Now for something totally different

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Well, now that it's summer, and people are hitting the amusement parks, it's coaster time!!

I know some of you, as well as myself are total coaster nuts. Here's a new one that opened up back in April at Carowinds, down in Carolina. An article on it can be found here: Star Trek Borg Assimilator Roller Coaster

 

It's a flyer, with 8 inversions!

 

Anyone been on the new Dragster up at Ceder Point yet this year? How was it?

 

Blu

Edited July 11, 2004 by STSF_BluRox

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wouldn't a borg rollercoaster be cube shaped and involve getting your eye torn out and replaced with a blnking light?

[Seiben 0]

Oh, that's the thing I read about in Startrek.com Sounds fun.. but a little too far for me. lol.. I'll just stick with the rides at Paramount Canada's Wonderland, or Six Flags Darien Lake (which is about 4 hours away)

[Tachyon 0]

We've only got a dinky little roller-coaster at our local amusement park . . . very old and probably unsafe.

 

As much as I love Borg stuff, I don't travel a lot and I don't go on amusement park rides (as you can see, I don't get out much). My only exception is the Tilt-a-Whirl at our local amusement park, that's a great ride.

 

So it sounds like a good idea, for those of you more inclined to roller coaster rides.

[Vex Xiang 0]

Themed roller coasters are stupid. I think this Borg Rollercoaster is just plain a dumb idea some amusement park thought of to get Trekkies to their park and make money and Paramount loved getting a piece of it.

 

If you took the Hulk ride, painted it black and stuck a cardboard Borg cutout in front of it you wouldn't know the difference.

 

Paramount is such a sell-out :D

Edited July 11, 2004 by Vex Xiang

[John_Anderson 0]

Anyone been on the new Dragster up at Ceder Point yet this year? How was it?

 

Blu

OOHHH!! Don't get me started on Dragster! :D

 

I went to Ceder Point last summer for the very first time, and yes I had a blast :D . Anyways Dragster had been open for a few months already, but they were still having problems with it (Like they do with every new ride), but one of the people that worked at Millennium Force (Loved it!) said that there was a chance that the Dragster would open later on in the day.

 

Well we thought 'Yea, whatever', so we just went on and rode almost every coaster in the park(We avoided the wooden ones after I got a major headache after riding Mean Streak).

 

The day was winding down and we had just gotten off of Millennium Force after the second go, when we looked over the horizon and saw them doing test run on Dragster! (I mean how could you not see the thing, it was over 400 feet tall! You could see it from almost any point in the park)

 

So we all flipped! We ran over and got in the huge line that was already forming outside the entrance of the ride. We were stoked. We stood there for an hour and a half (To kill time we went and rode Power Tower in turn :D ) and watched them do test run after sucessful test run, but, when they finally decided to do a human test run, with some of the people that worked the ride, the car stalled before reaching the top and went rolling back to the starting point.

 

So all of us knew that they wouldn't open the ride since it took them 15 minutes to relaunch the dang car....

 

So we left the line and before we left out of the park we went and rode Magnum for the third time....

 

Anyways, I still had fun, but I was just so teed that Dragster wasn't working, and I missed a chance to ride the crazy thing. Guess you can't have everything....oh well. I can wait till next year ^_^

 

EDIT: Oh and about the roller coaster; it looks neat, can't say I've been on one of the 'flyer' roller coasters, but I wouldn't mind giving the coaster a go. :)

Edited July 12, 2004 by John_Anderson

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Oooo......Hey Huff!! New coaster open in Vegas.....

 

Speed, at the Nascar Cafe and Sahara!!

 

Speed the Coaster

 

Gotta make sure we hit this in Vegas later this week!!

 

Blu

[Dumbass 0]

Actually, I think Huff, Lebowski, Fred, and myself went on this last year.

[kyle_mele 0]

i cry that you forget i went as well. :|

[Dumbass 0]

Oh, yeah, Kyle too.