tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37593352024-03-07T02:45:07.079-05:00Absolutely Reliable News & Rumors.All information guaranteed absolutely accurate or your money back.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger884125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-59245848724909689222013-07-25T19:51:00.002-04:002013-07-25T19:51:27.465-04:00Breaking News You Won't Believe<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
Once upon a time, there were competitions. In those battles, the victors took home the accolades and the spoils. The losers went home and hoped it wasn't a battle to the death or for pink slips. And for those who don't know pink slips means racing cars and the owner keeps both cars. It's old drag racing terminology and not any of that new fangled top thrill dumpster type of drag.</div>
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Now when competitions stopped being exciting and the people got bored, they invented the "awards show." Now you've heard of the one for movies, television, broadway, and perhaps even the one run by the Entertainment Sports Programing Network. For those that aren't familiar with it, I recommend contacting the Cable News Network or perhaps the Columbia Broadcasting System. But, we digress.</div>
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At this time in the seasonal theme park calendar, we pause to prepare for the granddaddy of all award battles royale. Only this one couldn't be more predictable. The Golden Tickets were started by an industry publication around the time that Dick Kinzel decided that if a ride wasn't good enough he'd just put a building around it. And then it still wouldn't be able to run in the rain. Now the Tickets of destiny are designed to help decide the best and the brightest and the shiniest based on the voting of "industry experts."</div>
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Let us now define "industry expert." The Encyclopedia Galactica and dictionaries made by Webster and the Institute for Directed International Operational Theoretical Studies all have the same definition as the Hitchhiker's Guide. It defines industry expert by asking "expert on what?" In this case, we seek the sub-entry on competitions and voting for awards. These manuscripts define experts as two drunk dudes holding a giant jamaican banana that cost the park $4 but took them 3 hours a day for 3 weeks and a total sum that could feed a theme park employee for a year. Not an actual year, just the amount of time until they finally run away after the last gate locks in October.</div>
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The other experts are listed including the guy running the nacho stand who hasn't showered in 2 weeks, a CEO, a "reporter", a guy with a twitter feed, 3 people from Canada so they can call it international, and the first 5 people to ride the Flying Turns. The last group of "experts" is 497 lonely guys who only leave their mother's basements to cast their annual ballot. And of course to make their weekly trip to worship at the alter to Snoopy and Kinzel known as Cedar Point.</div>
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How else can you vote the Point in your eye as "best" for as long as it's been since they saw a non-related woman. They tried to throw us off for almost that long by saying King's Island had a better kids area. This was a decoy. DECOY!!! Let's place bets now. Best kids area to the Island, Cleanest and Friendliest will be a fight between Dollywood and Holiday World. Best New for 2013 will be Gatekeeper (if we haven't found the keys first). Best New Wood to Outlaw Run which will fight voyage for overall Wooden Supremacy. And if the "fanboys" win, Millennium Fastest Of Roller Coasters Ever (for 3 months) will take the best steel crowny thing.</div>
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Keep your Golden Tickets. We're gonna stick to the Bronze Nacho Chips because they've gone bad award thing. Maybe then Kentucky Kingdom can finally win.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135638787514285934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-90138654291694738462013-07-12T22:59:00.002-04:002013-07-12T22:59:31.203-04:00Institute for Directed International Operational Theoretical Studies Dedicated in Switzerland<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For decades, the best and the brightest have studied the difficult questions of the theme park world. Why does the gate instantly dictate the front of the park? Why can't patrons be trusted to pilot their bumper cars without hitting each other as a prelude to a lawsuit and thus require a center island? Why must certain companies be allowed to design new attractions that will ultimately look really stupid and feel similarly?</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those are the difficult questions. There are others. Some easier and some vastly more complicated. For these, the Institute for Directed International Operational Theoretical Studies was dedicated in a remote corner of Switzerland earlier this week. The Institute is a joint venture between many of the major regional park chains and the slightly less popular ride manufacturers that's names start with such letters as V and I.