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0 Rating Posted by: CoasterMac on 3/30/2003 4:17:00 PM

OW! i cant remember the last time i felt this kind of physical pain on a ride of this type! i wanted to ride it for at least three years, but it seemed that everytime (and there were at least 4 times) that i went to ride it, it was broken or closed for the day. so i never had the chance to ride it! in fact, the day i did get to ride it, (only once too), it broke like one ride after mine! the wait is long, the ride is pretty short, which i guess is something i did enjoy considering how much the ride hurts....right where it counts too if ya know what i mean. would not recomend it, id skip it and head to superman. is a good ride to watch waiting in line for superman though.

I know what you feel. I got hurt the first time on this too. the best thing to do is buch your but up a bit to give you some space thou dont do it two high they had to reset mine becouse the computer though it was too unsafe. need to turn doun th sesitivity and it will be a geat ride. soem better cushioning woudny hurt iether. overal a great ride.

i agree. it hurts. i also waited many years to ride it cuz it broke down. then it was open and i hated it. it looks good in the park but i wont be riding it again anytime soon.some amazing Gs tho.

I will b. my brother has wimped out of it so we spent or time ridign somthign else. I told him no mater what I am dragign him on to it this year. if they turned down the senetivity it would help.

Yeah, i think the cusioning could use a little softening up. i dont think ill be riding it in the near future either...like in the next 50 years. it is one of only three ride to ever almost get me sick, i acctually had to sit out of riding rides for almost an hour to recoup!

They need to get those space mats like you see on TV. thats the only thing I dont liek abotu huss rides. they are lacking in comfert. the ride dose look really good. But I still think I like th etraditional Enterprises better.

i woulfda prefered the traditional enterprise. it does hurt and coastermac it too was one of the few rides that made me sick. i went on it then i went on chaos. usually chaos wouldnt bother me but cuz i had felt sick from nightwing it made it worse. then i went on tomohawk. another whih never made me sick but cuz of nightwing, at the end of tomahawk i ran out the exit leaned over the pole and threw up. its not worht riding for me. plus it usually hads a line.

I know the line for this is really bad mostly because theri is a massive lack of rides in that area. I never got sick on it thow.acually I have never been sick in a park.

this is the only thing that got me sick. the area does need more rides. the only good thing on this ride is you get some amazing Gs. its always breakin down tho.

ouch..that sounds like a lethal combination of rides..at least in that order! I love those Enterprises too, and Chaos, iv been on three of those. this park, CP, and at Circus Circus in Vegas they have one. i have acctually never been sick in a theme park, but iv come close, and with this ride is the closes iv ever come to bein sick from a ride. does this ride appear in anyother parks? cause iv never heard of it anywhere else?

that was the only time io got sick. i believe it was in that order cuz it was b4 batman was built and i went on it after superman. it is a weird combo in that order since they are on opposite sides of the park.

yeah, i dont ever really start at one end of the park and work my way towards the other, i mean some people do that, but i just get on a ride, get off and say "hey id like to ride....whatever....next" so then i go to that ride. i dont usually use a plan, and i still get most of the rides in the park riden each time i go there!!

i dont usually plan but i do end up goin in an order. i think ill prob plan for SFGAdv tho cuz theres so many rides.

yeah, i mean i plan with parks iv never been to. first i get the map at the enterance then i look at the rides and figure out what i wanna do first and work my way around the park. but with SFNE, PKD, BGW, and other parks i am very familiar with i dont usually use a plan, especially if im with alot of other people.

i ususally kinda think of one but i never end up stickin to it. theres always a ride u see that wasnt on the plan that you wanna do or theres no line for so ur like what the hell ill do it.

The only plan I use is to ride superman a few times when they first open then egnore it the rest of the dy. I work my way to whatever ride i feel like rideing that day.

i usually hit scream first and last thing of the day and superman right after scream. other than that i have no pattern. i usually do work my way from the south end to the north end but thats not a plan.

I often scip scream. I dont think its worth the wait. I do some times hit it second.

i usually start with batman, then go to superman, then hit scream....adn repeat! lol no but really, i do do that!!! i mena i still hit the other ides, but thats usually how i start my day. after that there is no order, only chaos (no pun intended!)

lol. mrc really why do u hate scream. u gave it like a 2. and dont say they never run the combo cuz ive never been when they werent. great launch. fun drop and 200 ft is a good height. there is a long line durin the day but not at night.

