Tanna

I can only hope the patrons are not disappointed.

As long as we're matrixing, i see a snake's head and a "W". Which means nothing to me, as water moccasins don't take down trees, and the word "moccasin" in a ride's name conjurs up cute little shoes as carriages, which violates my rule of being caught dead in a giant shoe, which is why I never rode the Giant Wooden Shoe ride when it was at KI.

Or a New Orleans Jazz band-

I might like that.

I thought it was a stylized sculpture of a "zephr".

Sorry to hear that- i had to reset my nose in the dames' john (joan?) due to that ride. I'm sorry your son's day was ruined.

Didn't meet him, just toasted him- was too embarressed to say "how do?"

I guess I was thinking more of the immediate news- like the fire at FoF. People seeing the ride offline, than guests saying, "yah, as I recall, there WAS a worker as we rode by totally smashing at the grass there." And it DipDots all out of proportion that way. And then, ultimately, it would land on the RO, who will have to carry that weight, no matter.

They had that guy just stand there and wap a stick at that gator? While guests are tooling by in fiberglass boats? Hopefully he was just there until pest control arrived. The RO was stuck between a rock and a hard place_ shut the ride down, news gets out: but keeping the ride open is a potential danger.

I want it to be named "Ned Beatty."I thought it was just going to be a lovely walkway, or a new greenspace, or restaurant, to be honest. I thought all that ride talk was pipe dreaming. I'm surprised to see a new larger scale ride coming so soon after Banshee and the new flats, and really surprised at the rides location. Now you"ve all got me caught up in the speculation. I really have to get used to this Oiumet guy.

Me, too! I like that look. Imagine the painters who originally decorated it- I wonder if they knew how many people would see and appreciate it?

"Deliverance" fits a lot of the clues. Would also work for a flume. Lol For all you kids. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/ I just watched that movie last night! I love that movie! I have a story to do with that movie, My cousin Kramer and I were out one night, and after we went to a festival, we were just beat. We went to all places, a bar at a Holiday Inn. There was a country string band playing, and we got our beers, and sat between the bar and the band. The band, for some reason, starting playing "Dueling Banjos" and Kramer and I were extolling to each other our love of the movie "Deliverance". I conjectured that the most manly man of the film was not Burt Reynolds, but Ned Beatty, because it took a lot of nerve for him to show his bum- But instead of the word 'bum" the truth was we were saying "Great, big, white, fat a**"- and both Kramer and I were talking to each other as such- "He read the script, saw that part, and decided he had it in him to show his 'bum." "Yeh, he knew everyone was going to see his "Bum", but he went ahead and did it." "Yeh! That takes nerves of steel to know the whole nation is going to see your 'bum- And! squeal like a pig! That's the most daring part in the movie." And we thought about getting another beer. I looked over at the bar, and the friendliest, most most pleasant looking fellow lifted his mug and smiled at us. We lifted our glasses and smiled at him. "Kramer. That's Ned Beatty." "(Gasp!) And we're sitting here talking about his 'bum'!" We .... decided not to meet him. He pretty much knew we were fans from over there.

4/5th grade for live action characters (Santa, movies tv shows etc). Cartoons it's around k they learn it's not real. The drawings help. Kids have a hard tim of fact vs fiction until the shift of knowledge from teacher directed to student directed. Plus it's an average. Some kids kno shows are not real at kindergarten. Some kids in 6 grade think cartoons are real. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk And worse, kids can accept some realities and insist on pixie dust on other facts. We had a Czechlosovakian immigrant living with us when I was young, who presented me with a huge Disney book, that showed the animatronics of the presidents and bears, and strangely, that was the magic for me, that people could that, and that I could possibly do that. We built electric kiddy kits like record players and radios for that someday.But please recall earlier in this thread, the tram driver warned me about gators, and I shrugged it off as a wives's tale or a joke. I was older, knew the Country Bears were machines since I was five, but insisted that a real danger was a fairy tale. And the aura of being in a Disney park compounds the reality fracture. Of course, cast members of the park see gators all the time. I'm wondering if a cast member sees a gator that day, and a guest asks, must they, in being truthful, defer the guest to another cast member who didn't see a gator that day? The semantics are bothersome, to say the least.

Jack Benny reference? " The Horn Blows at Midnight"? Someone at KiPR listened to WVXU in college.

Understandable. Ego Tunnel vision on my part- The belt would fit me, so surely it must fit everyone the same; And that's how we get protest ants.

And I want Lawn Darts back! We had Lawn Darts in my family- I have a puncture scar on my ankle for proof! In looking at the coaster in question, how was it going to be more fun by taking off the seat belt? It wasn't Le Mans to start with.

The night ride looks pretty. Of course I had to Youtube it, to see the layout, speed, etc.. That poor woman seems awfully battered up, I feel bad for her. Do you brake yourself on the ride?

That explains things. I'm not fond of tossing paper cups either, but now I can understand it. I used to work at a booth where the sales were counted by the cups missing, but then, there was the jeopardy of having cups fall on the ground. A co-worker got fired because a wind gust took a stack of cups into the river, something she could not have helped. I'll be honest at my deviance. People from food booths would come with plates of food and empty cups to trade wares. There were two rival radio personalities that, at the time, had rib joints. One joint came over with a large plate of ribs to trade for drinks, and I obliged them with their empty cups. The ribs were good, so when people asked about good ribs, I suggested the brand I had sampled. The other radio personality, when he came to honor his little booth, came over and started to quarrel with me over not reccing HIS ribs. "I didn't taste any to be able to tell if they were good. Send over a plate, we'll think about it." After that, if my beer booth were set up by his, he always sent over a plate of ribs, ( with no drink exchange) to make sure we'd tell people where to get good ribs. It kinda backfired, because people were asking for Good! ribs, so I still sent them somewhere else.

Tick tock, Disney gator. You meant that, didn't you?

Ooh- don't exclude the minors. Dayton Dragon tickets are very hard to get. We're not talking about ticket sales, we're talking about success. That's something the Dragons have not had. They've only gone to their league playoffs 6 out of 15 years. Never advancing since the semi-finals. A lot of that has to do with the Reds farm system being pretty much junk since they've been in Dayton, but ticket sales does not equal success. You are correct. Still would like to see them. My brother went to their opening day, he was in some renaissance play.... I don't know how he got that outfit, but, he was all meh about it, when I was excited for him. I was like, then hand me that King Arthur outfit and I'll go in drag. Or not. I guess you'd have to see the outfit.

Ooh- don't exclude the minors. Dayton Dragon tickets are very hard to get.

Thanks for the posts to help better understand it.

I'd hate to be the person to Windex that.

Grateful of no casulties( for now, at least), but rueful of the work and rehabilitation upcoming for these poor people. Hopefully the little boy with the damaged hand will get a surgeon as great as mine- there are worse things in the world than having a Billy Quizboy drawing hand. Thirty feet? In nothing but an verted seat? Terrible. I have such a hard time construing what happened in ride accidents, mechanically, due to the individuallty of the rides, themselves. I know the wheels came off, but that doesn't tell me what exactly happened.

I love dark rides, and I love animatronics. To be honest, I'd pay well for a character sheet of Albert for an animation class, but that would be cheating. (such a fool I am to choose monkeys as my subject.)