DT's new toy

Here's a good one. Let's brainstorm and think of things that the lighted thing could be in the Repair Bay of DT. The first time I went on DT in 2002 i thaught it looked like a nuclear warhead. I now refer to it as "The Nuke". Maybe at the end of this season it will go off and blow DT to pieces. Does anyone else have any suggestions for what something that whistles and lights up could be??

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Current 2002 counts:
Millennium Force Laps: 7
Magnum Laps: 10
Raptor Laps: 8
Trips to CP: 7

What the heck are you talking about?

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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

That new lighted thing in the middle of the Repair Bay in DT's queue line.

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Current 2002 counts:
Millennium Force Laps: 7
Magnum Laps: 10
Raptor Laps: 8
Trips to CP: 7

Of course, where have you guys been? It's called a Flux Compasitor and together with a Mr. Fusion it's attached to a car. Once that car reaches 88 mph, something magical happens ;)

-Mikey

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Let your mind go...and your body will follow...

Kudos to Mikey, he wins. :)

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
"We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way."

I've heard people refer to it as "The Giant Electro Bong", but I have a feeling that not what it is...

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"Wheres the Callahan factory?!?!?"

It's a fuel compressor. You may recall that Dispatch Master Transport vehicles are powered using a fuel called RBB-11. RBB-11 is extremely powerful, producing, as its name suggests, a Really Big Bang upon ignition. The problem with it is that it is so volatile that extreme measures have to be used to compress it into liquid form so that an adequate amount can be carried in the vehicle fuel tanks. Like the launch mechanism on Xcelerator, the exact details on the process haven't reached my desk yet, but it has something to do with generating a high-frequency magnetic containment field (basically a magnetic bottle) in the compressor tower in order to compress the RBB-11 into a liquid without setting it off in the process.

Because the RBB-11 is so volatile it isn't really safe to be pumping it around inside the building in either its liquid or its gaseous form, so for many years the compressor was kept outside the terminal so that if Bad Things happened, it wouldn't take out the whole terminal. Unfortunately, a few budget cuts, a little careless behavior, and an unfortunate lightning strike caused Bad Things to happen anyway (although there was the side benefit of not having to dig out quite so much sand for Wicked Twister's forward spike.....) and they opted to move the apparatus inside...the steel building forms a Faraday cage, which will protect the fueling system from lightning strikes. As for why the signs only identify the unit as "HGIH VOLTAGE" and not also as "HGIHLY EXPLOSIVE" it is because the fuel itself is completely contained within the unit, and all the plumbing is deep underground.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(edited to fix the formatting, and one typo)
*** This post was edited by RideMan 7/8/2002 9:36:44 AM ***

...and to think all this time I thought it was just a big plastic tube with multiple green light pulses, and some nice electricity effects...silly me.

I believe Rideman should get the award for most creative explanation as well as the win! It's like it's something straight out of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

Thanks, Millennium Rider ;)

-Mikey

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Let your mind go...and your body will follow...

And I thought it was the warp core from the starship enterprise... It looks very much like it.

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I fool so feelish...

That's the first thing I thought of too, James! :) We also joked that it was made from a piece of VertiGo! :)

-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew

I heard someone in front of me in line say it was the A/C for the building.

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Cee yoU AT Cedar Point!

::brainstorm::

I think it looks like a giant, huge neon colored tampon!

100 posts ?<yeah right>

-Craig

I concur Wings. I concur.

Maybe they should permanently move the DT repair bay a few yards away towards WT. That way it can constantly be worked on, as if it isnt already.

IT'S A GIANT SODA FOUNTAIN!!! ;)

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MiA - The next Cedar Point when they DO run out of room.

MDOmnis It couldn't be parts of Vertigo. The faulty steel was melted down and used for track on Wicked Twister, comfirming the rumor of cracks in WT.
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Hoping to work at The Point in '03 so I too can get drunk and pee on VertiGo

Come on people. It's what will power the object going in at Area 51... I know. I am down with the Dippin Dots Guy.

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front car 24/7.

You know, I was going to be imaginative, but Rideman wins. I'm not even going to try! :)

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- The Darling one
The closest I'll ever get to riding a B&M Flyer is looking down while on Raptor... :(

WickedMaintenance said:
MDOmnis It couldn't be parts of Vertigo. The faulty steel was melted down and used for track on Wicked Twister, comfirming the rumor of cracks in WT.

FYI:

Vertigo is still sitting in the Employee lot.

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Are some of those things from the origional theming? Like that little box thats flashes to the right of the tower thingy?