Originally Posted By Mr X Just having some fun with ya anyway, Dave. As you well know, I would LOVE to travel over to your side of the globe someday and I hope to do so sooner rather than later. And Disneyland Paris is CERTAINLY on my itinerary if so!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>Sure, but I have Space Mountain AND Thunder Mountain in my backyard. Why would I travel all the way to Europe for them?<<< They are nothing like the ones in Paris. It is like saying PotC is a Tunnel of Love and Haunted Mansion is a spook house. The ones in Paris are a whole new level.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Bes comparison, tokyo's space mountain compared to DLP's is like comparing Test Track to JTTCOTE
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lol, I know what you mean. Though I am thinking of trying to pull all my points together and get air miles to make it to Japan, I have to do it before I am 40. Problem is, most airmiles can only be used in school term time.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <though if I recall, isn't Paramount's Kings Island near Kansas, which has some big coasters, and Silver Dollar City and Pidgeon Forge parks are in Missouri if I recall.> King's Island is near Cincinnati. The one in Kansas City (near MO/KS border) is World's of Fun (which I believe is a CP park, but it wasn't originally so it still has some of the original themeing). Silver Dollar City is indeed in SW MO (near Branson), but Pidgeon Forge (Dollywood) is in Tennessee. <Haunted Swings are also known as Mad House attractions, they are very common in Europe: Hex - Alton Towers The Haunting - Drayton Manor Villa Volta - Eftling Park Asterix and Phantasialand have them as well. > Dave, does Tivoli still have Vallhalla Borgen? I think that was the first one of those I ever rode.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I am not too sure, and sadly the Tivoli site is down at the month :-(
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Grrr, darn predictive tesxt, I meant at the moment. But I was thinking, as far as I am aware, the first mad house was Villa volta at De Efteling in the Netherlands.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I did find this on Wikipedia, it is incomplete as I have been on far more dark rides than on this list, but it does have a number of very cool pages linked to it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoryark_rides" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...rk_rides</a>
