10-14-2003, 07:09 AM
|  | Nothing could be finer... | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Charlotte, NC Age: 36
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| | | Favorite Drop Tower???
I searched, and to my surprise this has not been discussed!
So, what's your favorite drop tower(s)?
Mine would be:
1) Drop Zone - PKI
2) Drop Zone - PKD
3) Dr. Doom's Fear Fall - IOA
4) Acrophobia - SFOG (I like the height, hate the seats)
5) Drop Zone - PC
Haven't been on Power Tower yet, because of the lines everytime I've been at CP (only twice).
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10-14-2003, 07:26 AM
|  | MF/TTD/CP sucks.. lololol | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Melrose - (Near Boston) - M.A. 983 Miles from Carolina Cyclone Age: 22
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| | give'n yourself 5stars eh?.. umm the best drop tower would be ToT at MGM 
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10-14-2003, 07:33 AM
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| | | I've never been on any of these. The best I've been on is Dominator at DP.
I will probably never ride one of these again. I fell out of it the last time.
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10-14-2003, 07:38 AM
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| | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by sfne stinks [/i]
[B]give'n yourself 5stars eh?.. umm the best drop tower would be ToT at MGM [/B][/QUOTE]
Hey, might as well lol
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10-14-2003, 07:40 AM
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| | | I vote Acrophobia for scariest, but the S&S launch towers and 1st gen. freefalls are fun to ride. |
10-14-2003, 09:15 AM
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| | | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Diesel [/i]
[B]I've never been on any of these. The best I've been on is Dominator at DP.
I will probably never ride one of these again. I fell out of it the last time. [/B][/QUOTE]
howd u fall out
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10-14-2003, 09:48 AM
| | MF/TTD/CP sucks.. lololol | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Melrose - (Near Boston) - M.A. 983 Miles from Carolina Cyclone Age: 22
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| | | i dont think he really fell out...........
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10-14-2003, 10:27 AM
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| | | 1st Generation free falls and ToT at MGM.
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10-14-2003, 11:28 AM
| | Ain't followin' Whitey's rules | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Dover, PA Age: 30
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| | | Well, we were at the top. And the ride-op dropped his soda, he rushed around looking for napkins and hit the e-stop. Well.. This triggered the hydraulics in the seat to open, and weeeeeeeeeeeeee I fell straight down about 100 feet and hit the ground hard. I skinned my knee, but DP paid for the socks that were stained by the blood.
I'll never ride that thing again.
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10-14-2003, 12:53 PM
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| | | Alright, seriously, that's just dumb. Those things have so many redundant safety systems that even if the ludicrious story you told were even patially true, you'd still have had to unbuckle your seat belt and over come the hydraulic force which isn't released during an e-stop unless the ride engages the sensors at the base of the tower. That and a 100 foot fall which gave you bloody socks? Come on now. We're not all 12.
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10-14-2003, 04:50 PM
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| | | I have only been on the one over at kennywood, power tower at cedar point and the drop zone at PKI, personally i love droop zone cause of the sweet drop you get over there. |
10-14-2003, 05:00 PM
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| | | *insert name of an Intamin first generation drop here* |
10-14-2003, 05:05 PM
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| | | HaHa
[QUOTE]Alright, seriously, that's just dumb. Those things have so many redundant safety systems that even if the ludicrious story you told were even patially true, you'd still have had to unbuckle your seat belt and over come the hydraulic force which isn't released during an e-stop unless the ride engages the sensors at the base of the tower. That and a 100 foot fall which gave you bloody socks? Come on now. We're not all 12.[/QUOTE]
He was joking... calm down... lol. But thanks for letting us know how drop towers work... interesting.... As for the bloody socks, I think theme parks would replace them if you got hurt.. I mean, they're just socks... |
10-14-2003, 05:11 PM
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| | | I'm going to go with Acrophobia, but it usually changes after each time I go on another one.
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10-14-2003, 06:48 PM
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| | | [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by leeloo1953 [/i]
[B]I don't like any of them and will not ride them. [/B][/QUOTE]
Why not LeeLoo? They're fun...short but fun.
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