Elder Panther

If you count Wildcat as a quality ride, then I'd say Top Gun is too. At least Top Gun was original and had nice theming when it opened. The Racer also paved the way for the modern coasters we have today. We also have three great thrill rides in Tomb Raider, Drop Zone, and Delirium. I'd say CP probably does have more quality coasters than PKI though.

I was there but I don't really remember it. I was a little kid and I was there with my family. I know I was there because my mom told me I was. She said she remembered seeing helicopters come to fly the people away.

Well it says something about getting your swimsuits ready, so I'd say it has to do with water.

On Tuesday I went to the park with some of my friends and some kid got separated from his friends when we got into line and he tried to cut up to meet them and one of my friends was just kidding and said, "Line jumping is not a sport," so the kid just got out of line. It was pretty funny.

PKI is the premier Paramount Park with PKD in a close second. Without those two parks, Paramount basically has nothing.

Every park has to have small coasters for kids and families too. Just because a coaster is small doesn't mean it was a bad installation.

I'd say S&S-Arrow just because I'd want to stay in the U.S.

I was a little kid when I went, but I remember that the area where the Flintstones bumper cars was frozen over for ice skating, as well as the fountains in the front. I also vaguely remember eating roasted nuts and drinking hot chocolate.

I also chose The Beast. It's just a really great and scenic coaster. It's even crazier at night.

Why don't you tell us then? Usually I just move it from side to side.

In addition to those rides, they've also added: Scooby's Ghoster Coaster, added a wave pool and pirate ship play area to Waterworks, and changed Phantom Theater to Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle. They've also removed Flight Commander, Skylab, Kenton's Keel Boat Canal, King Cobra, and a few other rides I can't think of.

Supposedly we were supposed to get an Arrowbatic for this season instead of Delirium, but that was scrapped due to Arrow's financial troubles.

Astroland has the Cyclone and that's basically all. Santa Cruz has nothing except a coaster too. Astroworld and Carrowinds aren't the best parks in the world exactly either.

Yeah there's already a topic on this, but most likely it's just going to be a store or restaurant.

I think the Smurf ride was probably really fun. I vaguely remember riding it. I remember riding in boats and seeing Smurfs. That was probably when I was about 5 though, so I'm not going to count that. Out of Phantom Theater and Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo is a lot more fun. Phantom Theater got boring after a while, but since you shoot on Scooby Doo, it's like a new ride everytime.

I went to both of those parks last summer. KBF was alright, nothing great. Xcelerator was closed there. SFMM was a great park. It has so much coaster variety. X, Superman, and Flashback were closed, but it's still my #3 park behind BGW and IOA.

I'd have to say The Bat. It looked like it had a really fun layout. Another ride I'd like to see back is the Keel Boat Canal. I just liked how the whole ride took place high up in the trees.

Yeah I didn't like it either, same with Serpent at LeSourdsville. I did ride this Galaxy type ride at Old Town in Orlando called Windstorm though, and I found it to be a very fun ride.

The Grizzly coasters at PKD and PGA are based on the Coney Island Wildcat as well.

Yeah it was at Coney Island before it went to PKI. I think it was around where the Festhaus is now. It was called Galaxy when it was at Coney Island. I imagine it was probably similar to the Python coaster that Coney Island has now. Kings Dominion used to have one too, but I don't know what it was called.

You're saying Delirium isn't unique, well neither was King Cobra. There are clones of KC at PKD and PCW. At least Delirium is the first GIANT Frisbee.

Actually it was a 12 year old boy who fell out and it wasn't at PKI, it was at Paramount's Great America. My Top 5 Thrills: 1. Tomb Raider - people who have never ridden it before have no idea what is going to happen. 2. SoB - tallest, fastest, and only looping wooden coaster in the world. Enough said. 3. Drop Zone - the drop and the view are very thrilling. 4. Flight of Fear - the launch alone is thrilling, plus the whole ride is in the dark. 5. The Beast at night - one of the scariest coaster experiences. Going 60 MPH in the pitch black woods and into even darker tunnels.

Yeah I tried that, they wouldn't tell me.

I'll also take a copy. Bballplaya182@zoomtown.com

They probably won't really expand to much into the unused land. I mean yeah parts of rides will go in the currently unused land, just like how SoB does, but like other people have said, I also believe the ride entrances will remain on or close to the current paths. Land does not necessarily have to be flattened though, because I mean look at the land The Beast is built on. PKI still has hundreds of acres of land, some of which could house another great terrain coaster like The Beast. I've heard that the new B&M coaster next year will go somewhere around SoB and FoF, possibly behind FoF. If that's the case, then they'll probably open up the utility path behind FoF as a main path and the new coaster's entrance will probably be built off that path. I've also heard that we'll be getting a Huss Giant Delirium in Rivertown, supposedly somwhere back behind the Wings Diner, across from White Water Canyon. http://www.hussrides.com/34GiantDelirium.htm I don't know if either of these things are true, but this is just what I've heard.