LaRondeQC
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Cyclone at SFNE was jumping the tracks coming into the brakes the last night. It was like it was running too fast.
Wait.. what?
Yea this confused me as well.
It was stopping quickly, causing the middle to pop up a little and slam back down.
Wicked Cyclone isn't a wooden coaster
This. Wicked Cyclone is a hybrid coaster.
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Large structures like that can have a ton of "flexibility" designed into them... As mentioned, it's to dissipate energy and reduce stress... No different than a tall skyscraper like the Empire State Building or Sears Tower swaying in the wind...
Wouldn't that be dangerous, though? You have a fast moving train filled with passengers and each full train varies in weight (people's weight + the trains original weight), couldn't the moving structure possibly sway more than it is supposed to and just collapse?
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On Le Monstre, after the first drop, you come to the little airtime painful hill and the train on track 2 feels like it comes up off of the track and literally slams back down onto the track, that spot is SOOO painful.
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Do you ever worry when you ride certain wooden coasters that are known for 'bouncing' off of the track or being really rough & shaky & fast..
Sometimes I worry that the wood is going to reach a certain stress level and just..... snap.. Or sometimes I feel like the car will derail on really sharp turns.
Is it just me or do you guys worry about that, too?
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La Ronde's ride wait times are terrible. The only ride that they care about is The Goliath, the others are just neglected with 1hr+ wait times with small lines.
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Dollywood is getting a launched woodie for 2016.. I was right for once,
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September 3rd 2015 is when the new ride/show/etc is being revealed.
Proof:
https://www.facebook.com/events/307550239369200/
It's apparently a "huge reveal"... Maybe a rollercoaster?
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Is LaRonde open right now?
I'm asking this due to the weather warnings & clouds atm..
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Le Monstre at La Ronde is pretty rough.
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^^ I understand not liking Thunderhead, but not liking it because it sounds weird and is "rough"( which it really isn't compared to a lot of other wooden coasters) is a pretty stupid reason not to like it. Also, aren't you that guy who was spreading all those bullcrap rumors on the La Ronde thread that you wanted people to believe so bad you changed the Wikipedia page so people would believe you?
LOL that wikipedia page wasn't me.. I just noticed it...
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I heard rumors that RMC is trying to make a launched woodie for the future, how would this work?? How fast do they expect a woodie to go in a small amount of time? Imagine a RMC King Da Ka Clone but as a woodie.. I would definitely ride that.
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Don't be deceived by those here who have ridden more coasters than there are days in a year, 16 is a fair amount of woodies to have ridden given that most parts have like a 5/1 ratio on steel to wood. Given that you've ridden rides like Thunderhead you should at least have an idea of what a top 10 wooden candidate looks like.
Thunderhead is a top ten woodie?!?!?
Thunderhead makes weird noises, noises I've NEVER heard on a woodie ever before.. The only thing thunderhead is top ten for is probably how loud it is out of all woodies..
You can tell it's a GCI, though, in a way similar to feeling like you just experienced an earthquake while you're half asleep and flying out of your seat experiencing migraines..
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I personally LOVED Ghostrider, Raven, Shivering Timbers, Villain, and Cyclops.. Recently went on Shivering Timbers, it was windy that day.. I got off the ride and regretted it. My spine hurt a lot and I couldn't stretch, other than that when it isn't windy it's mostly a "woody smooth ride". The others vary from not-painful to WTF I felt like I just got in a fight with 4 gorillas...
Now a question for you all: Which CCI Coaster would you like RMC to work their magic on??
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Aren't Cedar Point and Great Adventure supposedly haunted too?
Yes, apparently.
Kings Island is special though because according to people there is a 5 year old girl named Missouri Jane haunting the park..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sROv9s_MUo
I just watched this, apparently many people have encountered "spirits"/"ghosts" throughout the park at night.
Kings Island was built over an old munitions plant that exploded and killed 100 people and apparently the spirits of those people are haunting the park, nobody knows the truth. I believe the spirits ARE there but I don't believe that they're as violent as they have been portrayed.
