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I will say they improved Hershey's Wildcat a bit, though I actually preferred it with the PTC trains. I liked that extra bit of roughness on that particular ride.

Wouldn't being known as a lobbyist be the last thing Kentucky Kingdom wants? I know they rely on the politicians to operate at the moment, but they shouldn't be giving people reasons to hate them. I kind of wanted to go just out of curiosity's sake, but with all the crap they pull in being able to operate in the first place, I just see no desire to give them any support, including giving them my money.

Here are some articles which should shed some light. http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20091114/NEWS01/911150350/Coaster-s-future-doubt http://archive.cincinnati.com/article/20110423/NEWS01/104240311/What-s-next-Son-Beast-

There might not have been deaths, but most of those injured suffered life changing injuries,some with lengthy stays in the Intensive Care Unit.

Well, if they took that kind of attitude with the testimony, I imagine they took a similar mindset explaining their other problems. The 'acceptable' number of incidents of which they wonder about is 0.

That testimony certainly explains a lot. I bet Intamin is kicking themselves for saying that.

Mt Olympus probably has some qualms as well. Hades 360 has been at the bottom of the Mitch Hawker poll since they added them. They haven't worked well on coasters above 50 ft yet. Gravity Group in general has only had their rides pop up outside the US, mostly Asia lately. Some of those rides had to ditch Timberliners for PTC trains. Millennium Flyers are the way to go.

Well, Walt Bolliger and Claude Mabillard did work for Giovanola, who did supply rides to Intamin before B&M existed by themselves, so technically they did early on. See Batman: The Escape once at Six Flags Astroworld or Flashback formerly at Six Flags Magic Mountain. But now, they'd probably like to see Intamin put out of business (along with Mack, the combination of B&M and Mack basically have all of Intamin's models in some fashion). That's also not to say they haven't done trains on other rides yet. They put their trains on Steel Dragon 2000, a Morgan giga coaster, in Japan.

^All their rides' quality reflects on Intamin. Just because B&M is completely coaster centered doesn't mean the two companies can't be compared. I never heard about this. Which incident/context did this testimony occur?

I'm not so sure those who were hurt by it would be amused. That's not to mention most of those associated with it probably won't want to talk about it at all, particuarly Werner Stengel. That is, unless this serves as a warning about how not to design wooden coasters and how not to cut corners, among other things.

Around the Coney Mall sign between Racer and Adventure Express.

I just noticed the hexagonal shaped shade pieces that will hang over what looks to be the queue. Nice touch.

Are you really sure about that? We really don't need an expansion of the Hartland.

That Rivertown time lapse just made me think of something- When did LaRosa's and Potato Works first grace Rivertown?

I did that with Kings Island for a bit as well. For a wide variety of reasons, between 2007 and 2009, I didn't go much. I think I went once for P&G Dividend Day each of those years. Started getting season passes annually in 2010 and it almost felt like rediscovering the park again since, even in those few years, a ton of things changed, especially getting used to Cedar Fair after being more familiar with how Paramount ran the park.

Back in 2012, I went on 3 straight trips with the UC men's basketball team to their various tournament sites (NYC, Memphis and Boston). I only had a few days between trips, if that. By the time the Boston trip came, I was actually getting a little homesick. Part of me thinks about where I want to live, and those series of trips cemented my thinking that I want to stay in Cincinnati. Heck, the first thing I did after the plane touched down coming back from Boston was going immediately to the Skyline I live closest to. Also, methinks this list was done by someone who went to OSU in college. Just a hunch.

Now give some LED's to Vortex and put better chaser lights on Racer and we'll have one mighty fine looking area in the back of Coney Mall.

True as the park does center on one Dolly Parton. It also just so happens that Dollywood is my favorite park I've been to, one aspect which made it that way to me being its shows, but it does have other focuses as well. I think Dollywood scratches the surface in calling it a 'music theme park'. I would still like to see park with the concepts that HRP had done right at some point. Like have a coaster with a soundtrack which accentuates all of its maneuvers (not random music, a piece specifically composed for it), have themes based off all the different genres, etc. Heck, you could do a lot within each genre alone. I just hope that HRP's failure hasn't killed the concept (if the time comes that new parks are built again of course). And now, back to your previously discussed Kings Island 2015 topic.

Sigh...now I wish Hard Rock Park would have worked out. A music centered theme park (done right) would be amazing.

^That and a variety of similar songs. Heck, all the Coney flats would be great with added music, though then there might be a problem with all that music clashing.

I always thought SR&R should have music played with it. Especially due to this.

That green is mesmerizing. Note to self- get a night ride on Fury 325.

I'd put the Random Discussion and Random Food Discussion threads as close 2nds.

There's probably a list of things that prevented RMC from doing a Son of Beast refurbishment. One of the primary ones is, as you mentioned, the structure, not so much from sitting there, but rather by bad structure design. The heavy trains it used during its looping days didn't help much either. I did a paper on SOB a while back, and the forensic investigator who covered the 2006 accident even mentioned that the ride shouldn't have been opened...at all with the way Paramount and RCCA handled the project. There's a lot more, but I'd be writing a very long post.

I think I'll add some input to this thread. Adventure Express- Raider's March (Indiana Jones' theme)...you know what? Any music associated with those movies. Backlot- music from The Italian Job and the Ocean's movies, Rhapsody in Blue, some of the action music from Bond films Banshee- any songs associated with Halloween or macabre themes Bat- Danger Zone (yeah I know its off the old theme, but I well remember the days of Top Gun well), some of Banshee's related music as well as Danny Elfman's Batman (sharing with Beast) Beast- Theme from Jaws (on the lifts), Danny Elfman's Batman theme, Night on Bald Mountain Delirium- Crazy by Seal Diamondback- Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi Drop Tower- Right Now- Van Halen, Thunderstruck- AC/DC Eiffel Tower, Antique Cars and Grand Carousel (or even I-Street in general)- Percy Faith and His Orchestra- Theme from A Summer Place Firehawk- Kickstart My Heart- Motley Crue, Smoke on the Water- Deep Purple Flight of Fear- a few specific Star Wars pieces- Asteroid Field, Hyperspace, and the music as they go into the 2nd Death Star in ROTJ, themes to Twilight Zone and X-Files Invertigo- Living After Midnight- Judas Priest Racer- We Got the Beat- Go Gos, Gimme Some Lovin'- Spencer Davis Group Son of Beast- about any song done by Joan Jett or about anything off of Sgt Pepper, The White Album, or Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles Viking Fury- The Tempest section of the William Tell Overture Vortex- You Spin Me Round- Dead or Alive WindSeeker- any song about flight, or heck, anything on its current playlist