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harvesterofyoursorrow

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  1. Awsome.

    I was there earlier this year and had a great time too. I have been on Hades 20 times, every row and I really think that the coaster isnt that good. I belive that Gravity Group actually miscalculated some aspects of the ride. both hills (coming back from the 2 tunnel sections and going back into the tunnel section) are perfect places for airtime, and they both lacked them.

  2. I noticed this today! I rode front seat and I saw them alot! There was about 3-4 in the turn around from the first drop to the loops on Vortex. These reflectors are like the reflectors on the end of your car, but litte ovalish ones on the ties of the coaster.

    Also noticed this on The Beast too while riding second row first car.

  3. trying to get a BFA in Theatre Design and Construction with a Minor in Business Management!

    What college are you going to?

    I'm interested in technical theatre. I hang, focus, design and program all light for the shows for my highschool.

  4. July 27th, people in party: Me.

    This is quite possibly my best day at the Island ever.

    I got in the park at around 9:45 and bypassed a huge gathering of people at the gate into Action Zone with my gold pass. Pure pwnage of non-gold pass people right there. Was planning to ride Delirium but they werent up for the day yet. Made my way over to Face/Of noticing on the way that they were powerwashing some part of Congo.

    Rode the outwards facing seat that starts away from the lift hill (How do you number Face/Off cars anyway? blink.gif ) A pretty good ride in itself. It still feels to me that I get more lateral G's in that ride when I'm riding in the middle seats. Oh well.

    I unload and notice that Delirium is cycling. I get seat #1 on the second gondola of the day! Whoo. I'm so glad that Delirium is back up to its normal working order. Great ride on Delirium as it is just my second ever! cool.gif

    I make my way past the Festhaus and head into Cony Mall. The sign is back up if you guys didnt know yet. I reach Vortex and get a ride on 5.2.1 (Car, Row, Seat L-R) Nice ride, smoother then I remember. On the way back into the station I notice the old paint on one of the transfer track rails. Wow, it was really faded.

    Unload, I make my way to Flight of Fear. No line seeing that it is about 10:15. I ride two times in seats that I forget right now but the launch was really weird today. It launched REALLY fast, I'de say 4-5 MPH over the normal launch speed, then the MCBR obviously slowed it down, but it slowed it down MAJORLY.

    I was going into that left turn after the MCBR and we were going slower then one of those kiddie jeep things! I mean DANG! After two Flight of Fear rides, I head on over to the good old Beast. After one ride I look at the queue line..nobody...I ride again...and again...and again...ten times all together in succesion. After a few wheel rides (Rows 1 or 3 in any car) I needed a break.

    I walk through Nickelodeon Universe (Which is looking better and better every day). I walk towards Flight of Fear and see there is a line...Nah, I'll just go back to The Beast. One more Beast ride, wheel seat. My head is really pounding now.

    I take another walk through NU and end up at Flight of Fear again. After walking though puddles and stuff, I decide I need a nice queue'ing to dry myself off. I see that the line is outside and I assume that everybody has flocked to FOF so that the inside will be full too.

    Nope. Just 2 lines outside and thats it. I didnt dry much, but it was a nice front seat ride on Flight of Fear, Train 1 left side biggrin.gif .

    After this steel encounter of a second kind, I needed some more wood. I head back to The Beast. So I'm up to twelve rides so far. Keep that in mind. I rally The Beast like no other.

    Eight more rides. I have to take another break, I go to Vortex and get two rides and head back to The Beast. Ten more rides. I'm at thirty. Yes 3 0. In one day.

    Now for some things I noticed while riding The Beast that the crew did very well with:

    1) General Public complaning about the height of a rider and not being able to ride. The crew did a very good job of trying to keep the guest under control and managed the situation very well.

    2) This was a large commotion at The Beast. Rider makes an innaproprate gesture at the ride operator and the lift is stopped for that train. I was the train above it in the brake run so I saw the whole scene. The operator explains why the ride has been stopped and the rider dosnt comply and the crew member informs him that security will be waiting for him when he gets off the train.

    Rider shouts obsecitys at operator while he is walking the steps back up to the station. When the rider returns to the station, two security guards are waiting for him and his party. His party makes a big deal about the thing insead of doing the correct thing and just appoligzing in the first place. His party of about 6 block the exit for offcoming riders. More security arrive and I belive that his party was escorted out of the park.

    3) Sup. noticed that a returning rider seemed awful short and asked to check him. He had a wristband that signified that he was tall enough to ride. The child and his parent obviously ran away as fast as possible, but the crew did try.

    An all together good day, Thanks for an awsome thirty rides Beast crew! You've really made me belive in the ride again! cool.gif

  5. Heck, at Mt. Olympus they didnt shut down the spinning coaster "Opa!" to get a pair of sunglasses, they just walked in WHILE it was operating...

    different rides have different lock out areas, for example, at The Beast and employee may go to the bottom of the first drop and retreeive something as long as he/she is arm's length away from the track.

    Well, there wasnt much of a lockout area as the ride op was about a few feet from the lowest point in the ride which is a bottom of a hill that the spine of the track touches the bottom of the "grid" of supports on the floor.

  6. The helicopter scene dosnt still work fully. The helicopter is always up now. I have noticed more water though spraying. Do you remember any more fire then just the flame on top?

  7. Today was absolutely AMAZING!

    My longest wait was 15-20 minutes. I rode every major coaster except Top Gun. I only had three bad rides. Son of Beast, Major staple. Beast, Major staple. TRTR, just awful because of the fact all the theming is gone now-a-days. No fog at the very end, the lava pit was...pathetic at best.

    Its sad to see it go...

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