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I really want to go to this theme park now!!!
Me 2, minay! O.O That’s teh wickedes way ta go home… ÒwÓ
it wood, 1 second u’d be laike *waitin waitin* then de next second *BLASTOFF* XD!!! it’d b so fun
Yup-yup, nya! ;p
Amazingly amazing Coaster of Home !
Going home is naow a scream, nya! X3
Reading your posts makes my brain hurt.
still nice though
hoos? mai’n or arixeses…..ses………….. or bolth ^.^
It’s teh “nya”-ing right, nya? “^w^
Sowwy Gagz, but Ah realy like ta say “nya”… {:3
Ah cane tone it doawn a wittle, but then Ah have ta concentrate vewwy hard, n… Nyes… “^.^’
I agree with gagi. But on the same hand I agree with all the talk of the amazing way to go home after an awesome, yet confusing, theme park adventure.
i wanna go to
Never a dull moment
Lol of course it’s a roller coaster!!
No, that was the pizza restaurant!
http://www.housepetscomic.com/comics/2010-08-11-one-deeper.png
would that make the Buses a pizza restaurant, or are the names not complementary? :\
Cursed word plays.
*facepalm* Why didnt I see it coming? WHY?
I did.
But only because somebody wanted to ride “jus one more” roller coaster. Wish granted!
Best Amusement Park EVER!!!!!
Agreed!
The ones around me are cool, but really fall far from comparison.
I miss all my old parks!! T_T
Like your avatar
:3
yah who dru itz? ^.^
thankies
Haha. In my case I have Six Flags Magic Mountain. The most record-breakingest park in America!
It’s kinda sad when you get bored of an awesome place like that but quite frankly I’ve been there waaaay too many times. xD;
did you draw your own avatar? If you did, and do own an account to Deviant Art or of the like, it would be a pleasure to see the larger collection.
such clean lines. :3
The best way to end the day ever I wish other Parks did that.
WTF I wish Six Flags had buses back home loke those HAHAHA the travel back home would be much more fun
I applaud the abilty to telegraph that nothing is named correctly long in advance, and still have it be a good punchline. You have all been standing on Chekov’s floor.
I want a bus ride like that!!
It would be so cool!!
LOL! XD
Reminds me of a commercial I saw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlRcXIO5ik
“I knew we shouldn’t have let them put that water slide through the library…”
So, what comes after the buses? The Interchange? The Tollbooth (phantom, of course)? The Traffic Jam (snack shop)?
I followed a link from that and found the best water ride ever. Even better than The Bathroom. Mute it (the voice-over is some droning motivational speaker… why do motivational speakers always have voices that make you want to “change their life” with half a brick in a tube sock?) and just watch the action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1K0nwZP-Ag
Hey! OwO Ah live in teh Netherlands, nya! X3
Never bin ta Duinrel B4 though, nya! ÓwÒ
Maybe Ah should wif mah budz, minya! X3
ai think ai been der befor :3
Ow? O.O So U’ve bin in Dutchland hu, nya? ;p
eather dat or it’s in ahnother waterpark ;P
Aha, nya! =3
Could indeed B tha there R other parks like Duinrel, minya! =3
Huh, that advert was actually what I thought of, as well.
Hm, even as a roller-coaster, I guess the bus still has quite a journey to go.
The UK gets cooler commercials than the annoying so-called “advertisements” I get on television in the US. >_>
I know, Art! We get the “catchy” advertisements that are really quite annoying and the crappy thing about it is, they get stuck in your head for the next week and a half.
Nice, quite the decieveing, yet very cleverly named ride.
I have a numbers of questions regarding this…I am however afraid that the answers will just raise more questions…
just do what i do, don’t ask questions and just go along for the ride (ba dum tish)
The track empties out in the Miltons’ backyard
Soo… After stopping at the Milton’s backyard does the tracks make a loop back to Theme Park World?
Or does it go back in reverse? : /
chances are, knowing the ferrets. They only made one super long coaster train that only was built to take 1 one-way trip.
