My Coaster Collection Part 2

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. Thank you for stopping by my little sliver of the internet. Don’t be shy, just step right up and gather round. The tale I’m going to weave for you today is one for the ages, and not to be missed. Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Erik, keeper of the kept, and master of the inept.

So last time I was compiling my top ten coasters that I'm going to buy when my lotto check finally clears. I made it to number 6 and the bank called....its taking a little longer than I expected, so to finish it up this week, here's the last 5. Again, some of these are great coasters, some of them are fake, but they're all fun...and products of my fantasy.
5.The Last Starfighter: Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada. If you grew up in the 80's how can you not love this movie? If you didnt grow up in the 80's....your loss....this movie is going to be terrible to today's standards. But what kid didnt want to save the Universe by playing video games? This is a tough one, but it's completely a pipedream that they should come up with. Hell, they already use the music in Disney....Pat McCabe, can you tell me where?

So imagine the themeing! The frontier, Centari, Grig! All of them there in either face character mode or animatronics...matter of fact, lets make it animatronics. We start the ride as a dark ride, aboard gunstar coaster trains, we'll keep them small, and have them as suspended coasters...only the seats are on a type of gyroscope and you have controls. Each row has two seats, a navigator who has controls that control the speed of the coaster, and direction, and the gunner..we'll get more to that one later.We go through the different scenes of the movie, and we end the dark ride portion at the final battle, where Alex finds out that he is the last starfighter, as you go shooting off into "space", an indoor coaster where you are zipping up down and around the track, loads of floating ships firing at you as you pass. You then enter a lift hill at the bottom of a hill and spend your time shooting targets on the way up. Your chair spins completely around while the Navigator turns the ship with his controls. As you near the crest, you hear a voice say "Time for Death Blossom! The Weapon of last resort!" and you hit the red and white striped button. As you launch down the coaster track, your car goes spinning up and around the track, literally over the rail, as your chair and car go spinning. Yeah, it'll make you puke, and yeah, it's almost virtually impossible to accomplish, but dammit, it sounds fun as hell.

4.Monsters Inc.-Escape from Monstropolis: I know, I know, they're building a door coaster at Hollywood Studios. I know. However, let's take it out of Hollywood Studios, and build it my way. For this one, I'm going to get a key to Magic Kingdom, and be able to go anytime I want. In the movie Monsters Inc. Boo is being chased by the evil Randall in one of the most awe inspiring parts of the movie, the door chase scene. Here we go and take the best scene and realize it..really big. We build a "scare factory" right in behind where Peter Pan is, you know, the old skyride building. In it we see scenes from the movie, animatronic Boo, all that jazz. We board giant doors, again a suspended coaster, with tiers of passengers on either side of the door. We go through all the scenes, and go through the lift hill and get sent through scene after scene of all the doors they encounter in the movie, at one point going vertically through one scene....hard to do inverted, I know. The apex of the ride will be blasting through a door and going outside over the Magic Kingdom, fantasy land to be exact, then back in through the building, passing by each of the other cars making it seem like a frantic door chase during business hours as they go hurling past you. You end with the coaster locking back down into the door holder and boo running off...something like that.

3.Mystery Mine: Yes, when the check clears I'm buying Mystery Mine. I've got to. It's one of the best coasters I've ever been on. It has everything I love, intensity, good elements, and great themeing. Only, you know I can never leave well enough alone. I'm going to make it bigger, and by bigger I mean build a new building with even more options. You go outside like normal, but when you go back inside, you go down one of three tracks with all new elements. One element will be an escape from a rockslide, as rocks fall around you, another will be a chase by ghosts who died when the mine collapsed, and we'll keep the third one as it is.


2.Alien Abduction: Last year I spoke with a guy named Brian Temmur. He was working with the city of Roswell New Mexico to bring the "Alien Apex" resort to life, and with all of that, the Alien Abduction coaster. As we all know, projects like this fall flat. But I love the idea...and though I had no clue what his coaster was all about, I'd love to give it a shot. Now thats faith in someone, you'd be willing to buy and build their coaster without having a clue what it is. Actually, its more curiosity than anything.

1.Kingda Kong: The last item on the list is the worlds tallest fastest roller coaster....only, different. I've always thought these big ass coasters were one trick pony's. They go fast and high...and done. I want more to it. I say we go through, yes a dark ride portion, where we see huge animatronics of Kong fighting dinosaurs, the boat ride, and we end with the climatic battle of Kong perched atop the Empire State building with the blond. We are hurled outside and up the tower where we see a huge 40 foot Kong on top of Ka with a live blond in her hand. Dont ask me about the story of why we get hurled outside, its just a fantasy dammit. But that would make the whole trip a little more enjoyable, and worth the feeling of panic and dread I'd have about going on the monster.

So thats my coaster collection. Yeah, not all of it's real, but who cares, when my lotto check clears its going to be happy.

Tell me your dream coasters in the forums.

Til next time, keep your pants on.......Launch lifters.