Joshua

Agreed. Due process is a given. Bringing it up seems unsympathetic. What if this happened to someone you care about? A little empathy goes a long way and if you can't do that, just don't come in this thread. Especially if you are here to actively mock people who are defending the accuser. Regarding a sexual assault case, that's really not a good look to have..

I am pretty sure you it will let you right back in. I have definitely left the park without getting my hand stamped and returned with another party with no issue whatsoever.

There are many reasons why it takes people so long to come forward. Fear, embarrassment, shame, or the thought that no one would believe you. Sometimes it is because they feel powerless and/or they feel their abusers has something they can use against them. Sometimes the abuser actually backs off for a while before starting things up again or the behavior is gradual and gets worse over time. And there's always those situations that start off mutual until a boundary is crossed and one person no longer feels comfortable and the other won't back off. Also to be fair, she allegedly reported this behavior to a higher-up and nothing was done about it. So there's that.

I think Coney Gas Station would be an excellent name for a rollercoaster.

The problem with this kind of talk is that it does more to help the abuser than it does the victim. Funny how a) people are more upset about my statement (and the notion of employment coming from taxes -- or even silly things like a giga not being big enough) than that someone was sexually harassed and b) how quick people are to assume the accused is innocent and that the accuser might be lying in a case like this. I honestly mean no offense here, but indifference is a big reason why sexual harassment is still common in the workplace and why people still get away with it to this day.

Perhaps another reason to re-do the parking lot?

A lot of times in an abuser/abused relationship, the victim feels stuck and/or scared to reject the advances in fear of harsher retaliation. This is actually quite common with sexual harassment. But it doesn't matter. Either way, IT IS NOT OKAY. I hope the abuser and the supervisor who ignored her pleas spend the rest of their lives in the unemployment line.

A new maze is also... just a new maze. They're economic, seasonal attractions that can easily be taken down and re-themed. It is cool, but also not a big deal.

They also did a POLTERGEIST maze recently, from which the first season of STRANGER THINGS (as well as Insidious) borrows heavily*. (IMO It is also one of the best haunted house movies ever made.) Ironically, they own the rights to some of the most iconic horror characters of all time, but are having the toughest time bringing them back to theaters. *Although technically POLTERGEIST borrowed from the "Little Girl Lost" episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

People still think the earth is flat.

I received my second one the other day. It is a BOGO for Cotton Candy at Coney Treats. I actually might take them up on that offer.

I agree with this sentiment, but I think the term "gaslighting" is getting thrown around a little too swiftly here. I am going to get a little personal here, but I feel like I have to in order to elaborate my point. I was gaslighted in a relationship for 4 years. I don't think she meant to do it, but this person broke me down, made me feel like the bad guy when they did something wrong (including cheating), controlled others' image of me, told me things like her friends hated me, made me feel powerless and in constant need of her approval. When I did something wrong, she badgered me about it to the point where her voice would be stuck in my head attacking me about it in a repetitive loop. People would ask why I didn't leave and it was because I didn't have the courage to. I felt like I needed her, that I depended on her, that I was nothing without her. When we would split, I would gradually start to become whole again, but she would come back, and the cycle would start again. It is literal mental abuse, something that can be gradual and when you come out of it, you no longer feel like a whole person, if you even know who you are anymore. It is terrible and frankly, I am not sure if I will ever be in another relationship because of that experience. As someone who doesn't know much about the amusement park industry (and actually liked the Paramount years, at least at first), I am often "corrected." But in those moments, I never feel anything near what I felt in that relationship.

Not every new person is a troll. Sometimes new people post a lot of topics without checking first. This was fairly common on a Spielberg forum I used to moderate on and I know it happened a lot on other forums I frequented, and it still happens a lot in some of my Facebook groups. For example, every other day in this one Jaws group, some new person comes in posting about this one deleted scene (that's still kinda in the film) that was removed for being "too intense" (it actually looked cheesy and was cut down), and everyone is like yeah, we know.

The Beast is only rough when I try to hold on. It never feels bad when I keep my hands in the air.

I mark my row in the memo app on my phone. But I also try to park in the same general area. Also, I second that the parking lot needs some work.

I used to find Vortex uncomfortable, but I haven't had a problem with it this year.

How likely is that they either haven't or have only recently decided on the name of the ride and/or are still working out the theming and that could be holding back the teasers?

Even Vortex has a gimmick: the loops. Check out a vintage documentary called AMERICA SCREAMS. I posted a thread about it at some point, but one segment hypes up Arrow and their looping rollercoasters. They also briefly discuss their next gimmick, the suspended coaster. It also shows footage of Screamin' Demon in action and is hosted by actor Vincent Price, an avid lover of amusement parks.

Wasn't Geagua Lake's problem that it over-expanded too much at once?

If that mock-up is accurate, I say it looks pretty awesome.

Wait, Middletown Christian Schools is getting their own giga? That explains the blue!

I wonder if it is possible to re-work the SOB portion of The Bat's path to maybe open it up some more. The reason I keep fixating on that SOB area is because it is a vacant spot and a lot of the coasters being volunteered for removal (AE, Invertigo, BLSC, etc.) are attractions I just don't think the part is ready to get rid of as yet.

I'm sure there will be some kind of cosmetic improvements to X-Base and I bet there will some minor improvement that will spark a ginormous amount of speculation.

At least as far as the food lines go, you gotta be stern and say something to them. In most cases, it is just teens who see their group as a whole and aren't taking paying separately into account. It can be bit harder in line for a ride because it usually happens when you are pretty far from the ride ops and by the time you've reached them, the jumpers have either been caught or have already ridden. I've also noticed that the more people who speak up about it the better. Every time I've seen someone ejected, it was when a bunch of people in line were vocal about it.

True, but they also have the old SOB land they could use.