RIPcobra Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Paramount has to many of the same dang rides!!!! I'm sick of it. They make a whole bunch of rides and they keep cloning, and cloning, and cloning. Its really getting on my nerves. Here are some of the rides they have cloned. Vortex Delirium Drop Zone Racer SDATHC Top cats taxi jam Top gun Spongebob 3-d Runaway reptar Wild thornberry's water ride Ghoster Coaster Flight of Fear Yogi's Helicoptors Tombraider These are just the rides they have cloned in our PKI. i haven't even counted the ones in the other parks that have been cloned but here are some of them. Hurler Riochet Berserker Those are the only ones i know. Anyways im really mad!!!! This is getting out of hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italianchef Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 I'm sorry that you feel that way. The cloning of rides/shows/ attractions is not unique to Paramounts Parks. Virtually all theme park operators do the same thing including: Disney Universal Studios Sea World Six Flags That's why you'll be able to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the Magic Kingdom (Florida), Disneyland (California), Tokyo Disneyland (Japan), and Euro Disney (France). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 you think i don't know that!! i know there are a whole bunch of parks that do that....but i want paramount to be unique!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italianchef Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Sorry, I can't help you there. However, should Paramounts Parks ever sell Kings Island to me, I'll do my best to make it unique. I'll make them an offer tomorrow. Does anyone think they'll accept $500 for the park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby_Doo Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Paramount has to many of the same dang rides!!!! I'm sick of it. They make a whole bunch of rides and they keep cloning, and cloning, and cloning. Its really getting on my nerves. Here are some of the rides they have cloned. Vortex Delirium Drop Zone Racer SDATHC Top cats taxi jam Top gun Spongebob 3-d Runaway reptar Wild thornberry's water ride Ghoster Coaster Flight of Fear Yogi's Helicoptors Tombraider These are just the rides they have cloned in our PKI. i haven't even counted the ones in the other parks that have been cloned but here are some of them. Hurler Riochet Berserker Those are the only ones i know. Anyways im really mad!!!! This is getting out of hand. Well sorry it bugs you but at Six Flags St.Louis they have a ride call Scooby -Doo GhostBlasters the mystery of scary swamp and its is TOTALLY different then scooby doo and the haunted castle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars1825 Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Paramount has to many of the same dang rides!!!! I'm sick of it. They make a whole bunch of rides and they keep cloning, and cloning, and cloning. Its really getting on my nerves. Here are some of the rides they have cloned. Vortex Delirium Drop Zone Racer SDATHC Top cats taxi jam Top gun Spongebob 3-d Runaway reptar Wild thornberry's water ride Ghoster Coaster Flight of Fear Yogi's Helicoptors Tombraider These are just the rides they have cloned in our PKI. i haven't even counted the ones in the other parks that have been cloned but here are some of them. Sorry but Vortex, Delirium, Drop Zone, Racer, SDATHC, Taxi Jam, Top Gun, WTRA, Ghoster Coaster, Yogi's Skytours, and TR:TR are all not clones. I'll tell you what rides other parks have that PKI does: Face/Off, Monster, Scrambler, Zypher, Flying Eagles, Shake Rattle and Roll, Congo Falls, Beastie, and probably some other HBL rides. Cloning rides is cheaper for a park and is a wise investment. Just be happy that Six Flags doesn't own PKI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xx2cansamxX Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Vortex has a clone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars1825 Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Vortex has a clone? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenageninja Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Flat rides are usually cloned a lot. Mainly due to the reason that it is hard to customize them. Delirium and TR:TR are flats that are one of a kind for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiSK Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Flat rides are usually cloned a lot. Mainly due to the reason that it is hard to customize them. Delirium and TR:TR are flats that are one of a kind for now. Be prepared for a Cradle of Life clone, and a probable opening of a giant frisbee at another paramount park. Its almost like PKI is the 'guinnea pig' when it comes to new rides. I know we had Drop Zone, and Face / Off first before they were installed at other parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losing Streak Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Delirium hasn't been cloned, but there is a ride named Delirium that is similar at another Paramount Park. SDATHC is completely unique to PKI... Almost every PP