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Day 4: The final day and Piraten We had saved the best coaster for last on this trip, Piraten. The biggest reason why we saved for last is that it's the coaster we really wanted to ride, and by doing this on the last day, which was a Monday, would help with crowds in the park. After the park, we just had to drive up to the ferry at Fredrikshavn to get on the ferry back home, so we had a full day at the park if we needed to. This day we had the best weather of the whole weekend, so we had a really great time. Djurs Sommerland This park must be one of our favourite parks in Denmark, along with Fårup Sommerland, BonBon-land and Tivoli Gardens. Its a big place with a lot of space for future expansion, and have a good share of stuff to do for the whole family. Maybe not as many coasters as you would like, but 2 of the 3 they have are ace. Rides: Karlo's Taxi, just another kiddy ride, and yoiu don't need to borrow one to ride it Thor's Hammer, is one of those Gerstlauer Bobsleds, and they are by definition really fun to ride, and this is no exception. It boasts insane helices, nice wild mouse turns, some great airtime and 2 really sweet transitions. Piraten, is the new kick ass mega-lite coaster from Intamin. And there is just one thing to say about it, GO AND RIDE ONE!! They are awesome and might be one of the best additions that are made this year. It's not the tallest, but it have massive airtime over EVERY hill, especially the smallest of the twisty hills. It's smooth, fast and powerful everywhere else. We rode it in every row, and more or less decide that the front of the train gave the best ride, both by the terms of smoothness, but also had a bit better air over the hills. Now on to the final pictures from this trip: Yay, no more driving 60!! I think that we are close Then a few minutes we almost wet our pants after seeing this!! I want to ride you now Swosh Mmm, Intamin Inside the entrance we saw this area, but.. we turned right and headed in this direction instead But before I post a crap load of Piraten pr0n, here is pictures from the rest of the park first... After the first ride of the day, we headed toward the kiddy area for some whoring There was some scary Mexican guys at the entrance Mmm, credit Wonder if you can eat it? Get your kids, of wait you don't need them Same as the rest of them You can even see Piraten from it, so it's way better then the rest of these rides Credit? Wonder what's behind this thing? Cool, off road Go-carts, still not as cool as those at Uminonanknaknands Seaside Park Then we got to this thing Plain Old Norse, pretty easy Hmm, a cows head, wonder what they have sacrificed it for? A shot for the lift-hill geeks Goat Boobs!! A Viking chick Thrones for the Norse Gods And here we have Thor himself Helixy drop These turns made some Gerstlauer fart-noise Even more Helices MCBR!! I just love these transitions See what I mean <3 Oh yeah, it have airtime as well They have a water area That have a giant bucket at the top Next up was the Jungle Cruise Where they have a bunch of Apes doing strange stuff Like: See what I mean Then we were attacked by some hostile tribe And were brought to their village And they had some big Elephants there as well Then we found Tarsanland See... It's a big obstacle course, not as hard as the one at Sommerland Syd though It had some easier routes Over these Through a swamp Nets Over logs and through some crazy spinning nets And then finishing it of with a Takeshis Castle moment Then we entered a Cemitary that had all the famous guys from the Wild West A chair swing that went both ways, and had some water feature to it Rapids I told you so Topple tower, too bad that it was pretty lame After a crazy golf session we went for the dinghy slides. These are self operated and you begin by taking a dinghy Put yourself in this position And then press the green button, and hold on for dear life While waiting for our time on the slides we saw this Piraten through the TREES!! Now it's time for Piraten!! Yay, Piraten I love this area, but it needs less grass They have a cool broken Pirate ship though Arghhh Intamin awesomeness Even this part is speedy Mmmm, first drop They have a band playing They are soon going to feel some extreme pleasure Wiiii, Floater Going down Did we say that the park was empty Up again Twisty Since they were slow loading, I snapped this shot for the lift-hill geeks This part is very fast At this point of the turn around you were seeing stars This is the best hill on the whole coaster Another train returning a bunch of people that have been ejected <3 These twisty hills produce some massive airtime Random cool themeing Even more lift-hill porn Almost there Wiii If you don't remember which ride you are looking at Exit Signature shot Going up the lift Did we say that the park was empty Even the wildlife enjoy Piraten Bad operations caused this to happen on every run But during those I managed to take these geek photos Did I say that it have massive airtime Oops I almost forgot this hill POWER!! Even if we could have stayed at the park a bit longer we decided to leave a bit early to be sure that we would get on the ferry, so that meant... We are looking forward to your clone in a few months Bye Piraten We'll return in the future After we left the park we saw this sign, it could only mean one thing, PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL!! On our way to the ferry we met 3 blades that probably were going to the same power plant that the hub we drove by on the way down To pass the time we had left before the ferry, we found some old bunkers: Complete with big guns It's nice to feel some power between your legs The place also had a lot of sheep Oooo, Bunkers This place gave me some: CoD, RTCW:ET, MOHAA and other WW2 shooter flashbacks These things didn't manage to stop our car on the way back to the ferry We had to drive between all these trucks to get to the ferry We love the fact that this Porsche driver had bikes on his roof Then it was time to leave the harbour The captain put the hammer down Express Ferry POV After a while we saw the familiar sight of the Lighthouse on Vinga On our way into the Harbour we played chicken with a big cargo boat Then we finally got back into Gothenburg Hope you all enjoyed reading this PTR, as I did riding the coasters

