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Oh man, that sucks, I don't understand why ops/guests feel their possessions are worth risking their lives...

Actually not one person said anything about me taking a photo in the Mummy's station, guess I got lucky! As for Laguna, I've heard of the TV show but I've never seen it, not really a fan of MTV's recent shows... I wanted to go because I heard it was the most beautiful beach in Cali, and I'd be surprised to see if there's one nicer. I really liked the artsy feel to the town itself, just an overall great, alive atmosphere.

Part 5/5: Pacific Park After Universal I took the short drive down Santa Monica Blvd for a quick spin on Westcoaster as it was closed in March. One last shot of Laguna Beach, random, but thought I'd drop it here. Thanks for reading! Onride photo on WC The bunny hill run Around the first helix The small hill before the helix Pacific Park's ferris wheel

Part 4/5: Universal Studios Hollywood My first time here as well, USH blew my expectations away and is on par if not better than the Orlando Park. The tram tour was amazing and the year round House of Horrors is a great touch! The dropping Jeep scene Bad dinosaurs... Nice dinosaurs... Being a fan of IOA's River Adventure I couldn't wait to try out the original JP. The loading platform for Mummy, the single rider line will fix that 45 minute wait in no time. I definately prefer the Orlando version but I'm thankful the two rides are different. The dark ride scenes in Hollywood are really good IMO! The Earthquake scene Makes flying home a little uneasy The backlot tram tour was a nice 45 minute ride with several show scenes. I really miss Kongfrontation in Orlando so i t was good to see it again here. First stop, the new Universal's House of Horrors, could have used a few more actors but a great walkthrough in July was not expected. Really well themed and some good scares! The famous Universal Studios globe Walking down Citywalk to get to the park

Part 3/5: Knott's I got into Knott's with late entry with the intent of hitting the rides I missed last time I visited. Unfortunately, the log ride was still closed but I finally got on Ghostrider and the new Sierra Sidewinder, as well as some rides on Xcelerator, Jaguar and Silver Bullet. I managed to squeeze in a night ride on Xcerator and one last ride on Sierra before heading out. I had a much better visit this time compared to March when many rides were closed for refurb. No Supreme Scream this time, this was a strictly coasters and Calico hit of Knott's My favorite element on the ride Silver Bullet's vertical loop My first ride on Ghostider, it was rough but way better than I expected in the thrills department! Fun but short sums it up pretty good The new Sierra Sidewinder Inside Calico Calico Mine Ride is a long unique dark ride, one of my favorite things about Knott's.

Part 2/5: Legoland I had never been to any of the Legoland Parks so I thought this would be a good stop on my trip. The Stratosphere Tower complete with working rides! The new Las Vegas addition is very impressive. The detail in Miniland USA is amazing! Here's New York The model shop where all of Legoland's complex structures are built. New this year is Splash Battle, it was pretty good, my first time trying one of these out. More of the Kuka Robocoasters We did the 5th program which is quite intense. Knight's Tournament was my favorite ride in the park, what a surprise! The last of the three coasters is Coastersaurus, which is more of a kiddy coaster. Riders go around the circuit twice, a credit... The zigzag portions of track Project X Project X is a fun but overbraked mouse coaster One of The Dragon's trains The Dragon is a family sized coaster that begins with a lego character dark ride segment. Here you can see its elaborate station. The entry gate to Legoland

Part 1/5: The Disneyland Resort Sooo the transition of me moving from a quiet to New England town to California's 951 is almost complete... I've been visiting my friends in SoCal that I'll be living with as of next month and of course, hitting the theme parks whenever I'm in the area. On this July trip, I ended up visiting Disneyland, Disney's California Adventure, Legoland, Knott's, Universal Studios Hollywood and Pacific Park. I leave you with a picture of the scary-ass sunwheel. Thanks for checking out the photos and legoland will be posted next! Let me ask you something, when the ride comes into the station and the music comes to an end, do you hear a really creepy, weird last line of music? I heard it last time but not this time... Am I hearing things? I don't miss the Rockin' soundtrack at all. Into the tube so we can keep Anaheim nice and quiet... It just looks so cool. What can I say? Get ready screamers... Let's not forget the best ride here and it's great single rider line! Construction shot of Midway Mania, can't wait to see how Disney does Spidey technology. Our group split up here to take advantage of Soarin's single rider line, otherwise a 45 minute wait. Rumor has it Orange Stinger is going bye-bye so I took a spin, oh yeah, plus it's a fun ride. It really does smell like animal crackers! They should use the onboard TVs for more than just the beginning of the ride. After a quick runthrough of the animation building, we checked out Monsters Inc. DCA time! We waited only about 5 minutes for my beloved Tower Of Terror. A shot of the castle, it looks a little bigger in this shot... not really... but whatever. Matterhorn gave us an absolutely insanely faster than normal ride, we thought we were going to derail! Haunted Mansion was a walkon, and a GREAT ride as always. My first time riding the Cali Pirates... WAY better than WDW's, wasn't expecting the drop! Area 51... I mean 33... And wouldn't you know he said yes! 3 minutes later we were boarding our EMV. So Indiana Jones Adventure, which is easily the best dark ride on the planet, has an hour long wait. We take a shot in the dark and ask the fastpass collector if we can have a fastpass... (they always have extras apparently) Coming into the station platform. Wheeeee! The mountain itself. "Just missing" the t-rex bones! Seeing as I never seem to get photos of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, I really laid it on thick this time... Space thingy... My favorite ride at Disneyland: Space Mountain, only a 10 minute wait plus a fastpass for later. I liked the ride alot! I don't think it was overhyped at all and it was definately alot of fun. I respected the park's no-flash rule and snapped only this one photo of the crabs at the unloading dock. Getting closer to the loading platform... and getting more and more excited to finally ride the subs! Plenty of time to take some decent photos! The line for Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage was about an hour and a half upon park opening and we hit this ride first before it got busier. To this! Just thought I'd throw this one in here... It amazes me that in a span of only a few months we've gone from this...

