Great report, I was there this weekend for the ACE event and I agree with a lot of what you said. It instantly shot to one of my favorite parks just on virtue of the incredible ops alone, and the great ride lineup and atmosphere is a cherry on top. Shame you just missed Primordial, it’s definitely not a top tier ride but it is quite unique and worth checking out once the crowds for it start dying down if you’re ever back.

This will be a great addition to the park. They really needed a solid family coaster to fill in the lineup.

Wish them the best but this is extremely ambitious and I’ll believe it when I see it. They’re gonna have a hell of a time competing with Silver Dollar City. Also their attendance projection is whack. That is double SDC, and even more than places like Cedar Point.

Trims that hit hard enough to noticeably slow the train down. Can be annoying with B&M hypers but the one that sticks out in my mind right now is The Beast. I was riding it a few weeks ago and all of the trims hit extremely hard and ruined the drops, especially the drop into the helix.

Uncomfortable restraints are also another big buzz kill. I was at Hersheypark for the first time recently, and I felt no need to ride Skyrush more than once because of the restraints. Shame because the layout itself is fun, but having your legs crushed more and more with each instance of airtime is not. This applies to the RMC single rail restraints, my legs got absolutely crushed on Jersey Devil and it’s my lowest ranked RMC as a result. Same for the Mack auto lowering restraints. I’m not as crazy about Time Traveler as some people seem to be, and part of it is from those restraints again continuing to tighten to an uncomfortable degree.

I’m not really complaining about the speed with Beast, more of the momentum itself. It feels really unnatural being lurched slower as you are already descending the drop.

Re: Skyrush - I was actually sceptical about its reputation and went into it not expecting it to be that bad. The problem for me, in addition to the tightening, is how the restraints sit on the leg. It’s like the point of contact is too small, so all the pressure is concentrated in one painful area. I’m not sure if stapling myself in at the beginning could correct that.

August is going to be great for announcements… This, Holiday World, SDC, whatever the hell Jeffrey Siebert at Fiesta Texas has been teasing. It’s like thoosie Christmas lol

This is my worst nightmare on any spinning flat ride. I would be projectile vomiting everywhere.

Love Defunctland, glad he’s been getting so much attention. The Defunctland episode on the history of Coney Island was so informative and entertaining. I still need to catch up on his Fast Pass episode that everybody seems to rave about.

I was having huge problems with kbin as well, even after federating was supposedly fixed on kbin.social. Posts I made to Lemmy communities would not actually show up to Lemmy users, and likewise there were way too many Lemmy posts not showing up on my kbin. Ended up giving up on it and just making an account on a Lemmy instance instead.

Worthless leeches. Preservation of media is so important, otherwise so much of our history will be lost to these greedy corporations.