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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:09 PM
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Would you pay $65 to do this?
I wouldn't do this if I got PAID the $65! :scared:

http://www.wisn.com/slideshow/entertainment/23028365/detail.html
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:28 PM
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1. I'd do it, but it's kind of pricey for one ride.
They have some good harnesses and safety features by the looks of it, so it wouldn't be a problem for me.

If I ever get to Japan in my lifetime, I would like to try their pedal-powered roller coaster :D
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kizks9950 Donating Member (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:36 PM
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2. nope. don't like wasting money
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:48 PM
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3. Not a good enough zip line
$65 is a rip off.

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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 05:53 PM
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4. My daughter spent a week in the jungle in Laos doing that.
Slept in tree houses at night. She loved it.

I think I would too.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:02 PM
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5. No, but I'd pay for this!
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 06:12 PM
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6. My daughter would love it, but $65 is way pricey.
We have spent some good times in the Dells when she was growing up in both the summer and the winter.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 07:29 PM
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7. The Dells or the tourist traps?
I swear that area is worse than even Branson.
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 05:42 AM
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9. We enjoyed the amusement rides when she was little as well as the water parks.
When she was 7 we took the train from here in La Crosse (her first time on a train) and stayed at a motel downtown in the Dells and just walked around and had a great time. We also went to the water parks over the years. When she was a teen we went to the water park in the Khalihari in the winter and spent all day there.

When she was 10 we went to Niagara Falls (Canada) and that looked just like the downtown Dells.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 04:08 PM
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13. The Dells is just about my favorite vacation destination.
Where else can you go go-karting, bungee jumping, sling-shotting, paint-balling and roller coastering in one afternoon, get good sushi for lunch and have several options for dessert, then visit Ripley's Believe it or Not, and finish off the day watching a flick at the drive in? I know there are tons of tourist trap type attractions there, but I still love it. I spent my 18th birthday at Ho-Chunk Casino and at the Dells. It was probably the most memorable birthday I've ever had. I hope to have a place there some day.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-01-10 08:05 PM
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8. Looks fun!!
$65 seems kinda steep, but if it were just my husband and me on vacation, hell yeah I'd pay it.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 06:47 AM
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10. I wouldn't, but thousands of Chicagoans will.
I'd pay $5, but no way in hell would I pay $65. For one fucking ride? Ludicrous.

Yet one more reason to passionately abhor the Dells while simultaneously thanking God that Wisconsin has one way to screw Chicagoans and other tasteless FIBs out of their money.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 02:38 PM
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12. I want to put that on a t-shirt...
Wisconsin Dells: Screwing Chicagoans and other tasteless FIBs out of their money since 1857.
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revolution breeze Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 08:29 AM
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11. Same people who pay $55 to bungee jump
in Gatlinburg will be in line to pay $65 to do this.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 05:50 PM
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14. "Who can tell? I'm a strange guy."
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