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Episode 152 - 2024 2 Hard
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast Ben and Zach discuss the announcements made about Six flags Great America's 2024 season, speculations about the impending Six Flags and Cedar Fair merger and much more!
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Transcript
Plastic, Health, and COVID Impacts
00:00:41
Speaker
I'm Zach and this year, all I'm eating is plastic. I'm Ben. And, uh, this year I'm fucked. Yeah. Oh, we're all plastic. I was there. Like I saw some article that was talking about, like, they're trying to figure out this mystery of why young people are getting cancer more frequently. And it's like,
00:01:09
Speaker
they basically just determine it's like plastic and shit, so. Well, at least we know it's not avocado toast. True. But it might be a knife that they give you with the avocado toast that's wrapped in plastic and made of plastic. Yeah. Well, everyone is doing like DoorDash and Uber Eats and shit, like during COVID. And that's one, that's one thing. Like have you ever gotten,
00:01:38
Speaker
like really hot Thai food delivered and you get the plastic container and it's like half melted. It just like warps in your hand. And it's like, this can't be food safe. Like this shit's in the food now. Well, I mean, well, see, that's the thing. It's food safe, but not by like Thai food standards. Right. True.
00:02:07
Speaker
I think that's a problem with the food plastic portion, like the plastic part of the equation is having the issue. Yeah. Did they not equate for pho being eight billion degrees? Shit, pho is Vietnamese, isn't it? Yeah.
00:02:28
Speaker
God damn it. I'm starting 2024 by getting canceled. I mean, but a lot of places that have, if you can get bats, how you can get it though, typically. All right. Well, uncancelled.
Criticism of Presentation Formats
00:02:46
Speaker
Welcome back to your favorite coaster sucks. Obviously in all roller coaster podcast, where we talk about roller coasters and your mom.
00:02:58
Speaker
What does she have to do with this? Um, I phoned her last night. What is she up to? Oh, you know, getting a new tattoo. Really? Yep. Shit. Well, I know she wasn't a no coaster con.
00:03:28
Speaker
It's the most interesting thing because the deck dude says no coastercon. I think it is funny though with all the weather and stuff. It was basically like no, no coastercon. Yeah, no, no coastercon. That's because they didn't want to offer no refunds.
00:03:51
Speaker
God, that's like cancel. You gotta refund. But if you don't, you can have apparently choppy zoom calls. Yeah. I mean, that's a little embarrassing. I know. Is there any, is there anything worse than sitting through no coaster com, but then just sitting through zoom presentations of no coaster com?
00:04:16
Speaker
Well, honestly, I'm like, why didn't they, they should have a remote option then. Yeah. Save 30 bucks and not have to eat that like fair catered meal. With the sliced ham. I think it's always like, I always, there was like chicken wings. I remember in like,
00:04:44
Speaker
Like it wasn't terrible, but I always remember every year being like kind of excited about the food, obviously, but then it was always a little disappointing. Well, like they've obviously since moved locations. They're not in Willowbrook anymore. They're out near O'Hare, which I don't know why they didn't do that sooner.
Theme Park Attraction Updates
00:05:04
Speaker
Yeah. And the food wasn't better. Wasn't worse for my memory, but
00:05:13
Speaker
They were very adamant about not bringing snacks into the presentation area. Oh, really? Yeah. And I kind of thought like, isn't that a flaw with the booking? Yeah. Shouldn't they have booked a place that was like, not, not okay with people eating snacks during a roller coaster presentation?
00:05:39
Speaker
I mean, I remember when we would do that, we'd go to like seven, 11 or whatever and just get like combos and chips and shit. Yeah. We like walk over to that gas station and smoke like eight cigarettes and get like a bunch of Mountain dews and combos and then go walk back and have a nice snack bag for the rest of the day. The best was when, uh,
00:06:09
Speaker
Jeff Siebert did that whole thing and there was all that food and there was the DJ and stuff, but like no one was clearly known as dancing, which was kind of funny. Yeah, that was wasted money. Yeah. But also too, like, I mean, he's a hardcore ace or he should have known, like no one's going to be getting on this dance floor. Seriously. It's like, it's like a wedding, but all aunts and uncles.
00:06:34
Speaker
Didn't it have like a bar, but it was a cash bar and none of us could drink. Yeah Yeah, I do remember that I'm pretty sure that he also had drink tickets he was giving out to people Recognized we were too young when he was about to give us some and then was like have a good time See there's a whole like world of a set I don't know
00:07:03
Speaker
Yeah, I know what you were about to say. I mean, like just like any kind of convention ever, like people are people are like people are getting down. And shit's going on in some of those hotel rooms and like when I was younger, I was like, oh, man, like that must be like kind of cool. Like I want to like know more people in the community and like that must be kind of fun. And then like as I got older, I was like, actually, like I'm good.
00:07:35
Speaker
Yeah, I'm cool.
Theme Park Culture and Nostalgia
00:07:39
Speaker
I used to be like, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Stay in the hotel at the at no coaster con. And now I'm like, oh. Have you ever have you ever had sex so with coaster POVs playing in the background? Not that I can remember, so I'm going to have to make that happen. Yeah, I don't think I've ever done that either.
00:08:04
Speaker
Yeah, obviously if it was happening, I wasn't watching. Yeah. It's like, hold on, this is volcano. Hold on, just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This turn right here is the best part. Wait, wait, like 30 seconds. Fucking fucking lose it. Oh, God.
00:08:31
Speaker
Like I was trying but like Magnum was playing I Know I know it's it's like a rough ride so that shit I like Shaking it up. But like, you know, I Just got really concentrated. Oh Man I kind of felt that way too about like so like before I was like really out and
00:09:03
Speaker
you know, I'd always like see all these like groups of gay men going on coaster trips and like an ace and stuff like that. I was always like a little just like, Oh man, maybe when I'm older, I'll like find some group and whatnot. And then like at a certain point I was actually like, nah, like I'm glad that didn't happen. And then even, uh, yeah, I don't know, even just like no coaster kind of stuff. Like I don't think I could ever go back to that.
00:09:32
Speaker
I mean, I don't think I'm allowed anyway, but. I mean, you'll from what I know, you you might have no issue. I'm certainly not. What's what year was that when you were you registered and they like told you you can go. 2023. OK. Last year. Oh, OK.
00:10:02
Speaker
Because that was that was me being like, OK, I think maybe it's worth one hundred forty bucks or however much to go back and just give it a try, you know. It's that much. For me and Reanne. Oh, OK. So I was like, all right. But like, was Reanne allowed to go?
00:10:26
Speaker
No, she's not allowed either. I'm like, what the fuck? That makes me feel bad. Yeah. Well, I guess they said Zach and Rhianne. So if Rhianne wanted to go by herself, I guess maybe that she'd
Relevance of Physical Events in the Digital Age
00:10:42
Speaker
be all right. Yeah. Cause it's like, well, she didn't do anything. Yeah, exactly. But I'm certainly not welcome.
00:10:54
Speaker
But at the same time, like, yes, there's a couple people there that I am friends with that I know, and it would be fun to spend the day with them and see the shit. But outside of that, I don't really think that events for me anyway. Yeah. I mean, it was coasters because I'm somewhat interested, but it's definitely not the same level as when I was younger and also I keep up because of this.
00:11:25
Speaker
But like spending money to go sit in a hotel ballroom for an entire Saturday and watch zoom presentations about like, um, I don't know. I think someone said that Vekoma was presenting something and it kept glitching out or whatever.
