Outdoor Man
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here's a question- wonder if any of the thousands of trees cleared for SOB got reused in it's construction.
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oscar's, I think.
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"Then I rode Hurled 1 more time, and realized storks were coming. So I took one last ride on Intimidator, so I could get a ride photo. Then we went back to our car and it started to rain. Overall, it was a great dayvand I got a to. of rides in. got to watch it when those lousy storks approach. they could really kill a day of fun on a coaster.
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since Cedar Point is the flagship park in the chain (a designation that KI had under the PKI years) I'm guessing that there is something "better" about theirs, so let's say- the Ki WindSeeker for the Cedar Point WindSeeker. Even-Steven.
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The Beach Closing after 27 Years
Outdoor Man replied to Gordon Bombay's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
... i'm way too opinionated to jump into this one. Let me just say ditto to everything the Honorable Gordon Bombay said. -
I may be late to the ponderosa here- but it action theater closed now?
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it would be interesting if one of the old trains were still around. The track was red with black supports. would have been pretty cool (i think) if when the name "Top Gun" met its demise, the CF Brass renamed the coaster "The Bat," "Bat's Revenge" etc... and gave it the old color scheme. the layout of the track is very attune to that of a bat- moreso than a flight deck; there aren't too many flight patterns that go around trees like that... but bats do.
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Does anyone know if the park still has anything left from The Bat? Not talking about things on the ground or holes notched about doorways- more like signs, logos, or theming.
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The Beach Closing after 27 Years
Outdoor Man replied to Gordon Bombay's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
the west side of the interstate exit at one time included much grander plans than what we see today... The Beach had really deteriorated over the last few years- the grounds were not as manicured as they once were- and I agree with Mr. Bombay... nothing new in the last decade, I think- lent itself to a decline. As far as things finding their way to KI (or other)- the tubes above are pretty old- and the really unique slides are cement and follow the ground. It's VERY unfortunate- but I can only see bull-dozers in the future. -
Simple math, Width X Height +1 even so. fingers were counting a row of vertical and a row of horizontal to arrive at sum values to plug into a calculator.
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it bothers me that someone (and probably others) took the time to count and do the math on that one.
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the font is strikingly close to the Firestone logo.
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that's pretty good (it's technically a commonwealth though...)
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how about those of us that received the error, read this thread, and did not contribute a thing productive to it's content; can we be included in on that beer?
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Downtown Disney (Orlando)
Outdoor Man replied to kingsrattler's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
Gabe is right, though there are sometimes several resorts that loop the same line- Boardwalk, Beach Club, Dolphin, and Swan are the same bus., etc... but they don't go to the others. Saratoga Springs and Port Orleans are the same. Contemporary is with Fort Wilderness. -
Downtown Disney (Orlando)
Outdoor Man replied to kingsrattler's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
that's literally right off I-4 isn't it? Definitely visit downtown disney though. Downtown Disney is 100% disney related shops (ie- Once Upon a Toy, etc...)- Pleasure Island, part of the same complex is entertainment and other unrelated shops. But I would definitely hop on the Disney bus transportation and go to the different resorts- you can defininately burn a day doing that... and its all free, except what you spend. A few years ago it was wayyyyy too cold to go to a park, so we spent an entire day at Downtown Disney, going between the different resorts, and riding the monorail between parks, taking the catamaran (water taxi) between epcot and Hollywood Studios, etc... all free. -
Downtown Disney (Orlando)
Outdoor Man replied to kingsrattler's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
what hotel, if you don't mind the question? -
Downtown Disney (Orlando)
Outdoor Man replied to kingsrattler's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
No. it's free to roam. and you can get on the Disney transportation and ride and walk through the resorts for free as well. You do not have to be staying there. Parking is FREE. just got back from our annual trip a few weeks ago. -
wow, that is a line for the slide... as a society, we were really hard-up for thrill rides back in the day. if it were there today, that number of people represented in the above picture would likely be the annual tally/count.
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that's a great (and probably accurate) illustration 'Terp.
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zzzzzzzzzzz
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flight deck ever going to get some :"striking" colors- or will it be faded gray and rust for several more years?
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i believe they call that "WindSeeker"
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want to ride a giga... go north about 5 hours.
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a classic instance of the medicine potentially worse than the illness. That image of the ladder apparently fully extended made me queesy just look at it, knowing they were 95 feet in the air for it: next stop, the ground! imagine the safety violations on that one today...
