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Re: Rollercoasters
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Sun, 30 May 1999 23:52:18 GMT
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Ed Jones wrote:
> Any other rollercoaster enthusuiasts out there?
Yes. I assume you participate in the annual ranking/poll?? I stopped
reading rec.roller.coaster due to time constraints rather than lack of
interest. Are you in ACE?
I've never ridden the cyclone, unf.
My favorite woody has to be Giant Dipper at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,
followed closely by (and i know this is an unpopular choice, a lot of
people hate it) The Beast at Kings Island N of Cincinnati.
My favorite steelie has to be Desperado at Primadonna resort, State Line
CA. 200 vertical, 80 MPH. Kicks butt. Manhattan express in Las Vegas is
also fun because of the theming. And one has to acknowledge Kumba at
Busch Gardens as nice.
I'm also partial to dark rides such as Space Mountain (ridden both the
FL and CA ones) and Outer Limits (at KI) which is cool because it uses a
linear magnetic accelerator instead of a lift hill. Coasters on piers
are also fun for me (Sea Serpent, and Great White, both in Wildwood NJ
are faves for me)
My favorite personal memory of a coaster, though, would have to be
riding the Wildcat at Lake Compounce CT. (1992??) Seems that park had an
unbroken string of operating seasons, fell on hard times, and the
townspeople got together, volunteered, and got the park open over labor
day weekend just to keep the string going one more year. Wildcat is a
nice woody, nothing special, but the emotions of it were special.
I TRY to have a season pass to some park somewhere if it makes business
sense to do so (that I will be on a project near it all summer). This
year was going to be Valley Fair in MN but I am not going to be on that
project much longer.
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| (...) I'm not in ACE, yet. I've considered it many times, but I am lucky to get to 3 parks in a summer. (...) Major bummer. An all time classic, rattle your ribs, throw you around, vibration-a-thon. (...) Hate the Beast - ASFIC, greatly overrated. (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Rollercoasters
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| Larry Pieniazek (lar@voyager.net) wrote: : Ed Jones wrote: : > Any other rollercoaster enthusuiasts out there? I like roller coasters, follow r.r.c. a little, and am waiting for my children to be tall enough to have an excuse to go to parks. I know (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Dark Rides (was Re: Rollercoasters)
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| (...) Err, I don't mean to be pedantic (well, ok, so I do), but Space Mountain isn't a "dark ride". It's a roller coaster that happens to take place in the dark. "Dark rides" (disney-specific) would include Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, the Peter Pan ride, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Rollercoasters
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| (...) My scariest ride was on Space Mountain in Anaheim. The boys were *just* tall enough to go on all the rides. It was getting late, and Kristin had something else to do (shopping, prolly), so us three guys headed off. I didn't remember until we (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Okay folks, the season is upon us. I'm off today to go ride the Cyclone at Coney Island (IMO still the best rollercoaster in the world. And yes I've been to cedar Point and Great Adventure) and it Nathan's Hot Dogs (yesterday was the Hot Dog Eating (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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