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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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(...) Mr. Toad is a motorized car using a guide rail to follow a predefined path through an essentially flat area, Peter Pan is a suspended overhead tracked ride (uses overhead chain conveyor technology), Pirates is a guided boat ride, small world (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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(...) Actually, in my original post (which was longer) there was a mention of both the lift hill scenes and the conveyor belt exit. But I decided they watered down my point, so I removed them. :D (...) I don't know the California one really well, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes. Both are cool effects and at first you have trouble distinguishing that it's a little "off", since the pictures and trim are exactly the same, IIRC. I think my favorite meta-part of Disneyland is the differences. It's enough like Magic (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) And sadly, Mr. Toad is gone. The Grand Adventures of Winnie the Pooh opened in its place yesterday. (...) Pirates and Small World are both unguided. The system that the Haunted Mansion uses is an omnimover system also used for the Toy Story (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Dark Rides (was Re: Rollercoasters)
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(...) The roof goes up in Tokyo, Paris, and Florida, but you go down in California. (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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