Jump to content
  TPR Home | Parks | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram 

Rob562

Members
  • Posts

    23
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Rob562

  • Birthday 12/09/1976

Rob562's Achievements

Apprentice

Apprentice (3/14)

  • First Post
  • Collaborator
  • Conversation Starter
  • Week One Done
  • One Month Later

Recent Badges

0

Reputation

  1. I haven't gone through all the posts again, but did anything in the press release say that it's specifically the heartline roll that's being worked on? Or is that just conjecture on peoples' parts? The only thing i've read is "three sections of track after the launch tunnel". Could the three sections in question be the left-hand turn coming out of the tunnel? That turn will definitely get the full force of the 70MPH launch. And watching the on-ride animation, it almost seems like there's an odd shift to the right before it banks into the left turn (though that might be a trick of the animation). As this will be my first trip to CP, I don't know the layout very well. Are both the heartline and the end of the launch tunnel visible from the midway? It'll be interesting to see exactly which three pieces are removed. -Rob
  2. What if they altered it so that they take out the inversion and the trains roll from one direction to the other *above* the track. So it becomes a hard right-turn followed immediately by a hard left-turn. (or vice versa, I'm a bit lost on the direction of travel in the pic). -Rob
  3. Already got 'em a couple years back. I was planning on hitting the family coaster at the Palisades Mall on the way home from this trip. But now I need another... -Rob Edit: I think I found it... There's a Fiesta Express north of Pittsburgh that's only 2.5 miles off the highway along our route to Sandusky. Hmmm.. That's a wicked 8' tall lift-hill... The things I do to make my coaster list interesting.
  4. Join the club. My friends and I are taking a road trip out to CP in two weeks for our first visit ever. Although I'm not HUGELY broken up about it (nor will my friends), I'm still a little disappointed that I won't get to ride. I thought that by avoiding opening weekend and going the second weekend we might miss any minor glitches in Maverick's opening. Guess it took a bit more than a minor glitch... But we'll have a great time despite it being closed. Lots of other fun stuff to do across two full days in the park. Heck, we were supposed to go last September but ended up cancelling because of a forecast of thunderstorms all weekend. So we would have missed Maverick anyway. They're actually very accommodating, as long as they have availability and you're re-booking rather than cancelling. When we cancelled our trip last September, they were willing to waive the $50 fee if we re-booked for a date this year. We decided not to re-book at that time, it was only $50 split by four people. This year we first booked at Hotel Breakers, but then decided to save money by changing to Lighthouse Point. They gladly changed the reservation (though the first operator I spoke to didn't know how to do it and needed to ask for help). Oh well. Now I have to find TWO additional new coasters to ride to make Expedition Everest my 150th... -Rob
  5. Now, if only they could bring back the rotation of the mirror maze it'd REALLY go well with the adjacent Wipeout. A Huss Frisbee would be a great addition to the park. That area is really barren-looking without the Galaxi being there. (And the plopped-down look of the Skater doesn't help) Any word on whether they're buying it new or used? (Am I mixing things up in my head, or didn't SFGAdv recently get rid of theirs?) -Rob
  6. Well, my friend Erik was in-town visiting, so we (me, Brian and Erik) decided to head to Canobie Lake Park on Sunday. Just a quick TR (more just highlights and observations) with a few pics at the end. I took more video than photos this time, and it'll take me a bit to grab frames off of the videos. We got a much later start than we meant to (the park was open 11A-6P). We didn't get there until just after 1PM, and stayed until closing. First off, the park was EMPTY! At 1:00 there were maybe 100 cars in the parking lot. We entered the park to find noone in the park and very few lines anywhere. They were only running one train on Yankee Cannonball, and our longest wait was about 4 trains. The only other wait we encountered all day was at the Mine of Lost Souls, and that was less than a 10-minute wait. Everything else was walk-on or a one-cycle wait. I don't know what's really new, or what was just new-to-me because I didn't make it to Canobie last year. A few points: -Rides closed today: Matterhorn, USA Missile (though does anyone really think it will ever reopen?). When we