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Well if we're going to go there, another Orient Express! But make it better, faster, stronger than it was before. The Orient Express was the very first coaster I ever rode.....and it was back in the 80s. All I remember is that is was really scary to me as a little kid and never rode it again!

robb, did you have any of those teenagers that just try to mock you, instead of enjoying the "show"? If you did, how do you handle them? We go to the Haunt at Worlds of Fun a few times a year and those type of people really get annoying!

I have a question about the haunt at Wolrds of Fun. Last year,right before the houses opened, they had an opening "ceremony" where some guy would rise out of one of the buildings and call all of the scary people into the park. Does anyone know if they will do that again this year or not?

Can someone tell me what day will be the Worlds of Fun day?

Today i got An email from WOF that says they will have an announcement this weekend about the expansion. Has anyone heard anything about what going to be announced?

I met the guy that owns the t-rex in KCK, nit sure if its the same guy that owns the one in Florida tho. When the Legends was getting ready to open, they hired my dad to install all the graphics for the area. T-rex was not ready to open yet, but Dave and Busters was. The Legends management decided to plaster the construction wall in front of T-Rex with D&B signs. While I was out there installing them, this tiny man runs out of the building in a three peice suit, and a T-Rex baseball cap on. He starts cussing and screaming at me for putting up the D&B signs in front of his store. It was very hard not to laugh at himas he stammered around in his Italian suit and baseball hat!

That is pretty cool that you found a place in the US that will let you do that! The only places we have been able to are overseas, where as long as you got the money, they dont really care....like in.... Africa! This was not that bad at only 30 Rand each And Thailand.This was at Tiger Kingdom in Chang Mai Notice my wife does not have on the orange scarf anymore, the guy there said the big tiger might rip it off! You can see the Thai people in the background wondering why this crazy Farang wanted to go in with the adults!!!

Do you have any idea when the new trains will be on the Voyage? We are taking a trip there over Fathers Day weekend, and hope they are on by then! This is our first trip to the park and my wife and son are just as excited about it as I am!!!!!!!

I will get all the Worlds of Fun pics for you next weekend! Jeffrey

Thanks so much for the kind comments! I am sure that the group will have a blast while you are there!

Hello TPR friends! Last weekend we drove to the other side of the wonderful state of Missouri, for our sons 10th birthday This is a little diferent from the trips we normally take, here are a couple of links to some of our past trips. A few months ago we went here http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52178 And last year we went here http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51783 At Skyzone, there was a special going on where only kids 10 to 15 could jump, thats why my old self was standing on the sidelines the whole time. The City Museum was awesome! We spent eight hours there and our son Parker wanted to stay longer. Here is the link to their webpage http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp The Museum might not be that enjoyable if you are any of the following.... 1. If you are over 6'3" or weight over 250 2. claustrophobic 3. acrophobic 4. Dont like big balls being throw at your face Admission is $12 for anyone over 3 years old, and the white trash aquarium, is an extra $6 Hope you enjoy the pics! This is Skyzone! It smelled like a skating rink. You have to wear their special Skyzone shoes to jump. There were a couple of really big kids whos parents just dropped them off and left. They spent most of their time eating pizza and standing in the middle of a trampoline and not jumping. Our son Parker is the blonde one, we also brought his best friend Jordan, who was mad that I told the Skyzone guy that he was 10, but he doesnt turn 10 till may. They also had a trampoline court area where you could play 3-D dodgeball. I think my kid is like a dodgeball superstar because he never got out......um...my wife just said I have to take that part out...he probably just cheated really bad. Now onto the City Museum! This slide was one of my favorite parts of the day. The building used to be a shoe factory back in the day, and they kept some of the old equipment. This slide used to be how they got the shoe boxes from the top to the bottom. They used old trees to make some of the things you can crawl thru. I am 6'3" and didnt fit into some of the tubes very well. Once you are inside, you are committed to go thru. I dont think most of these things have enough room to turn around in. There are random holes that lead to the bowels of the building....speaking of bowels, it looks like i am going to get pooped out of this hole in the pic. This shot is about halfway up the stairs to get to the spiral slide. There are two different ways up, and only one line at the top. It took about 40 minutes to actually get to the slide bacuse nobody could merge the two lines respectfully Close to the top! I am sure this is the longest non-water slide I have been on. It took 30 seconds of nausea inducing spinning to get to the bottom. Half of the museum is outside. If it was much colder, it would not of been enjoyable. The ball pit started out a lot of fun. You might notice that I am the only adult in there. Still going good at this point. um...not so good here. My son decided to get all the kids to start ganging up on me. and it just got worse and worse until I finally gave up Its hard to see in this pic, but we are actually UNDER the catwalk area, sliding on our stomachs. This was my least favorite thing there. This is where the acrophobia kicks in The rooftop area was not open yet for the season. There is a ferris wheel and some other attractions up top. I am pretty sure my kid ate half a bag of roasted marshmallows The bird came really close to taking a huge crap on my wife. Thats me in the middle....almost stuck. You have to turn around half way thru and go feet first to get down. This is about 80 feet in the air. This is Kim, she is our intern for 10 weeks. We decided to bring her along on the trip. Kim, does NOT like heights, and was shaking bad when she finally got down. The whole structure sways in the wind while you are crawling thru this tiny tunnel. I am not sure I would do that part again. Shoelace factory, where you can design your own. When I was litle I remember Worlds of Fun had one of these things. It brought back memories for me...my kid thought it was way boring On the top floor they had a circus every two hours. My wife can do this same move! Thing has found his way to a hole in the floor. The "aquarium" looked a lot more like a pet store I worked at in college, than an aquarium you would pay $6 to go to. When you stick your hand into the tank, these fish come up and suck all the dead skin off your fingers. Its that time of year again! This guy got a little too excited and flipped upside down while going at it. My wife made me help him get back on his feet again. You can also pet a "shark". Its a babmoo shark that we sold at our pet store for $30. The stingrays didnt really want you to pet them, but we still tried. Closer Finally! They are really slimy. I am pretty sure this one had an accident and some of his jaw was removed. This chimp totally wanted me! Not quite up to Atlantis standards...but good enough for St Louis! My wife fit just fine, but my huge head wouldnt even fit inside! BOOBS!!!!! Thanks for checking out our trip report! Any questions or comments are always welcome! Jeffrey