^^^ Yeah Cobra is crap, at least that is my opinion. Its down with Jupiter at Kijima and Space 2000 at Gyeongju World. ^^ As my brother said, opened 26-27:th of June, we rode it on the 29:th and it crashed on the 4:th of July.

Looks like you had a good time, It was a few years ago since I were there, but nothing have really changed since then. That one is a Huss creation called Flic-Flack, and it's the only one I have seen. It's pretty hard to get a good ride on it though, since you really have to balance it right.

Cobra at Tivoli Friheden Space 2000 at Gyeongju World are 2 that springs to my mind.

Day 3, Part 3: DEATH!!!! So after the super speeded visit to LEGOLAND, we finally arrived at Aarhus. We begun by checking in to our hotel for the night, and then drove the few kilometres to Tivoli Friheden. Tivoli Friheden is a nice little park, that have a really secluded place surrounded by massive trees. This makes the park feel a bit cosy. The rides in the park feels a bit carny and some of them have massive glass noise screens built to the side that face the city centre, which make a pretty cool effect. We did the coasters in the park and then grabbed a quick bite for the night before we left. We were lucky enough to arrive just after they lowered their entry prices since it was less then 3 hours before they closed, but the park was empty so we did get a good amount of rides. Rides: Orkanens Øje, We started with this one since it was closest to the entrance, and I just have to say that it might be the best coaster in the park, maybe not as good for the rest of the coasters, since it's a Pinfari Looper of DEATH. Tyfonen, was next, and it's just one of those crappy spinners that are everywhere. I think we just spun one revolution on this thing. Cobra, was next, and I will come to that in a minute... Dragen was the last coaster of the park, and it's just another wacky worm, nothing to write about really. First some general pictures and other non Cobra stuff... After parking our car, and walking to the entrance we saw this cool thing waiting for us... It looks really nice A swinging ship The banana boat, probably better then the swinging ship It was really nice to ride a Paratrooper Some odd fire extinguishing ladder game ride Didn't ride the SCAD tower, since I was scared of getting into the elevator (of DEATH) My second Pinfari Looper of DEATH The train awaits you Loop-de-loop Queue-shot This transition doesn't look all that good Next the spinner of DEA.... (oh sorry) CRAP No spin on this one Dragen They hide it pretty well behind these glass panes It's at least pretty fast.... Cobra This is the ride I would guess that everyone is most interrested in, since it's new and there isn't many "non-Danish fan-boy" reviews of it. So here are my 2 cents... What I can think about after riding this thing that is positive is that it uses the same comfy seats and OSTR's that the previous Pinfari XP56 uses, but that's about it, oh yeah, some parts of the ride is still smoothish. If those are the good things then what about the rest... Well, the lift needs tweaking to catch the train properly, the design of the track is worse then one made by a NoLimits n00b that doesn't know anything about heart-lining, the Italian engineers that were on standby in the station took our front row seats (so we just got back row rides, but he didn't look amused when he got back), the braking system is flawed, you can actually see the roughness in the track. But the worst thing by a mile is the insane head bashing. Any Vekoma I have ridden isn't even close to this one, I think that you might end up with a mild concussion after one to many rides on this one, and they aren't "mild" either, we measured a 5g!!! lateral bash when changing direction in the Cobra Roll. This thing might take the crown from Gouderix (still waiting to ride it) as the worst coaster ever, especially since it was just 3 day after it's premier when we rode it (and we hate it), and the fact that it crashed 1 week after it opened, doesn't make it better. So to sum it up, it's looks really cool, the seats and restraints are awesome, but the rest is like going down a rocky hill in a Vekoma box. Not a ride we recommend to ride. We give it a 1/10, due to the comfy seats, but it should really deserve a 0!! Pictures of Cobra: Just opened 3 days before Looks really good Station Shot Made by Sartori It looks so good: You can see the kink in the track Italian engineer that took our front row seats Maintenance platform Funky transfer track They are working on improving the number of concussions/hour A NoLimits n00b can make a better heart-lined exit then this one Here you are pretty fine, just mild head banging But here is another story, 5g's right in your side Wheels It broke down on us, the magnet's on the brakes must have made contact to the train, since it wouldn't move Hot ops, getting aided by Italian engineers When they brought out a ratchet and chain, then we knew it was really stuck So we left the park and settled in for a comfy bed and free internet Next is the last day and some Pirates...

