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^In all seriousness, I wouldn't put it past Intamin or RMC to do it. Part of me at the time was hopeful RMC would get to re-design SOB. Having seen the forensic reports from the 2006 accident, I knew it probably wouldn't happen.

^I'm pretty confident in guessing that CCI either wouldn't touch the project or (knowing how Paramount Parks operated) was simply more expensive than the RCCA proposal.

On SOB- how you design a 200+ ft wooden coaster with 0 air time and nothing but helices and a loop with positive and lateral g's is beyond me. The Premier and Gerstlauer trains were both garbage. The only redeeming things were the 214 ft drop and the loop.

I wonder if the record KI will break will be the most wooden coaster track in one park? I do believe KI lost that when SOB was shut down/demolished. The only park I think that tops us is Holiday World. This post may be edited. Going to crunch numbers. EDIT: The park with the most wooden track is Six Flags Great America at around 16,558 ft (I'm begrudgingly counting Goliath). KI has about 15,539 ft. Even a small GCI should put KI over.

You could also put in an elaborate pre-lift section starting from SOB's station (a coaster book I have says that SOB's drop out of the station was about 50 ft). B&M giga's have brake runs that sit pretty high off the ground, and with the terrain back behind Banshee, you could get a pretty wicked layout out of a giga.

Could someone get a shot of all this clearing (if possible) from the Eiffel Tower just to get an idea of where this all is (especially for those of us not able to make it to the park this season)?

Quoted from our ToS- Care to remedy this GavPenn?

^Not if they're different names altogether.

Seeing the PR nightmare that Dollywood is going through, I really hope that this is a GCI.

^Maybe in its efforts to create homeless cardinals .

Crap, there's no connection between axes/lumberjacking with Bearcats... Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

I don't have a name in mind (most I do have either refer to disasters or are too cliche), but I wouldn't mind seeing Congo Falls get renamed.

^Shall we christen it the Ouimet Cup?

I got it for the forced romance! Clifford- the orange-red Excavator! Since, I doubt we'll see Clifford the big red crane for this. Everyone start loving it. GO!

From Flight of Fear's intruduction until Son of Beast's introduction, it wasn't uncommon to see 2-3 hour lines on FoF. Son of Beast would fill up its switchbacks and extend to past King Cobra's helix. Outside of the ever rememberable 4 hour and 20 minute Banshee line for its opening day, the longest I've ever waited was 2 hours for Beast (when it would fill both queue houses and leak onto the midway back when they had the painted lines and The Beast paw prints that led people to it from the Eiffel Tower, and the Coca-Cola Cool Zone), Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster (twice in the same day because it broke down during my first attempt, so 4 hours total for my first ever ride on it), Raptor (on my first ever trip to CP before I knew better than to head to Raptor upon the park's opening) and Volcano: The Blast Coaster.

Ride Thunderhead in the back and then get back to me on the alleged floater air.

^I still have the Cincinnati Enquirer issue with that Flight of Fear concept model on the front cover.

If some of you would have pointed out from the start that those posts were jokes and explained them (I certainly didn't see it as a joke and I've read stuff before that and there was no context to make me think that way), I would have dropped it. Sarcasm isn't that easy to convey over the internet.

My point- Why keep asking for teasers when you know Don won't immediately respond? I don't get the rationale in that. A thread full of that is tedious to read. All those particular posts accomplish nothing. What's so hard about being patient and going over the teasers as they come?

This site has a good relationship between the park and its management. I just don't want to see it thrown away when all you guys are nagging him for teasers. Any of you who were around for the last decoding thread should know how that works quite well.

I also don't get the mindset of us allegedly paying his salary through admissions and in-park purchases meaning that we have any sort of leverage over him. That's pretty much not true.

Uh...he's gonna post more teasers. Its his job. Asking him for more won't speed up the process.

^That doesn't mean we should be demanding of such things from him.

How about we stop being jerks towards Don and let them do things at their own pace, eh? Just a reminder- he's not doing any of these hints just for us. Quit forgetting about, you know, the other demographics that pay attention to the park.

I wonder if the GCI overhaul done on GhostRider is feasible on Mean Streak. Specifically, if Millennium Flyers can make it through the layout without stalling.