Non-Enthusiasts Say The Darndest things...

Don't even get me started on what people are saying about the "Smiler Crash".

I like Lagoon for going at them though.

Lagoon for the win lol . Subtle, but savage

[mkingy]

"we would consider it to be false" savage indeed

In the queue for Stealth at Thorpe Park once I heard someone behind me say "You know if you pay them ??500 they do a rollback for you!"

Also, I once heard someone say "Once The Swarms seats had fallen off on the drop and everyone died and that's why they have the destruction theme, its all because of a cover up!"

I wanted to just shout SO BADLY!

In line for Millennium Force: "When you sit in the back, you lift off the tracks for a second."

^ This is right if they say like TTD lifts off! Go vertical!

[TTD03]

archie.mm wrote:

In the queue for Stealth at Thorpe Park once I heard someone behind me say "You know if you pay them ??500 they do a rollback for you!"

There is some legitimacy at Cedar Point.
One year one guy said he would push the E-Stop on Dragster during a launch so you got a rollback for $750,000 lol.

[Paradox]

TTD03 wrote:

archie.mm wrote:

In the queue for Stealth at Thorpe Park once I heard someone behind me say "You know if you pay them ??500 they do a rollback for you!"

There is some legitimacy at Cedar Point.
One year one guy said he would push the E-Stop on Dragster during a launch so you got a rollback for $750,000 lol.

brb saving money for a trip to CP and the 750K for the rollback.

TTD03 wrote:

archie.mm wrote:

In the queue for Stealth at Thorpe Park once I heard someone behind me say "You know if you pay them ??500 they do a rollback for you!"

There is some legitimacy at Cedar Point.
One year one guy said he would push the E-Stop on Dragster during a launch so you got a rollback for $750,000 lol.

brb robbing a bank

Sigh... There are people that actually think that Six Flags Great America should be sued simply because Sky Trek Tower got stuck and people had to climb down the stairs. Stuff like this is what's wrong with this world.

^ I don't think such general people know "behind the scenes" walk-through tours. Climbing down the stairs, wow, that's one of our better wishes!

I would love to walk up a set of catwalks; I would get apprehensive at the top though, since the catwalks sort-of bend at the top a little where it becomes flat.


Sue-ing for a ride malfunction is a tiny bit completely ridiculous. America is so litigious these days it's laughable

[mkingy]

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/02/alton-tow ... o=facebook

Blanked out name is someone from this forum just for obvious reasons blanking names out is necessary on the internets.

[gouldy]

The guy who replied seems like a top bloke!

[JAMMY]

As I mentioned in the Skype chat, I really feel for any parks at a time when they have media coverage this bad. It's just appalling scaremongering.

[mkingy]

More!

One of the guesses for what Lake Compounce's 2016 attraction will be:

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[Paradox]

VF15 wrote:

One of the guesses for what Lake Compounce's 2016 attraction will be:

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Looks pretty legit to me.

At the top of the Harbour Town Lighthouse in Hilton Head, SC: "This is taller than Millennium Force." (The lighthouse is only 90 feet tall.)

^ Even a bit shorter than average-sized woodies.

I posted a picture of Vortex and The Beast at Kings Island on my Instagram account, and someone commented: "Son of Beast is better but the carts flew off the track."

GPs tend to use the word "cart" instead of a proper term "car".

Help me. I'm in line for Tornado at Adventureland (Iowa) right now and I'm surrounded by the GP.

-"This has loop-de-loops." (It's an old-school woodie.)
-"Anyone thinking Final Destination here?"

[Paradox]

>Gets stuck on Goliath's lift because a restraint gave an error
Girl on ride:
"OH MY GOD WE ARE GOING TO DIE. EVERYONE PRAY EVEN IF YOU AREN'T RELIGIOUS WE COULD DIE HERE"
>Ride ops come up to tell us what happened and ask person with bad restraint to sign a paper
"NOW THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE US SIGN SO WE CAN'T SUE US WHEN WE DIE"

Looks like once again the GP hate anti rollbacks.