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1 Rating Posted by: CoasterMac on 3/24/2003 4:46:00 PM

The first s&s air ride i ever went on, and the first ride i can ever remember acctually fearing for at least 5 years!!! it was the last ride of the day...and i went on it all by myself (well at least there was nobody i came to the park with on it! theyre real babies when it comes to rides) and i remember this hugh burst of air, and then i started to SCREAM, and i mean really yell. when i scream on rides its because im having fun, you know i do it out of enjoy, pleasure...never in terror!!! but this ride did that to me!!! course after the initial toss, i was fine, and i havent been scared since, but ill never forget that very first ride. Then i was on to Power Tower, but this is still my favorite S&S space shot!

yes a great ride. many people think it sux but its great. great launch, then you drop. i hear starblaster at canobie gives you more airtime tho.

my friends have told me about Canobie, but i havent gotten out there yet, ill have to do that this summer so i can ride the S&S at least, i have heard that too though and i think thats right, but i wont know for sure til i ride it

I am the canobie expert hear and beleave me Canobie star blaster is better. alot more air. Teh bigist thing I dont liek abotu this is three thing. it run verry inaficiantly, its laine is never worth the ride, and the compreser they bought is way to loud.

scream is a fun ride. i dont care how loud it is. it is however run inefficiently. starblaster seems good although i do think that on tower rides you want height and its only 80 ft biut i do understand they had a height limit. i want to ride starblaster but scream is still good.

Like I have mentioned before starblaster is teh standard hieght Double shot tower. Hight dosnt mean everything. Screm launches you and thats nice but they their is barly even any air. acually their isnt any air just flot. the combo is the best when theri running it which isnt often. the drop is OK but dosnt have much power.

Yeah, i know what u mean the ride is very loud, i can hear it when im on batman. and ur right about height too, this ride is only like 200 feet tall, and the shot doesnt even take u that high! and yet i still think it is better than Big Shot...course the thing aobut that isnt the height, its the height above the ground! but i still gotta get out to Canobie, hope ur right!

You anly reach about 120 ft on the launch. the drop brings you to 200ft but its an OK view. it also has no power. The thing I dont like about it the most is their is no controle. its easy for jerks to cut into the already long line and they are verry efficiant on loadign it. If you go to canobie go durign the week. its slower then weekends. Monday in is the slowist day.

coastermac, if your not impressed with screams meer 200 ft then you should know starblaster is only 80 ft. mrc, im not rippin on starblaster cuz im confident its a great ride and that it gives amazing airtime but im dissapointed in its height, once again i know they have a limit. 200ft seems like a good height. its no power tower but its still good. i enjoy scream. ive never been when they werent runnin the combo. i love it. its true it is poorly run and they never run 3 towers but thats the parks fault. you cant take away fronm the ride for that. it is loud but i dont mind that. iom not sayin its th best but it is enjoyable. im gonna try to go to canobi this summer and ill make my decision. i do like airtime so i dunno which is better.

The biger agrument is thow its 200ft the launch dosnt get you anywere near that. and they rarly run the drop or the combo. I remind you they Starblaster is standard hight. teh hight lemet had nothign to do wit it. a Double shot S&S tower in 80FT and if youtake the SF aproch its 85 with the sign.

lol. ok really tho ive never been when they werent runnin the combo. the launcxh doesnt launch you the 200ft but i look at the drop more. id rather drop cuz i can gat airtime on superman. once again i think starblaster will be a great ride but i do look for height in tower rides. marinelands gettin a new tower that will be on a hill so itll be 450 ft up i believe. thatll be great.

120 ft.? thats it, i thought it was at least 150 ft.! oh well, i still love it. the thing about height with towers is the view, that what makes a tower a good tower. i mean with Power Tower u can see the entier peninsula, i mean all of CP, depending on where u sit of course. and it is the same way with Scream, as long as u get a west seat u can see most of the park, with the exception of the DC heros section behind u of course! the height isnt really for the speed factor that much, because S&S towers arent acctually free-fall rides, contrary to popular belief, so they can be stoped going up, i mean Scream and Big Shot are about the same speed, but Scream is taller, and u go higher with the shot on Big Shot. so u can see how the height of a tower is pretty much only used to rake in the tourists

i agree 120 ft is kinda dissapointing but i always thought it was mnore. still great. the other with height is for the drop. id take a 200ft drop over an 80ft drop and a 300ft drop over a 200ft drop anyday. mrc just hates SF

lol, i guess mrc does eh! but ur giht i would honestly take the higher towers over the smaller towers too, just to say iv been on one that tall! plus i think u can really tell the difference between 80 ft. and 200 or 300 ft. am i right!?!?!?!!

ive only been on a 200ft one (well i dont kno the height of dr dooms fearfall). mrc does have something agaisnt SF. you see it in almost all his posts. i think everyone would take the higher one.

