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PKIDelirium

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  1. I was seeing Planet Snoopy, Kings Island and Vekoma in my trending list this afternoon.

    Edit: Seeing Kings Island in trending right now.

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  2. 1 hour ago, IndyGuy4KI said:

    I do think this is going to be an awesome addition to the park. Kids are going to love it, and the playground area is going to be a great reprieve for parents.  

    There hasn't been a proper playground area since McScrappy's Farm got taken out. The old Splat City had both a climbing structure (FAAC is on that site now) and the water maze, but those were more "active" things.

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  3. It’s such a misuse of Showplace. Put Showplace back to how it was and have the main summer music show and a proper Haunt show on the lines of Dead Awakening or Hot Blooded back there again, and find somewhere to set up temporary venues for the bike shows.

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  4. Regarding Planet Snoopy, a little while back someone said a Camp Snoopy conversion could be the end of the Snoopy Boutique shop in the old skyride station. I disagree, that building is perfectly fine.

    Personally, if anything current aside from the amphitheater is in the way of improvements, it’s Woodstock Whirlybirds. The station and queue structure takes up a good amount of space, and the track and support columns cause both height clearance and ground interference around the entire route.

    The capacity isn’t great and it’s just kind of in the way around the main core of the area.

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  5. 28 minutes ago, BoddaH1994 said:

    If the name is a placeholder, maybe the stats are too? If you didn’t want to reveal the height of the spike, wouldn’t you also put in the height of the top hat? Just so you are working with three digits aesthetically? 

    I fully expect the name is a placeholder, and that's interesting regarding the stats. The speed of the reverse launch that's listed certainly wouldn't require a 420-foot spike...

    It's obviously an incomplete placeholder page, all the images were generic stock photos, and again Top Thrill 2 would be like Son of Beast.

  6. It's happened to me twice, both times resulting in the phone getting tossed out the side of the train somehow. In 2002, my Nokia 3285 somehow got out of my front pocket on Beast and they found it in the dirt, minus the battery pack, the next morning. Being a Nokia it still worked fine despite having hit something sufficient to knock the battery off into the unknown, never to be found. All it needed was a new battery pack.

    In 2010 I had a Samsung Alias 2, normally I had it in a holster case but of course that particular day I forgot the case and it was in my front pocket, after getting off Diamondback I reached for my phone while walking into the exit shop and it wasn't there. Went back to the station, wasn't there. Filled out a form but it was never found, best guess was it happened during the helix to the midcourse brakes and got hurled off into the woods because it continued to ring when called for a while afterward, so it was working but apparently somewhere that isn't checked.

    In both instances, I had absolutely no idea it had happened until sometime after the ride. Both times were in my front pocket with my wallet but only the phone was somehow lost. Like @DoomPlague said, usually when sitting my front pockets are, or at least should be, too tight for either of those situations to have happened, but somehow they still did. Ever since the second time, I always use either a belt holster or a secured cargo pocket.

    With Diamondback's seat and restraint design, I can see how it happened, but Beast confuses me to this day.

     

  7. I know the subject is a dead horse but I’d be okay with a clear-the-park method if it was being done to uncover and set up the edgier theming and whatnot. I miss the more “adult” version that Haunt debuted with in 2007, mazes like Club Blood and shows like Dead Awakening and Hot Blooded.

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  8. 18 hours ago, DJSkyFoxx said:

    I was honestly just thinking the very same thing in regards to the trains just sitting on the ground on their wheels without the proper support crates. 

     

    The last time I saw a coaster train on the pavement like that without the transport frame was the third X-Flight train in Geauga’s parking lot during the relocation, that train was used for spare parts and never ran again.

    It’s possible a third-party inspection of the trains has been requested as part of the lawsuit, so the vehicles were brought out to a more accessible location.

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  9. Yeah, it seemed like a sketchy concept for a while, 500' lift up on top of the cliff? Second hill higher than Kingda Ka? But now they're actually installing track based on ground level and lifting equipment up onto the cliff.

    But, regarding Dragster, I think Tony is just doing Tony things. The track that was taken off Dragster was sent to the Port of Genoa in Italy, and has now returned from there after modifications and painting, in addition to a bunch of new steel. It's obviously not proof that Intamin isn't involved, but considering CF's relations with Intamin ever since the i305 problems and the flume ride at CP being a total failure, I still think we're looking at a Zamperla project.

  10. 5 minutes ago, jsus said:

    Ah right.  Forgot about that one, the fact that supposedly they're actually building it, and that it was an INTAMIN project.  And RCDB has not listed it. :)

    Definitely doesn't look like the track I'd expect to see for TTD 2.0, though they could always surprise us.

    RCDB hasn't listed it yet but there are photos of construction underway, with white Intamin track.

    https://www.themeparx.com/six-flags-qiddiya-saudi-arabia/

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  11. The “it’s not really a giga” claims drive me nuts. Apollo’s Chariot is an undisputed hyper, but with a sub-200 structure and terrain first drop. KI building a giga that way is a very KI way of building a giga because of our history with using the available terrain in ride designs.

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  12. 4 hours ago, Oldschool75 said:


    Nope. I would have said. “We we’re #1”.


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    Apparently I’m the only person on here other than you that’s seen the movie a current attraction is named after.

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