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Next summer I'm going to be going on a fairly large 10-14 day coastering car trip across the northeastern part of the US. The plan was to head north from San Antonio and hit some number of parks going clockwise around the east coast. This is the general concept/rough draft:
SFOT
SDC
SFStL
KI
CP
SFGAdv (may switch order with PA parks)
Knoebels/Hershey/Kennywood (help me decide!!!)
Carowinds
SFOG
I want to cut down the trip so I can have 2-3 days at CP, and I wanted to go to Knoebels and Hershey but also wanted to space the parks out so there wouldn't be too many long parkless stretches, but at the end of the trip that may be nice (?)
Are there any parks here worth taking out (I'm thinking SFStL and SFOG, and then 1 or 2 of the PA trio. I probably won't stay at SFOT too long but I want to stop for a few hours because NTaG. That is all that needs to be said).
Which parks are worth staying at for 2-3 days (besides CP), which parks should we budget for fastpass, which parks should we hit on weekends as opposed to weekdays (since time is limited), and which parks should we go to or skip that are/aren't on the list? Many things could be subject to change depending on new additions for next year, or course.
Go to Kings Island, you can ride Banshee, The Beast and more! Also:
Banshee is an AMAZING ride.
On The Beast's lift hill, you could make a sandwich.. Pass the time.
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^You are not even elligible to a custom title yet and you already ask for a terrible one?Golden Rule #1: To ask for a custom title, you must have 150 real posts on the forum. Real posts means not 3/4ths of your posts in games threads. If you are an active member of the site, this should be no problem!
O.O. I guess I can't read. Oops.
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Title Fairy, show me your worst!
I bet you can't hurt my feelings!
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Basically the title.
If you haven't been there, do you have any future plans to visit? I'm going tomorrow and Tuesday for some fun.
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I plan on going to Ontario (I live in Quebec so why not haha), to go to Calypso for a day.. Has anybody on the forum ever been there, if so how much fun is it.
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^It wasn't, they just covered the big field of grass around the waterpark area with concrete and added/relocated rides there.
Oh. What I just realized by looking @ google earth, they could remove the GoKart track (nobody ever pays to do GoKarts anyway), the land there seems to be big enough for a ride of a reasonable size (Size of the Vampire or bigger)..
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^^Look at the back of the park on this picture. Do you recognize anything?
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(Source : http://xtremelaronde.forumactif.com/t768-parc-aquatique-de-la-ronde)
La Ronde had one in the 90's, and there's a good reason why it's now gone.
The park looks different in that pic, of course it would because it's from the 90's but the land looks smaller.. It looks like it was expanded manually (fireworks), goliath. They complain that they have no space for rides, they have places that are just empty and ride-worthy but they never use them.. Makes no sense. :/
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I think a Huss Enterprise 2G would be a great addition to the park. It could go in an empty spot next to Demon which is in desperate need of attention. [attachment=0]enterprise_laronde.PNG[/attachment]
I saw that spot when I was walking to see the fireworks, maybe it's there for a reason? There's usually a gate blocking that path when there is no fireworks but they can open it. They should take out that useless "Moo-Zoo" stand that's right beside that spot and possibly add a bigger flat ride.
My opinion: LaRonde should remove the Cobra, and all closed things surrounding it, expand the land (is possible apparently) and add a waterpark, could increase attendance (good thing (more money for La Ronde which means more money to invest on the park), bad thing (bigger lines, possibly higher restaurant prices, they're high enough aren't they?!?)).
ALSO:
What is this space here? Have they ever actually used this? It seems to be hidden for some reason..
Ever been on a coaster when it broke down (got stuck, etc.)?
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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I got stuck on Le Monstre at La Ronde for an hour or so on the top of the lift hill, we were evacuated from the train.. It's actually really freaking hard to walk down a wooden coaster's lift hill.. I swear I almost fell twice.