Browntggrr

5.5 hours- Erie , PA!

FoF is a clone. Rebel Yell and Racers are very, very close.

Sounds like Patrick Swayze is at it again....

The older animals were dying out, and the cost of replacing them was too much.

Guest: "What do you mean you could see me performing oral sex in the photo booth?" Oops, that was only one time! :stupid:

CoasterGlobeAnother site with some nice pics and explanation of The Bat.

Another issue were the brakes. As you can see in this pic Bat Brakes the brakes are located on the bottom of the train. This caused excessive wear and tear, just like the shocks that were perviously mentioned. Another poor design that was later rectified for other suspended coasters. I would love to see another park build a replica of The Bat- with the current modifications. The footprint looks amazing.

I hope that is sarcasm!

I don't diagree with what you said, but, SFMM has always had the reputation of not maintaining their rides. If PKI were to consider a 4-D, it would either be an improvment of what X is, or the downtime that SFMM takes once per week would be worked on overnight as opposed to shutting it down for a whole day.

Is it possible to get different colors for some of the apparal? I know that I would stain a white polo about 30 seconds of putting it on. ... and the thong is a riot!

They could sell the rights, but as far as equipment, some of it has been used for Fright Nights. And we all know about the cars.

Donuts? They should have given you eggs! :chef:

When I went to IoA, I thought it was a really good park overall. The coasters were good, but Spiderman is easily the best ride in the park. PKI will never be able to touch IoA as far as theming goes. IoA spent some big $$, but it is a year round park. Given the fact that PKI is seasonal, spending that kind of money for theming or $100 million for a ride like Spiderman is unlikely. I would like to see PKI fix and upgrade the theming they have now, as well as make the park cleaner before adding more "hollywood themes" to the park.

Flight Commander I (waaa) never rode The Bat. 3 summers and each time it was down. :censored:

Huh? How is wishing that there are more seatbelts on certain rides so you feel safer, like adding more brakes on The Beast. I don't get the comparison.

Why do you say that?

You love it? On God's green earth, WHY?

So many? The have been a total of 10 Arrow suspended coasters, only 9 are operating (The Bat- which we should all know about), and of those, 3 are not located in the US. The Big Bad Wolf is by far the best suspended, but ID is terrible compared to TG. Both coasters have their place in each park, an exciting ride, but not a thrill ride. TG serves many of the younger patrons of PKI. Taking this ride away would be taking from the family atmosphere that PKI is directing itself to as well as taking away from the Hollywood theme since this ride is very heavily themed. And as far as PKI settling for a ride that is lame, the ride was already planned and being built before PKI took ownership. If PKI wanted to change some od the aspects of the ride, they did have an opportunity to put more $$ into it, but obviously they wanted to spend more for the theming at that time.

It is very sad that 3 people lost their lives in one day at PKI. And adding salt to the wound is the fact that PKI has to claim partial responsibilty for what happened. The 3 that fell in the lake started as a joke and ended up being a fluke incident that I cannot imagine anybody could predict. As for the lady that "had too much fun", I suppose that this incident could have been prevented, if the operator(s) somehow could have known how intoxicated she was. A very sad day indeed, and Flight Commander was eventually taken out as a result some years later.

The pics were taken in line when it happened. In the "phony" pics (as you put it), there are people in the train. Just in the right place at the right time.

Part of the TOS should be that you are not allowed to be on controlled or illegal substances and post on PKIC. :stupid:

I would think that obtaining parts would be the biggest problem. There are not that many Togo stand-ups and there are no rides being made today that are even close to the design. Paramount might as well keep most of the ride (since it seems that there will be no buyers), and try to use spare parts for Shockwave @ PKD.

Trip report This is an excellent example of a post that should be closed. No, not the link post, but the one that I started.

After swearing at myself for about 4 hours because I did not check PKI's calender, and finding out that they were going to be closed on Sunday, I tried to make the most of Sat. night. We arrived at PKI @ 7:00pm. When we arrived at the parking lot, I was very nervous at the line going into the lot. There were a lot of people there! Then we found out that there was a concert @ 8:00pm and was relieved. I went with 5 people (wife, mom, dad, and 2 little cousins- their first PKI experience). I first went to customer service and explained the situation that we bought 4 tix for 6/6, not realizing that PKI was closed to the general public, and that we are from Erie, PA. Well that was the best CS experience that I have ever had at PKI. They let us use our tix (we paid $20 for all-day passes), and we paid for the 2 kids. PKI gave us 6 passes for sometime later this year. It was my mistake, and they gave me 6 free passes, which has encouraged us to make sure that we go back sometime this year. The 2 kids are only 52" and 51" so there were some rides that they could not go on, and they were a little nervous about the coasters, so I started them slow and went to AE. They thought that was boring so we went to Racer, which they considered better, but not fast enough. We skipped FoF (hour wait), and went to Vortex. One of the boys does not like "flippy rides" as he put it and did not ride, but his brother did- and loved it. We took a small break and went to DoT and they loved that, then went to The Beast- at night- great ride, but the trims do take away from what the ride once was like. The boys loved it, and I heard the best comment, one that should be in a commercial, "No wonder it was such a long wait" (only 30 min). The boys mother watched them as we went to TR;TR and the very last ride on Delirium. Not too bad for about 3 hours of being in the park. There were a couple things that I did not like: the walk on thing- great idea for season pass holders, but on Sat and Sun.? Those are the busiest days for the park because many people can't get off work during the week, so they are forced to go on the weekend, and the park makes them wait even longer. I would think that since the park is going to be busy anyway, don't put promos on the weekend, use them during the week, to draw more people, when you know it will be slower. It did not seem like there were enough employees working. The south lot entrance was the only one open. There were only 3 metal detectors operating. (with a concert at 8pm, I would think that both of these issues would be different) On TR;TR there were only 2 people checking the restraints. At least a 3rd would improve the timing of the ride. Vortex, Racer and AE, had no employee at the entrance to the queue line checking for heights, line jumpers, smokers etc. Overall it was a great time for 3-4 hours, and i can't wait to get back later this year.

I will be making a trip to PKI Sat. night with my wife and I, and all day 6/6 with my kids, and was wondering if anyone was planning on going or is working those days. I would like finally meet some from this board! Thanks!