^^^ Thanks ^^ Yeah, LEGO kick ass ^ Thanks, and it was also nice to see the lot of you I met, whished I could have met you all, since I missed a few of the group. And to answer your question, I use a Panasonic TZ-3, but since I got it they have released a newer version TZ-5. That have a few good improvements compared to mine (mainly better image quality at higher ISO), you can read more about it here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonictz5/ It works very well for me. Pictures from Friheden is currently uploading, so expect the last part of day 3 in a short while.

Day 3, Part 2: A boyhood dream come true, in super speed. Thanks to the advice we got from Divv, we decided to stop by LEGOLAND on our way towards Aarhus and Tivoli Friheden. And the fact that we got a voucher for 20% off the entry when we were at Heide didn't also helped with this. Even though we could have stayed a whole day at LEGOLAND to really absorb the park, we opted for a quick visit, mainly to get to Aarhus at a reasonable time and due to the fact that the park was really crowded. But then again, I would love to return to the park in the future. Dragen, was a pretty cool power coaster, with a dark ride segment before the last speedy turns outside. It's probably on of the only power coasters that run multiple trains, which makes it automatically cooler then the rest of them. X-treme Racers, is a standard extended wild mouse, cool cars though, but I managed to bang my knee pretty bad on it. The last one is the one for the credit whores, which means that we really had to do it Pictures (not that many, since you really have to experience it first hand): Welcome to DNALOGEL The guy in the ticket booth thought that it was funny that we were from Sweden, at LEGOLAND in Denmark with a voucher from Germany Pretty crowded, even if the weather was kinda meh Viking Riversplash, is one of the coolest rapids ride I have ever seen, with a big drop, too bad that the queue was enormous, but why is there a giant dragon there? See what I mean... SPLASH!!! While Waiting for Dragen All hail the mighty Dragon Wild Mouse, Lego Style They had shark infested waters at the flume ride It didn't want the rapids ride to outdo it, so... SPLASH!!! Then we saw Mount Rushmore A big ass Indian Before we found our last coaster After riding everything we wanted, we started to walk around the Miniland area, and we started with some big Flamingos Hmmm, didn't we see this yesterday??!?! This one didn't have a beer belly though We headed down to Athens Before we entered northern Europe Captain: WTF, why are there big ass ducks outside?? So this is how it feels to be a LEGO man Nice Ready to Launch, in 3... 2.... 1.... Even more Rockets Too bad that we were at Tusenfryd during this holiday Even more stuff Even if this part of the park is Miniland area, the sky scrapers are still huge China Town A movie set, with remote control cameras We swung by Amalienborg, but we didn't see the Danish Queen It's just too much stuff to see Nice looking castle Even if there were a big as Concorde, a small plane by it caught my eye Namely this, a Nazi Germany rocket plane, COOOL!!! Look it's the plane to Japan, wonder if we could hitch a ride... Lets storm these gates We passed this place on our way to Djurs Sommerland the day after I love the shape of this plane, it's an Airbus A380 if you didn't know So then it was time to leave So it wasn't called DNALOGEL They have a pretty big airport next to the park Wonder if these guys take advice from Norwegians on how to build a tunnel... Next up, Day 3 Part 3, later on...

