RingMaster

If it's not in the actual ride, let me be the first to request a group trip JUST to ride RFYLCB and scream "We're #1!" while riding. The Great Pumpkin Coaster came out of nowhere, in my opinion. I'm hoping for a pumpkin patch in the middle of the ride, with a fiberglass Linus sitting on top of a giant pumpkin.

For those who want to know where the Cedar Fair and the current Six Flags properties are on the map, if, by some odd chance, Apollo decides they want to merge the two companies together: Six Flags properties are red dots, Cedar Fair in blue. Please excuse the small font; hastily threw this together in MS Paint in ten minutes. Oh, and I forgot to add Wildwater Kingdom to GL's name.

Of which even the Enchanted Theater won't be able to hold Rock Band Live! as CarnEVIL remains up throughout the year.

While working on a project the other day (writing up a business plan and loan application) I was shocked to find out that a 6 foot tall Fiberglass Gorilla costs $1500, and that's on the cheap end! Similar animals are all that number or higher. If you were to put out animals as Standbyme suggested, that would cost quite a few more nickels than many here would think. Most of the props/animatronics that lie in the CF-era Haunt mazes (as well as the three monsters in The Crypt preshow room) are well over the $1000-mark. I estimate that roughly $15 to $20,000 are spent alone on just the props per maze.

Well, really, the only custom built facade is Slaughter House; Massacre Manor's facade is actually a manufactured facade created by Halloween Productions Incorporated (Dark Rider Productions) back in 2001, as Six Flags had the same exact facade for one of their haunted houses at Fright Fest (though I don't remember which park it was at, though). But, given the fact that they have the ability to create amazing set pieces in certain Haunt mazes (Urgent Scare being the main example), I would love to see them spruce up the ghost town scenes. It would only take a couple grand to do it, right?

Not quite. Most of the stuff in there is small and interchangeable. That particular location has undergone several renovations food-wise, with ICEES and regular pretzels being the dominant choice of fine amusement park cuisine. Also, the BBQ stand has had a knack for not staying in the same place for too long. If it's not in that building, it's usually 10 feet away on a cart. And if it's not there, it's located on the opposite side of Outer Hank's next to the bathrooms. It's just like the Kahn's Hot Dog Stand; it's usually either in Coney Mall next to Coke Toss or in Boomerang Bay opposite the restrooms next to Outback Shack.

This is where Talocan comes in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYxDwY-KcU = Off-ride video http://www.lifthill.net/berichte/talocan_eng.php = English review of the ride complete with pictures This, in my opinion, is how an outdoor Top Spin should be themed. It cost Phantasialand 7.5 million euros (close to 9 million US dollars), so it's a cheap attraction to build when compared to the four massive coasters the former Paramount Parks received at roughly $22 million a piece (excluding Great America). However, given Cedar Fair's theming capabilities and short-term mindset, I don't see this happening anytime soon, maybe not even under Apollo's guidance.

It does what all coasters do when it doesn't fully make it to the top...it rolls back. The same motors that launch the car out of the station help bring it to a smooth stop so it doesn't hit the other train in the station. I've seen it happen plenty of times when they were first testing it. EDIT: PKIDelirium already beat me to it.

Actually, very few mazes stay up in their entirety during the regular season. Urgent Scare, Club Blood, and CarnEVIL are the only ones that remain standing after Haunt ends. Every thing else is taken down, including Massacre Manor and Death Row, as they both are used for storage purposes (the latter actually houses Haunt props). I would be certain all of Slaughterhouse is taken down now and stored someplace else and a new set of tables and benches (ones that aren't set in stone) are placed on the Stunt Crew patio.

Mr. Six has been the mascot for Six Flags for, what, 15+ years, and they're just NOW honoring him with a ride of his own? Talk about tough love...

Dumb Question: Have they announced the new names for the Planet Snoopy rides yet?

Little Bill's Giggle Coaster. Just when it starts getting good, boom, you're back in the station. Sure, they give you another lap around, but by then, the novelty's run off. Oh, and Sportacopters. The peddling makes absolutely no difference to the speed of the ride. You mean I can go from a elderly woman with a stretcher to an elderly lady on a scooter just by peddling?! Not to mention the hills are such a letdown. The hills on Giggle Coaster are more thrilling than that. Wait, I forgot. Fairly Odd Coaster. Fail because of the name. Fail because they took out the tunnel. And fail because they never did put Wanda back up on the sign out front (the Wanda picture on the FOC logo came off midway through the 2007 season and had yet to be put back up, unless someone ran off with it).

Well, remember that the Valley of the Other Beast recently underwent a landscaping change in 2008 for Diamondback, namely the big hill behind SOB where the old tram cars (and the few remaining buildings from Lion Country Safari) lie was shortened. Other than that, the terrain that Sonny lies on is not exactly what you'd call flat. Also remember that Sonny's station rests 50 feet off the ground and the trek up the 216-foot lift hill starts a little more than a foot off the ground.

