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^What a terrible way to die though. With that fucking music playing. Nobody should have to suffer that much.

Apparently, he doesn't want any free Cialis.

This parody site is amazing. So many awesome Easter eggs in there.

Silver Star: One of the weaker B&M Mega Coasters. Still better than most coasters out there, but not a top 10 ride. Blue Fire: The best restraints available and incredibly smooth. Could benefit from more forces, particularly at the point where the train nearly stalls out on the first hill. Probably the best coaster at Europa, but not necessarily a top 10. Note: Definitely don't judge Europa solely based on its coaster collection. It's the best park of all the ones mentioned in this thread. Katun: My favorite B&M invert. The best first drop on any invert I've ridden. It's like a freefall following by bat-out-of-hell acrobatics. Top 10 steel for sure. iSpeed: One of the best Intamin rocket coasters because it "does stuff" after the great launch. I still give a slight edge to Xcelerator. Mammut: A family woodie with too many turns for its 3-bench trains. I like the layout, but it needs more speed and articulating trains. G'sengte Sau: Fun, but nothing too special. Troy: Overrated. It had a lot of vibration. I prefer many GCII coasters, including George and the Dragon. Desert Race: A middle-of-the-road Intamin rocket. I might have liked it more if it wasn't sitting next to a much better coaster. Colossos: Great ride. Powerful airtime over every hill. Rode it for the entire morning ERT session and it was great every time. Rode it in the afternoon and it was even better. Top 10 woodie for me. Speed: I prefer Fluch von Novgorod at Hansa Park. Megaphobia: It would be great with a bit more speed. A fun ride, but I have a hard time imagining it as a top tier woodie. Tonneree De Zeus: A good woodie that I could imagine being great on its better days. Gourdix: While I managed to avoid an ass beating, I have no desire to ride it again. Burn it down. Sorry, Erik.

Hahahahahahahaha. Man, "answering e-mails". How does this guy find time to sleep? I donated $1 just to see if the total donations would automatically increase on the website. It did not.

Yeah, the new site is still incredibly vague. I can't see why any reasonable person would send these people money. This is all pretty silly until they can come up with a park that's interested in this coaster. They'd be more credible if they at least had a detailed plan to move this pile of rotten lumber into storage. I think I'd rather set my money on fire at this point. At least it would provide some heat.

This is bogus. It's not our fault the people involved have done such a horrible job of promoting the project. If they want us to take them seriously and possibly get donations, it's up to them to show us that they've got a good plan. Face it: Any schmuck can put up a website that looks like it was designed by a drunk 5-year-old. Hell, I'm sure there are drunk 5-year-olds with better webdev skills.

Sometimes it's better to tell people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. Sometimes a reality check is appropriate. Insulting a serious effort would be mean. We have been given nothing indicating that this is a serious effort by serious people with the necessary financial and technical resources to succeed. All we've seen from this group is a website that would have been questionable in 1996. Putting up a respectable-looking website is easy. Moving an ancient, probably mostly rotted out wooden roller coaster is hard. If they can't do easy stuff well, why should we believe they can pull off hard stuff?

If nothing else, you'll at least get some nice firewood. It gets cold up there in the winter!

I voted for Daniel.

That's exactly my point. Anyone could have put up that site. Post on a few Internet forums about how you're "saving" the Big Dipper and let the cash roll in. With the prevalence of Internet scams, why would these people not want to make themselves look as legit as possible before asking for money?

It's interesting that they got that donate button working before they could produce a credible-looking website.

Next time you fly you should volunteer to sit next to the 700-pound guy then. Or in front of the screaming child who incessantly kicks the back of your seat even though you've told him/her to knock it off 10 times. Or the business traveler with 10 carry-on bags smashed up against your legs.

If you're traveling with other people, their seating policy sucks. I don't want to have to show up super early for just a domestic flight just to be able to get a seat next to the person I'm traveling with. Especially when every other airline I fly on will give me a seat assignment. If Southwest was fantastically cheaper than the other carriers, it might be worth the hassle. But they're never cheaper when I look. In fact, I can usually find better fares on the legacy carriers. Also, it's really obnoxious that "families traveling with small children" get basically guaranteed adjacent seating, but if you're traveling with "just" your spouse they don't extend you that courtesy.

All this consolidation in the airlines cannot be good for fares, which are already way up this year. I'm not a fan of Southwest (never that great of a deal for where I want to go, lack of assigned seating), but I did have good luck with AirTran. Oh well, I fly mostly out of CVG these days and Southwest isn't going to be coming into that market any time soon.

Freizeitpark Plohn looks like a great candidate for a "Weird Parks of Europe" trip. It's nice being surprised with a really nice park when you just expected a credit or two. Yeah, the European attitude towards nudity is so much better than the American attitude. I noticed earlier this year in Italy that they had ads featuring a completely naked woman in several train stations. It wasn't even a sideboob shot. You could see everything. Was it a big deal? No.

I agree that cones should have been placed before the manhole cover was removed. However, that doesn't absolve this young woman of her responsibility to watch where the fuck she's walking.

No, the Dyson Airblade is the finest hand dryer out there. Any bathroom that doesn't have an Airblade fails at life.

That alpine slide is a lot of fun. I went so fast on one run last year that I fell off the sled.

If you can develop a taste for it, soda water/sparkling mineral water can be a great non-caloric substitute for soda.

I've seen Primanti Brothers on Travel Channel a few times. They always feature a scary "summer teeth" woman yelling about how they only serve white bread. Nice Jacko reference. Nice report.

Doesn't Tokyo have the same issue? You guys looked pretty cold riding Splash Mountain in your New Year's Eve 2006 Disney Tokyo video. Or are the Japanese just tougher than the French?

Also, Comet (1994). I felt like mentioning that one since it was a relatively successful move. It's interesting that the move that kicked off this minor trend of woodie moves, Phoenix, was the most successful.

That sounds like a bad idea with Europa Park so close. The bar is set so high for Europe-themed parks in that area.

Last night's epside was great. No Ronnie & Sammi garbage to bring it down. The whole Uncle Nino thing was WTF. That guy looked like one of those extras you see used again and again in mob films. Also, I can't believe Vinny thought that begging that girl to go out with him after she had already rejected him was going to work.