Yes I do have athing abotu SF. too amny trips to SFNE adn got screwd over. Keep in mind Teh Star blaster is a Launch not a drop. I have also riden Dragons descent. 220 without the sign drop so its taller then scream. also they rarly use the rop at SFNE witch is the better of the two but the combo is the bast. abotu me not likign SF. I liek some parks. but SFNE has jsut hit a nerve tha last few times I went. bad service, too many rides down, and nasty tasting expensive food. Im jsut a little fed up with them.

the only food ive ever eaten there was subway so it was good. I still will say this one more time, not once have ever been when they werent running the combo. once they had one tower open with the launch and one with the combo. all the other times 2 towers have been open both with the combo. i like the drop better anyway. im prob one of the few people who likes a nice drop better. im sure startb;laster is great but i dont think itll be better than scream. true SF has soem bad service but it was worse when it was riverside. whenever i go most rides are open. the only ones that arent open that often are the spider and colossus and sometimes chaos/ i will still return to SFNE cuz of Superman. its dissapointing but the park can be shit and still bring in crowds with that coaster.

Which highly anoys me. I cinda with that Canobie or Conpounce coud build a hyper. just put SFNE in its place adn make them clean up their act. they now the people will come for Superman so they let everythign go to crap. when I went and it was riverside I acualy liked the park a little more. thow it was a wile ago. 94 or 95 for a few years before being bough tby Premeir. I try to be fair with my voting. I admit im takign points off for things most people dont even conseder but thats just the way I am. thats why smaller parks I often give higher then normal rating because they make the experiance batter. I try to be fair. youll notice that te rides that deserve a hight score have high score right now. exept superman. when I go on openign day. I will reevaluat the coaster and the ride. youll verry likly see it go back up.

when i go, the food i get is either subway, or a corn-dog from the Rockville town hall. love those corn-dogs, but ur right, they are expensive! everything in SFNE is through the roof, including the entrance fee. $40?!?!?! glad i got a season pass! yeah, everytime i can remember goin, they had the combo on Scream, and usually had 2 towers goin, but never the third one?!!!! and other than the ferris and spider, nightwing is usually broken too. too bad, i like spider, no remorse for the wheel though! i wish a smaller park would put SFNE in its place, maybe put in a major ride like a giga, or an impluse, or maybe even a flying!!! that would be so cool, and it might draw enough business away from SFNE to make them realize that they better start makin this park a nicer, cheaper, friendlier, and clearner place to visit.

ive never had a corndog. im not impressed with flying coasters. id rather see a hyper or giga. just puttin in a hyper wouldnt put SFNE in its place. itd have to be a good one. Superman is amazing. ive actually only been on one other hyper (steel eel at SWT) and it was great but nowhere near superman. when i went to riverside it was shitty. SF has improved that park. tho the workers arent good when i went to riverside they were worse. i was ready to kill the ppl who ran cyclone (its a long sotry why). also there was no themeing. although there isnt that much in SFNE now its better cuz of crackaxle canyon and rockville.

Most of rock vill was there when it was Riverside. all they did is add in the Gym. everything else was their. I with they would have Kept the Music express and put twister somwere else, north end. get a weather theme going. I dont see any of the local parks getigna Giga. Superman could have been longer withthe sped it had. they could have a simular drop but a much longet track. two more hils on the way out and were Superman turns into the station go iunder it and do a longer finally. Canobei needs to get off there but and do a big expantin, push for a higher ride. a 120 ft woodie woudl be the talist in NE and one of the talest on the east coast. a good steel looper. and a few thrill rides. they already have more family rides then any park in NE.

RAM20884, ur right, it would have to be an excellent giga, but it would give NE a ride that would compete with SRoS, and a park that would give major competition to SFNE. so, uv only been on one hyper, and u can say for certain SRoS is the best, is that what i understand? try Magnum, or Apollos Chariot, or the other two SRoSs, trust me, u might still think superamn is better, but most of those are tough contenders with SRoS at SFNE. Crackalxe canyon wasnt there with riverside? i always thought that it was, and SFNE just expanded on it?!! if canobie got a giga, id be there so fast, my head would spin. lets see if they can come up with anything in the near future!