It's mostly just the boomerangs and SLC's that are painful to ride... There's just so many of them compared to their custom rides and Disney projects that it makes about two thirds of their coasters rough and painful. I really wish Vekoma would get more requests for new trains on their SLCs as I really like the layout and it's a fun ride but sometimes they're just unbearable.

Last year in Brockton we didn't have Storm, we had the Flitzer coaster, Tango, Speed, a Zipper AND Power Surge were both here. Looks like they replaced the Flitzer with the wild mouse on the blue unit.

I liked Hydra for what it was when I visited in its debut year, I wasn't expecting a great, huge B&M but it's at least unique in layout and has some unusual elements. There's some great photos in there! Thanks for posting these.

Reithoffer has a couple different units and this must be the same one that comes through Brockton. Looks like I'll have yet another credit next week. Wooooo!

1 Six Flags Blvd Jackson, NJ 08527-5369, US *I95 South (NJ TPK) to exit 7A (195 E) *EXIT 7A 195E toward Lakewood/Shore Point *EXIT 16A towards Six Flags Blvd. Hope this helps, have fun!

Nice TR, I'll be visiting the park next Wednesday, hopefully the waits won't be too insane because I doubt my group will want to get a q-bot.

Wow, I hope Reithoffer brings that mouse coaster to The Brockton Fair in the coming weeks! I agree Speed is an awesome ride and definately worth the 10 or so dollars upcharge. Anyways, great photos! BTW, I never nitpick but just letting you know that Wild Claw is actually a KMG Afterburner (sold as a "Fireball" in the US) FreakOut's seat less people as they only have 4 sets of seats. I actually like the FreakOut better for some reason... It's a great ride the cycle is just WAYYYY too short for what they charge to ride it. Why can't the US run it's fairs like germany?

Wow! Scream's lights are sexy, what a nice surprise!

Look at the guy in the Aquaman photo... "You lookin' at my woman, b*tch?!?!?!"

^^ See my avatar. <---I think this will be the ride we've been waiting for!

^ That's insane! I'll never bitch about Six Flags' upcharge prices again! (no promises...)

I'd like to see a clone of Disney Sea's Journey To The Center Of The Earth show up at Animal Kingdom.

Ohh man, I thought it had opened already, someone must be fibbing me. Please let us know if they got it going! I'm curious to know if this coaster has any dark ride "gags" inside the building.

Sorry to bump up an old thread, but Pirate's Hideaway is open and has been for a little while. Little has been said about this dark ride/coaster hybrid but it looks pretty sharp! http://www.rcdb.com/ig3619.htm I hope to go out there after my Cedar Point trip to review and video the ride.

Photos Magiques has some of the best photos I have seen of the ride in action, view them here: http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/crushs_coaster There's a rumor going around thta one of these will replace Mulholland Madness someday, while it's just a crazy rumor I really hope it has some validity as this ride looks awesome! I was reading an article the other day (I forget where) but it says ALOT of guests riding CC are getting sick due to the spinning of the cars and the bubble/underwater lighting in the show building. I hope they work through this as they say many people are NOT going for rerides.

Awww what a letdown, hopefully they still get something, maybe not so big.

Nice TR! I really like that aerial shot of Storm Runner where the train is on the top hat, good stuff.

Represetnin' RI here, I'd be happy to give you some tips on both SFNE and GADV as well as other stuff. I don't know how long it's been since you've been back to RI, but the Providence Place Mall is rather new and definately worth a visit if you like an upscale shopping experience. In regards to SFNE... Obviously go on a weekday if possible, I would reccomend NOT getting a q-bot here and rather saving you rmoney for one at GADV where it would be much more useful. I notice at SFNE that sometimes the q-bot line can be as long as regular lines due to way too many people renting them when they aren't even neccesary. SROS usually opens with one train and the second one comes online around noon or 1 pm so if you see a long queue time with one train running, hang tight until the second one is put on. If it's a hot day, the lines for Blizzard River and Splashwater Falls can get pretty bad so be sure to get those done early if you want any chance of riding them. As for GADV, I suggest getting a q-bot as it's always busy in the summer. Head to Kingda Ka and El Toro first, whichever opens first hit that and then go to the next coaster. While you're in this corner of the park, also hit Superman Ultimate Flight which gets insane lines as the day goes on. The other B&Ms have fast moving lines so you shouldn't have a problem there. If you have any specific questions just ask and I'll be happy to help!