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Read where? I feel like I've followed this pretty closely, and I've not heard any such bad news.

Schilke designs elements with wooden tracks that aren't even done with steel coasters. He also a spectacular engineer in general. I was at SFNE a few weeks ago. I hit Wicked Cyclone early and got amazing floater air in the three inversions. Their B&M did not give a sensation like that. I've...

I really liked the inversions on Wicked Cyclone, and they seemed to be a big part of the ride. I can certainly see airtime as the main point of an RMC, though. For instance, I'm super excited for Lightning Rod and do not expect to miss the inversions one bit if the air is as good as it looks...

Same layout in the same location: I say no. I will count clones and relocations, though.

Diamondback Millennium Force El Toro Skyrush Nitro That's my top 5, but Nitro and Diamondback aren't all that different, so I'd replace it with something quite different from the others. It has to go upside down, and riding below the track makes a lot of sense to contrast the other four. So I...

I can't think of a year as good as what we're getting in 2016. I've been pumped about Lightning Rod since it was announced. Storm Runner also looks fantastic. I've not followed the Joker conversion much, but RMC should be assumed excellent until it is shown otherwise. If Mako hauls through...

The harness has a buckle, but no belt went across my lap when I rode last summer. Skyrush probably isn't the coaster on which harnesses should modeled, though. I can't see how it's much different from the Helix or Lost Gravity harnesses, and I didn't find the restraints on Skyrush to be too...

Part of it could be that the wide dive coaster trains kind of look like wings on an airplane. That didn't occur to me until this video.

I'm reminded of an Axe commercial quote. "There is a problem in the world: roller coasters are getting better. Look at what's opening up this season: Lightning Rod, Mako, Taron, Flying Aces, Valravn, Storm Chaser, a couple of rides named Joker, and Lost Gravity quickly come to mind. After...

When I was young, I noticed that when coasters inverted, they had OTSRs, and when they didn't invert, it was just a lap bar. Since then, whenever I've encountered a coaster the inverts without OTSR, I've considered it bush league. At least in the 90s, B&M was the king of inverting coasters...

The hills right before and right after the turnaround look like they're taken quite a bit faster than B&Ms usually go over hills. Might there be some ejector air?

Some coasters have great names. Lake Compounce must have been proud when they thought up Boulder Dash. That's such a terrific pun. Nitro is also a great name. It makes a bit more sense for a launched coaster, but using kind of a slang science term for a known explosive is awesome for a huge...

1. Maverick 2. Fahrenheit I was in the very front on both and didn't notice anything unusual beyond regular steepness. Do you get crazy air in the back?

Mako is to open June 10. I've not made plans to go to Orlando, but if I do, it will be after the 10th. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/a ... story.html

I like what Hyde said about escaping digital screens, but I also think that VR could be a lot of fun on a coaster. The point of the wing style is that there's nothing above or below you in order to simulate flight. With VR, you can get this without the engineering challenges of a wing train...

I combine them, though I haven't ridden many good wood coasters. I rode a lot when I was younger, but I'm not going to guess what I thought of a coaster I rode when I was 9. I do what Hyde does, though, but to an even greater extent. I can rank in other categories. Banshee isn't my favorite...

Air, speed, drops, and comfort. Air: I like floater and ejector, though my ranking goes sustained ejector, sustained floater, pop of ejector (though this is nice for some color, like El Toro's Rolling Thunder Hill), and pop of floater. Speed: I think it's the wind in my face. It's also fun to...

I've not gotten night rides on a number of my favorite coasters. I've tried to hit parks in early May before the kids get out of school, and I wasn't able to get night rides on Banshee, MF, GateKeeper, Diamondback, or Beast (supposed to be great at night, but I didn't think much of it in the...

Hopkins, you list Manta as your favorite coaster. I don't live all that far by car from Lake Compounce, so I think I'll have to hit up Boulder Dash this summer.

BOWL ih ger MAB ih yard My pronunciation of Mabillard makes no sense. They're Swiss, yet I'm getting the Y sound from how LL is pronounced in Spanish! The correct way to say it is however they pronounce their names, which, in their native French, is probably quite difficult for speakers of...