Overall SFA wasn't a *bad* park. I went into it with very low expectations, but aside from Jinx did everything I wanted in a few hours and had no gripes. Reasonable crowds for a Sunday in August. Park was clean, if not tired looking. Reminded me of Kentucky Kingdom under Six Flags in the mid-aughts.

Elsewhere:
• Superman did little for me.
• Jinx was the only missed ride (down) aside from the kiddie and Batwing (ripperoni).
• The SLC's new trains made it tolerable.
• Roar, no loss.
• Wild One has history and is pretty floaty, but the logistics of saving it are definitely not in its favor.

Made up for a disappointing reunion with Firebird; the other SFGAm transplant which, growing up, was known Iron Wolf and very easy to marathon.

Floorless trains were a mistake -- it's rougher, and the faux-MCBR used to have a nice airtime pop which these new trains completely sucked the life from.

Now?

Not only did the thing HAUL through the entire ride, but from the minute the spin mech unlocks on the mid-course you're spinning almost endlessly - VIOLENTLY at times - until you hit the brakes. Absolutely the most intense mouse I've ever hit. Of everything here, someone please save this one.

Don't @ me I actually ran that turd working at SFGAm in '07. Fine, albeit unremarkable ride, then. After termination (what can I say, my then-16 year-old-with-coaster-'tism-self clashed with internal coaster 'tism/politics) I was unfairly bitter and never rode it again until its closing day in 2013

Trim on the third hill and MCBR are just acknowledging they're there, and the figure-eight trim may as well be off entirely.

I don't know if this is a Fright Fest special or what, but Raging Bull actually lives up to its name for the first time in 26 years.

You know how row 9, trick first drop has always been the best ejector air at Great America?

Deadass apply that to *every* drop... especially after the mid-course. And the dip just before the figure-eight, toward the end: the sudden - to +G's will scorpion your spine if you're not ready for it.

Sad year for spiral lifts

$2 flea market find, even has the 3D glasses

At one point before the final stretch of hills, I pleaded for RMC to hopefully see this and "burn the motherfucker". That was in June, RMC got to work on it in August. I didn't expect them to deliver, but smiled a little when they did.

Those trains were heavy. Every single vertical transition it violently bucked and jackhammered your spine. Rewatching the old POV, it's just screams of pain the entire ride.

I never rode Psyclone proper, but Colossus got the Psyclone trains when it ran backwards. Usually reserved for Fright Fest, they ran them all season in 2014, which was the only time I got to ride before it was RMC'd.

tempting, tempting...