Recent content by King Ghidorah

Re: Exactly, and not limited to only Mission Bay, but the entire California coastline. Just recently, the CCC shot down plans for replacing a dilapidated crack-hotel across from Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Specifically because developers wanted to rebuild taller than the current limit, which in turn...

Thinking any of these Miner Mikes types have it beat: http://www.rcdb.com/3344.htm?p=13942

Exactly, not a big loss as far as I'm concerned. Even though I was a regular visitor there since opening year (1976) and have always lived within 10 minutes of the place, hadn't been there in over decade, just wasn't worth it anymore. CF had been trying to unload this place for years, was only a...

^ Oh ok, I agree. They have till next spring to fine tune, hopefully they'll come up with a better solution by then.

On this clip, the puppeteer refers to the strobe as "fire"(http://vimeo.com/27802416). I imagine using real fire from the mouth would be out of the question with all the flammable materials used for the realistic skins. Hopefully the strobe effect/fire from the side looks better live. Would also...

Re: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Coaster - Magic Kingdom (WDW) Interesting, had no idea OR was suppose to do this. Great idea with an unfortunate execution (should have started off with a much smaller scale prototype, then go big). But you're right, that would definitely be the first and most likely...

From my screen name/avatar, can probably guess I'm a big fan of dragons. And HTTYD is one of my all time favorite movies. So for me, the below preview for How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, thought I'd share...

^ Not sure if this is the same pic, but the below graphically demonstrates how horrible this accident was:

This will feature trains that are the first of their kind, a very interesting new twist on the basic family coaster. The below 2 video clips give you the general idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTyOITQmpsg&feature=player_embedded...

Totally agree! I'm assuming whatever reliability/capacity issues S:TE suffered will be addressed in the extended renovation. I would hope that they'd be smarter than that to build up all the hype, then just slap new cars/paint on all what was wrong with it in the last few years. Otherwise I...

Just posted over at Screamscape: http://www.screamscape.com/html/six_flags_magic_mountain.htm We all knew about Superman backwards and the kiddie coaster, but the Green Lantern-themed ZacSpin came out of nowhere! Way to go SFMM!

^ Good to hear I was able to properly convey the spirit of the place (we were a trio of grown adults with no kids, still had a great time!). Great screen name BTW! :lol:

^^^ Yea, they had 1 train op and 1 poor girl operating the entire thing all by herself. The opening was much publicized, but by now I imagine lines are no where near where they were on that day. ^^ Thank you for the comments guys! I also love visiting small quirky parks like this too, don't...

Thanks guy, appreciate it. Actually did send a few to Duane, glad he was able to use some of them.

Hi everyone. New guy here but have been a long, LONG time CF lurker. Great site, everyone here seems pretty cool. A little late here, but I figured the opening of a new local park was a good excuse for me to finally join CF and post a photo trip report. Now this is basically just a small...