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Sounds like a great idea for a movie, but I was hoping for another movie that begins at Disneyland called "Mystery at Disneyland" (from a big little book that I read years ago). The Opening begins like the TV show and leads to Walt Disney himself (an actor that has been CGI'ed to look like Walt Disney) and he spends a few minutes talking about the park. Then he introduces the story about a mystery that happened inside the park years ago (a few items were being stolen from various stores at nighttime). Although the mystery was nevered solved, the robberies ceased and things soon went back to normal. But Agent Mickey Mouse and his friend Goofy, both who were assigned to this case, wrote out a different report to be read by Walt himself. Then Walt presents the "Mystery at Disneyland". And of course this will be an animated feature. Going back to the film that is being produced, I wonder if the plot might be similar to an old NES game I played way back in 1990 called "Adventures in Disneyland". In that game, you must wander through Disneyland to find the seven keys needed to open up the main gates. Six of those keys were found in various attractions and you played the mini games in order to collect them. The seventh key is earned by answering trivia questions about Disney. Whatever the case might be, I think this might be a film to keep your mickey mouse ears open for. "Please come to me; your bed misses you very much."

From the MayTheGForceBeWithYou Post: causing MayTheGforceBeWithYou to add: Folks, this was why several years ago I decided to boycott all Six Flags Parks due to this outrage following the closure of Astroworld. The other Six Flags got decent rides, and all Six Flags America got was a scrap heap that used to be the Ultra Twister (a ride I did ride more than once). This ride, if constructed, could have been the perfect fit between the Joker's Jinx and the railroad tracks. But oh no, the management decided it would be too expensive to reconstruct. So as the parts lay out in the open and slowly decay into rust, I'm here on this site posting my say that can be compared with sour grapes. Now I called off the boycott this year due to Six Flags America debuting Thomas Town (not to mention the fact that I was planning on going to Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Magic Mountion in that samw season), but now that the new family coaster planned for next season could be scrapped, I guess I will have to bring back the ban. "I wish I could get angry, but I'll turn lumpy if I do."

Before I begin, I must confess that I've never visited Silverwood before (I mean, that's way off my radar there, folks). But I will confirm that I have ridden the Deja Vu at Magic Mountain this past summer and I did it twice in a row (and all in the front seat - how cool is that?)!!! I can now say that the ride that had haunted me for nearly ten years have finally be met and conquered. "Yeah, take that, you old piece of scrap heap!" In conclusion, I would encourage all the riders and amusement park flyers to come out to either Silverwood and/or Magic Mountain and ride this thrill coaster. "I think you typed enough, so please come to bed; I miss you."

Concurring with my reasons why the Mutiple Train Shuttles never took off, KDCOASTERFAN added this line: You are correct, but I do know of one park that I have visited on numerous times and I have seen them use both station for their flyer coasters. I'm talking about FIREHAWK at Kings Island. They are probably the only ride staff I know of that I feel properly know have to move the riders in and out. But as for BATWING in Six Flags America , always ride that coaster first or you'll be waitng all day as they only run one station and one train. "And that's the truth you can sleep on!"

I do know what you mean; there are two rides I know off that has the mulitple train shuttles, both of them are called "Mr Freeze's Chiller coaster" and one is located in Six Flags Mid America (outside of St. Louis) and the other one is located in Six Flags over Texas (near Dallas). I rode both of those coasters and I love them to death, especially the top hat inversion. So why didn't more parks get a ride like "Mr. Freeze"? It would seem logical for a park that needed a high-thrill ride that didn't take up a large amount of space, plus the concept of mutiple stations that would alternate (one side loading while the other side was in operation) was groundbreaking at the time. But I think the two major drawbacks for this ride has to be the extra downtime (two stations = double the problems) and the extra staff needed (two stations = two sets of ride attendants). Besides, with other types of launch coasters (such as Kennywood's Sky Rocket) and other parks perferring their coasters to only have one station to operate in maybe the reason why the mutiple Train shuttles didn't take off. Still, there might be another Mr. Freeze type ride somewhere in the future. You never know. "And I know there's a place in the future you will have to stop typing and lay your head on me!"

