gigacoaster2k Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 My dad was kind of lost at CP and I'm still not sure of some of the layout. We were looking for a park map everywhere and I was getting irritated because I didn't have one for him. We went on Millennium Force and I heard something papery at my feet. There was a park map by my right foot. When my friend Ben and I were exiting MF, we were the first people off. We were about 3 feet away from the exit doors when 2 of them just blew open, and it wasn't even windy out. Even weirder: On my July 17-18 trip, I had left a pair of shades in one of the MF lockers. When they called ERT night, I was so mad I just straight left the park. When I got back to my hotel room, I found the locker key in my pocket. I went back the next morning, opened the locker, and my shades were gone. I was going up the hill on MF when I heard something plastic slide down at my feet, and there were a pair of shades similar to mine. Ben seems to think there is a Millennium ghost.. and apparently, it likes me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dare-to-fly Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 By all means, keep the Millennium Ghost happy. I've never had anything quite like that happen, but I'm patiently waiting for The Beast to do something weird like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Some times people seem to think you can see two red eyes in the little cave next to The Beast turn around at night. . . . . .or just one when the light is burnt out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigellinus Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Man, I'm trying to think....I haven't really ever had anything creepy happen to me at any park before (and I usually look out for things like that!), expect that I am utterly mind-boggled about all the stuff that flies off of people on El Toro...on virtually every ride I've ever had I've seen shirts and hats and whatever else fly off, and I just can't comprehend how ET continues to run with all the crap that's out there?! But as long as it continues to, I don't worry about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iChase Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Some times people seem to think you can see two red eyes in the little cave next to The Beast turn around at night. . . . . .or just one when the light is burnt out. Heh. That's funny. Sweet addition BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Man, I'm trying to think....I haven't really ever had anything creepy happen to me at any park before (and I usually look out for things like that!), expect that I am utterly mind-boggled about all the stuff that flies off of people on El Toro...on virtually every ride I've ever had I've seen shirts and hats and whatever else fly off, and I just can't comprehend how ET continues to run with all the crap that's out there?! But as long as it continues to, I don't worry about it! Well, there was the time I was waiting patiently in line for Maverick, but my ride was delayed as Maverick had scared the crap out of what looked to be about a 14 year old boy. Literally. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart32 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 At one time there was a smallish amusement park outside Lancaster PA called Dutch Wonderland. In this park was one of the msot unique rides I have ever experienced. It was a simple shack with a door and windows. One would enter the shack to find a long, double-sided (single backed) park like bench on which everbody sat. Then came the trick. The door would close and the "shack" would begin to rotate about the axis of bench. The floor would rotate to the ceiling postion and ceiling (gabled) to the floor for several revolution. You see the bench was fixed in place. Talk about a complete sensation of vertigo all base on perception! No G forces, or speed or motion,nothing!. Just screwy fun based on mixed up visual ques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I once felt like I was sitting still and the world was swinging about me on Delirium (like when standing on a bridge and looking at the river, feeling like the bridge is moving but the water is not...that kind of feeling, only in reverse). Very disorienting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Dutch Wonderland still exists....and so do "Haunted Swings," including one in a very large Six Flags park...but that particular ride did not open this season, as part of the company's strategy for cost reduction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 When I got on The Beast once I felt like I was returning home from a long vacation. Wait, maybe I was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterboy22101 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 When I got on The Beast once I felt like I was returning home from a long vacation. Wait, maybe I was... man beast. what is up with you and The Beast? its a cool ride but thats like all you think about. but i guess i cant blame you. i feel the same way about Flight of Fear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iChase Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 It IS his name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheikra_rocks Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I was in the back row, right side of montu when rider in front of me toward the front of the train lost a hat in the zero-g roll.... I CAUGHT THE HAT! I mean it hit me in the chest, so I hung on to it. So technically it caught me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 A picture is worth a thousand words. I took this one at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 ^ Of course, they must have measured him for height requirements? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I sat like 4 seats behind it. The ride is T2 if anyone has been on it. I was laughing too hard the whole time to even enjoy the ride. I could see both monkey's arms flailing around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigacoaster2k Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 A picture is worth a thousand words. I took this one at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. WHAT THE FREAKIN HECK??!!.. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the funniest thing I've seen in a while! Thanks for the gut-busting laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 man beast. what is up with you and The Beast? its a cool ride but thats like all you think about. No, It's not all I think about. Sometimes I think about Diamondback. Sometimes I think about Vortex, or the Crypt, or Racer, Flight Deck, or Millennium Force, or TTD, or Maverick. But I do think of The Beast a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanofki Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I sat like 4 seats behind it. The ride is T2 if anyone has been on it. I was laughing too hard the whole time to even enjoy the ride. I could see both monkey's arms flailing around. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastersNSich Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I sat like 4 seats behind it. The ride is T2 if anyone has been on it. I was laughing too hard the whole time to even enjoy the ride. I could see both monkey's arms flailing around. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. I needed to reach for my water after reading that Klocke actually rode the same train as the stuffed monkey. I laughed so hard I hiccuped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropZone99 Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I was in the back row, right side of montu when rider in front of me toward the front of the train lost a hat in the zero-g roll.... I CAUGHT THE HAT! I mean it hit me in the chest, so I hung on to it. So technically it caught me? On June 6th. 2007 me and Gnarkiller went to KI, and his hat fell off on Vortex's Batwing, we were sitting in the very front seats and someone in the very back seats caught it. And another time on Firehawk's opening day i was just leaving the main queue to the station and i was talking to some other coaster fanatic that just came from Cedar Point. While we were walking, a train on Firehawk was on the horseshoe turn. Someone's flip-flop fell off and almost hit the little girl but she caught it, and returned it to the owner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 A picture is worth a thousand words. I took this one at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. WHAT THE FREAKIN HECK??!!.. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the funniest thing I've seen in a while! Thanks for the gut-busting laugh! Mr. Shapiro would not be amused. By letting that thing ride, Kentucky Kingdom lost out on TWENTY nickels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailRider Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Actually 40 nickels because there were 2 monkeys on the train... Even worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Except, I suppose, the lockers would not be large enough to contain said beasts! I hope the monkeys enjoyed their rides....they are at least large enough not to get the forward and backward shuffling I now (after becoming a lesser person) experience, as others had told me that they did. When I was a person of stature, I was sufficiently contained within the restraints so as to not experience that horrid phenomenon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 There was a rides manager or something there. The normal ride crew was there, then a SF employee in a different uniform walked up. They asked her if they could put the stuffed animals on the ride, and since there wasn't a long line she said ok. She was watching from the exit and laughing as the train rolled out of the station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigellinus Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 ^^Honestly...in 05 I could have sworn I saw an over-sized stuffed animal riding on Vortex!!! But sadly I have no photographic evidence as proof... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZukoGirl Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 A picture is worth a thousand words. I took this one at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. haha that's awsome... looks like the purple one chocking. Wonder how they did that w/o the ride clerks sayin anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 The ride operators, and supervisor/manager not only allowed it - but in the photo you can see a ride operator actually buckling it in. And tigellinus you may have seen an oversized stuffed animal riding Vortex in late 2005. It was late at night, and I was driving at the time. I could not see the last couple cars. I got the thumbs up from load and unload, and dispatched the train. As it was rolling out of the station, I was counting empty seats - and in the very last row a man was riding next to an oversized Homer Simpson plush. I still have a wallet sized on ride photo of it somewhere. I saw it a few days ago but I can't find it. If it turns up I will scan it and post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rcfreak339 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Well I'm along time visitor at SFKK (26 times this year so far...) and it's not uncommon to see a giant stuffed animal on a ride on days with low crowds... I have seen a Animal on Thunder Run and Greezed Lightnin so far this year, Last year I saw Stuffed animals on Twisted Twins and Thunder Run but never on T2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigellinus Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 And tigellinus you may have seen an oversized stuffed animal riding Vortex in late 2005. It was late at night, and I was driving at the time. I could not see the last couple cars. I got the thumbs up from load and unload, and dispatched the train. As it was rolling out of the station, I was counting empty seats - and in the very last row a man was riding next to an oversized Homer Simpson plush. I still have a wallet sized on ride photo of it somewhere. I saw it a few days ago but I can't find it. If it turns up I will scan it and post it here. Yes, that was it!!!! Totally see if you can find that pic!! When I saw that I was laughing my arse off, but thought, hey, if it fits in the restraints?!....I mean, I'm more appalled when I see little kids riding Vortex whose head's way below the top of the shoulder restraint than seeing a giant stuffed animial/character who does have proper dimensions to ride! (assuming there's not a long line, of course) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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