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Nice to see the Britannia arcade get a new life. And the new signs look good.

Haha I decided to do a search for the guy I mentioned a couple posts back. and I found a couple videos of him. Apparently He's there everyday and does this all the time. The park must pay him to do this. I actually thought that might be the case, but its still funny. *none of the videos are from the time I went. Just do a youtube search on "cedar point guy" and you should find some results. ...and remember he does this the ENTIRE time you stand in line. lol

At Cedar Point, Two years ago, my friends and I were waiting in line for Millenium Force. We hopped in line a little before closing time. If you've never been on Millennium Force at night... 1 - you definetly should ride at night because its about a million times better. 2 - The lines/crowd/queues are really crazy and fun at night. Moreso than any other place/ride I've ever been to/on. The people are loud and are all ready to party. They have great techno/electronica music and sometimes have DJ's at that little booth. +Plus The night display of MF's track is by far one of the coolest/best I've ever seen if not the best. back to the story.... well this particular night, there was a DJ there and the place was just rockin. Everyone was having a great time. We were talking to all the other people in line and meeting each other which is rare because usually when you and your crew are standing in lines, you only talk to each other and are afraid to talk to other people right? lol. Well, suddenly we notice a young (college age) white guy a couple rows ahead of us wearing a Green hooded sweatshirt w/ the hood up, listening to a portable CD player, and rapping (very loudly) along with whatever was playing in his CD player. This guy was alone, by himself in line. He starts to catch the attention of everybody else in line. The funniest thing is that he wasn't rappin to anybody or for anybody; he was rapping just to himself for his own entertainment. People tried to talk to him and get his attention, but nobody could; he was off in his own world. At the end of every song he would scream "Woo" in a Ric Flair style. Well the ENITRE crowd and line for MF had found about this guy, and practically every single person in line was taking pictures/filming this guy with cellphones/cameras etc. There was so much footage taken of this guy that night, there has to be pics or a clip of him somewhere on the internet. well when he finally made it onto the train, he was still going at it, and the ride attendant tried to take his CD player, but everyone else on the ride and still in line started chanting to let him keep it while he rode, so she let him keep it while he rode. When his train came back into the station, he was doing the "WOO!" thing like rapid fire. So one of the ride attendants brought the PA Microphone to him while he was still sittin in the train, and he gave a huge amplified "WOO!" over the loudspeaker, and instantly became a legend. The whole walk back to the car you could hear people Imitating the"woo!" and reminescing (sp?) about that nut. Pure fun and Insanity

I have my share of stories: 1. We were on S:TE at SFMM and we were all getting ready to launch. I could tell that it was some riders first time on the ride because they were getting really scared. We shoot out of the station and a maximum speed of...10 MPH! We got short shot! My dad and I were laughing our heads off because it took us about five minutes for us to stop at the end, and almost EVERYONE on the car was going crazy! Good times, good times. 2. Another S:TE story. These guys behind me decide to bring out a quarter to try and see what gravity would do to it. So when they let it go at the top, it went flying forward into my row, and when we started falling, it came back and hit me in the face! Sure, it hurt, but it was freakin hilarious. ---Brent

I'm going to guess these are things that you saw people do and didn't, in fact do yourself. So I shall tell my non-Ride Ops stories! A few years ago I haven't been to SFGAdv in several years and in that time they had built Nitro. So my husband decided we'd wait till the end of the day then ride when the lines where shorter. So after a short line we get on and the guy in Control Room has decided to have a good ole' time. He made a comment "So who's never been on this bad boy before" so naturally I raise my hand. The next comment is something like "Your not a coaster virgin are you" which was a HUGE no and then it was "Well tell us how ya like it" and the car went out. After we returned to loading he asked "Did ya like it?" which got a big thumbs up and a loud cheer then I hear my favorite thing "Then let's do it again!" and boom! Off we went on a second round! I used to work for Seaworld Orlando so we haunted BGT on days off since they have the best coasters in Florida. So one nasty overcast day we standing on Montu's platform chatting with the ride ops since the park was dead (a heavy storm has just gone threw). The lead came out and started talking with us while they where waiting for an all clear on the storm, when that finally happened the Ops lead looked at us and said "So, ya wanna do the ride threws?" Needless to say we had a good long time on Montu before anyone else showed back up! BGT with the Seaworld crew again, they had just opened up Gwazi and it was still on "testing" and they invited Busch Park employees to "Ride it! Tell us whatcha think!" Well we rode and after we got off there was some woman standing there coughing and looking like she was about to be sick. So we paused for a moment since she was in front of us, when all of a sudden she yells "I swallowed a DAMN BUG". I think we almost peed ourselves laughing!

