TheArchfiend

Here's a question... What was there first? The amusement park or the couple that was complaining? Because if you buy a house nearby an amusement park you best believe that sounds from said park might be able to be heard within the vicinity of your land. Granted, I'm sure sounds from the park have gotten louder over the years but isn't that too be expected as well? I guess the English really need their quiet for tea time.

Oh my god, that sucks! Remove coaster... keep quiet in the park... no fireworks other than 3 select nights!? WTF is this world, or just England, coming too!? Why don't they just build those sound barrier walls made out of that cork-concrete stuff that they have erected all over sections of NJ highways that are adjacent to houses? Those things work like a charm. You can barely tell there is 8 roaring lanes of highway traffic and horns honking with numerous profanities being uttered on the other side of those 15 foot tall walls. Granted, the park would still be S.O.L. as far as the fireworks go but the inside the park noise would be dampered.

^^ Humans like to mock what we are superior too. Muaahhhhhh!!!!...

Oh, yeah. They always build a quality automobile. Do blind people see their dreams?

A co-worker once told me... "Jamie, I'm having a 20/80 day today." I said; "WTF does that mean?" He said; "That means I sang a Britany Spears song on the way into work in my car and I'm wearing a teal colored shirt therefore I am 20% gay and 80% strait today." I think that logic is brilliant. We all do something every now and then that would be considered "gay" as well as a gay person does something that would be considered "strait". Therefore, I feel no one is ever truely 100% gay or strait. Hell, I got Christina Aguilera in my cars CD player right now. Thats at least 5-10% "gay" right there.

Wow, never knew such a thing as gay camps existed but it doesn't really surprise me at all. I used to live out by the state of Utah and the stories I've heard from there are shocking and make gay camps look like a walk in the park. I agree with the others here that said this is basically along the same lines of a fat camp. I'm not really against this and have no problem if some concerened parents want their kid strait or want their kid non-obese. I wouldn't care if my son or daughter was strait or gay, I'd just want them to be happy. Hell, parents drag their kids to religious services in hopes that they grow up to share the parents point of views of their own religion. You never hear a major outcry to stop bringing kids to church, temple, etc... and church/religion is pretty much a similar brainwashing (if you will) tactic as a gay camp. "This is the way to believe/act and love thy god", is what a church/religion would preach. That is the same thing as; "this is the way to act and who to love", that's what would be preached in a gay camp.

To the human eye from the ground to our perception of what blue is... yes. If you could magically find out the day and time you are going to die, would you really want to know?

You'd think that parks would have some way to check their employees or strictly prohibit them from bringing cell phones into the park. Hell, make them pass through a metal detector before they start their shift and that will trip the detector if they have a cell phone on them (I think). I think some parks do make you do that anyway. There is absolutely no need for an employee to have a cell phone in the park. Parks should offer a free re-visit to any park goer that photographs a employee using a cell phone during their shift. And them maybe a three strike rule for that employee to abide by.

Well I go to SF Great Adventure 50 times a year and I try not to talk to anyone in line, but someone in line always ends up talking to me. And rightfully so. Who wouldn't want to talk to me? I never go alone but the times I do try to talk to people is when it looks like the person came to the park alone. Such as a early teen person in line that looks relatively frightened in the line of a coaster. I'll just say stuff like; "Is this your first time here? Ever rode coasters before? Don't worry about being scared, it's fun...bla bla bla...etc". Of course, I try not to strike up conversations with the early teen girls cause that is just creepy for a 28 year old man to do so. But most of the time more than half the people waiting in line at a Great Adventure are teenage punks (not all teenagers) that have IQ's that match their age and jersey attitudes as well. So I try not to make eye contact or conversation with most people in line. I dont ever remember any of my friends acting the way we see some teenagers act these days. Great Adventure just isn't the same and we dont nearly have as much fun there as when we were 13 years old. Hell, there were only 3 coasters in the park back then and we had a blast. Ahhh.... good times.

*BREAKING NEWS* The budget deal has literally just been reached so all the shores will reopen by tomorrow. Hooray!

Aww... bummer man. First, half the beaches in Jersey shut down, for now, because of the state workers budget negotiations now another decent pier is being turned into summer rentals. I guess I'll go to Atlantic City instead this weekend... oops, can't do that either. Wow, this states vacation destinations are really starting to suck. Please, no out of staters reply with the typical "radioactive trash swamps everywhere" remarks

Since I don't mind what my title would say... I shall leave it to your creative ingenuity to make me a title. Perhaps you can use the same method that you used to come up with your user name. Take the next two objects you see and make a witty sentence with them. Hell, it can be humiliating or "gay", I don't mind. It doesn't even need to be coaster or theme park releated. Or you can use a totally different method to derive a title from. Have fun with your powers of wit on this one and thanks in advance.

Now thats a clever looking fella.

I've seen um' both on youtube.com Search and ye shall find.

So you're deciding on whether or not to fly to Orlando, FL or Sandusky, OH? Well, I would go for Orlando and go to more than just Islands of Adventure. Plus I truely feel the Orlando parks are far more unique where as Cedar Point is comparable (but a little better) to many Six Flags Parks and Cedar Fair parks all over the country. If you have never been to any of the Orlando parks than it's a must you go there.

