Alvey's 1st on Coastercounter? Lame.

Record breaking isn't the same thing as good. Record Breaking leads to rides like TTD, MF, Rattler, SOB. Texas could use another great woodie, but so could every state.

#1 in the world, no. #1 in Texas, hell yes, and it would seem that the world agrees with me.

So by your own reasoning, Texas Giant's awards are invalid, since it never had the longest drop, was never the fastest, and was never the longest out of all of the wooden coasters. I guess it wasn't that special, after all.

So what you're saying is that Voyage, Boulder Dash, Raven, Legend, Thunderhead, etc. are all worse coasters than Texas Giant because they never held any records? Rattler isn't even close to being the #1 wooden coaster in Texas.

Neither have Raven, Legend, Boulder Dash, or any number of other coasters that are all better than Texas Giant. Records don't make a coaster. Clearly Titan is a terrible ride because it never held any records.

Despite the lift/brakes issue, Bullet is still a much better ride than Giant was. Giant was no more rideable than Bullet, in fact, it was the opposite. Not sure why exactly you're bringing records into this, as Giant hasn't held any records in nearly 20 years.

Outstanding use of logic there. Boardwalk Bullet has been the #1 woodie in Texas since about 6 months or so after it opened, and for some, even before that. Texas Cyclone was a great ride until the day the park closed. Also, Texas Giant was more unbearable than Boardwalk Bullet in terms of roughness.

Originally posted by Mikey Looks to me like collateral damage from a personal vendetta against a former employee that ultimately resulted in the destruction of Texas' #1 wooden roller coaster and the ousting of an useless executive officer. I guess the good news is they didn't try to burn it down l...

I kinda like them. They're modeled after 1961 Cadillacs. http://cadillacesv.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Blue-1961-Cadillac.jpg I assume the "windows" are a necessary evil because of close clearances. Looking forward to seeing the ride's progress when I go out to the park on Friday.

I have one, I just don't feel like resizing/posting the pictures. Here's an unresized pic from today showing the whole ride (insanely short first half of double up towards the bottom of the pic): <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://houstonthrills.com/stuff/SFOT-6-25/IMG_0327.JPG">http://houst...

Giant's looking pretty sick, at the moment. With the extra space between the drop and the first hill, they're putting in a killer double up.

The structure for the lift has been topped off, and you can sort of see the profile of how the first drop will be. Track was removed from the lift hill last week, but now it's back in place. The gaps between sections of track have been fixed. The steel ledgers still aren't bolted to the structure.

Just so you know, that doesn't look bad. Even kinda goes with the coaster.

Pretty sure there's nothing to "fix" about Superman, nor is there anything incredibly bad that Shapiro has done.

Have been out to the park a few times to check out the progress, and they seem to be doing a lot of work. So far, there's only track on the turn before the lift, and almost half of the lift, but it looks like they're planning on putting track in the station this week, possibly. Track has been remove...

I really don't know why this is such a big deal. Giant's sucked for years, and they've been retracking massive sections of it for years to try to fix it. It's not working, so they're basically scrapping it and replacing it with something new. It's really not the end of the world like y'all are makin...

I never really liked Giant to begin with, so I don't really care. My question is: does this count as a new credit?

So how much longer do I have to go to Six Flags before your proposed union runs them out of business?

So what you're saying then, is that they should have to take 1-2 hours out of their paycheck for the union instead of the 45 minutes for their break? That makes sense.

And no, I don't know any of the management at SFOT.

The thing is, Disney is not Six Flags.

I'm sure 30,000 underpaid employees would be thrilled by the idea of giving up more money out of their paycheck to a union that isn't going to do anything more than get them laid off when the company goes under.

They started tearing down the sections they aren't reusing today. They say they're only planning to change about 15% of the track configuration.

I've always liked SFOT's operations. From talking to current and past employees, it's my understanding that the longer the person has worked there, the more they dislike about it, though. I think I'll be going out there this weekend to ride my second coaster of the year. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILI...

So I've been looking at this for like 2 days now, and still don't see what's supposed to be wrong with it.