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Why another red coaster? There are other colors you know, Cedar Point.

Just out of curiosity, does acquiring Six Flags give the new Six Flags access to any non-DC and non-Looney Tunes IPs from WB?

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^Or the flying coaster that has an underwater tunnel in Lake Erie.

As we saw with the rest of SOB that they only demolished when it was time to build Banshee, I think they'll get to it if/when they have a plan for it. I don't think its anywhere near old enough to demolish due to structure fatigue quite yet.

I prefer The Vortex plot stay Coney Mall. The way the path is set up, something big at the end feels kind of highlighted by the rest of the area kind of leading up to it.

You really expect this PR staff to be that thorough through a supposed 5 year teaser for a theoretical RMC when they can't even get a kid's area properly advertised? Clearly, someone is too used to Don being at the helm.

I worked food back in 2004 (RT Potato Works), and I was trained on food prep before anything with register (I know this was under Paramount, but it seems logical to expect similar training as I had that at Skyline as well). Register takes a little time to pick up due to knowing how all the buttons work, but it's something that you'll get down with practice. I think the more challenging aspect of register is guest interaction over the actual machine.

To clarify, the upper body restraints on B&M flyers aren't bad, it's the leg restraints that ruin it for me with them. I'm also kind of reserving judgement on B&M flyers until I ride the bigger ones like Manta or Tatsu.

I like the flying coaster concept and I think Vekoma pulled off the 'seats' better than B&M, though B&M's load faster (at least only going by Firehawk, Nighthawk and Superman at NJFTP). It was a unique ride at Kings Island and I think I liked it more than most. However, talking to a few maintenance workers I've come across, it was a bit of a maintenance nightmare, particularly when it came to its computer system.

^The hill it's on is pretty steep, so you get the verticality along with the proximity to Great Bear.

This might be the best placement for a S&S Screaming Swing ever.

So I have a question regarding trains in a hypothetical situation. Would it be feasible for Zamperla to take off the parts of TTD's old trains that were meant to attach it to the hydraulic launch and replace them with the parts needed for the magnetic launch? Then just refurb the rest of the train since they're known to be able to handle the stresses of the layout?

About Beast 2.0- Beast is my favorite ride in the park, but does anyone really want to be on any wooden coaster for 8+ minutes?

Nope, I stand by cratered. Reds attendance lowest mark in Great American Ball Park history (cincinnati.com)

I will be fair to Intamin when they do good, and they pulled off winners with VelociCoaster and Pantheon, I've seen them have success overseas recently, and I will be watching the SFNE 2025 coaster to see how well that does. I am choosing to hold Falcon's Flight as an outlier since that's on the realm of insanity, but I've seen their more practical rides do well recently. If Intamin can show improvements in reliability, I would be open to them putting in something for KI.

I'm on board with overhauling Festhaus for sure. Along with just upgrading the stage and seating, just do some different lighting and paint to make it brighter on the inside. It just has a dark and gloomy aesthetic to it as is. Also maybe add some way to tone down the echo in there as well.

I'm hoping the new management with Six Flags will get this and Wrath of Rakshasa built on time as 2 coasters supposedly built for this year, Flash at SFGAdv and Georgia Surfer at SFoG have had construction paces that make a snail's pace look fast.

Just look what happened with the Reds a few years back with the whole "where are you going to go?" remarks and their attendance cratered. I feel Kings Island is inching closer to that territory as of late.

Shivering Timbers must have had more work done because it was a jackhammer machine last year.

Agreed, I prefer the ProSlide versions as well. You can build them bigger, longer, and faster as they use magnets, thus can handle higher capacity boats. The upward parts are also smoother, magnets have smoother acceleration while the upward water jets are a little funky. And it's not like they don't have the room, either. Even using the location they're using, there's access to all that space behind the 2 wave pools. Would make a nice backdrop to the wave pools, too.

^Not exactly as I still call all the versions water coasters. Like, I wouldn't add River Racers to my coaster count, but it's still the water park version of a water coaster plus the manufacturer, WhiteWater West, calls their Master Blaster product a water coaster. Link

^First, the water coasters you see in water parks (not the ones made by Mack and Intamin that are actually roller coasters) are more akin to slides that just happen to have uphill sections. They're called coasters for advertising purposes. 2nd, if you're really getting pedantic about it being a coaster based on having to carry the vehicle up, most early coasters before chain lifts were common had to have the cars pushed up by hand or used pulleys.

There are 2 different ways water coasters work. The one KI is getting uses water jets and probably needs lighter loads to work. Then there are ones like Wildebeest and Mammoth which use magnets that are much heavier and require lifts. I was hoping for something slightly longer with 2-3 more uphill sections, but I'm pretty happy with it as is. Soak City was due for an update.

Those beating the dead horse of capacity worries should also know that the ride lasts only 80 seconds. Launch coasters can get away with smaller capacity trains as it balances it out with short ride durations.