With the prospect of the former Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom to be reopened this Memorial Day 2011, I might consider visiting this park as my first stop as I head out west towards Holiday World and Indiana Beach on my 2011 summer vacation (if I do decide to go west at all: I'm still deciding if I should go south to Florida or should I go east, then north to Ocean City - alas, only I can make that decision). To me, Kentucky Kingdom was an unique park that had a small section and a larger section connected by a bridge. But there are two drawbacks: 1)I've been burnt before when some corperation was planning to reopen the once-flooded Six Flags New Orleans (a park I got to visit a year before Hurricane Katrina), and the plan never came to fruition. I fear the same thing might happen to Kentucky Kingdom. 2) Now let's suppose that Kentucky Kingdom does open up on Memorial Weekend 2011 and I do decide to go west this summer. What rides will they have running? Greezed Lighting will always be a must ride to me (one request, please no brakes when the train is traveling backwards into the station and heading up the incline in the back) , and I'm sure that Thunder Road will still be there (hey, it's a triple out and back coaster!), and I'm sure the water park area and a variety of flat rides will still be there. But Chang has gone to Six Flags Great Adventure and Twisted Twin should be torn down and rebuilt into something exciting (Bonfire, the ride), but that's okay for I never cared for any of those rides. Perhaps the new owners can surprise us and actually make this park even better than before (Okay, so I'm a hopeless optimistic. So sue me!)!!! But all of that is just pure speculation and my summer vacation of 2011 is still far off. All I can do is keep up to date with the comings and goings and maybe (just maybe) I'll be heading to Louisville, Kentucky again. "Gee Whiz, after all that typing and putting in all those codes and stuff, you need to lie down!"

To me, it's always sad to see something that once was up and running in a park end up rotting in another park's boneyard. As for me, I do not like to ride stand ups, but it's still sad for those that do. Oh well, here's a thought that might cheer you up. The metal can be salvaged as scrap and I'm sure it'll find new life as a future roller coaster (or maybe as a new canival ride). What do you all think about that? And this is what other people think about my idea and the person who suggested it! Sheesh, everyone is a critic. You all didn't have to be so harsh! "Don't worry, I still love you. Why don't you stop typing and cry on me for a while?"

WOW!!! I believe that all I can say is "CONGRADULATIONS to Wild Adventures for receiving such a high and honorable award". Last time I visited Wild Adventures, there were no Splash Island waterpark section of the park, but the park did have plenty of small family coasters, the Cheetah coaster had been retracked, I felt that the queueing line for the Bug Safari coaster wasn't long enough, I didn't ride their log flume because it didn't looked thrilling to me, and Hank Williams Jr. was performing that night. I wonder should I ever revisit Wild Adventures how much the park would have changed. And I believe the answer would be VERY MUCH! "And that's the truth you can go to sleep with!"

^The Starliner won't probably be in operation until 2012? Hmm . . . Let me reread that article again. reading . . . reading . . . still reading . . . Okay, you're right, but wouldn't it be great if there was a year that we could call "The year that featured the return of the lost coasters!"? Now that would be something. Still, for me making that little blunder, I add this : "I'm glad I can't blush. That is one of the many benefits for being a pillow.

You know, from all the coasters I've ridden, I never did care whether or not the train had seat dividers or not. I guess its all in the type of coaster ride and the park owner's preferences. "Here's my take: if those seat dividers hurt your little tushy, then take me along. I'll make sure your little tushy isn't harmed. I'll do anything to get on a roller coaster ride!"

After reading this post, I was thinking - "Could this year be known as the year a few coasters that once were gone now come back to life?" I mean, Green Bay's Bay Beach is getting the old Libertyland's Zippin Pippin and now Panaman City is getting its own Starliner back! So far, that's two old coasters getting a new lease on life. Makes you wonder what's next? "Maybe Kings Dominion might bring back the old Galaxy coaster. What do you think, pillow?" "All I can say is 'DREAM ON'!"

Oh yes, the B&M ball for the Dominator, a handy device used by maintenace to insure that the Dominator's tracks are in good working order and to keep the personal safe so they won't have to risk life and limb climbing onto the track for inspection tours. Still, I prefer to ride the old-fashion way. "As for me, I prefer to be treated the old-fashion way: with somebody's head on me and heading towards dreamland!"

Nice to hear that fat people . . . "Hey, watch yourself, buster! Don't call them FAT! Instead, use the term 'guests with large or unusual body sizes'!" As I was saying, nice to hear that guest with large or unusual body sizes can now enjoy this attraction. I'm just glad that I have lost enough weigh and inches around my belly . . . "Hey, don't use the word 'belly': use the word 'stomach' because it sounds better! As I was saying, nice to hear that guest with large or unusual body sizes can now enjoy this attraction. I'm just glad that I have lost enough weigh and inches around my stomach. Now I don't have to worry about whether or not I can fit into the restraints or not. How am I doing? "Keep it going!" Actually, that's all I wanted to write about. "What! Just a little line with only a few words, what are you, crazy? Why, in my day, we never ever posted replies without writing long paragraphs. Why the last sucker that did it got his rear end blown off and I did it with my . . ." (At that time, that angry face smiley was taken out by four policemen, so we apologize for the interruption and head over to the pillow for his final remarks) "Whew! I'm glad I'm not angry"

Sir Coaster wrote: There is another coaster like that located at Silver Dollar City called "THE POWDER KEG". Not only does it launches you over a hill and around a few curves, but it also contains a lift hill in the middle of the ride. How many coasters can lay a claim to that? "I'm glad you were able to get that off your chest, NOW WOULD YOU PLEASE COME TO BED?"