^ I'm glad you liked it, I really enjoyed the Swedish Fish, really tasty. But your super sour stuff was weak compared to some stuff we have here, but tasty non the less. I will at least meet up with you all again during Scandi trip, but anything can happen

^^^ They probably got a lot very chepely, and then painted everything with it. It all gives the park a good sence of cohesion to the park. But apart from that, no idea. ^^ ^ As I stated before, that's just noise, a more real measurement would be around 4.5 g's. But then again, you should see the log we have of the Voyage, it bottoms out our sensor to about +6.2 g constantly, but that is also noise. Part 3b will come tomorrow, since I can't bother right now. Pictures are done though.

Day 3, Part 1: Hang Over reunion, NOT!! Day 3 will be divided onto 3 parts, mainly because I don't have the time to one update, but also since I have too many pictures I want to have in it so that the update will be massive. So after about an hour drive from our hotel in the morning we arrived at Sommerland Syd. This park have a coaster that I really looked forward to ride, Tornado. But to me then it will always be Hang Over, the Vekoma Invertigo prototype that were located at Liseberg a few years ago. We arrived at the park about 40-50 minutes before the park opened, so we hanged outside the entrance watching Top Gear until the park opened. When we got into the park we discovered that none of the rides would open until an hour later, so we decided to first walk around in the park and take pictures, and then do a credit run before leaving. Pictures: The night before we saw that the McDonalds by the hotel had a Space Ship simulator, so we had to stop by it in the morning to take a picture of it. Well on our way we saw a sign that told us to keep right, but we aren't Dutch so we didn't care... Since this was a Sunday morning we enjoyed some Autobahn ERT Then we entered Denmark and was immediately told not to drive 110 km/h I guess that we should follow that sign On our way to Sommerland Syd, we saw some home redecoration gone wrong But then suddenly we saw this ugly thing It looks like we are in the right place Look, it looks like that we are going to have the park to our self... Aaahhh, they haven't opened yet Wonder if we could sneak in that way... Ooooh, Entrance After waiting in an eternity outside the gate they finally let us in They had a small stage by the entrance Some small obstacle course behind it Haven't seen this view in a while Mehh, it doesn't open with the park... So we took a look at the rest of the park and saw Captain Toilets swinging ship They have a beach..... that didn't open They have some water slides Then we got into another section of the park with some stuff to keep us occupied for a while We had to get over this bridge before we discovered it Almost there A Robinson themed obstacle course of Death This was the hardest of the ones we encountered (almost every park in Denmark have one) See what I mean We escaped the island on this rope bridge I'm pretty certain that they have crocodiles in this pond Then we entered "Jungle Land" With King Kong And Tarzan Slides They had some funky chair swings Then we stumbled on this contraption, it's like a suspended kiddy powercoaster But we weren't allowed to ride it, I would have definitely counted it though They had a automated child care, just put your child into this and it will take hours before it could get out Then we finally got to the second coaster in the park, a Pinfari non-looper of death There weren't any gates to hold us back, so we could sneak up on to the platform to take a picture Now for some Geek porn... A Pinfari train strip tease The operator sent one train around to see if it got back It did, so it was safe for us to ride it This thing is like a giant Helix And it had some Ghetto tunnels After we we got our Credit we headed over to Tornado again But it was broken So we left the park instead and met the Fire Department on our way out, wonder what they were doing there... And then we were on our way to the next place of the day... Sommerland Syd is a pretty Ghetto place, the worst park we have visited in Denmark Next up is any kids childhood dream to visit, LEGOLAND