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The organization was founded as a think-tank to evaluate, research, postulate, and wildly guess the answers to slightly less important questions. Why should we waste our time running 3 trains on a coaster with a 2 hour long line and no mechanical or staffing reason against it? Why shouldn't we build the nacho stand as close to the entrance of the roughest coaster in the park that just happens to be the furthest possible point from a custodian or the parks entrance? Why would we want to make sure that the closest money making areas (food stands and gift shops) to the park entrance are the last to close?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The organization is staffed by a group of trained experts that have minutes of experience dealing with the public. Most of the research is being conducted using guest code-named 'peeps'. And in situations regarding the number of custodians required at a given time, they are building rides that would usually kill a man based off of the rare unused Vekoma designs. </span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their most recent project gauged the average time for a maintenance technician to reply to a down time scenario. The time to repair was irrelevant as the longest clocked time in that scenario was 2 minutes to reopen. An attraction dubbed 'Wooden Coaster 1' for this experiment averaged a response 4 times faster when there was more than one technician on duty.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The statistics are staggering. But the folks at the Institute for Directed International Operational Theoretical Studies say their methodology is fool proof and been repeated through 3 generations of testing systems. Some in the industry fear the technology was out of date before they formed the institute, but the founding partners think that it's the best thing since Arrow Dynamics broke the 200 foot barrier.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We here at Absolutely Reliable salute the brave founders of the Institute for Directed International Operational Theoretical Studies and their mascot Clark W. Griswold. We hear they have a fair team this year for the company softball game. We hope the I.D.I.O.T.S. do well in their upcoming game.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135638787514285934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-16283731625143787432013-07-05T23:49:00.001-04:002013-07-05T23:49:18.870-04:00 Five Banners Pushes the Limit<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Six Flags Over Texas is planning to make the Texas Giant look like an old woman who lives in a shoe. In partnership with one of the top manufacturers of "high" "quality" attractions, Six Flags has entered into negotiations to beat the current record holder on "high" entertainment. We keep saying "high" because if they aren't smoking the Kingda Ka, then we at ARN&R are scared to death.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vekoma, yes we said that name and if you've been with us for a week or more like 5 years (that's you nacho stand man) then you're picturing that same "high" quality. Vekoma has entered into negotiations to build the worlds first coaster 'Tetracoaster.' We don't know if that's a thing yet, but if it isn't we're claiming it now and will have our people sue your people. 500 feet of sheer Vekoma pain, err . . . umm . . . thrills. Yeah. That's it, thrills. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best part is that the designers are pulling out all the best tricks we've learned over the past few years. First, there'll be an epic station. Complete with steel and wood that looks like some ancient deathtrap. Second, the slightly less epic need to open 6 months late because of a terribly designed heart-line roll. They are planning right now what they'll replace it with, but they're still going to design it and discover the error after the testing process starts. Finally, this 500 foot lift experience will be via CHAIN lift. None of those fancy, unreliable cable or LSM based technology. Chain. Do they even make that much stuff. Sufficient to say, half way up there'll be a station with a bathroom, gift shop, and pizza joint just in case. At 450 feet there'll be one final trash can like you find at the local drive-thru joint.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best part, as if the last 45 minutes weren't epic enough, is that at 510 feet when you finally hear the chain and the kid in 3.3 shouting "MAKE IT STOP!!!" you'll start to drop. 505 feet straight down at 97 degrees of dropping goodness. 300 feet later you'll be at 85 degrees. Once you clear the 505 feet, they've announced the epic plan of oneupsmanship against Cedar Fair. That's right boys, girls, and assorted life forms (that's politically correct according to the Supreme Court this week) 505 feet into a BANKED TURN. Not an over-banked turn that'd be wide and practically a sideways loop. Nope, 30 degree left turn over a parking lot after dropping 505 feet. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sufficient to say, next years "521st annual ARN&R Reliable Acon to piss off ACEr's CON" will be held at Kings Island. We don't want to be there for the first ever Vekoma that makes RCT Peep killing look tame.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135638787514285934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-1698591611116533432013-06-28T18:20:00.001-04:002013-06-28T18:20:43.365-04:00Boomerangs Still Belong in the Outback<p dir=ltr>Recent news of trouble with Six Flags Saint Louis's latest "new" "ride" installation have led the entire industry to collectively stand up, face Missouri, and shout "DUH!!!"</p>
