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  1. I would love to suggest some of the Thunder Mountain photos and Space Mountain photos be wallpaper-usable - I have a 30" display and great wallpapers don't come along often, especially in theme parkdom. What camera do you use and what lenses?
  2. I can't stand up for every single Six Flags roller-coaster in the chain and neither can you. Different parks, different maintenance teams, different parts used to run different coaters. Simple as that. However, I went to the extreme effort of using the search on TPR and found this for you: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38592&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=lift+hill+start+drop&start=20
  3. I genuinely thought Stengel changed the design because it was cheaper and more efficient maintenance-wise to just increase the speed of the lift chain as the train left the crest of the lift hill? Perhaps I am wrong, but I would be 95% percent sure that from the quote I read from B&M at one point suggested that it was simply wiser from a design stand point that as the weight decreased on the lift chain they simply sped up the motor to balance the tension?
  4. Some of my photos and a few more at: Hope you enjoy! Heaps more of these photos at my Flickr address! The Cyclone at Dreamworld. The same dose of airtime junkees. Faces = "Woot, airtime!" Runaway Reptar at Dreamworld. Warner Bros. Movie World at Christmas Time!
  5. I'd say if they were replacing trains worth several hundred thousand a piece, fabrication of new track doesn't seem like much in the scheme of things.
  6. Man, I swear I'll get banned for posting to what's ultimately spam, but hey, let's check this little bit of funk out, shall we? I think firstly, we've all got an opinion on a coaster. Hell, i'm pretty sure freedom of speech is still applicable to the realms of rides, right? Although, I dunno, I suppose you'd complain because if we all thought a ride was tame, and you thought it was extremely intense. A smell a sense of hypocracy afoot. Mate, roller-coasters are a deeply "personal opinion" sort of thing in the first place. Different styles, elements and roughness level preferences are all unique for most members at this site, and so realistically if I was to hear from 95 percent of people from TPR saying that "Ride Crapalicious was the best coaster ever because it did everything I yearn for.... just like in the ads" I'd seriously suspect something suss. Not only that, but rides change as they age, and that ride experience changes again, so even more-so you'll get an even higher degree of varied opinions over time. So there you go, hope I helped, if not, try elsehwere, I doubt you'll find a happier, more interesting and thought provoking member-base elsewhere though.
  7. Words to live by. "If there's feces on the wall, Choose another stall." -Julie Inspirational stuff. I'm in awe. Seriously, i'm surprised people haven't taken photos, as creepy as some of you are.
  8. And to think that at Six Flags that's still a confusing process. Seriously though, knowing Intamin there'd be a "despatch" button and an "e-stop" button for ride-ops to use. From there there'd be another set of over-ride controls to manually return the ride to the station if a ride-op decides to e-stop the ride. Other than that, the computers control pretty much everything else.
  9. Superman Escape at number 16! The Aussies finally own at something other than sports!!
  10. Fair enough. So you're ultimately saying that you feel sorry him, then yet you lack to mention how sorry you are for the thousands of innocent men, women and children he sent to be killed? Very interesting.
  11. I'm speechless. Shouldn't you be off writing children's books about why killing is bad? Seriously.
  12. Who knew Chuck Norris visited theme parks so regularly?
  13. Is that whole landscape of cream buildings around the ride part of its themeing or is this ride just smack in the middle of suburbia?
  14. You guys need to take a page out of the Aussie's book, Davey's absolutely right, our only "decent" wooden coaster faced the bulldozers and an incredibly large steel wrecking cable while our little Meisho "looping wooden wannabe" coaster faced a fairly interesting death with a bunch of scissor, uhm... truck things. You tell me, hydraulic arm with a set of 8' foot hydraulic clasps at the end, we'll call it a scissor truck or something... Point is, your people can call our people, who knows, even the people who paved Wonderland Sydney could give Magic Mountains some paving tips for the near future.
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