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The layout of Phantom's Revenge is largely the same as Steel Phantom, and a great ride it is (now).

Morgan hypers are, in my opinion, greatly underrated. For several years, Steel Force (when running one or two trains) was my favorite steel coaster. Just as years before, Magnum XL-200 had been.

I feel the same way about Mamba. She's such an underrated coaster. That head chopper coming out of the turn around gets me every time too.

An S&S Sky Swing would be awesome over by Firehawk. They could call it steel hawk!

I was thinking this or an actual TopSpin not that giant monstrosity we used to have.

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Maybe a stupid question but why wouldn't Kings Island be in the market for an Intamin rollercoaster for their next coaster? Would it have anything to do with the reliability of a current Intamin ride In the park or is there something more to it?

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And it isn't speculation. Downtime, safety incidents, repairs. Mr. Ouimet is not the type to take a perilous plunge and shoot the rapids; he's not that kind of maverick.

EDIT: Above written before a TTD-120-420 edit, that ride being ironically, another example. Reliability and safety are paramount--medium attainment is not good enough.

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In case anyone isn't familiar with all of the problems Cedar Point has had to deal with because of Shoot the Rapids:

First, the ride's opening was delayed. Here is the park press release: http://pointbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/25103.aspx

Then it was delayed further because of "engineering problems." http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/17187

Once it finally opened, ride ops had to guess rider's weights and put them in specific locations on each boat. http://pointbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/29697.aspx

This continued until last summer when a boat slid back down one of the lifts and, according to many sources, flipped over into the water injuring 7 and sending 1 to the hospital. http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2013/07/19/One-person-hospitalized-after-water-ride-accident-at-Cedar-Point.html

The ride never reopened and was put under investigation. http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/SanduskyRegister/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=U0RTS1kvMjAxMy8wOC8wNA..&pageno=MQ..&entity=QXIwMDEwMQ..&view=ZW50aXR5

Just recently, the park has stated Shoot the Rapids will open this season. The ride is still under investigation. http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/cedar-point/5473601

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It's a guess that Mr. Ouimet wouldn't go with Intamin.... Speculating

And a happy medium I'm not saying sacrifice safety in any way. I know safety is most important. What I mean is personally I would sacrifice a little bit of reliability for more intensity. I know not everyone agrees it's my personal preference.

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If you really want something equal to what Intamin delivers, Mack looks like they're picking up where Intamin left off minus the problems. They have a lot of things Intamin has. They haven't done anything like a hyper or a giga yet, but by the looks of it, they aren't too far off.

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What I mean is personally I would sacrifice a little bit of reliability for more intensity. I know not everyone agrees it's my personal preference.

I don't think many people here would argue with you. A lot of us have an Intamin coaster as our number one coaster. At the end of the year, a new coaster, no matter the manufacturer, will pretty much bring in the same amount of guests. It just makes sense from a business standpoint to add a coaster from B&M that will work, and work safely, almost 100% of the time as opposed to an Intamin ride that costs a lot more in maintenance and doesn't work quite as well.

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Yeah I get as business decision that makes more sense. I by no means am an Intamin fanboy, I know Intamin fans get hammered on here pretty good when they try to argue for Intamin. It just so happens that they manufacture some of my favorite coasters.

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