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Coaster looks awesome, with a huge double-dip off the quarry wall. If
only the Rattler had done stunts like this...

here's the link to the English site
http://members.tripod.com/terramitica/indexe_i.htm

Click on ROME, then on MAGNUS COLOSSUS, then on the camera or
camcorder for pix & videos.

Indeed, I hope they reprofile the first drop again. The helix needs to be
faster and/or retracked. Sometimes the helix is rough too. That might depend
on which seat you take. This ride is simply not what is could/used to be.

Who knows... they will probably put shoulder restraints on it. Maybe if
Astroworld replaces the trains on 'Texas Cyclone' they could donate the old
ones to 'Rattler'.

What do you guys think? :)

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Anyway, I spent some time one day thinking of how they could improve the Rattler,
while still keeping the sue-happy GP happy.  I think if they extended the first
drop back down a little bit, maybe halfway back to where it was, and left the
second hill and drop the way they are, that would be good.  Then we get to the
helix -- TAER IT OUT!  At the top of the hill where the helix starts, it could dip
back down to the ground and do a nice fast, highly banked 540 degree helix upward
from the ground.  OK, so now we're pointed toward the edge of the cliff, we could
do a long, curving drop to the left which swoops back up to the top of the canyon
wall and curves under the new helix and reconnects with the top of the drop that
curves into the cave.

Now maybe that completely unrealistic, I don't know.  But it would make the ride
better and give it a faster pace.  Let's not get too hysterical and rip out
Poltergeist, though.  I LIKE that ride despite the head banging.  I find if you
ride with your head pressed against the right side of the OTSR, there is very
little headbanging.  And since it's the only steel coaster I can think of that
feels totally out of control to me, I say KEEP IT!  Joker's Revenge can go,
though.  Replace it with something more exciting.  Something, anything....  A
picnic area would be more exciting.

-Rob

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Oh the pre-destruction of the Rattler will always remain in my
memory...ahhhh. I was looking back at some pics I took of it when it
first opened....and they also have a GREAT pic of it in "The American
Roller Coaster" book. That first drop skimmed the bottom of the
quarry...it was awesome!

But as for selling Poltergeist....NO!! I LOVE that ride. Riding in the
front I have no head banging problems at all. And at night it is awesome
all lit up in flourescent lighting. I do agree with tearing out Jokers
Revenge though. The most exciting part of that ride is walking around
through the funhouse when the effects aren't working and banging into
every damn wall in there, Believe me it has happened more than once..it
is as if the park does not want to waste electricity on the funhouse
anymore. I still think they should add an inverted there....make good
use of the quarry wall again. Something original though...no Batman
clones or cheesey "X: The Quarry Climber" names!hehee!