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Postby ttd rox on July 2nd, 2007, 8:26 am
I'm going there soon and I dont know what to ride. I know I' riding GASM, Kingda Ka, and El Toro. Is Medusa or "Chiller" rough? What else should I ride?
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Postby cowboy1192 on July 2nd, 2007, 8:38 am
Your asking if Medusa is rough? GASM is probably the roughest ride there and Medusa is (from what ive heard) extremely smooth.

GASM is exactly like our old Shockwave, and shockwave wasnt exactly the smoothest ride out there. Ive been on Superman Krypton and it is AMAZING, (its a B&M floorless).

My Advice? As soon as you get in the park ride Kingda Ka and El Toro before everthing because the lines get long.

Heres the main things you should ride

1. Kingda Ka
2. El Toro
3. Nitro
5. Medusa
6. The Chiller
7. Maybe GASM if you want a headache. :lol:
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Postby ttd rox on July 2nd, 2007, 9:42 am
cowboy1192 wrote:Your asking if Medusa is rough? GASM is probably the roughest ride there and Medusa is (from what ive heard) extremely smooth.

GASM is exactly like our old Shockwave, and shockwave wasnt exactly the smoothest ride out there. Ive been on Superman Krypton and it is AMAZING, (its a B&M floorless).

My Advice? As soon as you get in the park ride Kingda Ka and El Toro before everthing because the lines get long.

Heres the main things you should ride

1. Kingda Ka
2. El Toro
3. Nitro
5. Medusa
6. The Chiller
7. Maybe GASM if you want a headache. :lol:


I figured GASM is rough because it's the same as Shockwave but the reason I want to ride it is because I never got to ride Shockwave and I want to see what it is like. Does Kingda Ka give you that feeling in your stomache? I know TTD doesn't but I just didn't know. What rides do they take your picture on?
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Postby cowboy1192 on July 2nd, 2007, 12:02 pm
I wouldnt know becuase ive never been. I know for a fact that you can get your pic on Kingda Ka. Im assuming you can on Nitro and Medusa also.

I would think that Kingda Ka would give your stomache that "feeling". I mean, its 456 feet straight down twisting. :lol:
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Postby ttd rox on July 2nd, 2007, 1:09 pm
cowboy1192 wrote:I wouldnt know becuase ive never been. I know for a fact that you can get your pic on Kingda Ka. Im assuming you can on Nitro and Medusa also.

I would think that Kingda Ka would give your stomache that "feeling". I mean, its 456 feet straight down twisting. :lol:
But when I rode TTD I didn't get it at all.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 2nd, 2007, 3:58 pm
How bout just ride all the coasters? If a coaster is rough it doesn't mean its bad...

GASM is rough and its a hell of a lot better than V2.

And it suprises me that you like coasters so much but don't like airtime, the best part about of them.
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Postby BullInDaBack4Life on July 2nd, 2007, 4:10 pm
EagleFan344 wrote:How bout just ride all the coasters? If a coaster is rough it doesn't mean its bad....


Yes it does. Oh, so you LIKE pain? OK then, oddball.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 2nd, 2007, 4:17 pm
^No, I just don't whine about a little bump or two.

And have you even been on a really rough coaster? I thought you have only been to SFGAm, which does not contain any.
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Postby BullInDaBack4Life on July 2nd, 2007, 4:25 pm
EagleFan344 wrote:^No, I just don't whine about a little bump or two.

And have you even been on a really rough coaster? I thought you have only been to SFGAm, which does not contain any.


If I hate rides like Demon or Iron Wolf, both of which make me so banged up that I have to sit and recover for about 20 minutes afterwards, and they aren't the roughest rides out there, I can't imagine how bad I'd get hurt on a "really rough coaster". I don't go on coasters to get hurt. Sure, I've been on rides that give you a little blood rush to the head and a slight headache that goes away pretty quickly, Batman is a good example because it's so fast, but if you physically bang your head around, why in the world would you ride it? Sounds idiotic to me. :roll:

Oh and Demon and Wolf don't just give me "a little bump or two". More like a lot of bumps.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 2nd, 2007, 4:29 pm
BullInDaBack4Life wrote:
EagleFan344 wrote:^No, I just don't whine about a little bump or two.

And have you even been on a really rough coaster? I thought you have only been to SFGAm, which does not contain any.