Day 2: Meet the TPR people We started pretty early this day to be able to get to Heide Park before opening. The weather was really bad, and it was pouring down, but as we got nearer to the park the heavy rain dissipated, and we were greeted by some foggy wetness in the air. We had bought tickets online to get into the park quickly so that we could meet up with Mark, whom we had arranged a meeting outside Desert Race. After jumping the queue to get into the park we headed in that direction of Desert Race for the meet and my first ride of the day. The day progressed in a steady pace with multiple rides and a lot of chatting with people which we met from previous TPR trips. We managed to dodge the massive rainstorm that hit the park by having lunch at the time. By 4 pm it was time to say good bye to all our friends, since they had to carry on to the next location. But we decided to stay in the park until closing, and that was fortunate since we got a couple of rides more, the weather really improved and I managed to take pictures to post any pictures from this day in this PTR. Rides: Big Loop: was a lot better then I remembered it to be last time I were here, or it could also be that I now know how to ride this kind of ride without getting to many bumps and bruises. Colossos: have recieved a bit of TLC since last time, and most ot the bumpiness from the helix is now gone, it's a solid ride with lot's of airtime. Desert Race: one of the smoothest accelerators I have been on, a pretty good ride on this one as well. But a "Drivers strike" got us stuck in the train waiting to launch for about 5 minutes. Grottenblitz: standard power-coaster, pretty fun though. Indianer-Achterbahn: I like it more as the Dog Fart coaster at Bon-Bon land Limit : standard Vekoma hang and bang ride, nothing special about it. Schweizer Bobbahn: my favorite Mack Bobsled, that goes on and on and on and on (well, you get the idea)... Now onto Pictures, in a very specific order: We start up in the observation tower: Many TPR members have slept here Easily the best coaster in the park Drivers Strike!! Here is the green/white corner The new area of the park While we are at it let's take a look: Welcome to Lucky Land Here we have the bucket wheel of death This area was overflowing with TPR members a few hours before, since the queue to the Indianer-Actherbahn couldn't fit them all Speaking of which Wonder if they serve Whiskey in one of those houses Get ready to be farted on, wrong park... Just by the Lucky Land area there was a Lego shop, where we scored a few coupons that gave us 20% of the entry to Legoland the day after, Sweet. Now let's jump to the Desert Race area: Desert Race is easy recognisable by the big ugly thing that hovers above the launch This part is way better then the helicopter First you enter the train, right about here After some lights flashes in your eyes then you suddenly find your self about here They you get sideways WROOOM Wii This part is way faster then Rita Oh yeah, they also have a red train Wii OMG 2 trains in one shot This part of the park is just like Liseberg, an Intamin P'n'P woodie and an Intamin Acceleratorn next to eachother, lets head over there now But before some Colossos action we finish of Desert Race with a signature shot of it Colossus: Mmmmm, Intamin woood Did I say that this thing is massive? Pleasure starts here Wicked fast lift Right about here is a brown trouser time Then it's just one way out, straight down (insert fart-noise here) Powah!! You know that Nintendo thing... Zooooom Then there is time for the helix of death, though it wasn't as killing as it had been After a few sweet airtime hills then it's the final turn If your not hooked on coasters after this then there is something wrong Next to the awesome woodie, starts the Green/White section: First a Green/White Condor Then a Green/White Enterprise Then another Green/White random Huss ride ..... Then comes the coasters Mmmmm, corkscrews The loops aren't as good Woohoo, empty Too bad that it looks better then it rides Get ready to become scrambled What is that behind those trees?? Well its long and Green/White.... It must be Bobbahn And no one is riding it, sweet This is better then most ERT sessions Get ready to BOB Swoosh Wiii Onride Going left OMG almost 90 Degrees!! Random Park Pictures: Best observation tower modification evar!! Agree Brian??!??! Strange logs... Get ready to scream, after this gate Nice Random Heide Dorf, with the weakest spinning cups ever ridden... The bad one of the two in the park Wildwasserbahn through the trees Random kid section The other observation tower Hmmm, aren't we in Germany WTF!??!?!!? We must be, look at the flag But WTF, a fat statue of Liberty Wumbo says Have FUN!! Slides of Death Spinning ride of Death, or a quick way to get dry Beautiful carousel One of those wind flappy thingy I told you that the other Swinging ship was better, BOOBS!! Hmm wait a minute why are all the employees leaving?? Ahh, the park closes now... Final shot of Colossus On the way back to the hotel we passed a new ski slope And a sign that said that the Dutch should think ahead... Oh yeah, Thanks Mark for the Fish and other crazy stuff, I hope that the MER was tasty!!! Day 3 will be up in a while...

