Re: SFGAdv 2006: El Toro

On 28 Sep 2005 23:31:55 -0700, btwnguy_22@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


>I agree Bill. The Raven and Legend have not been anywhere close to
>their former selves and that is based on rides from many visits over
>this summer. This has also been the opinion of many other people I've
>talked with. I know Paul will respond with "I know those coasters
>better than anybody and they're as good as new", but sadly that is just
>fanboy talk.

You know what...time will tell. I do find it amusing that just
because I'm a admitted HW fanboy that means that I can't say anything
at all about the park and have it taken objectively. If this so why
are the other various park fanboys allowed to express themselves about
their parks without having their opinion (which is what I have been
stating not the God's truth) automatically thrown away?

>Personally I don't think a team of 10 of the most experienced
>maintenance perople just working on The Voyage could keep that thing in
>top condition. Haven't we learned our lessons with monster woodies?
>At least El Toro will stay in good shape.

Why? Like SF will really spend the cash to have Intamin ship over new
track sections all the time when a section becomes rough?

>And Paul... You haven't ridden ET yet, its not even built for god
>sakes. How can you say it doesn't blow you away? I know you're going
>by visuals and the elements you like, but Baldner doesn't look like
>much either and it knocks the socks off of almost every woodie in the
>US.

On the same token neither have you ridden it yet so how can you say
that it has blown you away? I'm not ranking the coasters that I
haven't been on. All I have said was that yes the design didn't blow
me away as I'm way more into terrain coasters than airtime rides. If
El Torro fits what you're into cool more power to you.

It's ending looks cool. I am annoyed with mostly large theme parks
CP-SF who build coasters high but not long and that's all I meant when
I said that I (and others who for some reason aren't being reamed out
here) wished El Torro was longer. It's not like I printed out the
plans for the ride and took a crap on them or something.

If and ever I get out to NJ to visit SFGAd I'll ride El Torro with an
open mind heck I'm happy to see another wooden coaster opening and I'm
even curious as to it being an Intamin woodie. The thing is some of
you out there need to grow a spine. I have seen my home parked ripped
to shreads for years here and even people emailing me out of the blue
to do so and you know what my attitude is...that's your opinion and I
don't get my panties in a bunch over it. It'd be nice if some of you
could be the same.

And that's all I have to say on this.

Paul Drabek
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