They wouldnt be about to install a giga. a taler Hypr maybe but not a giga. Allthey need to dp is remove the Canobei 500 (second car ride with race cars) and use the plot for two coasters. a meadium family to face the pool midway and a larg woodie for the old Canobie Village. that woudl give them better woods then SFNE. that woul also ginv them a start. then expand with a medium size B&M invert. 6-7 inversions, maybe 8 to show off. with that they could take SFNE. once they have the money(they refuse to get loans and cause debt like SF dose) they can add a Hyperinto the houses that are their now. turn drop, deep tunal could be built their. youl get in one or two good hills befor tunign at the road. basicly build a double out and back. us a 540degree helix on the third turn around they a masive fanaly at the end. toler longer more Gs and easly more air. Crackaxle was part of the Premeir upgrade to become SF so Riverside dint instal in nore did SF.

coasermac i said ive been on 2 hypers. S:ROS and steel eel in SWT. of the two S:ROS is 10X better. i really want to ride apollos and magnum but for now S?:ROS is my best hyper and my fav ride. what a thrill. Mrc, superman is pretty long. u think superman is too short but think batmans length is fine. thats messed up. superman gives a lonmg ride and is intense. i really dont think it could be much bigger. diving under the station would be dumb. As for Canobie, yankee cannonball is great and i love it but its like all hills so they should install a wooden twister. then id say either an inverted or a flying. i dont see them puttin in a hgyper andi cant say id be totally in favor of it cuz itd take away from canobies small park feeling. canobiue does need to expand. there seems to be alot of new thrill rides appearing (sky swatter, sledgehammer, delirium) they could put one of those in.now music express, that sounds familiar, whjat was it again? i wouldnt mind seein a weather theme. cyclone,, blizzard river,twister, then they have the little kids balloons. personally i dont like the little kid balloon ride and they have a scramber already in crackaxle canyon so they could get rid of those and put twister there. theyd have to change the name of time warp for a weather theme.

I didnt mean Superman was short I ment that their was still momenton on that hight that could have me used. what I was getign at was that even a similare coaster in hight and setup could still be longer. sorry for the confusion.

Canobie: I was throughing out teh Hyper Idea manyly because Coaster make brought it up. I wouldnt want them to get one ither. when they get another wood it will inded be a twister. I was just sayign where it could go. if you look at the mape you will see that a twister is the only type of coster that woudl fit their of a wood style. I dont see then getign a flyer. to much extra money. pluse the publice is more demanding a good inverted. they are trying to ad thrill rides it a slow process. liek I mentioned tey refuse to get loand. everythign is bought straight out. practicly in cash.

A music Express is also called a Himolya. its a track quided ride that has cars all around it. the track has a hill like track in which it starts low, hills up, levels off, hills again, then drops, levils, drops makigna circle. the ride gives good lats and some floot on the hills. espacialy on the last one before coming down again. it was located on the sopt you find Twister now. their is also one at Lake Compounce, and a small one at Santas Village.

is it like kontiki?

teh track design is simular, but the ride sialot biger. teh cars are also chariate liek and sits on the track.

hears the photo:
http://www.sbfrides.com/prodotti.php?categoria=1&sottocategoria=27
just open the Musik express one.

ok. i got it. i kinda remember it.

THE ONE HEAR WAS THE BEST i HAVE EVER RIDEN AND THEY GOT RID OF IT. DOMB MOVE. sorry the caps lok got bumped.

lol. i do that too sometimes. i dont remember ridin it. i remember little about riverside. only the kiddie coaster, the fact that i saw cyclone had otsrs and the little submarine thing. i also remember the buzzsaw (then the slingshot) and the old waterslide. and that the service was crap.

I remember a boat ride but not a Submorine ride. maybe it was part of the kiddie park. th eslides were fun but then Blizard river is more fun.

it wasnt a ride it was a gam. it involved 3 ppl at least. 2 ppl would go into a tiney submarine. one was a shooter and the other was the driver. then the other person stood outside the water where the submarines were. from what i remember you shoot tennis balls at the submarines and if you hit it in a certain spot it like stalls. i think they could shoot back but im not sure. i remember it cuz i went with my cousin, my future cousin in law and my cousins best friend (which is the cousin of my future cousin in-law, yes she married her best friends cousin). my cousins bf is clausterphobi and was to be the shooter in the submarine. she got in and he started pullin away. she flipped cuz of he clasutrophobia and tried to get out jumpin off the submarine onto the dock and my cousin was left there without a shooter.

now that you disgrided it I think i remember. not suprised they took it out. I miss the bat ride that is now Ship reck falls and parkof the Canyon.

i remember very little about riverside. i went 2wice. once when i was real little and once after mind eraser was put in but b4 it became sf. i dont remember the boat ride.

I went in 95 it was a much deforent park then. alot more flat rides. ideoticly they had removed their Wildcat coaster for more parkinglot space.

what kinda coaster was it?

Schwarzkopf / Wildcat, moved to Rocky point and renamed Cyclone.

o ok i know it then cuz ive ridden that thing at least 30 times before the park shut down.

my complaint is they took it out for a parking lot.

yea ythat sux. and it was a fun ride too.