00:11:51
Speaker
and like Cedar Point presented a top thrill to animation. Oh, just an animation. Yep. Oh, you couldn't even like see, those are like some of the presentations were like, I'm not saying they have to bend over backwards for the enthusiasts, but I mean,
00:12:12
Speaker
something more than a presentation would have been like. Like that's the audience where you can kind of show more like just a couple of photos like behind the scenes, you know, like something. Well, it also calls in the relevance, like the question of relevance of an event like that in the social media age. Like, do we really need fucking Tony Clark coming in to show a video from Cedar Point's YouTube?
00:12:39
Speaker
to a bunch of people who have already seen said video. Exactly. Yeah. And I mean, that's. Yeah, that's for coaster, Justin. Can I have free tickets? Right. Well.
00:12:54
Speaker
And that I mean, that's already asked in the comments section on that video. I'm just joking. But like, oh, well, I mean, I was saying, though. Yeah. Yeah. And even to like, I remember like, I don't know, like trying to think of like fun way make ways to make a fun like, I don't know, drink, make a drinking game or like
00:13:22
Speaker
I don't know. Even then, it would just be like you'd just be sitting there. Maybe getting hammered and eating snacks and watching people talk about like, oh, well, in a couple of months, we'll all be riding and you're like, OK. Yeah. Like, I couldn't even think of a fun drinking game by like the second hour of it. You would just be like, yeah, you just be hammered and like.
00:13:50
Speaker
I don't know. Even like the whole idea, like, oh, we could get a hotel room and just like go back to the room and like drink and stuff. It's like even then it's just like, I don't know. Even even like when we get high, it was a little depressing. Yep. To where like it was the one thing where like by the like halfway through the day, you're kind of like, shit, there's still six hours of this.
00:14:17
Speaker
It's like, it's like kind of like when you start a new job and you have to do that whole first day of like orientation and training and stuff. Yup. It's kind of what it feels like. Yeah, definitely. It's like, it's kind of like a weird one day coping mechanism.
Roller Coaster Museum Delays
00:14:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:40
Speaker
It'd be it'd be cool if like they spent all that money and just rented like a like they just rented a wacky worm and set it up inside of like some exhibition center. At least, you know, and then you could watch aces rewrite a wacky worm. That would be a little bit more fun than presentations. Oh, wait, didn't you do that? Didn't you do the zoom one when they did it during COVID?
00:15:10
Speaker
Um, yes, I watched it. Not the whole thing. I watched it later. Um, in fast forward, it was super awkward. Okay. Yeah. They, um, basically still rented out the hotel ballroom and broadcast out of there. Hmm.
00:15:37
Speaker
Again, I'll reiterate that they rented a hotel ballroom to broadcast a Zoom call. Just like every other 10 minutes, like you're on mute. Well, yeah. Cause all the presenters were Zoom presenting. Yeah.
00:15:58
Speaker
So it was like the two people from ACE that could figure out how to get the Zoom call link to everybody without having like with auto muting and like modding it, I guess in the ballroom. And like one of them was like occasionally getting on mic on camera and going, okay, and next up we have Matt from Kings Island or whatever.
00:16:31
Speaker
I wonder if any of the presentations had like kids screaming in the background. That'd be hilarious. Or just like accidentally like plain porn. Dude, this one time when I was working at Deloitte and I was in a, I was in this like tiny little like, uh, this like tiny conference room with like six other people and
Zoom Call Mishaps
00:16:55
Speaker
there's this manager guy who I didn't really work with and he was sick and he was home and like he was on the call and like not really, you could tell he wasn't really paying attention, but then randomly you just heard like a loud mode, just like a single like second and a half, like
00:17:19
Speaker
moan coming from like sounded like literally something he was like watching porn on his phone and didn't realize he was on mute and you could tell it was something fucked up because like then he went it was like immediately was he went on mute like he wasn't on mute for the whole time and then suddenly was after the bone and then like there's this one woman that I was working with and like she didn't get it but I remember just her and she like glad she's like what was that
00:17:46
Speaker
and like not realizing. And I'm just like, oh my God, like, this is really happening. And the dude's just like, it was my cat. Dude, it fucking echoed. Like it was it was so loud. It's like, I don't I don't get the people who watch porn and have like the volume cranked up. Who does that?
00:18:15
Speaker
I've encountered the like maybe half a dozen times I've ever like accidentally not fully walked in, but like you were adjacent to somebody who was like clearly caught like looking at porn. It was so fucking loud. Or like, I remember when I lived with this guy and he had his laptop out and whenever we had parties and stuff, we'd use it and play music on the speakers and stuff. But you could always tell he was looking at porn on it because the volume was like full blast.
00:18:45
Speaker
So you'd like plug in music or something and it would just, you know, the first thing you play is just super loud. I don't know. Yeah. You guys touched that laptop after he was obviously watching porn with him? I didn't think of it that way, but yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
So, uh, we were talking about no coaster con and I really would be remiss if we didn't take a moment to talk about, uh, great America's presentation, which one, the one that happened this year. Yep. Why would happen? Oh boy. So,
00:19:35
Speaker
Here's the highlights from their presentation as I was able to gather. So here's a slide from their very amazing PowerPoint titled Attraction Updates. And these images have been posted on our Discord.
00:19:58
Speaker
You can find the link in the episode description. Fun community, join up. You can also find these images that I am going to describe. So there is a slide here entitled Attraction Updates. It says, Joker, scheduled lift chain replacement and completion of control system slash station update. Completion? I guess so.
00:20:28
Speaker
What were they using before that? Like a raspberry tape. It was just like a raspberry pie and like a Logitech mount, like USB-C mouse or something. I mean, an iPad would be kind of, I don't know why they don't just go towards an iPad, just like a single touch screen. Cause some dipshit kid would break it, obviously. Yeah.
00:20:58
Speaker
Well a ride like Joker where you have those long advances where like there's a lot of trains waiting and stuff. I feel like those are one of those rides you could have like the enable button on a pendant like on your belt loop. I feel like that ride doesn't need like a full control system, like a person at the controls.
00:21:20
Speaker
But OK, but you're counting on people being like not stupid enough to walk directly in front of the train while hitting that button. True. Yeah, that's true. So, yeah, I guess they're going to complete the control system and Joker.
Technical Updates on Coasters
00:21:49
Speaker
Viper retracking. OK, that's that's definitely necessary. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because it was a little rough this year when we wrote it. Yeah, I had that fucking nasty pothole. Yeah. Wizard new control system. OK. Probably about time. That's good. Yeah, I know somebody who's not going to be happy about that.
00:22:21
Speaker
probably, I mean, I'm guessing it's going to be programmed to never run three trains again or something weird. I think you're probably exactly correct. Yeah. Cause that three train, the three trains requires use of the panel in the booth. And from what I understand, they wanted to switch to, uh,
00:22:46
Speaker
using the remote panel on the outside of the boots booth exclusively. Yeah. That makes sense. So I think you're right. Probably never going to see three trains on wizard again. American Eagle scheduled lift Hill chain replacement for does anyone know? Is it both sides or just one or like what's
00:23:14
Speaker
Obviously not having been at this presentation, I'm going to assume it's both. Yeah. Since this slide doesn't specify. Which that's good. It means that perhaps they'll be able to run both sides in the same fucking year again. Yeah, that'd be good. I know it's never probably going to race again, but, um,
00:23:44
Speaker
It would be nice if they could go. Yeah. I'm still, that's like still one of those things where I'm, I'm always like wondering what they're going to do with that ride. If it's, I don't think they'll do it. They'll do RMC, but I could see them replacing it with like a, I don't know, like a Gerstlauer Eurofighter or something like a, like quote unquote replacement, but something that's like pretty shitty.
00:24:10
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think I don't think it's going to get RMC'd if they're spending money on fixing it up now. Yeah. But. Who knows? Yeah, I don't think I feel like it'll just get. Patch worked enough until they can, quote unquote, replace it with some piece of shit. Yes. All right, let's see here.
