darkridedan

Thank you ! What did you think of the new ending? Too bad we didn't meet up!

Wow. I need to turn up the brightness on this monitor. I thought the tree was a curtain and the piling was a wall.

Glow in the Park parade float lights?

The lights on the Showcase Theater precenium?

ha this was a guess, but I saw this show. I liked it too.

Evolution?

Is that the carrot in LTS?

Fast Lane/Q-Bot?

Although tonight's show is new, Kingda Ka has been an answer within the past year!

Ahh. I was going to guess Land Ahoy!

Rolling Thunder?

You're too modest Dan Looking out of the Nitro station?

Looks like it is in the area of the Kiddie Kingdom. Did they use those posts to hang a banner about season passes? (before it moved to it's final location)

WDW in one week!

These rides were great rides. They're rides that I regret never working. They are missed!

Harry, would you happen to have a before and after pics of the BotW? I think you may have pointed this change before, but I couldn't remember where you mentioned it.

Even years seem more fun, but the last few odd years have been more rewarding...odd. New Years resolution or no New Years resolution?

I had never thought of it in that perspective Harry. In '83, my family took a summer trip to Canada. We first saw Freefall and Parachutes in '84. Sarjevo Bobsled was the newest kid on the block and it became one of my favorite new rides. I also rode Rolling Thunder for the first time. Freefall was the first "new" ride that I passed on for fear. (I was still skipping Enterprise, Rotor and Super Roundup too.) As 44'' was the tallest restriction in the park at the time, I was no longer denied rides due to height. When Looping Starship and Ultra Twister debuted a few years later, I passed on them for fear over the height restriction, even though by that point I was already riding Freefall. So I had felt that 1983 was the time when things began to change at the park; Things seemed to shift from a focus on family rides in favor of the thrill. But looking back, with the addition of Parachuter's Perch, Sarajevo, Rednuht Gnillor, Splashwater Falls and Condor, that focus wouldn't occur for another decade or so.

Twilight Zone. 2007 or 2008?

Freefall was never timid by my standards! The mechanics made it terrirfying to me, more so than modern drop rides. Mom was the brave one in the family and she rode Freefall that first year. In '85, I bumped into one of my best friends from the neighborhood on our way to see the ride and I wasn't about to be shown up by not riding it while he did. He and his family went before us and I saw him come off the ride milky white. I don't recall much of my first ride, but I became braver for riding it. FreeFall was my favorite thrill ride at GAdv for many years; No coaster could take its place. It wasn't until El Toro debuted (oddly in the same year that Free Fall closed) that I enjoyed a thrill coaster as much as Freefall. The ride was and will ALWAYS be Freefall to me, never "Stuntman's" Freefall. I remember the long lines; They always moved quickly. I think the buzzer will forever be the most recognizable sound of GAdv.

...Wow. Creepy looking! I think I found one. When I'm up late, and I set my alarm to go off early when I don't I have to be up and after it goes off, NOTHING I eat, drink or do actually makes me feel like I'm awake! I should have just slept in!

I would like RT to receive modern brakes, ACE Classic seats and as much rehab on the tracks as possible so it can run like Phoenix. I'd love scenery that would develop a storyline in Skull Mountain. I'd like GASM to get a revamp. I'm not sure if it brings more people to it, so it's purely selfish on my part.

Is that the Western Shoot OUt? Wow, that is really nice looking!

LOL, I thought about Showcase Theater. That's a nice pre-season spot for it! How about the bubble on the Boardwalk?

Hmm, maybe the Winter Lights Village and Hurricane Harbor's Guest Relations?