Figures. I just thought if they did have “The Buses” go in reverse would they have that stop sign on the side of the roller coaster and beeping signals?
How about going in full circle?
The roller coaster is sent back to the park by way of pneumatic tubes.
ah yes, the good old pneumatic tubes…which is coincidentally also the way the “Juice Shack” ride works.
Of course, that’s what gave them the idea of a theme park in the first place…
Lolz! X3 Shure they’re ferrets, minya! ;3
tubes r de best if der not uzed fer ebil ;3
lol! Just like teh inerwebz, nya! ^w^
Have I posted this one here yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xAeTmsJfg
That’s so cewl, nya! OwO
dat….. wuz……so butiful *starts crying*
For a secont there I was affraid that they made it go to all the houses… or it’ll just take a big turn and goes to the busstop or somethin. But this is a nice idea as well. XD
Hey WAIT! I thought the park WAS in the Miltons’ backyard… just thought of it by myself, no one said things like this. XP
Mr. Griffin, can Ah ask U a question, nya? =3
Does teh buses ride do barrel rolls, nya? Or do they just go up and doan, nya? =3
*Looks at the Buses*
*Looks again*
*Turns green*
Can…. can I walk home please? I don’t like Rollar Coasters.
But that said…. awesome word play.
Otters go home on “The Juice Shack”.
Wyt is it wif U and otters all of teh sudden Archy, nya! =3
Ah thought U liked ferrets moar, nya! “^.^
Argent used to be an otter, before I got the ferret avatar.
http://www.sluniverse.com/snapshots/285229.jpg
But now I’ve got my customized ferret (I modified the neck so I could wear normal clothes).
http://www.sluniverse.com/snapshots/405668.jpg
(not to mention giving my pet ferret a perch)
HEY ARGENT XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
were do u make does 3D thingies ?
Aha! So U wir an Otter first, nya! =3
LOLZ! X3 Ah can make a pun-pun from it, nya!
U wir some one otter before, nya! X3
Sowwy, couldn’t pass tha one up, nya! “^.^
@sonic
I think they’re from Second Life.
Sonic: That’s my avatar in Second Life. You can see a bunch of pictures by googling “argent snapzilla”.
*gasp* rally aimma trai dat noaw :3
If ya have teh time fur a second life, nya! ;p
Ah tried it once… “^.^ But having a busy-wussy social life in combi wif second life, doez not mix, nya! /._.\
But Ah had lubd teh idea 2 lib there though, nya! =3
you call me archy
after the verse libre poet
is that you
mehitabel
No ;p Ah just like ta gib peepz a nickname, nya! =3
Like mah beshtesh friend LMH (Legendary Maverick Hunter) Zero, Ah always call em Zero-Sama, nya! ;p Or a good friend of mine Kaido, Ah call Kady, nya! “^w^ Etc. Etc. Etc. ;p Nya!
wenever ai’m in school peeps call meh gogie [go-gy] ai dun no wai but evrehbody calls meh dat ;P
Ah rather call U Goggy, nya! ;p But then Ah would misplace yer species, nya! “^w^ Cuz yer an Awooooh, nya! OwO
and ur ah kitteh ^.^
Minya! ~^w^~
EPIC WIN.
(of a way home, that is)
Well well. That certainly turned out better then expected. It looks like everyone enjoyed themselves. Begin speculation on the next story arc, IF of course, this ones over. Now for another boring weekend of non-updating comics that I read. Is it monday yet*?
*did, did, I just say that out loud? wow
ESPN hopes you did according to their big ad campaign.
Isn’t “A Roller Coaster” the pizza place? That’s Tiger yelling that isn’t it?
You just reminded me of my other idea for the alt text
What was it? Or is that a secret?
*gasp* ai lub secrets
Ewww… lubricated secrets…
Lolz! X3 That’z a derty secret, ey Franky-Boy, nya! ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDcwjJ8pLg&ob=av3e
nuff’ sed X3
Lolz! Ah like tha song, minya! X3
Haven’t heard Racoon5 fur a loooong time nao, nya! =3
True, but most parks nowadays have more than one roller coaster…at least they had better lol
Best ride home EVER!
