Recent content by opivy028

I think you’re right that they’re barely noticed, and also I imagine they can be pretty egregious and not have any real impact on customer visits unless the parks cheapen overall experience. Again, thinking of sports, nearly every stadium in the professional leagues has a sponsor these days...

Seeing how so many parks and chains have pulled back on spending on big rides, I wouldn’t be surprised if selling naming rights became more and more commonplace in order to fund big coasters, not all that dissimilar from all the sports stadiums naming rights. Seems like something right up six...

Considering people are still riding the smiler without reservation, and a coaster like Mindbender stayed open for years after its accident and didn’t spell disaster for its park, Carowinds/Cedar Fair are completely fine. This isn’t a biggie at all. Not even an injury to report.

Yeah, 74 mph is what a lot of hyper coasters just over the 200ft drop mark make speed-wise, so that momentum should only take the train around halfway up the top hat

From a marketing perspective, 420 ft is amazing. Ohio is one of the next states likely to get recreational cannabis legalized 😎 TTD 2.0 - Get Real High, Real Fast TTD 2.0 - It’s Always 420 On This Ride TTD 2.0 - You’ve Never Been *This* High Before

Personally, a swing launch that massive and that speedy sounds like incredible fun

"I'm not going on Top Thrill Dragster 2.0. It isn't safe!”

I’m thinking like completely new ownership, but I don’t want to get too far into fantasyland lol. It’s just a shame because Colorado has such nice weather, is one of the fastest growing states, and has decent tourism already for the mountains and such, a real amusement park seems like it should...

They actually do much to this pile of popsicle sticks to warrant the name change? One of the wobbliest coaster structures I’ve ever seen and just a constant shuffle I had to ride extremely defensively. I honestly look forward to the day Elitch shuts down and they build condos or something else...

It’s almost baffling to me that they don’t have a true family coaster like firechaser express, seems like something so fitting for the park and their vibe. So I have my fingers crossed for something along those lines.

As long as they don’t use the cheap wood it should be fine

Great POV. Vekoma continues to kill it. The health of the roller coaster industry is really incredible at the moment. Honestly jealous of kids that grow up with this stuff as the norm and will get to experience more of the future than I will!

Ah ok that makes sense to me. On second thought the coaster isn’t large and GCIs age pretty well in my experience so maintenance/retracking wouldn’t be a huge need, at least not enough to need Titan track in place of typical retracking.

If you like Devo with a psychedelic-punk spin to it, this new Osees track is really worth a listen

That would be reasonable if they placed the Titan track in the corners/banked spots/snappier transitions, but watching the video it just appears to be two sections of the track, the lift through partway down the first drop plus the hill/turnaround around the lift. The highest stress spots...