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Week V: Interesting Coaster Names
A list of DEROGATORY coaster names: Abominator Back Yard Stunt Coaster California Dreamin' Craptor Diamondstack Dream! El Boro Expedition NEVER-est Fatman: The Ride Fiddler's Revenge Flying Ace Ne'er Do-Well Chase Gatesleeper Great American Dream Machine Great Bore Hephaestus' Chariot In-Laws, Run! InTRIMidator Invertiblow Iron Draggin' Judge Roy Dream Kind Bender Kinda' Ka The Least Lull Mountain Meek Streak Millennium Forceless Mule Throttle Plunderhawk Pooperman: Ultimate Blight The Racist Rolling Blunder X1/2 A good portion of these I came up with on my own.
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Intamin or B&M
Millie's first drop actually, among other things, is one of the most underwhelming parts of the ride IMO. Even when I ride in the very back, I still never seem to experience very much accelerational forces (the "pulley" feeling) as compared to other backseat rides like Diamondback, Magnum, etc... I guess it has to do with the fact that since the train is already traveling so fast via the cable lift, it does not accelerate as much going down the first drop as it does on traditional chain lift coasters. So reliabity is why Millennium Force continues to win the Golden Ticket Awards? I learn the darnest things here. No. When did I say that? All I was saying was that reliability MAY be, among other things, ONE of the reasons that there are more B&Ms than INTAMINS in the top 50. That doesn't mean that I am unaware that the GTA's are primarily based on advertising and Cedar Point fanboy-ism, which is why Millie is always #1.
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What ride are you going to ride first in 2014?
Banshee. And I assume this would be the exact same response to this question for a QUITE a few other people on this site as well.
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Intamin or B&M
15 intanims scored in the top 50 steel coasters for the golden ticket awards 23 b&m's scored in the top 50 as well in the top 5 steel coasters for the golden ticket awards intanim scored first and second while b&m scored third and fourth. I think one of the reasons for that is that you have to understand that the panelists who vote in GTA's rankings told to rate their coasters based on overall experience (which greatly includes reliability) rather than just the riding experience alone. The Mitch Hawker poll for instance, would be pretty much 99% based on the riding experience alone, as the ballots are sent in by any random person, which explains why INTAMINS succeed so well in that poll. But then again, one could argue that neither the GTA's nor Hawker polls mean anything.
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Banshee Construction Progress
But as Sammy Hagar once said in a certain popular song of theirs, "Why put it off another day?"
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Kentucky Kingdom
Hmmm, if most of us are KK-Realists, does that make the people who fully believe that KK will succeed KK-Romantics? But what about people who only think KK will succeed if the forces of nature let it (no tornados or horrible storms to destroy the park)? Does that make them KK-Naturalists? Apparently, I've paid good attention in English class so far this year...
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Week V: Interesting Coaster Names
Some names I've liked: Maverick Voyage Raven Legend Beast Banshee Bat Patriot Nitro Viper Shockwave American Eagle Great American Scream Machine Revolution X x x x x 2 2 2 2 Names that have too many syllables if said in their entirety: Magnum (XL-200) Hypersonic (XLC) Volcano (:The Blast Coaster) and almost every kiddie coaster ever created 2
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Banshee Queue Music
However if I'm not mistaken I think I did hear Nightmare at Haunt one time, but I'm pretty sure it was just coming from the 96 rock van and not through the main park speakers.
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Banshee Queue Music
^Although I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, trust me, I'm sure that MANY parents will be riding Banshee with their kids. After all, isn't that Cedar Fair's plan going forward from now on? Building rides that parents will want to ride with their kids, and more importantly, not because of their kids? Either way, I wouldn't want that song played in Banshee's que anyway as I think it's a little overrated. A much better selection from A7x in my opinion would be Almost Easy or Afterlife. Now a song that I would absolutely LOVE to be played during Haunt, but would never happen as most would consider it too "underground" for the GP to listen to, is Second Heartbeat... This song just kicks @$$!
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Banshee Construction Progress
Just...whatever you do, do NOT click the icon with the little trashcan on it!!! XD Oh what a setback that would be...
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Coaster Crew and Media day
Oops. It looks like I was one of the ones who accidently did that. It sent a registration confirmation to my e-mail but I still need to pay the $9.00. How should I do that without filling out another registration on the website?
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Action Zone Re-theming for 2014
I am going to miss that old circle.
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Kings Island The Next Cedar Point
I have a feeling that when I finally visit Magic Mountain someday I will be more overwhelmed than I was when I visited Cedar Point for the first time.
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Kings Island The Next Cedar Point
Hold the beach, resort, and whole "destination park" thing. The only way I want Kings Island to imitate Cedar Point would be by getting a blitz-like coaster someday, and it doesn't necessarily even need to be designed by INTAMIN either... EDIT: Oh yeah, and getting a couple of more flat rides at KI sure couldn't hurt. (And neither would a Giga, as long as it's more exciting than MIllie.)
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The Bat flies again at Kings Island
^Am I the only one that kind of cheered but also had an empty feeling at the same time when Son of Beast was so crudely imploded in that teaser video?
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Banshee Construction Progress
Where did it say that the SOB station is being torn down?
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Weekend before Super Bowl.
Darn, I was really looking forward to this...
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2014 Park Map Info
I know this probably isn't going to happen, but I would really LOVE to see the map return to its art style that it had during the mid Paramount-early Cedar Fair years. I believe the last year this was featured was 2010. -- Don't know why but 2005 was my favorite my map EVER! I guess I liked the little descriptions it gave for some on the rides on both the bottom and top the map.
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Firehawk vs B&M flyers
^^^And if you want to be in for a REAL wild ride, try seat 1-3 (Car 1, Row 3). *Highly potent, use sparingly.
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Action Zone Re-theming for 2014
Yes. Unfortunately this is true. I think it's safe to say that most teenagers WOULD, no matter how unfitting, prefer to listen to mainstream garbage that is spewed daily on the radio rather than "Rivertown-y" style music while standing in line for The Beast. In all honesty, I would prefer no music.
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Frisch's Big Boy Switching to Pepsi
I love Pepsi. Tropicana is the juice of life. And who DOESN'T like Mountain Dew?
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New Ride Coming to Coney in 2014
^ I HOPE you're not being serious right now.
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New Ride Coming to Coney in 2014
A Giant version would be ordered, and it would be removed before even reaching its 10th anniversary.
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Fact or Fiction
1. Yes, occasionally. Tornado @ Stricker's Grove for example has a certain number of seatbelts on its train that don't even match the style of the others. Some are like the old car seatbelts, while the others are the "levered" style seatbelts. 3. By several prototypical failures? Then yes, a little, unfortunately.
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Week Too Long: Christmas Presents
I don't really need to ask for many presents from my parents anymore now that I've been working for the past two summers. Anything that I "want" I either already have or could easily pay for with my own money.