Since we sent you a card last year, and were the very first to host the Road Show at thier house, do we get a card?????? Parker is looking for one from you!

OK, we guessed Harry Connick, but as soon as we posted our guess, my wife says, that MIGHT be elvis....we looked at the pics for a few mins then thought there was no way! Thanks again for the cool TR!

Is the first guy Harry Connick Jr? It doesnt look like him at all, but thats the only actor/music guy my wife and I could think of. On a side note,we have really enjoyed all of the pics and comments along the way! We have followed this whole TR, we just dont get to post much! Thanks for keeping us laughing! Jeffrey and April

^^ thank you very much! it was a very moving experience for both of us. Our friend Percy started crying as we were driving away. ^ we just watched "big" last weekend!awesome movie i might add! That ride is a common one in traveling types of carnivals, there is actually one inthe parking lot of K Mart about 3 miles from our house right now.

First, thanks Robb for putting this on the front page! The mystery meal was guinea pig! My wife totally hated it, but I thought it was better than a lot of the mystery meat we ate in Africa! We bought the shoes ourselves before we left. When we were planning our trip, we asked Percy what the kids needed most, and he quickly answered shoes! There are bathrooms at the entrance to the national park, but once you are up on the mountain, there are none, and its a looong walk back! There was some dude taking a pee over the edge off in the corner, that was nice The south american people were very nice to us. They are used to seeing a lot of European people, but not too many people from the US, so they assumed that we could speak Spanish(which is not one of the languages we can interpret). Besides the language barrier(which is our fault for being in their country and not speaking their language), the people were wonderful! If my wife would have gone on this trip alone, she would have given away all her money to kids on the very first day! thanks everybody for chceking out our report and feel free to ask any more questions! Jeffrey and April

You are very welcome! Flight to Lima from the US are not that expensive, but it cost over $300 for a RT to Cusco from LIM. You can get there by car, but its a looong drive!

