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Where the heck did you find this?!?!? LMAO! One of my clients will probably post these on his bar's web site at pictures of the day. LMAO!

^ This is so weird, as I was watching youtube last week, I ran into old Wendy and Lisa videos. Ahh, the memories! And I had no idea that W&L were doing the music for Heros! I think that's awesome!

DUDE, I so love you! Finally, someone that feels the same way about Prince as I do! Shame that Wendy and Lisa only had 1 "hit", I really liked them.

Seeing stuff like this makes me sad, it reminds me of watching West View closing down when I was a kid.

I believe that's how they built The Exterminator at KW. (Probably on the same scale as this too.)

This is my favorite slot, and has been since they came out in the 90's. I get the 1000 coins almost every time, especially on Vegas $1 versions.

I think there's a few of us in here that can safely say we won't be going to Dubai any time soon.

I have no idea how I ran into this, but I couldn't stop laughing. Bowling + Rollercoaster = Fun!

THE most adorably expressive baby EVAR! Parents kill to be able to get those cute pictures, you guys seem to get them every time, it's like KT just plays for the camera.

I just love all this nostalgia that's coming out of these forums as of late! These threads are amazing! I'm going to have to try and find my old stuff now. Thanks for sharing!

OK, I'm sooooo hungry now, wonder if the buffet is still open... (sigh) Great report. Someone is in luuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvv.

Wow, this is an awesome idea for DW, only because DW is one monstrosity of a place. I think it would be a waste at smaller parks, ie. if you can get from one end of the part to the other by foot in less than 20 minutes. I can see it now, swarms of kids just running and screaming to a ride that says "no wait" on the network, as if Hanna Montana is there.

Sounds great, it also sounds like they're just getting the prototype. (There's a video in here somewhere that Robb posted a while back.)

Wow! The Arrow-Huss segment was quite educational. Was always a huge Huss fan. I NEVER KNEW Arrow-Huss made a stand-up coaster. Wonder if it was any better than the TOGOs. (Which I actually liked!) Thanks Shane, BEST. THREAD. EVAR!

I love the creativity of European (and Japanese) television. Thanks for sharing, good find!

OK, let's see if I can answer some of your questions here... The official reason was because all the other parks were getting multiloopers and megacoasters at the time. They did it for the sheer competition in the arms race. The unofficial... That is there area where the original swimming pool was. When they closed the pool (because of mine subsidence), they just paved over it, made it the pay-lot, and "expanded" the park a little, with the Laser being the final addition at the time. The loop footers consistantly shifted while the ride was in motion, and you would witness this because the entrance to the park at that time was under the loop. They put wood fence around the footers, but if you looked over the fence and waited for the train to go through the loop, you could plainly see the outer footers of the loop move, causing mini-sink-holes around them. I would say they moved a good 6 inches in each direction, so a big concrete footer moving a foot total doesn't loop pretty. Not really sure this was the "reason" behind the removal, but i'm sure it helped. As we all know, the ride was in good working order, and was relocated. It was actually the other way around. It opened with black track, and was later painted primer red. They never did paint the inside of the loop, but the rails became red. Here's some aditional photos, not sure if I submitted these to TPR's little database, so if these are repeats, I appologize. Yes, the 80's were a mess, look at me in my acid washed jeans and jacket! LOL Thunderbolt with Steel Phantom Phanton Construction Phantom Construction Laser loop 1988

This is just so funny, and cute, and wrong, on so many levels. And isn't "gay nurse" and oxymoron?

Honey, come to Fort Lauderdale, we'll show you what "gay" really is. LOL

I say Vekoma is worse. Only because a couple of my all time favorites are Arrow coasters, and none of them are Vekomas. Lets face it, Magnum was "the bomb" in it's prime, and it still holds up as a fun ride. Steel Phantom was such a unique ride, though many people thought it was too rough, I loved it. And many of the old loopers like Vortex and (insert park here) corkscrews aren't "bad".

This is the BEST THREAD EVAR! Thanks so much for posting this stuff, this Japanese catalog is just sheer awesomeness. But you give you a little head start on an upcoming topic of yours... LaserLoop Pin

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Someone just needs to go to this school, and slap the crap out of the faculty responsible for this. WTF! There should be a ZERO TOLLERENCE POLICY for stupidity, not steak knives.

Newport 100's box. $4.77

Thanks, but it's not my birthday o_O LOL, That's funny! I have a hebrew reference that's apparently WRONG, hehehe. (I have a good friend who lives in Tel Aviv part time, and we correspond in Hebrew while he's there!)

FlipDude, Kol HaKavod, Ad me'ah ve'esrim shanah! Ihulim Levaviim! That was really great! Dennis