^^ ^ Lynet is a really cool coaster, a must ride if you visit this part of the world, among many other. ^ I'm pretty sure that there will be a TPR Scandi trip next year.

Piraten for me, almost a week ago.

There was a few Ride-Tek mechanics hanging out in the station when we were there 6 days ago tweaking the system, so they could have been involved with this maintenance work that was done earlier that day.

^ Thanks, I managed to take over 1700 photos over the 4 days we were gone, so it will take a while before I have looked through them all.

Day 1: The trip down, plus a few awesome coasters. So we got away a little later that morning then we should have. We had to be at the check-in at 7:00 to get on the ferry and we were a little worried that the GPS told us that we would arrive at the docks by 7:15. But fortunate for us it were a bit of, and thought that we should be driving around the docks at 15 km/h before we would arrive. But we arrived with a few minutes to spare, so first part of the trip was done. Pictures: We made it on!! Good bye Sweden It took us about 1 hour of slow cruising to get to the last outpost of Sweden Then the Captain put the pedal to the metal Woohoo Denmark Ok, so we turned the wrong way in this crossing, but after a bit of nagging by the GPS we started to get back in the right direction So we weren't allowed to drive 60 km/h Bumps times 2 must be equal to boobs, WHERE ARE THEY!! Finally we found the right way YAY, first stop of the trip Fårup Sommerland This is a nice little park, that actually have some great coasters. First up was Falken, a small S&S power woodie. This was a real surprise for us, smooth, fast and have loads of air. The park was so empty that the operator sent us around again without leaving the train There was a bit of shuffling in one of the helices but it's a really great coaster. Next up was Flagermusen, a standard Reverchon spinning mouse. Not much to say about this ride, except that we got a pretty good spin on the ride and ended up backwards in the station. We carried on in alphabetical order with Lynet. This ride was a real treat, brilliant powerful launch, great airtime and nice inversions. It's way better then Kanonen which is the best comparison to this coaster. This was the ride that had the longest queue in the park, about 10 minutes. Then we finished of with the last 2 coasters in the park. Mine Expressen "broke" down on the lift-hill on every run, and Mini-Lynet, a small power-coaster, that doesn't really do anything. Pictures: Almost like a ERT session, must be thanks to the lovely weather First ride of the day Pleasure starts at the top Lovely G-trains It's soon time to say Wiiiiii!!!!! Nana-nana-nana-nana - BATMAN! We have all seen this before Next up was Lynet It's a really nice atmosphere in the station Just head for the light in the tunnel Swooosh!!!! Every train broke down on the lift OMG!!! 90 Degrees!!!! and through the Trees!!!!! Signature shot Ok, that's better Extreeme lats here Then we saw a nice Carousel We rode the spinning drop/shot tower of death The speed boats were cool During Lunch we saw these two guys, I'm not sure if they were working for the park Flagermusen through the trees Falken: Lynet: Then it was time to leave the park, so Bye Lynet, you're ace!! And Bye Falken, you kick ass, in a good way that is. On our way to the next place we were told not to drive 30 km/h If 2 bumps are the same as boobs, then what are 6? While we were on our way, then we noticed that we were followed by a huge rainstorm But the Danish air force were scrambled to fend it off The GPS told us to go through Aalborg city centre, and then do some forbidden turns, we ignored her and she started nagging What is that in the distance And you thought that smoking was bad for your health Next stop Karolinelund Karolinelund This is a nice little place, which is free to enter. But then again you will have to pay 100 DKK to ride all 3 coasters. First up was Looping TL 59, a really big Pinfari Looper and also my first one. It wasn't as bad as I would have thought by the bad reputations these have gotten, Ok, so it wasn't the best either. Next we did the dual train Caterpillar, this is a really strange one, lots of tunnels and a lot shorter trains then the normal Wacky Worm. The Boomerang was just a standard one, nothing new to report. It had the same strange twitch as the one at Woobang Towerland when it connected to the lift-hill chain. Pictures: Looks like any other tivoli in Denmark More rides that are plonked in the area This is what was connected to the picture above W00t! My first Pinfari Looper credit The train awaits us Rising to their death Loop-de-looooop Credit whoring time There is nothing like the smell of a Wacky Worm in the afternoon My brother is trying to take a picture of me, but Caterpillar dodges it for me, +1 Tunnels are always a good thing I wish that it was a little faster, just imagine the air you would get OMFG, enter lightspeed It's not that often as you could see the front and the rear of a wacky worm at the same time Loopen again Last but not least The mighty Boomerang In case you forgot what you are queueing for Themeing or Visitors, you decide You aren't as bad as most say Why not say what speed we are allowed to drive at?? Big as propeller hub Yay Germany It's less then 158 km until it's time for bed A nice looking bridge Day 2 will come in a while....

