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Europa Park was simply amazing. I had forgotten about the soaking me and Lou took from standing in that splash zone. But we dried of super quick because it was so hot!

The slinky Dave was using is mine!!!! I've still got it! Great TR so far!! Brings back all the Europness and can you belive it as I started typing this my the Euro Mir theme just started playing!!

I think it is the case with most parks over here. When they open for the season things like to break down alot until they have been run in again. Its nothing new. I've known Chessington to still have Scaffhold covering Rameses Revenge for the opening week. Rob is right in what he was told, i'm sure in a week or 2 it will be running as smooth as babys bottom, but hopefully without the smell of a babys bottom.

I just sat and watched the no music version video of Fuji Q and my brain hurts. The Coaster Expedition videos definitely need music to them. I personally am not a fan of the Roller Coasters In The Raw stuff, i'm much more into the Expedition videos but I can see that something like the Raw series could be developed into much more such as: -Dark Rides -Kiddie Credits -Jeff Johnson Credits -Flat Rides -Water Rides I would say keep the Coaster Expedition series the same as it is, then develop on the Raw series as it seems to be very popular.

Well I have already had a few trips this year on my Merlin Annual Pass. - London Dungeons - Traitors Boat Ride (SUCKS) & Extremis Drop Tower - London Eye - London Aquarium (No rides but plenty of fish) - Thorpe Park for media day and opening day So I guess the first ride for me was the super suckage of the boat ride at the Dungeons. First park was Thorpe Park which included my first coaster of the year and also a new credit for me which was of course Saw The Ride.

I bet its some Thorpe Park hater with a massive swtich that says Thorpe Park Power Switch above it and he keeps turning it on and off for a laugh. But who needs power when we have Tarmac The Ride!

Edit: Please check page 1 for the video! Thanks!

That photo is great just like X is. The red eye adds to the effect of what X NWO causes to people who ride!

Will just sent me the ORP of Saw and my heads gone all shiny in it! From left to right: Will, Steven, Ben and Craig (Me)

^ To be fair even though the rides were down the staff were still very friendly and were always up for a chat. Yes alot of people were dissapointed about Saw closing down, but you used to get the same thing when Stealth was down. The park did their best to open Saw up again because there was 3 mechanics working on it since it broke down, until park closing.

Okay today was park opening day at Thorpe Park. As i'm sure you know me and a few other TPR members headed down to Media Day on Thursday and sadly the ride was closed. The park very gladly gave us 10 Ultimate Fastracks as compensation which helped us greatly in the task of riding Saw. Saw The Ride was in operation today for an entire ONE AND A HALF HOURS!, yes thats right 90 whole minutes. But all was not lost because Thorpe Parks kind compensation gift which allowed us to ride Saw twice. Over all I rate Saw as a great ride, if a bit short. I will not spoil anything from the inside for you. But I will say brace yourself for the airtime hill because that packs an almighty punch! Okay now I think its time to move onto pictures! (Update 17-03-08 VIDEO) [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=Opening_Day__Final__8n67[/coastertube] Which led us to the end of our fantastic day at Thorpe Park even with so many rides down, the park was still full of energy and everyone had a great time. Everyone head down to ride Saw when its being more reliable because it is a great ride. Which led us to the final fastrack of the day, Rush! And the most amazing comment by Trev after Non German Tom turned up. Trev "Whys he called Non German Tom?" Me, Steve and Rob all in sync "Because hes not German!" To feel the CYCLONIC forces at work! Near the end of the day as wristbands united we headed over to Vortex..... After such an epic thrill we need to calm down, so we headed over to "keep those fins inside the fish" and sing happy birthday to another 2 people" Featuring Single Rider! After another Colossus failure it was time for us all to experiance TARMAC THE RIDE! As everyone tried (and failed) to get on Colossus for the 2nd time I became the "Bag Lady" again! The Time Voyagers crew! "Yes we do we are British" Cup of Tea anyone? SMOOTHNESS! EXCITEMENT! Time for Nemesis Inferno! Samurai porn for all you Fanboys! This is as close as I will get to riding a mighty warrior thank you! Time for Samurai "The MIGHTY Warrior" "No one loves me!" See!!! Fancy a bum? (Btw for the record he bent over just as I went to take the picture and I didnt notice, but i know some people will like this photo) Slammer was closed, but it was being worked on! How about the train? Nope thats closed aswell. Next up was Loggers Leap, well it was going to be until we noticed a key part of the ride missing! But we soon forgot about her when we got on Rocky and the ride op was playing Simon Says while the ride was running, and also making us all sing happy birthday to a girl riding called Charlotte! Obviousally Will and Steven found something more interesting then Simon says, but Steve and Rob were super excited! Sadley with the Carousel closed we had to head over to The Rocky Express we had to pay out last respects to Miss Hippo, who will be leaving the park this year. Chief Ranger's Carousel was sadley down due to it missing a few key parts. Which was one hell of an experiance. If you ever go there on a busy day, forget all morals and push and shove everyone and anyone, even little kids if need to the side otherwise it will all be gone by the time you get there! BUFFET!! So as we are headin over to our eating establishment we come across lonley little Stealthy who is sick and not working. So we did the right thing and headed over to the........ Which Rob took abit too literally! Deciding it was time to go and eat we all headed over to the "Poop Deck" before heading on to our reasturant destination. After riding X: No Way Out or X No Way Out we felt suitably stupider so we stood around and waited for Will and Steven (Btw Jeff does it count as 2 credits because it has 2 different names?) Or X: No Way Out! What one is it? Im confused (And this is before ive been on the ride!) X NO WAY OUT! Once I took this photo and the car made it back to the station it broke down, so everyone left the queue. And we went over to the best ride in the park! "Excuse me I think youve got a bit of drool there, do you want to get it?" While they rode I went off to take some photos of Colossus Saw then decided it was time that the game should take a break so the ride was closed down. So the rest of the crew went to ride Colossus, well they thought they were going to! Oh dear seems you havent got a leg to stand on. Dont put you hand in here its full of hypodermic needle pens! "OOOOOOOOOOOOH YOUR SEX IS ON FIRE!" Next to Saw they do have little shows to keep you entertained, and as you can tell they are BREATH TAKING! Will and Steven enjoyed it so much they rode it 4 times in the 90 mins, while I took photos and videos! The next few photos of Saw will not have captions so fan boys can relive themselves without my comments ruining the view for them! And im happy to report that not only does the ride KICK arse, but the blades also spin! Yea Saw was operating for the day! Well 90 mins of it. People queueing! Saws Open! Lets run and join the fastrack queue on the right!