00:24:40
Speaker
crazy bus major rehab time. That's the cartoon network thing. Camp cartoon. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I mean what trailblazer kind of prove they need to rehab those rides pretty frequently. Yeah. I always, I always forget about trailblazer. It's gone now. Yeah.
00:25:07
Speaker
What was at the end of it? Remember the, remember the, the gondola or the car or whatever had like free spinning wheels? Yeah. On the bottom of it. Cause it was like a wagon. Yeah. But only like one of them kind of spun. Yeah. I like that ride though. Or as they call it in roller coaster tycoon, magic carpet, which I think is actually a different ride.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's like the thousand and one knots. But it's the closest thing. If you were ever making great America and, and no, we're just checking. Yeah. Now here's some exciting news from this presentation. Condor scheduled to reopen. Okay. Did not read it all last year. I thought they got rid of that for good, but I guess that's good to reopening it.
00:26:06
Speaker
I thought they were going to as well, but, uh, I, it scheduled to reopen, not confirmed, but scheduled. Did you ever read the one that they had a, uh, Lauren? I did not. Was it any good? Well, so that one was cool because, um, it would go, it would, I don't remember it completely, but basically it would go to the top.
00:26:35
Speaker
And then it would come to a complete stop, kind of like what it would do for the birds. But then each arm, so like the main, the main gondola would stop spinning, but then each individual arm would spin like stationary. But because you're not spinning, because you know how they like would spin in opposite directions. Yeah.
00:27:02
Speaker
So what would happen is like as each individual one was spinning, it would spin like full speed. So the cars would swing out a lot further and then like the entire thing would start rotating again and then it would lower. Oh, that's cool. Just a little change. It was cool. It'll be nice to have Condor back up. Yeah, that's a staple. Now there was a slide called park updates and improvements.
00:27:30
Speaker
First up, changes to front gate, outside and inside. Landscaping changes to Carousel Plaza. New brickwork, outside sticky fingers. Removal of Mardi Gras hangover.
00:27:47
Speaker
Oh, that's an improvement. And then here we go. You ready for this one, Ben? County Fair changes. Removal of Kid'sopolis ship. Removal of Revolution. Removal of American Eagle slash Daredevil Dive Portal. Removal of basketball game. Awesome. County Fair sounds so much better in 2024.
00:28:15
Speaker
So they didn't even announce the ride. Oh, sky striker. You're getting a, you know, it's a Zamperla, uh, what is it? Discovery. Yeah. Giga discovery. Yeah. But they're not. Okay. So that was part of it though. So they announced that and then, but they, so they didn't say though, where it was going or like, well, how did they announce it?
00:28:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's going into County Fair in the area, I think, where Daredevil Live is going. That'll be good. Better than nothing, but like, good lord. Yeah. Yeah, the Sky Coasters have kind of run their course.
00:29:04
Speaker
The, um, actually this was random thing. So at Kent or a California adventure when we were there in fall, um, it's so they do it. So a lot of parks will do it to where it's like $30 for one person, like 44 for two, 45 for three kind of thing. Um, there it's just $30 per person, regardless of how you ride.
00:29:34
Speaker
So like if you have a group of three, you're spending 90 bucks for a three person ride. Wait, if as long as everybody rides, right? Yeah. But I mean, like, there's no, there's no discount for like riding in the group. So like it's the same price of whether if it's three solar riders riding by themselves or three people. Oh, that kind of makes sense now because there's no parks with them anymore. Yeah.
00:30:06
Speaker
I just, I don't know. I just thought that was kind of weird. How long do you think the, the, the giant one in Kissimmee has? I bet that one we'll say, cause that's like a pretty big, that's like a tourist magnet. I think that one's good. I think the ones inside a park. So we're probably going to go down just because I mean, every year the park has to
00:30:30
Speaker
Cause it's the park pays for a lease and then they have to pay for like the training and you know, it's like a separate training and there's like the site controller tests and all that stuff. Um, so it wouldn't surprise me if certain parks, like it just like, they're no longer able to break even on it. Yeah. I mean, and like I heard when Cedar point moved, there's inside of the park, it dramatically lost ridership.
00:31:01
Speaker
Cause it works. It works outside of the park by soak city because you were pulling in all those people that were going in and out of the water park. So like all the, uh, all the families whose parents got wasted at the sum up bar. And then they would like walk past it and they're like, Hey, uh, Emma, you want to, you want to go bungee jumping? And they like pull out the water cash.
00:31:29
Speaker
And they're like, they come up to the window like, yeah, uh, we want four for the bungee jump. And like there, we, we had one ticket person who would always like, it's like, um, sir, it's not a bungee jump. It's just like, it's just weird how people think it's like, it's like, it's clearly not a bungee jump, but whatever. Whatever it's called then I'm not trying to be racist. It was always great though. Like when people would ride Scott and then people would ride skyscraper and like,
00:31:59
Speaker
People would ride that shit like blackout drunk. They would like, and you could always tell it cause like the ride would, the ride would like be over and they would come, you know, we'd low like slow them down and bring them back in and they just like weren't fazed. They're just like, whoa. And they're all, you know, arms are like hunched over and they're like stumbling off the ride, wreaking a booze. Oh Lord. Cedar Point.
00:32:29
Speaker
I haven't gone in a couple of years. Yeah, same. It's been. Yeah, 2018, I guess this is a good year to try. I mean, I guess so. They're not really doing anything exciting, but everything, everything in the park should have everything worthwhile should have a pretty short line. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what
00:32:58
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see. I don't know. Like I still think it's weird that they, they dumped all this money into building like, I dunno, someone, someone said it somewhere. So I'm taking their words, but like why they're investing all of this money into the beach, but like people don't go there to swim in Lake Erie. Seriously.
00:33:23
Speaker
And so they build that giant new like chicken finger restaurant on the beach. Um, but like, and like the, whatever the crazy mouse and all that shit, but I don't know. They're trying to make it into like a, like a real tourist thing. And it's just not like, it's just not going to hit. Like that's not what Cedar Point is, but yeah, I'm like,
00:33:51
Speaker
The only reputation I've ever known Cedar Point to have is roller coasters. Yeah. It's just concrete, unshaded cue lines, a bunch of roller coasters, shitty bathrooms that have trash cans. Yeah. Just an inch of standing water in every bathroom.
00:34:17
Speaker
That's kind of what it's, that's what it's, that's just what it is. Siegel shit everywhere. Yeah, that's, that's because you and I weren't alive 110 years ago when the place was a beach with a bath house. And then they were like, what if we built a roller coaster? That was also when the lake was like, wasn't polluted and it didn't have an algae bloom every season.
00:34:44
Speaker
Yeah, that lake is disgusting. You can see industrial shit from the beach of Cedar Point. Yeah. You're like, what's that light off in the distance? Oh, it turned off. Oh, it's back on. Oh, it turned off again. Looks like apparently, I mean, there was a thing where people would throw, were throwing like dead carp into the tunnels of Magnum.
00:35:10
Speaker
And so I remember there was one year where one of the tunnels smelled so bad. It was just rotten fish. I'm immediately reminded of that one TikTok where the kid eats the fish off the fishing pole directly into the Magnum train. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, that was hilarious. I don't think anyone is injured because we would have heard about it, but that's fucking hilarious.
00:35:40
Speaker
Not really though. Well, I know it's not, but it's, it's the video itself. Like when you see it, like it's funny. Okay. You're right. The video is funny. Let's just like, let's think if I was on that, if I was on that train, I just saw like a fish flying towards the train. I'd be laughing my ass off. I don't think anyone got hurt. We would have, we would have heard about it.