has a Scooby Darkride, but ours, for one, is different. Vortex is completely unique. There is a Stand up looper at another PP called Vortex. Our Flight of Fear was built at the exact same time as PKD's, and they are identical to the best of my knowledge. The only clone of Racer is Recar. Tomb Raider is not yet cloned, I think we still have the only GTS. I could go on and on. Also, Drop Zone and Face Off were not firsts. There were plenty of Vekoma Invertigos and Intamin Drop Towers before they were built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 ok maybe Vortex 's track is not the same but the name is taken twice for 2 stand ups. One in Carowinds and the other in Canada wonderland or Great America. and Delirium is copyed in Canada Wonderland and its name is taken for one in Great america. And Drop zone is copyed in PKD and its name is used in Carowinds. And taxi jam is in almost all the parks. And all the rest are all indeed clones. Go to www.pki.com and go to "visit our other parks" and check out the rides in the parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 Do any of you look at this stuff????Look at all the parks including canada wonderland then you'll see what im talking about!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xx2cansamxX Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Yeah, I noticed it. But they are all Paramounts Parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastfreak Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 RIPCobra, you really need to look closer at the detail of the rides and names in Paramount Parks. Lets list shall we: The Racer - true Kings Dominion's Rebel Yell is similar, its not a clone and named different. Beastie - Ours was the first and only by this current name. Other Paramount Parks (from here on out to be PP) have this same ride but are called Scooby... Whatever The Beast - Nothing else like it in the world. Enough said. King Cobra - Though, no longer standing, it was the first of its kind in the US, the first with a loop. The two other PP with them are not clones, they have slightly different layouts from KC, different names and color schemes. The Bat - Well, its gone, it was the first of its kind, enough said. Vortex - Built well before the other two Vortex-es (at PGA and PC) and of completely different type coaster. After Vortex opened KD built Anaconda, with less loops and completely different layout. No clone. Adventure Express - Similar rides to AE, but none in PP Top Cat Taxi Jam - Clearly ours was first and used to have a different name, plus has different, shorter layout Top Gun - Got ours the same year as Great America got theirs. Completely different rides. Flight of Fear - Got ours the same year as KD, so neither was techincally first. Scooby Ghoster Coaster - No other PP has this coaster, others have the same name, not the same style. Face/Off - The first coaster we ever got that wasn't an original (or built at same time...FoF), but different name, different colors. Son of Beast - Nothing else like it, only woodie with a loop, you do the math, but from what I hear not everyone can get the simple stuff Runaway Reptar - The second coaster we got that wasn't an original (SilverStreak at PCW was first), but ours has different name and different color scheme. That was just the coasters in order of being built. Now for the flats, just the big ones: Drop Zone - True other, PP had Drop Zones before us, but they were second generation Intamin Drop Towers, they were not gyro drops like ours. Ours, is taller and through-put is much higher. DZ in KD (new in 2003) is similar, but different since seating ring does not spin. Delirium - No other Giant Frisbee anywhere, yet. Others will probably never have same color or name. Its a first, its great, why shouldn't other parks want it. Tomb Raider - No one else has a giant top spin. No one else has a giant top spin in a box. No one else has a giant ride in a box with huge budda's and named after a blockbuster movie. Now how many out of that list is a clone. 4. Did we have them first? Well 1 of them, 1 was built same year as another, and the other two came after. So out of 17 rides listed 4 are at another park in some way shape or form. I don't see that as PP cloning everything and using Kings Island as the guine pig (sp?). If anything, since PARAMOUNT'S Kings Island is the flag ship PARAMOUNT PARK, they want to make sure they have the best. If it bombed at another park, don't put it in PKI. If it was a smash hit at another park, put it in KI. If they already know the ride is awsome, put it in their park first. PP knows what they are doing. They aren't Six Flags, and they don't copy the same thing time after time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopCabron Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 (edited) Way to show him Beastfreak! Rock On! Although, I'm pretty sure Runaway Reptar was the first kiddie inverted and that PCW does have a giant frisbee (if you go to their site, you can see that they have the same icon that PKI uses for Delirium). I may be wrong on those points though. Correct me if I am. Edited January 1, 1970 by