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EBL TPR's Olden Goldie Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 6957 Location: Camarillo, CA (Ventura County) Age: 50 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:17 pm    Post subject: ^ Agreed. Ninja at SFMM is one of my very favorite coasters. I know they're a pain to engineer, but the whole suspended concept was one of the best in my opinion. While B&M certainly gave us quite a gift with the inverted coaster, it would be interesting to see what they could do with a suspended coaster. They might even find a way to engineer a successful inversion for one, though I think the side-to-side swinging is plenty good. Eric _________________ I need a Coke---make it a Diet.
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Guy T. Koepp I'm not allergic to Donkeys. Joined: 09 May 2005 Total posts: 5191 Location: Land of the KKK Age: 43 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:39 pm    Post subject: I miss the trolls and the wizard so much. Magic Mountain was so awesome. I have such fond memories of this place. It's the only reason I still love it. In my mind I can transport myself back to those days. I remember waiting 5 hours for my first ride on The Great American Revolution the second day it opened. Way back when the que went through Revolution Plaza, all the way down the hill and around the fountain. The whole back side of the mountain was bare then. And it ran 5 trains! Mmmmmmmmm 5 train operation and almost completely trimless. Good times! Good times! _________________ Order your copy of What's in a Brain? Now! Chris Hill says,"I do not condone smoking pot, but this DVD rocks when your stoned!" SEXY IS BACK!
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EBL TPR's Olden Goldie Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 6957 Location: Camarillo, CA (Ventura County) Age: 50 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:02 pm    Post subject: ^ Yes indeed. In those days, you never really stood in line for Revolution because the line moved so fast with five trains going that you really slooowwwllly walked. I didn't ride Revolution on its first or second day, but I did ride in May 1976, not long after it opened. Yeah, the trolls were way cool. More fitting to the park in that era than the Looney Tunes gang. However, during the park's first season, they did use the Warner Bros. characters. I vividly remember seeing signs that said, "You must be as tall as Sylvester to ride." After the park closed for a six-month upgrade and rehab, reopening Spring 1972, they had switched to the trolls and kept them till 1985---six years after Six Flags took over. [/history lesson] Eric _________________ I need a Coke---make it a Diet.
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texcoaster Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast! Joined: 27 May 2005 Total posts: 444 Location: Texas Age: 42 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:27 pm    Post subject: EBL wrote: ^ Agreed. Ninja at SFMM is one of my very favorite coasters. I know they're a pain to engineer, but the whole suspended concept was one of the best in my opinion. While B&M certainly gave us quite a gift with the inverted coaster, it would be interesting to see what they could do with a suspended coaster. They might even find a way to engineer a successful inversion for one, though I think the side-to-side swinging is plenty good. Eric About the only way I can see a true suspended coaster inversion is to use the little trough that sits under the lift hill to keep the cars from swinging as they get pulled up the lift. So you'd bang and bash into the little trough as you enter the lift. Up you go, swinging not allowed. The trough would continue up and over the lift, and the cars would STILL be in the trough on the way down the drop and all the way through the loop (or whatever inversion). After the inversion, you could end the trough and let the cars swing. I think the idea is still corta crappy, though. Leave the inversions to the inverted.
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AllenA07 My small thing speaks for itself Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Total posts: 1012 Location: Lubbock, Texas Age: 24 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:42 pm    Post subject: Not sure why I'm thinking about this, but does anybody remember when SFMM used to have Vinny the Viper? It's the small things such as that, that I have really come to miss in that park.
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montezooma "Can I get clamshells out of this ATM?" Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Total posts: 1284	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:54 pm    Post subject: Guy T. Koepp wrote: I miss the trolls and the wizard so much. You want the trolls? Here is Bloop on one of the vintage shopping bags.  Description: Bloop the troll was the mascot of Magic Mountain back in the olden days.  Viewed:  3202 Time(s)
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montezooma "Can I get clamshells out of this ATM?" Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Total posts: 1284	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: And here are Bloop's friends, the Wizard, Bleep was the female troll and I can not remember the name of the King troll.  Description: Notice there is no sign of the Revolution in the background.  Viewed:  3182 Time(s)
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EBL TPR's Olden Goldie Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 6957 Location: Camarillo, CA (Ventura County) Age: 50 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:00 pm    Post subject: I believe the last troll was "Blop." Perhaps Blop was Bloop and Bleep's young 'un. Eric _________________ I need a Coke---make it a Diet.
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EBL TPR's Olden Goldie Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 6957 Location: Camarillo, CA (Ventura County) Age: 50 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:02 pm    Post subject: ^ I agree with your last sentence. We are inverted to death in my opinion, and inversions really don't do much for me---especially when a ride has six or seven of them. A good suspended is a nice change of pace from the head over heels experience. Eric _________________ I need a Coke---make it a Diet.
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steel Elissa's Instincts Are Strong! Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Total posts: 1406 Location: Iowa Age: 17 Gender: Male	Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:06 pm    Post subject: ^I had an idea once that someone could manufacture some sort of track that could stop and start the swinging (something like a 4D track, but with a totally different purpose). I'm sure that's incredibly far-fetched, but I was younger then. It's such a shame that this ride was removed. Vortex is not a great ride and Top Gun could've been so much more than it is. It's really sad that that wonderful terrein was hardly used at all in the design of Vortex. So much pontential in both replacement rides. Very sad part of coaster history.
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