Anyway, it was great. First thing in the gates, Cyn made a B-Line for the largest rollercoaster in the park, and in the nation actually, the Titan. This thing is a fucking monster, I swear to god I felt like I was going to die, and I've been on coasters my whole life. The first drop alone feels like it's going to kill you. Cyn however, was expressionless, throughout the entire ride until the end, and then she just started bouncing off the walls and wanting to go again.
Ravyn we were afraid was going to be terrified to do anything or would whine all day, she's really prissy. She shocked the hell out of us (Again). We started out small, hitting the kiddie rides because we thought they'd be fun for her, and they were, but she wasn't overly excited... So we gradually moved up. More and more thrilling. We eventually got to the cliffhanger, which we were skeptical about. This is the tower ride that takes you up like 4 stories and then just drops you strait down in a big box. My sister wet herself on this ride when she was a teenager, and it always gets me, so we worried about Ravyn. Without need. She had this permanent full grin PLASTERED to her face the entire time. In fact, her only responce was, "COOL! We went BACKWARDS!" because it drops you backwards when it takes you back up to the loading the lines.
Eventually we moved on to the rollercoasters, starting with the baby coasters, which didn't really amuse her at all... So me, being the loving and caring daddy I am, took her on the fastest, biggest rollercoaster than her 42" could ride... Called the Shockwave. It's the fastest rollercoaster in the part, and the only coaster with consecutive inverted loops, massive G's. This is big stuff even for an adult...I just wanted to see her face. Sadly, she loved it... I mean REALLY loved it, she didn't stop talking about it alll day long. "I wanna go on the looptyloops again, I wanna go on the looptyloops." Of course we let her ride again.
So, now I have pictures. Unfortunately they all suck, and nothing really exciting cause I was too afraid to bring the camera out on the big rides for fear Id drop it (And on most of them you couldn't bring camera's on anyway, which sucked) and I couldn't afford a $14 picture that the park takes from the rides... Such a rip off. 
Anyways.
The conquistador is a big boat that goes back and forth like a swing going higher and higher, like a pendulum. Heavy G's and nice queasy stomach machine.
This is one of those superfast merry-go-round type deals that spind you around really fast and hard, the puke machines basically.
This one makes me fear when the turn 16... These cars are on tracks, but you still drive them. Controlling acceleration, and breaking and the like, and even though there is a rail, you can still stear a good 4 feet in either direction... This is what pictures look like when your 8 year old is at the wheel.
Cheesy Train ride, but they enjoyed it.
The Viking boats terrify me. I can't ride them.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Lyinar Ka`Bael said:
*shudders*The Viking boats terrify me. I can't ride them.
Yeah, take a look at Cyn's face in the second boat picture. 
She's the older blond one on the right.
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JooJooFlop thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Did you see the old guy?
He's not an old guy in the park... He's a 16-18 year old hotty girl walking around in a tux top and black miniskirt... With the glasses and red bow tie. I kid you not. She was the escort to all the Loony Tunes actors. There were several of them dressed up like the old guy all day long.
Great way to have them cleared for you.... all over your shirt and the person next to you and the people behind you.
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Verily, Naimah doth proclaim:
Batman is fun as well, but it looked to be closed the last few times that I drove by there.
Batman, Mr. Freeze, and Superman Tower of Power were the only three rides they couldn't ride. Have to be 54" cause they are the no seater ones with the shoulder harnesses. Whatever they are called. The ones where you feet hang free.
So you have to be taller to ride them.
Tower of Power scares the shit out of me. 
I am hesitant to try it, as I dunno if I can handle it in my old age.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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x--Faelynn LeAndrisO-('-'Q) :
Tower of Power scares the shit out of me.I am hesitant to try it, as I dunno if I can handle it in my old age.
I rode it.
It's... underwhelming.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Lyinar Ka`Bael said:
Roller coasters scare the crap out of me.
I used to be afraid of rollercoasters. Then I rode the Insanity and the High Roller at the Stratosphere.
The High Roller is just an average rollercoaster. Except... it's 1000 feet in the air.
Insanity is just... well, insane. It's an arm/crane thing that extends like 70 feet over the edge of the tower. It spins you around the tip of the tower at 3 G's, causing you to spin around the tower at a 90 degree angle, looking straight down 1,400 feet to the ground. Snoota fucked around with this message on 06-26-2005 at 07:39 PM.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Lyinar Ka`Bael was all like:
I'm afraid of heights.
I used to be afraid of heights. Then I rode the Insanity and the High Roller at the Stratosphere.
The High Roller is just an average rollercoaster. Except... it's 1000 feet in the air.
