Sad. I was at HP for the first time this summer and Comet really surprised me with how much of a wild ride it delivered, mostly due to the buzz bars allowing you to get thrown around. It really won’t be the same without them.

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.

I’ve been on both and they are good in different ways. Impulse has a much tighter layout whereas as OP mentioned Wicked really dies off after the midcourse and just sort of meanders back to the station. Wicked’s vertical launch is amazing though and the first drop gives much more intense airtime. Wicked does have a slight rattle at points, but I can’t say I noticed much of a rattle when I rode Impulse either.

PS: Yes you must get out to Lagoon. It is seriously one of the best parks in the country. Best ops I have ever seen by a mile, beautiful grounds and atmosphere, happy employees, and a wonderful varied ride lineup. It’s a perfect version of the traditional amusement park, right up there with Knoebels.

From what I understand, the LSM fins require perfect alignment to launch (hence the constant issues from the shifting wooden structure), while a chain lift will have a much higher tolerance. I do agree that the should just replace the entire thing with ibox track, and a steel structure for the lift, at this point, but anything that gets it to be reliably operational is certainly welcome.

This is actually a really good replacement for the bobsled, especially considering a lot of people seemed to think the space would just be used for a water park expansion.

Yikes. I feel like it’s pretty clear that CF skimping on maintenance during Covid was a large factor in this incident.

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

So glad they were able to get this back open reasonably quickly. Rode it for the first time recently a couple weeks before the crack was found and it immediately went to my #1 spot.

The 95 degree drop is definitely nice to have, you do feel it on Dr Diabolical. Although it’s still a bit neutered with the vest restraints. What I really would have loved to see is a dive coaster that doesn’t immediately go into an immelman for once!

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

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

So pretty much what everyone was expecting. Going 400 feet up that spike backwards is going to be insane.

Can’t wait!

Yikes!!

Interesting, I didn’t see that statement initially and you have a point. Hopefully it’s just typical vague PR speak and not indicative of more, but if it does come out that there are more issues that is very damning of their maintenance practices.

So an unsubstantiated anonymous “tip” ? We’ll see if/when CF makes a statement, but I don’t buy this until then, especially as they (should) have been going over Fury with a fine tooth comb following the previous crack.

I remember my parents renting this from Blockbuster when I was a kid and I loved it. Now I want to rewatch it to see if it still holds up.

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.

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.

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