Knoebels announces they are working on a classic!

Maybe what they really need is a Flying Luge.

Gator - Gerstlauer uses the term "bobsled coaster" for their custom mice. Nowhere near the same as what Knoebels is doing.

MarimbaGuy.. looks like you need up-stop wheels on your car! :)

Tekno, just let it go.. not all of us are as obsessed with Alicia Keys as you are ;)

"Life's What You Make It, So Let's Make It Rock!"

Mamoosh said:
I know who Alicia Keys is. She had a....second CD that seemingly no one cared about.
Here today, gone tomorrow...so-long, Alicia!

Clue, 'Moosh. 'Moosh, clue.

You can't sell ten million copies of every album, ya know. But Triple platinum in six months (for Diary of Alicia Keys) equals obscurity on what planet?

She's no Scissor Sisters, but--well, actually that's the point. She's no Scissor Sisters. Precisely the point.

We now return you to the End of The World already in progress. Kinda has to happen, seeing I agreed with Tekno. Damn, sorry 'bout that rip in the fabric of Destiny and all!

-CO

NOTE: Severe fecal impaction may render the above words highly debatable.

Dannerman, I think you meant looks like I needed them. The car was totaled. We got like $32 for the whole thing from the junkyard.

I still say the only reason I was able to get out of the car so quickly is because I wasn't as disoriented thanks to all of my coaster riding. :)

I've often wondered from time to time, how to write good poetry- and make it all... Work.

$32 for a junk car! Did it still run? Sounds like a good demo derby car!

Speaking of crazy roads there is one not too far from me that goes up the side of a mountain. We call it stairway to heaven. It goes up about 10 feet levels off for about 10 feet then goes up again. It does that up the entire side of the mountain. I heard it's like that from the horse and buggy days so horses wouldn't get worn out pulling constantly. You can get some crazy air on this hill. There are scrape marks everywhere from cars bottoming out.

It probably ran, but the frame was so bent from the rollover it probably wouldn't have handled correctly.

Had it been used for a demo derby, a lot of work would have been saved since every window but the back one was completely broken out.

I literally walked away, with nothing more than a few gashes on my hand from the glass and a sore neck.

I've often wondered from time to time, how to write good poetry- and make it all... Work.

Horse and buggy, more extinct technology. Unless you're Amish, then it's cutting edge.

Extinct Technology, and Far more reliable. ;)

But Triple platinum in six months (for Diary of Alicia Keys) equals obscurity on what planet?

I was just teasing Tek. Sorry I didn't make that more clear ;)

I thought it clear as Crystal Waters. Hence my smiley after proving my point ;).

Clear as mud?

"Life's What You Make It, So Let's Make It Rock!"

After sorting through 10+ pages of posts it's amazing what men will debate/fuss about. LOL! Hilarious.

coasterpunk said:
A wooden Wild mouse would be cool too!

How about a spinning wooden wild mouse? ;-)

I sorta "heard" the announcement about the Flying Turns at PPP and am pretty excited about it.

Yes, all we need now is the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway and I would highly consider moving back to Pennsy. :-D

Sorta obvious question.....

Are they going to use the original blueprints for the Flying Turns?

-Tina

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Nah, a wooden wildmouse would be an odd business decision, and must be a pet project...

"Life's What You Make It, So Let's Make It Rock!"

But at least a few wooden mice still exist to get advice...

--Greg
"You seem healthy. So much for voodoo."

A "spinning" wooden mouse. I am at least enjoying the visuals in my mind.

Or how about a launched spinning wooden mouse? :-D

It doesn't sound too far-fetched from some of the crazy s*** they came out with in the 20's and 30's.

-Tina

My wish list of classics includes the "Human roulette wheel" and that totally f***** up old ride I've seen the film clips of-- I think it was at one of the Coney Island parks. But anyway, it looked like the ride was loaded onto a pivot or something and the whole platform rocked back and forth while the cars were going around the track.

If some park announced they were building one of those, and were having a contest to come up with a name, my entry would be "WTF?"

They can't build a wooden wild mouse. The technology needed to do that doesn't exist, at least in this country. Besides, it wouldn't make any sense!

I found the answer to my question ^^. It was called "The Scenic Spiral Coaster" aka "The Top." It was at Luna Park (Coney) from around 1917-1920. That makes flying turns look absolutely modern. Now someone should bring back THAT extinct technology. Oh baby!

Where did you find the answer? I've always been curious about that thing. It seems that nearly every coaster program shows the footage of that ride.

It must not have been very sucessful having only existed for 4 years.