00:36:07
Speaker
No. Cause of the way it lands, it's like underneath, like right in the front though. Yeah. Can you just imagine hitting that like windshield and just splattering? It looks like that's what it does. I have it. I have a screen recording on my phone of that actually. Cause I remember, I remember when I saw that, I was like, this shit's not going to survive the internet. So I got it. I got a screen capture it.
00:36:37
Speaker
It's currently looping on YouTube on my browser. Oh shit. It's the first ever screen recording I've ever done on my phone. I typed fish at roller coaster. I mean,
00:37:06
Speaker
At the very least, you got to hand it to that guy for having incredibly precise aim with the fishing pole. Yeah. I'm sensing perhaps the lacrosse player. Is it a pole or is it? Might just be a stick either way. I mean, what's also crazy is like how close you're able to get to that track. Yeah, I don't know why they allow that.
00:37:34
Speaker
I mean, it's a good view. I mean, I didn't discover that until my second season there. But yeah, you can get some good pictures and video. This is making me want to go to amusement parks less, though. It's a good news, bad news situation. You're going to be in one of the best YouTube videos ever. Yeah. Oh, great. What happened?
00:38:00
Speaker
you're in the front row of a roller coaster and this really funny guy throws a fish at it. What? Whoa, what the fuck? I just lost my entire library. Oh wait, there it is. I got it. I went back and like all my photos are gone. Okay. Worlds created and destroyed in an instant.
00:38:28
Speaker
I was thinking about this. I've had an iPhone for 10 years and right now I have my, my album has 21,000 photos. Holy shit. 5,000 of those are screenshots. You got receipts. So fuck what else has been going on with coasters? Um, bullet coaster in China had that major accident.
00:38:59
Speaker
No, that's fun. Which seems kind of fucked up. It looks like the mechanism or like the whatever the brake fins to slow it down on a rollback didn't engage. So the train just rolled all the way back full speed into the station. Yeah, I watched a friend of the show, El Toro Orion's video about that really fucking crazy. Yeah, that is.
00:39:27
Speaker
Like just basically they just never did maintenance on it. Yeah. So hopefully they do that maintenance on a, on a max force. I mean, I'm assuming they do, but you never know. Yeah. I mean, I got the credit already, so I'm good. It's like, watch out steel curtain.
00:39:56
Speaker
I mean the seal curtain of all SNS casters, that one would be one to have an accident. It just seems like, Oh wow. They put a cable lift here on Hill on here. Uh, no, go ahead. I was just saying like, without, I mean, without a no coaster con presentation from all these parks, I don't know what the fuck is going on. Who knows?
00:40:25
Speaker
If only we could have gotten a choppy Zoom call. I've been hearing some rumors that Universal Studios is in for some changes down in Orlando. When you mentioned the live entertainment at Disney, I stumbled upon an article that mentioned that they were stopping a show for the next month or something.
00:40:56
Speaker
What a universal. Yeah, I already lost it on Screamscape. Sounds about right. I mean, there's some changes, I think, scheduled. I've heard that they are not going to renew their license with Disney for the Simpsons. So the Simpsons area, you know, Springfield could get re-themed.
00:41:22
Speaker
Okay. To what, Shelbyville? That would be awesome, but I think they would still have to pay the same rights, unfortunately. Yeah. Disney owned Shelbyville, God damn it. They could make it like a kind of a joke for a season and have it be like, uh, like that episode where they try to go to the world's fair and it's just wigs.
00:41:53
Speaker
Where's in Memphis? Uh, I think so. The world's fair. It seems like parks are just not like, I just, I know the economy is, you know, doing its thing and whatever, but, um, just seems like it seems like we're in like a 2008 era of theme parks again.
00:42:21
Speaker
which sucks because we only just got out of that like four or five years ago. Yeah. Well, five, six years ago, basically like right before the pandemic. But like I was saying it earlier. I mean like that when we were at great America on like a weekend in June and the park was dead. I mean, that was definitely a little eerie to see cause like,
00:42:50
Speaker
I've only ever known that park as just constantly, you know, it's like always, it was always a problem that it was busy. And like, I can't remember the last time going to the park and it was dead, but like beautiful weather Saturday in June and you know, 10 minute ride lines. That's like, I mean, I don't think I've ever seen that before and that kind of, uh, and that set up, but
00:43:19
Speaker
Yeah, well, I mean, I watched a video about how basically like the types of like regional amusement parks are going to die off because consumer focus is shifted to like IP based experiential attractions. Yeah. And that kind of makes sense. Six Flags doesn't have money for anything aside from
00:43:49
Speaker
Wile E. Coyote and the cartoon versions of Batman. Yeah. I'm sick of IP shit. I get it. But well, what's weird about the IP stuff is like, I mean, it seems like people aren't really going to movies. So like, I don't know. Yeah. That's the craziest part is like,
00:44:14
Speaker
At this point, the IP stuff is all from movies that were hits, not like. Because, yeah, there's. Other than Oppenheimer and Barbie last year, what else came out? Now, if there is an Oppenheimer ride, that'd be cool. Be the bomb. Yeah, they could just like upgrade up the update, like Backdraft or something. I feel like, you know,
00:44:44
Speaker
they could do like a really cool mashup of ideas and do like Oppenheimer meets Dr. Strangelove and it's a drop tower. Actually, yeah. Why don't they do the mashup kind of thing of rides where it's like they take a new, they take two IPs that they have and they just blend the storylines to make like a unique ride experience, even if it doesn't make sense. Like, uh, I mean, they're, whatever their Simpson's thing is expired or whatever, but like,
00:45:15
Speaker
You know, Homer Simpson and Fast and the Furious together on one ride. That would be awesome. Like instead of Vin Diesel, it's Homer. Yeah. Or just like, I don't know, rehash like old ass. Universal movies from the 90s that no one's ever heard of. I don't know the ride.
00:45:43
Speaker
You need a Jurassic War, though. Well, how long is it going to be to like meta? Like, OK. Six Flags and Cedar Fair merged, right? SeaWorld is going to buy that, right? And then Universal buys that and buys up Disney's parks after it gets parceled out and sold Apple. So how long will it be until fucking Meta owns theme parks?
00:46:10
Speaker
God, Instagram, like an Instagram theme park or something. I mean, it might be. Everything's just the fucking purple wall. Or like, or it's going to be like, or when will it be until like big influencers have their own ride? Right. Cause like some of those influencers are basically their own like entities themselves. So like,
00:46:40
Speaker
You know, like a Mr. Beast roller coaster at Universal or Disney or something. Well, that's exactly what it's going to be. It's going to be like Metaland presents a Meow Wolf X Logan Paul. The experience. Yeah, that's going to be sad. Starring Vince McMahon.
00:47:08
Speaker
As long as it's like an Intamin multi-launch, though, I guess it'll be fine. Yeah, but it's going to be a walkthrough. No. Yeah, I don't know, man, like. Everything's fucked, right? Yeah, I mean, it seems like it. I'm just. Maybe it's me just having that
00:47:38
Speaker
you know, trademark Midwestern seasonal affective disorder, but it just seems like the industry is in decline. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:57
Speaker
But even then though, it doesn't seem like they're building new coasters as much as they were. There was that era like 10 years ago where like, you know, B and M had like 10 projects there every year. And I think it's like, it also seems like it's kind of slowing down. Oh yeah, you're right. Now it's Saudi Arabia. Yeah.
00:48:17
Speaker
Which I mean, that new coaster does look pretty fucking cool and it is going to happen, which is cool. But I mean, how many enthusiasts in the, at least in the US are actually going to go there and ride it? Well, yeah, that's what it is now. Oh, you want to ride the biggest, newest roller coaster? Well, you better take your happy ass on a plane to Saudi Arabia. Make sure you delete Grindr off your phone before you go there.
00:48:45
Speaker
Yeah, and sit in the seat correctly. But yeah, I don't know. We've now reached the point of blatant capitalist grabs and loss of identity, corporate identity. Was there really a big distinction between Six Flags and Cedar Fair to begin with?
00:49:15
Speaker
I mean, other than plywood cutouts, not really. Exactly. It's like, oh, okay. We're the company that builds cheap rides in order to get our largely local customer base back to our park every season. We're the company that builds
00:49:39
Speaker
more expensive rides less frequently at parks to try and get our largely local customer base back every season. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, when the economy eventually does better, I don't know. We'll see. But I mean, with the merger, like that's going to be weird, probably within like, I don't know, the net by 2030.
00:50:09
Speaker
I imagine that the experience for enthusiasts is only going to diminish. I'm going to agree with that. I can't imagine that we lose less than three parks in the Six Flags Cedar Fair merger, including great America. Yeah. Which like still too, I'm, I'm surprised that Dornie is building that dive coaster because it just seems like,
00:50:40
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, I get it. It's like still a big market, but it's just weird that I guess I've always seen that park is more of just like a water park with a couple rides. So it's interesting that they're building like a dive coaster when that region, I mean, all those parks are like two hours apart. Yeah, but they, I don't know. So I don't really know the market that well. I just feel like there was some sort of five year plan.
00:51:10
Speaker
and Cedar fair had a, you know, gotten that budget aligned before that merger. Yeah. I ate three, I ate three salmon fillets and uh, I might need to take a break for a second. Oh Lord. All right. One sec. Yeah. I'll be right back. No worries. All right. You want. Okay.
00:51:38
Speaker
Yeah, I'm good. I'm just, I underestimated the salmon. Well, glad, glad you made it up. All right. That's always my fear, like eating airplane food. Like nobody wants to shit on the, on a fucking airplane bathroom, especially like
00:52:06
Speaker
you know, like a, like a nasty one. I'm be honest. I don't even want to shit at the airport. Yeah. Like after the flight or before. Yeah. There's something about like airport stalls that just are like, they have more gaps than are necessary. Plus like the floor is gross. Like I, I, and like, you gotta like bring your bag in there and stuff and you gotta put your shit on the little coat hanger and all that. Yeah.
00:52:37
Speaker
It was most disgusting. I don't remember if I talked about it before, but like my flight back from Italy was with tons and one of the things that was served was frozen carrots. And it was really confusing because I thought like when I got it, I was like, I thought like maybe it was like cooked and there was parmesan on it or something. And then like, I put my spoon, my plastic spoon into it. And it was like literally just frozen carrots.
00:53:07
Speaker
Oh. And it just, it just made me hate that whole thing even more. Wait, they were frozen? Yeah. Like it was literally just a thing of frozen carrots. What the fuck? That's ridiculous. What are they doing serving frozen carrots? I don't know. Maybe it's a German thing. I don't know. Is it? I have no idea.
00:53:37
Speaker
Maybe it was like a, it was some kind of like, you know, you got like the, it was like the big foil, um, you know, like the big foil entree or like peel foil back. And I thought maybe you're supposed to put the carrots like in the beef stew thing. I don't know. Cause what's funny is like, they don't even really tell you what it is. It's just like, do you want chicken beef or salmon or like chicken beef or vegetarian? And it's like, well, what is it?
00:54:06
Speaker
And then it's just like a foil container and you like peel it back and it's like, uh, I guess there's chicken in there. Maybe there's like a single piece of broccoli and then like some rice that's on the bottom. I don't know. I have to get into airplane food humor, but
00:54:35
Speaker
Uh, okay. I started googling Lufthansa frozen and carrots popped up automatically. Okay, so it's a thing. So apparently, yeah, you're not the only one who's had this experience. That's weird.
00:55:04
Speaker
Yeah, it was like, I'm honestly, I'm not even sure what to say at that. That's weird. Yeah. I'm just looking through their, their food stuff and. Hmm.
00:55:22
Speaker
Can you imagine any other context you get frozen carrots? Yeah. I mean, like what's wrong with just like a bag of baby carrots or something, or even just like, I don't know. It's just, I'll tell you what was frozen today. My fucking mustache. Hey. Oh yeah. It is the season.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yep. It's that time of year when the moisture of your breath gets trapped in your mustache and it freezes cause it's cold. God, I love winter. Yeah. I went for, um, when I was in Duluth, I went for a walk and so our, our house is on a really big hill and I walked to the bottom of the hill, walks to the top and then like, I had a full on beard sickle. I haven't gotten the full beard sickle yet.
00:56:22
Speaker
Only got it on my mustache, but that's because I wear a scarf every time I go out for more than five minutes. Scarf. Yes, it's also what I do to food that is in front of me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's see if there is
00:56:52
Speaker
I love that this podcast has just now over the course of four and a half years devolved into us, uh, just kind of retailing stories from our life and jamming in some coaster talk around it. Yeah. I feel like there's most podcasts cause like, well, let's see. I'm gonna open up Screamscape.
00:57:21
Speaker
good old, good old scream scape and to see what the first, well, one of the first stories is six flags, great America working on a laundry list of off season upgrades. Well, talked about that one already because it must've been the only presentation at the thing. There's a, our favorite, the national roller coaster museum and archive did a presentation. Oh, did they? What did anything good?
00:57:52
Speaker
Yeah, they announced the opening date. And what is it? No, dude, nothing ever. They're never going to open. OK, hold on. I want to be very clear here. I am making a joke. The National Roller Coaster Museum and Archive may open at some point. I don't know. But I'm making a joke. They may or may not. Who knows?
00:58:22
Speaker
It's been like five years, 20 years since they asked for money. I mean, and this is now we're in 2024. So like before it was like just like a funny joke and now it's like, okay, like what the fuck are they doing? They had, you know, before like 2019 when they brought those influencers in, they gave a tour, you know, and it was like, okay, this is kind of cool. Like,
00:58:48
Speaker
They're going to, you know, they're getting shit ready. They're setting up that bar or all that stuff. And then, you know, COVID hit and it's like, all right, so COVID obviously is going to delay things. And now it's 2024 and it's, I wonder if their website's updated. Do they have any? No, you can go check. Let's see. National roller coaster museum. Okay. Their website's still on.
00:59:17
Speaker
I'm curious if they have anything about openings or anything. I mean, last I checked, which has been a bit, no, but you know, Oh shit. One of my, so one of my Google search suggestions is where is the, where's the roller coaster capital? I wonder if let's see what it is. Okay. I guess it's six flags, magic mountain.
00:59:47
Speaker
I guess so. So the national roller coaster museum, they have a new website in that launched November 22nd, 2023. Um, roller coaster museum to be used new website. That's, that's the only news they have on here, which is kind of funny because like, it's a weird thing to promote because you're already on the new website. When you go to it,
01:00:17
Speaker
That is okay. Okay. Museum history. Um, okay. So 2023, Randy duffer donates lakeside Derby racing coaster vehicle, 2022 Euro sat donation, Montezuma's revenge donation, the buzz bar debuts. Oh, the buzz bar. Okay. That's the name of the bar.
01:00:47
Speaker
Not a whole lot of things in their museum history timeline. The dream begins 2009. Yep. Okay. Let's see what their FAQ shop. That's what I want to see. Um, okay. So there's some blueprints. You can buy a retro poster, a Schwartz cough logo. You can buy the coffee mug.