They didn't let us in the ride station or even in the shop. It was all closed off by security. The theming outside is very detailed and if you look closely you will always find something new too look at.

Today was the day of the exclusive Coaster Club preview of Saw The Ride, so a few TPR members popped along to experience Saw! Over all a good time was spent at Thorpe Park even with Saw down. The ride is looking great so everyone head down there on Saturday and prepare to play the game! (I will be at the park on Saturday so feel free to come and say hi) Dont worry everyone we did get to experiance some of Thorpe Parks new for 2009 attractions. TARMAC THE RIDE Everyone had a go on Rush which was running BOTH swings. Craig likes big hard balls in his hands! Daves opinion on Saw being closed. "We should be there!" Look at the enjoyment on their faces after their first ride at Thorpe Park for the 2009 season! Colossus was running so a few people took a quick ride. The second bridge wont be ready for Saturday by the looks of it Work is still going on around the ride to get it ready for Saturday. The spinning blades of DOOM, that dont actually spin. Can you spot anything special about the markings? And seemed to run smooth. The ride was testing and looked very good. Here is the shop themed much in the same way that Expedition Ge-Force's is. How about a police car? Its the ride sign! What more do you want? Beth was sad she couldnt ride though. Dave is happy we can get close too see Saw. Once the park let us in they allowed us too go and get a close up look at Saw too take pictures. This is the view of Saw you get from the bridge into the park. This is sadley what Saw was not. But Thorpe Park very kindly opened Colossus and Rush for us. The group stand around waiting too be let in to go and look at Saw Saw teases us all from a distance and rumours start coming in the Saw may not be operating. Thorpe Park rolled out the red carpet for TPR's arrival.