A nickname I gave Firehawk was SpongeBob 2.0 because of the way the seats go down into the flight position. Opening Day for the Hawk, Amy and I are strapped into the train awaiting our first flight. We go down into our flight position and then...nothing. They lift us back into our seated and upright positions to see what's wrong. After assuming everything's fine, they lay us back down again and then...nothing. Again. We are lifted back up again and they say they are having technical difficulties (this is when they were only running one side of the station). By the third time we went back down, I yell out, "This is better than SpongeBob!" The whole train and half the station cracks up at this. Another nickname we have for the Hawk is the Dangit! Coaster. This is due to 60% of the time we want to ride the Hawk, the ride is down, and down for quite a while, of which we scream out, "Dangit!" and walk 10 feet to Flight of Fear.

I originally believed I might lose my glasses the first time I rode Tomb Raider, so I took them off (strange as it sounds I kept them on for Flight of Fear) and put them in the pouch. However, since I'm nearsighted I couldn't see much of the scenery during the ride, so at a later time I decided to put them on and hope they wouldn't fall out. Thankfully they didn't (again, Flight of Fear should have reminded me that), and I've kept them on ever since.

I've know they've been marketing Potterland like crazy in the UK for weeks now, yet them just now starting to market the 'park' nationally is a bit of a gamble considering it was announced two years ago. Though, with all due respect, Uni rarely does national commercials anymore; the last one I remember seeing was way back when Blue Man Group came to the Studios (I have yet to see a commercial involving The Simpsons Ride, but Shrek 4D still gets all the glory whenever they DO air a spot).

From what I can understand, the Forbidden Journey utilizes the Kuka robotic arm (the Harry Potter dark ride was nicknamed Project Strongarm for this) and places it on a roller coaster track. Pretty much Spiderman taken to the next level (minus the 3D). Details on the actual plotline of the ride are still under wraps, but a scenic fabricator who worked on the attraction posted a Harry Potter ad on their website (which was taken down a few days after it was put up) which had concept art of the dark ride, most specifically, a portion of the ride layout themed to the Forbidden Forest with an encounter with Aragog (a giant spider from Chamber of Secrets who, along with a huge family of spiders, dwell in said forest). All in all, no one really knows what to expect from the ride until it opens in the Spring. No one's even sure what the actual ride cars will be themed to.

With as much money as people make off of get-rich-quick schemes involving weight-loss (I know there are programs that do work, I am not implying that none of them work) and 'working from home' programs, SOMEONE out there on the internets is dumb enough to jump on the hand grenade.

I like the retro 60s design of the television, but the 'Way Too Much' portion seems a bit out of place.

I can't come up with anything to say about this. It's just saddening to see something happen like this.

...I remember back when Six Flags owned parks overseas in Europe; those were the first ones to go along with Worlds of Adventure.

Tuned In! debuted in 2004, but was mainly themed to three major music channels Viacom owned - VH1, BET, and CMT. However, classic theme songs were implemented into the show via TV Land. Anyway, I would've rather they kept Marty's Party as it was a welcome change from the music revue overkill the park has an affirmation for. That's why I liked School of Rock and Twistin' to the 60s as they managed to bring in story and comedic elements (albeit very cheesy elements) instead of just linking song-and-dance routines together. I also loved the live music that came with both of those shows, as they could improvise a little bit and made it that more enjoyable to watch (60s had little improv because of the backing track, but 'The Swell Tones' did their own little improv shows during practice before their first show).

I know the picture is small, but it looks as if their Ghoster Coaster has Snoopy with his vulture stare atop the logo. Here's to hoping the Fairly Odd Coaster is reverted to The Beastie (or renamed to the Ghoster Coaster) to also take advantage of the Snoopy Vulture.

PKISecurity is just mad because Coney Island doesn't have a Beemer or an Intamin or any other form of coaster that goes 200+ feet in the air. Methinks he wouldn't fare too well at Dollywood, either.

I agree completely. Does anybody remember that a building was removed before this last season near the entrance of AT (If I remember correctly.)? I'm HOPING a flat ride will go in that spot for the 2010 season. I LOVE tilt-a-whirls and don't mind Ferris wheels. Here's hoping that spot wasn't cleared JUST to reduce costs. Oh yeah, the old Laser Tag Dome. The actual laser tag portion of the building was removed in '06, I believe, and just sat there as storage for Games (a giant water gun game sat in front of the building for a brief period of time in '07) until last season when they decided to get rid of it. I wouldn't mind having a Giant Slide return to Coney; I always went on the one at Americana/Lesourdsville Lake before it went the way of the dodo/Nokia N-Gage.