[What park have you been to the most?]

Not counting work, BGT!

 

I used to ditch school all the time and go!

 

Elissa "that was a great park back then!" Alvey

 

I think I've done that countless times the past couple years!

 

What high school did you go to?

[What are you doing right now instead of posting?]

I'm playing bass.

[Your 2005 Travel Plans - Where are you going?]

I have my BGT and IOA/USF passes so I'm sure I'll be back at all those parks.

 

June Roadtrip:

SFoG

SFAm

SFGAdv

Wildwood Piers (maybe, I think I'd rather spend time in NYC instead)

Lake Compounce

SFNE

Dorney

Knoebels

Hershey

 

I don't see myself going to any other parks because of how much that road trip is going to cost me!

[Who'd win in a street fight?]

Stinkoman would destroy any of those guys in a challenge.

[Movies, Movies, Movies.....]

I saw Sin City last night. It was freakin' awesome! Easily the best comic book to big screen adaption I've ever seen. The film is basically composed of two main stories that are eventually connected towards the end a la Pulp Fiction. Also, the visuals are amazing because it doesn't stray at all from the look of Frank Miller's comic books (excuse me, they're "graphic novels.") I don't want to give away anything about the film's charaters but I thought the casting was excellent and the very memorable characters will leave stark images in your head. As much as I enjoyed Sin City, its hard for me to recommend it to everyone because the gruesome violence, twisted stories, and gun-slinging prostitutes. 9.5/10

[John McLaughlin...HOLY CHRIST]

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?style=music&pid=1764777&cart=239142378

^I've listened to this cd lately which is a famous live performance featuring him, Al DiMeola, and Paco De Lucia.

[700 ft. tall coaster?]

That is too tall for thrilling. Once your body falls at a certain speed you lose the freefalling. Has anyone been skydiving before?

 

Can you really compare skydiving to a roller coaster though? The free fall from a skydive is like what thousands of feet?

 

It doesn't matter, once the object reaches a certain speed it doesn't increase.

 

Throw a penny of the Empire State Building and it will be slowed down by wind resistance.

 

Falling at terminal velocity for an extended period of time (like during skydiving) would create an unbelievably amazing coaster experience. I guess that's kind of the point of freefall towers though...

[First Roller Coaster Ride Of 2005 Season]

DD Ice front row!

[Utopia]

I found this article on Screamscape and I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this yet:

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050320/NEWS01/503200301/1002

 

Basically it's a proposed theme park resort outside of Springfield, MA called Utopia that features four indoor theme parks for year round operation. For some reason there's a lot of talk about EPCOT in the article because the projected attendance figures (a ridiculously ambitious 9.5 million visitors!) are about the same for the Utopia resort and EPCOT. This just seems like a joke to me because I can't see that kind of market for a New England park and a company that would take a $1.6 billion chance on this. Comments...

[Nintendo should make a theme park.]

I think just having a go-cart place themed to look like the Mario Kart games would be awesome.

[What do you collect?]

I have over $200 in quarters but I might cash them in to help fund my road trip this summer...

[Busch Gardens Tampa Bay (BGT Discussion Thread)]

BGT should be using this poster for SheiKra promo...

 

[What is your local park?]

Busch Gardens Tampa is about a 30 min. drive south and the Universal parks are about a 2 hour drive east. I usually only do one WDW park a year because their passes are so expensive (more than $200.) I'll definately need to spend some quality time in Animal Kingdom in 2006 though.

[Use Your Religion]

I'm a practicing Catholic and have been all my life. I used to not care about it but the last couple of years I've been able to see and appreciate the depth of the faith and I find I'm more at peace when I'm the most open to it.

 

I hope this doesn't start some kind of arguement but I personally feel that agnostic is the worst thing to claim yourself to be. Saying that you're sitting on the fence means you're just trying to be safe.

[What is your favorite band and song?]

OK, time to scare you all. Among my favorites:

 

Dream Theater

Rush

Opeth

Ayreon

Spock's Beard

Enchant

Savatage

Mercenary

Dark Tranquility

Crystal Method

Riverside

Andromeda

Sonata Arctica

Ozric Tentacles

Gordian Knot

Into Eternity

Pain Of Salvation

Psychotic Waltz

Dead Soul Tribe

Symphony X

 

I'll stop now...

 

dt

 

Good to know I'm not the only prog nerd on here! I wouldn't call them my favorite band but I've been listening The Mars Volta a lot lately.

[Hotels Around Six Flags America]

I stayed at the Wasington DC Days Inn Capitol Beltway in Capital Heights last summer - just off the beltway on the road that goes out to SFA (about 3 miles away).

 

It was a "little" ghetto from the outside but not too bad, its a tower block and the rooms are fine and I felt perfectly safe there. Cheap SF tickets at the reception too.

 

I probably only thought it was bit ghetto as I'd just flown in, fought my way around the Baltimore/Washington traffic all in a thunderstorm and I was a bit tired!

 

I was more or less asking if the area around Capital Heights was alright to stay at. I've had to stay in some pretty crappy areas around D.C. before so I'm a little hesitant to book anything without knowing what I'm getting into. Thanks for the response.

[How Old Are You & What Was Your 1st Coaster?]

 

My first coaster must be seen to be believed: http://www.rcdb.com/ig2908.htm?picture=1

I had to be 6 or 7. I have yet to go on such an amazing air time machine since then...

[Hotels Around Six Flags America]

Three of my friends and I are going on a coaster road trip this summer and I've found houses to stay at except for around SFA. Does anyone know of any economy hotels around there that aren't in an ultra-ghettofied area?

[Six Flags Great Adventure?]

SFGA has a decent collection of rides (Nitro's one of my personal favorite rides) but the cleanliness is about what you'd expect from SF and the food is subpar except for that Chinese place at the back of the park. I found the layout to be really akward- they've built so far out into the parking lot that the main entrance is in the center of the parK!

[What Was The Last Coaster You Rode?]

DD Fire- front row! IMO one of the best roller coaster experiences anywhere.

[When did you become an enthusiast?]

I've always been facinated by roller coasters since I can remember but I was scared to death of riding them for a while. I went to BGT with just my mom in summer '98 or '97 and I remember before we got there I made her promise me to make me ride Montu (not bad for a fist coaster!) After forcing me on that first ride I was totally hooked and I think I must have ridden Montu and Kumba ten times each that day.