Who are you???
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22 parks so far in 2001.
Tremors, my 100th coaster.
Ghostrider, stopped counting laps at 100.
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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead
Among my deepest regrets in life was being too afraid to ride Bob-lo's Flight to Mars (the portable dark ride/coaster) and screaming/crying 'till I got kicked off the Chance Skydiver when I was 8.
Anybody remember those?
-'Playa
(PS - Thanks Coasterr for jogging my memory)
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Edgewater brings back memories, too. Although, I only went once.
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Dayuum, Your HOT!
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Name: Paul
Age: 31
Occupation: Die Casting Engineer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA.
Favorite Steel Coasters: Apollo's Chariot, Steel Force, Magnum, Talon, PKI's Vortex
Favorite Wood Coasters: KW's Jack Rabbit, Beast, KW's Thunderbolt
Steel Coaster I want to ride but haven't: S:ROS at SFNE
Wood Coaster I would like to ride but haven't: Shivering Timbers
Interests: Camping, Canoeing, Four Wheeling, Playing Keyboards,
Favorite Bands: Camel, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, Pink Floyd, Nektar
I have a girlfriend who would rather ride Thunderhawk than Steel Force, A 65 year old Dad who loves coasters and can ride Alpengeist and Kumba more than I can, a Mom who rode KW's Racer and hasn't rode another one since, and a sister who went to SFMM with me and rides when she can.
I'm 27 and I still haven't had my first legal adult beverage!
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everything's better with a banjo
PointMan said:
Hmmm... Flight to Mars at Boblo. I don't remember that one. I do remember Nightmare. Is that what your talking about.
Nope...Flight to Mars and Nightmare were two completely different coasters.
Flight to Mars was a portable deal with an elaborately airbrushed 2-story facade. I distinctly remember the hairpin turns (2 of them?) that ran outside and back into the darkened structure as well as the 'big' drop behind the station. It's possible that it operated at least one season without the enclosure. By any means, it was long gone by the time Nightmare was built.
Nightmare was Bob-lo's last coaster and occupied what was once the ballroom. It was still in operation until the park's closure. I took my fiancee (now wife) for a few spins on Nightmare in '88 during what would be my last visit to the park.
-CPlaya
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Wild Country USA is coming to Desoto County, Mississippi Memorial Day Weekend 2004! 5000 Acres and 8 operating world-class coasters on opening day! Do the words Giga, B&M, CCI, and Arrow 4D sound familiar?
So I figured this was as good a place as any to find coaster nuts whose trust I will slowly gain and then sell their organs... I mean gauge reactions and feasibility of various hypothetical designs. Damn, just blew my cover.
LOL!
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"The Ozzman Cometh"
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Tidal Wave... Sky Whirl... what's next... Whizzer?
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Ow! My lap bar IS down all the way.
Age: 24
Location: Orlando, FL
Fav. Steel: Goliath
Fav. Woodie: Any
Longing to ride: everything @ CP, Raven, SROS @ SFNE
Other hobbies: Music (underground hip hop, acid jazz, house, soul, breakbeat), sleeping, wasting money, eating
Occupation: Student @ UCF majoring in MIS, also an admin. assistant for an educational specialist.
That's about it!
And Edgewater! I miss that place as well. I went several times. Saw Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy at the Bandstand.
You are probably just a tad too young to remember Walled Lake, CPlaya
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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead
I'm 17 years old. I live just a few miles north of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I joined GTTP over 2 years ago, and Coasterbuzz followed. My name is Gannon **gasp** No, not like Ganon off of Zelda, although that's what I have to tell people over the phone so they don't pronounce my name wrong. I still have a 4.0 GPA, and I'm still at the top of my class.
Dan is correct in his comments on Nintendo. During the first few days of the break, my brother and I beat The Adventure of Link (Zelda 2). The NES can't be topped! :) Those of you that like the Nintendo, give me a "Hell Yeah!"
I like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Incubus, Drowning Pool, Tantric, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Blink, Sum 41, Adema, Korn, Bizkit, Spine Shank, Woobastank, Ill Nino, 311, Orgy, Nickelback, Nonpoint, and Staind.
