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The Single Rider Line Episode 30: 2025/2026 Off Season Start
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Lance is back at it again this time, we review news, including Dollywoods new coaster, the death of SFA, Tormenta, and more!
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Transcript
Exciting Ride Introduction
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Sunday, Sunday! you ready for the highest and fastest coaster in the world? Are you ready for... This
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island dares you to come face to face with the beast. The beast. 7,000 feet. You um
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hear my voice. The Loch Ness Monster. It's Andy Can Andy.
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wow No. Mr. Pop. Ready to go.
Mechanical Issues and Delays
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All riders waiting and on top of the tractor, we are currently experiencing a mechanical issue and we do not know the length of the delay. Once again, we are experiencing a mechanical issue.
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Got to clear the throat there real quick.
Podcast Returns for Winter
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Welcome back to the first off-season edition of the single rider line. It's been a hot minute.
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It was a hot minute before that. and It was a hot minute before that. But... I have a lot more motivation to record these sorts of episodes whenever winter rolls around. Because whenever summer and fall are here, I'm i'm out doing things, you know?
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This is the excuse I've made the last
Six Flags Pricing Changes
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last few times. But let's let's take a look at Apple Podcasts. And the last time I recorded an episode.
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August 11th. So ah i was talking about the... bullshit Six Flags haunt pricing, which we'll get back to. Actually, no, we'll cover that now. Long story short, for those you who haven't gone to a new Six Flags park, or just a Six Flags park in general, actually, no, the Legacy Cedar Fair parks, there we go, yeah, Legacy Cedar Fair parks, all of the pricing for those went down quite
Weather and Theme Park Updates
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a bit.
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So, aside from The Conjuring, the price for the houses was Stayed towards the lower end of what they were initially going to charge. Because on Saturdays, they were initially going to charge $35 just to go into the houses. And by the time the actual season roll around rolled around, it was more like 15 tops, like even on Saturdays, to get in.
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And this is during peakek peak October. so But regardless, welcome back to the Single Rider Line. Good to have you guys.
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it is Speaking of offseason, it has started to snow outside. It's been snowing here in Dayton for a bit. Cincinnati's getting quite a bit of snow. Cincinnati's actually gotten more than than we have up here, which is a little odd because we sit more north, so we typically get more snow than Cincy does. It'd be a great night for Winterfest at Kings Island if it were open, but regardless, it is only the 9th.
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How you guys been doing? I'm um'm doing pretty good. The Halloween season was a ton of fun despite the the dumbass prices. Got a lot of good night rides, a lot of good fall, chilly rides in.
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That was a good time. We had a lot of news come out. We've had parks dying. We've had coasters announced. Jetstar 2, gone. Six Flags America, gone.
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to think what else closed. we really lose a whole lot now i think about it, but We
New Coaster Announcements
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had shit closing. We got shit announced. We've got whole bunch of stuff going on.
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So let's get into the news because we got a lot to cover. It's been a while. So last August, I believe we talked about Six Flags, Mexico's family boomerang that they were getting. themed to Similar to the Backlot coasters were themed to.
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And we've had a lot going on since then. So we'll start with some of the smaller stuff. A New York City skyscraper is going to contain a 300 foot tall drop tower.
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The torch in New York City. It is reported to be designed by Intamin. it Including a quote giant drop off a building model.
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or sorry Sorry, giant drop on building model is literally the name of the model that they're doing. I think it's the same ride system that came to cause or Zumanjaro's drop of doom was.
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One of these models operates on the exterior of 1,975 foot tall tower in
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the the 1,975 foot tall Canton Tower in China. So we already have an example of it. So 300 foot tall drop tower in New York City. That'd be pretty cool.
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imagine Imagine they just decided to just smash that record. Just have it go 600, 700. You could do that, right? That's not going to be cheap, but I feel like making a drop tower I feel like if you're gonna break any sort of record I feel like a drop tower would be the easier of the two to break compared to coasters I mean building it on the side of ah already tall skyscraper is gonna be probably probably your easiest way to go about it so there's some smaller news for you in some I accidentally
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I meant to pause my audio so I could go blow my nose, and I accidentally clicked end audio. So this is technically a new recording, but we're not going to restart the episode because we were already five minutes in. So in some bigger news, Dollywood is getting a first of its kind ride from, I think, is it first of its kind?