01:01:15
Speaker
Oh, fantastic. You can get a glass. You buy a two pack glass. Not, I mean, not much. Okay. Oh, the donation. Here we go. Donate to the museum.
01:01:30
Speaker
By donating, you are aiding in the production and preserving of historic roller coasters in the music. They did not get someone with, they did not get a copywriter to write this. Everyone involved in museum or unpaid volunteers just dedicating their time and efforts to bring the museum to life. Um, donate. Let's see what this takes me to. Should I donate a dollar? So do they have to like display donations anywhere?
01:02:00
Speaker
on their tax returns. I wouldn't recommend donating anything to them personally, but that's my philosophy. What about like a dollar from your favorite coaster sucks? On an annual basis until opening. I like the idea that in January of every year we send them one dollar. Hey,
01:02:28
Speaker
This is to the opening. Let's see. Is there any fun to have with this? Let's see, contribution. OK, so 10, 25, 50 and 100. There is another amount. Can I do like 50 cents? One cent. Oh, shit, I can.
01:02:58
Speaker
Okay, you have to have a minimum of 50 seconds. Okay. Here's my idea then, Ben. It's January 2024. Starting now, every year, we give them a donation in January, increasing in one cent increments. So in 2025, we'll give them 51 cents.
01:03:28
Speaker
I wonder if they have to pay like a fee per transaction on this thing, whatever they're using. Look, museum, if you can hold off for longer than this joke is funny, then eventually you'll make a good donation from us. Yeah. Let's see. Okay. So you, they do have an option. You can host an event there.
01:03:50
Speaker
So host your next fuck out of here, host your next unforgettable events. Our unique venue offers like dynamic backdrop for gatherings, corporate meetings, private celebrations. Uh, host an event. It just opens up an email, like a contact us box. Hmm. Interesting. I'm going to view page source and see how well their sites been put together.
01:04:20
Speaker
I'm just curious how many corporations are looking to book the roller coaster museum. I mean, okay. So it's just, it's just a standard square space page. They don't even have photos of like, no, maybe they do. Hold on. Okay. Yeah. Collection highlights. Is it a scam? Is it?
01:04:48
Speaker
That's a really good question. That is a fantastic question that I would urge all of our listeners to type into the search bar of YouTube. I mean they have, okay, so they have some historical archives. Um,
01:05:18
Speaker
Okay. That is actually kind of funny. There's a, an old, so it's some loop coaster at fairgrounds in the early 1900s. They show in a photo of like, it is funny cause in one of the photos that shows some guy sitting in the front of the car is like, he's like totally folded in half. So I'm sure it was good on the neck.
01:05:49
Speaker
Yeah, it would be nice to see this museum in person. Love to buy a ticket. Yeah. It's like they don't even, I mean, the thing is, is like, they're not even trying to show like, let's see, and they're frequent in their FAQ. Um, why is the museum in Plainview, Texas? Through a gracious donation from Larson international museum was gifted land and labor costs to construct the facility.
01:06:19
Speaker
It says, why the museum is still under construction. We cannot be open continually to the public. So they have special events, but that's about it. What are you opening? The museum will fully open once fundraising allows us to complete construction. Okay. So they do have an option to rent out. So that's, I dunno, maybe it's worth an inquiry. Like, I think so.
01:06:44
Speaker
Maybe under a fake name, fake event type of thing. Just, I wonder, I wonder what it costs. Yeah. Cray America industries. Like should we, I mean, I wonder how much would the, well, how much would it have to cost to where it would be funny and worth it? Well,
01:07:14
Speaker
couple hundred bucks how much can they charge for a museum that's never been open right when they're literally begging for money on this site you know what I'm saying like the the FAQ it's like how can I help the museum
01:07:38
Speaker
You can donate directly to the museum, purchase items from our online gift shop, or volunteer your time. Contact us on social media to see what volunteer rules might be available. I think if we wanted to have a volunteer event on behalf of your favorite coaster sucks, I wonder if they would take it. They would not. Well,
01:08:04
Speaker
You know what's fun though? They do have a mailing address where you can mail a donation to. Mail them pocket change. One cent. Which would be hilarious because the stamp would cost more than. Maybe I'll send them a cent though. Well, that's the thing. If they, we send them a bunch of cents, like,
01:08:34
Speaker
repeatedly just like every day, just like give them a penny. That's going to cost a lot though. Cause the stamps are going to add up. Yeah. Let's see. What's a stamp now? 32 cents drop 20 bucks for a bit. Yes. Send them a couple of pennies every, I like maybe sending them somewhere in the area of like 32 to 48 cents.
01:09:03
Speaker
every couple of weeks throughout the year. Return address, your favorite coaster sucks. Handwritten note that says can't wait to visit. Send them like Canadian coins. Throw a piece of string in there and be like, I think this is actual string from Greece Lightning. Well,
01:09:27
Speaker
Every year we're another year, like I feel like the joke will last as long as we do this show. Yeah, I mean, I realize right now, just looking it up, that video was October of 2020. So, you know, it's been three and a half years since that video
01:09:56
Speaker
which is hilarious in its own way. But they are right. I mean, when we first talked about it, it's just funny. Like I, I don't know. I didn't envision it actually taking this long. Well, yeah. When you and I first talked about the roller coaster museum, we were teenagers. I even think there was like a little project, like there was a little presentation about it at one of the no coaster cons.
01:10:26
Speaker
There was. And the great news is, through a wonderful donation, through one of our own here at Your Favorite Coaster Sucks, we can now announce that the International Roller Coaster Museum and Archives will be opening in Duluth, Minnesota.
01:10:53
Speaker
Well, what's funny, remember, you know that like one person roller coaster art installation they built? Yes. That was built and opened in like way less time than the museum. The real tragic question is, are they going to donate that roller coaster to the museum?
01:11:20
Speaker
I mean, eventually the, I mean, eventually like the, it'll run its course so far that that'll be like, yeah, eventually just donated. Well, I mean, they just announced that the final bookings are for February. Oh, for that installation. Yep. I wonder if that credits on our CDB or do they not count it? Cause it's not full circuit. Probably not because it's not, um,
01:11:49
Speaker
It'd be like considered like a traveling one. Oh, yeah. But they are right. They are right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I know this has been kind of a downer episode. That's okay. Oh wait. Uh, questions. Do we have any?
01:12:13
Speaker
I think so. Let's see, questions from Brann. How do you feel about live entertainment in the parks? Do you seek out shows, avoid them, pop in if it's loading and you're nearby? I like live entertainment. Yeah, I don't necessarily avoid shows, but I guess I'm never in a park long enough to where I'll see one.
01:12:41
Speaker
Last thing I did see was when last year when we went to Silver Dollar City during Christmas and there was some like nativity scene live show that was interesting and a little awkward to watch. Yeah. Go ahead. I mean, the last time I, I think the last time I actually watched a show was rock band live.
01:13:10
Speaker
at Cedar Point in 2010. Oh wow. All right. Fucking rock band live. Um, I like entertainment. I gained a new appreciation for it, especially once I worked in the entertainment department at great America. I'll go see shows. I don't usually like
01:13:38
Speaker
look for them specifically, but I like knowing that they're an option. And if they come up as an option, I like to do it. Like parks, I spend like you were saying enough time at like knowing that great America doesn't have fucking live entertainment anymore. Really, uh, is a huge bummer. Yeah.
01:14:08
Speaker
Yeah. That's something I don't even really think about. Like, because they used to have, I mean, even when a theater Royale was still there, like, was there a show in there? Yeah. Like what was going on in there? They brought back the two night show with Bugs Bunny. It was like a 30 minute variety show singing, dancing, you know, the standard six flags, but it was Looney Tunes characters. Yeah.
