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Topic: Off-roading in an Autopia Car

#	Author	Message
21	wonderingalice Mon 4/14/2008 1:31p	*LOL* SBSBelle22... If FastPass is available for Autopia when you're there - grab it. That said, I'm not sure of the current status of the FP system for Autopia. Anyone...? I remember the old fashioned cars at Knott's... My parents have OLD photos of me driving. Only been to Knott's once and that was in about 1962.
22	Toy Maker Mon 4/14/2008 1:43p	One night in December, while I was on the Monorail going over Autopia I noticed several Autopia cars backup in traffic, as the monorail came around the bend there was one of the brown Autopia cars sitting sideways on the track and several CM standing around looking very confused..
23	crazycroc Mon 4/14/2008 3:01p	Excellent. I've always thought turning the car sideways, thus blocking all the other cars and running away would also make the ride "EXTREME!". Do tell me more about the governor being turned off or up! Is there a way you can do that, out of site of the CM's? I imagine it's inside the trunk areas of the cars? Thanks for all the tips, guys.
24	SBSBelle22 Mon 4/14/2008 3:19p	LOL crazycroc you are naughty!!!
25	SoThisIsLove Mon 4/14/2008 3:23p	We need to have a Captain Hook's croc car...modeled to look like "his" croc...and have it ticking loudly and maddeningly and released at differing intervals and chasing unsuspecting motorists. "Death", of course, would be optional, just to make it more fun. :) Once swallowed, you would travel in the famous DL underground waterways and shoot out with a blast at the backside of water and be scooped out of the drink by the nearest skipper on the jungle cruise.
26	SBSBelle22 Mon 4/14/2008 3:42p	To SoThisIsLove... LMAO dude I would SO ride that :D
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28	SoThisIsLove Mon 4/21/2008 7:32p	(Thank you, ADMIN...)
29	pirategal ahoy Mon 4/21/2008 7:35p	I just rode Autopia at DL and it is kinda boring... But the drivers liscenses are fun!
30	Dabob2 Tue 4/22/2008 12:38p	<I don't remember the street names but I seem to recall the ride went down the street the front entrance is facing and then went down almost to an intersection before coming back. It doesn't seem to me that the track was any more than an elongated oval.> That is correct. This ride (with the old fashioned cars) was apart from the Ghost Town area (as were quite a few attractions: Independence Hall, "Jungle Island," the little Knott's lake...) and it was called (drum roll, please) Henry's Auto Livery. They were cool because they were like larger Mr. Toad cars that you actually drove, and there was no middle strip. The only drag was the little loop was so short. In Fiesta Village they had a midget Autopia style ride in which very small kids rode in cars but didn't drive - the cars were on busbars and drove themselves; kids just pretended to steer. In the mid 70's they added an autopia-style ride complete with middle strip in the Roaring 20's Airfield section. So for a while they had all three styles going, but I think Henry's Auto Livery was gone by the late 70's.

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