OK, this should be the last update, and include the pics of the coaster. and at last, us at the bar with the national drink, the Pisco Sour. thanks everyone for reading thru this, and hope you enjoyed the pics! Jeffrey and April the people in the buses are CRAMMED inside. when the bus rolls up , the drives holds on his fingers how many more people can get on. this was inside one of the malls Ticket prices....3 soles = 1 US $ i dont ride these at home, no way was I going to ride one in PERU! more trash cans here are some other rides around the park I am pretty sure there are some twisty ties holding this thing together, and some of them were glowing red hot! lift hill! Not sure if you can see it, but a few feet from the top, the track has a bump out to the left where it was bent....quality! this is the before shot. more pushing You are seeing that right....the ride op has to PUSH the cars back to the loading platform...he lets all 3 cars go thru..then comes back and pushes them to the begining again...he didnt put the brakes on so good when we came to the end and we slammed into the car in front of us hard! this place is right next door to a huge mall. we went in and looked around, and just like at the park, we were the ONLY non Peruvian people there and got a lot of stares. our fancy carriage, with very secure seatbelt. and there it is, the Lima death machine! fancy trash cans abound! Park sign. Ok hre we are! Finally! It may look like some traveling carnival, but this is a PERMANENT park! OK, Hooters in Peru is way different the in the US. Most of the women that work here close to where we live I would classify as "butterface" as in " she has a nice body, butterface is scary! Most of the women here were not so big in the hooter department, but were VERY pretty! We had not seen this game before....its at some arcade along the beach in Miaflores. we finally made it to the ocean!!!!! it was way cold and we didnt go in. we didnt go in here.....it just has a weird name. ummm... we have no idea what this is about. this is Marisol...she was working at this store all by herself...she is 8 years old...my wife bought soooo much stuff from her we had to help her add it all up! Percy and his wonderful family. This is more like it. On the last day in Cusco we had a family dinner with Percy. In here is some cows head and heart....we ate it with a smile on our face to make Percy feel good. It was not that good...but we have had way worse in Africa and parts of Thailand! Finally we ate what Peru is famous for! Anyone want to guess what it is? Peruvian hairless dog...our friends at home have one and they feel like a little elephant! Big white Jesus Christ welcomes you to Cusco! We didnt know what it was called, so we got in the taxi and said "blanco Jesus Christo grande" and we went right here! Every Sunday they havea big parade on the plaza.....this is our trying to be artsy shot. Cathedral on the plaza in Cusco. Baby Alpaca! This is why, even in the really nice restrooms, it smelled like butthole.

thanks to all that have followed so far! my wife is only 5 feet tall, so you can see how small the native women are! next up will be the coaster! thanks for hanging in there with the culture part! The bulls on top of your house, will bring you good luck and prosperity...we bought several to take home as gifts. We had lunch and some cervesas with this dog at the restaurant. after 5 minutes these older guys showed up and wanted to watch we try. The girls laughed so hard! I finally got them to start counting how many jumps i did, in Spanish. I didnt get very far. Then i untied the knot in the rope and taught them the US way to play! Back at the market, I played the Peru style of jump rope with these girls. This is the train back down to town. We took the backpacker train up, and the visidome train down. When MP was discovered back in the early part of the 20th century, there was a family that was using this side as a farm. When Hiram Bingham arrived, one of the farmers showed him some"old rocks" that were on the other side, which is now called MP. These stones are REALLY heavy! I really dont like heights at all!!! Coasters above 200 feet scare me bad! There are several llamas and alpacas that live up here! It really is in the middle of nowhere! Finally we made it!!!!!!! The pictures cant even come close to how awesome this place really is! getting close! To get to MP you have to take a train for an hour and a half up the mountain, then a bus for another 30 minutes, then walk a gazillon steps. This is the bus part. Today we say goodbye to our awesome friend Percy!

Thank you very much!You are right, it is very hard when the suitcase is empty. We have done this on every continent we have been to, and it is the same feeling every time! Here is the link to the hotel we stayed at. If you want to go to MP and dont want to walk the 4 days Inca trail, this is THE place to stay at before you head up! http://www.pakaritampu.com/

Good Lord, I always wanted to go to Machu Piecu (sp???) but looking at those steps and equating what happens to me whenever I try to go down stadium steps, I'm having second thoughts. Cool report, the sky is such a pretty shade of blue. The steps at Machu Picchu were even worse than those! The pics of MP are coming soon! Trout and some type of potato. more pics soon! Lunch! Salt pans. there is a small stream tha flows out of the mountain, and the stream carries tons of salt with it. They divert the water to the diferent pans, and let it evaporate. The pans are handed down as wedding presents to the next generation. Us at the very bottom. Percy told us that people come here and lay on the bottom all day to soak up energy that is magically flowing from the bottom.. The incas made the steps come right out of the wall. At first we thought it was so cool! But after you go all the way down and back up again, we wished the Incas had invented the escalator! Its a long way down there! OK, on to more culture! This is Morray. It was built as an experiment, to see how crops grow in different temps. Every level you go down, the temp goes up half a degree F. He was Aprils favorite! group shot. All of these kids got something, either new clothes, or new shoes and socks. The kids on my lap didnt want to get up! We bought these shoes here in the states for about $10 a pair. But, the look on these kids faces, was way beyond $10! This kid also got a new sweater. He had like 5 t shirts on, when I asked him to try on the new sweater, he ripped those t shirts off so fast! Next set of kids. That is our friend Percy puting the shoes on. He did most of the driving for us while we were there. Right about the time we took this pic, the sheep started to get away from the field they were supposed to be in abd the girls started screaming at them to get back! As we were leaving, the girls stayed in the same place, brushing off the dirt from their new shoes....is was very cute! The woman that is half in the picture, is some really hairy Australian woman who was biking all over Peru and stoppped to watch us give out the shoes. These arethe first two girls to get new shoes today! They were working in the field with their families sheep, and our friend Percy called them over. This is about the exact opposite of what it looks like in Missouri where we live.