01:14:35
Speaker
Which I mean, it seems weird. So there's none of that, right? Like they don't even do the parade anymore. Do they? I only remember a fright fest parade like last year, but like, yeah, I don't know. We were talking about it, uh, earlier, just, uh, like live entertainment's getting gutted from parks and it's a huge bomber.
01:15:03
Speaker
Yeah. What was all that going on with, uh, with Disney live entertainment? Like just a bunch of the shows are basically getting cut from the park. Really? They're, they're gutting their live entertainment. Unfortunately, um, real, real bummer to see it happen. They're still doing some shows.
01:15:28
Speaker
but they're mostly gonna be like those nighttime style ones where they're fireworks driven in terms of like actual performers, union entertainers, singers, dancers, that type of shit. It's less and less now in parks. I mean, hell, with Great America, you know, the Grand Music Hall has an orchestra pit that's still there. Never got filled in as far as I know. I mean,
01:15:56
Speaker
definitely can confirm it was not filled in as of 2011. Okay. Yeah. Whoa. Okay. So I was just going through the discord and Trevor from Australia posted a video of the naked man arrested at Disneyland in the small world. Did you ever see that? Yeah, that shit was wild. Like that dude was high.
01:16:26
Speaker
Is it a sexual thing? Like unclear. Oh, dude. They're like, they got four guys pulling them out of there. Damn. Yeah. I feel like there's going to be a sexual charge. Yeah. Most likely. And then that seems appropriate. Huh. I wonder if it's like my little pony adjacent.
01:16:53
Speaker
That's, it's just so weird. I wonder, like, I want to know the aftermath. It seemed like that dude was on like bath salts or something. Okay. Which like, sure. That's, that's an appropriate drug to do at Disney. Yeah. I'm just, I'm going down to Disneyland. What do you think? I was thinking either smoke a joint or sniff some bath salts. Don't do bath salts and especially don't do bath salts and go to a theme park.
01:17:22
Speaker
If you go to, if you do bath salts and go to a theme park, you're going to have a bad time. Oh God. Now I'm just going down the rabbit hole of Disney videos. There's the one of the brawl that was posted just above it. Oh, there's always, there's never a shortage of good Disney content. And I mean, what better high note to end the show on than a Disney fucking fail.
01:17:51
Speaker
a good old brawl. Remember that one April Fool's day when YouTube put everything into old timey mode? Um, no, what did they do? They put a sepia tone on every video and the audio is replaced with like old timey piano music. Okay. Nice.
01:18:22
Speaker
And then, like, I remember John posted a video of, like, this big fighter to Denny's. And he's like, it's just like the old west. I should not be laughing so hard at that. Let's see if there's a way to turn on old time.
01:18:57
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if there's a way to do it. I'm not finding anything. Yeah. This was a long time ago, but that was a fun, just like I think it would be fun. One of these days to Rick roll our audience. Like just from an in an episode. Yeah. That's a classic. Not this time around, but, uh,
01:19:28
Speaker
maybe in the future we can be like, Hey, we got an exclusive interview with a X, Y, and Z about this coaster with Rob Alvey. Yeah. There's our interview with Rob Alvey. So is this episode going to be the official no coaster con episode? Yes.
01:19:56
Speaker
I mean, there's nothing else it could be, right? Yep. Fucking mid-January. And everything sucks unless you live near Disney Park. Well, I just went on theme park review in the random section and I'm in picture of me thread. Well, Chris Hanson will be there soon.
01:20:21
Speaker
It's weird that theme park review is still like a thing. Whoa. Okay. Go to, are you on, are you on the, are you on TPR by chance? I am. Okay. Go to picture of me and then go to page one 89. Okay. And then just slowly scroll. There's a guy on a horn.
01:20:50
Speaker
Whoa, the guy in the big mask, right? Wait, what? Oh, wait, one eighty nine. OK, I'm just going to scroll from the top down and describe everybody. We've got. The guy next to Scrooge McDuck. There's a a failed high school football player.
01:21:17
Speaker
in a wooden box. This is like if Doug Stanhope played Beetlejuice instead of Michael Keaton. There's a guy who's way too stoked to be posting a picture of himself in Japan. There's a dude who's not stoked to be taking a picture with a stroller.
01:21:47
Speaker
There's a dude who really wants to be closer to Mickey Mouse. Okay, this is the one, right? This is one I could only describe as someone who did not ever give up the Spice Girl fandom. Then much further down, we've got Torben Ulrich, the late Torben Ulrich.
01:22:16
Speaker
We've got another dude who's not stoked to be holding a baby. No, he's like an uncle though. That's clearly an uncle. Um, this is, uh, Crocs lady. Then we've got murderer. I just love that one. It's like everybody, everyone in theme park review. I got an impulse buy and then like,
01:22:48
Speaker
This one I call gang bang at no coaster con. Oh, well, I didn't even see that one. Oh, I see. I see the one here, the horn one. It's tie dye. Yeah. Yep. Then this next one I call
01:23:18
Speaker
don't treat Elmo that way. The next one is gang bang at no coaster shot. Oh, okay. Okay. When you're done on that page, you have to go to one 88. There's, there's a, there's somebody who keeps posting like on the, like a lot of photos.
01:23:41
Speaker
OK, you really want me to just like do reads on all these pictures? All right. No, no, not necessarily just like. This is blind. I'm going in blind here, Ben. So first one. That too young. That's just, yeah, whatever. There's this picture, whatever. Pass. Yeah, pass. Skip. Next, we got. Probably don't want to be hanging around Camden too long.
01:24:11
Speaker
Just, you know, whatever, hanging out at Camden, just a normal enthusiast photo, whatever. And then... Person who's never thought about a vagina ever. I'm curious, why is he in public without shoes on? Taken at the 2014 National, the Pacific National Exhibition,
01:24:40
Speaker
a traveling exhibit of Game of Thrones. Between seasons two and three, it was a traveling exhibit that we got for free entering the fair. Other cities that the exhibit visited did not get in for free. Ha! That said, they had a, quote, wannabe Iron Throne, so naturally I had my own, quote, pose in mind.
01:25:11
Speaker
Naturally, I wore no shoes. This next one down is, hopefully that's your daughter. Next one down is, anyone can make sitting on a trash can look cool. Next one down is, if Adam the Woo really liked hair metal.
01:25:36
Speaker
Next one is if John Lovitz liked Cedar Point. Then we got why you don't do math. Why you don't do math part two wishes for a gang bang at no coaster con. Still wishing for a no gang bang and no coaster gun. Still wishing for a gang bang and no coaster gun.
01:26:07
Speaker
That's offhand Disney. That's. Oh, God, why doesn't anyone want me to? Oh, no, why why does anybody let this person get into any establishment wearing Crocs and a tie dye? A.K., I can smell the picture. And this threat is wild. It is.
01:26:36
Speaker
This is, um, very single rider. Why does, why does wishing for a gang being at no coaster can keep posting? Oh no, it keeps going. Like I'm already at one 80. I'm already down to one page 84 and I was just doing a fast scroll. Like,
01:26:59
Speaker
That person posted a photo of them cutting off their beard, but like it's just a picture of like spare beard hair sitting on like a countertop. It's just. It's just a very awkward. This is just a very awkward topic, like it's just. Well, they couldn't just call it fuckable question mark.
01:27:31
Speaker
That doesn't go over well on a coaster for him. Yeah. Oh man, I'm going to be in here for a minute. I'm already out of that picture of me thread. I'm on to page 630 of Six Flags St. Louis discussion thread. It's funny that those topics are still around.
01:27:56
Speaker
where the very last page is all just two people bickering, it seems like. Because the very last post is somebody quoting, somebody else going, I'm positive you know what I meant. And the response is, I did. However, both things can be true. So obviously a lot of good meaningful conversation happening here.
