2015 - DISAPPOINT!

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You guys like them? Please take Green Lantern/Chang.
We all hate it here.

Stand ups are definitely one of the worst perturbations of the modern roller coaster...I myself was never down on 2015's coasters, enough new things are being added to the mix to keep it interesting. I definitely like that Cedar Fair is showing that it has outgrown its 'everything must live in the shadow of Cedar Point' phase.

What I have to agree on, though, is the ugliness of the vertical lift hypers (but in Cannibal's case it looks like the layout and theming are making up for it). The worst offense of the year is definitely Busch Williamsburg's half-assed plopping of a garish Premier sky loop thing adjacent to the venerable Apollo's Chariot (can you say capacity nightmare?). I weep for the fact that I may never see that skyline untainted.

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^ Harsh lol.

^ But totally true. And the way BGW is treating the "secrecy" surrounding the new coaster is downright insulting. I've heard tell of people getting threatened with ejection/banishment for picture taking from the sidewalk.

what if BGW new coaster is a stand up coaster since they haven't shown the trains yet

[Dirk_Ermen]

deere839 wrote:

what if BGW new coaster is a stand up coaster since they haven't shown the trains yet

Who says it's going to be a coaster anyway?

^all the rumors are coaster but who knows

[Dirk_Ermen]

deere839 wrote:

^all the rumors are coaster but who knows

Okay, then I'm starting a rumor that it's going to be a merry-go-round on steroids.

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Dirk_Ermen wrote:

deere839 wrote:

^all the rumors are coaster but who knows

Okay, then I'm starting a rumor that it's going to be a merry-go-round on steroids.

Turbo loves his overhyped pirate ships!

[Dirk_Ermen]

Oh yes, pirate ships! Now I'm sure! This is going to be a Merry-Pirate-Ship-Go-Round!

[mkingy]

Dirk_Ermen wrote:

Oh yes, pirate ships! Now I'm sure! This is going to be a Merry-Pirate-Ship-Go-Round!

A Zamperla Air Race?

maybe a huss topspin

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I think you are all wrong, this is clearly the new Zumanjaro 450 FT Drop of Doom

no there moving every ride at six flags great adventures to bgw

zacattack1104 wrote:

^ But totally true. And the way BGW is treating the "secrecy" surrounding the new coaster is downright insulting. I've heard tell of people getting threatened with ejection/banishment for picture taking from the sidewalk.

Seriously? Banning someone from a park for simply taking pictures of a ride that's right there in the open is just ridiculous.

I just hope that once they announce Tempesto, they'll tell us why they waited so long because I can't for the life of me understand why you would wait this long to announce a new ride. Wouldn't they sell a lot more season passes if they had announced it when everyone else did?

delayed opening probly going to happen that's why

For one thing, its got us enthusiasts talking about it.... more so than some rides that were announced at the normal time, like the TGG shuttle, any Six Flags project that's not WC or TC.

[Coasterkidmwm]

deere839 wrote:

what if BGW new coaster is a stand up coaster since they haven't shown the trains yet

BGW's coaster is one of the worst decisions I've ever seen. It's on par with SFMM's Green Lantern in capacity stupidity, and it's like they purposely squeezed it into that area to make the area as ugly as possible with a terrible color scheme.

I guess installing it at CP and putting underneath Gatekeeper would be dumber but it's hard to do worse.

The only hope that ride has left is that they theme the area around it really well. Besides that the three car trains won't be able to help capacity that much.

I like the colors and it aint that bad

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LuckyK wrote:

What happens when you step on a Mantis? It turns into a French werewolf. I can't even...

This did not get the recognition it deserved.

^it did lol people make that joke a lot lol

also 2016 might be a disappointment I feel like it will

Everyone seems to be hating on Tempesto, but keep in mind that SeaWorld/Busch is going through some tough financial times right now. Considering that they can't even afford to tear down Gwazi, I think BGW is lucky that they got this coaster. Sure, it's a low-capacity ride, but every park has at least a few of them, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg is no exception because wouldn't Mach Tower be considered low capacity? Plus, Tempesto should take some people out of line for the larger coasters, at least for this season. I haven't been on any of its clones, but from what I hear, they are all fun rides, and I'm sure Tempesto will be too.

^100% agree and I don't think its a bad ride every park has its share of crappy rides and good rides like lake compouce for example they got a boomerang coaster cedar point has mean streak Busch gardens Tampa there a wild mouse every park has there fair of crappy and good rides with good and bad capacity

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deere839 wrote:

lake compouce for example they got a boomerang coaster

Have you ever ridden Zoomerang? It is by far the smoothest boomerang out there. I got no headbanging at all and the park takes amazing care of it too.