Well, that’s one way to get people to ride public transportation; make it more fun! Trust the ferrets to think outside the box.
Take the box, turn it inside out, upside-down, flip it over a few times, toss it across the room, dismantle it, (trash it, change it, melt upgrade it!) put it back together and put some hot sauce on it. That is about the way the ferrets have managed to change the box.
and thus, my head still goes explodey
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2152/
I met all those guys! They are awesome to hang out with!
You met all four of them? Sweetness!
The ferrets (okay, okay, Our Illustrating Leader) know to save the best for last!
Very very clever! =)
Should’ve seen that coming. =)
Hey kids! Rolly the Roller Coaster Car reminds you to keep both your hands and feet in the coast… um… buses at all times. Now give Rolly a big ol’ hug!
Hey right! Where did they put all the huge plushes on that ride… are there big trunks on all the “buses”?
Maybe they were still in the vehicles they took to the park? Considering that it seems the ride home seems that it was meant to be a surprise, the vehicles were probably still there to put the plushies into, and maybe someone’s driving them back to Babylon Gardens.
Seeing as there are multiple carts (eh, busses?) and do note that Lana tells everyone to “Make sure you have all your belongings with you before we board”. They might be sitting beside their giant plushes or those are sitting side by side close to them.
Good points to both of ya, but in the end the trunks are still good ideas… sorry. XD
Or trunk carts
BAM! There goes the winner! XD
Yeah, just a few carts wif doors on top with a magnetic locking mechanism, nya! OwO Smart thinkin’, nya! ;3
I think that Lana’s face in panel one, taken out of context, is a Daisy-face. I’m just saying.
Hm, I don’t think it’s quite toothy enough to be a Daisy-face.
This Daisy-face?
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/04/29/so-very-very-naive/
Hm, I guess I see some resemblence, there.
No, it’s a Lana face. It’s the one she’s showing in most of the strips… she’s just a happy ferret.
How did they manage to keep that a secret?
I want to go to Theme Park World! When I make my first billion, Rick is getting a grant so that he can build this place.
They didn’t. They built the track while the others were inside… They must’ve had the money to take on so many men to work on all the sections at once.
Don’t forget the money to build a roller coaster across national roadways. Unless Theme Park World is still within the “former?” Milton estate.
I’d say they just built it on their own territory. That’s why I thought it was next to the mansion itself.
But, remember that the Theme Park event was supposed to be a Grand Re-opening. One of the many investments the ferret delved into? Unless they were re-opening a Theme Park already in their property.
This makes me want to ask, ever watched mega movers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHrX3N8j0c
But then I would also like to wonder why there’s a major road built across the “Milton’s backyard”
Then again, it could be that large that it needs one.
Sigh, so many questions to ask if I keep on following the logic.
Is that directed at me? I’m afraid I haven’t, but point taken, nevertheless.
Comics and logic often have strange effects together. Sometimes they go together quite well, other times… hm…
No,No,No…
You’ve got it all wrong…
It in there territory, but the second it goes out, the track just stops and the cart chrashes and you have to walk the rest of the way home…
The former Milton estate was big enough for a subdivision, a forest, and a mysterious Akkadian temple. Sure they could fit a theme park as well…
Real nice ending for the day I’d say. It’s funny that so far I never thought the ferrents can “connect so many dots” and with this I mean all the funny jokes with the names and their connections.
I just love character developement and you’re doin this great sir.
i have to admit i didn’t realy see it coming, yet i did, very nice haha, great way to end a day eh
i’ve always been scared of going onto rollar coasters cause of my phobia of being up sp high.
Most fun day ever for those guys!
hey wolfie wer u get ur aveh? ^_^
and yah ai agree
i made it mahsulf
wo O.O ur perty good at drawinz <3
ima just a 12-year old
O.O UR?