This past May I was at SFFT with my school. I was on RR Express (1997 Arrow Mine train) and was sitting in about the 12th row. As we were turning out of the first drop through the Rattler, a guy screams, "TITTIES!" to which another girl responds, "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Another one was when this past month I was at HersheyPark with my aunt. We went on one of the number one rides (HersheyPark and many other parks have a 1-5 scale of intensity), which I can't remember. When we were done, she defiantly stood up and announced, "I'M READY FOR A NUMBER TWO!!!!!!"

Nothing can top being on the Skyride at Indiana Beach, looking up, and seeing this coming at you the other way. Completely unexpected! -James Dillaman WTF?!? I didn't know the park mascots were allowed to ride the rides!!!

Here are some of my funniest moments (in no particular order). 1. Much like this, my brother's hat flew off on the final drop on Log Jammer at SFMM. He was freaking out because he thought he lost his favorite hat. But then I look back and there's his hat floating in the infamous "six flags soup" in the log boat. 2. During frightfest at SFDK last year, some random lady handed me an unused fastpass because she didn't need it. So while walking over to Medusa as we passed people I would yell out "Fastpassfivedolla!" like some crazy fast-talking auctioneer trying to sell it. 3. Earlier in the day, in one of the haunted mazes, me, my brother, and his friends were messing around with the guys in costumes inside and bribed them to do random things with loose change that we had found throughout the day. 4. At SFMM earlier this year, it was in the evening and my brother and I were getting repeat rides in the front on Viper and after each time around we discovered loose change in the bottom of the car even though neither of us had any coins before. You could hear the loose change rattling around during the double corkscrew. 5. The next night at SFMM, in line for, and on Deja Vu, there were these "gangsta" teenagers who my brother and I agreed just had the funniest attitude ever heard. It was hilarious listening to them during the ride. 6. Listening to the screams of pain of guests after riding Kong (Vekoma SLC) at SFDK.

I have 2. The first one (and to me the funniest) was actually on Stingray at Noah's Ark in the Wisconsin Dells last summer. My cousin and I had gone on it a few times already that day and loved it, and we convinced my parents to go on it. My mom which i should add is afraid of heights. We get to the top and let them go first, my mom facing forward and my dad facing backward. As soon as they go down my cousin and I can't see anything but all we hear is KEVIN MICHAEL and my cousin and I just die laughing on the spot, even the life guard was laughing. The other experience was 1 year ago at Cedar Point on opening day. I went with one of my friends and since Skyhawk was new we decided to wait for it. We get on the ride and sit down and wait for them to check our harnesses. The ride starts and were both ok. When it gets up to its full swing and were looking 100ft straight down at the ground i look over at my friend sitting next to me and she has this OMFG look on her face that was just priceless. I wish I had my camera ready.