I like Schwarzkopf coasters. I Have only riden a caple but they were Great. SFNE and Riversdie hasnt mad the best decisions when it cones to rides. they have added some really good rides but they have removed as much as they have added.

well SFNE should remove poland spring plung and mind eraser and put in a good B&M inverted cuz mind eraser was one of their bad choices.

Well its not going to hapon under SF manegment.

i know

I wish I could buy it . you would see a fantastic park come out if it.

well ive heard some of your plans and it would be good. what were they exactly, move the waterpark down the street, put in a hotel and connect the two with a monorail or a ferry. what would you do with the actual park beside im guessin restorin cyclones drop

Definatly Restor Cyclone to its origanal glorry. also remove any trims. intal Mellemion Flyers or Gerstlauer trains. Remove Flashback(likly sell it cheap to Cabobie with a sponserd by) and do the same with the Mind eraser and sell it to Lake Compounce,Funtown, Sombudy. again cheap. extend Rockvill and the south end into the water park area. the back parking lot with mecoem a reall western town. Crackazl wth be rethemed to be somewer in betwen westerand and modern.

whatd millenium flyers? what would you do in the mind eraser and flashback spaces. why make the back parking lot western themed when batmans there. id say make it gotham

Mellenium Flyers are the articulated traind from GCI used on the Ovark Wildcat and on the Lighning Racers.

Flashback are woudl get a few flats. they need more flats. dont worry many moe coasters to come. mind woudl be replaced with Wayn Maner Musium/ Resorant(mostly restorant). theirs no place to eat their.

The intire south end will become a Gotham city. so will that intire side of the water park. so you will se a big Gothatm are. i want to build a Duling Invert. so loosign Flash and mind will quickly be forgoten.

what would be the coolest is (and i know its all but impossible) a triple dueling invert. it could be like batman and Robin: Chillers Revenge. one track batman, one track robin and one track freeze. so for the gotham area, would u move the stunt show and nightwing in there. i could picture and intamin ride (like acrophobia) in Gotham called like the Ridller or somethin with a big quetion mark at the top.

Id stick with the 2 tracked invert batman and catwomen. their interminglign is always the more intersting. Int. drop tower will ge to DC. everythign Batman will coem out of DC ginign me the intire area to restructure. more rides.

i think the intamin tower would be better in Gotham with the question mark atop it. you mentoned and S&S four tear tower ride. that can go in DC and be called kryptonite. I dont think you could fit a decent dueling invert in SFNE. I think they next thing to be built should either be a regular invert (B&M of course) or a good standup. The standup could be called like Jokers Revenge.

No reused names. I am tired of hearign the same ond SF names all over the place. I wouldnt but the drop tower in with that theme. another reason for puting in in DC is the hieght. if you build it 380 so it will be the talllist. it builg in DC will be more easly aproved. you could make the douling invert work. why the Flum, ferris whell, and water park are coming out. woudl liek to get a good looking wheel ith a good lighting system. The four system woudl go in the DC also. peple wont care if its their as well. also I can build it taller. instlall in in th espot of Poison Ivy. then instal the Drop tower. and it will be Acreabobia style in witch is tilts you forword before the drop.

i only said jokers revenge cuz that ride no longer exists. there was only one and its now jester. i think itd be dumb having 2 tower rides in the same area. the 4 tear should be 300ft and itd be loud so itd have to be in dc. i think that the intamin tower would be a lot qieter. plus what would be the names for the 2 towers. you can only use kryptonite once and i picture it as more of the S&S tower. a good dueling invert like DD would take up the entire water park area. id just put in an invert and i standup.

Actually it wouldnt if designed smaller. dig int the ground a little. keep in mand th eonly thing else I plan t put in the water park is a slight extension of the 50s area. so we dont need alot of room.

True butign it in the same area may be over kill. but in order to get such a large tower it may ned to hapon. I coudl always but the intamin drop tower in the noth end.

i think the waterpark has a lot of land so you wouldnt want to put somethin in thatll take most of it up cuz then you run into the problem they have now, the neighbors will comp;lain when you expand farther. you could get 2 or 3 coasters in the area of the waterpark. a deling one would take up too much space.

naieghbers arelikly to complain no mater what. thow keet in mind usign the flum are and a compact design it could be done. also by restrycturing the park more room coudl be created around it. so room will be made. the lily the dulign caster would take up half to a liitle less then. that still leave for acres and the intreparkign lot area.

i mean dont get me wrong, a dueling invert would be great and put SFNE on the map, but i think when you consider how much space the park has, it might not be the best idea. then again, if its compact enough....

I would still have the design drawn up. at least see wha twe can do. also I woud start tryign to but ouy the houses so there woudl be more expantion space.

thatd be the best idea.

Id rather have th edesign withthe lily hood that i could maybe use it later.

if yo watch it the launch goes like only 5 ft. from the top.

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