Dayum, Ahm more then twice yer age and Ah can still only doodle a bit, nya! ÓwÒ
Do U use a photo shop prog? And if ya do, wich do U use, nya? =3
i use CS4
Gotta google tha sumday and C if Ah could get it, nya! ;p
Iz it easy 2 use, cuz ahm not vewwy good with 2 technical stuff, nya! “^w^
u use tablet or mouse?
Mouse, Ahm moar of an scan and filter person, nya! =3
Ah always color thingz by hand, nya! “^.^ Yes Ah know, Ahm ol’ fashioned, nya! >:3
Lame joke.
I refuse to accept this there was no HI I’M DAISY
I’m kidding but i was seriously hoping to see here before they left
Now that you mention it, yea, that would have been a classic for this arc
…thats a big cloth…
I’ll go out of “The park” it was fun ;3
Grammar: It was fun to try “The Park”
I prefer the monorail myself, but busses works too, I suppose.
Hey look, Stripe makes a cameo.
points to 2nd panel, the cat on the left of Peanut. And by left of him i meant if you are standing where he is now.
But Stripe is Totally Not a Cat!
or is he? he could be wearing a cat suit, like joey.
SHE. Stripe is Spot’s (superdog) totally not cat girlfriend.
Doesn’t that mean that Fox’s cousin is in that panel too? He’s on the far right.
everythin awesome is this theme park
I am more than pleased to feel that I have missed out a lot of my childhood (though I’m not yet an adult) by going to ordinary theme parks.
I haven’t even experienced most of the theme parks that I did go to, of which aren’t many. I guess I’m wasting my childhood by the second. Though, considering the whole nature of this Theme Park, plus the plotting dolphins would make me a bit apprehensive of going to this.
Not yet an adult?
I’m quite worried that the through of the roller coaster tracks coincide with the road. . .
Details details, I wonder why I even think of these details.
Heh, what a way to end the day…Though not for the people who don’t really like roller coasters…^^;
I wonder how Zach is doing. Though he may still be a little desensitised from the dolphin incident that he doesn’t notice it as much.
I’m sure Fox is keeping his cool.
…There’s still potential for some extra strips about this ride, I realise.
Next week, all three strips, close-ups on HP characters going “wheeeeee” on the ride home?
…Are you humouring me?
I was just leading on from the idea of how different housepets would react to the ride, though thinking about it, I guess that isn’t such a great idea, after all.
No, I’m taunting Rick with dangerous ideas.
So as we might have a very nice wallpaper?
THAT would be epic.
Hm, I see.
I guess having a wallpaper would be nice.
Ah wanna go 2 Theme Park World naow… O.O
Of course, it’s the happiest place on Earth on Earth. (Spoilers aside that is. [Yes Tarot, I mean YOU])
Let’s make one in Florida! Take businesses away from disney to make them join this one to have the Happiest Place on Earth on Earth on Earth (and the universe, if possible).
@ hyper
hey! u dun pick on tarot she’d laikee bomb >:)
Lol! A spirit bomb, nya? Like teh Genki Dama, minya! >:3
heh pun r still fuuneh
Lolz! Tha and Ahm a huge Dragonball nerd, nya! X3
Thanx 2 Akira Toreyama Ah becam a Weeaboo, nya! “^w^
But-but, Ah lib in Europe, nya! O.O They could bettur join 6-flagz, nya! ÓwÒ There R plenty-o-parks of it here, nya! ;p
then you give us your money and you take a plane here, or, you can use the rocket which can be found at mount everest, which is really the everest expedition ride’s other end of the portal. Besides, six-flags is too far. Take an extra hour to come here instead!
No-no, 6flagz is precisely 1 hour wif train and bus, minya! “O.O
Unless Ah getz a portal-gun, nya! OwO Wif a telephone comunicashun satellite upgrade, so Ah can dial teh phone number of teh par an just wal wif in teh minute 2 in, nya! O.O Tha would be AWSOME!
Lol! ;p
Bettur not mess wif tha grrrl, nya! >:3
She’s Di-No-Mite, minya! ~^w^~
How did they not see this coming?
