TheKlockster

Togo International 100 Merchant St., Suite 150 Cincinnati, OH 45246 USA

Busch Gardens rules! Ive been to Tampa several times. I like Paramount better, but Busch is my close second!

When you are riding SOB, and you do the mid course break run, look to your right and down. Thats where they are. Everybody told me to look to the right just before the loop, but its really during the break run.

No, AZ Kinda Guy isn't being dumb! Besides the fact that he is the moron police, and incapable of being a moron himself, he has a point, although I think the flaming was a little uncalled for. Capacity has nothing to do with how popular a ride is. Adventure Express is the highest capacity ride. That means it gives the most rides in one day (assuming there are enough people who actually WANT to ride it - on a normal day the trains are rarely full). It does not make it the most popular. People don't come from California, and say "Yay! Its Adventure Express! I drove 2000 miles just to ride this legend of a coaster!" They come for The Beast, and for the Son of Beast and for Vortex. Son of Beast has a lower capacity, but I believe it is the only PKI roller coaster to actually be mentioned onscreen by Grissom on the TV show CSI. For those of you who dont know, CSI is a forensic show, and Grissom is the lead investigator, and he is a coaster nut. In one episode he commented how much he liked SOB. He didn't mention Adventure Express.

Face/Off is very popular, but it has a very low capacity.

You know, I was born in 1983, but I have never seen a single minute of Smurfs. I don't know why, I just never watched it. All I know is that they are blue, and wear white hats and live in mushrooms.

I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I read somewhere that Paramount was working on the movie around the time of 9/11, and in one scene they had one of the alien ships crashing into the World Trade Center, and bringing the towers down. Then it happened for real, so Paramount decided it would be very distatesful to release it, so they had to go back to the drawing board and reshoot and rewrite a lot of the movie. Like I said, dont know if its true, but thats what I heard.

Probably just Ecology. That is those people with the pan and brooms walking around. But they get paid quite well - like 2 bucks more an hour than ride ops.

Someone agrees with me! Ill say it again! B&M Invert like Top Gun at PC or Silver Bullet at KBF, themed to Skycaptain!

I think you should merge the boards, and make it like the PKIC boards, but keep the PKIU Employees forum, and then add a unmoderated forum where anything goes.

We're not going to get a coaster in 06. Guaranteed. But that aside, I will say what I always say (and BoddaH disagrees with me ) - I can really see a B&M invert, almost like a copy of Top Gun the Jet Coaster at PC or Silver Bullet at KBF coming to PKI, themed to Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow. I also think a B&M dive machine themed to the Core would be possible. Those are two Paramount coasters I see in the future. But if they are built, which park will get them? Lets hope PKI!

I love SOB. It's the best ride in the planet! Its good no matter where you sit, but my favorite seat is 62, last car, middle row. All you have to do is anticipate the moves. Basically, after the drop, at the top of the second hill, lean to the left real quick, then the right, then the left, then the right, then the left, then the right - I call it the SOB dance (don't do it and youll wish you did!) - and after that just kind of do whats natural. Really the only place you have to move yourself (the SOB dance) is at the top of the second hill. Also, don't put your head against the headrest. Lean your shoulders against it, and keep your neck inline, but forward with your shoulders. You have to understand SOB. If you don't, you think its rough. If you understand it on a deep level, you kind of know whats going on. My last ride of the season, 33rd in three weeks, I hit my head on my lap bar. But its still my favorite!!! :cowboy:

I say that I would like to see the forums of PKIC come out on top. But they should keep the employees forum of PKIU for the employees. It just seems like the PKIC forum people are more mature, and are more serious about pki.

I believe the Italian Job will open when the park opens daily. April 8th is the first day the park opens, but it is only open weekends until May - much like it was during Fearfest.

I gotta say Hats off to Dane. :cowboy: I spent about three hours last night trying to figure out how to skin Invision Powerboard. I kind of have a vague comprehension of it, but its really hard. There are so many little tiny images you have to create. And the images have to be in indexed gif files, so a lot of it is pixel by pixel manipulation. Then there's they style sheet. So don't underestimate the amount of work that went into reskinning this board. Good job Dane!

