Stuff that makes you feel old?
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Don't.....look.....back! The Headless Horseman awaits you in 2002!
Model coasters and rides
I'm with you - having to get up in the morning makes me feel old, but when I'm waiting to ride a coaster, I become 12 again. Just yesterday I made my 24th thru 26th trips on 'X' and I'll probably never get tired of it -not bad for a 52 year old!!.
Another thing that ages me is thinking about when The Gold Rusher was the first and only coaster at SFMM way back in 1971!!
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My other car is a Giovanola!
Good luck!! Remember, right now SFMM is only open weekends (and also on Monday, 2-18 for President's Day). My suggestion for less wait time (and worth it considering the line yesterday), is to buy the Fast Lane pass for four of your rides. If you get there right at opening, you should be able to get your first ride in less than 30 minutes. Right after we got off our first ride, the line was much longer - I would have guessed about an 1 1/2 hour wait For our second ride at 1:30 p.m., we waited about 1 1/2 hours, only because of "minor technical difficulties". Right!! (There was actually a train in the unload area and they couldn't move it - and a loaded train waiting to come in.) We came back later at 5:30 p.m. and waited another hour for our last ride. Of course, our wait for all three rides took a little longer because we wanted to ride in the front row - IMHO, the best seats in the house!!
Knowing that Drachen Fire is closing makes me feel old, because I was there opening weekend.
Riding the Toboggan (flat ride) at the Puyallup fair, and faintly recalling chains used as lapbelts, as well as thinking this was a huge coaster with a tube.
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Yep, and our very own Old Timer Tim/One and Only Coaster God worked the ride in I believe its last year.
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IB Dave said:
The double log flume in CP's Frontier Land...can't remember its name.Wasn't it call Shoot the Rapids?"
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"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"
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- Peabody
The Chicago Loop at Old Chicago in November..
Commercials for the longest, tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world, The Screaming Eagle at Six Flags Over Mid-America..
$9.95 P.O.P. at CP being really expensive.
Some new Disney park (Disney Planet or something like that) opening in Florida.
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2. Being referred to as sir instead of "dude", "bro", "cuz".
3. Not being carded for alcohol.
""Oh wait, I guess it should be coaster related""
4. Experiencing Old Chicago during the winter.
5. My mother taking me over to the construction site of Marriotts Great America when it was being built.
6. Thinking 4 coasters in one park was alot.
7. Riding American Eagle when it first opened and for years to follow, marathon rode it during its brake-less era.
8. Enjoyed buying season passes for $20.00
9. Enjoyed riding the tram service offered at Marriotts Great America.
10. Remembered my parents taking me to GA and were disgusted that the one day admission price to get in increased to $9.95
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Im going to grab a cold one! WHAT? Walk to my computer! WHAT? Turn the thing on! WHAT? Log on to Coasterbuzz! WHAT? I said log on to Coasterbuzz!! WHAT?WHAT?WHAT?
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Chuck who is Cough, Cough Thirty Six :)
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Charles Nungester
Park Jockey :)
That statement alone makes me feel old....
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"Nobody writes about the planes that land." Steve Salerno Washington Times 7-10-01
KBF: The Corkscrew, Soap Box Derby Racers, Sky Jump, the old Fiesta Village (some car ride was there)
SFMM: Collossus w/ double dip, Revolution w/out restraints, commercials w/ people sunglasses (especially for Freefall), riding Shockwave opening year, waiting in a long line for Z Force, when the Circus Wheel was over by Revolution (Baile de las Flores), riding Condor, and a few more that i can't remember
DL: The old fantasyland, the big open grass area where Splash Mtn is now
BGT: The monorail, the brewery tour
WDW: MR Toad 2 theme parks within a close distance was a big deal, EPCOT was representative of the future, The robot guy that drew your picture in Communicore...
just a few that I can remember
I'm 24 also, so i'm still young, but I feel old sometimes (at least my car insurance goes down in 8 months!)
-Matt
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-Visiting Great Adventure pre Six Flags (and even pre Lightning Loops)
- Visiting "Busch Gardens: The Old Country" before Loch Ness Monster and its name change to BGW
- a friend of mine coming back from a Florida trip wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Busch Gardens: The Dark Continent's (now BGT) new super exciting and very modern coaster... Python. And remembering being envious of him when he said "Best coaster you'll ever ride".
- Entering Hersheypark through the old enterance (by Box Office #1 of the Arena) and remembering the carrousel house down by the creek.
- Seeing the omniously green painted Hersheypark Comet and being afraid to ride such a thing.
- Realizing that the first time I rode Hersheypark's comet it was only 31 years old... and now realizing that it is nearly twice that (and that sooperdooperlooper, new when I first rode it, only has 6 more years to go until it is as old as the Comet was the first time I rode that "old" coaster)
- Remembering my parents deciding to get me a "ride all day" wrist band at Hersheypark as opposed to taking the "Pay as You Ride" option.
- Remembering watching Channel 48 out of Philadelphia after school and seeing commercials for Dorney Park in Allentown PA and thinking how far away that was and how I would probably never get to a park that far away.
- Remembering the "Flying Duchman" (Zyklon or Galaxy or what ever it was) at Dorney park... and remembering how the local news media made such a big deal about this "huge coaster" arriving at Dorney.
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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."
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I remember King's Island...
...when the Beast opened soon after my "little" sister was born (she just turned 23)...and I had to walk down the lift hill (pretty scary when you're a young'n)
...when I rode the Screamin Demon, which became the first and last time I ever tossed my cookies after a ride (it was Ice Cream, actually).
...and the Phantom Theatre, before it was the Smurf ride.
And I remember Cedar Point...
...when I got stuck on Avalanche Run in the middle of bug season.
...when I worked at a race game called "Super Shifter" which was near a thingamabob called "Fascination" (we worked for minimum wage and we LIKED it...)
...when Iron Dragon was brand new and really cool.
...and finding out that Disaster Transport was just taking a lame ride, adding a roof, air conditioning, special effects and falling meteors and still ending up with a lame ride ("hey, they moved the Space Spiral to Alaska!")
Ah, the good ol' days.
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Ohio...so many coasters...
...so little summertime.
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