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  1. Thanks for the pics! Somehow brings me back to the arrival of Stealth... http://good-times.webshots.com/album/550684237BsiCCs It's kind of funny how they are reusing the Stealth colors on Firehawk, just on different sections of the track.
  2. So did anyone find out if it's actually a coaster or a modified Disk-o? I've heard that PGA is getting a W shaped Disk-o this year, so that would make this make sense.
  3. Hi all, I was just curious if any of you had come down Saturday for C3 (Carolina Coaster Classic) at Carowinds? The ERT on the flyers was truly INSANE! I've never been that scared before just standing in the que line! I heard noises from that ride that I've NEVER heard all year! lol Here's the group photo: http://www.acesoutheast.org/C305large.jpg
  4. Better park, but not better coasters unfortunatley lol. Top Gun beats Batman of course, but most of the coasters are a far cry from the ones at SFOG. Although our rideops know how to run them better at PC. lol
  5. I personally loved every one of my 4 rides on it in May. I was there for Media Day and got 1 ride (before the monsoon came). Then 3 rides the following day. I perosnally prefer to have the lights off in the tunnel. It's much more intense. With the lights on (the cars) it's fun, but not as "scary". Have they gotten the theming for the "stairs" installed yet?
  6. ^ Actually no. It's the opposite. Racer does not have a clone. I've been on all 3. Thunder Road and Rebel Yell are exact copies. Racer is the only one of the 3 that splits out at at an angle at the end before the turn around. TR and RY do not do this and stay together all the way until the turnaround/fanturn. Racer - http://www.rcdb.com/ig69.htm?picture=1 Rebel Yell - http://www.rcdb.com/ig88.htm?picture=2 Thunder Road - http://www.rcdb.com/ig84.htm?picture=2 I actually prefer Racer over the other 2 for some reason. It'd be nice if they actually let Thunder Road race. They hardly ever put the effort into racing them anymore.
  7. ^^ Dude Rebel Yell is at PKD not PC. PC has Thunder Road.
  8. Howdy, PC is my home park and I must say you'll probably have the weird feeling you've seen the place before somewhere (PKI). There are a couple places where they look kind of similar. PC is more of a family park than PKI. PKI would have more thrills I'd say, but PC isn't this huge park where it takes forever to walk around either. PC is slightly smaller parksize than PKI, but acerage PKI has PC by about 500 acres I believe. Which is agood thing, you don't have huge que hikes like for Top Gun at PKI. The park seems to be well run and you'll find your beloved flyers are running great at PC . Enjoy the park! Must rides: The flyers (obviously) Borg Top Gun Thunder Road (almost exact clone of The Racer though) Hurler front seat only (others will make you lose your teeth). If you're going any day but Saturday most everything will be a walk on. Oh and check out Flying Dutchman's Revenge it's "new" this year (came from PCW) and it's a fun little flat over near the Flyers.
  9. Tuskin I don't understand how Carowinds "ruined" the ride? From reports from this very site, I've read a review that said it actually was running BETTER at Carowinds than it did at PKI. Is it the paint job, or what that you so dislike?
  10. I know I know, it took forever to upload this but here is a kid snapping up a storm on opening day at PC. http://uploadhut.com/view.php/90313.mpg The file is very large (17mb). We dubbed him "The Kid". He was really insane on that thing, and only about 9 years old!!!!
  11. Rollernut don't start picking fights over here, you do that enough at Carowinds Connection, lol I'm glad to see someone finally say something positive about the flyers being at Carowinds. All the moaning and groaning was kind of rediculous. I can totally understand you being mad at losing this great ride, but the whole thing of assuming Carowinds was going to ruin the ride was kind of hillarious. Today I was at Platinum Pass ERT and I must say those things being on top of the hill like that are creating a WICKED chance for some crazy snapping. When braking on my 3rd or so ride (no one was there but us for most of ERT and I got 10 rides in ) the guy behind me tapped me with his tub!!! I was a little shocked that it could even do that. I think the fact that it was so windy/gusty today had a lot to do with that. You should have seen some of the snapping going on. It might have even impressed some of you PKI die hards, nah nevermind j/k
  12. I've wanted to see that episode of Brady Bunch for some time just to see King's Island in the old days. I've seen a ton of BB episodes, but never that one. Does anyone know what season it was? They just released season 1 on dvd.
