The Interpreter Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Oh, poo. Terpy, the innocent one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 ..and if THAT ever happens on Flume, well then all is lost, my friend, all is lost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 The list rolls on, and on, and on, like this one guy who got stuck in the Down Under Thunder. I saw a guy get stuck in there too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIfan1980 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 ..and if THAT ever happens on Flume, well then all is lost, my friend, all is lost! It wasn't our flume but Colonel SOB Fan/Bret has a story from his Disney days about THAT in line for Splash Mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Getting the entire beast train singing john jacob jingleheimer schmidt through out the entire ride. (its only been done once in my presence ) during holiwood nights 2011, some guy was singing the spongebob squarepants theme song & got the whole entire gathering of scarecrow scrambler riders to sing along. come to think about it, that same guy did the same thing for bert the conqueror shoot when bert was @ holiday world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbeast1968 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I was on The Racer, a gentleman a few rows up from me lost his ball cap. It flew right past me and I caught it out of mid-air. After the ride was over, I went up to him and said "Did you lose something?" He was shocked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterGeek101 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Use of your cel phone while riding whether texting or talking is both against park rules and downright dangerous to your fellow riders-your phone can fly out of your hands and seriously injure another rider. We have repeatedly discussed this on other threads. oops-just noticed that the poster who said he texts while riding waits for the ride to stop. Sorry I didn't read your post carefully. Was it my post you saw? Yeah, I am not that stupid to text while the ride is going. People do that? On a rough ride it would get knocked out their hands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1 Posted May 27, 2012 Author Share Posted May 27, 2012 Use of your cel phone while riding whether texting or talking is both against park rules and downright dangerous to your fellow riders-your phone can fly out of your hands and seriously injure another rider. We have repeatedly discussed this on other threads. oops-just noticed that the poster who said he texts while riding waits for the ride to stop. Sorry I didn't read your post carefully. Was it my post you saw? Yeah, I am not that stupid to text while the ride is going. People do that? On a rough ride it would get knocked out their hands! See the magic box of cellular devices at the Diamond Back quene, quite the sight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 See the magic box of cellular devices at the Diamond Back quene, quite the sight! I overheard a comment by someone else while at that point in line for DB on Thursday. She pointed out that all of the cell phones in the box are the cheap kind that you can buy at Walmart for prepaid plans. There are no smartphones of any kind in the box that I can see. I suspect KI just bought a bunch of broken phones and tossed them in the box. I don't think those are actual phones lost on DB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 The box filled shortly after Diamondback opened. Phones then in use were much more like the ones now available for prepaid plans. And owners of more expensive devices are more likely to claim them, even if broken/damaged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Good points, but I would still expect to see something like an iPhone (which was first released in 2007) at least once in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Insured. Damaged device necessary to recover. Who would abandon an iPhone? Posted by I from my iPhone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 not to mention, that "box" originated from Firehawk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.S.Coasters Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Kings Island security guards are boss because for whatever reason they were waiting outside of the station for the little punk when he got off the ride. I have no idea how they found out so quickly, but they were there. K.I. security win. I normally just raise my hands and keep quiet, sometimes I'll yell out random crap with friends but otherwise that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioChris Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Especially when its in dark tunnels in the back and when your on a kid ride and start screaming like your freaked out! I'm going to sound like a grumpy old man for this, lol. I, being a father with kids who at one time or another were a little freaked out to try a new ride, really really dislike childish people who do this. You have no idea the amount of coaxing and reassuring it sometimes takes to get a youngster onto a ride (especially a dark ride) just to have all that calm, hard work completely undone because some idiot the next car back decides to "be funny" and scream like hell. Luckily, my youngest isn't afraid of anything, lol. Oh, and yeah, I was one of those stupid, inconsiderate kids that did that before, so I understand why people think it's funny, but it's extremely inconsiderate to other guests with small children on the ride. Time and children really do change a person. If I could, I'd go back and punch myself in the mouth for doing it, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB1 Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 I know what your talking about, my friend does that almost each and every time we go on a ride. I was actually waiting for that kind of responce to see who else has the same ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIfan1980 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Understand that frustration - but also have to admit to having done many a stupid thing on rides in my younger days (things I'd now smack my kids upside the head for