4th Dimension Coasters

Thursday, October 16 2053

So I have 51 more years, I need to start planning now ;)

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Coming in 2003-The Spawn Of Magnum!

Saturday, August 4, 2074. I'm going to live to be 100...that rocks!

Is that the optimistic mode Dawn?

Mine was normal. I am only gonna be 73 :(

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Coming in 2003-The Spawn Of Magnum!

Yes, my glass is half full.

Sept 10, 2070

.....A day before my birthday. Well I guess I will be partying well into my old age, mayhaps too much for my 91st.

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rollergator said:

...it IS nice to know that even when I'm not *on patrol* that things here at the BatCave are well taken care of.....

That's why I nominated her, Gator! Even when the Board is Mooshless, Chrisless, Gatorless, Nasailess, and mostly Bassless, Dawn is fighting the good fight (along with Magnum). Rock on, Dawn!

Bass - 8/5/66-5/16/40...1,177,571,478 seconds to go

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*** This post was edited by BaSSiStiSt on 1/21/2003. ***

DAWN = K3WL!!11!

w00t!

Glad to see I get a small mention ;)

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1989, 9 years old bawling my eyes out because I didn't want to ride Magnum. I did anyway and look at me now. Why did ya make me do it Dave? ;)

Bass: did you leave one of your fellow CPG members off the list? I was under the impression that nasai was on the team too. ;)

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dawnmarie313 said:
Bass: did you leave one of your fellow CPG members off the list? I was under the impression that nasai was on the team too.

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You know, when I typed that at work today, something looked wrong with it, but I could not for the life of me figure it out. Glad someone's on the case!

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Mike Miller

Elect Dawnmarie313 to the CBPG...Vote early, vote often!

Of course I had to go and check *sadistic mode*....looks like '03 will be my final farewell to SRM and HW....all you *delinquents* had better show, since I may not make it to another....

bill, saying April 18, '04 is just too soon....at least I get to see *God* first....I'm going towards the light of Coaster...;)

hmm...would have pegged you for an optimist...apparently I have a lot to learn.

Next year, gator? That *is* soon.

04/13/24 for me.

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'I feel it coming on again just like it did before. They feed your pride with boredom and they lead you on to war.' - The Soft Boys 'I Wanna Destroy You.'

October 26, 2023 ("pessimist")

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--Oat Boy
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Saturday, October 9, 2060 for me...on Normal mode. I will be only 79 years old...thats too young to die :( I dare not try sadistic mode then! :)

You guys kill me. The GP is having a great time on X. I do believe that besides the extended closing of X over the summer, Xcelerator has had just as much if not more down time than X. I guess you can expect the same problems on Dragster. Take it from someone that lives in SoCal...the problems with X seem much more significant if you're 2000 miles away and never had a chance to ride. Otherwise, you'd realize that the chance to ride X is worth all the down time, at least for me and many others.

Here's what I don't get. On X they have a large tubular strongbacl, two tubular running rails and two tubular X rails. That's five tubes!

What would make more sense, at least to me, is to use a triangular truss, kinda like intamin. I'm sure they don't have a patent on truss track, because a truss is such a basic engineering structure. Anyway, this truss track would be inverted from your normal intamin style, with the flat bits on the bottom. The depth of the truss makes your (single) X rail. The rotation of the two sides is locked together (single shaft for all 4 seats) and driven from the truss in the center. That's only three tubes. The depth would of course go from some minimum structural depth to a couple feet more, whatver was needed by the rotations. it just seems like this wuld be MUCH easier to build, and cheaper to boot. I mean, honestly, why can the sides rotate independently? If they can't why are there two X rails?

Coma

Thought about it some more, and your X rail would have to be oblong, or double, so as to get upstops under it. So edit tat to be box track. Everything else holds

*** This post was edited by Comatose on 1/21/2003. ***

dawnmarie, they didn't have a setting for an *optimistic Sadist*....otherwise, I'd have been all set! I mean, c'mon who ELSE rides Psyclone just to enjoy the pain...;) I was even thinking of buying stock in Gerstlauer, lol....

Believe me, I'll fight for my right....to par-tay! Beastie Boys meet Bart Simpson....:)

bill, hoping to be around for SRM1K....shoot, I'm aiming for 3004!

Bill and the *Optimistic Sadists* That is definitely a band name. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) Psyclone wasn't running on my recent trip to CA.

I'm an extreme pessimist. I will die next week.

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