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True but even if the ride crests the hill at 27 mph which is the speed at the end of the launch not the speed at the top of the hill. The calculated speed only increases to 75 mph. This is close to the top speed according to Dollywood which is 73 mph. My point which looking at my post I never really made is that the speed of the launch has little effect on the rest of the ride. Gravity is an acceleration over time, by increasing the initial velocity you reduce the amount of time during which the train can gain speed.

Even if the launch is slower and the train crawls over the top it will have little effect on top speed. The ride is 165 ft tall. A free fall calculator puts it at just over 70 mph.

Correct, basiclly the prep for these items has to start the night before so it is not possible to just make more if the restaurant runs out.

I have been to both in late September. Knott's is likely to have short lines. But it might also close early because of Knott's Scary Farm which is a separate hard ticket event. I just am not sure if it occurs on Sunday nights in September. You are unlikely to need Fast Lane but I recommend getting to the park early and riding as much as you can early. Ever since the Wizarding World opened in Hollywood, Universal Studios has seen a large increase in attendance. Likely the park will be busy. If you can afford it consider a VIP tour, they are expensive (about 350-400 each) but you get parking, breakfast, lunch, admission, tour guide which walks you to the front of every attraction in the park, very good seats to all shows, and a behind the scenes tour of the Universal backlot where you can walk around some of the sets from movies and TV shows. Plus after the tour is over you get a badge good for unlimited front of the line access to the rides. I have only done the VIP tour once but I had a fantastic time and really do recommend it. I do not know if front of the line will be needed because it is hard to estimate based on how much Potter changed attendance. Two years ago it was slow late September, now I have no idea. You might also want to consider the Halloween events at both parks. You are there the right time of year but they typically would only occur Thursday to Saturday in September, in October they also run Sunday and Wednesday. I actually think Knott's Scary Farm is better than Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Hollywood. But Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando is better than either event in California.

Assuming the next coaster is three years out, any work would still be done almost entirely by corporate. VERY few people at the park would know what is going on. The people who do know something also know to not talk. Any rumors at this point are likely complete garbage. There might be a small nugget of truth for instance maybe a group was in the park doing some survey work but trying to tie that to a new coaster is likely not actually based on any real information.

If I remember correctly on these old Premier LIM launches the magnets fire in a preprogrammed pattern. Once they start only an e-stop will prevent the sequence from finishing. I really doubt the ride terminated the launch sequence early. It had enough momentum to make it through the highest point in the course without wind or another source of friction like this wheel dragging the train would have made it.

Six Flags issued a press release which seems designed to be confusing. The TV station read the press release and made incorrect assumptions. You are reading the article and assuming it is actually correct. The train stopped due to the broken wheel. The ride stopped because the train never reached the end of the block. No safety system directly monitors the wheel.

My favorite time of the year at either Disneyland or WDW is fall, starting late September through the first two weeks of December. Plenty of limited time events, festivals, and the holidays. The weather is typically fantastic and the crowds are normally not too bad as long as you stay away from Thanksgiving. I have gone to Orlando every year for Halloween for close to 10 years straight now. At Disneyland I recommend staying across the street. There are a number of hotels within walking distance. Also try to make time to visit other parks beyond just Disney. In California I would try to visit Universal Studios Hollywood and Knott's Berry Farm. Knott's is a Cedar Fair park so a platinum pass works at the park.

Parks typically actively try to avoid using anniversary years to add new attractions. This way they bring in people by advertising the anniversary. Then the park builds a new coaster the following year to get people to come back. Likely this is what Cedar Point and Kings Island will do over the next few years. Kings Island will likely get coasters in 2020 and 2023. Cedar Point in 2021 and 2024. This is a three year gap from the previous coaster and puts the coasters the year after the anniversary. Everything lines up too nicely.

I suspect it will be Urgent Scare. It might actually be the oldest haunt at this point as well.

So it turns out I was totally wrong. I have more from Kings Island... These are not all from the same trip or even the same year. You will notice Flight Commander is missing. The actual files have a year on them if anyone is interested. A couple are almost duplicates but I figured I would just post them all.

