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Jacob, however, devised a contraption to outsmart the demons by creating powerful ore cars that were suspended beneath a floating track. The silver bullets could then be rushed through tunnels and caverns as gunslingers sat perched on benches protecting the precious cargo, and this eventually rid the town of its demons.

Apart from the use of narrative on a laminated sign, there is no attempt to disguise Silver Bullet. It is a roller coaster without subtly or humility.

I guess words are cheaper than the cost of ordering more colors of paint than red and yellow. But what is a body of water to a roller coaster designer other than a flat, open construction arena with a minimum of obstacles complicating the engineering process? In short, Silver Bullet is a sincere attempt to be as much of a parking lot coaster as it can.

At least Scream is hidden in the back corner of the park where you can easily ignore it if you want to, and I doubt anyone will shed a tear over the loss of their once beautiful car park. Silver Bullet is the worse offender. The carnivalesque red and yellow track and cars are far less evocative of a western color palate than Cedar Fair seems to think.

That is assuming they were unaware that choosing such a bright selection made an already visually intrusive structure hold a total monopoly on attention in the area. These are all dissonant, hard angles, purely functional in design; why no more radial triangles?

The first drop is often ostracized by enthusiasts for being very short and shallow. The vertical loop is serviceable, but so overused I have to concentrate during the inversion to remember it more than ten seconds later. The follow-up zero G roll is another relatively fun element for the same generic reasons, this one slightly differentiated by continuing the fast rotation of the inversion directly into the inclined helix that follows.

This acts as a midpoint for the layout, starting the second half with a rapid succession of reasonably intense flat-spin, overbank twist, and reverse flat-spin. This repeated on my next few re-rides, and after browsing a few reviews online I gathered this was not an uncommon phenomenon. The real question was how it could seem less forceful than it really was. The brakes are last. It perhaps helps that the zone is named for a colorful, convivial party town rather than a place where the last resident expired during the Hays administration; also maybe because most of the infrastructure and major attractions were built prior to The Mesoamerican environment is surprisingly beautiful for what could have otherwise been a carnival midway, filled with greenery, flowers, fountains and bright ornamentations.

There are also a carousel, wave swinger, and a Mexican Hat Dance teacup-style flat. And then there are the roller coasters. Jaguar is particularly impressive, a large temple guarding the entrance with the queue winding through several dark sections of catacombs before terminating in the station platform, bearing more favorable than negative comparison to Dueling Dragons or Indiana Jones. Too bad this kitty never quite lives up to the promise of excellence in the queue.

This coaster is more or less the mine train the park never had, with its long meandering layout and family friendly age range. I still found myself wanting to like Jaguar more than I actually did, because it had the quirky lovability of an independent label struggling to find a niche audience amid the corporate giants. Sometimes extremely clumsy shoehorning, like the long stretch of flat track built directly over the brake run and railroad tracks to bridge from one vacant lot to another, and a lot of track randomly erected over concrete midways.

Apart from the paint selection and some new signage, the Schwarzkopf shuttle loop retains all the original architecture and the same flywheel technology with the cute but vicious little catchdog that scuttles over the launch track. And most importantly take note, Magic Mountain! The problem of low capacity with spinning coasters was given an attempted solution by utilizing a train of four linked cars rather than individual vehicles which require a block brake every ten seconds.

This worked on the prototype at Europa Park , but here they were stacking the two trains so badly that it ended up having the longest wait of any attraction. And this was as a single rider in an unevenly weighted car. Mwahaaaa, the Swiss roller coasters have always been celebrated for their excellence. Of the California coasters, Xcelerator is one of their most xcellent. Freeze coasters. But Intamin made it work in a way that none of their predecessors were able to do, and for better or worse Xcelerator set the agenda for the Swiss firm for most of the decade that followed possibly at the expense of their traditional gravity-driven megacoasters that mostly dropped off the map after The absence of any over the shoulder restraints, the launch directly out of the station loading platform with extremely little warning, and the crest over the top hat remains the most regularly overspeed of its type.

A word of warning for first time visitors, the queue for the front car starts far away from the station and is poorly marked with no advisories to the extra wait time. As a result, the right side of the division will generally fill with an hour or more worth of folks who just get in whatever line they see people in, while the seating for cars 2 thru 5 on the left can be briskly walked up and in ready to launch position within five minutes.

Part of me wishes for the prolonged, multi-part suspense of a launch initiation such as on Top Thrill Dragster to squeeze out as much tension before a sixteen second ride as possible first slowly clear the station, then wait in the standby position for the first train to launch, then crawl up into the real launch pad, wait for the cable catch to reload and the last block to clear, the countdown, etc.

You feel a much closer immediacy to the experience, like watching a deadly animal without any protective barriers between the two of you. I will probably not be the very first person to mention that after the top hat the overbanked figure eight is unnecessary and basically only serves the purpose to extend the ride long enough such that the second train has at least has time to make it into the station before the first is re-entering the brakes. Nevertheless, the coaster does need something after the tower to flesh it out Stealth and Zaturn are empty experiences by comparison , and with the small lot and inversions not possible without the addition of shoulder harnesses, I suppose this configuration is as good as we could have hoped for.

Granted it was only twenty five seconds of breathlessness, but these days fewer coasters are able to leave me gasping in disbelief for that length of time at all.

Once I had grabbed a couple of laps on Xcelerator, I moved on to the rest of the Boardwalk to complete my tour of the park right as the sun dipped below the western horizon. At the time of my visit, the area beyond the Coasters Drive-In would have been more deserving of the Ghost Town title. Perilous Plunge was closed for a repainting that would take the better part of the year, and the Sky Cabin still sat suspended in silence despite being given a stay of execution once the Windseeker project was relocated to Fiesta Village.

Rip Tide , the floorless HUSS Top Spin, was also off the table for me due to its many drenching water jets… I might have been in sunny California, but for me it was still the middle of January at night. This left the Boomerang as the last attraction I would sample. No, really, there was a time when I was getting on board when I reflected how glad I was to be alive in this moment in history. After I was done, I went to finish the final hour with two stellar front seat rides on GhostRider, and that was without question the wisest way to conclude the day.

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Buena Park, California According to legend, there once was a time when demons and evil spirits stalked the plains of the west, and the only way to stop them was with a supernatural silver bullet from the Jacob Mining Co.

American Parks. Adventure City. Unlike a traditional freefall which ends after the drop. Supreme Scream takes this the thrills to a new dimension by rebounding the vehicles back up the tower for a second drop. The sudden upward rebound results in a postive g-force of up to 4 G's, which is followed by a second freefall.

The ride concludes with several smaller bounces back up and down until the vehicle comes to rest at the base of the tower. Supreme Scream offers thrill-seekers first class thrills and plenty of screams and it's a welcome addition to the lineup of exciting attractions at Knott's Berry Farm. Photos by Eric Gieszl. Supreme Scream is a service mark of Knott's Berry Farm. All rights reserved. Theme Parks Pinterest. Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair.

This all-new 4-D interactive dark ride takes guests on an exciting journey through dynamic show scenes that honor the classic Bear-y Tales attraction. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant. Since , this family-style dining restaurant has faithfully served its classic fried chicken dinner made famous by the handmade biscuits, boysenberry pie and Mrs. Knott's country fried chicken. Don't miss a minute of the fun! Reopening Protocols. Ride more. Wait less. Speed past the lines with Fast Lane!

Fast Lane. Thrill Level. Supreme Scream. Height Requirement: 52 inches.