01:28:25
Speaker
You know where else might be worth a quick visit? Cifcamworld.com. Or of course, the very useful thread is minor updates, rumors, and happenings. Oh yeah, because now there's the big, this is going to be the big no coaster con updates.
01:28:53
Speaker
Yeah. The big, the big updates. There's a username called. Oh, wait. Actually, I know who that is. So I won't say it. Yeah. Be careful before we start talking about individuals here. Yeah. Honestly, probably going to cut that whole picture thing out, except for PKI jizz man.
01:29:21
Speaker
Wait, is that a thing? That's a real, that's a real account. I just clicked the tab for TPR and that one popped up. I had to click PKI Jizman. I mean, obviously they've been around for a while. Anyway, I feel like it's time to wrap this shit up. Sounds good.
01:29:51
Speaker
but we'll be, uh, we'll be back shortly. Cause I'm sure there'll be some exciting news to cover. Oh no way. I found a photo of, I found a photo of Slater from 2012. What in the picture of me thread, what page is that on? Well, the caption, the caption is works a bitch, but how else am I going to pay for a TPR trip?
01:30:20
Speaker
You listening Slater? We found you. I'm going to have to screen grab this one. Please do. And please post it in our discord and please tag Slater in that post. But all right guys, you know, uh, if you've learned nothing else this time, you've learned that the internet has some great stuff. If you're able to find it far back enough.
01:30:51
Speaker
I don't know if that made sense. I also just got an ad for summer's Eve. Well, it's not because it's negative three outside. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm mistaken. It's zero, much warmer than I thought. But all right. I'm. I'm getting a little bit sleepy. All right. Good to be doing this again more regularly.
01:31:23
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to be in Italy again for two weeks. Time zone thing will be fucked up, but I mean, unless you're able to do an early morning one. Or that early, I don't know, we can figure it out. I tried to. Yeah, we'll try and see if we can make something work. Otherwise, you know, you can't rush perfection.
01:31:52
Speaker
All right, here we go. I'm uploading that picture. All right, so if you want to see the picture. Join our discord. Just posted it and whatever. Slater, I think this is an invitation to get back on the podcast and. I don't know, come talk shit with us.
01:32:17
Speaker
Dude, I'm seeing a lot of people I recognize now that I'm back into like 20 early 2010s. There's so many surprising. Yeah. There's a lot of familiar people in here. I was almost thinking about starting at like the early pages of that thread and moving up. Oh yeah. You'll see some, there's gonna be some awesome archives that early. All right. I'm on page nine. Oh boy.
01:32:47
Speaker
I don't want to give a screen name, but, uh, or any too many details, but the first person I saw, uh, it's, it's hard to say much without saying anything. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'll go to that. Let's see page nine. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause like, I hope they're doing good. I,
01:33:18
Speaker
I don't want to say anything negative about people. I thought about I actually thought about reaching out to actually there's two familiar faces and I thought about reaching out to both of them recently.
01:33:32
Speaker
You should. Never a bad time to say hello and, you know, yeah. Like I don't see a lot of people I recognize it. Wait a second. Nope. I thought on page 14, like, whoa. Okay. That was not expecting that. There's someone that looks like dab head on there.
01:34:03
Speaker
Yep. Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember that guy from their videos. Oh yeah. Whatever happened to that guy? Whoa, I remember that guy too. Oh, yep. Yep. And that guy.
01:34:24
Speaker
Amazing the amount of people in this old thread and like the old part of this thread that have just like hundreds of thousands of posts, but no avatar, meaning that they are just gone. Oh, I see another person I recognize. It just keeps on going. There's friend of the show, Don. Yeah, I mean, that's. You'll come across that event, yep.
01:34:53
Speaker
Oh, the one below it, which is like the random shirtless photo with the trophies. Mm hmm. Yeah. Like, what's with these teenagers posting these shirtless pictures? Oh, and then on the next page, it keeps going. Yeah, this is too much, man. But I mean, this is it's just funny how like the forum era was such a like unique small window of time where like
01:35:22
Speaker
This was like kind of, it was kind of cutting edge to be able to like share photos like this. Holy shit. Yes, I agree. Page 18. About halfway down. Great picture of Don. Oh yeah. Oh dude, took page 21. Familiar face. I haven't talked to him in a long time.
01:35:50
Speaker
Hold on. I'm downloading the one of Don so that I can just send it to him real quick. Where the hell is my downloader folder? Downloads. Perfect. All right. You said 21. Yeah. 21 it is. All right. Let's see. If you come across the boy, let me know. Wait. I'm not seeing. Oh.
01:36:19
Speaker
Wait, hold on. I'm 21. Are you talking about no coaster con gang bang? No, I'm talking about gapper towards the top. Oh, wait, that now second posts. Scooby doo. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Wow.
01:36:48
Speaker
I think I still may be in Facebook friends with that person. Oh my God, dude, page 22, that first post, that tumbler is amazing. What about it? It's amazing. A tumbler? Oh, whoa. The Mr. Six sports bottle. Oh yeah.
01:37:18
Speaker
Do you remember those like weird, nearly essay photos that like, we'll just, I don't want to give a name, but we'll just say Mr. Smiles with this likey hair and friend of the show, omitting name. Where are those at?
Reflections and Character Concerns
01:37:47
Speaker
Cause that was a, it seemed like that was a happening a lot for a while. Man, I'm still in 2005. Oh. Same. Whoa. Okay. 31. Halfway down. Oh boy. Oh boy.
01:38:14
Speaker
The way you said that is making me concerned. Oh, wow. Whoa, with hair. Considering the unfortunate thing that happened to somebody we know personally with them and then seeing those photos, like I'm not surprised by the character of that person. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, fuck that shit. Fuck that dude.
01:38:44
Speaker
man, this was such a like very of its time.
Photo Nostalgia and Privacy
01:38:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's amazing how long, uh, no coaster con gang bangs been on here. Whoa. 34 same person, less flattering and 35 that person was in Colorado.
01:39:14
Speaker
Never ran into him. Well, you never made your way out to, um, I'm not going to be specific here, but that part, he had no business in that area. All right. Well, I think that's enough, uh, picture of me thread for me. Yeah. I mean, I'll probably keep going for a bit because I'm some of it just keeps going.
01:39:44
Speaker
Well, yeah, there's 900 pages and you're only on 30 something. Yeah. I'm also just waiting to see. I'm also just waiting for like the embarrassing. One of myself, if it ever shows up. Yeah, I found one. Of me? No. Yeah. No.
01:40:12
Speaker
I mean, it's not loading. So I guess not. Like there's some of these old posts that have just text and they should be. Oh yeah. Cause, uh, if you did like photo bucket or something, those are all gone. Yeah. It was definitely something like that.
01:40:34
Speaker
Which in hindsight is, was probably a good idea. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah, definitely not, not too torn up about that one, not being around. Great. You can't find a picture of me when I was 16 on TPR. Wonderful.
Closing Thoughts and Future Plans
01:40:55
Speaker
But all right, yo, I am getting, uh, I'm getting sleepy.
01:41:01
Speaker
Already so we get for doing this at nighttime jeez But this is fun Hopefully when we can get one in while you're in Italy if not is what it is Hopefully it's January. It's a tough year. Yeah But you know, we'll be here to make sure you all get the details from our perspectives
01:41:30
Speaker
Alrighty. Alright man, you got anything else? Nah, all good. Cool. Then, uh, this is fun. Thanks for listening, y'all. And, uh, shit. Join the Discord. That's where all the fun stuff happens. You can find some old TPR pictures. And, uh, until next time, your favorite coaster