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Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
I'm happy with the Creepy Buckeye theme. We Are eerie, and we live in a temperate rainforest. (When dealing with Londoners, I tell them I live around Wright Patt; they say "Hangar 18' before they say "Orville and Wilbur".)I think it's grand. It represents us very well. The POV can only show the eyes what to expect. Once we hop on, and fly by the trees, it'll be great. One of my favorite things about The Beast is tearing through the woods. Look at Adventure Express- on paper it's nothing, but riding it is fun. It's too early to ask the height requirement to ride it, but I'm hoping for it to be available for more kids than the more heavy duty coasters. It will be 48 according to Don in an interview with KICSent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk Thank you. One more reason to celebrate that Big Bracelet Day then, when a kid hits the height requirement -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Okay, Brad Pitt, do you really want to know "What"s in the BOOOO-oooooOOOOXXXX?" -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
I'm happy with the Creepy Buckeye theme. We Are eerie, and we live in a temperate rainforest. (When dealing with Londoners, I tell them I live around Wright Patt; they say "Hangar 18' before they say "Orville and Wilbur".)I think it's grand. It represents us very well. The POV can only show the eyes what to expect. Once we hop on, and fly by the trees, it'll be great. One of my favorite things about The Beast is tearing through the woods. Look at Adventure Express- on paper it's nothing, but riding it is fun. It's too early to ask the height requirement to ride it, but I'm hoping for it to be available for more kids than the more heavy duty coasters. Edit to add: Rod Serling was a Buckeye. How more mystic and wooden can you get? -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
I'm most scared of that darn bearded baby avatar! It's been haunting me for months!Reminds you of Donald Pleasence, doesn't it? -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
I swear if he had a desk, he'd have to wear it on straps around his neck like a cigarette vendor in old Vegas. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
http://livestream.com/accounts/20704320/events/5975091 Don't have an answer to the Roku question! I just set up my Roku for Livestream. I did a search for the channel, subscribed to it, and did a search for "kiproject2017" i didn't sign up for Livestream on Ruko, though, It didn't ask. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Just "Grassman". I always called them Mummers, but that's what my family called them. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Just from the graphics of the "Lurking" poster, there's one I like about Ohio's reputation that showed up in the Banshee and hopefully this ride, too. I like the park embracing Ohio's distinct strangeness. Ohio has a reputation of being supernaturally creepy. The show "Eerie, Indiana" was originally supposed to take place in Ohio. We have Mushmelon kids, Screaming Mimi Bridge, Dogmen, Lizardmen, and Ghost Trains, and that's just a few. Hopefully the theming of the ride will match the poster graphics. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
No way! New rides are free candy. A new ride adds to the park. Even if you don't like the ride, there even being a new ride is good, because it gives patrons more places to be instead of being in line for Your favorite rides, making you wait longer. -
Oh thank you. I have no idea what the ride is, but I'm very excited to see it.
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Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Yes! A barker's sense of humor. I"ve seen him at the park several times in the past- going like sixty the entire time. He's got to have a good sense of humor to work like that at an amusement park. -
What a cynical kid.
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Bkroz mentioned it, and he may have a point, easy to install, maybe easy to uninstall.The collection that makes up the line queue looks pretty much like the movie props, behind pexiglass cases, so less damage. The rest might be hologramic gewgaws until the drop. just a different film playing Isn't this the ride that's programable 20 different ways? They aren't going to toss the Serling gig into the trash, it"s going to kept and filed. Edit to add: shark got to it before I did! Better learn to touchtype.
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Skull Island: Reign of Kong
Tanna replied to MrBestDayEver's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
Understandable. Some years are better than others.With "Hurry up and wait jobs" one is still on the clock while waiting, so it's not like I can scamper off to the park. One can learn to make cronuts in the time it takes for the next assignment to come in. Maybe someday, with perserverence, some entrepid scout will spot the elusive Tannabird finally making time in DisneyLand. Until then, it's back to the iMac. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Ursa Major! And next year, a little tiny Planet Snoopy replica - ursa minor. With the "Field of Dreams" rigamorole, how close is it to the Red's restaurant? -
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
Tanna replied to MrBestDayEver's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
Thanks- I'm quite the odd man out on this board, aren't I? My amusement park experience is "Hey! A Ride! I'll enjoy it!" Ala Dan Backslide in the Dover Boys cartoon. I like the tech genius it takes to make them, but the lore and "S'posedtabe's" are totally lost on me. Plus my work schedule has not been allowing me to jump and go to parks as many of the posters here do. -
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
Tanna replied to MrBestDayEver's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
Thank you both, I suspect my average punter mindset thought they were connected because of the name. -
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
Tanna replied to MrBestDayEver's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
I would suspect there was a lot of Spielberg upshooting and shots of wistful awed expressions going on.I always edit out the Spielberg "face of awe and wonder' reaction shots when I get one of those movies. Thank you for the input. The ride being in place before the final cut of the movie surprised me a bit. Even with all the storyboarding that goes on, there are scenes that are just not gonna be in the film- but might up in the ride. -
Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
Cowboy Coaster is back in the mix! Rabid Teddy Bear Cowboy Coaster! Smash all those clues into a great big ole Dagwood Sandwich! -
Ooh! Magenta Lizard, thanks- now I can see some of the painting up close.
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Decoding Episode II: Rivertown 2017 and the Falling Trees
Tanna replied to jcgoble3's topic in Kings Island
I don't want the rain to spoil the announcement, but I sure would like some. So hot, I bought a pool. The hatchet teaser now bothers me, somone on the FINAL PREDICTION brought up the name "Tornado" and mentioned inversions, which would be cool, but the hatchets flummox that ideal a bit, and now all I can think of to fit it together is that scene from Fargo with the wood chipper. That doesn't sound very fun. -
Skull Island: Reign of Kong
Tanna replied to MrBestDayEver's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
Checking this thread to see if anyone has see the trailer from SDCC and if so, what are their thoughts? And if they also rode the ride and saw the clip, how do the two fare together? -
You made a valid point about being landlocked. It's not only the physical land that might be in the mix, but also the surrounding society in that area. I don't know if the people of the community are also tightening the area that Disney takes up. Californians love their amusent parks, but they also love snail darters. Perhaps they can't expand past a certain point due to legal reasons.
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Though I never rode ToT, I can understand the rage. I'm trying to plumb my memories for a similiar instance when I was also this outraged so that i can understand better. But another memory keeps coming up: I was hired to work on a large project not long ago, it was massive, where the each of us worked on a different piece of the puzzle. The director of the project was relatively new, and had never worked on something of this scale. He kept his small project thinking that each person on the project had two jobs, no matter how high up on the ladder one was, a scary change for someone who considers themselves a "factory worker". I was thrown into the mix, doing a second goofy job that I'd never done before. Had no idea what I was doing, though my supervisor said I was doing great. That didn't inspire confidence. And the brickbats were flying. Everyone I encountered told me the project was stupid, it was going to fail, no one wanted it, that I was stupid to work on it- the universe was going to implode, and it was all my fault for signing that contract. Everywhere people talked of this project, there was mud flung. But I kept going. Not just because of the contract, but because of the vision. The night the project was released, it was fantastic. People sent me gifts, and I was hailed. A second project like was ordered that night. It changed the way future projects of its kind were made. I know this change is awful, the worst thing has ever happened. No one will ever go to Disney again. The franchise has been ruined. Who wants to see flora and fauna fight evil? No one has ever even heard of these heroes before. But I'm going to wait until it opens and hopefully see a POV of it to judge for myself. I'm sorry that everyone's childhood memory is being ruined, but maybe another child's memory will be made.