Some funny freestylneut experiences: 1. After a ride on Kumba (BGT) my wife gets up and as soon as she does a pretty big (annoyed looking) BEE was on her seat buzzing around in circles. It looks like she sat down on it when she strapped in. At first it was pretty scary, but she didn't get stung and the fact that the bee was flying around in circles on the green part of the seat led us to beleive it was DIZZY from the ride it just went experienced. 2. I did a Peter Parker from Spider-man 3 as me & my nephew were on Phoenix (again at BGT) and a very nice, shiny, new looking state quarter fell out from under and floated right in our face as we went up. It bounced too and fro, and I touched it a couple of times but could never get my hand on it. 3. Before launching on Dr. Doom's Fearfall at IOA, we are about to shoot up but suddenly things seem to quite down (we thought it shut down). We all dropped out guard and my sister was on the other end. She tilted her head to talk to me when it SUDDENLY shot up and she hit her nose pretty hard on the safety restraint! 4. Our first time on Alien Encounter at WDW, me & the wife had our mouths open at the EXACT time the background guy says "I had my mouth open" when water shoots out. We laughed uncontrollably for about 5 minutes straight.

Quantum at Thorpe Park was called Zodiac, Slammer and many other unrelated ride names within the space of 5 minutes... The majority were serious mistakes, but they started playing about after calling it Vortex... Yeah, that's funny seeing horrified guests that heard they were going on Slammer, when it was actually Quantum. They should re-name it something like Zodislamortum... Also, while queuing for Quantum, you could hear some guy at the exatc same point yelling 'oh my balls!' repeatedly!! I soon found out why... Why did I choose the row with the skinny people in it? My groin got crushed!!!

Recently, I went to SFMM and rode Psyclone. PART I: We were next to get on, but as the train came back, everyone was in pain. In particular, some pretty cut twentysomething year olds (the type you wouldn't think would act wussy) came off half in pain, half in comic disbelief, groaning about how that hurt, and how they'll never ride it again. Pretty funny stuff. PART II: I ride and tape the ride. When I get off, the ride op looks at the camera in my hand and the pain on my face (I'd taken one for the team by riding in order to get a person who'd never ridden the ride but had heard about it onto the coaster), then bursts out laughing, realizing I'd captured the painfest on film. For the record, a ride on Psyclone usually goes like this. Funniest ride moment? How about the ending to The Scary Adventure of Snow White at Disneyland? Most. Abrumpt. Ending. Ever. Those who have been on it and know how the Disney movie goes would agree, I think. Three summers ago, I was working at Knott's, on Supreme Scream. One night, about an hour and a half before closing, on a slow night, my friend and I were messing around in dispatch with various spiels. While the tower went up, we'd switch the mic over to the queue line and do sillys things like the horror movie "CH-CH-CH-CH.. CHA CHA CHA CHA..." scary sound effects thing, and the like. Well, at somepoint, I got the idea to start saying random things. So three kids come running through the line, and I use my best "Mr. Announcer Guy" voice to say "We're sorry, Supreme Scream has closed for the night. Please feel free to enjoy our other world-class attractions here at Knott's Berry Farm." The kids literally screech to a halt in their tracks, panic, and turn around and sprint out of the line as though they'd been caught trespassing! My friend and I pretty much fell out of our seats at that, considering the fact that if the ride was closed, they wouldn't have been able to get into the line in the first place. I did so many hilarious spiels that summer. My hour in dispatch was always my favorite part of the shift (or two hours if I rotated around again before my day was over), so I made full use of it. I would try to have a different spiel every cycle, so that aside from the standard safety part, no two announcements were the same.

lmao, sounds like wednesday! we were on psyclone and rode it twice. the first time, there was hardly enough people, so it was slower and more smooth. then the second time, the trainn was full. And the entire ride, i was screaming in pain, and getting rammed into the side of the seat, and into the person next to me. and whenever we whent down, i got hit in the crotch by the lap bar. after it was over i was completely out of breath.

I was at Knott's about 2 years ago (I think it was Solace weekend) and about to get on Ghostrider. The ride op was doing his spiel, and he sounded really quiet and shy. Like you could barely hear him, then he started YELLING practically right in the rider's faces. His spiel went something like this: "Welcome to Ghostrider. Please remain seated at all times and keep hands and arms inside the train...FEEL THE HEAT!!!!!!!!!! GHOSTRIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!"