walked by the Psycho-Drome noone was in line outside and none of us felt like riding, so we never saw whether it was open or not. -Rode Wipeout for the first time ever, and probably the last. While the three of us couldnt' stop laughing, it was PAINFUL! I think it was mostly because of the speed. The worst was at the very end where it spins relatively flat to the ground. They've re-themed the adjacent mirror maze. What used to be the Crystal Orbiter (or was it Crystal Maze?), is now the Tiki Maze, with some tacked-on Tiki and Easter Island statues. -They've built a wheelchair access ramp onto the Yankee Cannonball station. Looks very nice, though all day people were trying to use it as an exit from the platform. -The Galaxi is gone, and in its place is what I assume is a Zamperla Rockin' Tug with a skateboard theming. But it's a trailer-mounted portable version and a very temporary queue setup, so it's not clear how long it'll be staying. -At the adjacent Tilt-a-Whirl, they totally re-did the queue and operator's platform. Not sure I like the style of the re-do. I'll miss the old wooden ramps. This is also another location they've added a wheelchair ramp. -Mine of Lost Souls had the usual off-season tune-up. Still a couple things not working properly, and the sound can't be heard in places, but it's doing OK. -We actually went into the Vertigo Theater. We've been in here before, but it was fun. We have decided to refer to it as "Soarin' 1.0". -What is it with STUPID people and trains?!?!??? We saw FOUR people get on the moving train and two people get off! First, just after we pulled out of the station at the center of the park, a family of three adults and a young kid is standing watching us go by. I can see them itching to jump on, looking for a place with open seating. Sure enough, the guy lifts his kid up and into the moving train and then hops on himself. The employee that sits at the back of the last car wasn't on-board yet, as he was closing a gate we'd just gone through. Later on as we got to the north end of the park, a supervisor was walking by just as two teen girls hopped OFF the back car. When I turned around and looked, the guy and his kid were no longer back there, so they obviously hopped off at some point. (I just hope it was into the lake). Lastly, as we completed the loop by the boat dock this couple that was blocked by the train from exiting the dock decides to hop on. Of course they only travelled about 50 feet, as the train was coming into the station and stopping... Where do these idiots come from??? That's about it. Nothing majorly exciting to report, no major goofy photos. That'll have to wait until we go to a park with my friend Scott. He always brings the oddness and silliness to the group. -Rob And just for Erik.... Am I the only one who thinks twice about why an amusement park has sharps containers in the bathrooms? Does Salem have a worse drug problem than I thought? Side Boob! The new Tilt-A-Whirl queue and platform. Though I like the new color schemes on the ride tubs. Backside of the "Skater" The (new?) Zamperla Rockin' Tug Driving Miss Brian While I found this Creepy Space Dude to get a picture with. (The sign with him said to come ride the "KosmoJets". Ahhh, memories...) "We come in peace"... Erik tries to fly with the birds The usual stockade type pic. (Though I think we left Brian out in the sun too long) Erik under glass, stuck somewhere within the Maze. The new "Tiki Maze" It was quite dead in the park today... Dear God! Erik, NOOOOO!!!!!!!!
  7. Any thoughts on a weekends trip in September? My friends and I are looking into out first visit, and we're tentatively planning on the first Hallo-Weekend, Sept 22-23. We could potentially move that a week or two earlier if the Halloween stuff will make the crowds too big. -Rob
  8. I don't know the actual figures, but let's say the ride E-stopped once a day. If one particular issue was the cause of those shutdowns 75% of the time, eliminating that problem would greatly increase the ride's reliability. (From 30 days a month in my scenario, down to 7.5 days a month) -Rob
  9. I've been going through the older Tower of Terror threads. I know this thread died out a couple months ago, but I don't think I saw anyone actually answer the question of why the ride system was changed between Florida and DCA. The main reason for the change was to make the ride system more reliable. When the ride vehicles leave the load shafts, they follow a wire buried in the ground similar to other attractions at WDW. If the car loses the signal or starts to stray too far away from the wire, the ride E-stops. According to a former ToT CM I know, this is the #1 cause of ride breakdowns at the Florida Tower. So, when designing the Tower for DCA, they eliminated their #1 source of breakdowns. While space may have also been a factor, increased reliability was their first goal. -Rob
