellow/turquoise color scheme. That said, I will grant you that those triangular support towers are more elegant than the chunkier support structures found...

Yeah, I remember the noises those pads would sometimes make slamming up against the rails going over the return run hills back in the early years of Magnum. Does anyone know if Big One and Desperado also originally had trains that lacked up stop wheels? Or did they have them from the start...

Yeah, I think mine-train -> Magnum is essentially correct, with a couple of evolutionary steps along the way. First in 1972, you had Astroworld's Excalibur, which literally was a mine-train, but scaled way up to nearly 90' tall and with 100% steel supports in lieu of the more typical wood...

You know a park has a totally boss line-up when its #3 & #4 punches can legit hang with most other park's #1 & #2.