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Ok, I tried again, and there's no way to make a pun VIA HSY.

I get to see Kraft Noodles everyday (but none so special as our giant friend by the Eiffel Tower!)

You guys! (I Tried being clever with DIS and MCAI. I got nothin'!)

On my "horribleness" of movies scale, "Congo" ranks somewhere midway between Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin" (1997) and Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" (1995).

I would scrap the whole "Los Angeles Freeway" theme with something more "local..." "Cincinnati Skyliner" More trees... fewer "cargo containers;" More grass... less concrete... Lighted "skyline" facade... Straight circuit... no pause... Etc...

Nor with "The Lost World," imho.

Well, I mean, Tim Curry was... in it. So,.... yeah, no. Bad movie.

Some black sand with some glass nuggets, and an animatronic ape would have completed the theming. I saw it in Auburn Maine, early in the afternoon about a month after it was released. (Interesting note (maybe?): I was already a little depressed after someone in the row behind us announced the death of painter Bob Ross (one of my heroes), which happened that week, so I was a bit distracted anyway; however, by about the time the ultra-fake-looking lava started chasing the antagonists... to ... wherever, people literally started getting up out of their seats to go watch something else. My friend and I stayed, and just MST3K'd the remainder of the film, to the delight of a couple of old ladies who found our running commentary (esp. my friends') more entertaining than the film. One example: "Who dares disturb the temple of crystal paperweights?!" Ah, good times.

The Sheriff twirls 'em, holsters 'em, gets back on his horse, and rides!

It is like being on a giant swingset. Seriously, think of that gut-thrill from early swingsets, only extend the experience out to about a sustained 4-5 seconds of it. The lateral motion (spinning) is experienced mostly as a constant change of scenery (which is incredibly scenic!). It's a great, big producer of that "tickle" you might have experienced going down a hilly country back road. Fun, not scary.

^Especially the ones in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming!

It's frighteningly not all that uncommon to come upon accident scenes in that crazy intersection. I almost got used to all the tail light debris and autoglass nuggets strewn about year in and year out.

In the Dark Ride, I would combine high-definition, flexible LED screens (such as those made by PixelFLEX) with bright, fluorescent-colored, mechanically-controlled props and animatronics to create a programmable dark-ride experience, elements of which could be changed to make it a "no-two-rides-are-the-same" attraction. Then I'd add some small lifts/drops to the circuit for some added thrills that would be timed to coincide with some jump scares, etc. Tb gratuitous re-hash moment! I'd also introduce my Bengals Tilt-a-Whirl, and maybe even Tumblejack!

I skipped right over the Waltzer, but upstop might be onto something here. Great find, upstop! The one shown above seems to do what you describe; the Waltzers of today seem to work more like Tilt-a-Whirls, though, which is why I didn't think of it.

Sounds like a variant of WF Mangels Whip. Let me research a little. Nice diagram, btw! EDIT: Wow, that's an elusive one! Do you remember which year it was when they had it? http://www.flatrides.com/rides/whip.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Mangels

I've read a little more about it. To me, it doesn't have that sort of "bona-fide coaster" feel to it. It's more like a structure that happens to have a coaster fastened to it -- a' la the Stratosphere in Vegas, but with the trains descending the tower itself. This kind of reminds me of the "Toboggan" ride I once saw at a parking-lot carnival in Michigan, on a huge scale. I wish them success.

New news article... http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/os-tallest-roller-coaster-orlando-20140605,0,2775548.story Wow!

A dip, then a bank t'ward yon hollow, A tantrum of whither-way bends, Unknown are the wonders that follow, 'Tis 'musing how this journey ends! For after a lift most beguiling, (A tease to the novice and tense,) The sojourn leaves most of them smiling, A treasure in every sense!

I know, right? It always fascinates me (not in a positive way) how much disinformation comes out during 'breaking' news, only to be determined to be false soon after being reported (listen to a few "As It Happened" news broadcasts on YouTube... it sometimes takes about 2-3 hours before all the dramatic disinformation works its way out of the story (examples: "Camp David/The State Department" hit on 911; "Automatic" weapons used against JFK; the Space Shuttle Challenger "Parachute")). I always wait a few hours before forming an opinion these days.

I imagine Public Relations being as much an art as it is a science; like being the salesman for -- and bodyguard of -- an entity's reputation at the same time (or, so it seems).

LOL I wonder how long it would take, even at his fastest ability to articulate words, to utter the phrase "There was no fire" more than sixteen-thousand times...

Fire plumb burnt the walls clean off! ..(Oh, wait...)

Now, THAT's Kings Island!

Aliens? What, some UFO hovered in over FOF and fired its mysterious, blue laser at it? My avatar pleads the (galactic) Fifth Amendment!

^Sending the global economic community into sheer panic! Touché!