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    Cedar Point | Siren's Curse | Vekoma Tilt Coaster | 2025

    Yeah, it certainly seems that way from the outside looking in. CP's normal MO would be to let a few smaller versions of these get built at other parks, then swoop in several years down the line with a giant custom record-breaking mama-jama. Not that I'm unhappy about it or anything; it just...
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    Cedar Point | Siren's Curse | Vekoma Tilt Coaster | 2025

    What a pleasant surprise! Kinda odd being literally in the shadow of similar-concept Valravn, but whatever, this looks more fun!
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    2024 Golden Ticket Awards

    Looking strictly at the GTA's top 25 wood and steel coaster lists, the 50 winners regionally break down like this: North America - 38 Europe - 12 Rest of the planet - 0 So, perhaps a touch more than just the most token of considerations given towards Europe, but yes, the "North America" is...
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    Indiana Beach I All American Triple Loop | Quimera (Dreier Looper) relocation | 2024

    How does any roller coaster get a permit to operate without anti-rollbacks on the lift hill? I'm no ride inspector, but that seems like one of the very first boxes you'd wanna check off.
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    ^ right. It could always be worse. But 5 coaster-less years in a row is a really long time for SFGAm. Next year will be the park's 49th season, and if WoR actually opens on time, it'll be the 24th coaster ever built at the park, for an overall average of 1 coaster every 2 years. SFGAm might...
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    I just realized that this new coaster will finally break the longest coaster drought in the park's history. The last coaster to be built at SFGAm was Maxx Force back in 2019, which means that if WoR does in fact open next year (ya never know with SF), that would make it 5 full seasons without a...
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    I can dig it. Looks like a ton of fun, and a very complete layout for a dive coaster. And it puts SFGAm into the 5 B&M club (along with SFGAdv & SWO). And best of all, Demon stays!!!
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    ^ yeah, Marcus Leshock's 172' D7 dive is a very solid guess.
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    A demon-themed dive coaster with a 75 meter drop to take the record from Yukon striker by 1 foot?
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    "it lieS thRougH the demonS eyeS" SRHSS last message we had: SSA Hmmmmm...................
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    Six Flags Great America | Wrath of Rakshasa | B&M Dive Coaster | 2025

    Maybe the new ride will be ass backwards?
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    Formula Rossa SBNO

    PR's big 228' drop is actually its second drop. The first drop of 160' leads into a hill that's maybe 120' tall (just guessing here) followed by the epic 228' dive down into the ravine, for a total elevation delta of ~270'. Being that the train carries some speed from the first drop up and...
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    Six Flags / Cedar Fair Merger Announced

    From my (limited) anecdotal experiences, I think there is likely some truth to that. But that's not evidence or anything, just a general and subjective impression. And at the risk of driving the car right over the edge of off-topic cliff, here's my favorite personal story of a Brit not...
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    Six Flags / Cedar Fair Merger Announced

    CP and KI are still a fair distance from each other, with their own separate major metropolitan area "anchor markets" (Cleveland and Detroit for CP, Cincy and Dayton for KI). As the map I posted shows, the true overlap markets are LA (SFMM & KBF) the bay area (SFDK & CGA), DC (SFA & KD), and...
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    Six Flags / Cedar Fair Merger Announced

    Well yeah, both six flags and cedar Fair have historically veered much more in the "thrills over themes" direction of the industry. The other parks you mention are considerably more balanced. Still, the sheer number of parks, should this merger be ok'd, is pretty startling to me.
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    Six Flags / Cedar Fair Merger Announced

    This looks like it might really happen this time. Wow! Here's a map of north america from coast to coaster showing every park with at least 2 "extreme" level coasters (this seems like a decent enough proxy for a "roller coaster park"). The red tags are the current 26 combined "Cedar Flags"...
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    Accident at Gröna Lund - Jetline permanently closed update page 6

    ^ yeah, even though I never got to ride Jetline, it's always sad to see another Schwarzkopf go to coaster heaven, especially a highly-regarded custom one. And not too long after recently losing WEM's Mindbender a little while ago. My count may be off, but I think that takes us down to only 11...
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    Niagara Amusement Park to get Cascabel from La Feria

    Interesting. A bit of musical amusement parks with this one lately. I just hope it gets refurbed and rebuilt somewhere, someday.
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    Has Pipeline: The Surf Coaster solved the standup coaster's problems?

    I haven't given Pipeline a spin yet, so I can't speak to whether I think it has "solved" anything or not, but regardless of that, the real evidence of the success/failure for this next-gen stand-up concept will be found in whether or not other parks take the substantial investment plunge to...
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