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Amen. People get ticked when I say this, but your wandering mind and Mine are on the same page. Comet LOSING their old trains this season in favor of New style ptc trains has practically killed the experience for me, I'm just assuming that means it would kill Phoenix too.

They're clones to me. Lol Steel Force and Mamba are identical and Wild Thing only has a shorter brake run/turn around. Same thing with Batman the ride clones, to they're still considered clones even though they aren't indentical in specs either. I've ridden Raging Bull a dozen times, not just 1 isolated disappointing ride, but in fairness, I've only got the back twice due to assigned seating.

I had 2 awful rides on back to back days in July 2023. Supposedly, the trims were "off" then too. Steel Force is the by far, the least trimmed of the 3. I'd prefer if all 3 parks operated theirs like Dorney does.

@@PRC2019 …Weird. I wonder what gives? Everyone made a huge deal of it when they were turned off and this is the first time I’ve ever heard anything to the contrary

@@TheSirenSeeker Maybe calling them awful rides isn't a fair statement on my part, but NOTICABLY weaker and slower all through the second half. Ive hear the trim used to hit even worse in previous years. I think region by region, everyone kinda has what they're used to. IE: if you took someone from KC and put them on Steel Force for the first time, I think they'd be shocked at how fast the second half is.

@@PRC2019 Indeed, it used to just about grind to a halt. I did a quick RUclips search and found a POV from August of ‘23 in which they’re, indeed, all but off, so I have to wonder what the hell was going on with it in July. Super weird. ruclips.net/video/AckbPTU9uiM/видео.htmlsi=9hzYlI0Q7xMUtF81

I love one trick Ponies! But only when I'm expecting it to only have 1 trick. Lol

@PRC2019 That is fair.

I was NOT expecting to see this in the comment section! Is it better than Time Traveler?

@@PRC2019 Haven't done time traveler yet. Do you think time traveler is elite? In ride to happiness defence the day I rode was cold, maybe that was the poblem, it was not fast, the launch was week and it had a strong raddle especially in the back, rode it like 15 times (the park was empty) and it was the same all day.

This and over Texas are interesting cases. Both have private money involved with minority ownership, and I'm not certain of either sides exit clauses... especially after the merger. But in theory, I do agree with your premise.

That's probably what I'd like the best too, but pretty doubtful that it would be coming next.

Thanks for the kind words. Trust me, there are a lot of people like us that truly WANT to love Disney, they're just making it borderline impossible to do so.

Thanks so much!

It almost sounds like the mic from my camera instead of my blu mic.

I hope not! But if this round of fixes fails, then it could definitely be on its way out, but think positive!

Well, considering that the UK is roughly the same size as Oregon, you can't be that bummed! We still have 49 more states after Oregon lol, comparing the US to Europe would be more comparable.

I hope not, the ride is so unique, my preference is that it gets fixed once and for all!

It's definitely not as bad as most "thoosies" make it out to be!

I don't think they'll completely remove kiddie land, but honestly with idlewilde so close, they probably could.

It's not the best SF Park, but it's surely one of my favorites!

Kings Island is pretty awesome, no arguments there!

I'm not rating the parks, I'm predicting where capital is going to be flowing for the next decade. And which parks could get cut. I love Carowinds and Knott's, but they simply do not get the same investment levels as a cedar point or Kings Island level park... YET. But it's coming.

Additionally, SF Mexico has quite literally zero competition. I can assure you, they will not receive investments at the same level and pace as a top tier park. Not even close. Also frontier City is owned by EPR properties, as I stated in the video. Nothing to sell. They don't own it. They just operate it under a lease.

They did some reimagining, but besides new trains for mind eraser and a couple flat rides, but nothing MAJOR. If I were trying to extract value out of something I owned, I would polish it up to the best of my ability without making any MAJOR investments. Just a little bit of lipstick on the pig. Although I hope they keep both, I see a 30% chance of SFA being dealt.

I would agree that in the future, IF the Charlotte area's growth continues, this park will move to Top Tier by the 2030's. If this happens (Which is likely) then I could see SFOG moving down a tier simultaneously. But I think your overall premise is spot on, just gonna take a little more sustained regional growth before we see it.

You could end up being right on Michigan's Adventure, but I have additional reasons to believe this park is on it's way out in the next few years. I meet a lot of park employees as I travel. The fascinating conversations that I have with people help guide my content and some opinions. I believe there is smoke here, but I will also acknowledge that I'm speculating on who is actually going to purchase it. But considering that my prediction happened prior to these conversations, I really believe there is a 60% chance that by 2028 Michigan's Adventure will be hosting Phantom Fright Nights in October. lol

@PRC2019 It won't be Palace if anyone. They're hemorrhaging money as is. I know they lost a shit ton on Lake Compounce last year alone...and the whole Steel Curtain debacle at Kennywood...which I've heard from several people is more Palace's faul than S&S fault

Not sure I would trust those sources anymore lol. Parques is an incredibly successful operator. Lake Compounce is doing great, park looks amazing, and wildcats retrack will finally gets completed in the off-season, but what they've done so far rides very well. Huge improvement. Kennywood felt confident enough to file a lawsuit against S&S, and miraculously S&S is all of a sudden helping fix the ride. (I hear S&S is also partially on the hook for the 3rd party engineer too) So, yeah. Very likely that Parques looks to expand its US footprint. Maybe not Mich Adv, but again, I'm going out on a limb and feel pretty confident, but we shall see. I can safely say that being sold to Parques would be the best thing for the park's long term success, because right now, The New Six Flags has no incentive to improve the ride lineup of a park that already prints them money. (I but I'm not sure it's going to make the cut) So let's hope that I'm right! I want a healthy shivering timbers and wolverine wildcat for decades to come!

