#mean streak

[s3ggsypiranha]

HI GUYSS (MEAN STREAK update)

beautiful people, i've been on a months long hiatus (hope you don't feel too betrayed, though naturally life gets crazy crayfish), sorry to be away so long but i'm looking to get back into fanfic writing again bc i miss it!! + in honour of avatar fire & ash showing soon, i think it only makes sense to come back and give this a swing again :))

i super duper appreciate your support. it is so overwhelmingly lovely to see you guys connect w my page, especially bc i see tumblr as such a fun, enjoyable pastime so, look out for content coming your way in the next month or so <3

celeste

[multi-fandomdisaster]

Going absolutely INSANE over the Mean Streak funeral event rn (I got bored and decided to do Cedar Point event research)

They did NOT have to make it that funny-

[tacoma-narrows]

Tac Talks Coasters - Post 7: #164

Photo Sources: All photos are mine

Mean Streak at Cedar Point!

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Opened: 1991 Closed: 2016 Manufacturer: Dinn Corporation Height: 161 ft (49 m) Speed: 65 mph (105 kph) Length: 5,427 ft (1,654 m) My most recent ride: 2016

Big, long, fast and boring. Those are the four main words I would use to describe Mean Streak to you. The ride was huge, with it's almost 5 and a half thousand feet of track, but it chose to not do anything interesting whatsoever with that track. It was just long drawn out turn after long drawn out turn. The fact that the ride was rough also didn't help matters either.

It wasn't as egregious as Swamp Fox, but it wasn't a whole lot better. My favorite personal anecdote about Mean Streak is the way my dad described the experience: Imagine you're sitting on a stool in the middle of a blank room. A buzzer sounds, and a bunch of hatches open up at the base of the walls around the perimeter of the room. A half dozen or so orangutans all run out and start beating you with 2 by 4s for about 2 and a half minutes. The buzzer sounds again, the orangutans run away and the hatches close within a few seconds and you're sitting there trying to figure out what the hell just happened. Mean Streak, everyone lmao.

While the ride experience left a lot to be desired, I have to give Mean Streak credit for it's visual appearance. Not many coasters give you the sense of immensity that Mean Streak did, at least not in the same way. To quote my dad again, he said standing in the middle of the ride walking through the queue felt like being in the middle of a cyclone of wood, and honestly that was a good way to describe it. The ride felt huge when you looked at it. It was made with 1.7 million board feet of Southern Yellow Pine and I believe that metric. Flying through the structure that dense with wood towards the end of the ride was a pretty cool experience visually at least.

But in the end, Mean Streak closed at the end of 2016 to make way for something much, much, MUCH better :3c

Thanks for checking out today's coaster post! Keep an eye out for tomorrow's coaster!

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[grimmghostart]

Been MIA since it’s the holidays. I started a new sketchbook though. I love how the first page came out but still unsure if I want to color it.

[metalcultbrigade]

Mean Streak - Metal Slave. 11/09/2009

[sagewraith]

A mean streak. You’re not always very kind to people. I objected to this and took her judgement away to stew over, finally coming to the conclusion that she was right after all and enjoying that, in a childish, contrary way. It became oddly like permission, this acknowledgement – the mean streak, once spoken aloud, a quality I found too easy to excuse in myself.

Salt Slow, Julia Armfield

[wearevillaneve]

Is this Villanelle’s apartment after Hurricane Eve blew through?   Let that be a lesson to you, Villanelle.   Never ever let Eve see your booty calls.   She doesn’t handle that sort of thing well.