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I know it's from Mach. Let me, I'm looking at Coaster 101 right now because... They have all of this information just laid out in front of me with the concept
Dollywood's Immersive Experience
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images.
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Speaking of which, if you haven't been able to go look at those, look at these concept images because they look amazing. If it's anything even similar to this, this is gonna be this is going to be great. So I'm just going read this outright because it's well put. So Dollywood announces Night Flight Expedition 2026 Family Indoor Coaster and Water Ride.
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So for those of you who are unfamiliar...
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Mach has a water coaster concept slash water ride. it's You just have to see it. i I'll see if I can describe this relatively well.
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Dollywood is again raising the bar for theme park innovation coming in 2026. The park will debut a night flight expedition, the world's first attraction to combine an indoor family hybrid roller coaster with a whitewater raft ride. but There we go. There's a good explanation of it.
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The new attraction will anchor the expansion of Wildwood Grove inside a massive 44,000 square foot building, giving guests a weatherproof adventure. So there's going to be four different sections to it.
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And it's going to be a nearly six minute long ride. So immersive night flight take to the skies on a nighttime voyage over the scenic Great Smoky Mountains brought to life with state of the art multimedia projections. So I'm guessing that's going to be kind of like a kind of like a flying theater, but like not a temporary one, but one you go into and then you move out of.
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Whitewater Rapids night flight expedition will pump over half a million gallons of surging water, simulating a thrilling river rafting adventure. It's to have an indoor mountain coaster section, soar nearly three stories high on a family-friendly coaster track that reaches speeds up to 29 miles an hour. So it's going to be, it's going relatively slow.
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Shimmering Lake Voyage, slow down to drift across a glowing peaceful lake scene that caps off the expedition trail. with breathtaking beauty. So we have essentially a flying theater, Whitewater Rapids, coaster, and river ride in one.
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It's going to six minutes long. how do you How do you manage to pull this off? I mean, it's built by Mock, so I i don't doubt them. And Dollywood has so much money getting thrown at it that I can't.
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I'm to be surprised. I have feeling this is going to be on on par with Disney stuff. I mean, this is a big undertaking. And Dollywood has is always top-notch with their theming. So we'll keep an eye on it, but I'm looking forward to this.
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Cutting-edge technology built by Mach. Yep, incorporates new technical innovations. yeah here's Here's the interesting part that I'm excited to see. A custom-designed amphibious ride vehicle, part flying boat,
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part raft capable of transitioning between coaster track and water this i'm curious to see how this whole thing works i'm excited to see some insane eltoro ryan breakdown on this because i know he's gonna do it and this is gonna be this is gonna be really cool o ad popped up oops but yeah i'm excited I'm excited to see this. and then Onboard and offboard audio systems to surround riders with atmospheric sounds from rushing rivers to soaring
Dollywood Visit Plans
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winds.
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This is going to be really fucking cool. Each ride vehicle is going to have 10 passengers with lap bars, 11 cars in operation. This is going to be... It depends on how fast they can dispatch them.
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we'll We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. and A height requirement of 39 inches. so We don't have to worry about people being too short and so some young people can ride it. This is going to be fun.
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I'm curious how they're going to blend in this building into the area because it really just does look like a warehouse. i'm sure they have I'm sure they have this all planned out, but i'm excited I'm excited to see this. And I will be at Dollywood, actually, this upcoming weekend.
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So I will give you guys an update on Twitter from there. I may even record a small episode in line for something. We'll see.
Giga Dive Coaster Concerns
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But get out to Dollywood next year. This should be open by next summer.
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It'll be open. Should be open all year round for the most part. But I'm looking forward to this. I haven't been super, super excited for Family Coaster in a while. If you even want to call it. Would this be considered a credit? I feel like it would.