At the top, click on My Controls, just like you would to change your signature or something, then in the Control Panel, you scroll down all the way to the bottom, and it says on the right, Skins and Languages. Click on that, and you can preview or change your skins!

Tastes Great Less Filling is the motto from some light beer - but I don't remember much. I never heard anybody do it, but I would assume it has to do with the fact that the Beer gardens were right next to Viking Fury, and that the people on high end are getting good negative G, but the people down at the bottom arent really getting any feeling. But I have never heard that so far. My first memory of PKI was July 21 of this year. I had been when I was about four years old, because I distincly remember the Eiffel Tower. It would have been around 1987, because it was the last time my mom went, and I she says she rode Vortex. Anyway, I have been scared of roller coasters ever since I rode a little kiddie coaster over at Americana. I vaguely remember it, but it was probably along the lines of Top Cats Taxi Jam. When I went to PKI on the 21st, my aunt and uncle said - "You wanna ride The Racer? Its a good one to start out on. Its really small, practically a kiddie coaster!" So I got on it, but when I got to the top of the lift hill, and looked out over the track, I realized how high I was and how long the ride was. I held on to the side of the train with one hand, and used the other hand to hold onto the seat divider. When I got off, I was completely pale. My other best memories were the first time I was able to ride Vortex (I would get sick looking at it) on Labor Day Weekend, and my ride in Wild Thornberries on Nov 7. So I don't have a lot of memories, but I have only been going a couple of months.

I like the DarkSky the best, but the banner at the top is a little wierd. It sticks out about 200px or so from the board, so it looks a little ackward. But as far as the graphics, its awesome!

Oh, thats wierd. I never noticed that before! I wonder who's member 69! The rails on Vortex are hollow tubular steel. As they heat up and cool down over and over again, and the trains roll on down them, they cause distortions. So eventually, Vortex's track will become unridable. But this is still a long way off. Like someone said earlier, look at Corkscrew at CP, or better yet, Corkscrew at Silverwood Theme Park, which was relocated from KBF. The KBF corkscrew was the first inversion steel coaster in the world. It is still thrilling the folks from Cour D Alene Idaho and surrounding areas to this day! Its track is virtually identical to Vortex's track. Of course, without maintenence, the ride would wear out much faster. But there is maintenence, so the ride will last. Its only about 16 or 17 years old - so it has a good 10 years AT LEAST left in it. Even when the time comes, 15 or 20 years down the road (assuming Paramount hasn't decided to pull Vortex for a highly themed ferris wheel or something stupid like that), the track can be retracked. They just yank out the sections that are bad, and install new sections. Thats the cool thing about steel coasters - they are modular - almost like a knex set or something! But certain pieces wear faster than others, and I am certain that when these pieces go bad, Paramount will yank them and put in new track in those spots. They are going to milk Vortex as long as they can. Its good for the Enthusiasts, its good for the Customers, and its good for Business. So what ride is next to go? We will just have to wait and see. But whatever ride it ends up being, lets get as much fun and memories out of it as we can before it goes. Don't loose sleep over Vortex's removal - I am sure it will provide you, and more than likely your children with years of thrills!

I can't remember what day it was, but I think it was Nov 6. I came and Top Guns line was backed up to that overpass thing for the maintenence road, the one that says High Security Area painted on it. I got in line, and saw people backed up to there, and thought - screw it. I got out of line and went to SOB. Like I said, I think it was Nov 6, but it might have been a couple weeks before that - I can't remember. But the crowds definately love it! Edit: And why do they love it you ask? Because its totally *****IN!

Very spiffy if I do say so myself! I like the new graphics better than those old splash things for the buttons.

I have a Pentium I 200 MHZ, that I basically use for RCT. My 'real' computer is a Macintosh iBook G4. I do have Virtual PC on it, which will emulate a P2, but its actual speed is lower, since its Unix running Darwin running Mac OS X running Virtual PC running Windows 98. I know, I know... I need to get a newer PC... If not just for the games! Once you go Mac, you can never go back!

Charles Infosino in a video game? Can't wait to play it! What will the system requirements be?