People LIKING Delerium...or SoB. Jared"ZE COBRA SHALL RISE AGAIN!"Becker

In line for Perilous Plunge and one of the ops starts singing My Boo. Everyone starts booing and telling him to shutup. Then we see one op just come up and slap him in the head. After she says in the mike, "sorry folks." It was hilarious!!!!

That's no elf....that is Richard Simmons! (almost even looks like him too)

Let's see... I can remember two- Standing in line for the Circus Circus Lightning Bolt, as a train hurtles through the loops and hearing somebody say "Does this ride go upside down?"- I started to laugh, and the person said "No, I'm serious. Does this ride go upside down?" Riding on White Water Canyon at PKD and seeing a backup at the return to platform, I watched (in amazment) as one of the rafts floated into the water pool to the right of the lift hill, followed by somebody singing the theme to "Gilligan's Island."

OMG I forgot one. At SFA there was a splash boat ride called Shipwreck Falls. The wave goes past the bridge (were you get soaked) onto the pathway. So there was a lady pushing an empty stroller while eating a funnel cake she was facing the other way just standing there unaware of the boat thats going down the hill. Then it splashes and the wave hits her soaking her and the funnel cake. She was not a happy camper.

So let's see, funniest moment? Has to be going on SOB the first year it opened. I'm pretty annoying sometimes, so as soon as the train left the station, I started screaming every expletive I could all the way up the hill, down the drop and around the helixes. I shut up until we went towards the loop then started yelling that "I just peed my pants!!!" People were cracking up all the way and when the train got back to the station, everyone was dying. It was pretty funny. I agree with just yelling random things, great way to freak people out. My favorite is "I think I see the mechanic carrying a piece of track, wonder when we'll come to that part" Most effective when going up the lift.

This has been the funniest ride ever, since we got on the ride, we were all laughing Funniest ride ever

Not mine personally, but this was no doubt the funniest ride moment ever for these kids riding next to SFOG's infamous Elf Guy:

I saw a groundhog run into and through the stands at Dolphin Discorey at Great Adventure while the show was going on. The performers had to try and calm down the crowd as the dolphins were starting to freak out from people running and screaming like a lion was chasing them. What a silly little rodent. The performers had a name for the groundhog but I forget what it was.

Some of the funniest experiences happened this saturday while at SFMW. One wasn't so much being on the ride, but looking at the photos afterwards...some lady yelled at me because I had my camcorder recording the screens. She said "Uh, sir, you can't do that...you can't do that..." After, I looked at the sign and it simply said "No Flash Photography." Anyway, the photo looked like I was taking a huge gulp of water from my waterbottle while riding Roar. Another funny experience was riding Kong, SFMW's hang'n bang coaster with Man. We both overexaggerated our screams of pain and 'ows'. The last experience was riding the new Rock 'n Tug as we were all exaggerating and pretending to be afraid while riding it.

My favorite thing to do at SFMM is to go on Superman (the right track) half an hour before the park closes, when there is no line. If nobody's waiting, the ride op will just continuously send off the ride over and over again. I got my favorite seat, very back to the very right, and Steven, my friend (yes, I have friends. ) Steven got the seat in front of me. At the "top" of the tower we flung the unrestrained parts of our bodies (torso and up) off the side of the car and waved our arms and screamed FAT POWER!! everytime, so people would look up. Man, that was great.

Last year at SFGadv, I was walking under the cobra roll of Medusa, and I see something falling out of the train during the first part of the inversion. A split second later, I hear this kid screaming hysterically in a really squeaky voice, "AAAAAAAAAAAH! MY CELL PHONE! MY CELL PHONE!" over and over. I was laughing all the way through the ride.