Thanks everyone for the nice replies! Here are some more pics. The native children are abundant at the ruins, and charge one Soles each for taking their picture while they sing you a song. Three Soles equals one US dollar. more pics later! more steps...going down is NOT easier than going up! can everyone see the profile of the face in the side of the mountain? While we were here, I THOUGHT we were high up...just wait until later! It would take all day to explain how they got these huge boulders to fit together, and bring them from 2 KM away....but in this pic you can see the way they cut the stones to give a tight fit. The area is prone to big earthquakes, so they had to make them very tight, and used no mortar to hold them. This double doorwaymeans that the area that you are ready to enter in holy. ok...here is the start of the thousands and thousands of steps that we walked while we were in Peru. This is the ruins of the area that was built for Ollantaya, who the town is now named after. They built it in the side of this mountain to have a good vantage point to see who was coming for them. Actually, that is just what the historians THINK, becasue they Incas left no written text of their history. more of our hotel Entrance to our hotel...i could never pronounce it right and had to show the "taxi" guy our key to get us to the right place. Peru taxi! In asia its called a tuk tuk..everyone here called it a taxi. It cost less than $1 for both of us to go anywhere in town...but the streets are all cobblestones, so walking is much better than these death traps! National plant of Peru. This is the view from our hotel window in a town called Ollantaytambo...say that 3 times fast! It is in an area called the sacred valley, and it is one of the last places to start your journey to Machu Picchu.

Hello TPR friends! My wife and I just got back from our trip tp South America to celebrate our 5 year anniversary. The theme park comes at the end of the report, but there was a lot of cool stuff to see and do before we got there. So, please read along and learn some interesting facts about Peru while you wait for the coaster! I cashed in some of our AA miles for first class tickets to Peru. Our routing was Kansas City-Dallas_Miami-Lima_Cusco. We left KC at 7 am and got in around midnight. Here are the pics! pizza here is amazing!!!! off to work now, but pics of Machu Picchu and the park are coming soon! this was NOT a safe place to be at all! This is Pisac below us. we first tried to give out shoes here....but it turned into a huge scene and we left. i liked chewing the coca leaves better than drinking the tea....it hit you much faster! There is 500 different types of corn here. This stuff helped me way more than those pills! Coca tea! slug bug! on the way to Pisac market The kids have to start working really young... we brought a suitcase full of new shoes to give out to the working kids...pics of that later. Peru is known for the wool of these guys...we bought tons of hats and scarfs made from them....they are tasty too! Baby Alpaca! People were selling stuff everywhere! This was on the side of a mountain! Cusco! The segment from Lima to Cusco, was on LAN, and, as you can see from the box, this was our "snack" My wife bought these the first day...then we used something better that we will show you later. When all else fails, we can always count on you Mcdonalds! 90% of these people were offering us a taxi. And, on the international segment, you get a bed! This is domestic first. When you fly international first with AA, you get to stay in the Admirals Club before your flights.

We have a winner! Its Machu Picchu!!!!! bdstorm, I totally thought you were going to guess it! You were right about AA, that is where all our miles are, we flew MCI-DFW-MIA-LIM-CUS the last leg was on LAN since AA doesnt fly to Cusco. Send me a PM with your address and I will send you out something cool from Peru if you want. I will write up a TR with the park we went to in Lima...it was scary! That is a pic of me getting ready to eat fried Guinea Pig! Not the most tasty thing I have ever had! Thanks for playing along. Jeffrey adn April

That IS what you think is it! Now what is the big thing people come here for?? Besides that thing we ate....