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- From: mac18@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Cornell)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: Wooden Rollercoasters
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:17:40 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov16.111232.14838@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Reply-To: mac18@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Cornell)
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- In a previous article, rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen) says:
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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.
- >
- >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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- >
- Wasn't that ride that was taken out called The King Cobra? Correct me
- if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a shuttle loop type ride where the ride
- pushed you through a loop and then sent you back thru the loop
- backwards after you went up a slope? If I recall correctly, it was
- green. I remember seeing it on an old show about Coasters on the
- Discovery Channel a year back. It was hosted by Vincent Price, I think.
- I remember them showing the King Cobra and Rebel Yell from KD, I'm
- not sure what else they showed.
-
- Mike Cornell
- mac18@po.cwru.edu
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