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RecaraceR

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  1. Haha yeah there's a coney island on every corner in Detroit. I saw no less than 20 of them when I visited Detroit 2 years ago. I missed this anniversary. Last year I went on the 123rd anniversary and that was the same day I met CoastersRZ. I want to go on the 125th anniversary so I can see what's in the time capsule.
  2. You are a funny dude. lol

    I mean that in the good way.

  3. Spoken like someone who fits and always fit the seats designed for the average 170 pound 5 foot 10 inch male. Terp, who has both fit and not fit those seats... And funny part is, it's like I posted way back on the second page. I had a friend like that with almost exactly those same stats and he couldn't be belted in on Millennium Force.
  4. Actually Dvo my friend had a similar problem back in..... I wanna say it was '03 or maybe '04. He's not much bigger than me (he's 5'11" and about 170 lbs.) and he couldn't ride Millennium Force. To make matters worse there were people bigger than him that were on the ride (at 5'11", 170 lbs., he's pretty skinny). We thought maybe he'd just been given a seat with a shorter seatbelt than normal. He probably was. He had to leave the line anyway apparently, wasting four hours' worth of waiting for nothing.
  5. Where I live you couldn't even fit a smaller ride like the Scrambler or the Charlie Brown Swing, let alone a coaster like SoB.
  6. Sea Dragon at Jungle Jack's Landing. I've ridden it so many times.
  7. Aw crud, and I missed it. I haven't seen it in its entirety in about 10 years. At least not on a big screen. A heads-up while I'm at it, for anyone looking for this episode it's in the Brady Bunch season 5 box set. The episode is also up on Youtube.
  8. I don't really see the big deal behind it either. I do the same thing, and not necessarily willingly. I said last time to my friend when we were there, "hey let's go ride The Vortex/Delirium/what have you." Speaking of the "darnedest things" I used to think when I was real little that The Beast was named after the X-Men character. Trust me when I say I now know better.
  9. I wasn't bothered StalkerChick, I just don't think that age has anything to do with it in my case. Especially since my case is so inconsistent. This however did bother me: You rode Diamondback 42 times and felt fine? I'm glad. I was able to do the same thing (but with Millennium Force and some others) up until four years ago. So only crybabies have motion sickness huh? I was the ride king when I was younger. I can assure you it has nothing to do with fear or crying in dang near anyone's case.
  10. I seem to have a weird but inconsistent form of motion sickness. Let me explain. Well my motion sickness started back in 2005 after the Tomato Festival was over. I had ridden a fair ride called Hurricane about 10 times in a row (the fair I went to before that, I actually got sick on a ride for the very first time). After the last ride I felt horrible and couldn't do anything for a couple hours. Next year I go to the I-X Indoor Amusement Park. I go on Hurricane again but this time I don't feel that bad. I go on Round-Up and still don't feel bad. I ride Thunder Bolt however (it's a Matterhorn-type ride) and feel like I'm gonna throw up. But the funny thing is later on that day I rode a ride called Quasar which spins exceedingly fast and swivels up and down and nothing happened. Not even faint dizziness. Then in '07 at Busch Gardens I rode Battering Ram, a pirate ship ride, and feel HORRIBLE after getting off. I didn't get sick though. I think maybe my feeling on it could be attributed to having drank coffee before getting on it. This year we went to Cedar Point and I was able to ride Calypso and Scrambler fine without feeling too bad (only had slight dizziness for a few seconds). I was gonna test my luck on the Super Himalaya but chickened out. I haven't tried any coasters since that incident that happened in '05 either, but I do know I can ride certain rides that go upside down that aren't coasters. I can't seem to marathon any rides anymore either. Before anyone asks, I'm only 21 years old, so I don't think it's an age issue. My dad's triple my age and when he was slightly younger, like in his 50s, he was able to ride nearly anything and not get sick.
  11. I would like to back up Beast1979 by also saying that some of my best days were also when visiting Geauga Lake. Most other ones were from visiting Cedar Point. Then again I mostly have bad days anyway. The last time I went was in July or August of '07. This was before I'd heard anything about it being closed later that year. While there, pretty much all rides except Raging Wolf Bobs were open. But most of them didn't have long lines, except for a couple coasters and the Hay Baler (yes, you read that right). Even though I had motion sickness and couldn't really ride anything, I still had a blast that day with my friend. Played arcade games and drove the go-karts. Then a month or two later the rumor surfaced that GL would be closed and all the rides would be sold and that the waterpark would remain. At first it was a rumor, but then it actually happened. I was so mad that Cedar Fair closed the park. And that's pretty much all I'm gonna say 'cause if I keep going the rest of my response would be so long that it'd crash the server.
  12. Jeez, time flies (or not). I was unaware that today was Coney Island's birthday. Glad I went now. BTW, it was nice to meet you.
  13. I heard something like that when I was in line for Delirium once. Someone in front of me looked up when it was in full swing, and said "Can you imagine if that thing snapped off?" Haha, really? That's hilarious. Glad I'm not the only one who's heard something similar. The same thing happened at Cedar Point a few weeks back when I went too, come to think of it. Is that rumor the next "Vortex/Magnum/whatever is sinking!"?
  14. Well, the way he phrased it, even with the title of the thread it's hard to know what he really meant by saying that. If you read it the way it's written, it looks like he was stating it as a fact, but I now know that that wasn't the case.
