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Again terp sorry for being a pain but you have to restate that so my brain can understand it. It may be because its late or because I am watching the olympics but how does having the original wood help in re-engineering it at a different site? If you are buying to rebuild a ride elsewhere wouldnt you just need the engineering plans? Not playing dumb just trying to figure this out.... Would this scenario be the same idea if a wooden roller coaster burns to the ground and the park rebuilds it? Same ride right?

Oh I understand this scenario is still playing out and is different, but as you said most of the wood is replaced when a coaster is moved. If the wood is replaced why would the buyer want the original wood, or is it that the old owner does not want a bunch of old wood laying around?

So essentially all they are paying for is the name? (and design?)

so wait from reading one of the articles, they will use some of the original wood to build patios? Since the wood would not be re-used, or most of it, how is that still the same ride? Why wouldnt the buyer pay for the "name and design" take the trains and just get rid of the original wood? Forgive this dumb question but do many wood coasters make the move from one park to the other with all of the original wood? Now CoasterBuzz says the rest was demolished http://coasterbuzz.com/news/11550/zippin-pippin-demolished-after-partial-collapse.aspx

haha Im way too mellow and my apologies if it sounded like a threat. I wouldnt do anything but family members of people I work around would do more than threaten.... just a little pet peeve of mine. People are way too smart to show a lack of education by calling anything "Gay" or "retarded"....... ug..... going to go calm down now... back to the topic...

Just remember two I use! Sorry if I offend anyone, but I'm not trying to mean it on a rude way. I call Avatar "Avatard" and Runaway Reptar "Runaway Reptard." And there is one other but I know I'll offend people and get int trouble so I'll just keep it to myself... Oh and also Tom, Reptard makes me feel sick too, who would think a kiddie coaster would do that! And yes, Dramamine works good. If only I had it for ERT on Diamondback during RWCW! actually you do mean it in a rude way. If you are using it to describe something as you dont like it then its no better than calling it "gay." I work with developmentally disabled and just by grouping anything bad or dumb in the "retard" group you are putting down an entire group of people.... so stop, before you really P off a guy who has a developmentally disabled person in their family and they decide to take out there anger on your face....

That sort of the problem with Paramount, imho, if each park was getting similar rides it makes going to that park less exciting. So I can see that each park needs its own unique flair...

go gaga on their wizard sticks? man that article actually made me not want to go to IoA....

that may actually be one of my favorite rides at Universal... again I have not been back since oh 96? maybe around then. They were building Islands of Adventures at the time. And by building it I remember walking along a boxed in corridor and look out and seeing mud..... Plus Spider Man and Hulk were in the regular park and a behind the scenes tour..... oh the good old days....

oh terpy......... gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

wait that is or was Dudley Do Rights log flume ride.... Dudley Do Rights Ripsaw Falls? right or am I way crazy? change of name?

dumb question is ripsaw the Dudley Do Right log flume ride?

awesome + awesome = awesomer

Im sorry KICers... I had to vote for the one I thought was the best, Griffon \ but it doesnt seem to matter since Bizarro has almost a thousand votes

well talk to your library help because they may be able to point you in some direction also. Many subscription services have some deals worked out with academic institutions...

haha i worked at a camp for young men (who may or may not earn some sort of cloth for achievements) in the Cincinnati area and we (the staff) thought they were selling camp shotglasses. Nope they were "toothpick holders" so maybe its a WWC toothpick holder

thats a brilliant idea. I think if I remember the ol Surf did that where they honored the KI season pass, in an attempt get people to spend money there. Then when Surf closed I believe the Beach honored their passes. So it would be interesting to see a "trade in your 2010 Kentucky Kingdom pass for a free KI pass or upgrade to gold or platinum for a small fee" You give a family of four free passes to replace the ones they have spent money on. You know you have a solid amount of money coming in even if they only visit the park one time.... a little good will goes a long way... either way a sad day for KK

it looks like on the post card they did some editing to get rid of the Dominion on the right side. it looks like on the left side would have been too hard to change the name (cheaply) when the post card was made

yup^

WWC is the only ride I have memories of riding with my aunts and grandparents. My grandpa always got the shriner tickets for KI when I was little. When I was about 8-10 years of operation (hey I knew what you meant my grandpa always told me it was my 14th birthday even if I was turning 13, he said hey you had a birthday when you were born) my grandma would point to the trees where everyone put there gum and told me they were gum trees.... When I was little I thought KI grew gum for all of Cincinnati.... It wasnt till I was much older that I realized what just happened.... good old WWC memories... man I would ride with my dad mom sister aunt and grandma while my grandpa would try to soak us as we would go through....

haha good point..... im just going to tell people that this is my 25th year of operation when they ask me how old i am

yeah but you dont go around saying its your 27th year of life... you say I am 26 years old........

lol Terp: KIC's personal DVD with extra secret built in Easter Eggs......

lol Im not sure it was the goose's tail........ and nothing can possibly prepare the human body for being struck by a live or a dead bird at any speed..... terp you remind me of a teacher who teaches a subject just for the heck of it, just to see the college kids have a puzzled look on their face lol

haha read the news clipping you put up, they said they ASSUMED it was the same dead goose lol.....