Insanity is just... well, insane. It's an arm/crane thing that extends like 70 feet over the edge of the tower. It spins you around the tip of the tower at 3 G's, causing you to spin around the tower at a 90 degree angle, looking straight down 1,400 feet to the ground.
I can't even go on the 100ft Ferris Wheel without crying.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Insanity is just... well, insane. It's an arm/crane thing that extends like 70 feet over the edge of the tower. It spins you around the tip of the tower at 3 G's, causing you to spin around the tower at a 90 degree angle, looking straight down 1,400 feet to the ground.
Jesus fucking Christ, why would anyone want to do this?! I'm getting dizzy just imagining it
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We were all impressed when Maradon! wrote:
I rode it.It's... underwhelming.
You came to Dallas? 
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Faelynn LeAndris painfully thought these words up:
You came to Dallas?
There are other Six Flags with the same rides.
I rode Batman when I was a kid at the one in Chicago. She's not far from there. Probably the one she went to.
For some strange reason I thought "she" was Lyinar. Turns out, "she" is Maradon. Snoota fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:05 AM.
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Snoota painfully thought these words up:
There are other Six Flags with the same rides.I rode Batman when I was a kid at the one in Chicago. She's not far from there. Probably the one she went to.
For some strange reason I thought "she" was Lyinar. Turns out, "she" is Maradon.
Yeah, there's a Batman at the one here in Atlanta too.
Edit: and Vallo needs to shrink his sig. Alaan fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:18 AM.
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Snoota wrote this stupid crap:
There are other Six Flags with the same rides.I rode Batman when I was a kid at the one in Chicago. She's not far from there. Probably the one she went to.
For some strange reason I thought "she" was Lyinar. Turns out, "she" is Maradon.
True, but Superman Tower of Power is Six Flags over Texas only. Which is why I said what I did. This Superman ride is NOT the coaster.
In fact, the Batman ride you are refering to is not the same one we have here.
The only other Superman rides are Coaster types, and one other type. Tower of Power though is unique to Dallas, and new to Six Flags in general.
Superman Tower of Power is a 400' Crate Drop strait down. That bounces you up and down a few times like a Bungie on a rail, and then, does the full drop. It's freakin nuts. Most Parks have a Cliffhanger type deal, which is the one where 4 people sit in a box and get taken strait up a tower and then dropped strait down. It's like those, only the tallest one of that type is only 150 feet... Tower of Power is almost 3 times that high, and majorly nasty. You'd have to see it in action. Faelynn LeAndris fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:22 AM.
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Faelynn LeAndris probably says this to all the girls:
True, but Superman Tower of Power is Six Flags over Texas only. Which is why I said what I did. This Superman ride is NOT the coaster.In fact, the Batman ride you are refering to is not the same one we have here.
The only other Superman rides are Coaster types, and one other type. Tower of Power though is unique to Dallas, and new to Six Flags in general.
Superman Tower of Power is a 400' Crate Drop strait down. That bounces you up and down a few times like a Bungie on a rail, and then, does the full drop. It's freakin nuts. Most Parks have a Cliffhanger type deal, which is the one where 4 people sit in a box and get taken strait up a tower and then dropped strait down. It's like those, only the tallest one of that type is only 150 feet... Tower of Power is almost 3 times that high, and majorly nasty. You'd have to see it in action.
There is a Tower of Power type thing is Six Flags San Antonio. Not superman branded but same thing. That ride is several years old by the way. Naimah fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:25 AM.
Anyway, Theme parks dont have all the same rides either. Some are the same (Very few) others are similar, others still are unique to the park.
For instance, here in Dallas we have the Conquistador which is the giant boat that goes back and forth really high with the big G's and whatnot. In Houston, however, at Astroworld Six Flags, it is a space shuttle, that not only goes back and forth really high and fast like the conquistador with the massive G's it also goes all the way over coming back down and going backwards.
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Naimah obviously shouldn't have said:
There is a Tower of Power type thing is Six Flags San Antonio. Not superman branded but same thing. That ride is several years old by the way.
Thats a version of the Cliff Hanger (A tower drop), it is much much smaller.
It's called Scream! And its only 164' tall. Faelynn LeAndris fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:28 AM.
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Faelynn LeAndris had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Thats a version of the Cliff Hanger (A tower drop), it is much much smaller.
I've been on them both. It's the same thing.
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Naimah was listening to Cher while typing:
I've been on them both. It's the same thing.
400' is much worse than 164'... It's the same in the way it it set up and the 12 people per box, but it's no where near the size.
