The Interpreter

Ha! They aren't mine, I just posted the link!

Be sure to use the next keys, there are a lot more than four pictures here: http://www.flyinphilsphotos.com/sfga-update/album0

And, for you doubters, go here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=chains+r...gs+island&hl=en Dave Althoff certainly knows what he is talking about and is NARSO certified. Or course I could instead doubt my own experiences, my own knowledge and that of the esteemed Mr. Althoff, but I won't....

Uh huh. They are chains, and are used only in the first few weeks of the season. I know full well what they are, and watched them being installed. Go ahead, think they are whatever you like..but it reminds me of a story Abraham Lincoln told: If you call a sheep's tail a leg, how many legs does a sheep have, he would ask? The listener would answer five, every time. His response would be four...you can call it whatever you like, but it is what it is.... (And Thunder Road DOES have anti-rollbacks where Racer and recaR (or North and South) have chains....and anti-rollbacks)

Amazing: Unexpected...astounding...causing one to lose one's breath. Perhaps NU will be amazing. Just in a somewhat different way. I was amazed when I first rode Scooby and the Haunted Castle. I've been to PKD and ridden their Scooby attraction, also to Carowinds. I was amazed at what Kings Island did. Still am. Not impressed, but definitely amazed.

Okay, I see hands, too. Where's the coaster? (just kiddin, folks!)

You asked. It's been said before. I would put a set of Flying Scooters (the old ones, not the newer models) by Tucker's. Honestly.

With all due respect, the parks care only about what the public who pays the bills thinks of their rides. They see boards' opinions as mildly amusing, if they pay any attention to them at all. Those who post there are no more than 0.0001% of the parks' patronage...

Those are NOT just antirollbacks. They are chains. They are used only early in the season. There are also anti-rollbacks, but those are NOT what I am talking about. And John Allen didn't design them, didn't put them there and the coaster(s) didn't need them when it/they ran as he designed it/them.... It's also NOT a Nick joke. The new season means my favourite wood in that park is now called The Fairly Odd Coaster. Deal with it. It's reality.

In all fairness, I should add that The Screechin Eagle, while a fine coaster, is not my favourite wood coaster in Ohio. That, you see, is owned by Cedar Fair. Now. It's at Geauga Lake, The Big Dipper. I just hope it reopens this year with the inhouse built NAD style trains it closed with last season. No seat dividers, thick (and cutting into seat room) cushioning, John Miller airtime in abundance, and excellent track work. Well, at least after they fixed the pothole at the bottom of the first drop in July!!! That, boys and girls, is one fine wood coaster.

MarketingExpress: What if they good big associates? The Interpeter, running for his room

It is less expensive, in most cases, to build a new wooden roller coaster than to relocate one....especially one that has sat unused as long as The Screechin Eagle has. As for Racer, those of us who are hardest on it now remember what it was like when it (they?) gave incredible air-filled fast and SMOOTH rides, with no midcourse brakes, much less chains to help it up the hill before the brakes...and with skid brakes, big old brake levers and flip down lap bars. Once upon a time, I could say without shame that Racer was my favourite wood coaster...I can't say that now and haven't been able to for many, many years....it isn't even my favourite wood coaster(s) at PKI, nor my second. I honestly prefer the Fairly Odd Coaster to it, and even that doesn't run like it did in the Scooby Doo yellow days...

^^^^ Does anyone here do translations? Or am I just getting old?

It's people who put their hands up during launch on coasters like TTD that have caused restraint modifications on rides like Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hypersonic at Paramount's Kings Dominion. The parks and ride manufacturers have had to do this to protect riders from themselves. Do the words possible shoulder separation mean ANYTHING to you? Sigh.

flightoffear1996, persons with even average height CAN hit the tunnel walls on Beast with their hands...and many have, sadly, proven this...

If you are complaining about riding Raven, a trip to the woodshed is in order! That coaster is simply stupendously wonderful!

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Hmmm. The Ohio State Fair and The Kentucky State Fair have asphalt paths! Heck, the State Fair of West Virginia and the South Carolina State Fair have concrete paths in places. What's to explain? They even have Kite Flyers from Zamperla!

Well, there's maturity for you. If I can't play by my rules, I'll just take my ball and go home. Whatever...

Lordy, Klock! If Teff Heebert or whatever his name is knew that, he'd cackle and cackle. So let me say, I didn't work for Disney (Mighty Ducks) or at Americana either. Relieved?

Legend Rider, Son of Beast opened April 28, 2ooo, but it only stayed open parts of two days, before closing for repairs and maintenance. On Friday, the 'media opening,' such as it was, it ran for the media, then a couple of hours that night. Saturday morning, after about ten trainloads of riders (it was running one train), it closed for the day, and for what ended up being weeks.

Until, of course, that fateful day when the coaster melted!

WHAT is highly questionable?

This year, the Dippin Dots guy probably says "Four dollars, fifty cents, please..."

If you made that bet, you'd lose... I have carefully written what I did above, so let me add, I am not now employed by, nor have I ever been employed by Viacom, Paramount, Kings Island, KECO, Taft Broadcasting or their affiliates...nor is or has any member of my immediate family been so employed!