  13. Well I'll be there for Media Day w00t! I'll be doing an article for Thrillnetwork.com so that's how I got a pass in. I can't wait to ride it. And if media day is like it is at PC, I'll get a ton of rides on it that day.
  14. ^^ LOL!!! ^^ Well I'm sure we can't compare to the PKIers, but we might surprise you. I've got some killer video from Saturday of this kid about the "snap" the cables. lol
  15. This thing is looking better with each update. I like how that helix is looking. They've got a lot to get done in the next 2 months. Really month and a half because you really need about 2 weeks of testing and fixing bugs.
  16. please explain to me how having two plcs or even having one can make the ride start or stop any faster... or maybe you are only repeating what someone else told you, therefore you have no idea what you are saying when you reply. ..matt I think I heard someone say that it has a braking system now. It stops very quickly compared to the old system. Which helps capacity, but I'm sure hurts your amount of snapping time on the ride.
  17. Well not to beat a dead horse, but I finally got my "snap on" Friday for the first time. Wow that is so much fun. Today out of the 10 or so times I rode it, I snapped at least 5 maybe 6 times. Not bad for a newbie to snapping. At one point the ACErs were all on the ride and almost every bird was snapping. So no problems in the snapping department at all. Come down and ride her some time
  18. Wow such a helpful statement. You might as well have said "IJ will open some day". You basically said the same thing.
  19. Today was media day and I can say without a doubt Snapping is not a bit of a problem. I was doing some "mild snapping" but I observed a girl that was snapping the thing so much that she was getting slack in her cables!!! So despite all the fears of what PC might do to the flyers, it appears that those fears were unfounded.
  20. Thanks for everyones help. I'm planning on being there at the park Sunday afternoon the 29th and all day May 30th. Yeah I'm a glutton for punishment being that it's Memorial Day that day. lol I might rework it though to come back a day or two later because I've got some flexibility to my schedule. Hopefully I can get two rides in over those two days. And I can't wait to ride The Beast again and for my first ride on Delerium.
  21. The flyers are snapping just fine and they only say snapping is not allowed for insurance purposes. No one is going to stop you. And that was from a staff member too
  22. Here's some pics from yesterday http://carowindsconnection.com/2005/3-13-05/page1.html As you can see they look a little "different". Although it sounds like they are snapping just fine.
  23. I think it had something to do with the motor itself and how old it was. The new one is probably digitaly controlled now and has a lot of advantages for the park and for safety systems.
  24. Well this is what Scott (the PR guy) at PC said Saturday. They tested it and it whoever rode wasn't able to snap, but he said that might have been the person on it too. Also, I think he said it will have only a "squirrel cage" motor whatever that is, instead of a squirrel cage and another type (it had two before I think he said). Hopefully it will snap, he said they didn't slow it down but it's probably hard to tell until you get a full load on there the first time. I'm going to media day, so I can let you know after that. Also Scott said the "official" policy was no snapping, but that's just for legal reasons. He basically said if you snap, they aren't going to stop you. I've heard that those cables can handle way more load than snapping would ever bear on them.
  25. Hi all from the city that always sleeps, er... that is Charlotte. Saturday I went on an ACE tour of the construction of the new WORLD'S BIGGEST Nick Central coming to Carowinds this year. As you well know we got you guys flying scooters and the PC ACErs are very excited about getting them. See the link below for my pics I took Saturday if you want to see what the flyers look like now, or at least a hint of what they will look like. There will be a "city scape" built behind the flyers to give the illusion of flying above a city. Enjoy! http://community.webshots.com/album/283317067LYFXkp
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