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  1. It would be cool if they put Ocean Motion into Soak City or Castaway and made it a super-wet ride. Water guns and lots of water jets, etc. Repurpose it! Make it fit its theme!
  2. Has CP mentioned if they would make this a haunted ride at Halloween? I see lots of possibilities! They mentioned how they could turn most of the water elements off...you would get less-wet except for the splashdowns. I think the track in the flume must be their remedy for the "flume situation" that they mentioned as a reason for delaying the opening. I'm betting the flume was built too deep and the track may be a buffer to help keep it moving along. Just a guess.
  3. Except for the 2-3 airtime-less hills the trains crawl over. That's why I ride it. To go fast. Isn't that what the ride was built for? MF is incredibly boring and I305 is loads better. Fanboys who use the "its too intense" argument are just proving the fact that MF doesn't have any "intensity" at all. WOW
  4. I don't think MF lacks excitement. It's a speed machine and there is nothing there to interupt the speed. I think Intimidator's elements should be more subtle. I think its way too fast and its trying to accomplish a lot of elements at speeds that are too high. If the elements were drawn out a little more then that would be an improvement to me (among some of the other things i mentioned).
  5. I didn't get a chance to ride Intimdator pre-1st drop trims, but my opinion is that MF is a lot better than Intimidatator. For me, Intimidator's first turn is very uncomfortable, I did not like the quick transitions from one side to the other nor did i like the karate chops to the neck that came with the transitions, but I did like the two or three small bunny hills towards the end of the ride, which MF lacks. I'm also not a fan of the over-the-shoulder restraints either. I think the MF is operated better with the unload and load station and three trains seem to make operations seem faster. The view of Lake Erie is hard to beat too. I wonder how different my opinion might be if Intimidator just had lap bars? I think it would improve the experience LOTS. Intimidator, for me, is not a ride i would like to ride over and over and MF i def do want to ride over and over.
  6. ^ i think they just put 'bigger' road wheels on the boats to help them clear the lift hill better. The "length" issue seems made up to me, but that's just my speculation.
  7. To me the difference is in how wet you'll get...just a hunch. The video of the STR splashdown doesn't compare to the drenching you get on SRF. They mentioned how they could dial back the amount of water on STR (the mist, etc), so to me that means that when the weather turns colder in the fall you can still ride it and not get drenched - not sure if they'll turn the pay-water-cannons off though.
  8. I don't think they would. One uses an elevator lift, the other uses two chain lifts. Well, that's a good point....so i guess there are two issues - the lift and the flume. from the article... "The manufacturer made the flume, and he contracted out the boats," Kinzel said. "When the boats came together, the boats didn't fit the flumes." Kinzel said workers have been busy all week trying to modify the boats, which were too long and didn't go over the top of the hill properly. That can destroy the flume, he said.
  9. Wait, Shoot the Rapids only has four boats? I would have thought that they would have more than that like other log flumes. I mean if they're using a block system it makes sense, but i'm still kind of surprised. According to the fact sheet about STR it will use 10 boats... Number of Boats: 10 fiberglass boats Are they taking a row of seats out of the 'fixed' boats? To me the boats looked similar to what was used on Pilgrim's Plunge, so its odd that HW's flume is fine, and CP's flume is not working. Would have thought that they used the same specs for both.
  10. The train looks a lot like Silver Dollar City's train...with the round windows. And i think SDC's train is 24" wide as well. Interesting park, thanks Shane.
  11. That is true. We've beat this dead horse a lot in the Opryland forum. Cruise over and read what's been said if you want more specific information about the history of this fiasco (as well as some nice memories of Opryland . http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40134
  12. Here are a couple of pics off the "Memories Of Opryland" yahoo group. On the bottom we have Beatrice in use at SFGA...looks like the passenger cars are from Opryland as well, but hard to tell for certain, and then on the top we have Elizabeth in her current state at SFOG...not sure how long ago these were taken. There are tons of great Opryland pictures in the facebook group...go here to take a look... http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?folder=[fb]messages&page=1&tid=239743003146#/photo_search.php?oid=2220971496&view=all
  13. Exactly, all said before. Unless they're envisioning an indoor park of some sort, maybe a F.E.C., then good luck with that. Anyone remember what happened when Opryland tried to rezone (i think) 100 acres or so on (or slightly off of) McGavock pike a few years ago? Neighbors poured out in droves to protest a POTENTIAL theme park use. NIMBY is strong and in effect in Nashville. Even Nashville Shores was feeling it when it was sold to the former Six Flags execs b/c neighbors envisioned the worst scenario. And the Holy Land Park? Even in this God-Fearing state a bible park fell victim to the NIMBYs. Furthermore!, good luck finding a large enough tract of land in Davidson county that could hold a park, parking lot, traffic to and from, etc. So many puzzle pieces would have to fit perfectly together for this to happen, and i remain skeptical (and bitter/pissed about Opryland closing!). And these little teasers are not helpful either. Put up or shut up, Gaylord!
