Roller Coaster History Timeline Added to Construction Fence

noggin said:

And relatively inexpensive teases and games for enthusiasts have their value. Enthusiasts are a small, small portion of the park's guests each season -- but we love to talk about coasters, we have friends, we have family, we have Facebook pages and Twitter feeds, and word of mouth is often called the best advertising.

Precisely. Has anyone read "The Tipping Point" by Malcom Gladwell?

Basically Gladwell proposes that there are three types of people who are crucial to the spreading of ideas...

Mavens: People who have larges sums of knowledge about specific topics and enjoy sharing it. They have the information, but not a large network of people to share it with.

Connectors: People who know a large variety of people in various social circles. They can carry an idea from one seemingly unrelated group of people to another. These people usually know a few mavens.

Salesmen: People who are good at influencing other people to try a new idea and accept it. These people make it a point to find connectors.

This is how ideas like skinny jeans, guys wearing eyeliner, and the Harlem Shake spread. It's how every idea that appears to "come from nowhere" spreads.

So yeah... We're 37 people. Not a huge group, but...

We also clearly fall into the "Maven" category. I mean... Look at RideMan and tell me he's not the very definition of a "Maven".

So while we're a very small community and an insignificant visitor number, we are intensely valuable from a marketing perspective.

I'd stir in "connectors" as well. At work, people know I'm a coaster geek and will ask me about what's new or where to go. I'd expect that's true of others in the enthusiast community.

I checked back to the blog and sure enough there are blurred spots, tons of them. Taking a closer look, they are at the same place on every box, the top left corner. They are definitely trying to hide a label, logo, or something along those lines.

The way I read that blog, those large boxes have something to do with Halloweekends, and not 2016. But I might have read that wrong.

Tony's tweet about the blog update mentioned "don't be left in the dark" or something to that effect. Could be easily a clue to a night haunt or a dark ride.

Glow in the dark pacifiers, obviously, for all the people who cry all year about never getting exactly what they want.

Jeff said:

Glow in the dark pacifiers, obviously, for all the people who cry all year about never getting exactly what they want.

I WANT ONE! Sign me up! Sign me up!

Well, if it's not a glow in the dark pacifier with a FastLane pass, unlimited drink refills and a fuschia lanyard, I'm not interested.

I hope it's glow in the dark cinder blocks.

Prettiest fence decoration I've ever seen at a park.

Any footers anywhere? I know someone said something about them

It was reported to be false.

So we have one random enthusiast who said "Yes, I saw this." and another who said "No, I didn't see this", and we have no idea if either is correct or if they were even looking in the same place. This is quality PointBuzz material. :)

There's only 2 places (at the moment) where footings could go. It seems unlikely that something as significant as that would go unnoticed by the enthusiast community. Also, a lot of construction equipment is required to make such things. Again, things that just don't go unnoticed. When it happens.....it will be known.

There is always the small chance that the park covered the footers with dirt or grass that can be easily rolled over it.

True......but I'd put money down that they did not do that. :)

The land has been surveyed. I can assure you of that.

I was going to say "anyone with eyes already knows that" but, now a days.....I don't even know what to think of people. :P

So I know this conversation goes all the way back to pages 8 and 9 on this topic, but I was thinking about how the sign for Iron Dragon says "one of three coasters in the park with two lifts" or something along those lines, and I thought maybe Wilderness Run is the third coaster because you go around the course twice in a row. Just a thought that popped in my head.