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It has a coaster section. I'd call it a credit. They're calling it an indoor Family Coaster. Indoor Family Coaster with a water ride section. We'll go with that.
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We'll go with that.
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And then what else have we had going on? Oh, here we go. Giga Dive. if You guys remember talking about this? I do. I'm looking forward to this, but I am also also very scared.
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So but let's let's just kind let's kind of discuss this real quick after I take a sip of my Coke Zero Holiday Creamy Vanilla. would heavily suggest this, by the way, if you have any in your area. I believe this is nationwide.
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I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be, but this shit is really good. And it's vegan for those of you who are wondering about it being containing dairy or anything like that.
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All right. So we finally got Tormenta coming to Six Flags over Texas.
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It is over Texas, right? Yeah, over Texas. I'm a dumbass. Here's my concern with this ride is we all know about the B&M rattle and how bad it's been as of late.
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For those of you, I don't know if i talked about this on the last episode. I'll just fill you guys in again. Went over to Six Flags Great America this past summer. Got to ride Wrath of Rakshasa.
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Holy shit, that thing is way too rough to be a brand new ride. I rode in the back. which normally is not going to be as smooth of a ride as the front on any coaster.
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However, this is a brand spanking new B&M, and this thing rode like a wooden coaster that hasn't been retracted in probably five years. It was so fucking jerky.
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It was profiled perfectly fine, but that train just could not find the middle of the track to save its life. It was, I genuinely had a headache getting off of that ride. I'm not one to bitch about roughness whatsoever. I'm not.
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I think coasters when they're rough are good for the most part. It's, it's whenever a coaster that's designed to be glossy smooth, like the BNMs are, have issues is when I start to have issues, you know?
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So that's a hundred foot tall, 150 foot tall dive. And we have 300-foot giga dive coming.
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Is this going to be just as bad?
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That's my concern coming into this. Because I'm going out to Texas next year to ride this. I will be out there to ride this at some point. If this sucks, and this is rough... B&M is going to have to do some serious looking in the mirror if they haven't done so already. They should have done it forever ago.
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But if this falls apart, this is where I think your reputation with parks and with chains is going to fall flat. Because if you make if you spend this much money on a giga dive and it's rough, why in God's name would Six Flags ever go back to you?
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yeah Genuinely. Why? Why would you do that? So...
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Alright, stats time for those of you who haven't kept up with this. So it's going to be 309 feet tall. It's going to have 285 foot drop. So yes, it does make it a giga. Shut the fuck up about it not being a giga. This is not the Orion argument all over again. It's the same damn thing. Orion's a giga. This is a giga.
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I'm tired of hearing it. Alright, rant over. It's to have the world's tallest vertical loop. At 171 feet.
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It's going to break it by 8 feet. It's not going to be... don't know where I was going with that. But yeah. New new vertical loop record. I mean, this loop is massive.
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It's about... Halfway up the...
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Halfway up the lift. If you're looking at it on Coaster 101. They got the full layout on there. Top speed of 87 miles an hour. It's only going to be 4,200 feet long, which seems kind of short.
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I know it's a giga, but but seems that seems kind of short. I don't know. Five inversions, eight across seating, three rows. I like the eight across seating. I know a lot of people like the old over the shoulders with the 12 across.
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I don't know, man. Regardless, I am concerned about this ride, and and I hope I'm wrong. I hope that this ages terribly, and in by this time next year, Tormenta is going to be getting rave reviews for a dive coaster, and it's going to be running it as smooth as most of the B&Ms have been for the past 20 years.
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So i hope I hope I'm wrong, but I i think my concerns are valid. so Go check out the POV if you haven't. It looks really cool. There's an element going into the mid-course that looks fun.
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So you go down the the initial drop, which is beyond vertical. Let me see. Is it? Yeah, 95 degrees. So it has a 95-degree drop. You go into a massive Emelman.
