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CTBill
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| AMD wrote: | | ...idiot reached out and pushed the emergency stop button just because he thought it was funny. |
Wot!? They didn't have those when I was a kid. Once you were strapped in, you were strapped in for the long haul, haha!
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AMD
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:24 am Post subject: |
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This button was on the side of the coaster and a person can reach out to it. I don't think it is for us to push, but he did. Scared the crap out of me, even though i knew it was deliberately pushed. I kept thinking it was going to crash or get stuck way up high.
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glider18
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: roller coasters |
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Roller Coasters---that was my biggest special intense interest as a child. I still love them immensely. By the time I was in high school, I had memorized the statistics for every roller coaster in North America. Mom and Dad always took me past amusement parks on vacations so I could ride them. I am also partly responsible for getting the Swamp Fox wooden roller coaster at Myrtle Beach's Family Kingdom (Grand Strand back then) amusement park ranked in the top ten. In my quest, I have managed to get three original blueprints for 1920s roller coasters.
*Thunderbolt (1921-1930)---Revere Beach, Massachusetts
*Thriller (1926-1928)---Fort Dodge, Iowa
*Spiral Dips (designed 1928)---for Orange Grove Park, Newburgh, New York---but never built. These are on linen paper and are in the actual penmanship of the designer.
Sorry---I'm getting carried away  .
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EnglishInvader
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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I love going to theme parks/riding roller-coasters when I get the chance. It's been about ten years since I visited Alton Towers, but I went to Thorpe Park with the YMCA a couple of years ago.
If you ever go to Cyprus, be sure to visit the Wet and Wild water theme park. Fantastic!
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ALacount
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: rollercoasters |
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| I personaly hate them, it's the lack of controll. I would happily clime a 200foot cliff without ropes, but I wouldn't absail from a 20m wall if someone else was controlling the rope... I hate the feeling in my stomach when you go down stuff though I would probably like one if i actiually wento n it, but i would be very scared before the drop. It's like the tarzan swing at goape. beofre hand i was scared, during it i thought... HELL YEAH!!!! |
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Azharia
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I love any kind of rollercoasters!! |
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elderwanda
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Roller coasters give me the worst nausea ever. I'm prone to all kinds of motion sickness, I'm afraid. Imagine the feeling you'd get if you were to eat a large plateful of bad seafood and washed it down with a tall glass of peppermint Schnapps and a strong coffee. And then got kicked in the stomach by a particularly foul-smelling camel.
That's how roller coasters make me feel.
So, no. I avoid them with great gusto. |
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Tim_Tex
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I like the stomach dips I get from when the coaster descends rapidly.
I haven't been one in days though, mainly because amusement parks are so expensive, despite Fiesta Texas being only 45 minutes away.
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EnglishInvader
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| Tim_Tex wrote: |
I haven't been one in days though, mainly because amusement parks are so expensive, despite Fiesta Texas being only 45 minutes away. |
In Cyprus, everything is a lot cheaper. Plus they don't have the same safety regulations as fully-developed countries so the rides are a lot more fun!
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