Edit: SToP is 325' not 400'... Miscalc. Still over twice the size. Faelynn LeAndris fucked around with this message on 06-27-2005 at 12:31 AM.
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Faelynn LeAndris said this about your mom:
400' is much worse than 164'... It's the same in the way it it set up and the 12 people per box, but it's no where near the size.
Looked it up and it is 325'. So yea, it is roughly twice as tall but meh, tall is tall and it is basicly the same ride.
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Naimah wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Looked it up and it is 325'. So yea, it is roughly twice as tall but meh, tall is tall and it is basicly the same ride.
Being twice as tall is a big difference. Not in the way the ride functions, but in how you get through it.
And I went to St Louis right when Batman came out when I was fifteen. They have the one with dangly feet and the loops and stuff. It was terrifying. I rode it twice.
Then cried in fear on their 100 ft Ferris Wheel.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Lyinar Ka`Bael had time to sputter this out before being killed by someone else's ambush:
Ah, like the Tower of Terror at Disneyworld. God that was scary. I went twice. It helped that I couldn't see how high I was.
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Ride Attendant Lady told me this before smiling eerily at me:
Possessions may come loose during the ride, so if you have anything or anyone you would like to keep, please hold on tightly.
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
The fastest draw in the Crest.
"The Internet is MY critical thinking course." -Maradon
"Gambling for the husband, an abortion for the wife and fireworks for the kids they chose to keep? Fuck you, Disneyland. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the happiest place on Earth." -JooJooFlop
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Everyone wondered WTF when Faelynn LeAndris wrote:
Dmanit, can't edit twice...Anyway, Theme parks dont have all the same rides either. Some are the same (Very few) others are similar, others still are unique to the park.
For instance, here in Dallas we have the Conquistador which is the giant boat that goes back and forth really high with the big G's and whatnot. In Houston, however, at Astroworld Six Flags, it is a space shuttle, that not only goes back and forth really high and fast like the conquistador with the massive G's it also goes all the way over coming back down and going backwards.
The one in Jersey has both. The superman ride I belive is one with a magnetic catapult, or was that the second batman one? Been a while, either way It's like waiting 3 hours to go on a 2 minute ride. I have yet to go and not find like the runaway train broken. I think the big thing this year is some tiger thing. I dunno if the other six flags parks have the safari/zoo/wildlife perserve.
If a vertical drop ride wasn't enough, when it reachs the top of the tower, it tilts you forward so you're facing toward the ground right before you fall.
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Katrinity had this to say about Pirotess:
Acrophobia at Six Flags over Georgia is one ride I still refuse to ride.If a vertical drop ride wasn't enough, when it reachs the top of the tower, it tilts you forward so you're facing toward the ground right before you fall.
I'm right there with you. I LOVE roller coasters, but I refuse to get on that beast. NEVER EVER EVER will I go on that.
Still always, Not-Dude.
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Katrinity spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Acrophobia at Six Flags over Georgia is one ride I still refuse to ride.If a vertical drop ride wasn't enough, when it reachs the top of the tower, it tilts you forward so you're facing toward the ground right before you fall.
But...
thats the FUN part...
Kinda like goign to the state fair, and getting on the zipper or the gravitron when theres some loose bolts rattling around.. those bolts dont go to ANYTHING, they are there to rattle.. most of the time.. every once in a while, one of the cars on the zipper flies off, and lands in the parking lot.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Kaiote who doth quote:
But...thats the FUN part...
Kinda like goign to the state fair, and getting on the zipper or the gravitron when theres some loose bolts rattling around.. those bolts dont go to ANYTHING, they are there to rattle.. most of the time.. every once in a while, one of the cars on the zipper flies off, and lands in the parking lot.
I'VE BEEN IN THAT CAR!!
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Mix Katrinity with water, and you get:
Acrophobia at Six Flags over Georgia is one ride I still refuse to ride.If a vertical drop ride wasn't enough, when it reachs the top of the tower, it tilts you forward so you're facing toward the ground right before you fall.
I LOVE that one 
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Mix Faelynn LeAndris with water, and you get:
Anyway, Theme parks dont have all the same rides either. Some are the same (Very few) others are similar, others still are unique to the park.For instance, here in Dallas we have the Conquistador which is the giant boat that goes back and forth really high with the big G's and whatnot. In Houston, however, at Astroworld Six Flags, it is a space shuttle, that not only goes back and forth really high and fast like the conquistador with the massive G's it also goes all the way over coming back down and going backwards.
Canada's wonderland has the boat and the shuttle
it's a para-mont park! and hey, for those canadians who didn't know, they're building another one just outside of hamilton.
