{"id":152,"date":"2009-09-12T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/hollywood-rip-ride-rockit\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T14:40:00","slug":"hollywood-rip-ride-rockit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/hollywood-rip-ride-rockit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found videos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodripriderockit.com\/\">Universal&#8217;s new coaster<\/a>. Looks like I&#8217;m gonna be headed there this winter when the lines are empty.<\/p>\n<p>The ride up is awesome looking.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d0x7gjIbTVo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d0x7gjIbTVo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Check it out at night.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NkyqFEYHJC0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NkyqFEYHJC0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Universal-supplied animation (probably from the company that built the thing) shows off the big swooping turns. It fills in what you can&#8217;t see from the other videos, especially the first loop. The ride is supposed to last a minute and 39 seconds, which is pretty good for a fast coaster (65 MPH). There&#8217;s also a new restraint system that doesn&#8217;t go over your shoulders. I can&#8217;t wait to not be flung out of it.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q3z2AsJzR-Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q3z2AsJzR-Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollywood_Rip_Ride_Rockit\">Wikipedia knows all about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found videos of Universal&#8217;s new coaster. Looks like I&#8217;m gonna be headed there this winter when the lines are empty. The ride up is awesome looking. Check it out at night. The Universal-supplied animation (probably from the company that built the thing) shows off the big swooping turns. It fills in what you can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/hollywood-rip-ride-rockit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[488,487,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}