Aw… for some reason this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart.
awww wouldn’t dat suck if de monster trucks were a ride an only a ride……. ai can see it now…..
after de bus ride…. a new ride ahead….
Tiger: SO WATS NEXT….?
Lana: well we will be goin home now….. on MONSTER TRUCKS!
neighborhood dogs and cats: wooooo!!!!!!! yay! monster trucks!
Lana: so lets all hurry up an go on de monster truck ride so we can den go home on borin small cars….. hopefully Jeeves will drive most of us back…. an if not get ready for a world of crashin!!!
Tiger: um question, why is dere a ride called de monster truck if its jus a roller coaster dat go’s real fast?
Lana: its de parks idea so in other words we have no idea….. ok who’s next to go on de roller coaster!?
It COULD also be a food joint in mid air @ 90 Km/h so be happy
oh wait tigger loves food & roller coasters it’d be more for him
I wonder how it’s going to end for those with tachophobias and acrophobias. . Hee hee, can’t help but laugh.
Kinda Obvious
This is going to be a loooong line, I hope to be home by Monday.
WHY!? TO BE BACK ON SCHOOL!? I WOULDN’T CARE IF I STOUD THERE TIL NEXT FRIDAY EVENING
:3
WHY R U SCREAMIN, NYA! >.<
Rewease teh Caps Tehgami, nya! ;p
And YET AGAIN my MOTHER left on those CAPS
grrrr…
Mao! Dun growl. O.o Ah did not mean ya harm, n-nya! O.O *Shudders of fear*
NO OFFENCE BUT
*pop*O.O
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not again
so ur mom gets bak st u fer ur ebil plans bai puttin on de caps? GRAET MOM XD
and yah dun growel at aerix or else ai’ma beat u up booooyyiii!!!
GREAT does that mean I have a rival now THANKS TO MY STIPID MOTHER
I hate what people cal that I have
MY LIFE
no she just uses this all the time for her nicknames and paswords (not here) if I don’t give the (cr/l)aptop to her she will take away about anything that I like
and since it’s school… *eyetwitch* I just can’t let that happen
I’LL GO NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You need to switch to Ubuntu. It’s got about 15 different capslock key options. It doesn’t seem to have the one I hacked into the Berkeley UNIX kernel where hitting the shift key turns capslock off, alas.
Naw! O.o U have a cruel mommah, mao! O.O *Pats you on back*
School’s out but since you asked, it’s because I’m want to read the HP update on Monday on Monday.
but since it’s labor day, rick will take his day off as well…or will you?
Nobody QUITE called it, but we did suggest that “Exit” and “Parking Lot” would be rides.
*Looks at panel 4*
Does The Buses go over a major Freeway?
Awe-some!!!
*krrch* This is KLMNO reporting the traffic. Highway BA-23 is, as usual, clogged, but the red overpass is flowing at breaknecking… wait a minute, when did they build that?!?
dont know how major a freeway it is since there are no cars on it hehe
don’t “the buses” consider themselves as cars? I mean, they have wheels, and they probably have a motor for a/c
More defined as a Vehicle than a car. But chances are “the buses” uses mostly gravity to keep it going than a motor on the train cars.
You know that cat right next to peanut looks like stripe!
(the adverntures of spot?)
I don’t know, but I think that’s a male.
Yeah just saying…
…I like dots…
that is absolutely brilliant…
and the tyres of the bus go round and round….
round and round
DO A BARREL ROLL
Ah can’t let can’t let U do tha Fox…. Ah mean Quarry, nya! >:3
How far do these Buses stretch from the actual park? O.o
hmm it would seem dat der everywhere beh maybeh dey are onleh a vereh short distasnce from de park……. 3_3
Rick (above) said they go all the way to the Milton backyard.
Lana is always such a happy little woozle!
thought she was a ferret.
Woozles is all kinds. Weasles is crazy woozles. Minks is slinky woozles. Ferrets is house woozles. Otters is water-woozles. Badgers is tubby woozles. Wolverines is scary woozles.
