Getting Almost Run Over By a RollerCoaster

They are illusions! You honestly think this would be real?

If the illusion fails I only see one good thing out of this: a new idea for a PPP costume.

~Rob Willi

"The best way to prove if it was legitimate or not would be to have an audience witness the event... that's only common sense."

Unless your David Blaine. He hires people to appear on his shows to act surprised and shocked or whatever. I've seen ads in the back of Magic magazine. I myself, am a magician and don't do stunts or illusions. I am into close-up magic or what is called street magic. I think everyone knows it's fake. The fun is in believing it's real.

^Exactly.

You would be amazed who hires "audience members" to play into the whole thing.

I went to a talk show AND an infomercial while in college (to observe for a communications class I was taking). Both had several audience members that were "hired" to act the way they told them to.

Both were a blast a very educational, plus we got free food (and a free juicer for attending the infomercial.....lol.)

The point is 99% of what you see on TV is fake, edited, etc. :-)

-Tina

If you look at the credits of many similar types of shows (especially infomercials) there is almost always a line that reads something to the effect of:

"Some audience members may have been remunerated for appearing on this program"

In plain English?

We paid certain people to be audience members.

coasterimage - lordgonchar

Someone reads the credits on those things?

Knowledge is power...no matter how trivial. :)

coasterimage - lordgonchar

i really love the dummies they put on the coaster.

Matt http://www.midwestcoastermadness.com/

coasterqueenTRN said:

The point is 99% of what you see on TV is fake, edited, etc.

Television's not real....?????? =:-O

--George H

I remember him doing a thing for nickelodeon at halloween time. He helped fool kids into thinking that mark summers was dead. Time to go back for a ride on the pie coaster with mark. See if you can escape your fate their.

Resident Arrow Dynamics Whore

You know what... You can hardly see it, but in the background you can see the train going into the mid-course brakes. I'm sure if it was real, if he was having trouble or wasn't far enough along, then they would have pressed the E-Stop. But yes, yes it was stupid, again if it was real.

But also, wouldn't the sensors trip it?