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« on: January 02, 2017, 11:58:41 AM »
The recent comments about TGS (The Giant Swing) being referred to as the barn swing has me thinking: what other rides are there that people do not refer to by their given names? While we don't refer to Fire in the Hole as the Bald Knobber ride, we seem to have given other rides more generic terms.
Some rides could be branded/named/themed better:
The American Plunge is called The Log Ride.
The Giant Swing is called The Barn Swing.
I doubt any of the Fireman's Landing or Grand Exposition rides are called by their names; most people describe what they look like instead of what they are named: the balloon ride, the elephant (or Dumbo - ugh) ride, the big ships, the little ships, the teacups, the swings, the frogs, the dogs, etc.
Some of these might have been left unnamed, and most people wouldn't have noticed, but it's probably someone else's fault about AP and TGS. AP was probably always known as the log ride, but since losing theming so badly it really is just a log ride now. TGS should have been named something more specific, like Wilson's Barn Swing. And while we're at it, where are the Wilsons? Shouldn't all the operators be Wilsons? Deeper theming would have branded TGS better.
What do you call some of these rides?