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Title: A Roller Coaster Business--Literally
Post by: GADVwow on March 18, 2009, 09:00:50 PM

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(Fortune Small Business) -- "Is this a roller coaster?" asks the guy behind me.

It's a reasonable question. In line for a ride called Revenge of the Mummy at Universal Studios Orlando, we're surrounded by the trappings of an Egyptian tomb and flanked by attendants dressed like members of a malevolent cult. Above our heads a bank of screens shows previous riders screaming in terror. The only indication that we are about to get on a roller coaster is a sign warning us that we will undergo "sudden and dramatic acceleration, tilting, dropping and backward motion."...

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/17/smallbusiness/masters_of_disaster.fsb/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote (http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/17/smallbusiness/masters_of_disaster.fsb/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote)

Title: Re: A Roller Coaster Business--Literally
Post by: rjholla2003 on March 18, 2009, 09:14:42 PM

I didn't know that Premier was building the Ferris Wheel at Xanadu!  Fun read!

Title: Re: A Roller Coaster Business--Literally
Post by: ChuckR on March 19, 2009, 04:14:08 AM

That was a good read, Premier makes some awesome rides!