we all know the first coaster golden age brought out some amazing rides and concepts but with war and depression almost brought an end to the amusement park. When or how long will it be before something like this happens again? If it does what will hapen to our favorite hobbies?
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Gosh people can't you take a joke. Just laugh and get on with life.
Ditto with Coaster File
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Mindbender...Can you hear the Riddler chuckling?
Nobody knows when it will end. I hope it ends when the human race becomes extinct, not a second before.
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Everybodys got something to hide except for me and my monkey!
*** This post was edited by TrBiggar on 6/18/2001. ***
i can't see it ending any time soon. attending amusement parks is one of america's (and other countries) favorite pass times. And just imagine what could happen to orlando without these!
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"who needs drugs when you have coasters...they're like a natural high"
Well, everything has to end sometime... :(
I wouldn't hold my breath until it does, because I don't see that happening for at least 15 years.
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-Joe
(Who will be at Cedar Point August 9th. E-mail me if you're gonna be there.)
Eventually. Who is to say when though.
Above someone said that war and depression almost brought an end to the amusement park. Acutally, parks survived through out the the Great Depression and WWII. The "decline" of parks began in the 1950's when other forms of entertainment began to compete with the parks. Shifts in population also began to affect parks.
It was also in the 1950's that Walt Disney came up with his idea for a new type of amusement park... the Theme Park. In his book "Hersheypark: The Sweetness of Success", Charles Jaques tells how other park owners all thought Disney would fail. They thought it would be just like a World's Fair and would be popular for a few years but then the novelty would wear off and it would turn into a regular old amusement park or close completely. Well, we all know that did not happen and other park owners realized that they had better improve their parks or else fail, which led directly to the 1970's and the opening of the new modern amusement / Theme parks... or the "rebirth" of older parks.
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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."
i hope not, i'm going to major in mechanical engineering and hopefully design for B&M or Intamin. Then start my own company. Some of my designs are awesome and reasonable. My train design looks like an Intamin megacoaster train with flying dutchman style OTSR. I even thought of a company name, X Design, i figure Giovanola can manufacture the track. The trains have 3 across seating.
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HurricaneGeauga- Just in case