^Acrophobia does that. Funniest park moment... 1) The Yankee Cannonball broke while I was on it. 2) Two kids cut in line for Mind Eraser. They ended up on the train before me, and they went for the pain seat. My friend was not well versed in the Book of Vekoma, so I explained to him what the "pain seat" was and why I was laughing. Well, the train comes in, the guys are in pain, and then they discover somebody took their bags. I was laughing all the way up the lift. 3) Same trip. We were on Flashback. We sat in the front, and I liked the forwards half. Now, for some reason, my friend thought the track would turn around after the "kerchunk" bit. When it didn't and it started going backwards, he started cursing like a sailor. 4) On the river rapids (same trip), my friend and I sat in the boat. A kid sitting next to me said that I was going to get soaked and he wasn't. He was half right. When we came to the waterfall, he went under and I didn't, but I got the jet. 5) Watching people panic on a coaster and saying really unhelpful things ("I heard that sometimes the restraints fly up on this ride.") Okay, I do derive amusement from the misfortunes of others.

OMG Last summer I went to SFGA in Chicago with my sister, mom, and grandma. My grandma is really old and gets tired easily walking out in the hot sun. I thought for sure the day was going to be a waist. To my surprise, she had been taking arobic classes to get back in shape for this day. I thought that was halarious considering she is in her late 60's. Anyways, she told me she used to love coasters when she was a kid wayyy back when (I guess it runs in the family). So, we get there and we first went to Superman since it is always crowded. She begged and begged to get on, but we wouldn't let her since that thing basically dangles you upside down. I thought for sure she'd have a heart attack. We get to Raging Bull, and once again she begged to ride. She swore she could handle it. So we resisted holding her back any longer and we let her ride. It was great!!! She loved it! After riding it three more times, we were getting off and some teenage girl was nearly in tears standing next to her friend in the queue just about to get on. This girl looked terrified. Her friend noticed us getting off and yelled, "Look, a grandma just rode the ride, I'm sure you can handle it." The girl calmed down and was willing to ride. Most of the people in the station must have been watching and they started to clap and cheer. "Grandma, you saved the day!" my sister yelled. It was halarious!!! Anyways my grandma ended up riding almost everything, including the Demon, American Eagle, Batman, Viper, and even De Javu!!!

Any ride on TTD! it so funny to watch people's faces on it! Ricochet(wild mouse) at PC, my mom HATES coasters.....she was cussing like crazy and it was so funny b/c she thought it was going off the track! LMAO.....BORG Assimilator.....being flipped on that 1st drop is pretty crazy

Ok I have a new one. Yesterday I went to a carnival and rode the Zipper. My friend had ALOT of coins in his poket and at one point are car starts flipping like crazy. Then almost all of his change flies out everywhere, making the noise when it hits the car. It was so funny I coudn't stop laughing.

The guy I was dating came with me and my friend Jessica went to Great Adventure. Well he was moody and stuff so me and Jess rode together on Rolling Thunder and he sat infront of us.....Well when we went around the first-turn-around his head whipped to the side so f-in fast we almost died laughing. He was soooo made but thats what he gets for being a B!....LOL....

At the MN State Fair, I was urging my mom to take off here hat before we got on Crazy Mouse. Sure enough, as soon as we get out of the station, there goes the hat. It's interesting that it didn't even happen during a drop. There wasn't much wind or anything. It just sort of... came off. They had to shut down SplashOver at Adventureland because someone dropped his cell phone. I saw someone lose their hat on Mighty Axe at PaMoA. This is my favorite: I saw a pair of pants hanging from the supports of Outlaw at Adventureland as we walked out of the station. Just remember, it's okay to love coasters, but please don't try to mate with them. It won't work, and you probably won't get your pants back.

When we were riding Superman: Ultimate Flight, the people infront of us had bare feet and they just went swimming so their feet were really pruney. We were laughing all the way up the hill.

I visited Cedar Point in 2000, I was on the Mine Train, when it does the drop over the water someone's "baseball" cap flew off at the front of the train and I caught it as I was in the back row. I was thanked quite a lot for saving it I was riding Goliath at Walibi World in Holland in May this year and I was sitting in the 3rd row from the front, there were 2 girls sitting in the front seats and on the 2nd to last bunny hop a set of keys flew out of one of the girls top pockets and went past me in slow motion. I don't know if the staff managed to find the key's, but this is a warning to say "don't put anything in your top pockets when riding a coaster with Airtime hills".

