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harvesterofyoursorrow

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  1. Yes, I waited a little under an hour for Son of Beast today, around 12 o`clock.

    Hmm, I probably saw you in line! I jumped in around 12:39...Got out at 1:49 rolleyes.gif

  2. I rode today. Smooth-er but not very good.

    I waited and hour and ten minutes to ride. Its much more enjoyable.

    Guess where they put the extra cars!

    (Right by the last drop on the left before the brake run)

  3. Its almost impossible to trust anybody, even another PKI website. It may be wrong that it will be open tomorrow, but hey, I can be optimistic right?

    I totally agree. NOBODY should assure anything simply based off of what was posted in any forums unless it was a post by someone official, and no I don't take general employee heresay as being offical. Don't think I was knocking your site, I think you guys are doing a good job.

    I understand. I think for anybody its hard to belive rumors. I'm just hoping for a good day at the park tommorow! First time this operating season!

  4. Why bring up that "other" PKI site? And it has been rumored for a while now that they will be trying the ride with five car trains instead of six. Not only have they retracked lots of portions of the ride, but new wood can clearly be seen in various parts of the structure as well.

    Its always good to cite your sources for rumors! I'm expecting SOB to open at park open.

  5. One good thing to come out of this so far is that Strickers Grove has purchased the "Electric Rainbow" super round up ride. This thing is HUGE and I cant wait to see where they are going to plop this thing at Strickers.

    That ride was HUGE. I rode it when I was pretty young, I dont remeber much but its one of the best roundups I've been on.

  6. I really think that if the ride ops clean the que and coaster area then its much more cleaner frequently and shows the GP that there is a presence there that watches, even in ques.

    Why would it be so bad to take a broom for 20 minutes and sweep the que and pick up trash? I think its a very good idea. Eco may not do the best job of picking up an area (Not dissing any Eco Staff here) or just dont reach a part of the ride area. The que for FOF usually has a bottle or two here and there. I'de pick it up, but then wouldnt the park have to pay me? tongue.gif

  7. And I'm surprised the ride ops at TR:TR don't bother walking through the cave with a pan & broom and sweeping up all the trash that's accumulated over the years. Or why the ride ops at FOF don't do the same thing in the hangar, except get a couple of ladders and some Swiffer broom thingys and clean up the UFO.

    Or why the ride ops at Racer don't bother walking through Racer's brake station with chewing gum remover and scrapers in their hands either before the park opens or after the park closes.

    But I'm not saying that the ride ops suck for not doing that. All the ride ops are cool (props to Beast and Vortex crews); I'm just, you know, lost on the whole cleaning up bit.

    I heard that all Cedar Fair parks, it is required for the ride ops to take breaks and sweep and clean the que for 20 minutes every day.

    I think its a good idea.

  8. Antechamber will no longer be used because PKI basically wants to save a few bucks.  Of course that door effect could never be fixed anyways, but you all know how hard it is for a multibillion dollar corporation to go out and buy a decent projector.

    The effect for the antichamber light on the door is probably not a projector at my guess.

    Its probably a focused stage type light with a gobo pattern in a gobo rotator that is keyed to turn so far then stop.

    Here is what a gobo is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobo_%28lighting%29

    And an example of a gobo rotator: http://www.rosco.com/us/lightingequipment/dgr.asp

    This way would be simply controled via a computer but the computer would just tell the power outlet to go on and off. The light would come on, then the gobo's socket. Gobo rotator off, light off. Gobo reset.

    This would be the cheep way to do this and the simplest. PKI may of opted to use a 3-8 thousand dollar moving light controlled digitally by computer for this one task. The bulb can blow, the connection between the computer could go haywire, the computer could not work itself! cool.gif

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