This trip started out as a short visit down to Heide Park to meet the TPR Euro trip, to meet the people we met on the TPR trips last year (Japan/Korea for me and Midwest for my brother), and with a bunch of new coasters opening in Denmark this year, we decided to head to those on our way to and from Heide Park. Our initial travel plan were as following: Friday: * Leave Gothenburg early with the express ferry to Fredrikshamn * Fårup Sommerland * Karolinelund * Drive down to our first hotel north of Hamburg Saturday: * Heide Park * Stay at the same hotel outside Hamburg Sunday: * Sommerland Syd * Tivoli Friheden * Stay at a hotel in Aarhus Monday: * Djurs Sommerland * Head back to Sweden in the evening with express Ferry But after reading both Shockwave's and Divv's awesome trip reports from their trip to Denmark a few weeks before we decided to add Legoland to ours, since it would easily fit our timing on Sunday. Here is an overview of the parks locations: Day 1 to follow shortly.

MUAHAHAHA, DIE COBRA I rode it less then a week ago, on the way home from the meat with the TPR people at Heide park, and I just have to say that Cobra redefined my word for Pain, every I have ridden Vekoma coaster isn't even close to what Cobra manage. One member of themeparkdenmark.dk were present in the park and witnessed the accident happening, and this is his statement: Link: http://www.themeparkdenmark.dk/TDDiscussion/viewtopic.php?t=1408 This must be a big set back for Ride-Tek since this is they first coaster, I wonder if Friheden will remove this one from the park and change it for something else, since they have just received permission to build up to 65 meters in height. But yeah, Cobra should die, since it's such a crappy coaster, no matter what all the Danish fanboys says.

^ Smooth ride or not. Sure I like a good smooth ride, but then again, I have nothing against a rough ride either. As long as it makes "use" of it. Thundercoaster was far from smooth before the major retracking was done, I still loved every bit of it. Now it's smooth and I don't like it any more since it was part of the character that made the ride so good. I would still think that people that haven't ridden the old version of Thundercoaster still will enjoy the ride, but it's a huge disappointment to me now.

^ Yep, it was made by Vekoma, after a design of Allott and Lomax. I have no idea why they use GCI to rebuild it. But it would probably have something with that they have a good reputation of a smooth and solid rides.

^^ They are keeping the original trains, but they have been negotiating with GCI to add Millennium Flyers. About the ride: The thing that made Thundercoaster so great and unique, was it's crazy ride. Sure it was a bit rough, it just gave it a lot of character, but it also had massive airtime, loads of speeds, parts that was just plain wrong, etc. That was why we all loved it. The first re-tracking they made 2006-2007, they made the airtime hill taller and also made the turn after it smoother (+ an added tunnel). It reduced the amount of air over the hill but it improved the ride by reducing the vibration in the turn. But the ride was still very good, overall since it was still very insane and had loads of speed. For this season they changed a lot more of the ride. from the crazy turn under the lift, all the way to after the CCI turnaround, and this have greatly improved the ride comfort of the ride. Removed almost all of the vibrations and strange transitions. BUT these changes have removed all of the things that makes this ride so special, and it's now "just another" woodie. The speeds have been significantly lowered and the train crawls through the last turns and hills, so you don't get any airtime on the last little hill into the brakes, the transtions are a lot better but the inaneness and airtime is lost. This is really a disgrace to the coaster, and they should have just re-tracked the ride as it were instead of changing the whole layout.

