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For those of you who didn't see it on the main page, we had six awesome Boomerang Bay construction pics donated by PKIC's good friend Todd Bills. These are the FIRST pics of Taz's slide going vertical! Click here to check them out! Ryan

PKIC proudly brings you the FIRST pics of Tazmanian Typhoon going VERTICAL! Most of the slide sections are in place! These six pictures, including two of the newly completed Coolangata Racers have been donated by PKIC's good friend Todd Bills. Thank you Todd! Click here to check them out! Ryan

I see all of the resteraunts as being equally mediocre... I must admit that I am partial towards Mandarin Cuisine and LaRosa's though.. I also hear that Bubba Gump's is really good, but for some reason being that the park doesn't really make me want to eat sea food...

lol.. yeah because we all know what kind of a flop Delirium was.

Sorry, gotta disagree with you. Paramount owns numerous movie studios, so why build more that they don't necessarily need? Since a lot of filming is Hollywood based, they are able to do things a little cheaper by having their equipment and crew in a specific area. They'd have to relocate people in order to get Paramount-quailty work. Not worth it.

I don't think he is, I think they may be trying to keep prices down like the free parking for pass holders and the low ticket price. If they put in a big dollar ride we would not be parking for free. I highly doubt it. The parking fee is probably 99% markup. PKI is smart about their expansions, if they put a ride in, it would pay itself off.

It's funny how the general public on here likes to talk about how Arrows are so rough, but now Top Gun is being voted the smoothest coaster out there.

Was there any warning before the KC was removed? I mean, did rumors circulate about its demise beforehand? I held a season pass that year, but wasn't too much into the park at the time, and just one day they were removing it... I know they announced the last day of PT, did they do the same with KC?

Wow! That's insane that you guys keep up with how many times you've ridden rides... so what do you do? Carry around a pad of paper and a pen and take notes? I wish I had done that last year because that would be very interesting. lol Let me estimate here... Vortex 20+ Beast 25 or so. FoF upwards of 30 Delirium 30 or so. Eagles 1 (Couldn't snap and got disgruntled) Beastie 2 SOB maybe 10 Top Gun 20+ Racer 10 recaR 5 Tomb Raider - Probably 20, but I refused to ride it for about 2 months after the filming. SDATHC 5 Well, those are just the rides that I can think of. I went to the park about 25 times last season, which is decent for living about an hour away. Regards, Ryan

I totally agree with all of you. If you lean into the turns (especially in the corkscrews) it really doesn't bump you around too much. I think it's one of the best rides in the park, but I can totally see where it's showing its age. Regardless, I'll ride The Vortex day in and day out until they make the poor decision of dismantling it.

Although PKI does seem to be committed to being new and innovative, they still don't have a steel hyper. B&Ms and Intamins are relatively "standardized" in a way, but there's no telling what they could have on the drawing boards for PKI if the park opted to do business with them. I mean, Arrows could be considered standaredized, but they also made the 4d...

Thanks George W! -Aaron (who proudly supports Bush in 2004!) ...and to think, we didn't like Aaron at first.

PKIC found out because Jeff Siebert e-mailed me... I suppose he was hoping that we could get the word out to the rest of you.

^ I totally agree. If X were at CP or PKI, it would probably be a much better ride than it is now.

Why would pki inform the press in mid february if they had worries the waterpark wouldnt be open my the end of may. that seems insane, first of all, it is way to early to tell if it would be delayed by a time period that great that they would have to inform the papers, and second of all, that would be retarded becuase all it would do is give them bad press for people looking to get season passes and such. uhhh... ok, I see what you're saying, but the press DOES have a tendancy to get their hands on info like that. It's stuff that people want to read. The park doesn't necessarily call a press conference saying that they're behind schedule, but word does get out. I mean, what about the 500,000 gallons of water they needed a few months ago?? Obviously we know that the park can work wonders and it wasn't that big of an issue, but for a general public, it did kind of give the impression that they may or may not be able to go through with the project at all. I wouldn't doubt it if people delayed buying season passes because of it.

hmmm... cause a tornado? Nah, once you go up there, you'll see that it's built like a tank. I'm sure that high winds could potentially cause serious damage to it, but I'm also sure that it was engineered to withstand any weather that Mother Nature should throw at it.

You'd be going out on a limb by saying that they have lost time due to the weather. I'm sure that in their planning they realized that there was a good chance of there being blistering cold from late November until March or so. It seems like since both pages had been giving you updates with little activity over the past two months or so, we created the illusion that things weren't going as planned. Trust me, if they had any fear at all that it wasn't going to open on time, it would have been in the papers by now. Ryan

Its been cloudy lately. Today was nice, but the hang over wasn't. lol.. now they have those pills on the market that if you take then while you're drinking, they prevent hangovers.. For those of you who haven't been down in the area where the sites take BB pics, it's really not as "easy" as it looks. It's quite a long walk down the fenceline, which is of course made even longer when you stop and take pics. It really makes for a long hour or two when it's below freezing out. You guys should be appreciative that Tyson goes out there and brings you pics as often as he does.

Extra credit for Here is Trouble! I agree that The Vortex is very smooth, but for a lot of guests, especially the shorter ones, some people do have tendancies to knock their heads into the OTSRs. I personally don't have a problem with it... they only jerky part that I see is when it has the extraneouos twist of the track before the double vertical loop.

They got rid of most HB characters because the change in the generations caused most young guests to not be familiar with most HB characters. They got rid of the Star Trek characters because younger guests were scared of them. Conclusion: Blame the kids.

uhh... Nathan, watch what you say, the Rickster has ''touched'' a coaster, if you know what I mean....

I said atmosphere... employees are about 90% of that, though.

Not in the way that you have, Rick.