OK, so the water from the park fountains doesnt taste like sugar... but it will quench your thrist people. It's not like people are dropping dead for dysentery from drinking the water or else we would have heard about it by now. And I'm all for charging $3 for a bottle of water. If people are stubborn enough to not drink from a park water fountain cause it "tastes bad" or it's not ice cold, then so be it. Pay $3 for what you can get for free. I go on marathon runs all the time and even on my most dehydrated day have I ever cared that I was drinking out of a stagnant tasting and relatively warm public park water fountain. Water is water. Except in Mexico.

Steel: 1. Nitro @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 2. Medusa @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 3. Batman: The Ride @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 4. Batman: The Chiller: Robin @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 5. Great American Scream Machine @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 6. Kingda Ka @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 7. Skull Mountain @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 8. Runaway Mine Train @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 9. Blackbeards Lost Treasure Train @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 10. Batman the Chiller: Batman @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE Wood: 1-5 El Toro @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE 5-10 Rolling Thunder @ SIX FLAGS GREAT ADVENTURE Actually, I dont like top ten lists as I wouldn't want to sway anyone with the "real" top ten. So, above is a shamless plug for my favorite park... Disney World.

Of course one could always just go any of fifty WATER FOUNTAINS witihin the park for water... but that's just ridiculous.

You guys need to keep in mind that North Korea is a country that hates all it's neighbors and that hate is mutual. They barely have enough resources within their country to sustain the population for another 15 years. They aren't welcoming aide or imports from other nations unless it's guns/military supplies. Also their is sanctions imposed against them as well to make it difficult to recieve any type of aide. Many in the country have no problem being forced into the military since it's one of the few places where you are guaranteed a meal each day. Their a dying nation anyway under the current regime so what could they possibly care about killing off millions of Chinese or Japanese citizens if North Korea no longer has anything to lose? Someone is going to feel their wrath soon and it aint going to be pretty. Do you guys know the history of the Japanese towards Korea over many centuries? Korea hasn't forgotten that and they would have no problem seeking past retribution on them or the Chinese for that matter. Japan has pratically re-written their history books to hide their very bloody past.

You are the reason why I don't fear suffering any permanant paralysis or brain trauma from riding coasters excessively. Least, I think you're ok in the head, aren't you?? I must say that I throughly enjoyed reading this thread end to end. It's fascinating to see how some are so persistant with thinking one thing is the shiznit over another. I could ride 850 coasters too and would more than likely have a list that totally doesn't resemble Rob or Elissa's. Does that make mine better or worse? Nope. Right now my all time favorite coaster is Nitro at SFGadv. Why? Because it is in my home park, Because it was my first true hyper, and because I've been to that park over one hundred times since in opened and it's NEVER been broke down when I was there. Now I've rode coasters at many other parks such as Busch Gardens, Dourney, Hershey, All the parks in Orlando plus many others and can name atleast 5-10 coasters that have a better ride experience than my favorite but Nitro will always be special in a way those coasters aren't. At the end of the day am I expecting Nitro to be on the top of anyone's list of favorites or am I ever **SHOCKED/OUTRAGED** if it isn't? Hell no. I've yet to seek a coaster cause someone said it was good/best thing going. I go by what my perception of the ride appears to be and I don't plan on changing. Why people can't think like that is beyond me. If anything, I want to ride coasters that I think look good yet get harsh criticism.

Good customer service is why Disney is the best thing going since sliced bread. You'd think Six Flaggs would realize this but I guess looking for people content to working minimum wage is the best thing to do in their minds. If you ask me, I'd like my home park of SF Great Adventure to go without building a multi-million dollar roller coaster for years to come if I knew that money would be allocated to hiring more qualified/better paid employees for the park.

El Toro will FOREVER have a longer loading and dispatch times eventhough Rolling Thunder is considerably longer of a ride due to length of track, slower coaster speed, and chain lift. Toro has already shown that even with another train and extra ride ops for stapling and seat belt checks, you just get maybe 5 minute dispatches at best. In the summertime, yes. I rarely go to ride the coasters and flats in the summer months. Most of the times that I go in the peak summer months is to take my 3 and 4 year old cousins in the kiddie areas that are never packed even if the rest of the park is or go to the saffari which is always a neat experience. It's going to the park on crappy weather days and CAD days that you really have a great time. Early on in the season you get more employees that don't hate their job yet along with cooler temps and smaller crowds equals good times for all.

Maybe Wile E. Coyote was just acting lazy to sucker an unsuspecting Road Runner to walk up and then he'd spring into action doing a number of many Mortal Kombat fatalities to it. That would rule! I'm so going to this park now. California, here I come!

Japanese Samurai can shoot a fly off a horses butt with a bow and arrow from 20 miles away. Crappy North Korean missles are nothing for them to break a sweat over.

I hear the Playstaion 3 has a missle defense mechanism in it. Boy, I hope they produce them in time to protect all those Japanese people in harms way.