doing). Sometimes growing up is just that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 And sometimes well behaved children become unrestrained, immature, inconsiderate adults. I particularly get upset at shrill, pretend shrieking on rides, though the culprit is usually teenage girls. Why they think this is "cute," I have no idea. Such antics often cause headaches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick00 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 I once saw somebody try to get the whole train on Diamondback to do the same pose at the picture. Everybody did it and it was really funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 And sometimes well behaved children become unrestrained, immature, inconsiderate adults. I particularly get upset at shrill, pretend shrieking on rides, though the culprit is usually teenage girls. Why they think this is "cute," I have no idea. Such antics often cause headaches. viking fury match anyone??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Seems to happen mostly on Beast and DB... Friends, family, or a group will get in ques in front and behind us instead of next to each other. Then after the ride starts they will proceed to desperately scream at whoever is on the other side of us to get their attention. I've often told them that they'll be there at the end of the ride to fully discuss what they both experienced 2 minutes earlier instead of screaming directly in our ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveTheSmurfRide Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Okay before I tell my little story I will make a short disclaimer: I know this was potentially dangerous and that it was stupid and that I should have never done it, but hey, I was in high school at the time and as I now scold the youth of America at parks; I know I was just as dumb at the time (as a lot of us were). But anyway, my friends and I were at Cedar Point back in the 90's on a day that was not very crowded. We rode Gemini a lot and liked how you could slap hands with the people in the other trains during the turns. So we decided to take it to the next level. We purchased some plastic swords at one of the gift shops. We then proceeded to ride the Gemini and have a massive sword fight between the trains at each of the turns (massive as in 6 of us total: 3 vs. 3). Not sure if we were seen by the ops, but if we were they never said anything. I know that there was potential for a sword breaking and pieces going into eyes and all of that, but it's a memory I have from a fun time that will never happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 im actually amused by the thought of that spectacle. it almosts makes me giggle just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emileeee Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 While I'm taking the very long, slow journey up Beast's lift hill, I take the time to plan my on-ride photo. Usually I just sit like I'm bored or falling asleep. It's fun to gather with the other people looking at their photos and watch them point to the young adult sleeping on The Beast. The season that DB opened, I was a single rider a lot. I liked (and still do like) pointing at my fellow single rider for the onride photo. Now that I think about it, I try to pose for every single onride photo. Even on rides like Firehawk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWBeast1039 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 On The Beast, some guy kept rambling on about how "that's the original wood from 1979" and "that wood is 35 years old" and "that wood probably rotted 10 years ago." Everything he said didn't make any sense. First off, The Beast isn't 35 years old, it's 33 years old( yes, I am a math nazi). And second off, if it was the original wood, in the Ohio winters and summers it would have rotted a LONG time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveTheSmurfRide Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 I do the same thing emileeee. A buddy and I used to be obsessed with getting crazy ride pictures. Once we brought a couple of these masks onto The Beast: We had them in our shirts until we were going up the hill. Then we put them on, turned out hoodies up and just stared at the camera with our heads slightly turned to one side. Then we took them off and hid them. We liked seeing other peoples' reactions to the photos when they saw us weirdos on there. We also tried riding The Beast with blindfolds on. Crazy experience, though not as nuts as I'm sure the Legend or Voyage would be blindfolded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel_SoB_fan Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 ..and if THAT ever happens on Flume, well then all is lost, my friend, all is lost! It wasn't our flume but Colonel SOB Fan/Bret has a story from his Disney days about THAT in line for Splash Mountain. Thanks Keith I had finally gotten that memory buried deep down inside of me. Time to start burying again. Colonel who is willing to share that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotag Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 We also tried riding The Beast with blindfolds on. Crazy experience, though not as nuts as I'm sure the Legend or Voyage would be blindfolded. going to holiwood nights is bout as close to blindfold as you can get. >;} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIfan1980 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 We also tried riding The Beast with blindfolds on. Crazy experience, though not as nuts as I'm sure the Legend or Voyage would be blindfolded. going to holiwood nights is bout as close to blindfold as you can get. >;} My first ride on Voyage was in the darkness of HWN having never even watched a POV - Wow! When you can't see and don't know what is coming, rides can be amazing experiences! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 I like to get on the first row of Backlot and flail my arms about whilst screaming as if I were about to die as I come out of the billboard tunnel. On many occasions, I have gotten people on the bridge to laugh hysterically. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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