bwware Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I went to the park today just to check out the new elevators on the tower. Got there about 1:00pm and headed right for the tower. Walked inside the elevator. VERY shiny, but the control panal looks old. Am I correct in saying that the NEW elevator has the OLD control panal in it? Or is the only thing new about it the shell? At any rate, I get to the top and look straight over to The Racer/FoF to see if I can see any action going on. Nothing! I do however see the sad remains of one of my all time favorite rides, King Cobra, just laying out there collecting dust! Very sad. I loved that ride! What is that white thing laying out in the field just straight of The Racer turn around? Keeps getting bigger everytime I go! I snap a bunch of pics for about 15-20 mins and head over to The Beast. On my first ride of the day, someones hight stick fell over and into the train as it was taking off. Luckly, it bounced right back out and onto the platform floor!! If that stick had fallen the wrong way, it could have gotten wedged in the car and the gate and caused some serious trouble! I noticed the next time around, the ride op stuck her stick IN the closet until she needed it instead of OUTSIDE of it so the same thing wouldnt happen again! That just could have been really bad!! 4 rides later, there was a wait so that they could take train #1 out of commision for the time being. I think I noticed in that train earlier that there was a "Please Choose Another Seat" banner attached to the one of the seats. My guess is they pulled out that train to fix that seat restraint. So one trip up the tower and 5 trips into the woods later, I decided to call it a day. I got my fiirst Blue Cone of the season, watched the live band play at the Gumps and went home! Short but Sweet! I really need to move CLOSER to that place! Pics of the day can be found right here. Sorry, but in my hurry to get the pics up, I think I uploaded some doubles. Sorry about that! Thanks for reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Very Nice Pictures, I am glad to see King Cobra is still there, the track over by Son of Beast is still there too. I wonder what that white thing is over by Racer/beast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeliriumDreamer Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Those are really awesome pics! I know I havn't been on the Eiffel Tower for a few years now, but as I looked at those pictures I wondered, how in the world did you get those awesome closeups? I mean, you have close ups of some rides in HB land, and I don't think you can see it too well from the tower... Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwware Posted April 18, 2004 Author Share Posted April 18, 2004 I never was very fond of the zoom on my other 3 Kodak digital camers, but since I was at the top of the tower, I thought I would give my 4th Kodaks zoom a chance and I was pretty happy with the results! Had I known the zoom would treat me this way, I would have started using it a long time ago! Thanks for the kind words! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 How much zoom did the camera you used to take these pics have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMBryan Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 those are some really nice pics. i dont know what is going on back past racer. i might have to check that out the next time im in the park as a guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixFlagsMasta Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 hey..what happened to the clock by the tower? it's like not there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMBryan Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 they dont plant it until the weather stays warm...believe me it will be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwware Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 My Kodak DX4530 has a 3Xoptical zoom and a 3.3Xadvanced digital zoom. I never turn the digital zoom on since it makes the pictures look like pure crap IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ Kinda Guy Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 i dont know what is going on back past racer. i might have to check that out the next time im in the park as a guest You don't know what is going on back behind Racer? How about uhmmm... NOTHING. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYoung2003 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 I have no idea what you people are talking about. I dont see a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearsedriver007 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 nothing is going up behide The Racer. thats the road that leads back to the grave yard. that was the road you walked down to get to the haunted trail at fearfest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI_Diana Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Got there about 1:00pm and headed right for the tower. Walked inside the elevator. VERY shiny, but the control panal looks old. Am I correct in saying that the NEW elevator has the OLD control panal in it? Or is the only thing new about it the shell? Hey It's Di again, one of the Eiffel Tower sups. You are correct in saying the panel is the same, they lifted it out of the old vader and put it into our new ones. Basically it was the "shell" that was replaced, the cables and counterweights are the same. That shinyness is going to drive me up the wall, needs to be cleaned like every hour...lol....at least every night. The outside doors are the same. However things that are different include: new speakers, new aircondition, new "shell", fire extonguishers, digital floor read out (wouldnt it be cool if it tracked feet instead? Boo on the new one!) and some other stuff that guests can't view in the generator room and engine room. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwware Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 Well, what I am looking at (and I am SURE it is nothing) is this white square in center of this picture. A week or so ago when I rode the forward racer for the first time this season, that white square was just an outline with some pegs sticking out of the ground. Now it is a solid white square as if something has been done to it since the last time I visited. The best place to see it is on The Racer going forward. At the turn-around, look to your right side, you cant miss it! Now I am not trying to start any stuff here. I just happend to notice something off in the field that keeps getting bigger everytime I visit! Thats all! Ever Onward, Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CYoung2003 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Its nothing people. Nothing. Trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastfreak Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Beast mid course break run.... shinny roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopThrillDragster Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Yeah your right that is The Beast midcourse breaks shed. I wish it was something going on though but it isnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopThrillDragster Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 I went up in the tower today Sat 24 and the park looked great! It was pretty crowded though. The new elevators are tight. I didnt see any construction going on at all so that sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Great pictures, hopefully I'll go up there sometime soon. Not to keen at being up in the air all that long. You're absolutely right on digital zoom. It doesn't actually zoom, it just makes the pixels bigger so they're very blurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwware Posted April 25, 2004 Author Share Posted April 25, 2004 Great pictures, hopefully I'll go up there sometime soon. Not to keen at being up in the air all that long. Just like me! I went to the top of crew tower today downtown and my knees were giving out on me! I can go on the highest coaster in the world and it would not scare me a bit, but put me up on the highest building in downtown cincinnati and I just want to leave! FAST! Same way with the tower at PKI. It takes me a few mins once I am on the top to get myself adjusted, but sooner or later I am good to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Sad thing is, I wanna be a pilot. I'm fine on Drop Zone once I get used to it. I probably wouldn't mind being up on the Eiffel Tower or Carew Tower, because I used to live in Chicago and well, they got some big buildings that I've been up in. I'm actually hoping to get up in a plane or helicopter this year and take aerial photos of PKI. I'll just have to see about that though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopThrillDragster Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Chicago is a awesome city! Go CUBS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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