Lolz, tha reminds meh of Wuzzles from Disney, nya! =3
and THAT rehmainded meh of *AHEM*
fuzzy wuzzy wuz ah bear
fuzzy wuzzy had no hear
fuzzy wuzzy wuzzent fuzzy wuz he?
ROFLMAO! X3 Ah never heard tha one B4, nya! X3 Iz teh funniest wittle rime Ah heard in years, minya! ~^w^~
ah ok…well then how many different kinds of Heffalumps are there!?!?!?
Don’t be silly, everyone knows heffalumps don’t exist.
A heffalump told me so, and would he lie about something like that?
Uh-oh, summer’s over.
i wonder what would happen if they made a school for the housepets to go to…
i wonder what would happen if they made a school for the housepets to go to…probably to make pets and human equality and such.
If you read Fido’s profile you could extract from it that “The Academy” is a for of education for them (military maybe but there is military school) also you can also see that he taught some of the neigborhood pets to read and write.
So there might actually be other schools in the HP universe (multiverse actually but I don’t want to start another astrology debate of cosmic proportions), just not yet introduced (or even popularized at that)
Ya, but my question is in regards to legal terms, like “No Child Left Behind” and such, like in terms of “You must go to school or you are a truant. You must go to jail now.”
Well, since pets ARE allowed to get jobs (though severely limited in rank [exception Milton Ferrets]) I would say their education wouldn’t be as long as humen’s.
Seeing as Babylon Gardens is a PET-FRIENDLY place though, I would say they’re given freewill of choice whether or not to get an education or occupation. After all, the times when parental education was widespread was considered to be the times where people were more human (now I think they call it specialists [as in a driver is different from a chauffeur]), so I don’t think they want their pets to be robo-pets. Otherwise they would have just ordered one.
I think bad pets are imPOUNDed though (get it? Ha. . ha. . ha. . please?)
but couldn’t a new arc arise from this issue? pets going to school because their owners say so? From which they’ll most likely start a union against said proposition?
This makes me want a CandyCane.
Best… ride… home… EVAR
Epic… Ride… Home… EVAR… Created !
hi
heh heh
I want to ride THE BIG DIPPER…
=P me too plz !
i thing The Big Dipper is the Info Desk.
Ice cream stand.
Doomcoaster ?
Testing out the bold feature. Wouldn’t they have spent 3 weeks in an amusement park instead of one day?
Just think of it as reading a diary in different time deposits.
Comic time isn’t 1:1 to our time. They’re in a time warp.
then it must really go slow then, to us at least
“Awerrr raaarghlar waaaaaah”
anyone here has FA?
I’m still working on DO RE MI.
You’re already at MI? I’m still at SOL… in the previous octave
Mr. Griffin has one, nya! ^w^
Ah wanna have mah own FA account, but then Ah have te scan all mah doodles, and Ahm not vewwy good @ enhancing mah sketches and doodle wif photoshop, nya! “^.^
well im very good at it! >:3>
Ah noticed, nya! ;3
And am NV-ouse, nya! >:3
I have Dev-art and FA
Y U ask?
I noticed the carts aren’t connected to one another.
Are they launched individually and how about unloading?
invisible magnetic force keeping them apart yet as whole?
Good guess but judging by the construction of the carts I would say that is a “MagLev” roller coaster (fast, clean, silent and expensive) So using other magnets would interfere with its operation. (Of course I could be wrong, which is frequent by the way.)
Plot-convenient special attraction powers? Possible U&U related?
Though, they could be launched individually, I guess. Ejector seats/trapdoors?
Plot-convenient special attraction powers. . . (jeux de mots) Is that attraction, as in attracting, powers or attraction, as in tourist trap, powers? Either way it’s possible but only the second one would explain the disembarking process.
Well that’s a stumper. . . Even if it’s U&U related, there wouldn’t be much sense to make one so even though I can prove it to be unrelated, I’ll make a stand that it’s unrelated.
