silver2005

^4 hour jet lag sucks.

^If you go during lunch, you can get a decent meal for less than $10 at the normal restaurants.

Is Carowinds just repainting every coaster now? All that's left is Afterburn if you don't count the 2 newer B&M's.

Do a Beast tour then come back to us on how feasible making paths are on those hills.

So....how was it?

There's a HUGE one I forgot. The parking lot trams.

I wish X-Base was on morning ERT, at least Flight of Fear (I can see omitting Firehawk due to it being finicky in the morning).

^I remember. I also remember that they only had certain rows on SOB and Beast set aside for them, both of which in terrible seats.

The ballpark seats at Reds HOF Grille are from Riverfront Stadium, the stadium the Reds were in before GABP. The blue seats were lower deck, the green above that, then yellow at the press box level, then red for the upper decks.

I feel they would have announced it by now if it was that.

Do we all forget that some of Intamin's pre-fab coasters were knocking on the door to 200 ft including Colossos, El Toro and T-Express? And those were right after SOB was built. It could have been done again a while ago, its just no one offered a chance for Intamin to do so, and those are the more reliable of Intamin's rides.

Phantom Theater, Flying Eagles/Tiques, and KCKC.

Intamin has also kind of gone stale as of late. They haven't come up with anything new in quite a while and are focused in the Asian market at the moment. Most other companies can now play the 'me too' game with Intamin on top of continuing with churning out new innovations while also having better ROI and reliability.

With Knott's new coaster, I wouldn't count out Gerstlauer either.

This will be my first Coasterstock as well. I want to get an opinion on something. Is there more to get out of going both days or is going one day or the other pretty evened out? I don't think I could hack it 2 days of such length at Kings Island, even if its only in May when its still cooler out.

With Backlot, they also did a lot of ground work when they built it. That area wasn't so hilly initially.

When white death cometh.

Its not available now since the webpage is expired, but I've read the forensics report of the 2006 accident, and it was pretty scathing in the closing remarks, so much so that I'm surprised it even reopened in 2007 at all. Sigh...if only Paramount would have waited a few years when Intamin had its pre-fab wooden coaster ready to go. Not sure if they would have done the loop, but they definitely could have made a hyper woodie seeing that El Toro isnt too far off.

^Considering all the other 300+ ft attractions at Kings Island, I don't think that'd be too much of an issue to shoehorn a giga in the park.

^Not enough for me to take 2 to the face on Magnum and Raptor. Apparently hitting one at only 72 mph doesn't leave a cut. I hope they don't hang out a lot near Steel Vengeance...

So tuition wasn't as much as I thought, so I should be able to finance this trip a-okay, including being able to handle the pricier hotels.

I've only been on a handful of B&M inverts- 1. Banshee 2. Raptor 3. Great Bear 4. Batman: The Ride (NJFTP)

This actually sounds more sane than your usual trips. You actually have lodging for this trip and you're flying.

This guy and Goble should never touch. The universe and the space time continuum might implode.

Decent weather (for December standards) certainly helps. Haven't had a real bad snow storm yet.