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Posted by wordglyph 12 hours ago

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978(wordglyph.xyz)
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donkeyboy 10 hours ago|
Cute story. This reminded me how in elementary school and middle school I used to draw pencil drawings of rollercoasters on my page to pass the time. Rollercoaster tycoon fan :)
prpl 8 hours ago||
I hadn’t realized Hyperspace mountain in Disneyland Paris went upside down (and launched up) before I took my 6 year old on it - I was assuming it was just a replica of the disneyland one which I thought

He was a bit intimidated by the enhanced strapping, but he liked it still.

regus 7 hours ago||
When I was a kid I sent a letter to Snapple telling them that they should make Snapple flavored popsicles. They sent me a nice letter telling me it was a good idea. I have not thought about it since. But I wonder if my letter directly lead to this disaster:

"Disaster on a stick An attempt to erect the world’s largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier."

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8321110

andix 9 hours ago||
One thing I noticed right away: They never mentioned they would take some inspiration from the submitted design, or acknowledge any specific detail. So they can't get sued for IP infringement later, if they ever build a ride that shares any design details with the "Quadroupler"
psyclobe 9 hours ago||
I once wrote a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein to end her war on drugs when I was in college. I recall it discretely.
yakkomajuri 8 hours ago||
I wonder how much of a role parents played here. Surely there must have been some help involved with resources, encouragement, and at least getting the letters sent?

I applaud parents who encourage kids to do stuff like this when they have the innate drive for it.

Cshelton 9 hours ago||
This is amazing!

I did a similar thing with Roller Coaster Tycoon. I sent screenshots and explanations of my designs to Six Flags. I was probably around 10 or so. I think I got one generic letter back from them unfortunately.

For some time, I wanted to become a Roller Coaster designer.

tonyvince7 9 hours ago||
WED’s letterhead was immaculate.
lysace 9 hours ago|
Every detail about that letter is immaculate. Damn.
zendist 8 hours ago||
At age ~11, I sent a MSPaint design of a phone with two SIM cards that you could switch between physically on a phone.

I sent it to Nokia over email :-D. They didn't respond.

Dual SIM phones apparently became a thing that same year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_SIM#:~:text=The%20first%2... Not originally by Nokia, though.

dhosek 8 hours ago|
Back when SIM cards were relatively new (and credit-card sized) ca 1997 or so, the vision was that you would plug your SIM card into a landline phone to be able to make/receive calls there. I was working for Motorola at the time and I remember coming up with a couple ideas that I never shared with anyone because I didn’t know who/how.

The first was essentially the iPhone but with a palm pilot type touch screen, the other was a PCMCIA card (which were also much larger back then) that you could put your SIM card into and plug into your laptop to be able to make calls or send/receive faxes on the computer.

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