  10. Hey Robb. You should look into getting a roll of Gaffer's Tape to tape down your lipstick cam. A bit more expensive than your run-of-the-mill duct tape, but has a greater tensile strength and leaves little to no adhesive residue behind. (I'm sure the park's cleaning crew would thank you for that) -Rob
  11. Ah, but the thing is, they're *not* plain brown sides. It's *ALL* brickwork. This site has better pics with a lot of closeups of facade details: http://www.dlrp.fr/actulargeasia.php?id=47 And another couple pages with pics: http://www.dlrp.fr/actulargeasia.php?id=43 http://www.dlrp.fr/actulargeasia.php?id=48 Certainly looks like it'll be four shafts to me... And the large broken window feature looks quite interesting. -Rob
  12. This reminded me of a few video clips I had of my friends getting some impressive RPMs out of rides... So I threw them up on YouTube.... (pun semi-intended) First is my friend Scott going solo on Canobie's "Over the Rainbow", (a Zamperla Samba Tower), as Erik and I are in the next basket. Unfortunately, the lower video quality and the fact that it's night make it a little difficult to pick out how fast he's spinning at times. And I wish the video had picked up clearly the massive creaks that were coming from his basket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc_Q1jXSx5M There was another time when I didn't have the camera, Scott along with my friend Brian were in one of the tubs together, and were spinning it so quickly that their weight pushing outward apart from each other caused the tub to warp to the point where the door popped open because the latch no longer met the strike plate. And they hadn't even gotten off the ground yet. The other video includes a cameo of USRoadTripper (aka Julie) of Brian, Scott and Julie on the teacups at SFNE. Julie's hair flying horizontally outward from the cup a few times is funny. I just wish I'd been able to zoom in more. Hopefully this year with my new camera I'll have some higher quality spinning videos... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXpsGV857PI (It wasn't until I re-watched this video that I noticed toward the end of the ride one skinny kid by himself had gotten his cup going pretty good, too) -Rob
  13. Interesting... A few comments: -The load/unload swap on Cyclone actually brings it back to the original setup from when the coaster first opened. It wasn't until the early/mid-90's when they added the queue house around back that they swapped sides. It's been the horrible traffic flow nightmare since then. I'm glad to see that someone finally got some sense and put it back the right way. Now, if only they could do something about fixing B:TDK's woefully inadequate platform... -They took out the Penis Tower?!?!????? NOOOOO!!!!!!!!! -Rob
  14. They did something very similar on the Magic Kingdom's train station last year. You sometimes had to look a few times in the pics to figure out where the fake building really ended... It looks like Disney's been going the extra mile lately on construction walls, etc. The train station, now this, the Monsters Inc doors on the construction wall outside that ride at DCA, and the latest I've seen are the two photo murals outside Pirates in Disneyland, that look like the jail scene on the ride. -Rob
  15. Hey, all. I've been away a while, and finally am getting caught up on the forum (not that I posted all that frequently anyway....) Anyway, this photo is real. I came across it online last fall. I'd e-mailed a link to a few friends, it was posted on webshots.com. I looked back through my sent mail folder, found the e-mail with link, but the link doesn't work anymore. So, if people are wondering the full story behind the pics... This particular pic (and most that were in the album when it worked) was taken backstage at Disneyland. It was a group of face characters that were rehearsing for some live special event or TV show. Which event they were rehearsing for was never stated, but my guess would be something 50th anniversary-related, I think Regis & Kelly taped out there in the time frame the pics were taken, too. Other shots in the album included the princesses in full wig and makeup, but in street clothes, the buffet lunch backstage, and other assorted photos from them getting ready for the day. There were a few other "not-quite-Disney" pics in the bunch. My guess is that someone at Disney saw them and had them taken down. (Or the CM fired, or both) -Rob S. (Just got through the whole Florida thread. Gee thanks for keeping me up hours later than I wanted to be...)
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/116-terms-of-service-please-read/