One day many hours ago a young sexy TPR member with a Merlin Annual pass decided today I will venture out into the vast world and go to the mystical land of London to see the wonders that his Annual pass would give him. Luckily enough some Boobs come along to calm Craig down as he continues his magical journey. To be countinued.......... And HEAD! But still gets a fright from another Skeleton. Craig now leaves the Aquarium, sadley without his Army and come across yet more scary things that he cant handle after his earlier scary encounters, so he passes. Whic suddenly shoot off like laser beems, which confuses Craig alot. Now Craig is happy again he moves on and starts seeing bright Colours. And he does! After yet more regection young Craig decided to go and find something that would make him happy again. Craig: "Hello Mr Shell, Mrs Shell and young Shelly. Would you like to join my Army?" The Shell Family: "Okay Craig we will join but we will first go and collect our things" Craig waited for a very long time for the Shell family to come back but the seemed to vanish and all that was left was their shells. As Craig was feeling upset he decided to go back and see Mr Shark. But Mr Shark didnt want anything to do with Craig anymore and swam off. Now Craig was feeling hungry and decided to go and get some food. He came across these lovley little fishes but was told he was not allowed to eat them and had to move on. Craig wasnt to hurt that Mr Shark didnt want to join his fish army, so he carried along to see another fish who he could recruit. Sadley this fish just swam away from Craig. Craig : "Hello Mr Shark would you like to join my fish army and take over the human race?" Mr Shark : "Ill keep swimming and getting looked after and fed by humans if its all the same to you" Sadley his Army would not be as big as he liked because he was not allowed to see all of the soilder fishes! After his terrifying Dungeon experience, Craig needed to relax so he went to go and see all his fish friends to create an underwater army of evil fish he will use to overtake the human race! This scared Craig so much he couldnt bring himself to taking any more photos in the Dungeons under fear of being punished! As he walked off in disapointment Craig noticed this sign and realised he was very lucky he didnt get any action because he didnt have any protection on him! As Craig ran from the super boob lover in the stocks he came across a lovley lady who he tried to chat up to see if he could see some more boobies but sadley she was very unresponsive and ignored Craig. After spending a long time with the boobs Craig carried on walking into the Dungeon where he found a traveler just like Craig who liked the boobies more then he did and was punished for liking them too much! Craig was very scared at this point until he saw something that any mystical journey hunter enjoys. BOOBS!! Next to greet him was a scary Skeleton that has no arms or legs!!! As he finnaly enters he look over and notices this scary statue of him in the morning after a night out in Amsterdam on one TPR Europe Trip! He then glances over at the prices before entering and thinks to himself "They are abit high" And creepy Druids. But also very cool things like FIRE When he finnaly arrives at the land of London he arrives at The London Dungeons where he will come across many scary things. His journey begins by boarding a train that get stuck at many stations and delayed due to an EMERGANCY at London Bridge.

Yea that was my test video which replaced your video. I uploaded that video twice and it replaced yours. I am now trying a different video to see if I get the same result. Is anyone else having this problem?

From my experience of uploading onto TPRTV I have learnt that the first upload is usually the one that has a session expire on. When a session expires it usually logs you out, so all you need to do is log back on and upload again and it should work. Time outs are hit and miss for the moment in my experience.

So after a wedding on Saturday I decided I would take full advantage of my Annual Pass and go to Chessington seeing as it was very close to the hotel we were staying at. Now before the trip before hand I though it would be my average day at a park like always. I forgot to remember just how drunk I get at weddings and the hangover the day I visited was just like the one at Walibi World on the Europe Trip. (Thanks Robb and Hanno for making me ride the SLC that day!!!!) Anyway I got to the park and after the hangover was gone I was alright. I even bumped into a few TPR readers who I hope will read this TR because they were awsome guys and I had a great time chatting to them. Anyway onto photos. Next stop Land of the Dragons, which you will see in Part 2 very soon! Stay tuned! I expect to see a PTR of this on TPR one day! NO I CANT GET AWAY FROM IT!!! You will get hit by a BUS! Where you cant lean because........ Oh and the lost land of Beano My favourite sign!!!!!! After which I foulc the park old Railway route and... and penterated a Dragon!!! Went splash! Where I got transported to China.... After my BIG Little lunch I headed over to Dragon Falls Well they may be Big Little Pizzas to Pizza Hut but to me they are The Little Little Pizza Okay so I actually went to Pizza Hut and got 2 Big Little Pizzas and a Pepsi "McDonalds? McDonalds!" Sorry Elissa theres nothing we could do!! "Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut....." I was very hungry after laughing so much so i decided to have a sing then eat. So all together now! "A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut..." and here! I was still laughing here..... I just laughed and laughed and laughed when I saw this............... After a relaxing spa treatment I went to Vampire... But before I rode I found this joke I just had to show you all. and a Elephant washes a Hippo! While a cow hyperventilates! And can drive submarines!!!! And they can do this....... Where ducks go to have Spa treatment...... Now onto Proffesor Burp's.............. I mean Imperial Leather Bubbleworks Blasting the Tomb was fun but then I met this drooling skull! I was wondering why he was drooling but then I realised it must be my sexyness right? After Rusty Skyway I went over to Tomb Blaster to blast some things in a Tomb funnily enough. Beautiful Animals!!! Sealions YAY! 2008 new attraction! Sealife! One of the newer Zoo attractions The first ride I went on was the Safari Skyway or the Old Rusty Skyway With my annual pass I got this discounted just to make my day abit easyer for myself, to be fair I didnt ride that much but it was nice to have. Welcome to Chessington World of Adventures!

