ahecht
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So.... it's furious baco? Launched wing coaster with smoke effects on the launch doesn't seem that "first of its kind" to me.
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Yup, I got a couple of seconds, and then "cannot connect to server"
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So I guess my Android won't let me watch the announcement? It keeps giving me a sad face and that's making me have a real sad face.
Don't use Chrome. If you have the stock browser (sometimes called Internet or Web) it will prompt you to open it in Streaming Media Player, which should work.
You can also try going to rtsp://mobilestr2.livestream.com/livestreamiphone/markeysav directly.
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Just noticed that the live stream is named SNEB 2014. I wonder what SNEB stands for...
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The tri-county regional planning commission, and by extension the Dauphin County planning commission, are real entities. It is perfectly reasonable that they'd have their own website. Here are some regional planning commissions near me:
Notice that all have acronym.org web addresses.
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There has been an injury on a trapdoor slide at a waterpark owned by Terra Mitica's owners. The injured claimed
that the ride is unsafe and opened 10 MINUTES after the accident.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/british-holidaymaker-injured-60mph-benidorm-3848005
Unsafe or not, I was shocked that they didn't even close the ride long enough to disinfect it after all the blood that was in the water.
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I haven't really been following this since the parbuckling back in September. Did Carnival just walk away from this and letting the Italian government foot the bill?
No, Costa/Carnival, or more technically their insurance company, is paying for it (about $2 billion):
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/06/italy-concordia-costs-idINL6N0PH0EO20140706
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Does the single rider line bypass the elevator and preshow? Where does it split/merge?
It does. It puts you into the room with the spiral staircase and single rider had their own staircase. Both the regular line and single rider merge right at the top so they can put uneven parties together.
Sounds like a good setup. I assume there's a tour-only line like Forbidden Journey to just see the preshow?
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Does the single rider line bypass the elevator and preshow? Where does it split/merge?
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Intamin wing launch coaster anyone?
NO! HW will not buy Intamin after Giraffca/Pilgrim's Plunge.
It doesn't work that way in real life. Just look at all the problems Cedar Fair had with S&S's VertiGo at Knott's and Cedar Point, but it didn't stop them from buying Skyhawk and Xtreme Swing a few years later.
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Is Lake Compounce still doing Text2Ride? I couldn't find anything about it on their website.
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Do we know the manufacturer of HP: Escape from Gringotts yet?
Dynamic Attractions, the company behind Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, recently announced this very familiar-looking product:
http://www.blooloop.com/news/dynamic-attractions-unveil-new-sfx-coaster-at/28403#.U7FikPHD8m9
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The airtime on that prototype is insane, but the actual POV doesn't look nearly as intense.
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^There are three world-class water rides at IoA, I'm not sure they need more. That's the same number of get-you-wet rides as all of Disney World (excluding the water parks).
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Just a heads up: there's a 1 hour "Making of Diagon Alley" special airing Monday night at 8 on NBC: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/blogs/tv-guy/os-harry-potter-meredith-vieira-hosts-nbc-special-20140626,0,2045496.post
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^Nope, it was Vaughn Armstrong. The (perhaps apocryphal) story is that Harrison Ford originally agreed to allow his voice and likeness to be used for the ride as long as he didn't have to do any promotion for it, but someone at Disney sent him the script for the Indiana Jones themed Super Bowl halftime show so he backed out.
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Have any of the RMC conversions been done to white coasters? I know that parks tend to use pressure-treated wood instead of painting these days, so I wonder if they would paint the new wood to match or leave it mismatched.
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I don't know if this is a chain or park policy but in GAdv, I regularly get re-rides without walking around on dead days. Me and my friend got 14 rides in a row on El Toro without getting off last week. This is the one thing I really wish CF parks would do and it annoys the poo-poo out of me that they make you walk around on dead days. Absolutely no reason for it when no one is there.
I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain a few years back when the ride ops were literally begging people to stay on rides like Riddler's Revenge and Goliath where they were having trouble getting the minimum number of people required for them to dispatch the train.
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This may sound really dumb but if you think about it, it could make sense. If you are really tense and grasp onto the restraints on a coaster, you have a better chance of hurting yourself. If anyone has ever seen the movie Due Date, when Ethan gets into the car accident, he is fine, but Robert Downey Jr, gets hurt because he was awake and tensed up before the accident. I know it sounds unrelated and dumb, but maybe manufacturers encourage less grasping of the grab bars.
Yes, because I base all my physics and physiology knowledge on Zach Galifianakis movies.
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This isn't just a roller coaster. From one of the articles posted here, there will be an observation platform, dining, shopping, and a concert venue located at the top. The roller coaster part is just a sideshow, and probably not the primary revenue source.
The Orlando Eye also won't be like a theme park ferris wheel or the Toys R Us wheel (which is indoors and not designed to provide a view). The Eye is described as an observation wheel, and will move very slowly and most likely provide just a single revolution with each admission. It will have none of the thrill of a typical theme park wheel.
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If this does open, it's going to kill attendance at the Orlando Eye. Who would want a long ride to slowly get up to 425 feet just to be in the shadow on a 570-ft observation tower with a nice fast elevator to the top? It would be like having a 425-foot observation wheel in midtown Manhattan between the Empire State Building and 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
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Both. Posted in the forums first and then archived in the park index.
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In some videos the dark ride portion starts silent until "heigh-ho" starts on the lift hill, while in others it starts with "dig-dig-dig" and the lift hill is silent. Is this a pre-opening glitch, or does it randomly do one or the other to give the ride some variability?
Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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LSM with the flywheel attached to an electric generator.