<p dir=ltr>When Vekoma, and the fear should start there, envisioned a small footprint coaster, the industry was excited. It was smaller to allow for more nacho stands, gift shops, and depressing won't you let me put you on a giant scale in the hope of winning a stuffed moose while a carny yells in a microphone that we hope doesn't work complexes. It would be much more cost effective by requiring only a $5 increase in the gate price as opposed to the usual $10 plus a parking increase and making that signature snack food cost double for no apparent reason. The industry also enjoyed that for the first time they wouldn't need to hire a crew of 15 to operate it plus a gift shop stuffed full of merchandise that no one would buy. Including of course the aforementioned moose in a logo t-shirt and an on-ride photo that the carny just happened to also be in.</p>
<p dir=ltr>With such great creative names as "boomerang" and the ride being installed in every Six Flags, Cedar Fair, and cheap mom and pop park North of the Equator, it was only a matter of time before the faithful developed their own names. Among them "bitch slap, worthless POS, giant waste of money, and of course head spin." The later of which was used by Cedar Fair during the great Geauga Lake debacle of 2004. For more information see Kinzel v. Geauga Lake Fans, Staff, and everyone who didn't get rich off of Paramount Parks circa 2007.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Sufficient to say, with a reputation like this, the industry is well placed to look at their colleagues in the MidWest and go "what did you expect?!" Seriously though, if you are forced to choose between a sharp stick to the eye or riding a Vekoma boomerang, think really hard. They'll both just about kill you and suck worse then a Vekoma SLC. The history of which is soon forthcoming as we've just discovered a new document written by one of the men who dreamed up that creature, before being forced to ride a boomerang till he died.</p>
<p dir=ltr>Which only took one time.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135638787514285934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-62889087760651774322013-06-22T13:48:00.001-04:002013-06-26T14:47:41.899-04:00Gatekeeper Mystery Solved At Last<div dir="ltr">
Fan boys have long wondered the great mysteries of Cedar Point. Does 12E mean anything? Will Dick Kinzel by released from the Carbonite? What well loved attraction will they tear out next in a hope to beat Magic Mountain to the title? Will the Golden Ticket ever go to a good park? And most intriguing, why do they keep building rides that have to close during the lightest breeze at a park next to a lake?</div>
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These legends and more have been solved in the past. But now the greatest mystery emerges. Gatekeeper has two keyholes. First, who has the keys? Second, what happens if one or both of them are turned? Third, do they have to be turned like the scene in the beginning of Wargames? Or is it more of a Hunt for Red October thing? Or perhaps Crimson Tide?</div>
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According to sources close to someone who thinks they know a guy working at a nacho stand rumored to be on the Cedar Point peninsula, the first key was buried beneath the former concrete pad of the Wildcat. The source isn't sure is the key is still there or not, but we have been told that "dancers" and "singers" that now call the area home have attempted to locate it in the hopes of ensuring they won't be kicked out when it is determined that they were never meant to be allowed to torture the human race.</div>
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The whereabouts of the second key are still unknown. But the same guy who may or may not work at a nacho stand has ventured into the secret command center and discovered the mystery that the keys cause. If both keys are turned at the same time, the "reverse lycene contingency" is engaged. This causes a certain group of animatronic lizards to return to their alive state. According to the book left open on the counter, the lizards are tasked with charging towards Florida to destroy a mouse. Not without picking up their leader, creator, and former chief executive who will lead them to victory while riding a tyrannosaurus.</div>
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For now the keys are safe. If something does go wrong though, you're all on your own. </div>
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Thankfully, we own an island off the coast of Costa Rica.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15135638787514285934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-57457041490769010042010-05-23T08:20:00.000-04:002010-05-23T08:20:46.798-04:00Texas to Adopt "Intamin Math" in State CurriculumThe Texas Board of Education recently adopted sweeping changes to that state's textbook guidelines, with most focus going to positive references to Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the National Rifle Association.<br />
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Lesser noticed were those changes to the math and engineering curricula for Texas students. Inspired by Intamin's <a href="http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20100512/NEWS01/5120303/Engineering-problem-causes-Cedar-Point-to-delay-opening-of-new-water-ride">recent work at Cedar Point</a>, the Board adopted what it called "Intamin Math."<br />
