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I've got a soft spot for Blue since it's so overlooked. I don't have much of a preference while standing in line for WindSeeker, though... The sound of the upstop wheels making contact on the hill before the turnaround is still one of my favorite coaster sounds, no matter what color.

^ The thing is, though... If everyone's allowed to bring a friend to ERT, doesn't it just become RT?

^^ Ironically, I think I like that name better for California's Great America. Rolls off the tongue a bit easier, in my opinion.

This is exactly what I was hoping for out of this ride. A copy-and-pasted series of airtime hills would have honestly underwhelmed me--the fact that this has many low-to-the-ground twists and turns (especially 4, 7, and 9) is awesome. Does Raging Bull even twist that much? I need to get to Canada's Wonderland next year... I never get this excited about a B&M!

I agree with Captain Nemo. It's Luh-vy-uh-than, which I do think is quite possibly one of the coolest ride names ever, in my opinion. In my head, Canada's Wonderland is this quaint little village with relatively tame rides... and then there's these monsters that loom over it. I don't know how far off base I am, but from this perspective, it's one of the coolest theme ideas I've heard in a long time. Especially coming from Cedar Fair. I don't know what to make of these B&M giga rumors, but the park must have something up its sleeve with this besides saying, "Oh, you liked Behemoth? Here, have it scaled up a bit on the tallest, fastest, longest, [insert adjectives ending in -est] ride in the country!" (Then again, I wouldn't have assumed Holiday World would do that with Mammoth, so what do I know? )

Let's put it this way. Usually, I completely miss instances of line jumping. This year, I can count on one hand how many times out of the many I've ridden WindSeeker where I haven't been line jumped. Ironically, it usually happens right in front of the "Line jumping is prohibited" sign. Kings Dominion's Flight of Fear does not stop on the MCBR. I don't recall if the block brakes trimmed the ride at all, but the rest of the ride was taken at a much higher speed--and was oddly smoother, too. Glad to hear you had a (mostly) good time! Good trip report.

I have to point out that, if you think one enclosed lift at the end of the ride is bad, you should probably look up Cedar Creek Mine Ride. The second lift is in the middle of the ride and doesn't do much besides slowing down the pacing of an already meandering ride. As one fellow rider on my last CCMR ride put it, "Woah now, I think we've broken 7 miles per hour!" I understand the fact that it's 52 years old, but, despite my love of classic coasters, it's just not that exciting of a ride for me. Not to mention that there IS at least one poster here who finds AE to be one of his favorite coasters in the park. (Those tiki guys used to scare me to tears when I was little!)

The Crypt, and I don't just say that for nostalgia's sake. I'm obsessed with incredibly curious about the engineering behind the ride, especially since there's next to no information on it to be found online.

^ For some reason, Chrome's got an awful beef with Queen City Discovery's photos... As far as Kaspersky Antivirus's been able to tell over the course of several months, there's nothing malicious coming out of the site. I think it's being a bit overprotective in this case.

I absolutely understand, and I'm really grateful to have a very active admin that goes out of his way to promote such things. I didn't mean to sound like I was taking that personally, and I again apologize for the misunderstanding! You certainly don't owe me an apology. I just like to point out the opposing arguments and silver linings in the name of fairness, because it's very easy sometimes to get stuck analyzing things from a single perspective. (I know I'm guilty of it!) I do absolutely agree that a lot of people, in the same way, like to post "quit your whining" posts after anything's announced, and that really shuts out a lot of people that would otherwise share their opinions in this community. I just wanted to make sure that people knew that I didn't mean to shut them out--just that there are good things to be said about every addition that sometimes go unnoticed. No hard feelings?

Actually, I think those are the wooden "towers" (can't think of any other way to describe them) that are usually spread through Tombstone Terror-tory and CornStalkers. Scareactors usually hide inside them or just on the other side of them.

I do agree with you, Avatar. I know I'm obviously guilty of being providing "why is everyone upset" comments in the Holiday World 2012 thread, but I do see it your way as well. I don't usually post that sort of comment; the difference was that, to me, it seemed like it was beyond just being hopeful about what ride would go into HW next year. People, even outside of KIC, were reading so much into what they wanted to see in HW's hints that the park didn't have much of a chance to make anyone happy... Enthusiast opinion left them with installing either a steel spinning coaster or a HUSS frisbee. So when it wasn't either of those, so many people had nothing positive to say about Mammoth that it was a little irritating. Holiday World is my favorite park, and so many people were breathing a frustrated sigh that I felt the need to say, "Hey, is another water coaster really that bad? It's going to shorten the lines, at least..." I'm not saying that that entitles me to any snark that might have snuck into the post, and I do apologize if I was rude. It just seems like there's a silver lining to every expansion that gets shrugged off since it wasn't the [insert coaster type here] coaster that everyone was convinced the park was getting. That being said, I'm with you on a Boomerang Bay expansion. I'm not much of a waterpark type of guy, but it's a part of the park that has received little to no love in, what, seven years? (When was the Waterworks to BB conversion?) It seems like just about anything they put in there would help them out.

