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Sean Menefee

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  1. Just sent mine in:

     

    El Toro SFGAd

    The Voyage Holiday World

    Viper SFGAm

    The Legend Holiday World

    Kentucky Rumbler Beech Bend

    The Beast Kings Island

    Lightning Racer - L Hersheypark

    Lightning Racer - T Hersheypark

    Raven Holiday World

    Roar SFDK

    Giant Dipper Santa Cruz Bch Bdwk

    Wildcat Hersheypark

    Racer Kings Island

    Comet Hersheypark

    GhostRider Knott's Berry Farm

    Colossus S.F. Magic Mountain

    American Eagle SFGAm

    Twisted Twins-Lola Kentucky Kingdom

    Twisted Twins-StellaKentucky Kingdom

    Thunderhawk Dorney Park

    Thunder Run Kentucky Kingdom

    The Grizzly Great America

    Mean Streak Cedar Point

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    My onride photo of Mean Streak says it all. Crazy rough ride, and BUGS friggin everywhere. I was doing my best to keep them out of my mouth, but the screams were pretty much uncontrollable for me.

  2. However, I do know that there are some other spots in the park where a good sized coaster could go. As we've seen in a few examples, ride designers and engineers can get very creative when need be.

    Eric

     

    Its like when Tatsu was coming to the park. When word started circulating that the park was going to build the world's tallest and fastest flying coaster. I had literally had no idea where they were going to put it.

    There was a documentary a few years ago either on Discovery or History channel which chronicals the building and engineering of Tatsu.

     

    I uploaded a copy of this when it first aired for anyone who still hasn't seen it before. (I'm actually surprised the links are still good all these years later.) The better part is Megavideo now lets you stream it instead of having to download the whole thing:

     

    Part 1:

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YQUVQGZ1

     

    Part 2:

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z1AGHIXI

     

    -Sean

  3. The Water Cube appears to now be offically open for business as a public water park:

     

     

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid64814770001?bctid=506892713001 (Video Link)

     

    Beijing’s famous Water Cube, or National Aquatics Center, the place where two dozen world records were set during the 2008 Summer Olympics (and where swimming sensation Michael Phelps landed eight gold medals) has been converted into a water park -- or at least half of it has.

     

    Nearly a year in the making and with a price tag of around RMB 350 million (about US$51 million), the splash-tastic “Happy Magic Water Cube, Beijing Water Cube Water Park,” as the translated Chinese sign near the entrance says, opened its doors to the public on August 8.

     

    Located next to the Bird’s Nest, or Olympic Stadium, the aquatics center, famous for its plasticky blue bubble-wrapped exterior, had been closed since last summer for the renovations. Its opening coincided with the second anniversary of the 2008 Olympics.

     

    The official Xinhua news agency reported the aqueous amusement park was designed to bring renewed interest and draw more tourists to the often ghost town-like Olympic grounds.

     

    The water park, which takes up about half of the 12,000-square-meter complex and, according to state media, is now the largest in Asia, features a wave pool, lazy river, spa area and 13 water slides and rides, including the Bullet Bowl, Speed Slide and Tornado.

     

    Inside the Water Cube

     

     

    A couple thousand visitors arrived for opening day, forking over a hefty RMB 200 for a ticket (children can get in for RMB 160), Xinhua reports. Interest had not waned on the day CNNGo paid a visit as thousands of mostly Chinese visitors arrived toting rafts and dressed in swim attire (rafts, swimsuits, towels and goggles are all on sale for those who forgot to bring them.

     

    Bags and clothing can be stored in lockers that are located alongside changing rooms and showers outside the water world’s entrance on the ground floor. Renting a locker costs RMB 100, with RMB 80 given back when the rubber bracelets that open the lockers are returned.

     

    Some visitors, like Jessie Zhang and Sherry Xie from the southern province of Yunnan, traveled thousands of miles to visit the new park. The two friends say it is the first time they had ever seen such a place: “It’s exciting and amazing,” says Xie, 20, noting that she got stuck in one of the painfully tiny tubes on one of the slides on her way through (don’t worry, there are around 60 life guards on duty.)

     

    A few foreign faces were also in the mix, including one American who, while climbing the stairs of one of the tallest slides, keeps muttering something about “wishing there were more volunteers” before disappearing behind a roped-off entrance with a sign reading “Equipment Testing. Suspended.”

     

    And siblings Mia and Taylor Croonquist of Seattle, Washington, find themselves at the top of the Aqueloop slide, which features a 40-foot free fall drop. It was the fourth time they had ridden it. “It never gets old,” Mia Croonquist, 13, says. “It whips you around a corner and then you are doused with water. It’s awesome.”

     

    Taylor Croonquist, 28, adds: “Back in Seattle, we used to jump off bridges. It feels like that. A dead free fall before the water hits you.”

     

    Source with additional photo gallery:

    http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/play/beijings-watercube-water-park-now-open-040746?hpt=C2

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