Trapdoors would result in costly injury lawsuits (and we wouldn’t want that now do we.). Ejector seats is possible but I don’t think the Miltons (Read ferrets) would want anything in their backyard to get damaged. (remember this? http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/22/first-things-first/ [largeR shiny things + falling chairs = Another billion to spend])
Hey, I’m just clutching at straws.
I meant attraction, as in attracting to each other, but tourist trap attraction powers would probably work more as it’s a broader range.
Eh, the U&U was just a swipe in the darkness, anyways. I feel that it’s unlikely as much as you.
As long as the Trapdoor is deployed close to the ground, perhaps, and the seats go with it on the grass, it may work. Ejector seats would be fun, though there is danger of flying everywhere and damaging, I guess.
As I said, I’m clutching at straws.
Oh, my problem with trapdoors were fur grinding with grass (or gold I if would guess right.) at very high speeds.
Oh, I thought it was falling from a height, but that is a problem as well.
It’s unlikely, but maybe there could be a point where the ride would slow down, and then deploy the trapdoors. Maybe when it goes up a slope?
Or maybe some skillfully deployed nets/trampolines/other suitable objects? I’m sure if there was some air-time air-resistance would also play into it a little, perhaps. Though, cartoon physics could start coming in.
I don’t get the problem. At the other end they brake to a stop one after the other, and everyone gets out normally.
I guess it’s the kinda unpredictable nature of the ferrets and the theme park itself. Either that or I’m just making up an excessively ludicrous idea for this ride for no particular reason.
Probably the latter.
Same as Flammie, I’m probably thinking of the latter, but the problem came out due to the population in panel 2 and the cart chain length in panel 4. From those, I was wondering how many trips was it going to take before the park was empty. Also with the missing links, I was wondering if the carts are launched individually so I was also wondering about collisions during simple stopping and getting off.
Anyways, I dreamt of a roller coaster station built in the backyard of the ferrets. It has 30 unloading areas, fully automated and loading and unloading of the carts through pneumatic tubes. It has a capacity of 20,000 sliding, and is visited by a roller coaster cart every minute. Assuming there are 2000 pets in Babylon Gardens with eight seats per coaster, they should all before 0100 the next day.
Yeah, I think I’ll go with that. . .
Interesting dream, huh? Mine pale in comparison.
Don’t roller coasters have mechanisms that slow down and stop the cart a bit in advance, and stops crashing?
Aye, that they do, but it’s integrated into the tracks so there would be a very big problem if the next cart arrives while the previous cart is still being unloaded.
Nah, you just have the braking mechanism before the end of the track, and enough room after the brake for the full load of cars to line up. You need some track between the brake and the lift hill for the return trip anyway. Or the brake could be combined with a catapult for the return, in which case the loading and unloading area would be the staging area for the catapult.
A bigger problem with having separate cars would be making sure there was never more than one car in a block, and keeping a car from entering a block before it was cleared.
So you mean that the carts never actually fully stop but just continuously crawls toward the drop after the brakes? Whereas unloading and loading occurs during this time?
Not a bad idea (if that was it), economical, compact and a whole lot easier to build. Also, following ferret tradition, unloading could still be done using pneumatic tubes .
No, of course they stop.
The brakes slow them down to walking speed, then they’re hooked into the loading/unloading zone (which may be a spur) where they stop, passengers get off and on, and the hook drags them to the catapult or lift hill to wait for the return journey.
Either they’re separate or Rick didn’t bother drawing the coupling.
It’s a cartoon people.
It’s legitimate fanac.
Well that’s one way to travel I guess.
Anyone here has FurAffinity Account?
BEST THEME-PARK EVAR.
Awesome.
I was like WUUUUT.
Kind of on-topic, albeit for a strip way back in the mists of time.
Recently seen on Facebook: `things you never think you’ll say, and then you have boys: “No more playing with the dog’s shock collar.”‘
Coincidence, i think
YUS!
Then I was like say whaaaaat?
now THAT’S how you do it!