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Thrilling Rollercoasters
MultiMillionMiler:
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--- Quote from: MultiMillionMiler on November 26, 2022, 03:45:42 PM ---My personal favorite is Fury325! Rode it almost 100 times on my 3 day trip to Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Actually the park is in both North and South Carolina. This rollercoaster passes through both states (maybe it should receive an interstate designation lol). It won the Rollercoaster Golden Awards for 6 years straight as the best steel rollercoaster in the world. It is fast, smooth, comfortable seats/restraints, doesn't do anything weird like going upside down or launch, and the first drop is a good 5 second sustained free fall. Living on Long Island, Six Flags Great Adventure is my "home park" but is very boring in comparison. Fury 325 is almost a perfect rollercoaster. Anyone else love rollercoasters? What are your experiences?
https://images.app.goo.gl/v8iqQNc53HdT5DS68
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What other ones have you ridden for comparison?
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Nitro
El Toro (Malfunctioned 2x in a year, not sure I will trust it again)
Intimidator (at carowinds, not I-305)
Superman - New England
Expedition Everest - Disney
Space Mountain
Thundermountain Railway
Coney Island Cyclone
Other wooden ones-forgot the names
Fury 325
Wanted to go on Candymonium and Skyrush at Hershey Park when I was in Palmyra PA this month, but they were both closed due to them putting stupid lights up or something for "transition into the holiday season". Etc or some BS like that.
kirbykart:
--- Quote from: MultiMillionMiler on November 26, 2022, 08:12:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: roadman65 on November 26, 2022, 05:09:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: vdeane on November 26, 2022, 04:48:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: roadman65 on November 26, 2022, 04:27:45 PM ---I thought you hate grades over 7 percent?
Oh wait, you want every road to be like a rollercoaster. There is one in Tampa, that goes straight down. What interstate do you want to be like that?
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Roller coasters have too many curves for MMM.
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And they’re not free either. :bigass:
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Toll roads should be an admission fee, just like amusement parks. Charge say $5 or $10 for entrance to the jersey turnpike regardless of how far you take it. Charge $20 or $30 to enter the Penn turnpike regardless of distance traveled.
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Noooooooooooooooooo no no no no no no noooooooooooooo! The person who drives seven miles on the turnpike should not have to pay the same amount as the person who drives 160 miles on the turnpike!
Max Rockatansky:
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Bizarrely NUMTOT of him to say isn’t it?
--- Quote from: MultiMillionMiler on November 26, 2022, 08:12:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: roadman65 on November 26, 2022, 05:09:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: vdeane on November 26, 2022, 04:48:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: roadman65 on November 26, 2022, 04:27:45 PM ---I thought you hate grades over 7 percent?
Oh wait, you want every road to be like a rollercoaster. There is one in Tampa, that goes straight down. What interstate do you want to be like that?
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Roller coasters have too many curves for MMM.
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And they’re not free either. :bigass:
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Toll roads should be an admission fee, just like amusement parks. Charge say $5 or $10 for entrance to the jersey turnpike regardless of how far you take it. Charge $20 or $30 to enter the Penn turnpike regardless of distance traveled.
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Trouble is for the rollercoaster operator is that there is thing called net profit that needed to keep operations going. Or am I edging you towards some sort of bizarre rant on how you think economics should be?
1:
Do you want to pay $20 to go one exit?
MultiMillionMiler:
--- Quote from: 1 on November 26, 2022, 08:23:39 PM ---Do you want to pay $20 to go one exit?
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If it meant I wouldn't have to shell out $100 or $200 any time I drove the whole length or close to it, definitely. And if people are only going 1 exit they probably don't even have to use the turnpike in the first place. Those people are adding to the traffic long distance drivers have to endure, so it's not unfair they have to pay slightly more than per mile/per exit. They would save a ton on any long distance trip and the state may net just as much money anyway.
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