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I also dislike the clamshells. Give me something similar to Mack Mega Coaster or Taron style lapbar and I'd be much happier.

I did think it was a date at first but surely A) it would be too early for something in October and B) it's in the American date format. Assuming that account is real (I can't prove either way) then I would expect some more numbers soon. Still, good to see something (maybe) official about F.L.Y...

I'm not sure how 'official' the Twitter account is but a Vekoma twitter account just published this tweet: Looks like they looked at Project Zero and decided to add the numbers '10 2 4' at the bottom for funsies.

When I was there a few weeks ago they had someone permanently near the main drop to push the boats out that beached themselves. That was when it was open of course, seemed to be broken more than open. Oh Intamin.

Generally only B&M lift hills, and possibly some modern GCI woodies. You can see it on SWARM on a good day. The train will depart the station, slow down around half way up until the train on circuit enters the station. It can stop the train on the lift hill too if needed. I'm not aware of any...

That assumes that the lift hill can act like a block brake (like most B&Ms), I was under the impression that RMC coasters didn't have that feature. Either way it'll still have a low throughput but hopefully the operations will be good to minimize the queue.

So assuming a train is dispatched every 90 seconds (~75 seconds ride time according to a POV on YouTube + 15 seconds before they dispatch the train) that makes 40 dispatches an hour. 8 riders per train means a throughput of 320 riders per hour. I have made some assumptions here (that the lift...

Currently praying for some soft openings on the 17th and 18th May. Anyone else planning to be at the Pleasure Beach those days?

Ugh, yeah. Not feeling it. What was wrong with the rocks/pebbles they were using in other areas?

I don't know if it counts (as I can't remember the height restriction) but for me it would probably be The Scenic Railway at Dreamland. Well, that or The Vampire at Chessington

I've been on three so far: Air/Galactica, Manta and Flying Dinosaur. Galactica is good, Manta is great and Flying Dinosaur is off the scale. The Flying Dinosaur is so intense, so well paced, so fast, so beautiful and so downright amazing I would go back to Japan for that thing alone. If F.L.Y...

I respectfully disagree. In any situation where 2 trains are in the same block is a scary situation. It should never happen. Ever. It's the single biggest (non-structural) failing you can have on a roller coaster. The fact that Cedar Point have reopened it so quickly, without a full report and...

It depends on what caused the issues really. If it was as simple as a failure of the breaks (say a broken breaking fin) then I can understand why. If it's an issue/glitch with the control software then they really shouldn't be opening it. If they don't know they they really shouldn't be opening...

Sounds nasty. Hope no one was badly hurt. I'm guessing it'll be down for a while as I'm sure RMC, Ceder Fair and possibly the local government will want to investigate.

The main support for the Immelmann is so damn ugly (and I'm not just talking about the colour scheme). Still, it should provide some nice head chopper moments at least.

Looking at the way the back of the train gets whipped over the top of the first airtime time I'm expecting some very decent airtime! I know I'll be heading towards the back of the train when I finally ride it.

After 4 or 5 rides on Manta at Seaworld I had some pretty bruises to show for it. Unless the OTSR is very badly designed then it's just a fact of high G coasters that you're going to feel it after a few re-rides. Especially noticeable if you're tall (I'm 1.93m, look at my profile picture to see...

I saw that post too. It seems so weird to add them what, 4 years after it opened? Mack have a solution if a ride requires seatbelts, it's the same type as the B&M ones where it connects the bottom of the restraight to the top of the seat. DC Rivals required it to to Australian law. It even...

It's true, a B&M Hyper Coaster is expensive but Merlin have a good relationship with B&M, it's entirely possible they'll do a deal to buy 2 or 3 B&Ms in the next few years which should bring the cost down. It also helps that a Merlin have a lot of things in house which other parks would need to...

That helix looks insane! SWARM packs a punch during it's low to the ground curve but this looks like it'll be even faster. So excited to ride this Blue Beast.