Amusement Parks and Favorite Rides

Andrew Pearlman

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Oct 23, 1990, 11:38:18 PM10/23/90

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In article <7...@vermont.UUCP> to...@vermont.UUCP () writes:
>1) What's your favorite amusement park?
>Of the ones I've been to, I like Kings Dominion in Virginia. However, I've
>heard that two of the best in the country are in Ohio (why?): Cedar Point and
>King's Island.

Because if you can have sunny weather one minute and rainy weather the next,
the ride had better be *damn* good if you don't want irritated customers. BTW,
the weather seems to like to stay rainy, especially if you are trying to have
fun.(insert as many smileys as you like, your terminal will make more!)

Andy Pearlman

Denise Neapolitan

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Oct 24, 1990, 9:58:53 AM10/24/90

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In article <7...@vermont.UUCP> to...@vermont.UUCP () writes:
>1) What's your favorite amusement park?

I tend to like the crap carnivals that used to show up out of nowhere
every spring. I find permanent amusement parks to be too cutesy.
Part of the fun of a carnival is all the weird people that hang around.

>2) What's your favorite ride?

>"trailer" rides
The tilt-a-whirl --- the most fun you can have legally and morally.
Part of the thrill is whether or not it's going to fall apart whilst
you're tilting and whirling.

>"permanent" rides
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at DisneyLand. You drive through a haystack, get
hit by a train, die, and go to hell. What more can I say?

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Home for the Cooking Impaired

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Oct 24, 1990, 2:08:21 PM10/24/90

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In article <7...@vermont.UUCP>, to...@vermont.UUCP (David Torok) writes:
> Are there people out there besides me who still *really* enjoy amusement parks
> even though most people seem to become indifferent to them as they age?

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> A couple of questions to promote this thread:

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> 1) What's your favorite amusement park?

It's got to be my first love Cedar Point in Sandusky. I started going there
when I was 14 and I still love it. It's a roller coaster paradise.

>
> 2) What's your favorite ride?

It's a tie between the Blue Streak and Gemini. I like the Blue Streak because
you don't have to wear a seat belt (try it while holding your hands in the
air). The Gemini is great for all the twists and turns which have been
built in.

On a related note for the roller coaster officiando's out there in net.land,
which way is best to ride in a roller coaster?

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David C. Barber

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Oct 24, 1990, 4:14:32 PM10/24/90

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My overall favorite place is DisneyWorld. I can spend a week there and enjoy
every minute. Since that's clear across the country from me (while I live
only 2 hours from Disneyland), it is something I only do every 6 to 18 months.

Disneyland comes in second, ans Six Flags Magic Mountain (Valencia, CA)
can't be beat for roller costers.

I visit amusement parks everyplace in the world where I can find them as part
of my travels. My favorite rides:

The Viper and The Revolution at Magic Mountain.

Star Tours (Disneyland/DisneyWorld).

All of EPCOT Center (Disneyworld) with Horizons in particular.

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Russ Cage

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Oct 25, 1990, 4:23:18 PM10/25/90

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In article <1607.2...@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> moh...@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Home for the Cooking Impaired) writes:
>> 1) What's your favorite amusement park?
>It's got to be my first love Cedar Point in Sandusky. I started going there
>when I was 14 and I still love it. It's a roller coaster paradise.

Used to be the same for me, until I found fluid freedom (and financial
bondage, but that's another story)....

>> 2) What's your favorite ride?
>
>It's a tie between the Blue Streak and Gemini. I like the Blue Streak because
>you don't have to wear a seat belt (try it while holding your hands in the
>air). The Gemini is great for all the twists and turns which have been
>built in.

I've done that on the Blue Streak. Gemini blows so much wind in your
face it's hard to appreciate the ride itself. You really need the cap,
goggles and silk scarf to get anything out of Gemini.

But both of them pale in comparison to aerobatics. A roller coaster
cannot do anything which an airplane can't, and the airplane can match
the coaster's bag of tricks and more... And the cap, goggles and scarf
certainly are appropriate!

On a 'coaster, the risk is all 100% (well, 99+%) in your head. In the
air, the 4-point restraints, the mandatory parachutes, and the doors
which part company with the airplane with the tug of a "D" ring let
you know deep down in your gut that this is *serious* fun.

Plus, you don't have to wait in line for the next twist & thrill spell. ;-)

One of these days I'm going to learn taildraggers so I can rent Citabrias.
Cessna Aerobats are *so* limited.
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Peter C. Macko

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Oct 25, 1990, 9:20:11 PM10/25/90

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moh...@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Home for the Cooking Impaired) wrote:

>On a related note for the roller coaster officiando's out there in net.land,
>which way is best to ride in a roller coaster?

Upside down with a cherished partner of course. :-)

till next time,

-Pete
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Greg Skinner

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Nov 2, 1990, 5:05:20 PM11/2/90

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My favorite amusement park is a water-ride park in Vernon, NJ. I
enjoy water rides much more than amusement park rides (although I like
rollercoasters a lot). I like water slides, especially when the slide
drops you into a pool.

They also had these little carts that ran down an "alpine slope"
(actually a ski slope -- the park doubles as a ski resort in the
winter). I wish I had gone on the really fast slope but I was not
sure if I could control the cars.

--gregbo

Greg Skinner

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Nov 2, 1990, 4:58:18 PM11/2/90

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Zachary T Frey

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Nov 3, 1990, 4:43:57 PM11/3/90

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Actually, I don't really have a favorite amusement park. There are a lot
of good ones out there. I *do* have a favorite kind of ride, though.
ROLLER COASTERS! Any of them. Favorites among those include the Magnum
Force at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio and the Z-Force at Six Flags
Great America in Gurnee, Ill. And one of the best ways to enjoy them is
every day. When I was working at Six Flags in Gurnee some years back,
park policy allowed employees in free as often as they liked. Some
friends and I used to meet up after work and ride the coasters once or
twice before going home when the park wasn't too crowded.

And speaking of coasters, there is a new kind of coaster in development
right now which looks like it should be interesting. The cars will use
two sets of wheels, one above and one below the track. Which wheels are
in use can be changed at whim. Makes for a real tight corkscrew effect.
Does anyone know if and when and, more importantly, where such a coaster
is being or will be built? I can't wait to try this one out.

Diana McQuillen
I may like speed, but chocolate is still #1.

Tigger

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Nov 6, 1990, 12:13:24 AM11/6/90

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My favorite park is Disneyland (real original, eh?). For favorite ride I'd
probably have to pick Space Mountain. Something about those tight turns in
the dark... Running a _very_ close second, or maybe even taking first,
would be Viper at Magic Mountain. Damn thing drops you twenty stories at
about seventy-five degrees while turning about one hundred and sixty degrees,
and then turns you upside-down seven times, all in less than a minute.
Oh boy.

Greg Orman And remember, you don't have to
gr...@pomona.claremont.edu be a menace to society to win!
gr...@pomona.bitnet - Damon Killian, host of The Running Man

Maddox Cox

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First post in THIRTY TWO YEARS!

songbird

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Nov 21, 2022, 4:58:17 PM11/21/22

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Maddox Cox wrote:
> First post in THIRTY TWO YEARS!

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Answering the thread question - favorite park is likely Dollywood. It has one of everything lmao. Favorite ride - Lightning Rod. I geniunely thought, at one point, that I'd fly out of the cars. Awesome ride.

Mega WeedMarket

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