Yes the last time i rode it it was at night. 45min. half way through the line they shut down the second tower. so not I was waiting for one. Laounched, first I set and bucled the seatbelt myself. they bitched at me for doign it myself and then shuved it into my stumich. the launch lame not that powerfull. that was just my last time. Im also comparign it to Starblaster and Dragons Descent. and I gave it a 3 not a 2. I will reride it and re evaluate it. thats how I always do it.

i have to agree with RAM on this one, y would anybody hate Scream?!!?!!! but everyones entitled to their opinions, doesnt mean their right though! i do have to say that the ride attendants on Scream do push those harnesses down pretty tight against ur stomach, but thats not a reason to hate the ride, just the attendants. plus, thats just one guy, i mean iv had badexperiences like that on rides before too, but the incompetence of a ride attendant shouldnt affect ur ride rating, unless u get that throughout the entire park all day!

IT was every thing. the bad waite, runing only 2 then 1 tower, the harness, the lack of power in the launch, the bad placment of the ride in the first place, the cheap loud compreser, etc. I just didnt feel liek they were giving ,me a great experiance. so I put the rating down. I will raise it if its better on the 19th but I cantpromis a 10 and it will never be.

i really think most of why u dont like it is the parks fauklt and im a believer that u should rate the ride, not the idiots that run it. buzzsaw is a fun ride but the ppl who run it always bitch at me. im not gonna take points off cuz of it. wheneve i go at night there is no wait. i get right on. i went on once it was just me and my cousin. its amazing. the less ppl on it the different the experience. the launch feels so much greater. i think the launch is fine but i dunno cuz ive only been on one other launched freefall which is dr dooms fearfall.

just for meI ahve spent my life going to Canobie, story land, Santas Village. parks with alot of Customer service. I have come to look at it as a majer part of the experiance. So I look at things deferantly. I promis I will reride it and rerate it opening day.

that makes sense, bigger theme park chains, like SF and paramount, are renowned for bad service. not all of the parks are that way, but that seems to be the general concensus amoutn enthusiasts. i mean i havent been there, but i can probably gaurantee u that Canobie is a friendlier park than SFNE. its common sense really, at least with what we do, right! so i see where ur comin from mrceagle when u say that park proformance, in terms of service, cleanliness, and friendliness, affects ur ride rating, for some people thats just true. not for me though, i rate the rides,and i rate the park, i see them as two different entities. i know that the rides wouldnt be there without the park and all that stuff, but still, i dont let park proformance affect my ride rating. so rate the rides as u see fit, i mean i like superman, but there are tons of better hypers in my opinion...some people wouldnt agree with me on that one though!!!

there prob are better hypers. i just watched a video of apollos and it looks amazing. same with magnum. i agree with coastermac. thee are two things i rate. the first is the ride and that depends on how good the ride is, not how well the park uses it. then theres the park ratng. thats where customer service comes in. the rides, food and customer service along with themein landscapina dna ll that go into park rating but just because some jackoff is running the ride is no reason to lower its rating.

Ram You should chack out Nitro and SFGAdv. really goot hyper. nat as big of a drop as SROS but its faster and a littel more intence. guys. I wouldnt include the parks in my revies if i could rate the park Clenlienes, landscapeing, food, staff freindlyness, etc. they I could seporate them but this is the only way t show SFNE is detracting formteh ride experiance with the park. but I always try to explain my reasons clearly.

ok. i still dont think you should take of for whose runnin it. what if i went and ran cyclone over at astroland and i cursed out all the customers. would that be a good reasopn to give it a 3? i think we should be able to rate parks as a whole on this site thatd be cool. btw, i am plannin on headin to GAdv this summer and im lookin forward to Nitro the most. i cant wait. it looks awesome tho if i had to choose one hyper to ride right now itd prob be apollos chariot. i also might ride desperado in LV (13 days!!!!) so well see how they compare to S:ROS

My bother rode AC and said it was a little better then SROS and Nitro. a good amount of air. Nitro is a wild ride abotu as much air as SROS but alot more Gs and some wicked turns. I will aster openign day on the 20th reevaluate all the rides. I will give every thing a fair chance and leave last year out of it.

AC looks long which is good but niether it or Nitro have SROSs drop which is a major thing for me in hypers. i think nitro is gonna take the #1 place. which did you like better.

thou Nitro is only 215 compared to SROSs 221, Nitro is 80mph faster then Supermans 77. B&M coaster run faster then Intamins.

im startin to learn the ompanies. this is what im learnin. Vekoma-bad, intamin-good, B&M- Great

Vekoma a half bad. their normal coaster are great. its the SLC that are realy ruff. the flashbacks are just over used. This are the big Companys. CCI great company but now dead, Arrow very overrated but set the standards, the list gos on and one.

well this is how i look at vekoma: boomerangs (god theyre everywhere im so sick of them", SLC (just sucks), Xflight (cool but the most retarded loading system). i dont know much about arrow except they made X. Whatd CCI make?