  15. I thought it got sent to Carowinds and rethemed as "Danny Phantom Flyers." As for me, I'd like more flat rides to be installed in the park. I mean, KI just doesn't have a lot of them (at least not ones that aren't for kids/families). Zephyr Viking Fury Scrambler Monster Shake Rattle 'n Roll Crypt Delirium But I just know somebody's gonna counter with "well, then, go about 30 miles up the road and you'll find a park with more flat rides" so I'll leave it there.
  16. That's not that bad. I rode it twice (or was it three times?) and I have a fear of heights. Granted, the first time I rode it was when my friend forced me onto it, but still. The darndest thing I heard was 5 years ago, when someone in line for Delirium said something about the wheel on the ride had detached on opening day and killed a whole bunch of people. I laughed my head off, because 1. if that happened, the ride would be down, and not running (keep in mind this was in August '03 or so, a few months after its opening) and 2. it's the most far-fetched thing ever.
  17. Yep, and apparently about 45 minutes apart from each other (the fountain incident happened first if I recall). The worst news for me in retrospect was also June 9, 1991. That and the lady who had a heart attack (or something like that) on Top Gun and died the next day.
  18. Yep, it was in a few links which I can't find right now. I'll keep looking for them, but apparently, the attendance went up by a little over 100,000, which is pretty sizable for a park like that. And they also left Steel Venom there to rot, pretty much, until Cedar Fair could install it at Dorney. But heck, they had it fixed later when it was installed there. But my main point here is, you can't close a park because it's not doing as well as you expected it to, when you're part of the reason why the park isn't doing so hot. If CF had tried a bit harder to fix some of the broken rides, and keep at least some of the animals, the ride side would have still been open for a little while. But then they built that waterpark, saw the apparently high attendance at said waterpark, took the easy way out, and got rid of the ride park. And if they didn't have enough of a maintenance budget, why bother buying the park in the first place? I don't see why they'd buy another park if they couldn't afford maintenance charges. After all, accidents happen, and rides break down.
  19. What a weird coincidence. 1. I was wondering what happened to El Dorado and 2. I was planning on going to Busch Gardens Europe again at the end of this summer. Looks like a trip to Kings Dominion is in my plans now. But then again, the ride will probably not be installed until next year, so I'm not sure what to do in that situation. Probably wait it out. El Dorado/Mirage was my first 1001 Nachts ride, and to see it not being scrapped is great. About the Geauga Lake closure thing, I won't get too far into that, but it's kinda suspicious how there wasn't much of an effort made to fix the park's rides when Cedar Fair owned it (which doesn't bode well because of word-of-mouth running rampant, causing people to not visit) until it was way too late, and it's also weird how the attendance went up in the '07 season, but CF decided to close the park anyway, giving the excuse that attendance was way down, when in fact it was up from past years. I'm sure there being a shopping center across from its former spot for the past two years might have actually helped more traffic get to the park's general area. On the other side, I can kinda see why CF decided to close the park, but it was CF who didn't really try to improve the park much. The last two times I visited (in 2005 and 2007, respectively), I counted no less than 5 rides each time that were not running on those days. It was ridiculous. That's one of the best ways to lose customers. Six Flags improved it too much too fast. All those coasters they added, and the extreme renovations, really put a dent in their profits. But at least they still had lots of people visiting the park. Almost none of the coasters were walk-ons (except Mind Eraser/Head Spin-- but that ride's painful anyway), and most flat rides had good ridership, even the ones in Happy Harbor. I'm guessing in the later years of SF owning the park that visitation dwindled since my last visit; I don't know if that's true 'cause the last time I went to SFWoA was back in '03 sometime, right before Cedar Fair got the park. So yeah, both sides have immensely good points, but something just didn't seem right about this whole thing. I don't really believe there was a conspiracy as much as I believe they made a knee-jerk reaction.
  20. Ah, thanks for that link, that answered darn near all of my questions about when the rides were installed. Most of them were installed way later than I thought they were.
  21. That's it exactly! Thanks. I'd always wondered where the newer rides came from because like CoastersRZ said, the original Coney had rides that ended up at KI and were installed into the Coney Mall section. Of course, this also begs the question, "what year was Coney Island retooled after Kings Island was built?" I don't really know all this stuff as I've only been visiting CI for about 6 years or so, so it's nice to have people somewhere who actually have knowledge about this stuff.
  22. This probably seems like a dumb question, and trust me, it's not a question anybody else dared to ask as I couldn't find any other thread related to this, but where did the rides that Coney have now come from? I know where some of them came from: Rock-O-Plane- Americana Tempest- Americana Tilt-A-Whirl- Fantasy Farm River Runner- Wild West World Python- New Jersey (was a casino pier it came from, right? Something like that) But where did the rest of the rides, such as the Trabant, and the Flying Bobs come from? That's been something I always wondered.
  23. Top Gun hit a wooden support on SoB and killed a whole bunch of people. Well, that account isn't true, but there have been a few mishaps with Top Gu--er, Flight Deck, but both of those were after I heard that very untrue rumor.
  24. This is unrelated, but I will laugh hard if this new coaster ends up being called Maverick like the one at CP. In any case, I'm gonna wait patiently for the unveiling.....
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