Beastfreak

Who purchased them?

Correct, architects most likely would only touch the station if even that. The design engineers might be able to handle something that simple. Its really hard to say. For a wooden coaster the park would most likely decide already where its going to go and about what general features it should have. Then they would go to a design firm (either one they have preference over or one that quotes them a low price) That company will take what the park wants and the space they are limited to, and do surveys of the land to get the profiles. From they they just start, I would assume. Just like any coaster you then have to deside upon a layout and then tweak that layout to get the right curves and hill sizes so the coaster can complete the circuit. Then once all that is done the company would present the ride to the park and they'd probably say yeah or nay and say they like this but not this .... whatever. Again, I have no idea, this is all a guess.

So one person in this thread says they don't like the ride. Everyone else semi-defends its..... Plus everyone is assuming that we have not riden the ride. Like I said. I've riden it. Aparently from the quote above, TraderJake has too. This is not the only site that bashes TTD (assuming we do). Do a search on any of the other sites when TTD was first announced and the layout revealed. Most people hated it, some still do. Its just not Kings Island style. Its been said before (I really don't remember where, do a search) by Craig Ross that he wants the next coaster to win us a golden ticket or two. He knows what the people want... they did a survey. Plus why would he put a coaster very similar to TTD in PKI when CP is less than four hours away (if you drive like me closer to 2.5)

That would actually be awsome. Just because the rest of the world is not coaster freaks like us. They still love to go to amusement parks, ride the rides... watch the shows, etc. I say give it a try and run with it. See where it takes you. Heck, I want to have one of the first copies if you do get it launched.

If you really want to get technical... its a heartline roll just turned to point down rather than the normal ones you'd find parallel to the ground. A heartline roll basically is like (sory for the gross description) shoving a pole through your heart and giving you a spin. Intamin has put this on their 10 inversion Colossus in Europe (I hope to get there soon) Togo has tried it a few times as well as Premier.

Alright, I'm basing my opinion on what I know of the company and what I've seen of the ride. I haven't been impressed thus far on anything S&S has done. Even if they paint their rides they still look like erector sets. Their new fly-swatter ride they put in this year was painted and still looked like crap. On the TTD part. I've been there done that. I wouldn't say CP is going just for quantity and not quality. Heck TTD is a quality ride. Its smooth, its fast, its tall, but it is short. If they were simply going for quantity they wouldn't have spent $25million and three years planning it. Like I said, I've been on it. I've been on the other rocket coaster (Xcelerator) in California. Let me tell you the ROCKet coaster rock and I plan on being at Hershey Park for the opening of their new rocket. The only problem with TTD is that it just goes up and down, while Xcelerator and Storm Runner each do more than just that. That is why people are complaining saying they don't want a TTD at PKI. We want more than a one trick pony. Plus, the park already released the survey results saying the people want inversions and steel. So that rules out a TTD esque type clone. If it were rocket (I doubt) it would be more on the line of the Storm Runner ride that is yet to open.

It works pretty well for the Disney parks.

Really? Says who?

To far out of my way, sorry. Just imagine the the Jumba-tron at any ballpark/stadium.

Or if they'd be trained and able.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. We already know all the rides that were there are staying just being renamed. Well with the except of the speed slides.

Thats the thing. The park doesn't do that with food stands. We run mostly all of them ourselves. The only ones we don't are smaller stands that don't make as much profit, so we make it better by hiring outside people to run it and give us a portion of their profit.

Oh you mean "WALDO!". He's there right after all the guests are gone and sometimes still there in the morning. Depends on how much trash the guests threw on the ground. He only does the parking lot though. In the park, the ecology group starts near the back of the park and sweeps towards the front and meet at the gate. Then another group hoses down the paths to get up the spilled pop/ice cream/cheese coneys.... what have you.

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Well I sure hope they are done before Memorial Day weekend since the Media Preview and the actual opening is the week before.

From what I hear. They had already purchased two more flying coasters, one for PKI and I think for Kings Dominion. Then sold them to Six Flags because they didn't want them. You don't just say, "Hey I've bought this ride but I don't like it this year... so I'll sell it to someone else." Then a few years later go, "I like that ride I sold them I want one of my own now"

Its not that easy. A lot of that so called profit disappears before it goes into the bank. Paychecks, electric, gas, water.

Not remove, only make bigger.

HUH? What? Use some punctuation. Proof read. Anyway.. the mesh on the tower has been there for over a week. They are done stripping the paint and have already started painting/priming. If you look close enough to those pictures you can see the support poles sticking out of the corners and they are creme colored.

They can and they did make one taller. Its in Japan.

I wasn't saying that those are themed areas so much as an area that is named. Look at it this way. PKI is a state. Each of the areas are towns. You name each town. When someone asks where something is you can say what town(area) it is in. Now its up to the people (the park) to decorate/theme that area however they want or at all. Basically all parks name different areas of their park. That does not make them a theme park. Now if they have a name that is like "Old West Territory" and every building looks like its from an old western movie, that is a themed area. The whole park does not have to go by this theming mode. They can theme some areas but not others. I'd say its then up to the park to determine if they are a theme park or not. I was just showing people that every park names areas and why. Not saying that every park then goes and themes that area to the name or any particular way. Just that they name areas, to split it up and make it easier for people to remember where stuff is.

All the names were announced when PKI first announced Boomerang Bay. Just an FYI.

They moved Stealth out of a WEST coast park. California is by no means midwest. But if you want to go on the midwest aspect... Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, in Ohio, has this ride already. Plus, they got that ride becuase Paramount sold it to them after they decided they didn't like the way Stealth was going. They didn't want to put it in PKI then, so why would they put it in PKI now?

OH YEAH, It definetly had its problems, still has a few. When it first opened, they never knew if it would make it over the top. Most of the time it didn't. I don't know exactly what their problems were that caused that. I do know however that the train had some sort of redesign after the first season or so. As far as I know, that is the only S&S ride in any Paramount park. Personally, I don't really want any. His (Stan Checkets sp?) Thurst Air coasters (the Hypersonic kind) have pneumatic tires, like a car, rather than the solid eurathane wheels on a normal coaster. It causes the train to vibrate as the g-forces push down on the train. The air filled tired tends to shrink (in diameter) as it absorbs the "shock" and springs back. The launch towers are pretty decent in the fact of what he has been able to do with them, the double launch (thrust up then thrust down), which is much more than a normal Drop Tower can do. I just don't like the small cars as compared to the now huge Intamin rings. On the Screaming Squirrel coaster, the idea is there, not the presentation. Give me a ride that maybe does more, looks like it is not built from an erector set, and can really move some people, then maybe I'd give Stan a chance on his rides.

To go along with that... If you count any park that names an the areas of the park something, then every amusement park is a "Theme Park" in your words. Naming areas of parks something makes it easier on guests to find where they are going. Someone asks "where is Bowler Roller" (thats a game at PKI) then you can answer "in Coney Mall". That automatically directs the guest toward that area of the park not the remaining couple of hundred acres.