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I'm guessing that we'll see a slowdown in construction since the weather has turned and the ground has frozen. I'd say around February or so, you'll see some hard core construction every day.

Apparently both S&S and B&M are looking at the 4d design.

Do it! That'd be great!

Umm... I was thinking the same thing, but didn't want to say anything.. but since Icarus said it, I'll elaborate... You really need some kind of focus in this article. When I read it, I wasn't sure if you were trying to talk to me, or someone that had never been to the park before. Also, why did you write it? To convice people to go to PKI? To tell people who have already decided to go to PKI what they have to offer? Without asking yourself things like that, it's like throwing a handful of pebbles at a target instead of shooting it. If you ask yourself those questions you could probably make a really cool article out of it. Keep us posted on any revisions so we can be 3rd party people and help you out. Thanks, Ryan

Peronally, I don't think we've seen the end of Arrow Dynamics Inc. To give you guys a short hand lesson in economics, if a company get's sued, and then files for bankrupcy, it really screws things up. If they loose, they won't have to pay anything. I think Arrow filed because they could, and are laying low for a few years.

I've heard $15 as the initial cost as well, but apparently they've shelled out $10 million in renovations.

10. Tazmanian Typhoon -- need I say more? 9. Wet bar! 8. Not having to walk a mile from one end to the other in bare feet on concrete. 7. Body surfing at the wave pool. 6. Watching people TRY to do Whipeout Beach. 5. Old classic slides return! 4. Not being tempted to kill you back on the speed slides anymore. 3. Getting egotistical about the racing slides. 2. You can all come and see me and Chef get drunk and ride Tazmanian Typhoon. 1. Dude, I mean seriosuly... Tazmanian Typhoon... you get to be flushed down a giant toilet bowl...

10. It's really not that rough. 9. It's a signature ride for the park. 8. ARROW!!!! 7. Corkscrew after corkscrew after corkscrew... gotta love it! 6. Air time 5. Looking for Bat footers from the hill. 4. They'd probably replace it with something stupid or unworthy of the consecrated ground. 3. You're not a real man until you feel the pain of an OTSR without whining about it. 2. Lowering the coaster count again would be dirty pool. 1. "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings, but every time a park removes an Arrow looper, an angel gets set on fire!"

Basically, everything is illegal. It's illegal to use the graphics, and it's especially to use a spoof in a pay area. What should you do? Nothing. No one will care. Don't worry about it.

The only bad experience that I've had on a coaster really is that I always get a sharp pain in my chest near my left shoulder right before the loop on SOB... I have no clue why. Now, on other flats... Remember the old slides that were in HB Land? The first time I ever went to KI, I rode them and was all the way on the left (from the perspective of standing at the bottom) and my had ran down the whole side of the thing on the way down and got burnt up. Bummer, but it didn't ruin my experience.

Generally, you get a free Gold Pass upgrade through mid May.

http://www.pki.com/visit_calendar.jsp For those who haven't seen it, pki.com has released the 2004 calendar. Opening day is April 9th.

It would be difficult for them to make another Beast lineage coaster. They'd have to top themselves, and I doubt woodies will ever get much taller than SOB. I don't think that The Beastie should be the Scooby Doo, though. I mean, it's kind of dumb since it's yellow, but if my memory serves me correctly, it used to be straight wood like The Beast. I voted for "maybe" because there's no telling what PKI may do in the future. I really hope they don't add a brow-colored steel and try to call it "Beast". That would be riding the popularity a little too much.

It really is a shame that Arrow is in the state that they're in right now. I hope they bounce back and can reuse the Arrow name and style. For those of you who are saying that Arrow rides are too rough, do you listen to yourself? That sounds like a comment someone would say out of pseudointellectualism, in other words, to try to make themselves look smart, and a bunch of people hopped on the same bandwaggon. I mean, everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but no one in their right mind would call rides the The Vortex and Top Gun "too rough" when in the same park they have the a turbulant joke like the Son of Beast.

As you may recall from the Boomerang Bay tour, Jeff Seibert mentioned that he likes to make the Flyers snap (I have all this stuff on tape ) I sincerely doubt he would promote something that's a menace to the park.

A big hand goes out to Dane for making such an innovative upgrade to our forums. Thanks Dane! Ryan

Please let us know what you think.

Post what you write about, it'll be interesting! Good luck!

Actually, if you look closely, the stage is still there in the Festhaus. It's just covered up.

This is wrong. The magnet on the SROS coasters are permanent. Just like those on DZ. The thing about DZ's brakes is, they're static. they don't move at all. The brakes on the SROS coasters move out of the way to allow the train to be moved into the station. What happened with that incident was that an air line failed and left the brakes open. It could never happen on Drop Zone. So long as the magnetic polarity of Earth remains the same, it will not fail. Has the magnetic polarity of Earth changed since the formation of the planet? Yes. Will the magnetic polarity change instantaniously once you're towed to the top of the tower? That's for you to ponder while you're sitting up there.

As a park enthusiast, I take my pseudo-relationship with the park seriously. At that, if you honestly think that the park is really messy, perhaps you could organize a bunch of people who feel the same way to write to the park and see if you get a response. It's much better than talking about it on here. We all hear you, some agree, some disagree, but you won't go far beyond that without contacting the park. I'm sure any suggestions the park gets are welcomed. Thanks, Ryan

Have you ever gotten back to the station from a run and went to take off your helmet only to have your glove completely stuck to it? Happened to me.

We are currently working on the accuracy of that part of the web page. I'm not sure how accurate the $15 million is, I've heard $25 myself.

The ice show was moved from the Festhaus to the Paramount Theatre after the Paramount takeover.

PKI invested $25 million on SoB, and it still has major problems. Can't help but agree with you there. I'm not the biggest SOB fan, but I wouldn't go as far as saying that it was a waste of money.