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Cool, but I was hoping for some more Thunder River pics, i sent one taken ages back a while ago, i can re-send it if you have lost it.

What do you mean. I hope your right in your guess about an invert,flying or standup, it would be great, but will DW be willing to take the plunge with them? A 10 looper differs from other record breakers in the way it is more reliable and not too expensive, and anyway DW has held records before, why not again, who knows, amybe they might try to hold the record outright and have 6 barrel rolls.

So you honestly think that in 12 or so months time there will be an incredible hulk type coaster at DW. I beg to differ on what you ahve said on intamin 10 or 8 loopers, no Six Flags parks or Cedar Fair parks own one. There is Monte Makaya at Terra Entacarda in Brazil, Avalancha at Xetulul in Guatemala and Colossus at Thorpe Park in the UK, 2 out of those parks are not exactly famous, so I can easily see DW getting one. And another Point Xetulul has only one other coaster, a Zeirer family coaster, and Terra Entacarda has 2 other coasters, a Galaxy and a Zamperla Dragon. But DW has RAR, Eureka Mountain, Cyclone and TOT and is a much bigger park in general so if parks smaller than DW can get one then there is a good chance we could get one too.

What is so unhygenic about not wearing shoes if you have thongs, if your feet are hanging in the air then they cant dirty anything, i think the saftey issue of a thong dropping is more important then the supposed hygine issue.

So, if Slicks info hold true and DW does get a new coaster next year, what do you think it will be. My bet is going to either an Intamin 10 or 8 looper sitdown, they seem to like Intamin and a coaster like that would not be too expensive, plus if they got the 10 looper they would get a record to brag about. So, what would everone else bet on them getting, this is not a thread to post what you want them to get, but what you think they will get.

Where is GDs onride photo? is it at the bottom like SP at WL or at the top like apocalypse at Drayton Manor Park.

I think if DW were to get a family ride as jiz said they should get just a themed boat ride with a big splashdown, the park could do with another boat ride as everyone can enjoy them, and it would also be able to be themed.

Maybe they could re-open tomb raider, flood the floors with 40cm of water and call it Tomb Wader.

I thought the reason GD ran only one side was because the other side has problems. So GD has the worlds longest freefall cycle time, yet they only run one 8 passenger car for most of the day, thats bad. If people hate the way GD runs, they should write a letter saying how they feel, i dont think long queues are something we should just have to put up with, they should do what is possible to keep it to a minimum. The first thing to do as Richard said should be to simply open up the other side and run it, so these 1hr lines are dropped back to a more respecable 30 mins.

Well Apocalypse at DMP and Acrophobia at SFOG have standup vehicles and they would pull similar gs, and they do fine. And what about Riddlers revenge at SFMM, it pulls 4.2gs and Georgia Scorcher, which pulls 4gs

Cheer up, there is much better here anyway, like corkscrew.

Yeah, it would be ok at smaller parks i suppose, but at the big parks it would just be a letdown

Im the exact opposite of Jobe. I want it outta here, i dont want any of the GCs parks new for 2005 ride to be that piece of junk. But AW can have it since nobody cares about them.

Where do you click to see pictures of it, i cant find it on the page. Is it the blue one that goes on top of a barn and through a loop

hit edit, scroll down and there is a button to attach a file, it makes a window open and you click browse to find it in your computer. Im guessing it would be in My Documents. What does OC stand for, and im not talking about the show.

Yeah, just replace the word "rides" with "coasters" and you might be right.

I have heard from a friend who owns it that you can work out (and you actually do a bit of button bashing to make them exersise) you can also ride a bike.

Here you go, a pic of the superman accident.

If anyone wants to know when the accident happened, it was in October, Year 2, and now nobody wants to ride STE anymore, and SFMMs park rating dropped to something like 50, i know where to get some pics of the crash if you want.

Can you put them up? Hey also, there is a cool thing you can do with NL, (or any 3D game for that matter) What you do is get a pair of sunnies but only have them over one eye, and when you play the game dark light from the shaded eye is processed slower by the brain than the unshaded one, giving a sort of 3D effect, its not as good as say a real 3D movie, but it can make riding your coasters a little more interesting. If you have an old pair of sunnies that you can somehow not use anymore, you could just pop out one lens so you are not there holding the sunnies up to one eye, you can just wear them.

Yeah, it was, it went off the end and it landed near goliath, but the tower sort of fell backward and landed on the magnets, and when they tried to get the bits of the tower off the magnets they couldnt so they had to just remove the entire ride and rebuild it from scratch, eh joz?

If im doing a long post, i just type it in word, then cut and paste. The best part is you are not just sitting wasting time on the net.

That thing is the carriage that attatches to the train, and is pulled along by cables powered by a hydraulic motors to launch the train. Kingda Ka is not powered by Linear induction motors, they have been superseded by the hydraulic launch system. The only rides that really use LIMs are smaller scale shuttle coasters like the Intamin Impulsa and the ride trade Half Pipe coaster.

The are on the bordeline, but they are not a roller coaster as they are not sold as one.

My definition of a roller coaster is a ride used for amusment purposes that has a track or other sort of course (eg tobbogan trough) that fits the stereotype of a rollercoaster and is made by a rollercoaster manufacturer. There is no one definition that fits all, because not all coasters are gravity fed (like the Zamperla dragon) and coasters come in many forms. One thing i belive it must have is variations in the tracks angle on any axis, it does not have to have turns, but variations in the grade are important, so that rules out people trying to define a drop ride as a coaster.