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Originally posted by sherbertlemons
I really, really, really wanna go to Cedar Point.
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Me too.
I also want to get to Six Flaggs over Texas. Actually what I REALLY want to do is take a month long trip around the US and hit ALL of the BIG coasters. I'm sick of watching the coaster programs on the Discovery channels and feeling absolute ENVY of the people riding the scream machines I want to ride! ( was that whiney enough?
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A local fave of mine is the Giant Dipper at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Also at SC, the Mouse Trap--each car seats only two peeps.
At Six Flags Marine World:
*Medusa -floorless steel
*Roar--classic wooden
*Boomerange--steel--shoots ya' forward through 2 corkscrews and one vertical loop then sends you through them again--backwards
*VERTICAL VELOCITY 2
(from the SFMW website)
The New and Improved Vertical Velocity provides a whole new angle on Thrills. Strap in and fly the fast track this summer aboard Midwest's Most Extreme Thrill Ride Ever! Vertical Velocity, or V2 for short, is a suspended spiraling impulse coaster that utilizes an advance design electromagnetic propulsion system to launch riders to speeds of up to 70 mph in less than four seconds. Thrill seekers rocket forward and backward, straight up and straight back down two 150-foot vertical sky towers. A spiraling corkscrew atop the first vertical tower gives you a wicked whirl just as you reach its already dizzying heights. Maximum height requirement is 75".
*Kong--footless steel coaster
At Six Flags Magic Mountain
Last time I was there I was around 7 or 8 and didn't get to go on the big rides--I was too short. So now as adult I have to get my butt down there and ride!
At Disneyland:
Roger Rabbit--it's not a "real" coaster but I enjoyed it.
The Teacups--Leave me alone, It's a classic--enough said.
I really didnt care too much for D-land. I think it's mor for the little ones.
At Paramounts Great America:
*Top Gun-- from PGA webiste:
Time to take off on TOP GUN, the incredible suspended Òjet coaster.Ó Soar through a 360-degree vertical loop, two 270-degree afterburn turns, a full-circle wingover, and a zero gravity roll. If thatÕs not enough, you take this 50-mile-per-hour flight in a floorless coach, suspended below the coasterÕs steel track.
*Invertigo
Face fearÑand your friends, as you race through loops and boomerangs, and then back again! First youÕre pulled up 138 feet above the ground. Then, speed down the lift, and shoot up into a Òboomerang,Ó a 180-degree turn with double inverted side-winders. Exploding out of the boomerang, head into a 72-foot-high vertical loop before rocketing to the top of the second 138-foot lift. YouÕll have just enough time to catch your breath before you do the whole thing again in the opposite direction.
*Vortex
The Vortex features a 91-foot lift hill, a 360-degree loop and weaving, twisting track that threads its way through the eye of the loop. You ride standing and straddling bicycle-type seats in trains that travel up to 45 miles an hour. Padded shoulder harnesses secure the riders - four abreast - in their cars.
*Demon--an old classic steel
Experience airtime and multiple loops as you encounter The DemonÉ As the Òsenior memberÓ of the roller coaster contingent at ParamountÕs Great America, this ride still packs a punch! One of the first coasters I got to ride as a growing kid!
*Stealth
Experience the World's First Flying Coaster. It's more than a ride-it's a flight of body, mind and spirit. Experience flight without floors, walls or ceilings as you soar through surprising twists and turns.
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