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Charles Manson writes "I'm sure you and your readers have already heard about this evil monster, but I just stumbled upon a fantastic review of it. Cedar Point has always been an innovator, but god damn, this thing is just sick. I'm glad I only live a hundred miles away becuase I'll be practically living there this summer. My favorite quote of the article is 'If Hell has thrill rides, this brilliantly evil machine should be one of them.'" We mentioned the Cedar Point coaster earlier. The best parts of roller coaster riding are the little surreal notes, i.e. looking over the side and seeing 500 hats on the ground below.
I mean, this just got posted, no replies to it yet, and the damn thing's already slashdotted. Ye gods... is it a slow Friday and everyone's got nothing better to do than wait for a new link to pounce on?
I think it opens a bit earlier for the season. All the rides were open and there were around 4 minute waits at most.
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These stupid go straight up then straight down and thats it coasters are just lame, and the speed or height doesn't impress me. They're boring as hell. You wait in line for 2 or 3 hours, go fast for 2 or 3 seconds, and the rides over.
Give me more giant wooden behemoths with hills and twists and corkscrews, and a track that rattles your brain loose from your skull.
THAT's a rollercoaster. This is just theme park owners comparing wangs to attract customers.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
You noticed that too? By no means am I a christian, or even moral person but I do find that, well not offensive, but unprofessional. I realize the obscenities are the quickest route to display above-average enthusiasm, but it does more harm than good. Especially if you have an audience as demographically wide-spread as slashdot.
Why? Why is it great that there is a 30second ride that people wait on line for over an hour for?
Its great because while those schmucks are online for the new "uber coaster" the line for the slightly-less ubercoaster has 4 people on it, and you can ride it over and over and over again!
Bigger,faster,better coasters are great because that lets me ride all the other ones without the crazy lines.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Superman The Escape (Six Flags Magic Mountain) is tied with Tower of Terror (Dreamworld, Australia) for the #2 drop at 328' 1", and the Steel Dragon 2000 is 4th, at (exactly) 306' 9".
Similarly, Superman the Escape is #2 at 415' tall and Tower of Terror is 377' 4" tall, putting Steel Dragon 2000 in 4th again, with 318' 3"
Dodonpa (Japan) is #2 at 106.9 mph, Superman The Escape and Tower of Terror are tied at 100 mph, and the Steel Dragon 2000 returns for #5 at 95 mph.
Not sure about angle of descents, but there are a few tied at 90 degrees, and its hard to get much steeper than that!
The longest steel coaster is Steel Dragon 2000, at 8133' 2". Daidarasaurus (Japan) is #2 at 7677' 2" , and Millennium Force (Cedar Point) is #5 at 6595'.
And though I'm not certain, I'm pretty sure the Colossus (Thorpe Park, England) has the most inversions, with a twin corkscrew, vertical loop, cobra roll, and five zero-g heart rolls. Sounds fun.
And yes, those are only the steel records...didn't check all the wooden records against them.
Cedar Point has looked into some sort of "fastpass" system, but ran into a couple of problems. Most notably, the weather. It could look like the nicest day in the world when all of the sudden it rains. This adds to the delays. The other problem is ride breakdowns. Another poster noted that the ride broke down for 1/2 an hour. Since the Dragster is rated at around 1,500 people an hour, that's 750 people that you have to try to get back into the cue. Just think of the rain lasting 30 minutes, then another 1 hour before the ride is dry enough to ride. You'd have 2,250 people getting pretty ticked.
What, me worry?
LOL On one of the cedar point boards I post on, they joke about these rumors all the time. Do you honestly think Cedar Point would spend ungodly amounts of money on these roller coasters to have them sink? Its absurd.
I'm going to create my own nerd website, with blackjack.. and hookers.. In fact, forget the site
I've got a pretty full life too. At the same time, though, I try to look for new types of stimulation, new experiences. I want to watch the sunrise from a mesa in the desert, I want to feel the wind rush over me as I hurtle down a roller coaster, I want to feel the rush after completing a 20 mile day hike. What's the point of living if you're just going to do the same things over and over again?
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