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"For far too long, the liberal elite has forced students to believe that there's only one way to add numbers together, and that engineers should use 'precise data,' whatever that even means," said Board spokeswoman Julie Delphi. "Just like evolution and climate change, the Pythagorean theorem is just a theory -- no better than a guess! So we'll be teaching the controversy about that and about all of math." <br />
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Referencing a mnemonic frequently used in trigonometry, Delphi added, "SOHCAHTOA, we think, is some sort of invitation to the illegals, so that'll be out for sure. And 'taking a derivative' of something sounds like a slam on the good derivatives traders on Wall Street, so calculus is off limits now."<br />
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The new engineering curriculum will introduce students to ideas such as "Kinda measure once, build two or three times and change it a few more dozen times," "Failsafes are okay but not really needed," and numbers like "eleventy-four" and "thirty-twelve." <br />
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Intamin will also appear in the state's business curriculum as an example of a company that somehow continues to exist despite its massive and obvious failings.<br />
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--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-74991748677137460972010-03-06T15:16:00.000-05:002010-03-06T15:16:22.190-05:00<b>Who misses Jack?</b><br />
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We do. Not that there's anything new to see, but please, go check out the <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/JL1110/start">State Showcase Funpark Extravaganza Place of Fun and Stars discussion board</a>. We, to be sure, are ready to buy our season passes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-15959585024753285812010-03-06T12:32:00.002-05:002010-03-06T17:58:14.973-05:00This blog is now located at http://coasterrumors.blogspot.com/.<br />
You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click <a href="http://coasterrumors.blogspot.com/">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-26065747038020612172009-08-10T20:43:00.003-04:002009-08-10T20:44:21.865-04:00<b>Like the Stories, But Find All Those "Words" and "Paragraphs" Daunting?</b><br /><br />Lucky you. You can now get ARN&R in 140 characters (or fewer!) at <a href="http://twitter.com/coasterrumors">our Twitter feed</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-1403341788030157462009-07-28T11:58:00.003-04:002009-07-28T12:08:57.834-04:00<b>Leading Prick Website Calls For Boycott of Leading Hair Loss Website for Calling for Boycott of Theme Park</b><br /><br />Miami, FL July 28, 2009 -- PrickCentralBook.com, the leading social network website dedicated to making strong and lasting connections among utter pricks, is calling for officials at <a href="http://hairloss.com">HairLoss.com</a>, to cease advocating a boycott of Freestyle Park or face a boycott from its tens of thousands of prick participants.<br /><br />A few days ago, HairLoss.com <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2682244.htm">announced</a> its intention to call for a boycott of the Myrtle Beach theme park after one of its ads depicted a rider losing his toupee on the Time Machine roller coaster. "The officials at Freestyle Music Park should be ashamed and embarrassed for not only promoting this cheap, low-level and insulting ad, but then by defending it as 'fun'," said Michael Garcia, spokesman for HairLoss.com in its press release.<br /><br />In response, PrickCentralBook.com's spokeswoman Janet Fleming-Reynolds, herself a total prick, said that HairLoss.com "should be ashamed and embarrassed for promoting a view of pricks that is even worse than we deserve." Fleming-Reynolds continued: "Upwards of 40% of our male prick members are bald or balding, and, being total pricks, most of them use a toupee -- oh, sorry, a 'hair system.' But not even they are sufficiently prickish to think that this ad is offensive. Yes, we know lots of people lose their hair due to cancer treatment and the like, and of course, no, we're not enough of pricks to make fun of them. But that's not what the park was doing."<br /><br />Other similar sites, including MyAsshatBook.com and DickWeedSpace.com, are considering similar actions, according to reports.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-28461723760285265472009-03-05T11:04:00.000-05:002009-03-05T11:05:07.388-05:00<b>Writing Our Acceptance Speech Already...</b><br /><br />Looking forward to winning <a href="http://www.interthemepark.com/honor_roll/honor_roll.htm">this award</a>. Thanks in advance to our tens and tens of fans for nominating us repeatedly.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-31580062009887658572009-02-25T18:47:00.003-05:002009-02-25T18:47:59.711-05:00<b>Our Question Is...</b><br /><br />When will <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/4de244010e0a4f88#">Flying Turns</a> open?<br /><br />We demand precision!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-3794701828706929642009-01-22T22:49:00.005-05:002009-01-23T07:20:31.769-05:00<b>Are You Ready?</b><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2009&month=01&date=23&hrs=14&ts=24&min=53&sec=0&tz=-300&lang=en&show=hms&mode=t&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20To" width="250" height="365" scrolling="no" frameborder="1" style="overflow:hidden;width:15.6em;height:22.8em;"><a href="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2009&month=01&date=23&hrs=14&ts=24&min=53&sec=0&tz=-300&lang=en&show=hms&mode=t&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&fgcolor=%23000000&title=Countdown%20To">Countdown To</a></iframe><br /><br />That's how long until the next Theme Park Review Friday update at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/topics">RRC</a> if it appears as the same time as <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/bb757725cb470560#">last week</a>.