Inside Edition rides Tatsu and gets its facts all wrong

Someone needs new material. ;)

+Danny

I was an ACER until places like coasterbuzz came along and pretty much rendered the publications pointless.

Not to mention 90% of the publications were always weeks and weeks late anyway.

Just to note, the ride does open on Saturday, so they only forgot to say tallest and fastest FLYING coaster. Oops. Still, not a huge mistake IMO.

wow, I made a thread back in November of a story and exaggerated alot of stuff for entertainment.... and people still remember it.

I wonder if this story would be a hit at the box office????

Intamin Fan said:
Honestly, not everyone in ACE is "bad" (my best friend belongs). But there are the stereotypes of the grumpy, everything thing is wrong mentality, overweight, has way too many patches, "I'm owed ERT with the brakes off", knows every single statistic etc., etc. that are unfortunately true sometimes.

I don't think Brett was insinuating that they're bad. Just that nobody gives a rats ass, outside of the enthusiast community. If it draws new crowds to SFMM, I'm sure they'll be plenty happy, eh?

The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch

Wow, Magic Mountain got a second night on Inside Edition for Tatsu, this time because Stacey Kiebler and Paris Hilton were riding, and once again Deborah Norville was saying stuff like "world's fastest coaster." If they were making the claim and there was nothing to compare it to, I could see the mistake, but in park full of monster-sized coasters?

I'm sure they'll draw plenty of crowds to ride Tatsu (I guarantee that there will be at least one picture of some celebrity riding Tatsu in People Magazine this week), but here's the thing--take the enthusiast out of the equation and pretend that you're a park that does have the highest, fastest, longest, loopiest etc. coaster and someone else is making that claim on a nationally-syndicated TV show. I wouldn't be happy.

Actually, I believe Shapiro even said world's tallest/fastest coaster on Fox's Neil Cavuto show the other day.

A day at the park is what you make it!

^ That BASTARD! He should be ridden out of town on a rail.

THe ACERs are card-toting, statistic-flashing, brake-*****ing, anal-rentntive line haters, but what's wrong with that? We love them anyway. They're kind of like big druggies who just happen to get their highs in slightly more socially acceptable fashion than popping cat tranqulizers.

It's all good.

Impulse-ive said:
No, because no one cares.
Did you call the show and tell them you're an ACE member? How about flashing your membership card?

^LMAO! I got the joke as well, Brett. ;-)

-Tina

Man, I should've bet money on it. In the new issue of People Magazine, on pg. 10 Nicole Ritchie is shown in the station of Tatsu with arms in the air and Tatsu logo clearly overhead. No distorted statistics this time, but no mention of it flying either.

What's strange though is that her harness and lapbar is down, but the ankle locks aren't tightened. In the video I have of Superman at Great Adventure, when the operations manager is demonstrating the restraints, he shows how when he pulls down the harness, the ankle locks move too. Since I haven't ridden it in a while, that's how it goes right?

Back to an earlier comment on ACE, I once heard someone say that you can't buy an XL t-shirt after an ACE ERT session. I thought she was being cruel and exaggerating, but she was being serious.

XL sounds on the small side to me. ;)