{"id":45130,"date":"2017-07-31T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45130"},"modified":"2020-08-02T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:46:52","slug":"this-kind-of-makes-me-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45130","title":{"rendered":"This kind of makes me sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Short story shorter<\/a>: Six Flags Over Georgia says goodbye to the Georgia Cyclone rollercoaster, after 27 years of operation<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s just a rollercoaster, but as many of my non-existent readers know I\u2019m just reluctant to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I do have fond memories of the Georgia Cyclone, because it was the first roller coaster I rode in my first-ever trip to Six Flags Over Georgia.\u00a0 This was long before the Batman ride, even longer before Goliath, before amusement parks all across the country weren\u2019t in this perpetual rat race to see who could churn out the tallest, fastest, scariest and\/or most grandiose rides, to attract would-be riders to stand in 60 minute-long lines just for 60 seconds of thrill.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What made the Georgia Cyclone unique in the ever-escalating world of rollercoasters was its old-school wooden construction that was loud, noisy, rickety and legitimately beat the shit out of you when you rode it.\u00a0 Sure, it is of the most paramount importance that rollercoasters be safe for riders, but a part of the appeal of the Georgia Cyclone was the illusion of danger that the ride instilled in riders, because it always sounded like it was two loose nuts and bolts away from coming apart and spilling riders to their death, and failing that, the dated wooden structure rattled, and the aged rails whipped and banked hard and was more than just the thrill of speed and wind in your face.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ridden the Georgia Cyclone as recently as the nearly the entire last decade, but I can say that I\u2019ve ridden it in every time I\u2019ve ever gone to Six Flags.\u00a0 Where most people always rushed to get onto Goliath and Batman, I always appreciated that the age and reputation of the Georgia Cyclone always made it an easily accessible and as well as physically reminding of what rollercoasters were capable of doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who knows if it will be replaced with something modern and high-tech, or if it will be kind of refurbished and a glorified re-skin of the old ride.\u00a0 But for what it\u2019s worth, the Georgia Cyclone provided a quarter of a century\u2019s worth of hard riding, fear of god and brutal physical enjoyment at one of Georgia\u2019s only tourist attractions, and it\u2019s off to the great big rollercoaster heaven in the scrap heap now.\u00a0 Thanks for the memories and popping of spinal joints.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short story shorter: Six Flags Over Georgia says goodbye to the Georgia Cyclone rollercoaster, after 27 years of operation Ultimately, it\u2019s just a rollercoaster, but as many of my non-existent readers know I\u2019m just reluctant to change. Anyway, I do have fond memories of the Georgia Cyclone, because it was the first roller coaster I … Continue reading This kind of makes me sad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,99],"class_list":["post-45130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-old-man","tag-reminiscing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45132,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130\/revisions\/45132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}