  14. Its one thing to see a park be rescued by a larger entity, but its quite another to consider a successful park chain be swallowed up by a behemoth cable operation. The Universal parks are pretty successful by most means of measure, so even if Comcast were to play a big role in the parks, I just can't see them tinkering around things too much. I'm not sure what it is that Comcast can bring to the table that would be an improvement over the current situation, which apparently isn't all that bad.
  15. Thanks for that info. I think that makes it all the more impressive that the folks at SFOG were, for the most part, able to clean it up in just a few days. I was skeptical given that 20" of rain had fallen. Kudos SFOG!
  16. Thanks! The google image search was my friend this time. Looks like the Dragon was a going-up-only attraction? I'm wondering how there are several cars and how that worked??? I think i've seen the Dragon before, now that I've seen the pics, but if anyone has more to add I'd love to hear about it pic from http://heylownine.tripod.com/oldride.htm pic from http://heylownine.tripod.com/oldride.htm
  17. Interesting that at one time there were five transportation rides. I don't recall hearing about the Dragon before. Was it a funicular as well, or what? One of the maps gave it a "dragon coaster" kind of appearance to it....of course drawings are always hard to go by. Also, one of the pics has the skyride supports as a kind of latice-type and some other pictures the supports look much like the other Von Roll supports, which were just a flat surface. Anyone know why a switch was made?
  18. That must have been about the time that Arrow put away the wire hangers and started using CAD.
  19. Wow. Do you have utinsils here? How many animitronic scenes are there? I see the one behind Misty and the other left of the stage. Would this be a fun place to suprise someone for dinner? Bless your hearts for doing all this. Love it. Can't wait for the Titanic museum to open up.
  20. I think that's possible to do. I don't think Opryland will do it. You could scream the idea right into their ears and they'd just scratch their heads in wonder. How awesome would that be to have a conservatory full of water slides and GRR and maybe even some small flats or a small coaster or two - ala Mall of America or Great Wolf. I just can't give them any cred whatsoever. Loosing Opryland was like loosing a close friend!!! ugh! An outlet mall, really? Really? GRR was one, if not the best rapids ride imho. That huge whitewater section!! Nashville deserves so much better than Opryland, and i wish i could do something about it personally, but i can't.
  21. Ditto! Closing OL is probably the worst decision ever made in Nashville's tourism industry history. Easily the worst decision. That and Fair Park closing too, if you ever had the pleasure of going there, it was a great trolley park. Anyhoo - in the Tennessean today, there's an article about funding for a potential new convention center in downtown Nashville and of course Opryland Hotel has an invested interest in seeing that Nashville doesn't build a convention center (with adjoining hotel), but the article also mentioned Opryland's future expansion plans and how they're delayed - meaning GRR's skeleton may be around awhile. Also mentioned is the idea of Opryland building an indoor-water park (as if you would have had to beat them over the head with the most obvious idea ever, hello - they already have three huge glass roofed conservatories, what's one or two more and add all the indoor water park stuff) - they just Do Not Get It! Though it would be nice to see GRR resurected into an indoor rapids ride, but they're so OUT OF TOUCH they'll never come to that conclusion. /rant. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091014/NEWS0202/910140401/-1/RSS05 On page three - if you don't want to deal with the link, it says... Gaylord delays plans Gaylord's own $400 million expansion plan for Opryland — announced in 2007 — is on hold. The Nashville-based company has until the end of 2011 to issue bonds, which would allow it to tap $80 million in Metro tax revenues generated by the expansion to help pay for the project. In 1993, Metro extended a $10 million tax abatement to Gaylord to help fund a $175 million expansion. The latest expansion plan would add a 400-suite hotel and 450,000 square feet of exhibit space at Opryland in Donelson. But the economic recession has stopped the project indefinitely. "The climate is so soft and uncertain right now," Ingram said. The company also has talked about a few ideas, including an indoor water park, for bringing more leisure travelers to Nashville. That segment of the city's tourism industry has struggled since an earlier Gaylord management team shut down the Opryland theme park in 1997. Riebeling said the Dean administration is open to considering any proposal Gaylord might make for a new attraction to boost the tourism mix. The company hasn't pitched any ideas yet. "We've been very open to proposals various groups have made for projects that would be beneficial to the city," Riebeling said. "We would have a duty to take a hard look at it."
  22. No, this is a first. It has flooded there numerous times, but none worse than this...that I'm aware of.
  23. ^&^^ I agree, this is pretty serious. I realize they've delt with floods in the past, but I don't think they've had anything of this magnitude. I don't recall in my lifetime hearing about 20" of rainfall in Atlanta. SFNO had flooding and huge amounts of wind damage, so I don't think its that bad at SFOG, but its so hard to tell. The sun is out here too in Knoxville. I just went outside b/c I haven't seen the sun in over a week...my eyes had a hard time adjusting to bright light. I feel like an indoor kitty.
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