08-18-2005, 11:50 PM
|  | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: "It's Lu-ah-vuol, not Lu-is-ville", Kentucky Age: 19
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| | | Wow you must have a lot of time on your hands.
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I'm going to be in a movie one day about all the people who enjoy riding T2. The movie will be called The Fantastic Four.
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08-19-2005, 12:26 AM
|  | I'm the good looking one | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Ca$hville, Nashvega$ Age: 29
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| | | I didn't see a "let's make up ride names" note in this thread... |
08-19-2005, 01:22 AM
|  | "Stairway to Heaven" | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Harwood Heights (SUBURBIA), IL Age: 30
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Originally Posted by Steven This isn't the employee commons for nothing... employees with vent about stuff like that (trust me, having worked at 2 parks myself, I understand their pain). Let them vent.
Both of you work the entrance of a coaster for a while and I will guarantee you that you will get irritated after a period of time (especially when you get brainless people pointing to Gemini and asking if it's Magnum... | I can understand being upset over major rides and coasters being mistaken but to me, so many water rides are generic. So I don't see a big deal about it, but that's just me. I get that type of stuff at my job too but that's people for ya. And besides, my post was more aimed at making a funny. I failed, I guess.
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08-19-2005, 10:07 AM
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| | | Some of these misspells are pretty funny I like "Kingdom Come" and King Kong for Kingda Ka. One I hear accidentally on purpose is Son of a B**ch for Son of Beast at PKI. I would have to admit myself to saying a few goofs on Geauga's rides. I was behind the times on the change over stuff.
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08-19-2005, 10:44 AM
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| | Son Of B**ch would be the correct name, not a typo 
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08-19-2005, 02:33 PM
|  | Nothing could be finer... | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Charlotte, NC Age: 36
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| | | Yeah when I realized son of beast's abbreviation was SOB, I thought it was the most perfect abreviation ever for a coaster. lol
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08-19-2005, 06:29 PM
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| | | Excuse me, where's the Rolling Stones?
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08-20-2005, 09:54 AM
|  | SpeedZone Staff | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Huizen, Netherlands Age: 22
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Originally Posted by EastCoastn07 Tons of people still call the coasters by their Six Flags names. | How often is Xpress @ Walibi World called Superman... @ SFH even...  while it does not even have Superman colors 
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08-20-2005, 05:10 PM
| | Minetrain Poster | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Middletown, PA Age: 20
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| | | At Hersheypark people always call Tidal Force the Tidal Wave. They also call Storm Runner, Storm Chaser; Great Bear, Big Bear; Pony Parade, Pony Express. That's all that I know, I've worked in Midway America for 3 years so I usually dont get out of the group. |
08-22-2005, 07:43 PM
|  | Coaster Lover | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Amusement Parks Age: 21
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Originally Posted by EastCoastn07 Tons of people still call the coasters at Geauga Lake by their Six Flags names. My dad still does it and it annoys the crap out of me. I guess people aren't used to the transition yet, hopefully after a few seasons they'll finally get it. | I love how some people do a combination of ride names from Six Flags and Geauga Lake. Like the Dominator becomes: Batmanator, and Steel Venom becomes: Superman Venom.
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08-27-2005, 08:02 PM
|  | Minetrain Poster | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Louisville/Lexington Ky Age: 27
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| | | Or how about referring to certain rides as rides from other parks?
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"Can you tell me where Son of Beast is?"
"Sure...two hours north east of here!"
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08-28-2005, 01:16 PM
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| | | I've heard V2 @ SFGAm called Deja Vu. I've also heard SD called Orient Express. And then there's the classic "rolly coaster." But my biggest pet peeve is when people put "the" in front of any ride that doesn't have "the" in its name (eg: The Mamba, The Batman, The Boomerang, The Space Shot, etc.)
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09-13-2005, 05:58 PM
| | Wooden Poster | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: "It's Lu-ah-vuol, not Lu-is-ville", Kentucky Age: 19
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| | | How about when guests simply abbreviate names. I've heard the Penguin's Blizzard River simply called the Penguin ride; kind of funny actually.
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09-13-2005, 06:34 PM
| | Let gravity do the work. | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 22
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| | | There is never a day at Magic Mountain where X isn't referred to as "The Xtreme" by guests. Nobody ever calls The Riddler's Revenge by its full name, they just say "Riddler" and the same is with Batman - The Ride (just Batman) and Superman - The Escape (just Superman). I've also heard "Colossal" (Colossus).
Although this is an isolated incident, this one lady oustide SFMM was looking at the list of rides were temporarily not operating for that day, and Superman - The Escape was in the list. She didn't connect both parts of the ride's name together as one and asked her spouse "...Superman's closed too. So is The Escape, is that new? I don't think I've been on that, too bad it's not open."
At Knott's, I hear Jaguar! pronounced "Jaguire" so many times. |
09-13-2005, 06:38 PM
|  | Goliath Poster | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: THE VALLEY Age: 19
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| | | when colossus is having technical diffcultys every other person will ask me is this the orange one.i say no thats GOLIATH this is the white one ohhhhhhhhhh.im like duhhh | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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