Roller Coasters as art.

I am a firm believer that roller coasters are the greatest art forms there are.... not only can you look at their wonderful structure and marvel at it's exterrior beauty, but you can also board them and experience the art involved in their structure. It is the only kind of art that you can truely do that with. The forces they take on your body. The sounds of them. The themeing. It is all apart of the art. Many people don't view roller coasters that way, but I do... so Cedar Point, being an amusement park to many, is also a kind of musuem that functions on all levels of human senses. Sight - the structures of the roller coasters and many of the times, the view from the roller coasters themsleves. Sound - the sounds of roller coasters all around you (the breaks kicking in on the MF while waiting in line, the sounds of screams from the Rapter when having lunch on the causeway, the sound of the Wicked Twister's screaching launch). Smell - many people will admit Cedar Point has it's own smell, even different parts of the park smell different (the smell of lake erie by the water rides, smell of food almost everywhere you go). Feeling - the g forces of the roller coasters. Taste - good food all around. Well anyway, that was a really long spiel. Hope you enjoyed it, and will think of it next time you find yourself at Cedar Point. Until then though, some pics I took at www.geocities.com/shwilson24/cpweb.html

	
Do you consider the Down time Art too? ;)

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

Down time is a type of "still life". ;)

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

You have an amazing point of view and I agree with your perspective. The senses you mentioned are easily taken for granted when we goto Cedar point, but appreciated in our memories. Rollercoasters are uniquley designed individual art, among other things;)
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Drink Milk. Goto Cedar point. Love Life.
"I listen to station music on my walkman"
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Millennium Force is an impressive piece of architecture by itself. I would travel a ways just to view it at night.

Wicked Twister is a pretty nice statue

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2002 Magnum--199
The world I love, the trains I hop, to be part of the wave can't stop.

Mean Streak is an impressive pile of wood too.

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
"Look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either"

Yea...but a LITTLE tooo rough

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

Yeah but at night it is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.

"Mantis Spelled Backwards Is Sitnam."

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Pugsly,The Coaster Jester Of Cedar Point.

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