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You go into that world and then out of the ML and you pull into the world's tallest vertical loop. And then you go into what looks like is going to be another ML, but instead of coming back down to ground level, you twist out of it in like an inline twist or sorry, more like a heart line roll. It's like you're twisting out of an ML into a heart line roll and into the mid course.
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This element looks like a ton of fun. It reminds me of Banshee's inline twist. And I love that element. So I'm looking forward to checking this one out because this looks this looks awesome.
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So we'll we'll see how that is. None of this is going to matter, though, if this thing is rough. So fingers crossed. This doesn't suck.
Universal's New Attractions
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And we'll we'll go from there.
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Universal Kids Resort themed land is coming to Frisco, Texas. We got some themes that are going to be popping up and we're able to see what sections of the park are going to be themed to what.
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We got SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom. We've got Isle of Curiosity Minions vs. Minions Trollfest Shrek Swamp Puss in Boots.
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Puss in Boots has its own section. Aside from Shrek. which i mean I guess they're technically separate franchises. But ah they's so they're so close together. It's hard to
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it's hard to kind of you know separate the two. yeah So we got DreamWorks Shrek Swamp. Puss in Boots Del Mar.
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Minions vs. Minions. Bellow Bay Club. Adventure
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jurassic world adventure camp
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We got Trolls Fest and then SpongeBob SquarePantsBakiniBottom, which is also going to be a water park section. And there's a whole bunch of information on it. If you want to see some of the concept art and stuff, it's really easy to find.
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Just go looking for it. I'm too lazy to give you links for it. It can't be it can't be that hard. Come on, guys. you can You can Google things. I know you're more incapable of Googling things. You got this.
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All right, Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift. I am massively looking forward to this, and I am shooting. i have my fingers crossed. I'm shooting for going back out to California this March, and I have my fingers, toes, eyes, arms, legs, all the things crossed that this is going to be open by then because I want to get to this park. I was not there last year, this year, I guess,
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Whenever I was out there with your favorite coaster sucks, we went to Disneyland and California's Adventure, I think is what it's technically called.
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But that's where we went. We didn't go to Universal. So my girlfriend has never been out there. for Well, that's kind of a lie. She went to Knott's, but she was only there for a short period of time because she was there for our work trip.
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And now she is going to...
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back up she hasn't been to magic mountain and she hasn't been here and she hasn't been to disneyland so we're hoping to hit up this hoping to hit up universal studios and check this out i'm looking forward to this but it's been testing Fast and Furious, how we drift testing launches at Universal Studios Hollywood.
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There's plenty of testing footage out there. It actually got stuck in one of the inversions. It launched just right to where it was perfectly balanced. And one of them, somebody had to go up there and literally, literally push it to get it to go.
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So fingers crossed that this is open by then. Go watch the testing footage. Give me your honest thoughts on if you think this will be open by March or not.
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I mean, we still got three months, four months of testing. I think i think it'll be open by then, right? The park is keeping most of the train train cars for the new ride hidden during its first test launching phase with plans to reveal them at a later date. The four vehicles in each train are themed to the cars in the Fast and Furious films, including Vin Diesel's Dodge Charger.
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My guess is that this information is going to get revealed ah at IAP this year. which should be coming up soon. When is IAPA happening?
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November 17th through the 21st. Oh, so that's literally and next week. Two weeks from now, technically, the time of recording this. Less than two weeks. It's happening...
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No, yeah, literally a week. I was looking at the 21st, not the 17th. 17th is a Monday, and I'm recording this on the 9th, on a Sunday night. So... One week to the day.
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So we'll have some IAPA news for you next week. I'll keep you guys updated on that. So fingers crossed that Universal shows us there. I would be floored if they didn't. I'll be honest with you.
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That's such a... i mean, that is that is the event to show it at if you're going to, you know? But whatever.
Kentucky Kingdom's Developments
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News out of Kentucky Kingdom. Kentucky Kingdom.
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Flying Foxes takes flight. I'm pretty sure that this is a Vekoma family coaster.
