In order to bring the industry the best wooden coaster trains, we have teamed up with many of the best suppliers.  Everyone is pressing on for the goal.  And Holiday World’s website has a nice countdown clock that shows us just how many days, hours, and seconds there are until the faithful public hops aboard for their maiden Voyage in Timberliners.

Today was one of those feel-good days when you get to see the fruits of your labor.  Mike was visiting the folks at the Ralph S. Albert Company.  They are the industry leader for ride padding.  He visited their facility to inspect the pads for our Timberliners.  It was a thrill for him to finally lay eyes on our cushy new foam seats.

He sent us some really neat photos.   Here are two photos showing the seat back and seat bottom fresh from being molded.  I just checked the Holiday World website and there are only 50 days until you can have a seat and enjoy the ride in some comfy new Timberliners!

Timberliner Seat Bottom

Timberliner Seat Back

Be sure to check out our Facebook page for more photos and information on our rides!

Pop some popcorn and enjoy the show!

Regions have typical phrases as well that take a little translation to confirm their meaning.  For instance, “ding my mob” can be translated from British lingo as “call me on my cell phone” and “snap me” has nothing to do with breaking anything, but does say, “take my photo” in Africa.

view from Chicago (courtesy of Jeffrey Siebert/Schlitterbahn & Holiday World)

Fortunately, in the international language of technology, “Skype me” is easy to understand once the technology is understood.  Like the science fiction movies of the yesteryear, video conferencing is commonplace.  One of the most prominent ways of live communication utilizes the data through the internet which can be free.  Skype is one such method, and the program can be one’s window for video, voice and text chatting with your friends around the world.

We’ve used Skype extensively on our Fireball project in China where we had to keep in mind the 12 hour time change.  A few weekends ago we were able to Skype with a regional event of ACE (American Coaster Enthusiasts) dubbed No Coaster Con as it doesn’t involve riding roller coasters.

Held in Chicago every year, the event hosts many speakers from the industry and other enthusiasts sharing any and everything about amusement parks and particularly, of course, roller coasters.  Our frequent accomplice Paula Werne from Holiday World shared about the 2010 excitement at their park including the addition of the all-new Timberliner trains on the #1 roller coaster in the world, The Voyage.  Her coverage of this time can be found on the Holiblog.

It was great seeing people and discussing our fantastic new cars in real-time almost as if we were there.  The above photo shows the view of the folks at No Coaster Con in Chicago, while the following photo shows off the other end of the communication, the Timberliner car and it’s three passengers.  We would like to extend special thanks to Bob Prentki and all the folks in ACE for pulling off this wonderful demonstration of technology.

view from Cincinnati - Chad, Mike & Holidog in the Timberliner

Postscript: TWAIN is my personal favorite technical name known as Technology Without An Interesting Name – no kidding!