Happy Birthday Anton...

Without Anton, we'd still be riding around in Arrow mine trains...

Show some love and support, give us the reasons YOU love Anton Schwarzkopf...:)

My top five:
1. Airtime
2. No OTSRs
3. Teardop vertical loops
4. OMG-quick flywheel launches
5. Nail-you-to-the-seat G forces

As always, thanks! to RideMan Dave for maintaining the Rollback...

Lets just hope that from the grave he can't see how some of his creations are operated!

^^^ I hear you on that one.

I took a non-enthusiast to HP this past weekend and he gave props to SDL over Great Bear without me saying a word.

May the Schwarz be with us and bless us, every one! :)

They Live. We Sleep.

To bad this day was desecrated buy the birth of...

By the way, Happy Birthday Gator. ;)

Mamoosh said:
Lets just hope that from the grave he can't see how some of his creations are operated!

*cough*Revolution*cough*

Happy birthday Anton and Gator, may the force be with you! LOL!

Katie

TeknoScorpion said:
Mamoosh said:
Lets just hope that from the grave he can't see how some of his creations are operated!
*cough*Revolution*cough*

*cough* Intamin *cough*

Certain victory.

?

Revolution is an Anton:).

Can someone please forward this love letter to SFGAm just to let them know that we adore Anton, and would be lost without the Whizzer as part of the line-up.

I think what Bob's getting at is that Revuslion wouldn't BE so...Revolting...if not for Intamin's retrofits. Intamin *was* the company brought in after SFMM had the complaints, right?

Oh, and thanks everybody...I couldn't share a birthday with a better guy! :)

You still have Zoidberg.... You ALL have Zoidberg! (V) (;,,;) (V)

Schwarzkopf? Damn! I thought it was Anton LaVey's birthday. I'll have to go back and check the Church of Satan's 2005 calendar again. :-)

Happy Birthday hon!

So you share a birthday with Anton. That explains it all. ;-) Rock on!

Kisses!

-Tina

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coasterqueenTRN said:
So you share a birthday with Anton. That explains it all. ;-)

NOW the universe makes sense. ;)

Happy Birthday to ya Gator!

They Live. We Sleep.

Maybe as a birthday present, Zonga will open sometime this season?

Happy birthday Anton and Bill.

^^ We can only wish....

:)

i'm not sure what to put here..

Happy Bday Gator!

My first memory of being cognizant of airtime was on Shock Wave! If I was born just a bit earlier Big Bend would be on my record :-(. Wildcat at Bell's brings fond early-enthusiast memories as well.

I love Anton for so many reasons. One I can think of unmentioned is the Schwarzkopf "look." Sexiest coasters out there!

-scott

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." --Texas Governor George W. Bush, April 9, 1999, on the US intervention in Kosovo

...and if Scott knows anything, its what's sexy ;)

Happy birthday [again], Gator!!!

Aha! Now I see why gator is so consistent with opening these threads on Anton's birthday.

Happy birthday, gator! ;)

As with any Anton thread, I always feel the need to contribute. Here's my personal Schwarzkopf track record, with the year I first rode each coaster:

1980 - Sooperdooperlooper @ HP
1981 - King Kobra @ PKD
1997 - Wildcat @ CP
2000 - Scorpion @ BGT
2000 - Mind Bender @ SFoG
2000 - Viper @ SFoG
2002 - Shockwave @ SFoT
2003 - Greezed Lightnin' @ SFKK (Viper revisited!)
2004 - Laser @ DP
2004 - Wildcat @ WG

While only one of these is in my top 10, Schwarzkopf is undoubtedly my favorite steel designer. Here's to The Man.

RavenTTD said:
I took a non-enthusiast to HP this past weekend and he gave props to SDL over Great Bear without me saying a word.

I love hearing stuff like this... :)