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^I'm not entirely positive since I don't use that classification for my own credits, but I think they are just water coasters, like de Vliegende Hollander at Efteling, or Sea World Orlando's Journey to Atlantis. Either that, or they are log flumes and shoot-the-chutes.

-I'm going home on Friday for the weekend to see the Syracuse Gun Show. -I just took a picture of Sky Screamer and Dragon Mountain... from my favorite place to study on campus. I'll post the picture when my memory card adapter arrives in the mail.

^I paid more attention to the fact that as most people couldn't see over the wall until the end of the queue, it felt like the park was attempting to separate the guests from each other, and now it seems more inviting, relaxing, and aesthetically pleasing.

I don't know if I do, but I have heard of a couple of strange/coincidental experiences: My biological maternal grandfather died of pancreatic cancer in May 1981. His birthday was on July 23rd. My maternal aunt was pregnant at the time with her second child. Her second child was born the following July 23rd at 7:23 AM. My paternal grandfather died in May 2003. His wife (my paternal grandmother, still alive) had a dream shortly after his death where he had a hat on, and a suitcase in one hand, and he said to her "I have to go. I don't want to, but I have to." In "reality" (the not-dream-world) there is a copper art portrait of a man and a woman on my grandma's bed, over their respective sides of the bed (Grandma on one side, Grandpa on the other.) When she woke up after the dream, she found the man's portrait on the bed next to her. When we came down, my dad tested it out with her to see if it could fall on the bed in any manner; they tested at various degrees, and in the event that the sculpture came off its nail, it always simply fell straight down, behind the bed, and would not travel the 1 - 2 foot horizontal distance to reach the pillow on the bed. Again, I don't know if I believe in it, but it would actually be pretty comforting that ghosts exist, because that means some sort of afterlife exists, which means that there's someone always looking after me.

^*6: Third to last photo, the reach envelope is on the break run, so we could see testing soon!

Hmmmmm... dark announcement, purple photo... I call black light chaser lights.

You could do all the coasters in one day without a flash pass, however you won't get many re rides without it. The operations were horrible when I went: Bizarro (when it was still S:RoS, back in 2007) could have been about a 35 minute line with two trains and 90 second unload and load per train. But instead with one train and 5 minute dispatches, it was a 2.5 hour line. I would go get a gold flash pass so I won't get worried about lines for the day. I can't help you out with anything else because the only time I went to Massachusetts was for SFNE.

WHAT????? *checks rcdb.* NO!!!! The EuroStar that traveled the German fair circuit was there!! *Cries a little inside.*

^^Most TPR'ers aren't redditors as far as I know. But I do agree, HP pulls off the minimalist style very well; not overdone, but not featureless. It's a very great medium which I believe is the standard for non themed amusement parks. And yes, putting an elaborately themed station in an otherwise plain park seems very out of place, like putting an animatronic dinosaur exhibit in KI, but if it brings in money, then so be it. ^^^I actually think putting the restrooms under the station is an ingenious way to save space. I love how creative HP is and can still successfully make the park look pretty nice.

^Believe it or not, that was actually the exact answer I was hoping for. I love El Toro and all (tied for #1 woodie) but the only reason it hasn't overtaken Boulder Dash is because it is too smooth to be characteristically like a woodie. I am now officially in love with RMC.

shivtim: If you've been on El Toro or any other Intamin Plug 'n Play, which is smoother?

^^Quite the contrary in my opinion. I thought it was ingenious that they stuffed the restrooms under the station. Great way to save space!

I think I can just ***BARELY*** see Marineland's S&S Drop tower from my favorite place to study in my college. (I'm at University at Buffalo, and my favorite place to study is at the top of one of the 130 foot pharmacy buildings.) I mapped out the general area of where to look via Google Earth, I just need to borrow my roommate's binoculars to be absolutely sure which of the teeny tiny blips in the flat tree line is Sky Screamer.

Gwazi: Just man up. It was fantastic. Otherwise, all the other information I'd be able to provide would be basically the same as everyone else.

^I hated going to parks with schools. As much as I enjoyed music, we only had a couple hours to ride maybe a quarter of the things that I wanted at best.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade, Op. 40, Mvt. 4: Festival in Baghdad, the Sea, Shipwreck. Conducted by Lorin Maazel and performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

^2.5 hour wait for Storm Runner? I never had a line above 25 minutes. I guess I got lucky the last three times I went there.

^Throwing up in the toilet but then having massive diarrhea before you're done. What's worse than three canker sores on your tongue occurring at the same time, thus making it incredibly painful to talk or eat? (They're finally getting better, but it still sucks.)

^My guess is that people were calling it Leviathon, ie confusing the TPR event with the name of the coaster. That's what a couple of my other enthusiast friends called it.

Sigh. So beautiful. Only four more months until I am able to tame this monster.

^More likely the ride's tangential acceleration combined with the swinging caused by that action. Acceleration forces is technically a misnomer (or not accurate enough) because all forces are caused by acceleration. [/nerd.]

^Way off. The individual seats look to be two feet wide, so each "pod" is about four feet wide. The radius by measuring with my fingers is approximately four times that width, or 16 feet. Converting that to meters is 4.87 meters. So the circumference of travel is 30.64 meters. It travels one revolution in 3 seconds at max speed, (20 rpm) so the tangential velocity is 10.2 m/s. a = v^2 / r = (10.2^2) / 4.87 = 21.42 m/s^2. One "G" is an integer multiple of 9.8 m/s^2, which is earth's gravitational pull. So, this thing only pulls about 2.2 G's at the rider's heads. In order to pull 4.2 G's, it would have to travel at 14.2 m/s, or one revolution every 2.2 seconds (27 rpm) Your radius and your velocities were off by nearing a factor of 2. Mine are guaranteed to be off by a decent amount, but I'd like to wager I'm within +/- 0.3 G's.

^^You're lucky you're pretty much done with them. I think I have Sutton's Disease, ie recurring canker sores. I've gotten five at once, (maybe six on occasion) and if I go three weeks without any I consider myself the luckiest guy on the planet.

Three canker sores on my tongue simultaneously. Two at the front (saying words with "th" sucks) and one on the right side (there goes my ability to chew food easily.)

Ooooooh, 4.5 G's. B&M's going back to the gold ol' days! Yay!!!