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Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group formation (was
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Sun, 26 Sep 1999 01:04:58 GMT
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At 04:14 PM 09/25/1999 , Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Tim Courtney wrote:
> 
> > > PS, ValleyFair! was great. I got to be on the last public ride of Wild
> > > Thing (their big steelie) of the last year that starts with 19 (ducks
> > > the "last ride of the millenium" thing)...
> > 
> > What's that?
> 
> What's what?

Lemme put on my seatbelt for this one..

> ValleyFair! - an amusement park located in Shakopee MN, owned by Cedar
> Fair who also owns Cedar Point (hence the company name) Dorney Park and
> I think Knotts.
> 
> Wild Thing - A pretty big non looping steelie, nice air time, nice first
> drop.

Cool.

> Steelie - a roller coaster. tubular steel track. Top, bottom and inside
> wheels Steelie refers to the track, not the superstructure (Gemini is a
> wooden superstructure Steelie, although some people say it's just a
> giant "mine train". but Mine Trains are steelies, IMHO) Contrast with
> "woodie" which uses stacked wood planks with steel top and inside straps
> for track. A woodie COULD be built with a steel superstructure but I
> don't know of any.

Ok ok ok... this is kinda gettin into it :)  But I didn't know a steelie
only referred to the tracks..thanks Lar. :)

> The millenium - Dunno. Some Christian Era thing.

Hehe :)

-Tim <><

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  Re: Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group formation (was
 
(...) Ok, I understand more now. What are the dates and times for this again?? (...) And really close for me :) If people would like to start talking about what they would like to do at this fest - it will help on knowing what kind of location we (...) (27 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)

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