A few weeks ago when we got confirmation that Tusenfryd had re-tracked more of Thundercoaster to this season, we decided that we should head up there and see how it had evolved. So we went there on a day that we know is a good day crowd wise, the vacations haven't really started in neither Sweden or Norway and all Swedes are caught up in a holiday that comes from the norse day. To sum up the day: * The park was empty * Speed Monster is as good as ever * Norwegian traffic sucks * And Thundercoaster is destroyed. Pictures: To go to Tusenfryd we have to drive by Liseberg Entering Norway, everyone was forced to drive through the customs, and they stopped all Norwegian cars to check for "cheap" Swedish booze The Norwegian way to make a tunnel through a mountain: First build tunnel. Then add mountain... We could either head back home or go to Tusenfryd, but we couldn't be arsed to turn around just yet... So we went to Tusenfryd OMG, through the trees Thanks to ECC we had an awesome deal to get into the park!!! Mmmm, twisty Intamin..... Even more... We headed for Speed Monster first and this is what greeted us... NO QUEUE... it stayed like this the whole day Cooler train the TTD Geek shot (Geek shot)² WROOOOM!!!!! I love this shot of the N-loop We decided to skip Loopen for now, since we didn't want to have a headache this early So we headed towards the other end of the park Thundercoaster through the trees... There used to be an awesome ride at the end of this queue No queue here as well This is a completely redesigned part of Thundercoaster WTF, I must be on drugs or something Ahh, that's better, Thundercoaster through sawed pieces of wood!! Brakes They were only running one train, but it was still like a ERT session W00t!! lift-hill from the other side... One of the parts where the Vekoma skip is still exist <3 The best part of Thundercoaster, but it's still worse then it were before GCI chopped it Onride of hill You can clearly see where GCI have ruined the ride An image for the shed enthusiasts. Bye for now... Since it was still pretty early on the day and the weather was really nice, we decided to head for Super Splash It's a pretty hard walk to get there, steep hills and they way is unnecessary long The drop have a strange kink into it Over a small hill and then it's time far the water To soak unsuspecting bystanders But this fella doesn't care about the water Sssss... plash!!! There are Vikings inside, I promise... Then there was time to head up the giant hill again... Hi Jahan!! We wanted to ride Teeny Weeny, but the Op. wouldn't let us. Too big she said, too mush weight, but we had ridden it on the previous trips along with several other adults, we officially hate her and the bad part was that she were there all day so we couldn't try another Op. We started to get hungry, so we decided to eat by this table We had a fancy table partner On the top of the mountain there is a few flat rides, we broke and got evacuated from this one This thing was new for the year, but swinging ships sucks, unless they are tiny The tower had the longest queue in the park Where can I fill up?? I wish that the gas prices were at this level again Then there was the long walk down again Now we decided to get on Loopen, and we survived without any bruises, headaches, broken bones or anything... and, hmm i think I know those waiting for the front of the train... Going back towards the Speed Monster area... This is a must ride at Tusenfryd, this is the only dodgems (that I know of) where you can drift, you can get really sweat powerslides Dodgem car upskirt Since Thundercoaster now sucks, here are a bunch of pictures of Speed Monster: After multiple rerides we started to head home By N-loop I love you!! Wiiii!! We'll be back See you next time Yay, we are soon back in Sweden That's our exit We still love Liseberg more then Tusenfryd Thanks for reading this PTR!!

You could really do it in 2 ways. 1, make the texture with an alpha channel (a bit of transparency), usually a PNG image. 2. change the opacity of the object/material in the object modelling program you use.

I think I used a random grey texture, and just reduced the opacity to a value so that it got a bit see-through. And thanks to all of you.

^^ Tesla is cool, and this is an electrifying ride. Thanks to all of you...