Last week’s Myster Coaster was tough for some of you and easy for others, this one should be challenging to all, but not impossible.

Yikes, that title was a mouthful!
Many of you may know that the Fear Factor show has been removed from Universal Studios Hollywood, and those will most likely know that it is being replaced with a musical based on one of Universal Studios’ classic horror films, Creature of the Black Laggon. I must say that I am really excited to see this show, I have always been a fan of the old film, and am looking forward to this contemporary repackaging. The press release is below, I can’t wait to get …

In our last two polls you have shown love for both the North East region and for classic woodies, which would make sense. With rides like Phoenix and El Toro in that region of the country, I can certainly see these two results coming hand in hand.
For this week’s poll, we ask you how long you’re willing to wait for a ride. This does, of course,  usually refer to how long you would wait for a ride that you have not been on before. So how about it? Are you …

I was reading a photo trip report over on Theme Park Review today that featured the opening day of Knoebel’s out in Elysburg Pennsylvania. Here’s the link, so you can know what I am referring to.

Our good buddy Marty was kind enough to send us some pictures today. I really like this addition (Maybe more for the clever name than for anything else) and these pictures show some great progress.

It seems I’ve found a happy medium with last week’s Mystery Coaster, lets hope that this proves to be much of the same.

Good luck!

In the comments in our latest Poll of the Week along with some postings in the Diamondback thread over at RCPro the term “gimmick” was mentioned a few times, and.. not necessarily in a good way. I thought that this was interesting, and also a little confusing to be perfectly honest. While I understand the desire of coaster enthusiasts to have a “complete ride” I don’t see what’s wrong with a park trying to offer something unique in order to differentiate their product from other parks, after all.. they’re in …

We figured that it was about time to dive into this whole social networking thing. Today we setup a Facebook page and a Twitter page. You can get the links below. You many be asking yourself why are we doing this? Don’t you already have a blog? Didn’t you have trouble keeping the blog updated awhile ago?
The whole idea behind these things is to get some tibits of news out faster, also if we go to a park, we can send instant updates of what is going on. I found …

Prowler is finally testing. Just a few days ago they got the trains on the track and it didn’t take long for them to give it a go. Accroding to their blog the ride went through about 20 test runs and moved quickly through the track. Doug pointed out in my last post that the rail will be on the train. They have put it onto the green train and are going to be putting it on the others soon. Check out some more pictures here.

Last week our readers declared the North East as the spot you would choose to live in if the area’s coasters were the only deciding factor.
This week’s poll is all about your favorite type of coaster, and why!
Do you ride under the track on an invert?
Do you flip head over heels on a 4th Dimension Coaster?
Do you ride on top in a classic woodie?
Vote here:
Post your vote, and your reason for voting in the way that you did in the comments!