Playland is Open- What's Your Favourite Ride?

Started by Lil Me, Apr 21 07 09:15

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Lil Me

#15
Jun 19 08 08:48
 Lise wrote:
After Disneyland, the rides at Playland look pathetic. Sorry but it's true. Needs some upgrade.
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 Yes and no.  They are very different things.
 Disneyland is all about the "dark ride" experience and mad animatronics.
 Playland is old skool carnival.
 Disney started adding carnival rides to California Adventure to fill up space, but none of the outdoor carnival rides are very good, except for California Screaming.  The dark rides Tower of Terror and Soaring Over California are amazing, unique and totally Disney.
 
 
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Van

#16
Jun 19 08 09:47
Comparing Disneyland with Playland is not realistic.

The PNE and Playland used to be like a country fair before Vancouver exploded with people. Back in the days when my folks were young in Vancouver and it was actually a very nice town.

Disneyland was a corporate, multi-million dollar, kid magnet since day 1.

  The old wooden roller coaster for me is the best. Feels very unsafe, so it is a rush!
When the End comes, don't worry if your party shoes are clean or not. Just make sure you have them on!

Lil Me

#17
Jun 19 08 09:18
Does anyone yearn for the "good ole days" when the Music Express ran backwards and at supersonic speed?  
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P.C.

#18
Jun 19 08 09:28
I wonder if that is the same ride I'm thinking of Lil Me.  I think many of the rides are the same as when I was a kid, but with different names.  Like The Wild Mouse was the Mad Mouse.....

  There was a ride called the Caterpillar many years ago....and it would go round the track....and a cover would slowly cover over.....then in the dark, it would go at break-neck speed backwards.....in the dark.  LOVED that ride.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lise

#19
Jun 20 08 05:50
Well, I still think I prefer Disneyland to Playland. I guess I'm easily amused. Old skool is oh so boring........ to me anyways.
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Van

#20
Jun 20 08 06:29
I guess it is all in perspective. I think 6 Flags LA makes Disneyland look like...well Disneyland, lol!

  It all comes down to whatever a person is into. Most people think Vancouver is the most exciting part of BC. I think it is the most boring.
When the End comes, don't worry if your party shoes are clean or not. Just make sure you have them on!

Lil Me

#21
Jun 20 08 07:55
P.C. wrote:
There was a ride called the Caterpillar many years ago....and it would go round the track....and a cover would slowly cover over.....then in the dark, it would go at break-neck speed backwards.....in the dark.  LOVED that ride.
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The Music Express is a variation on that ride's platform.  Unfortunately they run it forwards these days.  Sucks when legal liability gets in the way of old fashioned fun...
[img style="WIDTH: 496px; HEIGHT: 364px" height=1006 src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Musikexpress.JPG" width=1162]
 
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Sportsdude

#23
Jun 20 08 08:30
Yeah those spinner rides. Only those 'punk kids' go on those because they don't have a brain to protect.
punk kids

 
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Lil Me

#24
Jun 20 08 10:57
Not that we're still bitter or anything.  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#25
Jun 21 08 07:19
Michel wrote:  Yeah those spinner rides. Only those 'punk kids' go on those because they don't have a brain to protect.
punk kids

  Ahem.

  I like spinner rides. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/e058.gif" border=0]
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

P.C.

#27
Jun 21 08 07:28
Michel wrote:  LOL PC are you a member of the Post-Stalin school of falsification ? This is a quote from SD not me.



  I don't think there's enough room on this board for all the labels SD might likely slap on me.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

#29
Jun 21 08 11:20
bwhaha nobody on here is a 'punk kid'. Back in my high school days my friends and I came up with the term to describe wannabe badass posers who walked around at night talking gangster usually, thinking they were cool. Although usually it just meant teenagers who thought they were cool and acted like it.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."
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