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believe it is. Yes, it is. This is a Vekoma family coaster similar to Dragonflyer if you've been to... Dollywood. Vekoma has made a huge, and I mean huge, comeback in the States.
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They had the Kitty Hang and Bangs, and they had the Boomerangs, and that was about it. Oh, and the SLCs. Just the shittiest the shittiest of coasters.
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And look at them now. We've got two tilt coasters. We've got Siren's Curse opened up. We've got so Circuit Breaker finally opened. Forgot to mention that. Fucking finally.
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i haven't looked at Palindrome. Did Palindrome open? I'm getting it off topic. I could care less though.
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Palindrome. Circuits of America.
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Sorry, Codaland. Not Circuit of America. Yeah, Circuit of America is is the track name. Oops. Yeah, so Circuit Breaker opened. Man, they want $20 for one ride on this thing. Holy shit, dude.
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did now we don't want Motorsports. We want...
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Codaland. Here we go. Have you guys opened Palindrome yet? Palindrome still hasn't opened.
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Dude, whatever happened to this coaster?
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It's essentially complete according to this Reddit post from... to from a year ago.
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code Is it open? What does RCDB say? Opening in 2026. How has this thing not been open? this This coaster has been sitting in purgatory for the past four years. I swear to God.
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Okay, at least we get Circuit Breaker open. so that's That's giving me hope at the very least. At the very least. Regardless, Back Kentucky Kingdom. um This park needed some investment badly, and I'm glad it's finally getting it.
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Because, I mean, this was... This coaster, or this park, needs some major, and I mean major, TLC. Now that Hershen owns it, I'm glad they're putting some money into it.
00:25:32
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This looks like something Dollywood would add.
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It's just a basic flying vakcoma or basic Vekoma suspended coaster. Family suspended a coaster. I can't fucking talk right now. um'm a little It's a little strange. the The theme is Flying Fox.
00:25:53
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It's themed to crop dusting. But they already have... Hold on. Let me let me let me just read this. The coaster itself represents Hershen's latest partnership with manufacturer Vekoma, who in recent years... did
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It's going to be 65 feet tall, 37 miles an hour, 1,300 feet a track, 63-second duration. That's pretty good. Yeah, here we go. Fellow pilots will join crop-dusting pilot Jeb Fox as he dares guests to take to the air.
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The ride experience begins with a queue in a red barn. Adorned by hand-painted murals and audio spiels featuring Jeb himself, riders will then board their 20-passenger train before embarking on a series of ascents, descents, twists, and turns.
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The existing Auntie B and Scoop's concessions will also be integrated within its vicinity. So you already have a flying coaster or a coaster themed to flying in Kentucky Flyer, their GCI family, or sorry, Gravity Group family.
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So, i don't know. i
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Like, you couldn't have come up with any other any other theme? You know?
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it you got There's got to be some other theme, guys, other than flying. Because now you have two that are that are themed to that.
Closure of Six Flags America
00:27:22
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Whatever. It's not a big deal. I'm reading too much into it.
00:27:25
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Alright. ah Speaking of hall Halloween may be over. We're probably... We're little less than two weeks away... Or two weeks out of from Halloween. Or two weeks... God, I cannot fucking talk today.
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We're a little more than two weeks past Halloween. Or a week, I guess. Coming up on two weeks. We did lose a Fallen Brethren on November 2025. Six flags America has finally
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Finally bit the dust. Rest in peace to our fallen. And rest in peace to the people who had so much fun there over the years.
00:28:20
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And it's gonna it's sad to see this part go. So speaking of coasters that we lost, Wild Thing was the oldest coaster in the United States. i may Is it the oldest coaster world or was it?
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Wild thing. Six Flags America.
00:28:40
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Was it? Was it the oldest coaster in the world? Yeah, opened with the park in 19... No, never mind. Oh yeah, never mind. Its original construction dates back to 1917. Yeah, I think... I believe that it
00:28:58
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No, yeah. Is it the oldest... is it the oldest Regardless, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember. And I'm just going to Google it.
