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Ha ha true, though when I rode it back in 2005 I had no idea it did that as I had never ridden a real drop tower until then. I was not aware of the ride's reputation. Ok fair enough

By far Acro is the worst but I thought this was about surprise!

I found exactly 47 1/2 duckies, sweet! Great update can't wait for more Big Mike and I promise that I will meet you someday! Just not this year as my season is most likely over pending a late season CP or Dollywood visit!

Any TR with more then 0 sexual innuendos is good by me. -Chris "I wish my pictures came out that good" Damm P.S. Whats a "trouper"?? Is that a group trooper? Or a Mixed Trout Grouper fish?

I don't have problems on stand ups, maybe i'm small But the biggest SUPRISE crotch buster for me was Apollo's Chariot, that brake run was smashing!

That donut looks pretty nasty! The spatula was my favorite prize lol Good update, I always enjoy the photos!

Ok Part-2 now that I have slept, gone to work, showered, ate tacos, and watched Lady in the Water! This part will have all mentioned coasters with a LARGE amount of Dominator fotos and a bunch've rapid fire series from the remaining rides! To start out I will post the aerial fotos from the phallic tower that I forgot to post last night! Enjoy! Yeh, but I thought it was funny.... So I leave my favorite photo for last because of how well Volcano fit into the Domination corkscrew!! Thank you for reading a TR full of....... The blur is the train and if not for the spotlight I would've bulbed the whole run so the track was fully blurred but it wouldn't have worked with the spotlight Parking lot overview Stop looking so mishapen you silly cobra roll Mandatory lift hill shot! I really enjoyed this ride a lot Last, and my favorite, Dominator RF series This was where that front left tip came in real handy! I thought it was lined up but it dominated my hopes...crap I did it again I have two more RF but I'll take a quick brake from them.......yeh yeh w/e Of course I have one of the cobra roll, no need to ask ^-^ It dominates the rapid fire......oh sorry Anything with a cobra roll is an automatic win for me! Upskirt drop shot! ok I swear I'm done with dominating jokes and it dominates the sky It dominates the nerds It dominates the night (Eat that Batbale!) It dominates mens dress clothes It dominates the phallics And now.... This made me realize that I'm totally Shaggy, Tall, slouched, lanky, pasty, and in LOVE with Scooby Doo!!! Move over 2 year olds it's MY TURN WITH SCOOBY!!! I'll just chuck this single photo RIGHT here I didn't ride this but I wanted to Booooooom, I didn't know there was actual fire until around 5 lol Rapid fire rolling! They were doing a good job with the line after they finally added a second train at around 3ish I believe The launch out of the volcano and the first low speed roll were all I really liked and other then that it was kind've boring for me, still 8/10 though. I didn't know this was an Intamin until I got home, but I should've guessed from the smoothity of it. (Patent that word for me please.) I'll just go ahead and give Natatomic credit for this caption without even quoting it. the lame sign...Why does it need two anyway?? Best scenery of any coaster I've been on Cool Volcano sign... FIRE!!! Statues and best of all... Plus it had water... This ride looked like it would be a terrible experience but once on it, it is really smooth and fun. Just a little deafening in the SCREEEEECHing brakes department... Rapid fire curvy! Curvy My brain got jolted around but it was still a pretty fun ride, and it was my first outdoor bobsled Lift hill USA shot! "Over"view ::giggle:: (Yes I laugh at my corniness too!) Ok time for Avalanche! Neverland Sprinkler Park! Neverland Driving School! Anaconda Ital....Stunt Coaster! Shockwave Yay! ::grumble:: Ricochet Hurler

Even though Intamin holds my #1 favortie spot I have more B&M's ranked higher then I do Intamin and I have very few if no B&M's with low ratings.

When I thought about that first caption again I remembered you telling a story in the stupid GP topic about people coming to Disney asking where Universal was so yes I think people really WOULDN'T know where they were or the people at the gates would get a ton of "Is this [insert park name]???" The sign just saves trouble for the workers

As long as it is fun and doesn't bang my head around then I could careless what anybody calls it. If a parks PR calls a cobra roll a set of steep drops with some random twisting motion then whatever it's their loss on using too many syllables lol But on the debate of angles I say this, if what has been said is true then there is NO inversions on any coasters because the train is never upside-down because some part of it is always going in or coming out of the loop. So there problem solved, inversions are ILLUSIONS, they aren't real!!

This weekend at KD, 1 hour before the park closed Dominator was through all the switch backs and the Front Row line was halfway down the stairs and I was like ok last ride of the night I'll wait front row and be out in an hour or so. 20 minutes later I was done riding and was amazed at how fast they blew through the line!

