robbalvey

Hey everyone! Happy April Fools Day! I did nothing to the site...I hope you're not dissapointed! Here is a thread where you can list the best jokes you find. So far, the Google one seems to be one of the best: http://www.google.com/googlegulp/ --Robb

I too like the Floorless coaster, but it offerns nothing innovative, IMO. --Robb

Yeah, it's a little more like Space Duel... Or Space Harrier...like how all the letter "A"'s are all triangles: And while it doesn't look anything like these two, I just always like the logos for Space Panic and Star Castle: --Robb "I love the new logo!" Alvey

Kingda Ka isn't even open yet!!! How can you have a poll with a ride that hasn't opened?!?!?! --Robb "Try again!" Alvey

Yeah, these are much better than those nasty, wet, moldy, holding-up-the-boat-for-fifteen-minutes-while-the-idiot-Buena-Park-locals-figure-out-to-fasten-a-seatbelt S&M straps they put on Knott's ride. You get in, pull down the restraint, you go. If you have to have a new restraint it's the sensible way to go. --Robb "Stupid cheap Knott's!" Alvey

I merged the two threads and kept this one just because it had a more descriptive name. --Robb "Nothing personal....." Alvey

See, this is where you're wrong. Demon's are pretty fucking cool!!!! --Robb

Attatch mod...IT WORKS!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! I felt this was a fitting picture for much celebration that file attachemnts now work again!

^ Yeah, I'm a certainly noticing a speed increase. Anyone else seeing that? Now all I have to do is get the attach problem sorted out and it's back to normal! --Robb

Here is my ranking in order from best to least favorite. I'm also going to give them a "grade" assuming that my favorite roller coasters, Expedition GeForce and Phoenix would get an A+ Millennium Force™ A- Raptor B+ Wicked Twister B Top Thrill Dragster B Blue Streak B- Disaster Transport B- Gemini C+ Corkscrew C Mantis C Magnum XL-200 C WildCat C Mean Streak C- Cedar Creek Mine Ride C- Woodstock Express C- Jr. Gemini C- Iron Dragon D Overall, the problem with Cedar Point, is that they have a lot of really "average coasters" with such a collection, you'd expect some really awesome rides, but IMO, they only have one "A" ride, and it's not even an A+ ride. Here's my SFMM comparison: Batman B+ Ninja B- Superman: The Escape B- Scream! B- Riddler's Revenge B- Goliath C Gold Rusher C Colossus C- Canyon Blaster C- Viper D X D Deja Vu D- Revolution F Psyclone F Flashback F Yet, take a park like Six Flags America which has far fewer coasters, but higher overall quality: Superman: Ride of Steel A Wild One A- Joker's Jinx B+ Roar B- Batwing B- Two Face C Mind Eraser D I'd much rather go to a park with fewer coasters where I'd want to ride ALL of them, then go to a park with 15 coasters and not care about more than half. --Robb "Such a shame that out of 32 coasters at CP and SFMM there really isn't anything that outstanding." Alvey

Testing attachements again....

Nope, attachments doesn't seem to work....hmm... Now back to work on that one! Thanks! ---Robb

testing the attachement mod

Here's something I'm kind of baffled about...the whole "redirect" thing is gone. You know, the page that would come up after you posted something that said "Transferring....please wait." Not that I mind because it's faster without it, but I have NO IDEA why it just dissapeared!!! Strange. --Robb

Good to see it's all mostly working. There are still a few unstable things I've noticed, but please let me know if you find something that doesn't work or doesn't work as well as it did before. Thanks for your help! --Robb

Hey everyone! From my end the boards actually look like they are working!!! Well, at least I'm able to log in, see stuff, and post! I haven't tried attaching anything yet! I see some avatars might be messed up and if that's the case some people may need to re-upload them, but I'm going to try and fix that. Please email any bugs you might find to robbalvey@aol.com Thanks! --Robb

I have just switched over the DNS settings so it's a very good chance you will see more outages over the next couple of days. Please bear with us, I swear it will make things run MUCH smoother soon! --Robb

^ More! I actually have 5 different servers that hold different types of files. Overall I have about 750gb of data transfer available per month and I'm seeing between 22 and 25 gb a day. So do the math and that's coming pretty close to maxing out! --Robb "The new webhost should be faster and give me more...but it may require the site to be down for a day or two." Alvey

Hello everyone! I'm sure as many of you may have noticed, the site went down for the past 24 hours. Basically, this was an error on the part of our webhost as we had paid an additional fee for increased bandwidth. We were billed for the amount, but it was never credited. Needless to say, this is the final straw. I am in the process of moving the site over to a new server so, knock on wood, these outages don't happen again. I also just want to say thanks to everyone for your patience, and over the course of the next week if you experience any further problems know that this is due to transferring the site and any issues will only be temporary. Oh, and BTW, if anyone ever tells you that "Lypha" is a good webhost, break their kneecaps for me! --Robb

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=624263 "Fastest Roller Coaster Yet" LMAO!!!!

Hey everybody! This thread is simple! Rather than having a million little threads about everything that goes on at Seaside Heights, and Casino Pier in particular, this thread is designed to consolidate it all into one user-friendly thread. Feel free to use it to post updates, trip reports, questions, comments, and of course, general discussion. For pictures and videos of the park as well as past updates, see TPR's Park Index Casino Pier and the former Funtown Pier Casino Pier Official Website Below are some links to past updates from the park, you may be interested in. Enjoy! --Robb 2005 March 28th, 2005 - Funtown Pier worker struck by roller coaster (see below) 2006 July 6th, 2006 - Funtown Pier may close down and be converted to condos within 3 years July 19th, 2006 - Pirate's Hideaway coaster being added to Casino Pier 2008 July 17th, 2008 - worker serious injured by Star Jet on Casino Pier 2012 March 17th, 2012 - Hallow Graves Haunted Mansion returns to Funtown Pier for 2012 October 29th, 2012 - SuperStorm Sandy threatens Seaside Heights 2013 September 12th, 2013 - Fire destroys southern half of the Seaside Heights boardwalk, spares Casino Pier 2014 March 27th, 2014 - Casino Pier to add three rides for 2014 including an Air Race 2015 February 11th, 2015 - Funtown Pier submits plans to rebuild August 20th, 2015 - Casino Pier receives approval move expand northward 2016 July 27th, 2016 - owner abandons plan to rebuild Funtown, after height variances are not granted September 17th, 2016 - Gertslauer track spotted near Casino Pier October 9th, 2016 - Casino Pier begins northward expansion 2018 September 8h, 2018 - Casino Pier is bringing back their indoor scrambler, Centrifuge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.injersey.com/observer/story/ ... 58,00.html

^^ Well, I have to be honest, we have been guilty about deleting some posts and topics too. Overall, though, I think it will be very rare when we do delete something. And if we do, please don't get too offended by it. We're just trying to keep the integrity of the boards up, and sometimes you do need to remove a post or a topic here and there. Again, I don't see it being something we too often, but if we do, know that it was for a good reason. --Robb

^ They were injured...not killed. http://www.rideaccidents.com/2003.html#aug23b --Robb "Wow, so it's been SBNO since August 23rd, 2003" Alvey

Wait...are they doing some major changes to it??? --Robb