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  1. Not to mention the fact you'd have to reconstruct most of the ride just to make the conversion interesting. Beast is mostly flat straightaways aside from the final helix. You'd have to rebuild most of it from the footers up with lateral and vertical movement to make it interesting as an RMC. IMHO the only real improvement I'd like to see would be slight profile changes to allow it to run faster. Otherwise I think they're better off just leaving it as-is. Looking forward to whatever the new coaster turns out to be...
  2. Der Spinnen Keggers... triple rotation plus a tilt, what a ride! Not sure a better whirl-n-hurl was ever produced... Thanks all for the great pics, wish I had some to contribute but like others, I was always focused on the rides and not on pics...
  3. Not just you.. PR is a great ride. Very unique layout, great use of the terrain and good views from both the first two hills. I never got to ride it in its original incarnation but definitely like what it is today. Would be in my steel top 10 once I get done ranking.
  4. Just signed up and ran the poll through some testing... looks pretty good so far. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Here are my notes after initial run through: Manufacturer fixes: KI Flight of Fear is showing as a PTC ride and not Premier. Park fixes: Stricker's Grove is still partially broken - search returns stricklers which 404s. Example: using search on "teddy bear" returns https://coasterpoll.com/@StricklersGrove/TeddyBearStricklers which is invalid URL. If one manually edits the URL to https://coasterpoll.com/@StrickersGrove it works fine. The "dark" effect some people see is due to an instructional overlay with dialog at bottom of list - clicking in a blank area should dismiss it. This is cool: When adding coasters to 'ridden' list, you can directly jump to any park list by using the park's typical abbreviation. Login to the site, then click on any park name next to a coaster. KI's Adventure Express is near the top of the list, so click the KI link as an example. It will take you to https://coasterpoll.com/@KI Now, backspace over KI and replace with the abbreviation of the park you want and hit Enter - if the abbreviation was the same that TPR used, you'll immediately load that park's rides. This worked for ki, cp, sfdk, cga, ioa, sfgam... If you guess wrong and get a 404, just click Back. You can also type a coaster name in the search bar and it'll show you search hints with the park abbreviation TPR is using, but at this time you can only click the ride link, not the park name from that search popup. Use that abbreviation with the prior URL trick for now. Using all this, I was quickly able to add all my ridden coasters (that I can remember at this time), but I hit the wall when it came to ranking them. I really wish one could batch-add ridden coasters to the ranking area, then just do the numbers manually.. or at least be able to drag a bunch of rides at once. Having to drag each ride up to the top one by one when the screen doesn't scroll up automatically is very time consuming. If the page won't scroll up, could the ranking box be temporarily relocated at the bottom? Or, add a button to each unranked ride that would add the ride to the bottom of the current ranked list.... replace dragging with clicking. **EDIT** Thought about this a bit more, and it really seems that allowing clicks to rank rides would work well, since you could instruct the user to "Start with the rides you like the best and work down to your least favorites." This would result in a ranking that, once done, should only require minor tweaking since each new ride adds to bottom of list... the first added will be at top already. So, the user experience would be: Login, add ALL ridden rides to personal ridden list using park links/search/etc. Once list is created, click each ride you want to have ranked to add it to the ranking list, starting with favorites, ending with bleh. Scroll up, observe ranked list, drag rides around as needed to finalize. **EDIT END** Another hint: When looking for coasters in the unsorted bottom area to rank, use CRTL-F (Find in Page) browser function to quickly jump to the ride you want. I think that's all for now... looking forward to the results! Oh, there is one last thing: When this poll is fully debugged and running smoothly, I think it'd be cool to clone it, but replace the dataset from only active coasters to only defunct ones - have a one time (or very infrequent) rankings of all the rides that have come and gone..
  5. Hi all, I've been enjoying the board a a lurker for a while, but went ahead and registered because a ride I actually liked popped right in my mind when I read this: Son of Beast. They farted around with that thing for years trying to get it to deliver a decent ride, but after that last accident, it never reopened and they eventually tore it out (much to my chagrin... I _loved_ that first drop). It's not quite the same as a one n done.. the ride was just broken by design and kept deteriorating, but it did take some minor injuries to finally stick a fork in it, and it did deliver millions of (painful) rides in the meantime.
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