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Monkey
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Joined: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:24 pm Posts: 1630 Location: Louisville Slugger
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marswillrule wrote: The millennium force is the best coaster I've ever been on. It's so fast and so smooth. My wife lost her vision on it. The Gs man, the Gs. I second this, best coaster EVER!
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Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:55 pm Posts: 1337 Location: Cleveland Ohio
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wow what is up with all the X-Ohioans F'ing traitors  it is not THAT bad of a state
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coasterbear
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Joined: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 243 Location: SF Bay Area
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LamourSupreme wrote: the only roller coasters I get to ride these days are Disney ones which are not bad. Missy, how do they compare to the six flag ones and other amusement rides? How does Chicken Little compare to Avatar?
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skylar
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Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:56 am Posts: 2814 Location: south jersey
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coasterbear wrote: Congratulations Missy! I hit my 500 mark this summer (Hades at Mt. Olympus in Wisconsin Dells.)
Cedar Point was also my "home park" growing up in Akron. Our trip there was the highlight of every summer. The Blue Streak was my first adult coaster; I rode it between my mother and my aunt back when the park ended about where the Corkscrew corkscrews are now...only the train and the boat trip went back into the wilds of the peninsula. I really miss the Fun House which was where Wicked Twister is now. Mt. Olympus is on the short list of places to hit; tried to plan a trip there this year and just didn't make it, but Hades looks incredible. I saw it just ranked top 10 wood in the new Golden Ticket awards.
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marswillrule
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Joined: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:48 am Posts: 1353 Location: Planet Motherfucker
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I might have to make a trip back to Ohio next year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqhApNBjes
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severen
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Joined: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:35 pm Posts: 744 Location: Akron, OH
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Let me know when you decide to make the trip, Mars. We try to get a group up there at least once a year. A skullbrain Cedar Point adventure day sounds pretty awesome to me! Halloweekends are coming up soon as well 
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Greasebat
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Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:48 pm Posts: 2415 Location: NE OHIO
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Let me know too- I live in Akron, takes me a little over an hour to get to Cedar Point. Luckily my young daughter loves to be scared silly on roller coasters, although she hasn't worked herself up to the Top Thrill Dragster yet.
It was so cool going on the Corkscrew with her, I remember riding it when it opened.
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eckotyper
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Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:07 am Posts: 2189
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Lex Luthor : Drop of doom was the scariest ride I've Been on. And superman now that it is backwards is crazy!
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DrilOne
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Joined: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:19 pm Posts: 1075
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Who is from NY or Jersey that has experienced Action Park back in the day
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antithesis816
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:33 am Posts: 178 Location: Kent, Ohio
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Waiting... wrote: wow what is up with all the X-Ohioans F'ing traitors  it is not THAT bad of a state Hey, I moved to Knoxville for work, but I can't wait to come back to Ohio! Born and raised, Tennessee just doesn't cut it. Dollywood has a couple great coasters... at $56 a ticket. Ouch. I'm going to Japan in May, and I'll probably be going to Fuji-Q high Land, and they have some truly nuts coasters there. Again though, living near Cedar Point my whole life, you get spoiled - and our local Six Flags (before it closed) had some really solid rides going (damn I miss The Villain). I hear people talk about other Six Flags and stuff, but you can't compare it to Cedar Point. You just can't. The place is unstoppable and it's nearing 16 coasters total.
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Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:55 pm Posts: 1337 Location: Cleveland Ohio
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so foundations have begun to be poured for the gatekeeper, don't know how it eluded me but I didn't realize disaster transport was being demolished to build this  way sad to say the least  disaster transport was so unique and I know in recent years they let it go down hill as far as interior aesthetics go but still an awsome ride
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ungawa222
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Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:10 pm Posts: 3404 Location: NOW QUASI IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
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DrilOne wrote: Who is from NY or Jersey that has experienced Action Park back in the day Present! Many a fine summer day spent at Accident Park... The wiki is a must-read, and the links at the bottom are very worth checking out... what an unbelievable, fun, extremely dangerous run that place had... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park
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Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:55 pm Posts: 1337 Location: Cleveland Ohio
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awsome share on the accident park wikipedia article, I love me some danger and excitement but would have to question the mentality of any parent that took their kid there knowing full well the parks rep, the full loop waterslide is an awsome idea but they should have known better than to build it 
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DrilOne
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Waiting... wrote: awsome share on the accident park wikipedia article, I love me some danger and excitement but would have to question the mentality of any parent that took their kid there knowing full well the parks rep, the full loop waterslide is an awsome idea but they should have known better than to build it  There was no internet then so you just went... I gotta say it was so much fun, but god damn did I come home with bruises. The big water slide you would float in the air as you went down the 80 degree ... maybe 90 degree slide. Crazy! 
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DrilOne
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Joined: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:19 pm Posts: 1075
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ungawa222 wrote: DrilOne wrote: Who is from NY or Jersey that has experienced Action Park back in the day Present! Many a fine summer day spent at Accident Park... The wiki is a must-read, and the links at the bottom are very worth checking out... what an unbelievable, fun, extremely dangerous run that place had... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park
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DrilOne
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If anyone wants to see and read about all the dangers go here - http://weirdnj.com/stories/action-park/
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ungawa222
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Every visit there (and I probably went about 8 times), I witnessed an accident or injury. I once saw a guy driving one of those mini speedboats launch himself out of the waterway, catch air, then land (right-side-up, thank god) with a solid thud on the grass, like a giant shot put. The man then begin to let out a low bellow of pain, likely from a traumatized back.
You're right on that 85-degree slide, Dril- your body barely touched the surface on the way down. Incredible. Do you remember the other slide like that, except it had rollers all the way down, and you went on your knees on a small rigid sled-type thing? Then you'd skip like a stone across the water, hopefully stopping before you hit the stairs?
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DrilOne
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ungawa222 wrote: Every visit there (and I probably went about 8 times), I witnessed an accident or injury. I once saw a guy driving one of those mini speedboats launch himself out of the waterway, catch air, then land (right-side-up, thank god) with a solid thud on the grass, like a giant shot put. The man then begin to let out a low bellow of pain, likely from a traumatized back.
You're right on that 85-degree slide, Dril- your body barely touched the surface on the way down. Incredible. Do you remeber the other slide like that, except it had rollers all the way down, and you went on your knees on a small rigid sled-type thing? Then you'd skip like a stone across the water, hopefully stopping before you hit the stairs? I loved the roller one.
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