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GregVanG
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| 04/08/2008 11:29 PM |
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Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
Copyright 2008 The Sun News
April 9, 2008
Section: A
FIRST COASTER RIDE BRINGS IN BIG BUCKS: Woman pays over $1,800 for 4 seats
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Lisa Fleisher, lfleisher@thesunnews.com
Forget $50 for a day pass or $150 for an annual pass. One Horry County woman is paying $654 - more than $4 per second - to ride the signature roller coaster at Hard Rock Park.
Cindy Ennis, 45, said she is the top bidder in a charity eBay auction for seats on Led Zeppelin - The Ride's first public run.
The park this week auctioned off 15 seats, and Ennis said she snagged four - two in the front row, two in the second row - for a total of $1,829.
"I'm not a roller coaster enthusiast," she said. "But it was just the idea of being so close [to the front of the ride], and being the first of something - that's really what did it."
Plus, she said, the money would go to charity.
The first public ride will be held April 15, when the $400 million, 55-acre park off of U.S. 501 will open to a paying audience for the first time.
All told, the auction appears to have raised $5,002.48 for the Sara Goodwin Memorial Foundation, and park CEO Steven Goodwin has said he will kick in twice the top bid, or $1,308.
Park spokeswoman Megan Winnett said she could not confirm the winners until later this week. Ennis said she has already paid her tab, and the name of her real estate and property management business - Ennis Properties - was the name of the winning bidder on eBay.
Though Ennis doesn't consider herself an experienced eBay user, she had a strategy: Watch the tickets closely, and bid right before the auction closes.
"I [bid] probably 10 seconds before it was actually going to expire," she said. "Luckily, it held."
Ennis had already bought annual passes and taken a behind-the-scenes tour.
She plans to give the other tickets to her children, Robert Ennis, 19, and Kelly Rosenthal, 29, and her son-in-law, David Rosenthal.
The one tough decision left to make: Who will sit where?
Want to know more about the park? Go to MyrtleBeach Online.com/hardrockpark to read more.#HTMLInfoBox~~Facts about Led Zeppelin The Ride
Set to "Whole Lotta Love" (1969), which was picked by guitarist Jimmy Page for the ride
Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard
Goes a maximum of 65 mph
Each train holds 32 people, weighs 26,345 pounds and has 64 speakers
The track is 3,738 feet long
The roller coaster is just 13 inches below the height the Federal Aviation Administration will allow
Track and structure weighs around 1.2 million pounds
Source: Hard Rock Park |
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