Pardon me, but I'm still far more excited about Banshee and a little drop ride going in at New Jersey's Finest Theme Park.

A 500 foot tall lightning rod in florida...yay.

So this will be the tallest so that means Cedar Points will drop to #3 in the USA: Wow, I also thought Vegas is trying to build one of these:

I actually find this really stupid. I won't even consider it a coaster. It's just a big spiral. I'm disappointed that this will be the new tallest...

Here we go again - just watch.....there will be coasters popping up that will be out-doing each other by 10 foot increments (height or length) and by 1 or 2 mph just to claim the record for a short period of time.

Maybe now we'll see some green Intamin track?

It's not like the current 1 and 2 are full of laterals, hills and curves...

.....High Roller.....

It looks like a tobogan ride...that used to make the fair circuits and little grocery store parking lot carnivals in the late 70s and early eighties. I loved it...and it broke my back in 19 pieces.

Not really...but man did tobogans hurt...even as a carefree kid. Even when you were seven...and there was no ride height...you felt fifty back at even that age on those torture chambers of collapsable coasters.

Oh man the memories.

Can't wait to ride it though...is what I meant before going on about things.

Toboggan: You forgot the part about hitting your head on the very low roof and the close quarters for those with claustrophobia. Chance ride.

The vertical lift was interesting, too. Not necessarily in a good way.

I butchered the spelling. Autocorrect helped me not.

I never thought as a child...but some wiseass recently asked on another coaster board what would happen if those vertical lifts stopped all of a sudden.

How would we get out?

I'm not certain Chance had a blueprint for that. That would have been the worse.

Didn't most toboggans have a cushion above the the head terp? I can't remember...but I think for the few I rode...I remember some 70s Monte Carlo like pleather up there. Still hurt worse than a kick to the groin. Haha...thanks for the pain memory.

Maybe it was early 80s models.

It didn't help.

It was only produced from the late Sixties to early Seventies. When I last rode Conneaut's, there no longer was any cushion on the car's ceiling.

When was that man?

And man...do I love your love of rides and more.

The last one I rode had to be around 85 or so. In front of a Hearts store. Don't know if you lived in the Midwest...or know if Hearts stores were common in your earlier whereabouts.

Hart's as in competitor to Hills, Hecks, Fisher's Big Wheel, Woolco and Murphy's Marts?

Conneaut's last ran four or five years ago. One or two still travel with carnivals.

EDIT: rcdb.com says Conneaut's last ran in 2006. Lakemont and Little Amerikka apparently have the last two running in fixed parks on the USA. There's also one in China.

http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&mo=8230

I remember Hills...

And we had a department store called Gold Circle. You?

And I mispell everything. Christ. Er...darn.

I know you know Woolworth. But so do I. It always smelled like mothballs and grandmothers. Although I feel that's one and the same.

And I don't know why I keep referring to dept. Stores like a rural town dude. I lived 5 miles from Columbus. We had every shop.

Gold Circle was Federated Department Stores (Shillito's) (Lazarus's) (now Macy's) discount division. Don't forget Kresge's and Kress and Jupiter Stores...

Now your just getting out of hand and crushing me with age...

Those droppings were silly. Even for a Columbus city boy. I never heard of them.

Edit: aw crap...this post never showed up on my phone. Poop. Next post was a workaround to my thoughts on this post....that ...um...didn't show up initially.

Now you are getting age'y on me.

Though...I have visited Lazarus's grave at Green lawn. (Amazing cemetery). Those other stores, I think and hope, are before my time.

Obviously not Macy's...but those others.

Hitting wikipedia tomorrow though...to research those. Thanks.

And I mispell everything. Christ. Er...darn.

Indeed you do misspell everything. (Don't worry, it's one of the 100 most commonly misspelled words! )

Didn't even see it. Nice call out.

I actually had to look more than once.

Some places have donkeys.

Some places have serendipitous linguistic romps, discussions about marching bands, growing up, cookies, commas, trains, cranes, towers, medicine, CEO sons, Boomerang Bay, arks, Ed Hart, clubs and stores and so much more.

Oh, yeah...world's tallest coaster. Florida. I'd still rather go to Disneyland and Magic Mountain. And, with a recent purported policy change, I'm even knott interested.

The coaster is lame, but I do like the concept and excited to see something come out of S&S Sansei

If it sways at the top and it has a restaurant it could be interesting.

I'm still waiting for this to happen.

I thought that proposal was long since dead.

It is. I'm wishing it would come back, even though I know it will not.

Is "polar" the new term coined to classify a complete-circuit roller coaster between 500 and 599 feet?

(Hyper<Giga<Strata<Polar?)