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  1. 1 hour ago, piranesi said:

    Is anyone old enough to have gone to a theme park when one of the big traveling attractions were 180 degree movies called "The Chevy Show" shown in big domed theaters where you just sat and watched POV footage of race cars and roller coasters and stuff?

    This was before Imax but I remember we always made apoint to go and everyone was amazed.  In retrospect we must have seemed like those people in the 1900s who were terrified a movie train was coming at them.

    I don't specifically remember it as a traveling attraction with that name but I definitely remember that attraction.  The was a different name for it but it escapes me.  Oddly enough, there was one right near the "Frontier Meeting House" in my previous post -- it was  the "Cinemavision" building noted in the quote.  They eventually stopped using it an re-purposed the building as an arcade.

  2. This thread reminded me of all the trips to Hersheypark I took as a kid and this creepy fucking ride they had for a little while.  It was some weird thing with a crazy preacher and the perils of gold and how it would lead you into damnation, then devils and demons came out and attacked gold miners.  Just crazy shit for a theme park.  WTF Hersheypark?

    I did some Googling and it turns out it was called Frontier Meeting House. Here's the description from this thread, likely started by someone as scarred for life as I was.

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    A "magic room" ride (like Dutch Wonderland's Dutch Wonder House) constructed in-house by park workers to save money. Cost approximately $650,000 to build and was supposed to open in 1986, but the opening was delayed to the following season. The ride was an illusion attraction where the outside walls of the room would rotate while benches in the center (where riders sat) remained stationary. Themed as a western meeting house of the late 19th century, complete with a piano player, stove sitter, and choir, accompanied by a speaker preaching the evils of gold mining. Eventually an underground mine was seen by riders, where gold miners were attacked by the "demons of greed." Constructed in the geodesic domed building that formerly housed the Cinemavision attraction and that would later house the Double R-cade and Playdome Arcade (which stands today). Removed due to low popularity (many riders believed it was the same thing as the Cinema Vision attraction was) and relocated to a park in China.

     

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  3. 12 hours ago, AxB said:

    You would have thought they'd have had the sense to just add a "KI" in front of the SS, rather than go for the awful tribals they did get. Even if they weren't fans of ol' Genie Simmons and them lads.

    When you google image search Harris Twins, you get a few pictures of Neal Patrick Harris and his brother, and lots of some bodybuilder fellas called Harrison. You have to scroll right down to get Ron and Don. Here's the Blu Brothers:

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    Jacob and Eli Blu. I bet when they trademarked those names they were planning on having a team do a Blues Brothers gimmick (Jake and Elwood), but gave up and used it for a couple of hillbilly guys instead.

     

    Wait wait.  The Harris Twins got matching tattoos but mirror-style?  Holy shit, they're a hillbilly Tomax and Xamot.

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  4. On 4/18/2016 at 10:35 PM, KDWI said:

    The latest Jim Cornette Experience features a fantastic burial of Lance Storm by Brian Last. It's also in the first five minutes of the episode for anyone that finds Cornette annoying (but the Ricky Morton interview that follows is also quite enjoyable).

    You couldn't pay me to listen to Cornette's show.  What's the problem with Storm?  Was it his kind of dumb but not hugely offensive eulogy for Balls Mahoney?

  5. We've seen five seasons of the Walking Dead and have learned how you're supposed to conduct yourself in this scenario.  So it's hard to feel sympathy when that barge of refugees shows up when you know, per Rick, you should just sink that barge and GTFO.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Vader does my taxes! said:

    Isn't this pretty much the argument for Sting not being a Hall of Famer (the Gordy List.  I.E., if Sting was so great, why didn't JCP draw better)?

     

     

    I think there's more to it than that.  Sting was an above average wrestler who was great against great opponents (Flair and Vader stand out) and just kind of there against guys not at that level.  He drew horribly as world champ, so much so that they had to take the belt off him early.  Is that all his fault?  No, the booking was shit, too.  Arguably, he was a big part of WCW's boom period but I'd say the NWO was the real draw.  Really, it comes down to asking why Sting should be in and I have no answer for that.  A lot of people just argue that it's a "Hall of fame" and that, well,  he is a really famous wrestler so he should be in. 

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