@PRC2019 I worked at LC last year for fun. GCI was PISSED cuz the park was letting one of their trains on Wildcat literally rot underneath the ride and more or less forced them to refurb the train. The train they are running now(the one with leopard spots) is that refurbed train. They noticed that on their own while doing work on Boulder Dash. They took out the Bumper Cars for "cost" Old rides manager told me that flume is probably next on the chopping block.

@@Posirep well it seems they're hopefully starting to right some wrongs from past seasons. Other than that, how did you like your experience working there?

and Carowinds still runs like the worst park in the chain. Easily the worst run park of any park I went to all of last year.

@@Posirep we had a decent time down there in April for a weekend.

Darien Lake isn't owned by six flags, as I had mentioned, it is an epr property. So a lot has to do with EPR's willingness to maintain the park per the new companies standards (which will be much more cedar fair than six flags)

Thanks for the kind words! We really appreciate you joining the community! Please see my above comment regarding SFA, but in terms of SFM, they don't need to go crazy and give it Cedar Point or even Kings Island's level of investment because they have ZERO competition. SFM is essentially Lagoon. No real major parks within HOURS. Corporate will search for which properties will give the best ROI.

They said they want to keep all parks because they already calculated if selling parks was worth it and they didn’t see any other park other than the Northern California park they are already selling but they want to keep them all because they need all the money they can get selling a park or multiple will bring in a lot in the front en but lessen the amount for the rest of the other years don’t think any will get closed for the next 10 years to be completely honest how they have been talking about it at least in earnings calls and info about it they realize to investors

It's called "placating" to your investors. I love their optimism, I'm just not certain they're being practical (or honest, to be frank). Parks will be sold within 5 yrs. No doubts. At some point, they become a stronger company and a stronger borrower by limiting their exposure to liability via lease agreements. I can see them acquiring Darien Lake from EPR.

Kinda wondering about that one and Knott's both! He's pretty good about replying though, so hopefully we'll see 🙈🙉

You're right. And as soon as they moved corporate off the peninsula in Sandusky, Cedar Point has been going downhill. I'm there a lot. Some would say too much, but screw em. 😂 I've seen it happening just like I said it would.

I think Carowinds will definitely be in the top tier, Knotts will probably stay in mid tier due to the lack of space to expand. Since California’s Great America is a mid tier park and will be gone soon, I could see Kings Dominion becoming a top tier park because they have tons of space to expand and have to keep up with Busch Gardens Williamsburg

@@Operager yeah I completely agree about Knotts, it always seemed like they wanted to do a lot with it but they just couldn't. I think with Kings Dominion, where they land in the tierlist kinda depends on how this upcoming coaster does

@namevone, Just the sense that I get. They're waiting to see more sustained growth from the Charlotte metro before bumping it up a bit in priority. But we are literally right on the cusp of Carowinds transforming into a top tier in front of our eyes, which should be cool. By 2030, I think it will be lumped with kings island and kings Dominion...just like it used to be! Lol

I could be wrong, but the way I understand that agreement, it could be extended. Hopefully not, though. Far more beneficial for the parks growth to have LESS chiefs and more indians.

I haven’t considered any other rollercoaster for the next coaster in that park than RMC. You showed Copperhead and I was like……nooooooooooo. RMC👏🏼 please a RMC. I wud cry my eyes out if it was CHS. Lol

Why the hate for chs? Lol We will be at Kings Island tomorrow! Can't wait!

Give the son of the beast the rmc treatment to resurrect it! It’s too bad RMC wasn’t around when it closed down

@@patrickn8355 RMC was established in 2001. They hired Allen Schilke in 2009. SOB was demolished in 2012. New Texas Giant at Six Flags over Texas was reopened from RMC treatment in 2011. So RMC was actually around and rmcing coasters when SOB was demolished. Which is crazy to think…….it cud have been done. 🤔

I have ZERO China coaster knowledge. That one was not intentional actually lol The Superman was baited though, it's a bad question. Raptor is still the correct answer. 4 Superman--- 2 total with 2759 ft and 2 total with 2798 ft. Whereas both clones of raptor are indentical with a total of 3 (including the original)

I went ahead and adjusted the answers to make it more fair.

