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Well, well, well... It's time for the last TR of this weekend! And from a park, i wanted to visit for a long time already. Tripsdrill! Welcome to Tripsdrill... pure family inside! To be exact, this park is all about wine! and other crazyness! Just look at how cute this place looks... First step of making wine? You drop your guests when tilted! Then put them in a barrel, and spin them round-and-round! After the old guest got their hands on the wine, they drank it al and ride the kiddie coaster frontseat!? Naked girls log flume! Way better then the Pirates 4 movie! Mona Lisa? What happened... WHAT!? NO! no credit just yet... lets hope for the best. Well lets get wet first... One of the most fun coaster i've ever done..! Let's hope...? YEEY! Open! Open! Open! ... Here comes the TUNNEL! One last look at this surprise good woodie! bye Bye Tripsdrill, see you next time... That's all Folks! Will be back after my Summer Holiday to Spain with another TR!

Now that the kind of pictures i like! Way to go Hanno

I would say try something around Harderwijk, Zwolle or Amersfoort. Or when you would like to go somewhere closer to Amsterdam, try Almere...

The friday Efteling and saturday Walibi is the best their is. besides the busy saturdays at the Efteling witch you avoid. You don't get the a-holls youth an a friday's at walibi witch you avoid then too! It's a win-win situation! Well, a nice place to stay at near Walibi? Well, it's in the middle of nowwhere... What are your plans after Walibi going back towards Amstedam? Or some place else? About Robin Hood, it has been becoming rougher trough out the past year. But still a great ride, so you don't want to miss out on that one...

I;m going Intamin as well! To be simple B&M make smooth fun rides, but Intamin just makes kick-ass rides! B&M: Just pure fun rides, it's likes B&M sometimes just slows their rides down to be boring. And to don't give their rides the idea of sensation! Just remember those nasty trim brakes onn hypers, loopers and everything else? Well that makes their rides boring for me! I have to say that they also made some great rides, i'm thinking of Nemesis and Air! Intamin: What can i say about this? Their rides just kick-ass! High-G-forces, insane airtime, launches, record breakers? Can we ever stop about things like this? Even their smaller rides kick ass...

Awesome photo Hanno!

Well i've just ridden Mammut, and sure it was my first visit to Tripsdrill. But i still think it kicks ass, and smooth as an Intamin Pre-feb! Check out the TR soon!

Am i'm the only one who gets the feeling that this is a combination between Big Thunder Mountain and Everest?

WoW! What an amazing TR once again! I really likes your Europe TR, but then this! Maybe make my South America Trip an higher priority

Mammut at Tripsdrill, monday a week ago...

I'm with the BIG mean 'El Freaking Toro' fanclub!

Well i've ridden 7 of them, and 9 if you count Sheikra and Griffon too. 1. Superman / La Atraccion de la Acero(Parque Warner Madrid) 2. Dominator(Kings Dominion) 3. Bizarro(SF Great Adventure) 4. Deamonen(Tivoli Gardens) 5. Batman The Dark Knight(SF New England)

Well their doesn't seem to be much interest in this thread, sadly But hell here goes! Were of to Europa Park today! Welcome to Europa Park, for this very busy day! Almost there, just a little walk towards... Ohh no! Were already in line! Freaking 2,5 hour wait! Well no thanks, lets take the 30/45 min single rider line! I see you big stone guard guy! Almost up to ride! What a great firstdrop that is! Best first drop on any GCI that i have ridden... I see you Bluefire! Did I already mention the tunnels really add to the ride? Up Next! Bluefire, or not? Nope... not yet! Up next? Foodloop! As we already were hungry, mostly because we didn't enter the park at opening... Still a fun way to order your food. Mmm... Wiener Snitzel! After a long lunch we decided to head back towards Iceland! It does doesn't seem like a long trip going from Portugal towards Iceland. Only in Europa Park... The Wodan/Atlantica money shot...? JeeJ for Wodan! Going up... And after that second ride on Wodan, it was time for Bluefire... Feel the speed... Speeding down the MCBR fast forward to... ...into the best part of the ride! And after a last ride on one of the many funny little darkrides! It was time for a 'Wiener Snitzel Dinner' in a local restaurant... Well after that dinner, we could head back into the park to take on last quick ride... Or? Or take the monorail towards... ...The Cocktail Bar! In the lobby we found this! It's one amazing coaster model to see... Mmm... Europa Park Cocktail! Tip! Order the Romeo and Juliet, it's a 2 pers. surprice cocktail! And the best part? It's HUGE! Also the watershow started sometime later, this was the first time i could see it. I've to say: It's Beautifull! After the show, we still had time enough to get waisted! Bye Bye Cocktail Bar! See you again next time... See you again next time, Europa Park! Up next: Tripsdrill!