OMG, the funniest Themepark moment i can think of has to be at SFMM. My friends and I were on Psyclone and EVEYRONE was in pain; screaming out random body parts like "MY JAW!" and "MY KNEE, OMG MY KNEE!". After the ride as the the train came into the station and eveyrone was laughing at how insanly BAD the ride was, and i turn around and the guy behind me was in TEARS; going "OMG, it wasn't worth it, OMG." *turns to his girlfriend* "Oh, man, i told you we should not have ridden..." *whimper*. It was HELARIOUS.

my friend and i were on the Dahlonega Mine Train at SFOG and he said "This ride sucks! It's boring!" then right after he insulted a great ride we go around a turn and he is slammed angainst the side of the hard plastic seat. then he started apologizing. I told him never to mess with a mine train again

My funniest ride experience would have to be going to Disneyland Hong Kong about a month and a half ago, and while riding the Buzz Lightyear Ride, someone kept on standing up during the ride, stopping the ride. While everyone just sat there, waiting for the ride to restart, me and my cousin just continued to hit the targets. By the time we had made it to the end, we had MAXED out the points on the screen. Remembered the face of the person behind me, who had only about 125,000 points.

It was not funny to me but every one else laghed. The other day when I was running the little dipper I was checking the safty bars when a kid says somthing when I was checking his bar I turn to look at him the he Throws up all over me. The kid laghs and so did the parents. I had to shut down for an hour to clean myself and the seat.

I was on the log ride at SFMM and when we were at the top of the hill the ride op that is supposed to be making sure everyone was sitting had his feet kicked back and his hat over his head...asleep! It was so funny to see it!

when i was on goldrusher and tyler stood up, and accidentally hit his nuckles on superman.

Back in February me and a couple of friends took a day trip to Disneyland. For whatever reason, I thought it would be fun for us to ride Gadgets Go Coaster in Toontown which isnt smart if you are tall. Anyways, they are rather short so they were fine, but I'm tall so of course I had to contort myself to get into the seat. As the train took off, we all lurched back as I screamed. "OH LORD, WE GONNA GET BROKEBACK!" The ride ops looked at us like OMG and busted out laughing. Note...we were the ONLY people on the ride. That was best ride experience ever!

The only funny thing I can remember off the top of my head happened at Knott's. I was in line for Ghost Rider and over the loud speaker the Ghost Rider ride op was giving the regular safety spiel. Then at the end he said,"Now enjoy your ride on Colossus here at Six Flags Magic Mountain". I was only half listening and it kinda took me by surprise. My sister heard him too and we started laughing. Then later on we were in line for Boomerang and the ride op said,"Enjoy your ride on the BOOOOOOOMERRRRRRRRANGGGGGGGG". It was funny.

I was in line for Medusa and the train was gonig into the ZeroG and someone lost their hat, if i did want to loose my place in line i would have so taken it. Also when we were walknig back to the guest-drop off area arouund Six Flags Great Adventure, we were watching KingDa ka (you get great views back there) and on the way down when we heard someone scream "Oh my F***ing god" we were cracking up.

Once I was getting off Nitro and glanced at the photos on the way out. The four guys in the front row had their shirts off and one had an F painted on his chest, one a U, one a C, and one a K. 'Nuff said.

the funniest moment for me had to be when me and my friend were about to go on X and these 2 valley girls maybe 13 years old were saying that the ride looks stupid and that its nothing compared to viper! I just laughed and thought to myself are you serious! well anyway after we get off the ride the valley girls were crying and didnt want to get out of the seats for a long time so some employee was trying to comfort them haha.

Seeing someone drop a handful of tampons into the Wipeout lagoon below (at Dreamworld of course) pretty much tops the "wtf" list of things i've seen at a park. Ben "damn those things take alotta water!" Roach.