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- From: rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen)
- Subject: Wooden Rollercoasters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.111232.14838@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:12:32 GMT
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- Call me old fashion, but the old wooden rollercoasters really
- get me. My favorite is the Grizzley at Kings Dominion. The
- steel coasters they have there are OK, but seem a little, well
- sex-less. The anacondia has lots of loops, and a tunnel, but
- riding it, is so quiet, it's almost peacefull... definately
- not what I want in a rollercoaster. The Grizzely on the other
- hand, rocks you left, right up and down into your seats. I
- especially love how they have a small camel hump right
- before you enter a tunnel, so it feels like you're going to
- get brained by the roof. A genuinly scary feeling.
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- On the thread about rollercoaster deaths.... KD has had
- one fatality in the last few years. The had an old
- steel coaster called the galaxy that is similair in design to
- those mini-coasters you'd find at State Fairs. The cars had no seatbelts
- in them, and o group of kids decided to have some fun, and stand up in the
- cars... well, it proved to be a fatal mistake, as this one guy ended
- up being decapitated by a cross beam. Ironically, the coaster that
- KD replaced it with is a stand up coaster, called the ShockWave.
- well that's all for now.
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