best part of Disaster Transport
Well, the best part USED to be in the queues of room #2 watching the video screen next to "Dave" the robot. It was cool seeing the not-so-special effects, like when you saw the pilot in the cockpit of a transport being attacked, and the asteroids or attacking alien space ships were being pulled up and down in the background with strings, kind of like a B-movie, which is the effect, I think, the park had in mind: a campy space adventure. "Thank you for flying DISPATCH- DIS- DI-DI-DI-DISASTER TRANSPORT," as "Dave" has said...
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"Carnies built this country, the carnival part of it, anyway." - Homer
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"Carnies built this country, the carnival part of it, anyway." - Homer
Y'know, I never spent enough time in that room ("CONTROL ROOM")to know much about what went on there. On the other hand, I have spent hours (total) in the "REPAIR BAY" listening to FRANC complain, in some cases about DAVE. I concluded that FRANC's personality is modeled on that of Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I mean, they are both chronically depressed, surrounded by idiots, and stuck in menial dead-end jobs...
I do miss the explosion just after the mid-course brake, though...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
I do miss the explosion just after the mid-course brake, though...
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
As Avalanche Run the themeing was as follows:
o The station had an 'alpine' look to it...you know, the stucco-and-beam appearance with the shake roof. If you go up the Space Spiral you can still see some of the shakes on the roof behind the steel facade. It looked a little like the decoration on the Hofbrau stand across the main midway.
o The vehicles had national flags on the hoods so that they would look like Olympic bobsleds.
That was pretty much it, just like the themeing of CP's other coasters.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
o The station had an 'alpine' look to it...you know, the stucco-and-beam appearance with the shake roof. If you go up the Space Spiral you can still see some of the shakes on the roof behind the steel facade. It looked a little like the decoration on the Hofbrau stand across the main midway.
o The vehicles had national flags on the hoods so that they would look like Olympic bobsleds.
That was pretty much it, just like the themeing of CP's other coasters.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
I have to agree with NELSON....the exit is the best part :)
No, actually...Disaster Transport is alright, but when you wait for 45 minutes in those small walkways you kinda feel like cattle going to be butchered. I try to avoid this ride at all costs!
If they would just add some effects and sound it would be better. I just think CP could use a better, or another indoor coaster.
No, actually...Disaster Transport is alright, but when you wait for 45 minutes in those small walkways you kinda feel like cattle going to be butchered. I try to avoid this ride at all costs!
If they would just add some effects and sound it would be better. I just think CP could use a better, or another indoor coaster.
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