The Mike Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Got a job at SFMM, and have stayed in that job long enough to become a Supervisor. Also own quite a few extinct attractions club DVD's. which are awesome btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_roll06 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Spending a rather long time arguing with myself over Mitch's poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoflake15 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I was travelling back up to Scotland from England myself and decided to stop off at Blackpool PB on way up (its about an hour's detour) It was a cold damp midweek day in March or April and I was about the only one in the park. I headed for the Revolution and got on and it set off with only me on it much to my embarrassment but also a strange sort of pride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manny In England Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Not necessarily nerdy, but for TPR sake, I tracked down the piece of Colossus track at Thorpe Park where Robb proposed to Elissa. It was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haiderodes Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 When I was on he WDWCP I went on tons of behind the scenes tours, classes, etc. but perhaps the best was a tour of Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. We got to walk all around the tower, through control rooms, maintenance areas and best of all the 5th dimension floor! One of the coolest parts was getting to ride it with the lights on and sound effects off, totally different and slightly more frightening ride. No wonder they incorporated more lighting effects into the drop shaft on the DCA version. If you look up during the drop sequence, you'll see what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelinwood Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 The Nerdiest thing I ever did was explain roller coaster mechanics to my friends when we went to six flags. Brake Runs and such! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaMiTsPaT Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 ^Haha Ya I've definitely done that a few times, but the nerdiest thing I've ever done was probably film the brake runs at Islands of Adventure a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slither37 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Probably when I tried to explain how you can tell who built a coaster to non coaster nerd friends of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Disneylander Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I passed up Epcot for Cypress Gardens when I went to Florida in 2005 because Cypress Gardens had more credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Three for me. 3. Going on 2 TPR trips, and signing up for two more 2. Zuma in Tennessee Drumroll.... 1. A few years ago I was at SFOT and they had that wire carnival game where you have to get the ring to the bottom of the spiral wire without touching it. I had played it a bunch of times at other places, and was pretty good, but never won. So I decided to give it three chances to win a stupid razor. The first two times I came pretty close and a couple of kids gathered around. So there I am, about 27 years old, surrounded by about eight ten year olds. I give it one last try, and right when I won I threw my hands as high as I could and yelled, "YES!!!!" Immediately I realized that I had reached the top of Nerdom. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. Everyone was staring at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubaidave Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 It Has easily got to be traveling to Thailand and Pattaya just to climb all over this coaster that has never worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnottsDisneyFarm Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 ^Wait, so you can just climb all over it and sit in the train and stuff? That would be so cool! That would also probably be against the law here in CA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnguy Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I don't have too many. Probably checking coaster news before checking real news each day is my worst. Despite living close to zuma in Tennessee I've never actually ridden the coaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorkscrewFoley Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I just put on Facebook for my status that I was happy to hear my godson got his everest credit. I've taken pics of brake fins and so forth. I doodle coasters in the air with my finger. I tend to say Mmmmmm...Intamin goodness quite a bit. I shamefully will ride kiddie coasters for my count AND wear one of my coaster shirts too. I wear a hip pack at the parks, only because of my glasses and the fact that I'm legally blind, and losing my glasses would be quite a crappy situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcdude Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I have a bunch of things I do regularly, but none of them are as bad as what some other people have done. 1. I usually wear something amusement park related to an amusement park (ACE shirt, Take the Tunnel shirt, or TPR Hoodie typically). 2. If a kiddie coaster doesn't have a maximum height restriction and there isn't a line (or is a very short one) I will take the time to ride it if I've already got all the other credits in the park. I will never steal a kid just to get a credit. 3. I tend to tell people statistics about a ride if they ask me to describe it ("Tatsu is a B&M flying coaster that goes up a 170 ft lifthill, then down a 111 ft drop and through a corkscrew, zero-g roll, horseshoe, pretzel loop and in-line twist before returning to the station"). 4. I post links to my trip reports on Facebook, and some of my friends actually read them. 5. Since I'm going on the IntimidaTour, I have been trying to tell my family members everything about every park on the trip, or at least plan to before I leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnottsDisneyFarm Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 One time I drew detailed blueprints for a rollercoaster I was planning on building on RCT3 when I got home from school and my teacher said that was very unique "art" I was making. I never drew rollercoasters on the back of worksheets since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorkscrewFoley Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 KDF...that reminds me of when I was in Art class in Grade Nine (waaay back in 1991) and I had drawn this epic (fail) Arrow multi-looper. I was so proud of it, I took the time drawing the track properly, and when I showed it to him--he said it was terrible. He said it was terribly because the entire thing had lines, and life doesn't have lines (apparently he's never been to a park before). Out of anger I threw it out, and I'm kicking myself in the @$$ for it now...it had a cutback on it, and a Sea Serpent roll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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