You Might Be A Coaster Nerd If....

[VF15]

...your DVR is full of roller coaster/amusememt park shows.

[adamico2]

...you have over 24 hours of old Discovery Channel coaster specials on VHS!

[VF15]

...driving past an amusement park in the offseason is depressing because you can't ride anything.

[Belgiumcoasterfreak]

... You imagine yourself in the future as chief of your favourite local park and you announce a brand spanking new roller-coaster with a mega show (with light effects, fireworks, awesome concept arts...). Since the announcement of Banshee in KI (I really loved that one), I think of this all the time...

[Diamondbacker27]

If you HAVE to correct someone of they have coaster facts wrong

[Astrojack]

When you buy new shorts, you make sure they have zipper cargo pockets for coaster riding.

[rcjp]

When you buy new shorts, you make sure they have zipper cargo pockets for coaster riding.

Haha! Very guilty! Actually, last year before I went on a trip to a few US parks I went looking for both shorts and trousers with zipper pockets (and it was quite tricky!)

[VF15]

When you buy new shorts, you make sure they have zipper cargo pockets for coaster riding.

I am so guilty of that.

 

You Might Be A Coaster Nerd If....

...when you hear the word "vitamin", you think of Intamin.

...you get annoyed when you bring family or friends to a park, and they want to ride a coaster that is bad or not worth it (cough...cough...The Dark Knight Coaster...cough...cough).

...you shout "Take the tunnel!" before driving through a tunnel.

[richards.adam]

If you know why Griffon on Google Earth looks pretty amazing!

 

If you haven't seen it, I would recommend.

[richards.adam]

If you know why Griffon on Google Earth looks pretty amazing!

 

If you haven't seen it, I would recommend.

 

And dangerous; I forgot about that bit.

[richards.adam]

You might be a coaster nerd if... You have ever played RCT2 and named a peep "Elissa White."

Or an innocent stalker??? I'm sure all done in good humour. Lucky I married someone called X 2.

[Belgiumcoasterfreak]

... If your family keeps asking you to join them on a visit to a park that's new for them, so they have a guide...

... On each family party, there is one member of your family that keeps lauching because you visit themeparks that often.

[rcjp]

...you get annoyed when you bring family or friends to a park, and they want to ride a coaster that is bad or not worth it (cough...cough...The Dark Knight Coaster...cough...cough).

Very true. When I went to portaventura with my friends last month they said they wanted to ride a "weaker" ride first to get them used to it, to which I answered: "NO WAY!!" (as we got to the park as soon as it opened and I wanted to make the most of the small queues). However they insisted and so I took them to furius baco as it doesn't look very intimidating from the lake area

[rollerbee]

You might be a coaster nerd if you met your wife at an amusement park and decided to divorce her while at an amusement park.

[leviathandude306]

...If you are counting down the days till the ghetto-sketchy-@$$ carnival comes to your town, simply because you don't have coasters nearby & want an early start to the season.

 

...If you recognize that half the footage in a park commercial isn't actually from that park.

[rcjp]

If you know why Griffon on Google Earth looks pretty amazing!

 

If you haven't seen it, I would recommend.

Pretty cool

If whenever someone mentions a year you immediately think of a coaster than opened then. For example: 1993 - Kumba!

[yay101]

^ You might be a coaster nerd if one of your goals is to ride all the roller coasters that opened the year you were born

[rcjp]

^The only two coasters I've ridden that opened in the year I was born (1996) were terrible: Wildcat at Hershey and Mantis.

Well, at last there's Montu but I haven't been on that one.

[Khat26]

....you joined the Air Force and specialized in hydraulics and pnuematics just to set your self up for a roller coaster maintenace job in the future. That was 14 years ago, almost there.

[Chroniq]

50 pages later I realized that I'm not a coaster nerd.

[Sharon29060]

I don't know if this has been posted yet but...

You might be a coaster nerd if you see abreviations and you immediately think of things that are coaster related.

[rcjp]

If when you're on a a coaster with a long lift that takes some time (like Nitro's) and you're getting close to the top you think: "No! Not yet! Keep going up!"

[VF15]

...you know the brace position for Vekomas, Arrows, and other rough coasters.

...you know what "lockers" means.

[coasterschile]

you might be a coaster nerd if you raise your hands when you're in a car and you see a "drop"

[VF15]

...you read TPR forums on your phone while waiting in line at a park.