Corporate policy, it is supposed to be chain wide but you will see some parks be a little more willing to bend the rules than others. Kings Island is very strict about the policy. I have heard that technically it only applies to rides which are classified as a 4 or 5 on the park's thrill ratings. But the only coaster at Kings Island which is not a 4 or 5 is the great pumpkin coaster. So it might be possible to marathon a flat ride.

These are not my photos, they are scans of slides from a relative, they lived in the Cleveland area so I have a ton of photos of old Geauga Lake and Sea World Ohio which I was thinking of posting. From what I was able to figure out these have to be from the fall of 1990. This is because you can see the ferris wheel and flying dutchman rides are still in Oktoberfest which were removed at the end of 1990 plus you can see Flight Commander operating which was added at the start of 1990. I do not believe they made very many trips to Kings Island so I am not certain at this time if these will be the only photos of the park.

When you first arrive the only thing which happens is the music starts playing. The rest of the show including the props only starts when the train starts moving into the station. Unless you sit in the back half of the train it is possible you just missed what occurred.

Only Friday and Saturday this year.

It is for the 50th anniversary of Intamin which is this summer.

All I can say is I remember seeing the dump trucks move the dirt from the construction areas to this field on the webcams. A bulldozer was used to smooth it out so that it would not be left in a large mound. This disturbed a huge area which is what I think you are seeing.

You must not go to many fairs because deep fried junk food has become a standard item. Deep fried Twinkies, Oreos, Snickers, even a stick of butter. Typically they are made by freezing the item, putting it on a wood stick, covering it in batter, and frying it to a golden brown.

The park built the foundation for the new restaurant in the water park which did require excavation. Mystic Timbers is built above White Water Canyon which required filling sections of the ride with dirt for construction equipment which was removed from this field and returned at the end of construction. The park also just built a new storage building which also would have required a foundation.

2 or 3 years ago I was riding Magnum and as we were going down a hill I saw this phone just seem to float up and out of the train. Someone a few rows behind me was able to grab it out of the air and returned it to the owner who was 2 or 3 rows in front of me once the train returned to the station. What most people seem to not realize about phones and other objects dropped during a ride is that they will tend to continue in the same direction at basically the same rate of speed. So loose objects tend to not really be a danger to other people on the train. The majority of the danger is to people in other trains, on the ground, etc.

You are ignoring the fact that when the trains get back to the station the reverse has to occur. On a Vekoma the weight of the people and the seats must be lifted while on the B&M they are just being lowered. From a wear perspective, I doubt either one is worse than the other. I also prefer hanging in the restraint instead of laying on my back in the brakes.

This is one hundred percent personal preference. There are a number of issues with counting coasters, do clones count? Think about the number of SLC, boomerang, Skyrocket II, and other standard layout coasters. If a coaster is moved, is it counted in each location? For instance, do you count both X-Flight and Firehawk? Back to your original question when does it become two different coasters? Totally different layouts which share a station like Dragon Challange, mirrored layouts like Racer, or are two coaster tracks with basically the same layout like Gemini two different coasters? I consider Racer as a single coaster with two tracks. Which I would only count as one ride. But it is completely up to you to decide where the line is between similar coasters.

No idea what has changed but in the past only your home park could replace your pass, add a dining plan, or process the renewal. If you have the ability to renew a KI pass at CP then something has changed.

The cashier who told you that she could not sell you the drink plan is wrong. I am not certain if it is a training problem or if they just forgot how. But I have heard a similar story from several people, one of which proceeded to guest services who instructed them that it could only be purchased at the park by going to a location which sell beverages. The good news is that they tried another drink stand and found an employee who knew how to do it. On a side note you can add your annual pass to an Apple wallet. Which will sync to an Apple Watch allowing you to display the QR code on your watch, which I can confirm the registers will scan. So if you have an Apple Watch you can just use that instead of your phone or plastic pass.

According to news reports a disabled man has fallen out of the Krater Coaster in Columbia. This article according to Google translate says the man had no legs. Which if true I have no idea why he was allowed to ride since the coaster uses a lap bar. This is supposed to be video of the event.