The Interpreter

Missed opportunity?

El Toro IS a wooden coaster, unlike many of its newer Six Flags brethren.

And a park that very seldom had any or much debt, now does. And a Dan Koch who had a 40 percent interest in the park no longer does.

And Red Devil at Ghost Town In The Sky? Highest point? The station. First drop was first. The lift got you back in the station. Turned out it wouldn't make the cycle. A foot or so was cut out of many of the supports. Supports welded back together. Problem solved. Once, while I rode it, a park employee was in the front seat, standing up, working on a restraint. Another time, same thing, but welding. Yep.

And....we sadly know how that ended.

As in Coasterunit?

Cedar Point made this comment on Facebook, underneath the LJFF announcement:

We need to ask King Don. Ho Ho!

Ho Ho! You would!

And in Over The Rhine a few years ago, a woman famously saw Jesus on her burnt toast...

If that's his idea of a backyard, I'd love to see the front. Terp -- once a fan of Backyard Burgers.

I just watched that video again yesterday. Philadelphia Toboggan Company built coasters. Ironically, Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters...hasn't.

Flanged wheels...

Or a HUGE fan of Woodstock Express. Terp -- who wishes PTC made those trains with those wheels and those restraints in adult size.

Woodstock Express > Voyage. Opinions vary.

Heck, I've had trouble with a DC Driver's License at certain US hotels: "But Sir, US Residents MUST present a STATE issued ID. A city will NOT do." One time, I left, and had to fight Hilton for a refund for a month. I got it. Silly hotel told the company THE SAME THING!

"Figures lie but liars figure." Terp, cross-threadin'

Well, you don't NEED a passport card driving. A passport will do!

I believe that's NOT true if you fly in: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/information/card.html

Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom is greatly underrated. Steel Force is awesome. And NJFTP beckons from the gate. Get your Six Flags Gold pass during the Labor Day weekend sale (assuming there is one), and you'll be able to go to any and all Six Flags parks for less than one-day admission and parking at any Cedar Fair park, for the rest of 2016 and all of 2017.

So you are where Thunder Road was?

D. Kinzel is....retired. Yeah. That's it. Retired. And B. Kinzel is pursuing other opportunities and spending more time with...uh...family. That's it.

DC is not a swamp. That myth seems to never go away. (Well, at least except politically. Definitely a bog there.)

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/06/25/bear-cub-escape.html

That would be boss. So to speak.