Geez! When it rains on parks this year, it really pours. On the other hand... really? Such coverage about a chain breaking? Did Vortex get such coverage? (Then again, Vortex didn't have a fatality just a month earlier...)

I can confirm this after riding WindSeeker today. There aren't any new coaster pieces showing up back there, unfortunately.

As of last weekend, several small red lights have been added to the room before The Bat. They're mixed along the skeletons on either side of the room, and it makes either side of the room glow softly red. It's a very nice touch that illuminates the skeletons that were frankly easy to miss before. As of today, the two dog demon-whatsits to either side of The Bat have also had red lights installed beneath them, causing them to glow and, y'know, actually be visible now. Haha. Also, the goddess is now illuminated with light blue lights (which I am assuming used to color the icicles on TRTR) that pulse/flicker a bit when the gondola switches directions. It's a very noticeable change--I heard several people mention how they expected her to do something on my one ride today. And frankly, since they're illuminating her, my inner fanboy does wonder if they plan on turning her back on... But I'm probably getting way ahead of myself. Keep up the awesome work, KI!

Ouch! If this sticks, I think I've had my last year as a Platinum passholder. My interest in Cedar Point (which was my primary reasoning in going Platinum back in '08) has been waning as I experience other parks, and I haven't had and won't have a good opportunity to visit any other CF parks besides KI for quite some time. I hope they do the "buy a regular season pass, get a free gold upgrade" deal this fall... I really loathe paying for parking. That sounds a little whinier than I mean to sound. I'm not complaining as much as I'm just saying that I think this will do me in.

^ Thank you! This makes sense now, so I can definitely see how it's probably a B&M. Given the acclaim this thing's getting before it's even announced, I'd say it's going to be something unprecedented for B&M... Maybe the long-rumored rotating seats on the wing rider model will make their premiere?

Way to go! I like the new forum. It feels very modern compared to the older version. Just one question: it seems as though my animated .gif avatar bit the dust along the way. I've still got it saved, but the new forum won't let me re-upload it. Are animated .gifs no longer supported?

I guess I'm not really seeing the connection to B&M... My first reaction to those supports was that they reminded me a lot of I305's station supports. Not to mention that they just got Behemoth, but I suppose they could always be going to for a different model. And do we know for sure that Dollywood is getting a B&M?

Null vote. I love Diamondback's (relative) smoothness and insane ejector in the back row on the first drop, but I prefer my coasters with a little more than repeated floater and a few turns. I love Beast's classicness, but (I hate to say this again, but) it just isn't running very well this year, in my opinion. (On the immediate exit from the first pass through the helix tunnel, I swear you can see the track deformations while riding in the front row. If not, sit in the back and watch the entire train lurch as it leaves the tunnel... Don't forget to brace yourself!)

The part that gets me is that the pre-off-season, the week and a half every September that KI closes to the public, is next month. When the heck did that happen?! It seems like the park just opened yesterday!

Maybe I have weird music tastes, but "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse absolutely screams Maverick to me.

Thought I'd revive this to hear everyone's opinion... I've yet to see the fog screen effect turned on this year; the closest it's been is just hearing the voice on opening day. However, the "car" always seemed to turn like it was going to feature the fog screen, i.e., it made a 90 degree left turn from the staircase scene, pointed that way for a bit, then made the rest of the left turn to point towards the flashing machines. When I was at KI on Friday, the ride lingered in pointing at the staircase scene, then made the full turn towards the flashing machines. The "trying to drive me from my home" audio hasn't played since opening day. Am I crazy, or has anyone else noticed this, too? On that note, has anyone actually seen the fog screen this year? And if not, does anyone else think this is the last we've seen of the fog for the indefinite future?

^ I believe that's Steel Dragon 2000 at Nagashima Spaland in Japan. I've read it had extensive downtime around 2006 due to a wheel failure (i.e., the train chucked a wheel that flew into their waterpark). As I understand it, it has since reopened.