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[tamakun]

Man, what an adrenalin rush. :D I went to Canada's Wonderland yesterday with a number of friends, and got thoroughly sunburnt, but had an absolute blast in doing so. :3 I found everyone at Splashworks, where we spent a good amount of time there, before drying off on a couple of rollercoasters, including their newest one, the Behemoth.

This thing is very, very tall.

Let me just say this - having a rollercoaster where there is no arm/chest support, just a waist support, and half of the ride involves your butt not even sitting on the seat -- it's extremely scary, and a brilliant rush. :D It was well worth it!

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This has been sitting on my tabs and I just wanted to mention it: All Rubik's Cubes can be solved in 20 or fewer moves. This boggles my mind. I spent an entire week up in Nippissing trying to work out a Rubik's Cube, and I only got to 2 sides completed, which really doesn't work, so I'm told. You have to work on all six sides. I still don't understand why they call it the "God Number" though.

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[woekitten.livejournal.com]

having a rollercoaster where there is no arm/chest support, just a waist support, and half of the ride involves your butt not even sitting on the seat -- it's extremely scary, and a brilliant rush. :D It was well worth it!

That's why I love wooden roller coasters (the video has a shot of the Minebuster, still my very favourite)! I'm glad there's a modern coaster that doesn't secure every part of you.

Question: I went to Six Flags near Baltimore, and they charge you a buck to store your bag on almost every ride! It's mandatory; no storage, no ride. Is Wonderland doing this? It strikes me as the biggest load of bullshit and a huge cash-grab. Amusement parks aren't cheap to begin with.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Well, ever since it became (and un-became) Paramount Canada's Wonderland, it appears that they've done away with most of the cubbyholes for a lot of the rides (such as White Water Canyon - you bring your bag, it's gonna get wet. They only tell you this once you've been in the line for 20 minutes.) The only exception that I saw was for the Behemoth, and they used an inventive three-colour system to coordinate which car had which items associated with it.

I think Wonderland is being run by another company now - Cedar Fair (http://www.cedarfair.com/). They don't seem to be Six Flags-affiliated.

We had actually rented a pair of lockers from the Splashworks area for $10 and just kept our bare minimum on the rides (even if you leave Splashworks you can hold on to your locker all day). Even then, if you don't want to give up your fanny-pack, then you can hold onto it for the ride. it sounds like the Six Flags was a cash-grab, but the locker is pretty much the same cost, especially if you end up taking 10 rides in the day.

[davidn]

When I was very young, I came up with the solution of hiding behind the sofa and peeling off all the stickers on the cube, then rearranging them correctly (showing my dad a completed coloured side each time). The worst part was that the next day, he went in and told all his students that his five-year-old had solved Rubik's Cube... 20 sounds like an impossibly low number, and makes it sound easy until you think of just how many possible moves there are from any position, and how that multiplies out when you have twenty of them!

Additionally: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA