Talk:Magnum XL-200

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Contents 1 Testimonial 2 Out and back? 3 Merge Cedar Point Accident 4 Editorializing

[edit] Testimonial

the Magnum was always a fun run ride for me. But I realised I was "coaster spoiled" when I was so bored on this great ride that an inexperienced rider lost his hat. That does not sound ike much, except that during the first hill when he lost his cap... I caught it!!!.

I do not care how great you are the skill to catch some guys hat in less than a second from when it comes off is not just chance, but it almost divince. Lookm you are screaming your head off going down a hill at (what seemslike at the time) 800 miles per hour. And you happen to break from being 15 and your random life experiences to catch a HAT!

I know it doesnt sound that big... but if a guy on magic mountain yells "my hat", do you thin you can catch it?

really, the ride is blazing along, i see a hat flying at mee at what seems like a billion miles per hour. I catch it and calmly say to the guy 4 rows in front of me in mid-ride, HEY BUDDY! IS THIS YOUR HAT?!?!

I know no one will ever see this, but think how hard it would be to not only see someone losing their cap 4 rows in front of you on a FAST coaster be to even SEEE, but to catch it... What I did was a miracle (If God was shallow enough for my purpose in life to save a baseball cap!).

For example, imagine driving on the freeway down a big hill at 120 miles per hour and you saw "something!"

catch it and yell to the car going fast as hell, "HEY, I Think I have your HAT!"

How crazy is that?

At Cedar Point!

Sorry, this isn't somewhere to discuss how someone caught a hat on a Roller Coaster, it's to discuss the article. Brag elsewhere, please! Darkhooda 20:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. This is not the place for stories about hat catching. Teh Janitor 04:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Out and back?

why is this an out and back roller coaster? it follows a circuit, entering and leaving the station at two different points, and it never travels the same piece of track twice during one ride. the lift hill is a cable type , perhaps that was the misunderstanding, i am not an expert, so i am going to leave it the way it is, seeming that it is labeled that way on multiple wikipedia pages it would be hard to undo if i am incorrect, someone with a better field knowledge comment/repair the articles.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Arm the homeless (talk • contribs) 4:05 15 May 2007 (UTC)

The out and back roller coaster article is not clear enough. Out and back coasters are complete-circuit roller coasters where the outbound and inbound portions of the circuit are parallel and often adjacent to each other. Magnum has a chain lift hill, not a cable lift hill like Millennium Force. That said, either type of lift hill has been used in out and back coasters.--Coaster1983 14:47, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Cedar Point Accident

Having come across the Cedar Point Accident page on a random search, but having no idea what the Magnum XL-200 was, I thought these two pages might work better together but leave the merging to someone who has some clue about the subject matter. Most of the information appears here already, and what doesn't is unsourced anyway, so it may only require a redirect to fix. Mighty Antar 23:02, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editorializing

I don't know how to do it, but someone needs to tag this article as being editorializing. It's quite blatant throughout. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skylights76 (talk • contribs) 08:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added the {{tl:cleanup}} tag to it, and will add it onto the to-do list over at WP:ROCO. Seaserpent⁸⁵_Talk 11:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I made some cleaning-up revisions which include

• Rewording of unencyclopedic style
• Adding sources
• Highlighting a few places where citations are need, including possible weasel words (see WP:WW)

The places with citation needed tags should be reviewed and the details section should probably be segmented/wikified. My little needle 05:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I have rearranged some text into neater, smaller sections, and deleted miscellaneous facts and details which are not needed. Feel free to keep reworking the page Hyde244 20:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I have revamped the article quite a bit; a much-needed trivia section with non-encyclopedic facts that have been in this article and other new (but verified) facts, and moved the accident(s) section into the new trivia section. 96.234.7.149 02:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I have done a complete overall of the entire page. The trivia section has now been integrated into the articles. I also updated all of the references.TPOLMike (talk) 17:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)