00:29:20
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ah No, it's just the oldest coaster in any Six Flags Park. Okay. All right. Was the oldest coaster in Six Flags Park. We lost Firebird, which was the first ever B&M. So there's another defunct B&M.
00:29:36
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or You're not missing much with with Firebird. The big one, though, Superman the Ride or Ride of Steel, the Intamin hyper coaster. Those are increasingly rare nowadays. I don't know if that one's going to get saved.
00:29:50
Speaker
Batwing is done for. it So Vekoma flying Dutchman's are officially gone. Joker's Jinx, that one's definitely biting the dust. That model from S&S?
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Speaker
No, it's not S&S. God, whoever makes the spaghetti bowl coasters. i'm I'm rusty, man. I don't know how I'm losing my shit on all of this, but that's ate the dust.
00:30:18
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This whole park is gone, and it's not getting saved, unfortunately. Unfortunately, it's getting sold for land redevelopment. The sign on the front is already gone.
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And that's another park. another Another major part of coaster history just just wiped off the map.
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So
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rest in peace, Six Flags America. Yeah. You could have been a whole lot better if you got invested into, and that's not any fault of your own. It's poor management, corporate greed, and just bad
00:31:05
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just bad decisions across the board. There's not a whole lot else to it. So... I'm going to take this moment to say to Six Flags from the 2000s, go fuck yourself. To say to Six Flags from the 2010s, go fuck yourself.
00:31:25
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And to current Six Flags, go fuck yourself. I get you want to get rid of some of your portfolio, but you could have offered to sell it for literally anything else. You could have offered it to Hershend. You could have offered it to to the SeaWorld chain.
00:31:41
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You could have offered it to... an independent buyer. There's a million of other things you could have done with this and you're selling it for real estate. I don't care that you're selling the park. I care that you're destroying history for people and for coasters as a whole.
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i was thinking I was thinking about this the other day whenever I was walking out of Kings Island. Just kind of having a moment, just taking a moment to realize, first off, I'm spoiled as fuck where I live with and relative to coasters. I've got Cedar Point two hours and 45 minutes away. I've got Kings Island 60 minutes away.
00:32:22
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And I can promise you, I would bet my life savings those parks are not going anywhere anytime soon. And if they were, they were just being sold off to other companies. They're not going to get sold for real estate or anything like that.
00:32:34
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So not having not having a park, just watching those get sold off, or even just one of them sold off to be turned into land real estate. Like, yeah i'm I'm glad I'm not in the situation people living close to Six Flags America are.
00:32:55
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And I feel for you guys. So, thankfully, you do have some other options in the area with King's Dominion. And what else is around there? I'm blanking right now.
00:33:09
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What else is... is around there. I don't know why i and why I'm blanking. Yeah, you King's Dominion. You got Great Adventure. You got Dorney. You got Hershey. So, it still sucks, though, that those are all those coasters are
Cedar Point and Kings Island Rumors
00:33:25
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going away. So,
00:33:28
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ah maybe in another universe, this park is still open and got plenty of plenty of investment. so
00:33:37
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Well, I don't want to end things on a somber note. trying to think of what what else is getting added bit of rumors that just came out actually today for those of you who were not aware snake river falls at cedar point their water rapids ride is gone it's been gone since last year earlier
00:34:09
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during their closing day, about two weeks ago, about a week ago now, there was a again, this is not just a rumor. So take this with a grain of salt. There was somebody walking in the section, in that section of the park, not where, not where guests are allowed to just back in the, but in the theming and stuff, taking a look at things, wearing a GCI shirt.
00:34:34
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Again, not a guest. He was not in a guest permitted area. He was back where, Only employees are allowed. And wearing a GCI shirt with no name tag.
00:34:45
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So, again, take that with a grain salt. Don't take this as fact. Don't take this as, oh my goodness, they're getting a GCI. However, however, it would be a little weird to be wearing a GCI shirt just back in a section with no ride.
00:35:07
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Not doing anything. They're not necessarily not doing anything. Just, you know, it's just kind of weird. You're back there taking a look at things, checking things out, writing stuff down, typing stuff in your phone.