1. George and the Dragon! 2. Kennywood Racer 3. Stampida(Rough but still a good racer) 4. Lightning Racer 5. Gemini

USA! Steel: Intimidator 305 USA Wood: El 'Freaking' Toro Europe Steel: Expedition GeForce Europe Wood: Balder

That's really funny indeed Hans! No, i was at Europa Park on Sunday. Are you making a TR too?

Well here we go! Last weekend it was a long weekend here in Holland, and that was a great excuse to visit some German park! First up was Holiday 'Plopsa' Park, home to the best steel coaster in Europa! Do you know which one? Expedition GeForce ofcourse! But you already knew that didn't you? If you didn't know, go shame yourself in a corner... Now lets get it on with photo's! Driving down to road towards Holiday Park at 180 km/h! Pitstop! Time for a... Welcome to Holiday 'Plopsa' Park! New,new,new! Credit! On a hot spring day, you just need a splash! Now time for the first of this weekend! Mmm... Can i get more please? Rawr! I see you... But first, some Vekoma horror... Satan is waiting for you at the end of this lift! Why did they sell more of these? This is by far the best part of the ride... I quote: 'The best ride in the park!' Second quote: 'but how about that coaster over there?' Wow! Plopsa, plopsa, plopsa... I'm building the future woodie! Yes, it will be an Intamin, and will be the new best coaster of the park! Need any help with that coaster? Mmm... They also added more food! Some more plopsa... Then it was time for the best steelie in Europe!! Airtime! Airtime! Airtime! Then it was alreadt time to leave this park, and go to our hotel for this night. After some diner we still had some room for some ice... And i encountered this; Pommes Frites Icecream! Hope you enjoy for my first TR in 2012, and leave a comment while your at it

Like others i will first make a list of the ones i did ride. Intamin: Alpine Bobsled, Balder, Bizarro, Bobbaan, Cobra, Colossos, Colossus, Cop Car Chase, Desert Race, Disaster Transport, Dragon, El Toro!, Expedition Geforce, Fahrenheit, Furius Baco, Goliath, Indiana Jones, Intimidator 305, Jr. Gemini, Kanonen, Kingda Ka, Maverick, Millennium Force, Mine Train Ulven, Pegasus, Possessed, RC Racer, Rita, Rolling Thunder, Skull Mountain, Storm Runner, Top Thrill Dragster, Tornado(Madrid), Vulcano, Wicked Twister. Intamin's worst by me: Pegasus(Efteling) - Always felt like a slow and painfull ride for me, even as a kid. RC Racer(WDS) - Just not for me... B&M: Air, Alpengeist, Apollo's Chariot, Batman La Fuga/the ride, Batman: the dark knight, Bizarro, Black Mamba, Daemonen, Dominator, Duelling Dragons , Dragon Khan, Goliath(La Ronde), Great Bear, Green Lantern, Griffon, Hydra, HULK, Kraken, Kumba, Manta, Mantis, Monster, Montu, Nemesis, Nitro, Oblivion, Raptor(CP), Sheikra, Silver Star, Superman ADA, Superman UF, Talon, Vampire, Worst B&M's by me: Goliath(La Ronde) - Hill after hill is just boring! GCI: Gwazi, George and rhe Dragon, Lightning Racer, Troy, Wildcat. Worst GCI for me: Gwazi(BGT) - Need to?

Well according to me Slagharen is after the Efteling the best park in NL. It's just to bad that it is a small park

^^Then i vote, Hot Chicks! But please no German chicks anymore...

Europa Park is just TOP-notch! The rides are a little less thrill, but are still great fun! And operations are also great. Proberly up there with Disney in therms in capacity wise... Still PA is a great park, but it's operations are just terrible. And you just need to beat the Spanish or join them line jumping! Well i'm going this Saterday too! in Europa you don't have to worry about long lines. Lines are almost always moving, it's still the best operating park that i know!

Awesome pic Hanno! Best ride in the Benelux by far!

Great photo from a great 'little' park!

Well those people still remember the old trains! Now it goes way to slow to hurt you in some points... But i still think that Stampida needs to be re-build into a GCI. And no, i'm not a GCI fanboy. But if Stampida runs like George and the Dragon you would have a possible top-10! coaster in your park! That's just something, but this will stay dreams i guess... What a great Deamonen shot Hanno!