@@PRC2019 There's only 2 raptors too though, the original and the one from Expoland that was relocated to France. That one is both taller and longer than Raptor and because it only runs 2 trains, there are no brakes in the straight track of what would be Raptor's mcbr. Those are as much clones as the 2 mantas, or the 2 sheikras or the 2 griffons or the 2 medusas. There are 2 identical family inverts at 2 different Happy Valley parks in China and BGT is getting a slightly larger clone of it. There are also 2 pairs of identical wing coasters, the 2 hot go models and a different pair at 2 different Happy Valley parks as well. I say the with all that- the supermans have it.

Thanks, Justin! I appreciate the feedback! I try to use the comments and viewership to help dictate what kind of videos to spend my time producing, so this is very helpful when folks comment! Especially for a relatively new channel.

@@PRC2019ofc! I found your channel a few months ago and you’re on my Mount Rushmore of coaster tubers! Im hoping to start my own coaster channel later this summer so if you have any advice it would be really appreciated!

I think you make some valid points, but in fairness, I WAS giving CP enormous credit for the coaster lineup. As does everyone else, which is why lines consistently exceed 1-2 hours on MANY of the coasters. Considering that we both agree that we go to the parks to RIDE, I take line length heavily into consideration as well. However, I visited KD last Saturday for the 4th time this season and haven't waited more than 30 minutes for ANY coaster in each of those 4 visits. Additionally, the Kings Parks and Dorney have a more friendly layout to navigate without having to walk the entire length of the peninsula. I really appreciate your feedback and value the opinions of the people that watch the videos. Can't wait for some more engagement in the future, hopefully I gave you a little snap shot into my (at times) unconventional way of viewing things. I really try my best to place effort into judging by sound and fair criteria.

@PRC2019 ya I agree , the wait times are really long at cp. I forget about that because I usually just get fastlane ,but that's a huge extra exspence that you don't need at other parks. What was your opinion of renegade? You talked about prowler. I am just curious where you would rank renegade among other gci coasters?

@@kellyoman2196 I was impressed. Has caught a bit of flak for starting to get a little rough, but I found it to be pretty perfect in that sense. Overall I was impressed, Was a big fan of the drop and layout. It will be making it's debut in the top 100 list at the end of the year, for sure. How high remains to be determined, though.

Dan, Skyrush got even better with the new restraints. A perfect car crash on rails. 😂

Thank you for watching!

I absolutely respect that opinion. I will tell you, though, it's hard to beat Hershey in this category when they own 2 spots in my top 10.

I’m sorry but Millie doesn’t come close to beating skyrush but everything else you said yeah

Cedar Points doesn’t offer a 3 piece and a soda. They encourage the six piece with unlimited refills!

Thanks so much for the support and kind words! Anything particular you'd like to see?

What does a giga have to do with anything?

I don't think the statement is ridiculous if you're acknowledging it's your 3rd favorite park 😂 BUT I get your point. Fyi, CP is closer to my house than Hershey, so no favoritism at all, just being honest. IMO Wildcat and Sky rush are better than maverick and vengeance. It's close, but I give the edge to the two rides with better operations. When the quality is so close, I look to tie breakers. Just my preference. I will concede that TT2 and Millie have a SLIGHT edge on storm runner and candy, but not as much as people make it seem. I LOVE the feedback and commentary though. And THANK YOU for giving me a great topic..."Do you need a giga to compete with the CP's of the world" and also, "what does Hershey need next to topple CP" Thoughts?

Exactly why people hate them, the old ones had that great open feeling, and weren’t as restricting

Not a rollercoaster ranking, but KI not being #1 might be controversial, but I think I validated those reasons. Cannot emphasize enough that I've been to these parks all this season (except Wonderland and cga) I'm only ranking this year's overall park experience. CP is having a nightmarish season... All of these issues might not be the parks fault, but it's certainly not the paying guests fault. If for nothing else, it's an encouragement for people to travel and judge for themselves.

This place grows on me a little more after each visit!

So...funny story... I'm not permitted to grace Canadian soil, per the Trudeau administration. Lol So until my media waiver is evaluated and approved, this remains a US focused channel. If I print you a "Let him ride!" T shirt with our logo, will you take a picture wearing it at Parliament?

If this was a rollercoaster ranking, we both know Cedar Point is at the top of the chain, but not the case in terms of nearly everything else that affects your experience. CP gets plenty of praise for their ride lineup, this list focuses on the parks that do all of the little things better than everyone else in addition to their ride lineup. I stand behind my evaluation for the 2024 season. (CP doesn't get bonus points for the glory days 😂)

The climb to 500 has permeated significant fundamental changes in my life. The journey isn't JUST about the coasters, if you catch my drift! Love planning the next spot to climb closer to 600! Thanks for watching!

The low and mid tier parks are all worth visiting...even worlds of fun lol

Thanks so much!

I'm supposed to be there this fall, so I'll finally get to experience the park first hand!

Right on!

I’d love this! So many find memories of walking on King Cobra near the end of its run. I personally think it’ll be an extreme spinner……or maybe just hope 😂❤

@@patrickn8355 lol please no. I'm too old for spinny rides. 🤮

Thanks Dwight! Was awesome to meet you as well! Perhaps the next time we all cross paths, the MRS. won't get stuck at work!