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[Wolfman]

I live on the Gulf of Mexico, in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Busch Gardens is my home park, and I manage to get to Universal maybe twice a year. I haven't ridden the coasters enough to figure out when they're the fastest, but they'er all great coasters.

The only thing I can't figure out is, why BG builds a ride like Montu, only to rob the contest from itself to build Alpinguist in Williamsburg VA. ? Are they going to build a bigger Virtical Coaster there too? BTW: I'm so "there" on the opening day of SheiKra!

[momo1tx]

I live in Northern Virginia, and only got into coasters within the last few years. I visited SFA once, and decided not to come back. Two coasters (batwing and Two-Face) were closed, and Mind Eraser opened late. I feel it wouldn't be fair to have to drag my family to this park. (I'm the only one that comes for thrills) This year I'll be visiting PKD and some of the small Pennsylvania parks.

[Wolfman]

I live in Northern Virginia, and only got into coasters within the last few years. I visited SFA once, and decided not to come back. Two coasters (batwing and Two-Face) were closed, and Mind Eraser opened late. I feel it wouldn't be fair to have to drag my family to this park. (I'm the only one that comes for thrills) This year I'll be visiting PKD and some of the small Pennsylvania parks.

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Being from VA. Have you been to Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA? Even though I'm from FL. (Tampa Area) BGW would be my haunt for coasters. But a great park to visit if you get to Chicago, is SF Great America. I have been there the opening year, and almost every year thereafter (I say "almost" because I wasted a lot of airtime in the Navy.) If you get out there, get up there!

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[ride_exchanger]

I live in Northern Virginia, and only got into coasters within the last few years. I visited SFA once, and decided not to come back. Two coasters (batwing and Two-Face) were closed, and Mind Eraser opened late. I feel it wouldn't be fair to have to drag my family to this park. (I'm the only one that comes for thrills) This year I'll be visiting PKD and some of the small Pennsylvania parks.

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I went to SF America just last September. It was a Saturday and we got there at 1030, right when the park opened. Only TwoFace was shut down. All the other rides were working fine. We were the first ones on Mind Eraser lol

[Leonardofury]

Living in Manchester, my local park is Alton Towers, about 1 hour and a quarter drive away. I visit it about 2/3 times a year and try to visit a couple of other parks as well. Alton is well worth visiting for Nemesis alone, though its other rides, in particular Air and Spinball Whizzer are well worth riding. I'm looking forward to riding Rita later this year. I am also fairly near a small park called Camelot and am an hour and a half train journey away from Blackpool Pleasure Beach. I agree with Rizla's comments on The Pepsi Max Big One, while the first drop is good the rest of the ride is overated.

[Wolfman]

Well, I live 10 minutes away from my local home theme park, Wonderland Sydney. I visit there mostly every week with my friend, who is a coaster nut like me. So far this year, my Space Probe ride count is 210!! The. best. drop. ride. ever!! The Demon there, a Vekoma boomerang is pretty good, as followed by the Bush Beast the 'biggest wooden coaster in the southern hemisphere'. I hate the ride, it is so rough... But lately it has just re-opened over a 10 week rehab. Nothing has changed, except a train has been refurbished, amazinG!!  
 
  The water park has also re-opened ("The Beach") and the slides have been re-painted as well as a new competition to win $1,000,000 Aussie dollars. 9,000 bottles, yes, 9,000 bottles in one baby pool are chucked in there and every day 2 people from a draw have to go and run in there and grab a bottle.. Every bottle contains $100 bucks, and one contains the million. a 1 in 9,000 chance of winning, lol.

  Also the defunct "Hanna Barbera Land or Little Wonder's Land" has been closed for over a year now, and there are rumours are going round that it is going to re-open as a Marvel themed land. The only bad thing is the Scooby Doo GC clone that stands there is closed (The Beastie).

  Also, Wonderland used to be owned by Paramount, that is why the woodies are named "The Beastie" and "The Bush Beast". The Bush Beast also has the same logo as The Beast ar PKI except it has "Bush" lol.

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Hey Aussie!
I wonder if Wonderland has added anything since the post. The link in the text is broke.

[momo1tx]

Being from VA. Have you been to Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA?  Even though I'm from FL. (Tampa Area) BGW would be my haunt for coasters.  But a great park to visit if you get to Chicago, is SF Great America.  I have been there the opening year, and almost every year thereafter (I say "almost" because I wasted a lot of airtime in the Navy.)  If you get out there, get up there!

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Yes, I have been to BGW. It has my favorite coaster (Apollo's Chariot) along with my first looping coaster (Loch Ness Monster). BGW is one of my favorite parks.

[OhiOCoasteRFreaK36]

Hey Aussie!
I wonder if Wonderland has added anything since the post.  The link in the text is broke.

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Well the post was made over 2 years ago...maybe thats why.

[Gravitywolf216]

My favorite Ride is Deja Vu. It is the only ride since I rode the Vortex at KI (my first LC btw) I was actually nervous on. The first drop is amazing

and Top Thrill when it falls backwards. That happened to me twice in one ride!

[JJ]

I live in England and I don't remember my first coaster anymore but I remember the first one with a loop I went on was windjammers and the first inverted rollercoaster was duelling dragons. I've liked riding coasters for a long time but only really got into the facts and stuff in the last two or three. Some people at school think that it is stupid to know so much about coasters when it doesn't really contribute. I am currently doing a rollercoaster drawing for my art final piece and when we do our french presentation I wonder what it will be on. My leaflet that I done for french recently was about Tryoes, we had to do it on a city but I couldn't resist adding Nigloland in. I didn't want to do Paris because that was what most people were doing. Even my french teacher had no idea where Troyes or nigloland was but I did. For our recent ICT project it wasn't fair because we were not allowed to do a leaflet on themeparks, but I slipped some in by doing Las Vegas and adding the rides under attractions. It's a part of my life just like drama and animals are!