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Two 16-seater trains is not good at a Disney park. For reference, when I worked at Magic Kingdom, our roller skater, with 2 trains and 16 seats each reached a maximum of around 730 pph, and that was with good crews pumping trains out and a short layout.

Literally, what you see is what you get. I thought there would be more dark show scenes in the mountain or even a second indoor coaster portion. Nope, just a glorified roller skater with terrible capacity. Disney at its finest.

That's the logic everyone thinks the park should follow, yet they are convinced that milking their guests dry will be better in the long run. What's sad is that people, no matter how bad the experience, are likely to come back for their yearly local theme park fix because they will tend to think...

The 1,500 pph figure was never achieved, as that was the targeted capacity running all 3 trains, which was done in its first season for a few days before it was deemed too costly. The problems with ops are so engrained within PA structure that I am afraid it would take more than Universal to...

Insane and Green Lantern. Can't think of two clones with more polarising ride experiences.

Yet Parc Asterix has Toutatis, with a very similar ride configuration to Pantheon, which regularly runs 3 trains. It depends on the willingness of the park to afford and extra train and how much they care about efficiency. To me, the deal-breaker in terms of efficiency with two trains will be...

Do we know anything about the layout besides length? Is this coaster going to have an inversion like the new generation family wing model?

This golden track has AMANDA THOMPSON written all over it. I bet she now is regretting not painting Icon's track this colour.

I mean, if they really wanted a second train, they could make it work. See the regular Vekoma Junior Skaters (small model): most parks purchase the version with just 1 train, yet big parks like Disney or Universal have the 2-train version, and it's an even shorter layout.

Well, I think that ship has already sailed... If TT2 works well, I could see Zamperla doing some work for KBF, either on Xcelerator or doing Montezooma from scratch.

I am pretty sure Lisebergbanan is not overshadowed by Helix. It has stood the test of time, and is universally loved by everyone. I would even go as far as to say that it is perhaps the best classic family coaster in the world: fast, long, not too intense or intimidating. The fact that despite...

I reckon both international Raptors are the ones for Walibi Holland. Didn't they say that they wanted two different layouts, one aimed at a family audience and another one for thrill-seekers?

The real tragic accident is having to pay 12.50 € for a ride on Olympia Looping. It's like a secret tax aimed at coaster nerds!

What do you mean several endings? I only saw a switch track after the drop track section, which I assumed it was because the ride has two drop tracks for operational purposes. The ride looks certainly spectacular, especially considering it's built in-house, but I expected more coaster and less...

For some reason, I find the yellow-black colour scheme really striking and appealing on Lost Gravity but I find it really ugly on this coaster. In fact, everything about this project is rather bland, from coaster layout to theming (?). Hopefully, better projects will be better additions.

When these awards are not so US-centric, then we will be able to take them seriously. There are tons of better rides, shows and parks that are not even mentioned.

Intamin being Intamin. However, ever since the pandemic, it seems that Sea World (and other parks) shamelessly push projects to the next season even though they have promoted them for the current one to boost pass sales.

To be fair, those Skywarp models were a lot more complex than your typical Larson Loop. Let's see how they do with a traditional coaster, and a small one at that. Fingers crossed they get it right this time, as they seem a company with great ideas that haven't had their big shot yet.

That's exactly the case. Right behind the spike there is Cataratas Salvajes, the park's shoot the chutes attraction, and to the left there is the Batman B&M. As the coaster is shoe-horned, the park and Intamin had to get creative and come up with that and actually integrated it into the...

Probably because their potential market was starting to get saturated and they felt that they needed to expand their portfolio. B&M can't survive on overhauls alone!