I'm probably going to go to Purdue University for Mechanical Engineering. I bought my first season pass for Cedar Point this year.
My plans to build that model kind of fell through due to a lack of ambition and too little time.
I want to put up my pic some time, but I don't have access to a scanner, so that might be a while. :) It's my on-ride photo of me on The Legend.
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Mayday - Memorial Day Weekend - Nonpoint, Nickelback, Oleander, Staind
Ozzfest - June 8 - Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Black Sabbath
Awake Tour- June 15 - Darwin's Waiting Room, Puddle of Mudd, Deftones, Godsmack
Glen Allen, VA
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I live 30 mintues from Parmounts King's Dominion, 45 to hour (depending on traffic) from Busch Gardens Williamsburg, hour and a half from SFA. Besides visitin parks over and over i like to Chat, hang out with friendz and family. Im in the 11th grade and I basically do normal teenage stuff :)
Va
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Hi, I do the normal teenage things. I got to the movies, visit parks, chill with my friends, and spend a lot of money. :-D I'm in the 11th grade and I don't like school that much but I'll be over before I know it. Hopes to be a Vet. when I grow up. That all I can tell you about me. :)
My name is Jo and I'm probably one of the older buzzers (but ask anyone who knows me I dont act my age! :)) I live right outside of Columbus Ohio about 2.75 hours from CP. I have 2 great daughters, and a great and understanding boyfriend who is more into horses than coasters but he tries! My real job is with a major credit card company as a fraud investigator. I own a couple horses (one hunter/jumper and a barrel racing QH)and I train/show other people's horses for them.
This past summer I did quite well in several shows, my highlight was showing at the Quarter Horse Congress-I did TONS of cowboy watching there! Oops-did I say cowboy? I of course meant horse watching ;)
My summer time passion is for Cedar Po!nt. I do not consider myself an enthusiast even though we did go to a few east coast parks this summer and plan on heading to California next summer, my heaven on earth is still CP and my baby Raptor.
At CP (and even at work) I am known as "Raptor Jo"
I worked as a Raptor ride op in 2000 during Halloweekends and planned on doing it again this season til I got caught up with the horses and just didnt have the time. 2001 was my most awesome CP season ever, meeting many new people and having a BLAST on EVERY visit! :)
I proudly display 4 different CP tattoos, one of Snoopy and the CP logo, one other CP logo, the MF logo and then my fav is my Raptor logo on my left shoulder. I was the front page feature story in the Sandusky Register this past May (brag brag!!)
and will be in the Discovery Channel's upcoming Top 10 Coaster show in May, I narrated Magnum.
(Yes Magnum) My license plates on my truck?
"CU AT CP" :)
Favorite park- guess ;)
Favorite invert- guess
(CLOSE 2nd however is Talon)
Favorite steel- Nitro (sorry MF & Maggie)
Favorite wooden- Cyclone (the REAL one in NY)
Favorite riding partner? Hooper! My PIC
CU@CP!
(look for the crazy blonde with the BIG smile on her face!!!)
Jo
2000 Raptor Crew
Gemini 100 "Survivor"
Po!nter Girl-FOREVER! :)
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Cowboys dig cowgirls in trucks
Cowgirls dig cowboys in Wranglers! ;)
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CPLady said:
I'm afraid I never rode Nightmare. Most of my trips to Boblo were between 1962 and 1969.....
You are probably just a tad too young to remember Walled Lake, CPlaya
Whoa! I might have still been working my way out of diapers in '69. So I wonder if you missed Bob-lo's Vekoma Corkscrew too.
I had no idea Nightmare was there myself. My last Boblo visit was on a whim (wanted to hit a park, but didn't want to drag my fiancee's family 2 hours each way to CP) and I just happened upon the little mine train in near-total darkness. One of the TX Six Flags parks has the ride now--can't remember which one offhand.
On the other topic--Walled what?!?!? Look at my pic...I'm way, way, way too young to remember that one. :P
-'Playa
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Closed topic.