CantStopCabron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastfreak Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 While PCW does have a frisbee, it is from another company and not as tall. PCW calls theirs, Psyclone. The name is written as you see KI write Delirium on their adds, sorta wavy, and their sign is the same way. PCW's version is a Mondial Revolution. So similar but different. KI's holds more people. Ok, well techincally speaking, Rugrat's Runaway Reptar opened a month before Silver Streak at PCW. However, considering they were both opened the same year (roughly the same time) PP did clone the ride, but not the theming of the two. One being bright green and yellow (RRR at KI) and the other blue and black (SS at PCW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 umm excuse me but there is a clone of Delirium in Canada Wonderland made the exact same why. And yeh there tracks maybe different but there nearly the same. So beastfreak i don't care if there a little itsy bit different. The point is having the name put on the different rides or having it recreated in a little bit of different form is nearly the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 And carowinds has a clone of runaway reptar and a clone of WTRA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 (edited) You know, there is no need for two posts in a row. There is something called the "Edit" button that you can use. Here's my $.02 on the subject... out of all of the major park chains there is, I believe Paramount does an extremely good job at not cloning the actual rides. Sure they might use a name over, but who freaking cares? It's not something that I'm going to get all bent out of shape and lose sleep about. At least Paramount doesn't clone the hell out of rides like Six Flags. Edited January 1, 1970 by Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby_Doo Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 (edited) And carowinds has a clone of runaway reptar and a clone of WTRA. WRONG! There Runaway Reptar is Like ours but VERY different! WTRA is VERY different then PKIs! Carowinds is themed different! PKI GOT RUNAWAY REPTAR FIRST JUST LIKE THE WILD THORNBERRYS RIVER ADVENTURE....IF anything CAROWINDS cloned off of PKI! Edited January 1, 1970 by Scooby_Doo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 (edited) umm i went to carowinds yesterday i thinked i'd know it looks just like pki its suspended and it looks very similar. And im not getting bent outta shape. And Sixflags has like a billion parks while paramount only has 5. ohh and Scooby THERE ALL MADE BY PARAMOUNTS!!!!! Edited January 1, 1970 by RIPcobra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby_Doo Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 ALL IAM saying is Some rides are Themed different...than others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopCabron Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Um, the definition of "clone" is something along the lines of "exact replica". If there are any changes, than it's not a freaking clone. Just deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 7, 2003 Author Share Posted July 7, 2003 Cantstopcarbon whats your deal why you always gotta insult people on the forums there is not one forum you don't insult people in. SRY about saying "clone" ok i hate it when they make very similar rides to each other. happy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 There is no way in the world you're 20 years old. This thread proves it. Someone of that age would be able to know that most of the rides you have mentioned are not clones. Just because they have the same name does not mean they are clones. Just because they look the same doesn't mean they have the same layout. If anything, and I mean anything, is different with a coaster/ride they are NOT clones. Stop saying the Delirium at PCW is the same as we got. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME! I can keep going on how stupid this thread is; and how wrong you are. But it seems that's been proven enough already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 i can keep going on about how stupid you are but you don't see me complaining about it. And sry bud im 20 im acting like an idiot to communicate with morons like yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantStopCabron Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 ^^^^ Heh heh heh. Must... hold... back... laughs... I swear I wont say anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPcobra Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 what are you laughing about??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignathan4403 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Cantstopcarbon whats your deal why you always gotta insult people on the forums there is not one forum you don't insult people in. Thought it was Cantstopcabron, a "Clone" is just the same ride, it can have a different name but it will still be Face/Off (Invertigo). Cantstopcarbon is that a mistake or is it Cantstopcabron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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