Tatsu is coming! - CoasterBuzz

rc-madness said:
Kingda, El Toro, and now Tatsu. It's like the new trend for Six Flags to import names from other languages rather than recycle through eight signature SF coaster names. My theory is Six Flags does not want to share coaster names with any other park chains. There is not a wealth of coaster names that have not already been used. This places a great deal of creative responsibility on C.O.'s for SF, who cares very little about coaster names. My guess is it would make more sense to them if coasters were simply numbered, then building themes around the ride's number. Sesame Street does a good job of that.

God, just be happy its an original name. There re using Goliath this season, happy about that?

Dudes!.. even though it's only 1 page so far this thread has to be way up on the all-time flameingthreadcharts of CB.
Just relax guys, it's just a coaster, it's just an amusement park.

:)

airtime for everyone

How about: Klattu - The "Anus of Uranus" Ride?

-Tambo

Now MM has Tatsu and Statue (Deja Vu)...

How astute... ;)

I like "Flying Coaster 001" in a rotating marquee over the entrance.. right next to Fun Slide 001" and "Inverted Coaster 002" (because "Inverted Coaster 001" crashed and needed to be demolished)

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

"Tatsu" wasn't that a Russian pop band whose only defining characterist was that the two singers were lesbians or the little guy on Fantasy Island?

Have Fun

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ix-ney the "s" and you have that band.

Didn't this come up when the name was first discovered in trademark filings?

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

Don't get your tatsus in a wringer, guys. I was just wondering if it was a real word in a real language that had a real meaning. Or is it another Kingda Ka that isn't any language at all, just an attempt to make it sound like another culture?

Is it pronounced TAT-su? or tat-SOO? Or TAHT-soo? Or Taht-SOO? Or tat-su-spi-cy-meat-a-ball?

Hey, pay me that salary and I can come up with combinations of two and three syllables all day long. Right after I come up with a few dozen different names for "off-white" and "tan" for Dutch Boy paints.

Paul Drabek said:
"Tatsu" wasn't that a Russian pop band whose only defining characterist was that the two singers were lesbians or the little guy on Fantasy Island?
Have Fun

Yeah, and it's going to be a dueling coaster that intertwines in a mesh of fabricated steel and parts flying at high amounts of miles per hour in an unadulterated, lustful...

Ok, I'll stop now.

...should stopped before.

Pual... I think you were thinking of Tatu

Yeah, their latest CD is good stuff...

...as long as you don't go to see them live.
The two are in fact much older than their "wild little kids" image makes it seem, they can't sing or perform on stage very well at all: When they were touring Germany 2 years ago, people just ran out of their concerts :/
Their 'cool' lesbian image is 100% aggressive exploitation as well. The two performers have in fact far less of a role in this game than is transported through publicity - it seems most of this is decided by their producer, a (heterosexual) man.
The fanbase they had built with "All the things she said" and "Not gonna get us" over here anyway had seriously degraded after their tour.

As of right now, I'm pretty sure I'd prefer Tatsu over T.A.T.U. anytime, even if it won't be the tallest, fastest, longest or terrainiest flying coaster ever.
:)

airtime for everyone

RGB, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Kingda Ka actually have a meaning? I forget what it is, but I thought I remember reading something back when it was announced...

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

It was said to be some language for "lose your lunch" but I forgot the language and who said it but who cares we all know it's BS now.

Watch the tram car please....

Doesn't "Kingda Ka" stem from a variation on Hindi? I'm fairly certain it does, anyway.

Translated (loosely, of course), it means "Dragster Clone".

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I think it's Swahili for: "Ha ha Cedar Point. Now we have the height and speed record AND we're going to have the number of coasters record next year with Tatsu, so eat it. Oh yeah, and this ride will also run about as much as Flashback at SFMM." but my Swahili is a little rusty.

Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."

/\ Tatsu will also run about as much as Flashback? I had no idea B&M Flyers were so unreliable ;)

IIRC, it was widely speculated that Tatu's duo were lesbians only for the benefit of PR.

The first album is fun mindless poppishness, though. I just noticed that they have a second album out---I'll have to point my Rhapsody client at it to see what's what...

Here's the Rhapsody review of their first album:

Who isn't into teenage Russian lesbians willing to make out with each other any time someone points a camera at them? The marketing genius that came up with this one also managed to come up with good songs on top of the lurid promo campaign. The creepy, cold music will appeal to the pop crowd as well as electro-hipsters.

http://cse.umich.edu/