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  1. On mobile IE, the Calendar was half the page. It was a pain to navigate around. Perhaps it varies from phone to phone. My Samsung Saga loads it just fine...I just take a second to scroll past the calendar, and the board works with no problems.
  2. Jew

    SFMM Parking

    That's a great option if you want to run the risk of getting your car towed.
  3. ^That's a far cry from the "no reason whatsoever" that I initially responded to. So now you are asking a completely different question... To answer your new question, I'd say "Whatever...give me my money back and I'll be on my way." It's their choice to ask me to leave, and certainly wouldn't want to make it worse for myself by making a scene...of course, if a park were dumb enough to actually say that to guest...they'd be asking for trouble in the form of bad PR and a lawsuit. But in reality, no park is just going to kick you out for something as ridiculous as not liking your face (unless your face is covered in offensive or gang related tattoos), so that was a bad example. There's no such thing as parks kicking people out "for no reason at all." There is, however, people being kicked out for what they feel is "no reason at all" because they feel what they did isn't a big deal. But you know what? You're on private property. If a park feels like you did something to warrant being kicked out...it's their right to do exactly that.
  4. I disagree. The industry has been waiting for "the next big thing" in water rides for 20 years! Parks moved away from water rides after everyone and their mother bought some combination of a log ride, chute-the-chute drop ride, and a rapids ride. And now with all those rides getting old and expensive to operate (plus the space they take up), with more and more being removed every year...the timing is perfect for a new wave of water rides. Is this it? Maybe, maybe not. But I really think more parks should be looking into all the different water coaster options out there.
  5. I think you answered your own question. Liking the flyer concept+wanting the rides installed in 2001+what was most likely a good deal=two Vekoma flying coasters in 2001 to be followed by B&M's in the following years.
  6. ^Thanks for adding your expertise to the thread. Robb and Elissa (and all the others) obviously know nothing about filming on rides. It is a ride operators job to know the safety policies of their ride. It shouldn't take them anymore than a couple of seconds to answer your question. Sure it is great if a manager is available, or someone from the park responds to your inquiry prior to your visit...but if all else fails, read the attractions warning signs (note that if it says no loose articles, strap or not, that means your camera is not allowed) or ask a ride operator if the signs aren't clear.
  7. ^Absolutely. It's private property. Parks reserve the right to remove anybody for any reason.
  8. You beat me to it! In addition to the costs of the pumps, maintenance is also very expensive: maintaining all the fiberglass isn't cheap either! Plus the liability...
  9. Jew

    2010 TPR Trip

    ^Nothing wrong with that! (I was soooo tempted to book a trip to Paris last December just so I could say I made it to all the Disney resorts in the same year! I'm still tempted to go to Paris, so I could say I technically went to all the parks within a year.)
  10. Except that the rule IS that parks do have the right to ask you to stop taking pictures and videos on their property. They also reserve the right to ask you to remove any photos and videos, as you are technically taking pictures of their copyrighted material.
  11. I think a points system is a great idea in theory...but I doubt SF will be able to pull it off.
  12. Regarding the stand up at Darien Lake: I was under the impression that Intamin merely sold the ride. I believe the ride was actually designed/fabricated by Giovanola, which is coincidentally where B&M also got their start. I believe Giovanola actually held (I say held because they are now bankrupt---no idea what happened to their assets) the patents for the B&M box track design, and that B&M actually had to license the use from them. Of course, this is all based on something I either heard or read awhile back, so I don't know how true it really is.
  13. ^^If savvy enthusiasts could narrow it down fairly quickly, we would already know what those yellow track pieces were for! Again, look at the picture in that article. It's Diamondback track and it's labeled MC (presumably for mega coaster, as it has already been noted in this thread). But the customer is also labeled as MC108, as opposed to it saying Kings Island, which is how they used to do it (see the picture of the Dark Knight track label in this thread)
  14. I was under the impression that most parks have something buried in the fine print of their rules about reserving the right to control/deny any photos/videos taken on their property.
  15. ^I took that to mean that they no longer make the customer name so obvious. In fact, the pictures in that article look like they are for Diamondback...which would mean that the theory about the prefixes is correct (the labels show it as a "MC").
  16. In case anyone was wondering... the site also runs fine using mobile IE or Opera.
  17. ^It's a seasonal restaurant. It's been open during the summer season.
  18. ^^^Maybe that is where Six Flags is really going wrong: are they really a national brand outside of the name? You can argue that there are certain characteristics each "flagged" park shares (like being known for coasters) that makes them a national brand, but in the end the parks are still just a collection of regional parks with a few characteristics of a "brand." One example I can think of off the top of my head is SFFT: I've never been, but you always see them getting accolades for their shows over anything else. Stuff like that gets lost in the shuffle of a national brand, so the park isn't necessarily maximizing it's marketing potential. Another one I can think of is Magic Mountains opening of Thomas Town: for a company so focused on becoming family friendly, there was not a single ad dedicated to their brand new kids attraction! All LA got was the national ads with "bring a coke can and save" tacked on at the end. That's what I was really getting at.
  19. ^Two is more than enough. If anything, all they "need" to do is renovate Laughing Dragon to actually feel more like a full service restaurant. Full service restaurants are not all that common outside of major "vacation" parks like the Orlando parks, DLR, Sea World's, etc. Parks that cater largely to locals don't need anything more than 1 or 2 of them (if that) because the locals already have their own full service restaurants they go to. They figure "oh...we can just have dinner at (insert restaurant here) on the way back." But if you were staying at WDW, you will be much more inclined to eat at a full service restaurant because you are on property for a week , want variety, don't have anywhere to go for full service, etc. So there's a much higher demand.[/img]
  20. I'm almost certain it is bigger than Indy's show building.
  21. You'd probably "go lame" too if you faced the threat of more billion dollar lawsuits (no matter the merit/ridiculousness/etc. of the lawsuits were).
  22. ^I understand that the cost would have been more (but really, how much more would some green screen shots cost?!), but your point about them only needing people to know that Mr. Six=Six Flags is exactly what I was talking about. The point I was trying to make is that the ads did nothing to sell the brand. I think it's safe to say that most people recognized Mr. Six as the Six Flags guy, but that's about all everyone took from the ads. They didn't really do anything except make Mr. Six a pop culture icon. Which, granted, got the Six Flags name out there more, so I guess you can say their mission was accomplished. However, like I said, it never translated into results because Mr. Six became the brand, rather than the parks themselves being the brand that Mr. Six helped people recognize.
  23. That's where the last Mr. Six ad campaign went wrong IMO. I seem to remember most of the commercials following this formula: fun commercials with slapped on generic b-roll footage and voice overs for each park at the end. The end result was everyone knew Mr. Six...but they never really sold the parks themselves.
  24. I hope this time around they will use him correctly. I believe part of the reason they killed that ad campaign is because they could never properly leverage the exposure their new mascot got them. Mr. Six became a pop culture icon, but it didn't translate into results for the company.
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