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Dominator56 Tidal Wave Bay User is Offline Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 1167 Location: Akron, Ohio	Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:49 am    Post subject: Firefall Grand Opening not so Grand.... · Quote Apparently on opening weekend there were no fire effects (and there were some missing water effects too I beleive, here is the article from screamcape.com: "2008 - Firefall & More - (5/19/0 California’s Great America did finally get Firefall open at last on Saturday, but not without some snags it seems. After the last second cancellation of the first “Grand Opening” event that was supposed to have included the winners of the charity auction for the first seats, the winners were apparently invited back for this second attempt to open the ride. According to one of our readers who was an auction winner, it seemed that a large number of the winners were unable to come back, so in order to fill all the seats they began grabbing just about anyone standing in the area to come over and ride, giving them all free “Firefall First Rider” T-shirts.  According to our wining reader, the injustice didn’t stop there either as most of the auction winners were asked to stand around in a particular area for about 45 minutes to wait for the first ride. In the meantime park staff were out grabbing the “extras” to fill in, and apparently went ahead and loaded many of these extras into the more desirable front row seats that the auction winners had technically “paid” for the opportunity to ride in.  Clearly this isn’t the best way to treat your special guests who had already been inconvenienced once before when the first event was canceled by events beyond your control. I can understand the need to fill seats for the PR shoot, but they could have at least given the winners first choice of seats. I’m sure people will remember this the next time the park attempts another event like this. Oh… and one final note… apparently Firefall is still pyro free. For whatever reason, despite the fact that they had a few extra weeks to work on it, the highly touted fire effects are still not working. You can see pictures taken during the grand opening posted to Theme Park Village." heres the link to the opening day photos: Theme Park Village _________________ Geauga Lake I will miss you!
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coasterdad Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 1564	Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: · Quote A grand screw up in typical CF fashion, beautiful! Oh, nice paint job on Firefall, seems like only last year that was the new paint job on Texas Twister. Oh wait that is Texas Twister! Oh but they had no idea they were going to close GL. _________________ Greed is what caused GL's demise and that just makes me sick. Lets do what we can to rat out Kinzel - hes a snake. In the end the truth will come out and we will then see whos laughing at who.
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Dominator56 Tidal Wave Bay User is Offline Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 1167 Location: Akron, Ohio	Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:12 pm    Post subject: · Quote I was wondering if the only reason some of these rides got painted was because they knew they were closing. Oh wait thats right they "didn't know until the day of announcement" . Mybad just another little "theory" _________________ Geauga Lake I will miss you!
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Thewave Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 63	Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:11 am    Post subject: · Quote Way to go dick! - another cf job well done! Keep up the good work. (good thing I'm not sarcastic) _________________ Geauga Lake 1888-2007 2008-Forever in our Hearts
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dsloban Thunder Falls User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 753	Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:25 am    Post subject: Firefall · Quote Well now that makes sence why they changed the color sceme on hat ride. I know that last wummer it made no sence why they would paint a ride that is a "tornado" theme with such bright colors... I mean unless the tornado is a fire one, I have never seen a tornado look like that!. And they said the closing was thought about after the season last year.....
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