<br /><br /><b>Update</b>: OHMIGODOHMIGOD THEY POSTED EARLY!!!@!!!@! <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/19bba8459b5f01b7#">CHECK IT OUT</A> PEEEPS!!!!!!!!1 And...go!<br /><br />Get yer typing fingers ready! Get yer insane asshattery prepared!<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-76428786539435010142009-01-21T10:08:00.002-05:002009-01-21T10:20:49.791-05:00<b>NYC: "Yes, We Would Like Coney Island to Look Just Like Your Mall."</b><br /><br />In a surprising announcement, the New York City government acknowledged today that it does, in fact, want Coney Island ultimately to look like your regional mall. "In particular, we are seeking to emulate that classic and intensely missed mall, the <a href="http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/northland_shopping_center.html">Northland Shopping Center</a> of Jennings, Missouri. But with new and similarly generic stores."<br /><br />The press release continued: "Why have local and eclectic amusements, and historical buildings? Why have the original Nathan's? The answer is: No reason, when you can have a Gap, FYE, Abercrombie & Fitch, and, most critically, a One Potato Two <i>and</i> a Mrs. Fields Cookies."<br /><br />Construction on the expected thirteen Starbucks will start immediately. Additionally, the press release notes that all current Coney Island residents will be replaced by white people from South Dakota.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-19135852606927700602009-01-21T09:32:00.001-05:002009-01-21T09:33:08.974-05:00<b>Royalty Comes Out in Full Force for Inauguration</b><br /><br />What's that? All those drama queens are actually just responding to a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/bb757725cb470560#">TPR thread</a>?<br /><br />Huh.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-40613970000336873462008-12-24T09:34:00.002-05:002008-12-24T09:53:36.417-05:00<b>Fight! Fight! Fight!</b><br /><br />It's a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/53d62c01ef3e34d1#">fight</a>!<br /><br />An incredibly lame, petty, pointless fight, one in which you just hope everyone beats the crap out of everyone else, but a fight!<br /><br />Whoo!<br /><br />--GP<br /><br />P.S. to people who bring kids into a fight: you're idiots.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-45306124022653895932008-12-22T12:28:00.003-05:002008-12-22T12:30:51.638-05:00<b>Six Flags Again Does Our Job For Us</b><br /><br />Really, Six Flags? You have so much extra money around that you think it makes sense to start a...wait a minute, we can't be reading this right. It's gotta be a typo. Just a second, let us go check on this.<br /><br />[Sounds of rummaging through papers...]<br /><br />Really? That's what it is?<br /><br /><a href="http://coastercuts.com/">A hair cutting store chain</a>? Themed after a floundering amusement park chain?<br /><br />WTF?<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-74455107096177367202008-10-24T09:30:00.002-04:002008-10-24T09:32:34.479-04:00<b>Least Surprising News Ever</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-universal2308oct23,0,2330921.story">NoGodForYouNorWillThereBeUniversalThemeParksForYou</a>.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-42286850008318224972008-08-29T16:56:00.002-04:002008-08-29T16:56:49.269-04:00<b>We apologize for the delay</b><br /><br /><a href="http://bethtoons.com/blog/2008/02/18/free-pattern-coaster-rider-dishcloth/">This</a> certainly does call for mockery, but we can't quite bring ourselves to do it. Too damn cute.<br /><br />Clearly, we are losing it.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-59879831269098493652008-08-27T09:09:00.002-04:002008-08-27T09:17:58.499-04:00<b>Holiday World Announces Very Very Large Water Feature</b><br /><br />In a highly-anticipated move, Holiday World recently <a href="http://www.holidayworld.com/new2009.html">announced</a> a very very large water feature, easily eclipsing its <a href="http://www.holidayworld.com/holiblog/2005/04/where-did-our-fountain-go.html">Applause Hands fountain</a> as the biggest non-passenger-carrying water feature in the park.<br /><br />"We knew we needed a big attraction, but we didn't really want something that would carry passengers or, you know, function," said park president Will Koch. "For tall and non-functional engineering and construction, we knew there was only one company to turn to: Intamin. They've got a long and proud tradition of building enormous sculptures that don't actually run in the way you expect rides to operate, you know, with patrons or anything like that. So Pilgrims Plunge will join a long series of zero passengers-per-hour Intamin rides."<br /><br />Holiday World issued a statement declaring that its decision was inspired by Six Flags's addition of the world's largest lawn ornament, Kingda Ka, at its New Jersey park. "That installation was so successful they were able to remove their other decoration, Batman & Robin: The Chiller. We're hoping that Pilgrims Plunge will sit, untouched by patrons actually riding, for many years, providing a great photo background."<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-8853469296504403432008-08-14T11:18:00.002-04:002008-08-14T11:26:05.198-04:00<b>McCain "Very Impressed" by New "Up-Stop Wheel Technology"</b><br /><br />U.S. Senator John McCain, republican nominee for president, sought today to demonstrate his interest in cutting-edge technology by visiting the Coney Island Cyclone in Brooklyn, New York, declaring himself "astonished" at the "space age engineering" involved.<br /><br />"The brilliant engineers who saw the need for wheels on not just the top, but also the bottom, of the wheels, are to be commended!" declared McCain in an exclusive ARN&R interview that took place next to the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aQS_BSK_NgFw&refer=muse">waterboarding installation</a>. "I love the Mauch Chunk Railway, don't get me wrong, but this here, with the up-stop wheels and the hills, this is the future! In a John McCain administration, the American people can rest assured that we will take a cue from the wondrous innovations and break all barriers!"<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-17310260060588532022008-07-22T11:35:00.002-04:002008-07-22T11:35:40.589-04:00<b>Least Capable E-Mail User Ever Found</b><br /><br /><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.roller-coaster/browse_thread/thread/54ca000d985fbeee#">Here</a>.<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-37247212277306857752008-07-17T16:50:00.003-04:002008-07-17T16:56:31.373-04:00<b>For-Profit Company Amazes Investors By Making Profit</b><br /><br />Six Flags Inc., a for-profit company, today enthralled, excited and, frankly disturbingly, aroused observers by <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/07/14/daily61.html?surround=lfn">forecasting</a> that it would make a profit for the first time in its history -- a history during which it has always been formally denominated a for-profit corporation.. <br /><br />"We think we've got this thing figured out now," said CEO Mark Shapiro in an exclusive ARN&R interview. "When we spend less than we bring in, we make this previously mythical thing called a <i>profit</i>. We'd tried a bunch of other stuff, like spending more than we made and offering things that our customers didn't actually want. And the guys before us had what we thought was a great idea too, borrowing billions of dollars more than they could ever make back -- frankly, I'm still surprised that didn't work. But we've got it now! Just call us the pioneers of the amusement industry!"<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-65756166798405025882008-04-08T09:25:00.002-04:002008-04-08T09:31:50.292-04:00<b>Kentucky to Mandate Minimum Teeth Count for Ride Operators</b><br /><br />A little-noted provision in Kentucky's recent <a href="http://coasterbuzz.com/2008-93-184631.htm">legislation</a> to set a minimum age for ride operators is expected to wreak havoc on amusement facilities in the state: henceforth, every ride operator will be required to possess no fewer than ten of his or her original teeth.<br /><br />"This is devastating," said Hank Cash, spokesman for Kentucky's amusement industry group and proud owner of nine original teeth. "It takes a lot of people to staff an amusement park, and fully three-fourths of our residents have fewer than ten teeth. I mean, it could be worse -- they could require basic literacy, which would just destroy us overnight -- but it's pretty awful."<br /><br />State senator Joe Muller, also known as "Toothy McTeeth" to his friends, disagreed. "This is long overdue. We need ride operators with teeth."<br /><br />--GPUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759335.post-40153003881563868612008-02-23T16:48:00.000-05:002008-02-23T16:49:10.861-05:00<strong>Tidbits From All Over<br /></strong><br />Late February means that it’s still the off-season for most parks. But until the usual tales of ridiculous enthusiast public behavior and Six Flags jacking up parking fees three times in one day begin to rear their ugly heads, we here at ARN&R still have some exciting news to report.<br /><br />-Work still continues at Universal Studios Orlando on the Simpsons Ride, which will replace the park’s beloved Back To The Future Ride. A source which declined to be named tells ARN&R that the ride is still on target for a Spring opening, and will mirror the popular Fox animated show closely. He went on to say that the ride will be underwhelming the first three times guests ride it, will become wildly entertaining for rides 4 through 10, and then begin a slow but steady decline in amusement during subsequent experiences.<br /><br />-Idaho’s <a title="Silverwood Theme Park" href="http://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/">Silverwood Theme Park</a> continues to gear up for what park owner Gary Norton calls “the most exciting season in our history”. In addition to the well-publicized news that Silverwood has purchased Six Flags Great America’s Vekoma lawn ornament <a href="http://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/coaster-video.php">Deja Vu</a>, the park plans to open a new food court in its Boulder Beach waterpark, and move forward with a botanical beautification project. Sliverwood has also been aggressively recruiting new employees through newspaper ads, internet postings, and job fairs, and has added nearly five hundred new hires. Norton denies the rumor that most of these new employees will be used to manually lift Deja Vu trains “tug of war” style up the lift towers during the coaster’s many mechanical failures.<br /><br />--<a href="mailto:cmv@absolutelyreliable.com">CMV</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1