kong fu guy Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I was thinking about if you got on Drop Zone and rode to the top and suddely your seat lings forward and they drop you like that What do you think?? I think it would be cool faceing the ground from 300feet and droping like that and close to 50 feet your seats go back up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Player Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Acrophobia at SFOG does that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That's very true. Call me crazy, but I hang on for dear life on DZ, let alone being at the mercy of my OTSR. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxrunner Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Thats the first post of yours that i have read and havent said wow what a goofball. I like the idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
familyman Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 DZ is a great ride. I like the idea about tilting the seats. Anyone else get off that ride and your legs have pins and needles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Acrophobia not only falls forward, but it is a stand up Gyro Drop Tower. You sit on a bicycle style seat with your legs dangling. Then it falls forward for the drop. Intamin does make them - and I think it would be coof if we had it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Foodguy Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That is an awesome idea! And yes, my legs do feel like pins and needles when I get off. But personally I don't ride DZ anymore...it scares me. Anyone else notice its slow self destruction over the years? First they stopped spinning it. Then it got slower and slower going up the first part of the ride. Then it got slower going up the majority of the ride. Now its slow the whole way, and super slow right before it gets close to the top. And it may just be me, but do the brakes catch you sooner than they used to? In either case, DZ scares me, the leaning seats would really freak me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow2k3 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Actually, it had a broken part last season that made it unable to spin. It was fixed near the end of it and it does spin. Though I'm not sure about the speed. ~S~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRTR Guy Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 And it may just be me, but do the brakes catch you sooner than they used to? In either case, DZ scares me, the leaning seats would really freak me out. How can the brakes catch you any sooner, there permanant magnetic brakes. Also it now spins again, however it doesn't do the complete spin at the top like it did in 1999, but theres a reason for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrocoasterkid Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Well that idea would be down right scary on Drop Zone. Yes, Acrophobia does this, but the tower is only in the lower 200 foot range tall, so the drop is even less... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Rider Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That's very true. Call me crazy, but I hang on for dear life on DZ, let alone being at the mercy of my OTSR. lol ok... CRAZY!! i love riding DZ, well i rode it twice, I have ridden TRTR 3 times, and i was freaked out on it, i love it but wow the OTSR reliance there is crazy! at least its not Lap bars on TRTR, that would be killer pain on the legs!!!! wow ha ha I have never seen a 90 tilt on those, ive seen a 45 tilt, but thats about it... its a neat thing really, but to retrofit DZ to it would be ridiculous, which i know was really never mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeliriumDreamer Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 It would scare the sh*t out of me, but I would be likely to try it anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That is a cool idea and would make the ride much scarier than it really is but I dont think theyd retro-fit it, it would probably be more cost efficent with matinence to just make a new ride. But I would LOVE to ride something like what Kong Fu Guy mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great America Guy Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I rode Acrophobia back in March of 2004, and when we rode, we didn't even notice the "tilt-out" I don't know if there was something wrong with it that day, but whatever tilt we had, it wasn't enough to make any difference. Drop Zone would be awesome with this sort of idea, and I would give anything to try that out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenban Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 The tilt out is only 15 degrees thats why I don't think you noticed it. It really is quite minor just enough to notice it for most people and thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Rider Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 It would scare the sh*t out of me, but I would be likely to try it anyways. me too, most definitely!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great America Guy Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 The tilt out is only 15 degrees thats why I don't think you noticed it. It really is quite minor just enough to notice it for most people and thats it. Yeah thats why. I couldn't remember if it was 15 or 20 degrees for the tilt. Now 45 degrees like mentioned before would be killer!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kong fu guy Posted April 5, 2005 Author Share Posted April 5, 2005 LOL... It came to me in a dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 That would scare the crap out of me. My legs also feel like pins and needles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubaman Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 I have a hard enogh time gettin myself on DZ. And thats with out a tilt. Our school band went to KI last year (the only time i got ot go last year), and my friends and I were gonna ride all the huge rides and stuff. We rode The Beast 4 times in a row, and The Racer a couple of times. I was hard because if there was a long wait, we couldnt go. We had to check in with Mrs. Browing every so often. Anyways, that would be cool. I think Delerium should go all the way around, although I'm not sure if its possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Delirium is fine the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kong fu guy Posted April 6, 2005 Author Share Posted April 6, 2005 I have a hard enogh time gettin myself on DZ. And thats with out a tilt. Our school band went to KI last year (the only time i got ot go last year), and my friends and I were gonna ride all the huge rides and stuff. We rode The Beast 4 times in a row, and The Racer a couple of times. I was hard because if there was a long wait, we couldnt go. We had to check in with Mrs. Browing every so often. Anyways, that would be cool. I think Delerium should go all the way around, although I'm not sure if its possible. Well if delerium went all the way around we be in big truble..... Right now its pushes hard on your body and it only goes half way...Now think about if you go all the way. WE BE water lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 OMG I was totally thinking the same thing about tilting the seats. What would be really sweet would be if you were dropped individually. Like you all go up together, but then people just start to randomly fall. I haven't every felt the "pins and needles" thing on DZ but have on FO. Has come they dont spin it at the top anymore? My guess would be b/c of the already low capacity and the extra spin would lower it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Rider Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 I have a hard enogh time gettin myself on DZ. And thats with out a tilt. Our school band went to KI last year (the only time i got ot go last year), and my friends and I were gonna ride all the huge rides and stuff. We rode The Beast 4 times in a row, and The Racer a couple of times. I was hard because if there was a long wait, we couldnt go. We had to check in with Mrs. Browing every so often. Anyways, that would be cool. I think Delerium should go all the way around, although I'm not sure if its possible. Well if delerium went all the way around we be in big truble..... Right now its pushes hard on your body and it only goes half way...Now think about if you go all the way. WE BE water lol. Delirium Performs a 240 degree pendulum swing, it is excellent, and is the way you get the airtime thrills on it, if it went all the way around, like SFStL's Excalibur, man, we would be in a world of hurt... it isnt even fun i hear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenban Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Yeah thats why. I couldn't remember if it was 15 or 20 degrees for the tilt. Now 45 degrees like mentioned before would be killer!! You know I have never heard of a ride that tilts you out 45 degrees. The 15 is it as far as I know. Its done this way to keep your weight in the seat rather then on the OTSR system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ Kinda Guy Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Anyone else notice its slow self destruction over the years? First they stopped spinning it... Now its slow the whole way...And it may just be me, but do the brakes catch you sooner than they used to? Wrong, Wrong and uhmmm WRONG!...Please know what your talking about before you open up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlopez Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Duh, I don't think anything has changed about DZ, has it ? except for it getting new restraints. Jennifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ Kinda Guy Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Many things have changed on Drop Zone. However, it was due to maintenance reasons and not just for hell of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoor Man Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 OK, I know this is a PKI post site, so I apologize for the posting of a non-PKI ride, but if you want to terrify the crap out of yourself, there is a near free-fall ride in Las Vegas at the top of the Stratosphere hotel where you get into a roller coaster type car and and get rolled into suspension some 900 feet above the ground. I didn't ride it but got paniced just watching it. I don't even ride DZ. That would just send me into cardiac arrest anyway, but the posts got me thinking about it. sorry, back to pki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kong fu guy Posted April 6, 2005 Author Share Posted April 6, 2005 No i'm saying that if the seats tilt out all the way were you will have all your wight on it and drop at once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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