John Peck

The statue is of St. Anthony. St Anthony loves children. Micheal Jackson also loves childern Micheal Jackson loves children entirely differently than St. Anthony.

I don't like any of the names they have to vote on. Neither of them have anything to do with Columbus or the Zoo. Thats probally what they wanted, but still. "Wyandot Lake" of course never made much sense because we are nowhere near Wyandot County and there no lake anywhere close. I went to the auction back in November, it was my last chance to say goodbye to the old Girl. The concept art really doesn't match where "I heard" things were going. But then again, there could be a million pieces floating around somewhere. No pun intended.

Dang. That Flying Ace's structure looks so Bisch-Rocco it isn't funny. I know it's not, but wow. Premier did a great job at recreating that. When did they repaint the Mouse? In 2000 or so I remember it being a rust color or so.

Wow! What a great selection of flats! I love those old 60's rides!

From what I heard, when the Beast had its accident a few years ago, it wasen't due to wet breaks, it was due to Jammed breaks in the return shed.

Sounds like a Hampton Umbrella ride combo. I operated one of those about 14 years ago at a carnival. Not sure how it could operate on its own. Most machinery needs two devices to operate it, so this paticular ride had a hand held switch and a foot pedal that you had to hold down simutaniously to operate the ride.

I arrived at the park this morning (Memorial Day) with Maggie running 1 train all day. I assume the other trains have been removed so they can X-Ray them entirely. I would imagine that they will get it up to two-train operation by the end otf this week as they repair the damaged cars. If it had been a more-serious incident, the ride wouldn't be running at all. Signs of life on the ride is a VERY good thing.

Word on the street is that it will be repaired.

^ Running into you on a Theme Park Site....of all places! How funny is that??!!!! I'll send you an email here soon.

^ Hmmmm.... Carrie? Art College.... yes! 32... Close 33! And yes, Rumblefest 2006 was a blast, but it took me about a week to heal from that.... and Holiwood nights by golly!

Many of the big theme parks "looked" cleaner in the 1970's is because: A. Frankly, there were like 15 Big Theme Parks Built in the United States during that time, and were clean and shiney 2. The trees haden't grown in yet C. Many of the 70's picts we see are from Professional Photo Shoots But think about this... Most major parks had between 2 and 3 really big, high throughput rides and the parks still brought in close to the number of guests they do today. Imagine the lines with those slower-loading flats!

The Star Trooper is built by the company called "Dartron" They also make the Zero Gravity, Downdraft and Cliffhanger. They make modern versions of the old Hrubetz rides, Im not sure if Dartron bought the assets of Hrubetz or how the whole thing came to be. But there you go! Heres a great site that gives you a ton of info on flat rides: http://www.flatrides.com/