Ok so depending on whether I can stay up long enough or not this will either be a 1 or 2 part update, not that I have tons of avid posters begging for my photos or anything! So I left Greenville, SC at 1PM Friday and took 4 hrs to get to Blacksburg, VA in order to drop off all of my CRAP! I was up til' 11:30 fighting my printer to give me my E-Ticket that saved me $15 on park admission so I got to sleep around midnight, woke up at 6AM sharp as if going to work and hopped in my truck and started the 3 and a 1/2 hour drive to Doswell to search for Aliens, wait coasters! Along the way I ran through part of a Stephen King novel, as you will see, and had two awesome moments in the car. (Side note: Jeopardy just had a TP catagory woo! Second side note: Taking pictures with a DSLR camera while driving should be ILLEGAL, as you will see ) Ok so the first car moment came around halfway through the I-64 section when I was coming up on a random ghetto dude (Backwards straight brim hat, spinners, wife beater, etc.) and when I got within ear shot he was totally listening to High School Musical and singing along!! I almost died from running of the road laughing. The second moment was when I found my first ever, "We play anything radio station," when the order of songs went. Jesus Take the Wheel I kissed a Girl and I liked it Enter Sandman A piece of Scheherazade (Which I can't spell and won't go look up how sue me ) ((OK I found it and besides it's on the autocorrect on TPR!)) Apple Bottom Jeans Eruption and finally Yellow Submarine So I finally got to the park at 10 o'clock and was VERY glad I did because I got front row Dominator in TEN minutes at 10 after 10 and then caught the crowd before the park opened so I got on Volcano in 10 minutes and then proceeded to finish the park, including a show and lunch, by 1:30!!! However I was TOTALLY depressed when half of Rebel Yell was closed completely ROBBING me of #100 because I wouldn't bring myself to make Scooby's Coaster #100, but my depression was quickly remedied by a frozen strawberry lemonade and an awesome power hour of great photo taking! I eventually made it home at 2:30AM after consoling a female ride-op that was brought to tears when a fellow worker cursed her out when she closed the line after he wanted to leave it open 5 more minutes, seeing 6 people get kicked out for causing a scene by refusing to get off Volcano, and 5 other people get kicked out for, "I'm coming back from the bathroom" line-breaking! I was happy to see a park actually enforcing the rule. My top three coasters were Dominator then FoF, then Volcano (Yes I know it's weird but W/E!! ) OK I swear you will see pictures now including many Rapid Fire series, which I have decided will be the highlight of all my future TR's since the SFoG ones came out so well! -Chris Ok so I am not going to make it any longer because I'm running on so much sleep deprivation, so I will bring you Volcano, Crypt, Avalanche, and Dominator tomorrow!! Enjoy these for now and thanks for reading! Rapid Fire! A Mini is my dream car and at 6'3" with 4 foot legs that seems odd to people! YAY Italia....I mean Stunt Coaster!!! This was the surprise ride of the trip, I had NEVER heard of it and knew nothing about it but I had a TON of fun riding it, aside from the 2 times it turns you head into a punch-me-clown on viagra... I had fun riding this at night with my sunglasses on, as that is what I do! Arrows are so photogenic! Like Shockwave I was "smart" enough to think the back would be fun.....oops This was the only good part. This ride might've been better if I hadn't played, "Lets see how tight I can squeeze the restraints into my ribs" LOL This was a good Drop Tower too I must admit. Rapid fire time, BTW this was my favorite one and IMO it came out AWESOME! Strategically placed train to make awesome sign photo FTW! I effing hate you left side! ::Grumble Grumble:: Ricochet rapid fire! Good Laterals here Next up the Ricochet that IS better then the one at Carowinds! Is it a rule that Hurler's have to be behind Diners? I might've bruised the girl next to me when it threw my raised arms into her side, if she browses TPR and reads this I'M SORRY! Next up the Hurler that is MUCH worse than the one at Carowinds Sry Rapidsnerd this was all I got for you... It wasn't this crowded until around 1:00 Stop laughing at my tower! oooooo kkkkk ::snicker:: So I only took one photo of you, even though I can only take one angle anyone shhhhhhh... You bruised my leg and made my knee bleed you a-hole! But, I just got here! Notice how swervy I was when taking pictures by observing the center line with long shutter bulbing! One large mutilated (dead center of my vision of course) bug later I was apple pie in the sky! Fortunately there was 1. No acid spiders, 2. I wasn't in a supermarket and 3. My ending was MUCH happier lol An hour in I found my Stephen King credit!

You know whats really sad is I lived 30 minutes from Coney Island for the first 18 years of my life and I've NEVER ridden one of the more famous coasters! Great photos though!

I know I rode Dominator this year so thats one for sure. I couldn't find years but I believe I also rode Great Bear, Medusa, Nitro, and Superman: Ulti flight at SFGADV.

Ok so #1 is SDP!!! and #100 is TBD either at Hershey next year or the first credit of whatever TPR trip I go on next year. Whichever comes first! I rode it five times when I was five I will never forget that!

I want some rub a dub dub in a tub biotch! LOL j/k of course, but I do really wanna see your foto marathon! I can't wait and congrats on your 700th! I missed #100 this weekend because half of Rebel Yell was closed

I still rank it as smaller park because it isn't a big corporation park and still has a small park feel to it, but I do agree that it will soon be too big to be a "small" park.

I've always liked the smaller parks as well, like how Dollywood was my favorite trip this summer! Knoebels will always have a special place in my heart! Oh and great photos and captions btw!

Going into my senior year at VT! Fall semester-19 credits Electrical Theory Project Engineering and Management History of the US World Regions Senior Design Materials Handling and Power Mine Health, Safety, and Risk Spring Semester-12 Credits (TOTALLY PLANNED!!) Mineral Deposits Mining Engineering Leadership Seminar Mine Reclamation and Environmental Management Senior Design Random undecided elective worth 3 credits (Probably Brewology!)

I'll be getting my PMW on at KD, ironically I planned for that day not knowing what day it was!

The rapids there was pretty good too, nothing amazing, but it had a bunch've "Oh S*** that guy/girl got plastered and that could've been me!" moments so I enjoyed my ride. Especially since I had flash pass and waited 15 minutes instead of 3+ hours! P.S. The funnel cake fulfilled some of my portal requirements! lol I'm going to try and get some more Portal song or other song references into my KD portion!

I planned on hitting Dominator first because I know how new rides get. I think I'll aim to make Volcano my #100!

On my older digital camera you could have a slow "shutter" speed and it was a really crappy Point-n-shoot so I assume the new ones still can but IDK for sure.

Ok so I'm going to KD this saturday and will have photos up sunday, anyone going to be there that would like to meet up send me a PM!

I swear when I first saw that photo I thought Robb had photo shopped it because of his usual cloaking device joke.... I can't get over that it is real lol!