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I reckon that's mostly due to it having the same colour scheme and also being Egyptian themed....But this one looks like it has a lot more "In between" track like the helices and sharp turns rather than just being rapid fire inversions.

I think the B&M Invert going in at Parc Asterix trumps everything http://www.potionmagix.fr/forumix/gallery/image.php?image_id=10022 http://www.potionmagix.fr/forumix/gallery/image.php?image_id=10011 http://www.potionmagix.fr/forumix/gallery/image.php?image_id=10024 http://www.potionmagix.fr/forumix/gallery/image.php?image_id=9990

They might look odd in an African themed exhibit though.

Resizing them before uploading. If you grab an 8MP image or whatever straight off the camera it's going to be massive.

No History expert? You are aware sawmills existed in the Gold Rush era aren't you? It's "Near Enough" though...Rocky Hollow and Gold Rush basically run into each other. It's like, when you walk from one area to the next, its not like there are cues to say "Oh, I've gone from being in the Gold Rush era to a Logging Camp"...Not like say when you are at Islands of Adventure, and you Suddenly walk from being in Dr Seuss Landing to Lost Continent, and the music, theming etc is drastically different. The point is, at least its not going to look out of place by being Car Racing themed or something stupid like that.

So it goes that the one on top does all the work.

Ok, so basically I'm getting the impression its some water park foamer from Kingaroy, posting images from the Whitewater West website, oh, and they also plan on putting in an Intamin Accelerator in "Stage 1".

Can you give a link to the post?

Well, I've been back in the USA for a few weeks, and visited a few parks, some were revisits, a couple of new ones, and a couple of parks where I didn't bother taking any photos I wont be doing full trip reports since I did that last time, instead I'll just stick to the new stuff, starting with Cheetah Hunt at Busch Gardens. http://www.parkz.com.au/photos/US/Tampa/Busch_Gardens_Africa/1488-Cheetah_Hunt/page1.html I got a couple of rides, once in the front, once in the back. Front is better, because like Superman, thats the only way to get airtime off the top hat (well, whatever that figure 8 thing is that dominates the skyline) My first ride was a 30 minute wait, the second over 90 minutes due to one of Florida's afternoon summer thunderstorms coming through. So two trains get loaded at once, one train rolls foward straight into the launch without stopping. The 2nd one gets held behind and launches unexpectedly. But its more of a gentle push, and like Surfrider, it sounds like a washing machine motor. So you get enough speed to get around a wide turn, but it finally picks up when it tears down the launch and up into the top hat figure 8 thing. At the top it loses all speed and piss farts around doing the figure 8. You then drop down, get your photo taken, and get going again doing twists and turns over the savannah. Except its not that fast and its all pretty drawn out, so you kind of just go along casually in and out of trenches PS the theming budget ran out at this point, so no pretty trenches like on the first launch. Its all concrete, chainlink fences and metal retaining walling. No, they didnt even have the money to paint the concrete brown, or put army camouflage over the fences (or even make them timber fences) Ah well, better luck next time eh. You then do that barrel roll into the MCBR...You can just imagine how the design meeting went down over in Switzerland at Intamin HQ when they were nutting out that part... "I have eet! We vill send ze arrt line roll into ze brakes". Yay. So then it gets kind of cool when it drops down into the canyon where Rhino Rally goes through, plenty of quick transitions, sort of like a toned down Jet Rescue in a way. One final launch sends you over an airtime hill with a bit of kick, and from there its more causal twists and shallow elevation changes into the final brakes. So overall, it was "Good" and "Fun", but SheiKra is still the best thing there.

Why would people need sleep though It's only going till 3am right, and everyone is over 15?

Anything??? http://www.google.com.au/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=900&q=china+shipping&gbv=2&oq=china+shipping&aq=f&aqi=g6g-m1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=3353l6483l0l6892l14l13l0l0l0l0l338l2210l3.4.5.1l13l0

So with that concept art, did the get a photo of an American house and photoshop a saw on the roof???

When I hear the name Waterford I can't help but think of that sprawlsville suburb near Beenleigh. Also: - Pictura near Goulburn - Lindsay Fox's revival of Luna Park Melbourne

How do you mean? It's a unique roller coaster that people would enjoy riding anytime. It's not like Mammoth or Aqualoop or Kamikaze where you can shut down one half with no issue since people get the same experience on the other half. It's also good off peak since you stay dry. (This differs to something like Calypso Beach which is too cold for most in winter) it's a bit like saying "No point running the Claw at DW off peak since the park isn't at capacity".

I'm not in the country for this one, but at $20 people should be out there supporting this...could be a good tester for events like this down the track.

My favourite part of the video is the way that 'depressing' music they play at the end of the ride keeps looping while the train valleys, very fitting actually.

Leaked??? That logo has been in plain view on the DW homepage for around a week, since the moment the press release came out.

No, you did.

Doesn't work that way. If the train was at the point you describe, then that means its in the next block, so the next set of brakes grabs it.

Hmmm, where have I heard history linked with paranormal activity...Oh, I know, from Thorpe Park http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354393/Thorpe-Park-Storm-Surge-ride-Headless-monk-seen-workmen.html

Unless a press release explicitly states it's going to be a themed experience I don't think emotive descriptions are good enough to gague the quality of the final product.... That's if Shockwaves theming is anything to go by.

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Worth mentioning the VIP gold pass comes in a plastic pouch on a lanyard similar to what was described above. Anyone else see that there are VIP lanes at the WBMW turnsitles now too?

Why? Knotts sucked. Disney doesn't. All academic anyway....None of those companies would be doing a park here any time soon.

But if it's a busy day and the lines are long, you're still bored probably the same amount, except you're bored in between each ride during the wait, compared to a quiet day, where the boredom comes at the end.