If I hate rides like Demon or Iron Wolf, both of which make me so banged up that I have to sit and recover for about 20 minutes afterwards, and they aren't the roughest rides out there, I can't imagine how bad I'd get hurt on a "really rough coaster". I don't go on coasters to get hurt. Sure, I've been on rides that give you a little blood rush to the head and a slight headache that goes away pretty quickly, Batman is a good example because it's so fast, but if you physically bang your head around, why in the world would you ride it? Sounds idiotic to me. :roll:

Oh and Demon and Wolf don't just give me "a little bump or two". More like a lot of bumps.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't even think Demon is rough...I could ride that 50 times in a row.
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Postby BullInDaBack4Life on July 2nd, 2007, 4:32 pm
^I know what it is. Some coasters hate me. They don't hate you, so they're nice to you. Yeah, that's gotta be it. Why?
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Postby cowboy1192 on July 2nd, 2007, 6:02 pm
^Dude seriously how old are you? :lol: JK

BTW

Eaglefan is right, Demon and Iron wolf are not that rough compared to like Ninja at SFOG.
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Postby blueviola on July 2nd, 2007, 7:09 pm
Ninja was probably the worst 80 seconds of my life. Literally.
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Postby ttd rox on July 2nd, 2007, 8:08 pm
Is GASM worse than Iron Wolf and Demon? Also check out under games Ty's World to join my RCT2 contest.
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Postby FParker185 on July 2nd, 2007, 8:08 pm
that's odd, cause I find Ninja to be one of the better loopers out there. But it has to do with height, it's phyiscally inpossible for me to get headbanging on Arrow's and Vekomas cause I have a tall body and that puts my head well above the restraint.

For SFGAdv I'd say ride every coaster once and run like hell.

Medusa is smooth but forceless, and Chiller has lapbars only, so roughness is a non issue.

All flats that were any good were removed, so there isnt that much to do outside of coasters, get there at open and one and done every ride.
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Postby ttd rox on July 2nd, 2007, 8:12 pm
I'm going to ride GASM because It's like ShockWave. Too bad Shockwave took the long chain lift to the sky. :( :cry:
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Postby BullInDaBack4Life on July 2nd, 2007, 10:25 pm
What they should do is have vice like restraints, where once you are in, you can push a button to mechanically pull in the restraints closer to your head until they are resting right on your ears and then you let go and can even reverse them if you make them too tight. That way, your head can't even move around and thus has no room to end up banging into the restraints. I know you're gonna say that sounds both retarded and expensive, but you know if GAm had more money, they could afford such a thing. If I were an inventor, I would invent that.

Or my second choice would be pillows. Lots and lots of pillows.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 3rd, 2007, 1:11 am
ttd rox wrote:Is GASM worse than Iron Wolf and Demon? Also check out under games Ty's World to join my RCT2 contest.

Iron Wolf > GASM > Demon

BullInDaBack4Life wrote:What they should do is have vice like restraints, where once you are in, you can push a button to mechanically pull in the restraints closer to your head until they are resting right on your ears and then you let go and can even reverse them if you make them too tight. That way, your head can't even move around and thus has no room to end up banging into the restraints. I know you're gonna say that sounds both retarded and expensive, but you know if GAm had more money, they could afford such a thing. If I were an inventor, I would invent that.

Or my second choice would be pillows. Lots and lots of pillows.

A good idea would be to have lowerable restraints to rest on the riders shoulders. Arrow OTSRs rest on my shoulders so I have no problems with headbanging. But even when I was not that tall, I still enjoyed rides like Demon and Shockwave.
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Postby cowboy1192 on July 3rd, 2007, 10:45 am
I think the lapbars on LIM's would be nice on arrow loopers. They arent as bulky or uncomfortable, and for short people it wont hurt.
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Postby BullInDaBack4Life on July 3rd, 2007, 3:51 pm
EagleFan344 wrote:A good idea would be to have lowerable restraints to rest on the riders shoulders. Arrow OTSRs rest on my shoulders so I have no problems with headbanging. But even when I was not that tall, I still enjoyed rides like Demon and Shockwave.


That is a good idea. I'm only 5'8", so the restraints go up to my head. I so wish that they had that because then I would enjoy Iron Wolf.
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Postby ttd rox on July 5th, 2007, 3:17 pm
Yeah because I always bang my head really hard on Demon and Wolf.
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