Ignorance is Bliss

This is sort of a continuation of the thread about "how rumors get started."  I wanted to hear everyone's stories about stupid things they've heard in regards to parks and rides.  Accept my apology now if you consider this spam.

My home park is Six Flags Over Ga. and I have heard some insane things over the years...

   Of course, everyone I know says they know someone who knows someone who knows someone who got killed on a ride.  Right.  I am sure it's like this at EVERY park.

   One time someone asked me if there was a graveyard on the back side of the park for all the people that have been killed there.  I just smiled and said "yeah, I have heard something about that before."

   SFOG has a train like many other parks do that goes around the park.  I was once asked if the train went upside down.  I had to struggle to say "no m'am."

  Lastly, back when Gotham City was built, the Mindbender was painted from brown to green, and allegedly there was talk of changing its name to "Riddler's Revenge."  The name change never got off the ground, and despite the huge "Mindbender" sign above the entrance, many call it Riddler's Revenge.  Four years (maybe more) after it never happened!

So, let's hear your story.  Entertain me. :-)

Spam is when you're pushing something or selling something... this is not spam.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Hey Jeff, how about if I take all the rumors at different parks, publish them to a book, and attempt to sell it here at CB? Is that spamming? LOL!!! j/k

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""An hour wait for a 2 minute thrill. Yes, we need our heads examined""

When I was at SFWoA this year I heard a guy complaining about X-Flight.  His reason was that it should be built at least as big as Magnum, but he wants a flyer built as high as MF.  Now I've heard a lot of different complaints about the FD coasters but this one takes the cake for me.  Could you imagine the G's a 200 foot plus flyer would pull.  Insane.  He also hated B:KF because it also wasn't over 200 feet.  Some people you just can't please.  When in line for Ninja at SFMM I heard someone say how it was the only coaster of its type (suspended) in the world.  I could go on and on but those two stand out for me this season, the biggest thing I hear is when people compare rides from different parks and they are completely wrong.  Like I heard someone say that X-Flight was just like Raptor.  Lastly there is a fake coaster in front of one of the hotels in Vegas (the Holiday Inn I believe) and someone not only told me that it was real, but that they rode it, and it sucked.  It must have if it doesn't exist.

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Incidentalist said:
{snip}Could you imagine the G's a 200 foot plus flyer would pull.  Insane. {snip} 

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If engineered properly, it could have less G's than X-flight. You just need a bigger pull out from the drops. I could subject myself to more G's jumping from the roof of my two story house when hitting the ground than Millenium Force creates at the bottom of the first drop (no fat jokes please ;-P). A sentiment among designers is that the only limit is how high a person is willing to go. Anything can be engineered.

seth

*** This post was edited by ucdaap42 on 11/15/2001. ***

At PKI, I have heard rumors that state that up to four people have jumped off the top of the Eiffel Tower.  Of course, there are rumors of someone falling out of the loop on SOB.  One of the wierdest ones is that FOF is haunted by the ghost of the woman who died on Flight Commander.  I even heard people say that someone was killed when an object was thrown off the top of the Eiffel Tower and landed on them.

People would ask me, as they stepped into SOB's train and put their restraints on, "Does this ride have a loop?"  Sometimes I just pointed forward (you can see the loop directly in front of the station).  Then you have the little kids who read R.L. Stine and swear that the Beast is haunted.