The Interpreter

...and the "Cleveland area" land... As for that Cedar Fair commitment to reducing debt mentioned in the first post here... Interest rates will go up again. There is a faint ticking noise in the background...

CCI did not become The Gravity Group. There is no legal connection between the two whatsoever. CCI is defunct. The Gravity Group may have a few people who worked for CCI, but it is not CCI in any sense whatsoever. CCI had two major designers. One is with The Gravity Group. The other is not. Gravity Group had NOTHING to do with Raven. Its primary designer never had anything to do with Gravity Group. Legend? Go look. Again. And no, their coasters are not nearly all the same. Far, far from it.

The president of the Fair Board is leaving for San Diego. The Governor will have a very important vacancy to fill. And the Fair Board's tenants will be affected. The questions are how and to what extent. The answers will remain to be seen.

Mr. Toomer was deathly afraid of roller coasters.... He was a brilliant engineer, not a coaster lover.

Al Weber, Jr. knows exactly what he is doing. It's gonna be interesting to watch.

SFGA is Six Flags Great Adventure. More commonly SFGAd. Or, here, NJFTP. But be assured, SIX calls it SFGA internally. SFGAm is Six Flags Great America. From SFGA to IB is quite the hike. Which did you mean?

Don't let others decide what's lame. Go for what YOU want in life!

So *****-footing around helps....

And when did you last visit a Six Flags park? I'd put the Nitro crew up against just about anybody.

The best answer of all!

So where is it today? And why? Terp, who likes to ask questions.

I suspect at least a few get abandoned in the parking lot when they prove not to fit the chariot.

...or even know how. In doing so, some states legal provisions would consider that a crime...

In the face of this news, SEAS closed down NINE POINT TWO PERCENT!: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0VY2UA The market certainly does not agree with Mr. Goble. I'd not be surprised if criminal charges were filed.

...to serve as advertisements to get others to play the highly profitable games. That's why. Not unlike the huuuuuge stuffed animals toted around the park.

Welcome to KIC!

I have a 2016 Kings Island Platinum Pass. The plastic card? Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom...

My first Cedar Point pass was paper--check paper. With a signature on it--in ballpoint pen ink. No picture.

I was a rising junior in undergraduate school as to the older of you two's birth, and had been out of grad school more than a year in the case of the younger's. Yep. Ancient.

I suddenly feel very ancient...

Plus, the plants were trying to incite the activists into illegal activity. Unclean hands, anyone?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/seaworld-bans-employees-from-posing-as-animal-rights-activis

Its employees masqueraded as animal activists to spy: http://nypost.com/2016/02/25/seaworld-sank-to-new-low-of-spying-on-animal-rights-activists/ Really?

Gotta hand it to Kentucky Kingdom, they've always had a diverse collection of coasters, from Chang, Twisted Twins and Greezed Lightning under SIX to The Runs and (soon to be) Storm Chaser now. Although I will likely not venture down there this summer (I'd prefer my first SLC to be a non-modded version, just to see what it's like)), I'd likely to return in 2017 and am interested to see their coaster collection grow once more.First, Chang and Twisted Sisters/Twins were Hart contracts. Second, that reason for not going this year may well be one of the silliest, inane things I have ever seen here: A. There is no guarantee the park will have a complete 2016 season, much less open in 2017. B. Coasters do get destroyed. C. You or the park may not be around next year. Sad, but true. Most importantly, the park needs your business NOW. I tried to give them mine. Sigh. Is there a reason, and a good one, for why you seem to be shunned from visiting certain parks? At Kentucky Kingdom, the Park's sycophantic poster actually made fun of me here for traveling to KK before its official opening. Not long thereafter, he stopped posting here. If Kentucky Kingdom thought it could shush me by shooing me, it was sadly mistaken.

The day will come there are no paper park maps. Perhaps way sooner than you think.