Holiwood Nights

[Bmar]

Is it me or is there little interest in the Holiday World event this
year or for that matter the past 2 years. I have not seen any posts
about attendance for this years events here or within any other
coaster related sites. Has interest in this and other coaster/park
events gone away from the coaster community?

[GodsOnSafari]

Lower traffic here = less discussion about events. Plus a lot of
people here are the kinda fogies who've been around and don't
necessarily go to every event anymore. I'm sure it will be well
attended though.

[Mark Rosenzweig]

Where there is unlimited fudge and pizza, coaster enthusiasts shall
gather. Typing these words and/or discussing this fact on RRC does
not change this fact.

[Jonathan H]

I don't think the attendance has dropped, but rather a lot of the people who go don't post as much or at all online anymore. RRC continues to hang on by a thread refusing to die, but the big coaster forum site out there these days isn't really the place where a lot of the people who attend events like Holiwood Nights and ACE events want to post. It's unfortunate that there isn't a popular forum that is less polarizing with less in your face and controversial management, but that's the way it's been the last several years.

[GodsOnSafari]

If you're old enough to remember RRC's heyday - and you are, I am, and
Mark is - then the need for a "coaster community" has been reduced a
great deal because more than likely you've built a group of friends
and now you can talk about them IRL or on Facebook or whatever. RRC is
never going to be what it used to be, it will only be what people make
of it in the present. Mark McKenzie isn't going to start writing TRs
again. Hell, he doesn't even visit amusement parks anymore, far as I
know. Chris Lucht isn't going to make more buttons. Mamoosh, god rest
his soul, is dead. So are other posters from the past ranging from
Steve Urbanowicz to Pink Floyd Fanatic. If people want to make RRC an
online community that they deem worth their time with a high level of
discussion, its on them to come here and post or go somewhere else and
try the same thing. Otherwise it is just a bunch of bitching.

[Jonathan H]

That's true. Most of my coaster talk is on Facebook these days, though if I want to find out the latest on some new ride or know what's going on in areas where I don't have friends into coasters I have to browse over to certain other sites...

[GodsOnSafari]

> That's true.  Most of my coaster talk is on Facebook these days, though if I want to find out the latest on some new >ride or know what's going on in areas where I don't have friends into coasters I have to browse over to certain other sites....

Well, its like this - Robb wouldn't have a website with crazy traffic
if he didn't put in work. There had to be content - lots of content -
and that drove all the people to come look at what he did and inspired
a billion copycats. I certainly wouldn't say he invented that style of
trip report on the internet but he's been doing it for as long as I
can remember even back when photos were real bandwidth and it took
awhile to get the page to load umpteen billion years ago. But people
like it, they prefer it, they go there for it. If there's something
about that which bothers you. So if you want to maybe see another
place have discussion aside from it, then you're going to have to help
that along by doing something about it yourself. Otherwise, just read
Robb's site and don't be a carelord.

[GodsOnSafari]

On Jun 1, 4:39 pm, GodsOnSafari <godsonsaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's true.  Most of my coaster talk is on Facebook these days, though if I want to find out the latest on some new >ride or know what's going on in areas where I don't have friends into coasters I have to browse over to certain other sites....
>

OK I fucked that up in my first response a little. Let me shorten this
- If it means something to you to have a coaster community without
Robb, do something about it and maybe one day you can have your dream
community. Start here and now if you so desire. Or stop catching
feelings and just use his forum for the repository of content that it
is, post at will, whatever.

[Dave Althoff Jr.]

Mark Rosenzweig <marksc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Where there is unlimited fudge and pizza, coaster enthusiasts shall
> gather. Typing these words and/or discussing this fact on RRC does
> not change this fact.

Actually the fudge is limited. To get the fudge you have to present the
meal ticket. For under-baked pizza, you merely show up to the event.

Judging from the attendance tonight at ERT, I'd say there's plenty of
interest. And it is worth noting that the Voyage is running
particularly well this season, with *all* of the nastiness on the first
three hills very nicely smoothed out, and the seventh car on each train
returned to service!

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[Mark Rosenzweig]

On Jun 2, 3:05 am, dalloff.gcfn....@sbcglobal.net (Dave Althoff Jr.)
wrote:

> Mark Rosenzweig <markscottr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Where there is unlimited fudge and pizza, coaster enthusiasts shall
> > gather.  Typing these words and/or discussing this fact on RRC does
> > not change this fact.
>
> Actually the fudge is limited. To get the fudge you have to present the
> meal ticket. For under-baked pizza, you merely show up to the event.
>
> Judging from the attendance tonight at ERT, I'd say there's plenty of
> interest.  And it is worth noting that the Voyage is running
> particularly well this season, with *all* of the nastiness on the first
> three hills very nicely smoothed out, and the seventh car on each train
> returned to service!
>

Interesting then that I too rode Voyage tonight. Except it wasn't
Voyage. And I was in Corfu, NY.

[Andrew Brawley]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 06:02:38 -0700 (PDT), Mark Rosenzweig <marksc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I'm here now. Voyage is screamin'! Many of the usual suspects are here. Tape at
eleven.

[Dave Althoff Jr.]

Mark Rosenzweig <marksc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting then that I too rode Voyage tonight. Except it wasn't
> Voyage. And I was in Corfu, NY.

A pale imitation. The REAL Voyage doesn't have headrests.

(Saw the photos and can't believe they did that to those cars!)