King Ding Dong

It is a good article but doesn’t address one of the big problems with relying on outside food vendors which is integrating the dinning plans. I suspect doing so would mean less profit for CF as the vendors are going to expect a certain profit level as well. What happens to all that dinning plan revenue when it becomes clear to guests that the only “good” food and service is from the vendors? Also I think that smaller cheesesteak problem started in 2017 not this year.

I am sure you will love that gigabit pipe but even with all those devices it is still probably overkill and 500Mbps would be more than enough. What is the UL on that service? It could come in handy for online backups. I rarely can tap out my 100/10 line with WOW and 4 users and need to be pulling down some backups off iCloud servers to do it. Suggest a post on r/cordcutters for suggestions on the best boxes for Philo or maybe some hack to run it on an Xbone. ATT sends door knockers around every couple of months and they always tell me they just upgraded the fiber to the neighborhood. When I ask what speed they can offer me they it is always something like 25Mbps. I try hard not to laugh at them becuase they are trying to do their job

And I see a bigger crowd hoping to get a drink than ice cream! Take note KI.

So that what they do when it’s closed to the public. What is so ironic is the original post included a link to a site listing the park hours. I think the fearless mods got to it.

Yesterday? Nice story bro.

5V 5A is 25 Watts, that is no slow charge and is approaching small laptop levels. Can’t speak to android but iPhones will charge just fine down to 500mAh or .5A The original spec for USB 2.0 only required 500mAh and that is what most basic computer ports output. Up until the at least the iPhone 8 the little white cube shipped in the box only outputs 1A. Several of my smaller power banks only output 1A and even one of my big 20,000 mAh ones has a 1A port..

I didnt mean to imply that Apple uses proprietary wireless charging. They do however have a totaly ridiculous wired proprietary scam.

@malem Assuming 5V that equates to 400mAh. Where do you find such a thing? The headphone jack think kind of bothered me a first with the i7 but my ears can only handle buds for 20 minutes or so before they drive me nuts. I have full BT cans I use with the TVs and PC that use the aptX LL codec for sync issues so just use those most of the time. Once paired they connect backup easily and I really do like not having the darn cord. The cans are good enough I can’t tell a difference between wired and BT, but I am no audiophile. In all cases I would take a few mm thicker phone for better battery life.

In industries such as manufacturing they look frequently to the supply chain, but a theme park I have no idea other than guidance from the actual officers. Certainly they are not sitting at their desks checking out the web cams. Idk, maybe they are.

Unfortunately looks like Google is doing evil again and following Apple down the proprietary road with the Pixel 3 and wireless charging. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/drm-for-chargers-google-pixel-3-locks-fast-qi-charging-to-its-own-79-stand/

As an alternative and to help with the budget all employees could receive human cannonball training and just be launched back and forth. It would be like the Ultimate Stunt Show all day! The park could charge guests $5 to pull the cord on the cannon park side. What kid wouldn’t want to do that?

No coaster is necessary.

Absolutely not. Again my point is about being misled. I guess some people don’t have a problem with that.

If they are selling or relocating the Firehawk, and we don’t know if they are, then what they did was craft a misleading statement not a “least offensive one”. I don’t know about you but I find being misled very offensive.

But that is not what they said. Words matter.

Also I think I read somewhere that these kind of locomotives can’t take much of a grade as well so expanding the train to the other side of the park would be near impossible.

We are well on our way to solving the park’s employee transportation issues. Next up my oldest graduates in 2020 but has a September birthday so will still be 17 but needs a place to live. If we can get him a forged identity I know the perfect place for him to work in Rivertown. Win-Win.

Confused. What problem? Opens late May 2019, according to the Twit you linked.

Will have to get the Giga Guys to work up some concepts.

A log flume would be cool as well. Have a second station at the dorms and they could just send empty boats through when employees needed to get to the park. Win-win for guests and employees.

Do you really think the average guest that [pick any post from the “Guests say the Darnedest Things” Thread] knows anything about some accident in Germany?

I don’t see how the coaster can go somewhere else and the park’s claim “the ride has reached the end of its service life” can remain operative at the same time. If it continues to operate it still has service life and has not reached the end.

@SonofBaconator Obviously being new buildings these will be in fine shape and meet modern building codes but I hear the ones up at CP are pretty run down especially Cedars (early 1900s). The poor state of housing is often cited as a reason many choose not to work up there. I suppose one’s socio-economic upbringing plays a large role in the perception as well. I take it your experience is different at least in the apartments?

No Coke Freestyle machines in the common areas? Come on man!

How about Groot?