00:35:20
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You know, little weird. We'll keep an eye on it. Fingers crossed Cedar Point could use a GCI as if we need another coaster. Do something with the vortex plot first, please. That needs a ride desperately.
00:35:34
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Speaking of which, Kings Island got a survey. Hold on, let me get this pulled up.
00:35:43
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Where did it go? Yeah, here we go. Kings Island put out a survey for people that got emailed to them about different proposed rides that they could be adding to the park.
00:35:57
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One of them, with concept art, was a multi-launch coaster. And not just any multi-launch coaster. This looks like Vekoma multi-launch coaster. So if you just look this up, it'll be the first thing that popped up on Reddit. This came out 25 days ago.
00:36:14
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According to this survey, this cutting edge launch coaster blasts riders from zero to top speed in seconds, delivering instant adrenaline with powerful launches, rapid turns and high speed inversions.
00:36:25
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It's a fast paced heart racing experience that keeps the excitement surging from start to finish. If this coaster is what they add to the vortex plot, I am going to be so fucking happy because this thing looks insane.
00:36:39
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If it's even close to this, I'll be happy about it. There's some other things that they proposed as well.
00:36:47
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that they provided some, some pictures on. One of the other things they proposed was a story driven experience. Step into a world with this story driven attraction designed for kids and families.
00:36:59
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Guests embark on multiple thrilling journeys, traveling through prehistoric lands filled with dinosaurs, the vast expanse of outer space, the mysteries of the deep ocean and more. So it's just generic theming. You know, they don't have a set idea in mind. Just,
00:37:12
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you know Is this something you'd be interested in? I don't know why they would bring this around. That's kind of what Dinosaurs Alive was. I get what they're going for. But if this is in the Vortex plot, please know. This would be terrible.
00:37:24
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Put it over in Planet Snoopy. That would be perfect. And then they have an indoor-outdoor coaster. This is more of a family coaster. It's a Vekoma family coaster where, you know again, indoor and outdoor.
00:37:38
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theming, but more family focused so everybody can enjoy it. But fingers crossed it is this Vekoma multi launch. That would be so fucking cool. hiward
Holiday Preparations and Mental Health
00:37:48
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I would love that so much.
00:37:49
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I'm going to blow my nose. I'll be right back. All right, I'm back. just had to i don't know what's been up with my allergies this season, but I have been blowing my nose and sneezing so badly, even after taking allergy pills. So don't know what's changed.
00:38:04
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But regardless, take allergy medicine. Don't get sick and make it through the offseason. So fingers crossed we...
00:38:16
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Fingers crossed we make it through this because we got ah long offseason to go. And we got Christmas to hold us over, though, thankfully, or whatever you choose to celebrate. Happy holidays.
00:38:28
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i know it's only November 9th, but regardless, I'm kind of getting into the swing of the holidays already. I've got my lights up. I've got my tree up.
00:38:39
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i'm I'm atheist slash agnostic, but Christmas is fun, so I don't care. It's just a good excuse to hang out with family and gives me excuse. Not that I need an excuse, but gives me an excuse to go on a shopping spree for people.
00:38:52
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so Regardless, i hope you guys have a great night, great day whenever you're listening to this. Enjoy the weather. i know it i know it's shitty right now, but the snow is always nice. I'll take snow if it's going to be cold.
00:39:09
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If it's just cold and rainy, it sucks. So it's going to be cold, give us some flurries.
00:39:17
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Work out. Keep yourself mentally mentally
Podcast's Weekly Schedule Return
00:39:22
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in it. It's really hard to let yourself get into a rut mentally, especially this time of year whenever it's getting dark so early. It's dark by 5 o'clock, and and dark when you go to work and dark when you get home and just take care of yourself that's all so we're back i'll see you guys next week we're back to weekly episodes we got plenty to talk about we got plenty of off-season shit to do so you guys have a just great whatever wherever you're at just have a good one and we will see you next time the single rider line see you