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ericthewanderer

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  1. I've been waiting and waiting for Funtown Pier to be rebuilt-but the owner won't do it because he can't get the 300-foot clearance?Doesn't he realize it's Funtown and not Great Adv.?I mean that Tower Of Doom was only like 200 feet ......

    On the flip side of that-the people who bought beach houses there during the last 40+ years have no business complaining !You buy a house near a boardwalk and are surprised by summertime traffic,noise,and drunk tourists ?!?!?

    If Funtown is never rebuilt because of whiny "neighbors" I'm just afraid Casino Pier would be next.

  2. I doubt this would happen, but could they make a drop tower and an observatory tower in the same tower? On the tower would be two gondolas: A gondola made to drop as a thrilling attraction, and the other as an observation gondola that doubles as a catch car.. Both would rise to the top of the tower. After about 30 seconds, the drop gondola would fall to the ground. The observation gondola would then slowly descend to the ground and hook to the drop gondola, where both could be unloaded and loaded again.

    I think Intamin is capable of retro-fitting their old sky towers to do both:keeping the observation gondola while adding the "tracks" for the freefall gondolas.

  3. I think a "golden era" style park could survive and do well as long as they avoided being "landlocked" and being an "asphalt park":by that I mean it seemed a lot of the old-school parks were only like 40/50 acres at most,and every inch not used by a ride was paved over with unshaded concrete or asphalt.Granted these parks seemed to have every ride known to man,but they eventually ran out of space in part to suburbs going up around them.

  4. I personally feel like relating anything to SOB would not be positive for the park. The GP knows all to well the woes of that coaster. And as I've stated before, I don't think KI will ever have an inverting wooden coaster again. "Wooden Coaster that goes upside down" would cause too much back lash from the public because of the SOB less than stellar run.

    What if they called it "Bride Of The Beast"?

  5. Hey everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here. At SFA today, got here around 1:30 and the place is PACKED! I've never seen it so crowded. We had to park in the overflow lot for the overflow lot. The one behind mind eraser. The lot is littered with weeds and debris, I don't think they use this lot often...

     

    Will post another update later.

    Even being a longtime passholder it's been years since I've seen it that full with the exception of Fright Fest.

  6. People got married on Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain. The ceremony was at the top of the lift, and then they rode Goliath.

     

    There's also been a marriage and at least one proposal on Tremors, plus a proposal on Panic Plunge. Guy got her on the ride and at the last minute after her restraint was locked, he got off. She rode and when it came back down he was on one knee and asked her.

    When SFA got Wild One back in 1986 there was a wedding on it,and if I remember correctly the bride had actually been a ride op for the coaster a few years earlier when it was at Paragon Park.

  7. My one and only experience riding a coaster in the rain was about 15 years ago on S:ROS at SFA.It had been cloudy all morning that day,but no real rain-until I got the front seat of S:ROS.There was some misty drizzle going up the lift hill,but by the time the train got to the first helix I and everyone started feeling the raindrops-and how!Me and the people behind me had thought it was hail at first!Fortunately we were able to get off before the thunder nd lightning came along.

  8. A very long roller coaster that goes through time from the beginning of coasters to coasters right now. It would start off with Russian Mountains with a big drop. And then it goes through time to whatever whatever whatever, simulating a part of the ride it's showcasing for a short time before going off into the next part.

    So basically the coaster would start off as the Crystal Beach Cyclone,turn into the original KI Bat,and end up as Drachen Fyre ?

  9. Randomly, I decided to watch a video of SFA's train ride. While watching, I recalled that the train is now open to everyone and is not just meant for transporting people to the picnic/catering area or Fright Fest. Which made me curious if they ever decide to expand the park, could/should they utilize the picnic area as a new section of the park adjacent to Gotham City? The paths and everything to it are already in place, as is the train and station (obviously). They'd just need to find a new picnic/catering area.

    Back in 1983 they DID try to turn it into a new section,but it only lasted for that season.The only ride I remember being out there was Pirate's Flight.I always thought they SHOULD re-try that idea-maybe there's zoning restrictions I don't know about.

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    At some of my first events at Great Adv.(back around 1999/2000) the park had a rule that each coaster had to have at least 2 riders to dispatch.Since Medusa was still new everyone was there,and I had to pull my mini-marathons of GASM,Viper,and Chiller(with OTSRs!)with one of the ride ops!

     

    You're a real trooper. How did your head feel after marathoning Viper?

    Believe it or not it wasn't too bad-Viper was still sort-of new then and IMO the headbanging qualities on that ride were just appearing.

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