Okay im just gonna skip straight to photos! Oh and there will be a video following at some point! Thanks for reading. THERE! Gladiators from left to right: Atlas, Battleaxe, Panther, Spratan! Over all a great day even if it was raining. Meeting the Gladiators was a perfect ending to the day! Nearly there! OMG we are getting closer! And i was READY to meet them also! But now we had foam fingers my cousin was READY to meet the Gladiators! There was endless amounts of these bags filled to bursting with foam fingers. So now its time to feel the power of the Gladiators! Now the event called for Sky to have 10,000 free foam fingers to give away. Which resulted in this poor bloke handing them out all day long! Shout out to all Waffle lovers! But my uncles fine because he had an UMBRELLA Ella Ella Eh Eh Eh Which then resulted in this! So even though its raining people still decided to ride this..... and after all that you come off looking like this! and up and down! So i had it rattled to the side..... Which then resulted in me wanting to have my snake rattled. But of course that ment nothing after I found this sign! A fun Arrow/Vekoma coaster that allows you to kick trees!! So now Vampire! While making our quick exit. I found ACE's new slogan. Where we got attacked by a GIANT HAPPY BUBBLE! Which of course made us exit the ride very quickly! So we went straight for the ruined Bubbleworks! But my uncle decieded he was gonna sit down and have a drink while we went off to have the Vampire suck our bubbles! So now its started raining and we are on our way to see the Bubble Vampire! Also this sexy dragon whos is just waiting to be a statue credit! And this guy whos looking at all the little children! After riding Dragon's Fury I found thing poor Dragon who seemed to have a bad cold. And thats not just because the cars have fire on! Because we all know fire instantly makes everything better. It beats Winajs! I have to say this ride is still my favourite spinner ive been on! NERD PHOTO! If you look at this for more then 10 seconds you are a nerd!!!!! The anwser being we are noone to argue with a dragon so we rode! There was this big dragon who told us all to ride Dragon's Fury, and who are we to argue! After meeting me there we went onto Land of the Dragons! Which funnily enough had alot of Dragons in it. but then I remember you can all do something wonderfull and Meet Me Here! and i get upset because it makes me realise about my own personal problems..... Where my cousin gets told hes small (even though he already knows that) So once leaving Budda land aater not getting to pentrate the Dragon due to him having abit of a breakdown we went to go see the Beano people! Then get very wet afterwards. Where you penetrate a Dragons mouth. So in Budda land you can ride Dragon Falls... See I told you it was Budda land. After blasting some lights in a tomb onto the mystical magical Budda land we went........ Which of course resulted in me taking advantage of the statue out the front! (Hey Terrance) We headed over to Tomb Blaster after having a good time on Toad. Me with my Gladiators foam finger in the happy car! My cousin with thumbs up for the Elissa friendly ride! and COCKS! Rodents (Hey Ellisa)......... Featuring Moles...... So first stop on the ride list was Toadie's Crazy Cars. You could also meet the Power Rangers if you liked along with many other characters form the tele, but I was only interested in the people in Lycra cotumes. Me showing of the guns next to Atlas. Todays event was Sky Day and these banners were all over the park, just to make sure you all know that today is Sky Day. You know just incase you forgot. The day is finnaly here! I am on my way to Chessington to meet some of the all new Gladiators!

Good to see another great start to a TPR trip. Any trip that starts with a MS Spinner is good in my books. I am now more excited about going to ride my favorite MS Spinner on saturday! Great photos as always.

Well I can tell you all now from going to Folkstone all the time for collage all that is left is....... *drums rolls* To big circles on the floor where the domes used to be, half the mini golf course and an electrical sub station. When i was a kid I loved it there and we went most weekends, but during the last years of its life it was just a mess and it needed to go. They have made use of the golf course by cutting it up and making this erm art? Down on the seafront. Is this Art?

Just to put peoples minds at rest. The shades survived no harm came to them until Holiday Park. I have to say i LOVED Tripsdrill, I had so much fun there. Any place that has boobs there, i'm happy Great photos as usual Hanno

Seems like you had a nice day for Thorpe. Stealth in the rain is not that much fun! I know what you mean about the last set of loops on Colossus they really mess you up. I bet you had a blast at Madame Tussauds, statue credits everywhere you look Great photos

Oh the pics of me in pain are finally here!! This has to be my favorite update so far! All the different expressions, Steve on Bandit, Divv hung over and me looking like a right idiot pretending to be Rocky LOL. Fantastic photos Hanno. Cant wait for more!

Well I remember after I hit my head I went straight over that wet patch at the end of the slide on my back and I got soaked. So I got a lump on my head and a really wet back from that slide!

How did I know that the photo of me hitting my head on the slide would come up again! Great photos again Hanno!