Bolder Dassh, Excalebur Funtown/splashtown USA ME, All of Big chifs coasters, hear just take a look: http://www.rcdb.com/installationresult.htm?coastername=&parkname=&type=&category=&contact=45&status=&state=&country=&column=1%2C10%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C3%2C4%2C5&order=1%2C2%2C8%2C7%2C6

Vekomas Cusom loopers are verry good, so are theri family inverteds(I hear)they have a new type caled cliffhanger, the track tilts the train 90 degrees bofor droping it through the track.

wow cci was good. all you needed to tell me was they built ghostrider an boss and i woulda known.i guess vekomas ok. i mean there are no bad companies cuz theyre bound to turn out some great rides but ive gathered B&M is the king of all copmpanies.

B&M really is the best. Zierer is the perfact family coaster company. RCCA, Coaster Works and GCI are up an dcoming in the wood coaster deparment.

Intamin is one of my favorites, but Arrow has the best classic 70s, 80s and earlier 90s loopers and corckscrews. B&M has the most inovative designs though, and i like the four across seating, more efficient for the parks, plus u can fit four friends all in the same row!!! I really need to get back to both SFGAdv and BGW. AC is still my favorite hyper, but when opening day for SFNE comes along ill re-evaluate some rides too, maybe even move SRoS up on my list! I really wanna get down to SFGAdv, Nitro looks totally awesome. Height isnt everything with hypers, i mean AC is just about as long as SRoS, but a few feet shorter, and the one that started it all, Magnum XL, that one is only 205! and i love Magnum more than the 300 ft. Millennium! but maybe thats just me (and the entire city of Cleveland!!)

Sometimes a ride can be smaller and pack a biger punch. Ive seen it before.

yea i think magnum look better than MF but i do tend to thiubnk a major part of a hyper is its drop so the higher the better. B&M just seems to make everything new and good. floorless, inverted, standup, steel looping. its great.

true. I really would lke tose Drachn fire rebuilt by B&M.

it did look like a good coaster but i like this floorless rumor ive been hearin about BGW

Its not inthe drachen fire site so hat suprised me. a floorless dose dound good. thow they really needa wood coaster. I hate seeing a park with no wood coastrs.

i admit a wood coaster would be better but the floorless idea sounds good to. maybe on of those mega loopers ive been hearin about except floorless. i know theres a thread about it but its 4 pages long and i dont wanna read all that. i thought it was partially on the drachen fire site.

I don;t thin it could be. the Drachon fire site is in the back on the German area. theri isnt any lands arounf it. so itwoul have to be well out of its way t get there

wait then wheres it sposed to be?

I have no idea. but I havnt herd of any coaster for the spot. a Wood is better do to it beign an open feild. put the floorles inthe tres aroung Irland for example.

you could build a wood coaster in the trees. think grizzly.

Because they gane weave th ecoaster in and out of itself and through ttunnels Il rather see the floorless in the trees. every floorless out their is built in a field of simerale seting. I thing it beign hidden in the trees would give it some distinktion.

well i think hiding any coaster is trees gives it distinction.

I agree but it would make it the only one.

that is true

pluse the wood can be addid to beter ina field. build up the coater the way youlike then pland the tres around it.

Thats true

They can acually use the trees they remove from the other spot and transplant them on the new site.

id want to see a lot of trees tho. like i said like grizzly or like the beast.

I dont thing they could add that many trees. but it woudl still be good no mater what.

i would like to c how BG does woodies, that would be interesting. of course it would have to have some type of woodland setting, i me this is Virginia were talkin bout here, even down that far soutn its gotta be a wooden biult into the trees, or at least its gotta have re-planted trees.

as for how BG does woodies, i hear gwazi is great. i would like to see it in the trees. you can fit a lot of trees in that area.

True. the bigist reasom i want to see Germany get is it they have a great steel. also they have plenty of mishology to back names. St George for example the slayer of dragons.

you want to see germany get the woodie or the B&M.

leave the B&M to Irland they need a coaster. Germany a trditional county shoudl get the wood.

since when is there an ireland. technically the only land woithout a coaster is england right.

i thought Loch ness was in....wow, loch ness is in Scotland isnt it?!!!! way to go Mac!!! i guess im a bit more tired than i thought! it would be great to get a woodie out in Germany though, but a woddie over a B&M!????? though choice really! ill take the woodie, they can fit the B&M somewhere else, so give it to England, they need somethin better than the Globe!!

yes it is scotland not ireland so england is the only land wihout a coaster. id take the woodie over the B&M cuz they dont have a woodie yet and they have 2 B&Ms. they can go without another steel for a little while.

