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Postby FParker185 on March 23rd, 2007, 7:20 pm
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/multim ... index.html

I cant honestly say I've never seen it done that way before, but it seems effective.

I still remember marathoning on that hunk of junk back in Smarch of 04 for a good 2 hours straight in the back seat in near freezing rain. No idea what I was thinking, though I probably wasnt and that was the problem :)
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Postby FRD714 on March 23rd, 2007, 8:47 pm
Interesting video. Thanks for posting.
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Postby Sedir on March 23rd, 2007, 11:57 pm
That was actually pretty sweet. It fell over so slowly though.
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Postby zjohn1988 on March 24th, 2007, 1:55 am
Thats depressing
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on March 24th, 2007, 11:13 am
I knew it was going to be taken down that way. lol that was pretty neat, and a little depressing.
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on March 24th, 2007, 11:30 am
TIMBER!



Still depressing to see [most] coasters get torn down.
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Postby Director_Guy on March 24th, 2007, 8:55 pm
Wow...it's like a dying animal.
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Postby FParker185 on March 25th, 2007, 2:34 am
yeah, it's always sad/unfortunate when a coaster is destroyed especially a wood coaster, but at least I think some coasters are better than others to be torn down. Coasters like Hercules, Psyclone and Hurricane Category 5 were never really great specimans of coasters and neither carried with it any real history or greatness(sometimes past), and it's best they leave us rather than rides that people really enjoy. Plus it is pretty neat to see Hurricane tip like that. That is the only coaster in the recent past I can think of that is a steel structured wood coaster to be torn down, and I gotta think it's a hell of a lot harder to take down the steel structure rather than wood, which comes down basically with an excavator and a few hours like SFAW Cyclone, which was a significant loss, which I hear at one time was a great coaster, though when I rode it, it was merely good, but was a loss none the less.

At least Hurricane gave them hell the whole way :)
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Postby revolutiongurl on March 25th, 2007, 11:44 pm
For some reason, I found that really funny. :roll:
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Postby Iggy ACE on April 5th, 2007, 2:55 pm
I have some photos in my video of them tearing down the hurricane. At the end of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8Scv_-q44

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Postby Trailblazer Tony on April 5th, 2007, 9:26 pm
Director_Guy wrote:Wow...it's like a dying animal.


Probably the most accurate description too! It's sad to see a coaster go, especially one i haven't ridden, but everything has it's time and place.
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