Now that the ground has been broken and the structure will start to rise, I think it's time for everyone to eat a peanut butter and banana sandwich to celebrate this occasion (if you want to eat this sandwich fried, then go ahead lest you want your belly to stick out so much you cannot fit into the restraints and be denied to ride unless you are already a skinny wink and the extra calories won't hurt you). I think my pillow wants to impersonate as Elvis. "Treated like a fool, treat me mean and cruel, but love me. Lie your head on me and go right off to sleep, just love me! Thank you, thank you very much!

Judging from what I've been hearing about the new sound, it sounds like (no pun attended) the music is coming from speakers placed from around the track's layout and not from speakers inside the car. Now why couldn't Six Flags Magic Mountain have done that with their Terminator: Salvation ride? "I hate lying on the bed and being all alone. I need someone's head to lie upon me.

Upon reading the announcement that Six Flags over Georgia is planning to add Dare Devil Dive to their park, I was very happy towards the news and might make plans of visiting Six Flags over Georgia next summer. But someone commented on an open area where the Shake, Rattle,& Roll use to be located. Now it has been ages since I last visited the park, but I know that the Shake, Rattle, & Roll was an indoor scrambler ride. Did the scrambler get placed elsewhere in the park or did it head up to that great Boneyard in the sky? "I've got a better question: when are you coming to bed?"

^"Well, Kiddies, looks like I got my facts wrong!" I guess that's what happens to you when you don't get to ride enough water blaster rides or visit Schlitterbahn very often. Then I've received another response from DBru that responded that the reason Master Blaster was never named as a coaster was because "Then are you saying that The Wildebeest is a complete circuit ride?" If that is the case, then it means two things to me: 1) That has got to be a first of its type - a water slide that is in a complete circuit, and 2) I"VE GOT TO GET OVER TO HOLIDAY WORLD AND RIDE IT! "I would like to ride it too, but I might get my stuffings wet.

When I heard the news that Hoilday World's newest ride called "The Wildebeest" was going to be named as one of the top five new coasters, I had to do a double take. Did I read that right? The Wildebeest is a coaster? I thought it was just a water slide that makes you go up and down and all around, and it to be named as a "coaster"? Folks, I don't know whether I should laugh or cry at this; I mean, when Schlitterbahn released its "Master Blaster (remember,kiddies, this was the first ever ride of its kind), did it ever get named as a coaster? I don't want an answer to that, at least not yet. I think I want to go to Hoilday World, ride the Wildebeest, and make up my own mind. Regardless of whether that ride is a coaster or not, at least it looks like "A FUN RIDE!!!" "The Wildebeest: is a coaster or not a coaster? Why not sleep on it?"

"What? A 78-year old man rode the Jack Rabbit Coaster 90 times in One Day?" "He's my Coaster Hero!" A quote from coastermoosh: "Right on, man!" "You know what you should be riding now? The comfy pillow on your head ride!"

Okay, now it's time for me to name what I think is the best and lamest Coaster "Endings". Okay, here are my top picks for the coasters with the best endings: #5 - The Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion - The tunnel at the end is always satisfying. #4 - The Matterhorn at Disneyland - After passing that Yeti ,how about that splashdown in the end? #3 - Space mountion at Magic Kingdowm - Just before you reach the station, you pass through a blast tunnel. #2 - Loch Nech Monster at Busch Gardens Europe - After the tunnel and one more lift hill, you got one more loop to go thought before reaching the station, and finally . . . #1 - The Beast at Kings Island - After the second lift hill and the double Helix, you are just glad to be back at the station. And now my picks for the coasters with the lamest endings: #5 - Superdooperlooper at Hersheypark - I love this ride, but after that single loop, you just ride around until you arrive back at the station. #4 - Ricochet at Kings Dominion - Great beginning, but terrible ending. #3 - Volcano at Kings Dominion - It's a great ride, but you stop inside the volcano and there is nothing? Come on, you guys, we stopped inside the volcano: couldn't we just have some cool lava effects with a fake lava stream just below us as we head back into the station? #2 - NInja at Magic Mountain - After weaving and twisting through other rides, we get to the lift hill and we will now . . . head back into the station. Wow, what a ending. And finally . . . #1 - Adventure Express at Kings Island - The final lift hill was cool, until we found out that instead of the latest threat we have to ride through, we are back into the station. Wow, who was the mastermind who thought this up? I can see why he gets the big bucks. "You typed enought already, so please come to bed. I miss you.

It's been nearly a year since I posted a reply on this thread, and to see the difference between what I was hoping for and what actually came out during Kings Dominion's 2010 season is amusing. Planet Snoopy changed just a few rides' names in its immediate area and added a bounce house, Kidsville just removed any non-Peanuts characters from its rides, Treasure Cave got a pirate-themed makeover, Boo Hill is just amazing, and that annoying Spongebob Squarepants 3-D movie is still playing at the action theater (oh well, nine out of ten isn't bad considering how much work was needed in this makeover Peanut's takeover). As much I enjoy riding around in Snoopy's Flying Ace and splashing around Snoopy's Splash Dance (and just viewing Snoopy's Bounce House and Joe Cool's Driving School : I'm just way too old and big for those attractions), I'm pretty sure Kings Dominion would add another ride or move another ride from Kidsville to increase the attraction's count inside Planet Snoopy. I got to ride the Linus Launchers from Kings Island, not to mention the ride description of Snoopy's Sky Ride from Carowinds and King's Island, and I wish that Kings Dominion would add those rides to their own Planet Snoopy. In Conclusion, it's nice to know that Dorney Park, Worlds of Fun, and Valleyfair (all three parks that I visited last year) will finally get their own Planet Snoopy; and if that's a problem, then I'm sure the world's famous LEGAL BEAGLE would come down and straighten things out!!! "If you want pleasant dreams of Planet Snoopy, then I'm sure I can help you out on that aspect."

Oh, what great memories, even though I didn't visit the park until 1991. Back then, the park only had four coasters: Thunder Road, Scooby Doo, Carolina Goldrusher, and (their newest ride that year) The Carolina Cyclone. I remember that steamboat that took you around Smurf Island. Back then, you could either cross the steamboat when it is docked or take a rafting ride to get to and from Smurf Island. And there used to be a monorail that took you all around and even outside the park. And finally, there was an illusion attraction called "Blackbeard's Revenge" that had the room turn around and upside down, making you think that you were too. I have visited Carowinds many more times since then, now with more coasters than you can shake a stick at and under the Cedar Fair banner. "Say goodnight and come to bed: I miss you"

As for me, the rider and amusement park flyer, I will never play any game because I feel it's a waste of money (and I would only have just a few quarters on me since I perfer to use the "Have your feet massage" machine). Another reason is stated in this quote by Thrillrider: I hear you and wish I could answer you on that, but as a rider and amusement park flyer you want to get on a attraction and not have to worry about loose articles or that fact that if you leave a stuffed animal at the station, then someone could steal it. I've seen that happened at Kings Dominion. While riding Rebel Yell, I teamed up with another single rider who had a stuffed Tweety Pie. When we boarded the train, I (being the perfect gentleman to this lady) decided to take the stuffed animal from her and place it on top of the shelves (I accidently dropped it between the train cars during the exchange and got a little grease mark on it, but I quickly picked it up and placed it upon the shelf). As I was heading back to my seat, I found my seat was taken (stolen actually) by a little girl (probably a eight-year old). I made a big deal to the ride attendant and he unlooked the restraints so that little seat thief could be ejected and I take my seat. After riding the Rebel Yell, we came back to the station and found, horrors!!! , that the lady's Tweety Pie has been stolen. When we asked around, we found out it was that little seat thief who took the stuffed animal (actually, she asked the ride attendant to get it for her and that knucklehead complied - I mean, if the Tweety Pie was hers, then she wouldn't have placed it on the upper shelf; she'd placed it on a lower shelf). We ran to get security and placed an APB on that little thief ("she's a little black girl wearing a red dress with black squares on it and the Tweety Pie she has in her hands has a grease mark . . .") Security had no problems finding her and the lady got her stuffed animal back. Like I said before, if you got a couple of quarters to get rid off, then use the feet massager seats. I do that a lot and never had regreted it. "Say goodnight and come to bed. I miss you."

You know, I one time had a daydream about this while I was standing in line to ride The Batman at Six Flags over Georgia. I believe a scene like this could appear in a soft porn movie. Four sexy ladies in bikinis walk up to ride this ride (let's say it's The Batman roller coaster) and there isn't anyone there in the station except a bored riding attendant. The four are about to go on the front seat when the ride attendant shakes his head and points to a sign that reads: "NO BIKINIS ARE ALLOWED ON THIS ATTRACTION!" So what do these ladies do? They take off their bikinis!!! The ride attendant smiles as he dispatches the train and for the next two minutes (shown at half speed) we see those four sexy ladies riding in the nude. When the train enters the station, the four are surprised the see the station filled with clapping and cheering men. The scene ends with the four looking at each other and giggling. Now why can't we have record breakings like this. Oh no, it's gotta be nude men that you don't wanna look at. Here's a thought: maybe Playboy could have its bunnies try to beat that record. "And I'll leave that last thought for you to dream upon.