Is their any roomin england. the theaters in the middle with shops along the out side. I dont know if their is any openings that hey can get access to a ride.

prob not out of banbury cross england but maybe in hastings. it could be dragon themed to fit the area.

Dragons were naver as big in england. they were more n Germany and Scotish miths. English just picked then up as tail s afte rthe fasct form minstrals.

yeha, that doesnt mean England couldnt get a good dragon themed ride does it!?!! that would go great with the setting in Hastings, plus they have some land back there to build on, there isnt any in banbary though.

i dont think so. where banbury was palced tehy are very limited for space. hastings would be the best shot for a coaster for England. i guess it coulod go with any medieval mith. merlin,dragons,knights

Stick with nights. keep the dragons in Germany. England woudl be beter of with a coaster themed to Robin hood, Edword the black prince, or somthign dealign with arther.

well they have a ride dealing with arthur. robin hood, hmm, sounds like a wood coaster, prob cuz there is a wood coaster called robin hood, dont know where it is tho.

yeah, that would be a good theme to put a wooden too.

Althou used alot Excalebur wouldnt make a bad coaster man their but a steel coaster that is Silver. with Juale incrusded cars.

see there are a lot of options for england./ a little off topic, does BGW have room to add another country?

Not in the form thay use. the easy walking cerculare set up dosne alow uch room for expantion.

id like to Spain added but yea i dont think they have room.

um... i dont think so, mrc is right about there not being room due to the set up of the park, but even if they did, why would Spain be a good addition?

It wouldnt all the land in the park are Europ and near by Irland. so every land it set aroung the same area. i dont thing they woudl design a a spanish atraction mostly because its archatectore is vary plan and ther are many park already usign the span theme.

i say spain cuz its a cool country. what other country would you choose for an addition. they can focus on bull fights. make a coaster. call it El Toro or somethin like that. it ios in that general area. FYI, Italy is not at all near ireland. the only one near ireland, which ireland isnt even a land in BGW so why u used that, is scotland and england. germany and france are not near it and are closer to spain. spains closer than italy to it.

The thing about BGW is that they focase on country with high architecter adn history. spain have verry littel. they have a few decent traditons but nothign worth them spendig time on. also you notice they are goig with countrys rarly sean in teh theme park idistry. almost every SF park have a spanish area. so if they are goign to expand go with an area more interesting.

yeah, BGW has done some great things with their themed areas, and the idea of Spain is both good and bad for its own reasons. the idea of focusing on Bull fights and a coaster like the one u mentioned makes it a good idea, but apparently Spain is overused?!!!?? um, ok, honestly give me a couple of park names with Spainish themed areas, cause im drwing a blank! i dont always pay attention to themeing, unless it is spectacular like BGW!! also, Spain is a bad plan because of fact that BGW uses countrys with history, culture, and exciting events. Spain has sort of plain architecture, and other than the running of the Bulls (which from what i hear isnt that exciting!) they dont have many customs or interesting culture. but maybe thats just my opinion!!

SFOG,SFOT,SFFT, SFSL, and many other SF. youl also notice Disney never put spain into the world showcase only mexico, htow they are consedering it.

also i think Universal meditteranean has a spain park but so what. the one at USM seems great. they have a lot of history. ferdinand and isabella, umm they were the ones to discover the new world with columbus plus all the conquistadores. they also have a massive celebration each year, bigger than any in the US but the name currently slips my mind. also, culture, umm don quixote de la mancha, one of the most famous books in history. like a lot of europe great wines. bullfights are cool. they have some interesting architecture in some places. i could see a spain addition. the other could be greece which by the way mrc is far away from ireland, why you even brough up ireland is beyond me. the problem is with greece youd want to focus on mythology which is the exact same as roman mythology so you might start gettin stuff to be the same. the 2 are very alike.

Bull fighting, they kill 80% of the bulls. they pardon verry few. of are you talkig aobutthe losly named Tomato festicval wer they waste millions of tomatos by throwing then at eachother in the streets. the bigist thing is their are many parks usign Spainish themed area. and BG strives to be deforent. yes Greese is a stretch but just another idea. I brought up Irland because its their newist land. they replaced the previase themed area with it. Spain is extreamly over done. not to mention they dont have any room at all for a new area. so theirs ot much to worry about.

so theres an ireland now. where? so what if bull fighting kills bulls, itrs still exciting and the matadore figure is known worldwide. make a coaster of it. like i said name it el toro or somethin. no im not talkin bout the tomato one. its a festival with hundreds of parades, floats, bonfires and fireworks.

