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Sightlines are overrated
I wonder if JKR reads this thread / has seen those sight lines with Hogsmeade behind!
Sightlines are overrated
I thought this would be an interesting aside, in lieu of all the engineering and mechanical aspects of this high speed new Jurassic Park coaster,that posters have been salivating over....From The History Channel ..." 1884 today, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, NY. Known as a switchback railway, it traveled apx. 6 miles an hr." ...Coasters have come a long way. :thumbsup:
Someone get Kevin Dinallo on the phone! We need full verification stat!I decided to peruse the trademark filing for the Velocicoaster name, and saw this interesting tidbit:
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Updated in January, and the file is now in the "intent to use" section. Take from that what you will. :grin:
"Hello, Kevin? TELL ME EVERYTHING!"Someone get Kevin Dinallo on the phone! We need full verification stat!
The ride was 5 cents for one ride on that monster of a coaster. which was actually a tidy sum back then......I recall when I was a young kid in late 1950's Kennywood, and they had tickets to buy for a ride. A ride on one of the coasters was a 10 cent ticket....Soooo, 5 cents 70 years earlier would have been bit steep.....The article continued, and here's where it's interesting on how popular amusement parks were in the early 1920's. On a typical summer day in the 1920's, the three separate parks and beach that comprised Coney Island would get over One Million visitors a day. And we think it's crazy that Magic Kingdom gets 20 million visitors a year. And, no Express passes or Fastpasses. Plus most men wore woolen suits and hats in the summer heat.There’s always talk about how people from the past would be mind blown in today’s technological world but imagine bringing somebody from 1884 and putting them on something like Iron Gwazi. They would freak out and then wonder why people would do that for fun. Then wonder why people would pay so much for it. $100 in 1884 is about $2500 today.
The ride was 5 cents for one ride on that monster of a coaster. which was actually a tidy sum back then......I recall when I was a young kid in late 1950's Kennywood, and they had tickets to buy for a ride. A ride on one of the coasters was a 10 cent ticket....Soooo, 5 cents 70 years earlier would have been bit steep.....The article continued, and here's where it's interesting on how popular amusement parks were in the early 1920's. On a typical summer day in the 1920's, the three separate parks and beach that comprised Coney Island would get over One Million visitors a day. And we think it's crazy that Magic Kingdom gets 20 million visitors a year. And, no Express passes or Fastpasses. Plus most men wore woolen suits and hats in the summer heat.
So I'm just going to put this out there... I could be entirely wrong though. So some of us on the forum have talked about rock work and some elements. Just my observation, but I think one of the elements that everyone is thinking is a rock work element is actually something else. Uhm, if you look at the framework, it looks like it has a neck and a tail. Just putting it out there that it could be for something other than what we're guessing. Okay, I'm going put it out there. It's either for a dinosaur of some kind or o dinosaur shaped rock. Take that for what you will.
You're not wrong, it definitely has that look. But given the information we have, it sounds like it's going to be some kind of rock wall/waterfall with rock overhangs. The parts that extend out like a tail and neck are most likely going to be spots the coaster cuts through.So I'm just going to put this out there... I could be entirely wrong though. So some of us on the forum have talked about rock work and some elements. Just my observation, but I think one of the elements that everyone is thinking is a rock work element is actually something else. Uhm, if you look at the framework, it looks like it has a neck and a tail. Just putting it out there that it could be for something other than what we're guessing. Okay, I'm going put it out there. It's either for a dinosaur of some kind or o dinosaur shaped rock. Take that for what you will.
So I'm just going to put this out there... I could be entirely wrong though. So some of us on the forum have talked about rock work and some elements. Just my observation, but I think one of the elements that everyone is thinking is a rock work element is actually something else. Uhm, if you look at the framework, it looks like it has a neck and a tail. Just putting it out there that it could be for something other than what we're guessing. Okay, I'm going put it out there. It's either for a dinosaur of some kind or o dinosaur shaped rock. Take that for what you will.
The fact that they are hand sculpting the rock work tells me that there isn't going to be a lot of rock work.