Irland is the second area you get to if you head right out of england. It used to be Hastings England. this is what a site said is well known form spain: Renown for bullfights, olive oil, museums, wine, and the Costa del Sol.

most importantly BGW used to be cald the old Country. Gernmany Scotland, Irland, England, and France. the main countries that people came from to America. Spain isnt high on that list.

niether was italy. the irish were ridiculed and poor. so hastings is now ireland. well ok then.

A large portion of NY was ans still is Italian. the Italians mad up alot of the trads man in america. The Spainish didnverry little populatign the united states. they controled alot of island off of the US and they controled mexico. ownign california has nothign to do with being park of the countrys tht many americand can from that formed the origanal 13. and yes Irlnd replaced Hastings.

i dont remember hastings well. spain owned CA an FL and were a great world power during the time the park is set in. As for immigration, true they didnt immigrate much to America but so what. I htink if they ever did add a nother land it should be spain.

Well they dont hav eth eroom for one. and agoin its the old country from withc we came. spain isnt one of them. and their actually isnt a time period seting for this park.

mrc is right, Spain isnt one of the old counties, but italy most certainly is!! how many people immigrated here from Italy?!! NY, Boston, New Jersey, all of these half enormous populations of italian-Americans, in fact there are plenty in my school that are 100% italian!! so trust me, italy is on that list!

whats your definition of an old country? so they didnt migrate here, whats that have to do with it. if anything it would make it more worth it to put it in the park cuz we arent exposed to that culture very often.

In a coloniol tung the old country is lsang for where we came from.

im thinkin the old world, which includes spain. and BGW is set durin a time its just kinda vast but you dont see 20th century stuff in them. Spoain was a world power. like i said, colombus, conquistadores, revolutions, ferdinand and isabella... thers a lot of history there.

Im not sayign they dont have history. Im sayignthat BGW is themed aroudn somthign other then spain. and like I said erly spain is a very over used theme. and with Disney consederign addign it to the world showcase I woudl avoid it anyway.

so what land would you want. Norway maybe. go with vikings.

they dont have room for any new lands. so its pointless to kep depaiting. rides thow are more aproprate. they need at least one woodie and a floorless woudl be nice. somehting never seen that will kill SF Meduasa clones.

i know they dont have room i was just wonderin if they did what ud want since u shot down my idea. so far i think the superior floorless is kraken and hey busch made that so i think if they did make a floorless itd be amazing.

remember from befor Im god. but people stoped listn ing to me and started listnign to rock music. Know we know why SF parks are so popular.

LoL. how bout u just get really rich and buy out premiere. then you can transform all the parks.

If all gos as planed. and my brother and I can start our own park. we will buy out their smaller propertys, allthe ones they are neglecting. then work our way to some of theri smaller propertys. in time we will complitly take them over.

so what would be your first park to buy?

out or SF small parks Great Escape.

and the first thing youd do would be to...

Remove the waterpark!! lost of expantin space. instal a Mack water coaster to ake up for it.

youd need a lot of money to move that waterpark. i think the first thing id do would be to restore cyclones drop and remove the trim brakes

True on SFNE I woudl waite. but in Great Escape I woudl complitly remove the water park.

sry bout that i had SFNE in my mind i forgot we were discussin great escape. how big is their waterpark

probubly about 6 acres. resanable size. but they wave pool. this thign hase to be at least a 100,000 galon pool. it;s huge. that pool area is big enuf to hold a mager coaster and a number of rides by its self.

wow.so would you install a coaster there?

Like I said I woudl instal a waer coaster in te main waer park area. this would increase the ways to get wet in the park. I woudl fillin th ewave pool. this way I can instal a new coaster and a number of flat rides. hopfally have room for a traditional mid way. you now games adn things like that.

yeah, get rid of the water park, but replace it with a water ride. sounds good. hows the food there? and when u say games do u mean arcades or carnival games? or both!

The food is better then any SF park. you see their none brandign in the food more then anythign else. they already have an arcade bu ti migh tmore it over their. so yes carnival/chalenge games and an arcade. give the area an old park feall. With the Comet being right their I feel its apropiate.

if its not a SF park it probably does have good food! ok, so more of the carnival games than an arcade, or just expand on the arcade and put the carnival games in? i do love the feel of an old park, makes ya feel nostalgiac.

The arcade is in a hard side dome so the only way to extend the previace arcade is to remove the building.

i too like the feel of an old park

Well thts what I would want to do with it. I mean the story town are is good and the Westorn are is top notch. put the rest of the park is traditional. so I woudl stick to a traditional feel.

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