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Name: Marcus Löfstrand Age: 30 What is your roller coaster count? 370 What is your home park? Liseberg What is the nearest big city? Gothenburg What is your occupation? Production technician (electronics) About how many times a year do you visit a park (including your home park)? 6-15+ depends on what trips I do for the year About how many times a year do you travel to a park that is not your home park? 1-5+ depends on what trips I do for the year When you travel do you go primarily to amusement parks or do you also try and hit other sites? If i see something interesting or to find a geocache What is the farthest you’ve traveled to go to an amusement park? Tokyo, Japan Does roller coaster time get in the way of family time? (Do you choose to miss your children’s or family’s sporting events, holidays, birthdays, etc…) Not yet........ Do you have any other major hobbies? Electronics and geocaching Do you get feelings of sadness in the offseason? Do you even have an offseason? Do you travel during the offseason? Yes, but that inspires to earn money and plan for trips next season Do you consider yourself friends with someone you met who works at an amusement park? (Or reverse it, if you work or worked and an amusement park have you made friends with enthusiasts?) Yes, @ Liseberg there is workers that I talk/says hi to Would it bother you to go to an amusement park by yourself? No Have you gone to an amusement park by yourself? If so have you ever ran into another enthusiast and tagged along with them? Yes/Not yet Do you find it easy to make friends with other enthusiasts? Yes How do you get your coaster news? My brother, TPR, CF & ECC How many different forum sites do you regularly post on? ~2 If there was a poll that asked a large pool of enthusiasts what their favorite roller coaster is, what do you think would be the top 3 responses be for wood? And for steel? wood: 1. El Toro 2. Balder 3. T-Express steel: 1. Bizarro(SFNE) 2. Goliath (SFOG) 3. Expedition GeForce (Holiday Park) Same scenario but for amusement parks, what would be the top 3? Cedar Point, Liseberg, Disney World Have you ever “stole a kid” to get a credit on a kiddie coaster? Nope, I can borrow my nephew Do you cut other categories out of your budget to make trips to parks? (Entertainment, fast food, holidays, tobacco or alcohol, etc…) No Before you visit a new park do you research the park finding the best way to navigate the park, get the best deals, or what days to go? Usually Do you feel the roller coaster enthusiast community is a warm and accepting community, or a negative and discouraging community? For the most of the time Do you like to talk about your hobby with people who are not roller coaster enthusiasts? Some times, if they are interested otherwise no

I say T-Express!! That massive airtime spike in the middle of the drop is awesome!! And it's so big that you can't see the bottom of the first drop.

Nice PTR, but the pictures are slightly to big for smooth loading of the page.

I was talking with the park manager guy and he said that the foam protection on the front of the first rider in the car is just temporary, S&S and Skara Sommarland is developing the new protections around the riders (like where the seat belts are) because there had been no time to develop it yet. And you get more information if you speak the native language // Marcus

^ "tack" is the Swedish way to say thank you. // Marcus

It was really fun to hang out with you on the Norwegian/Swedish part of the Big Mike Road Trip. We had a really great time with all of you!!! Thank you!! Johan and I thanks for the Big Mike buttons.

Downloading the clip to my computer now, i can give it to you Robb @ Liseberg. // Marcus

With a full train it always give a good airtime in the back row.

The best and most insane airtime on a woodie can be found on T-Express, ejector on the first drop and a massive airtime on the second hill. Dodonpa have one of the most abrupt and painful airtime. // lond

From South Korea last year. T-Express

I've been on all four last year and my ranking is like this: T-Express Balder El Toro Colossos

Boulder Dash all positive acceleration // lond

^^^ The sensor is secured to the riders heart-line with a "rubber and velcro"-band around the body of the rider and the storage unit is hidden in a pocket or hold in a hand for security.

Bolder Dash pulls 2g lateral for almost 6s in the "turn around" part. But the park is planing to fix that because the trains are tearing the turn to pieces. The park want to have a trim break before the turn but GCI wants to re-bank the turn. Measured lateral forces on Boulder Dash.

Happy Birthday Kristen! Maybe next time

Best New Ride of 2008: T-Express Best Epic Fail: Hard Rock Park Best Spin: Spin Turn Best Name: Kawasemi Best Class Act: Liseberg

Goliath is classified as a Mega Coaster. // Marcus

So everyone can compare, Kawasemi and Piraten is a little bit different Kawasemi Piraten

Tobu Zoo Park gmap If it's not to crowded you could do it in a half day. My brother and i did Tobu Zoo Park, Tokyo Dome City and Tokyo DisneySea in one day in September

My brother found this strip at: www.wulffmorgenthaler.com funny

1. Indiana 2. North Carolina (Chapel Hill) 3. Sweden / Gothenburg // Marcus

One from Sweden is mailed. // Marcus

Tanks for the awesome trip and days. Good luck with the rest of Japan. // Marcus & Peter

You can see how intense the ride is in the graph. // Marcus Löfstrand wwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!

It's 4:40am and my brother and i is waiting in Seoul International Airport for Robb&Elissa and the rest from the China-trip to arrive so we can do the Korea-trip. Having arrived last night we have spent the night riding "Bench: the ride". // Marcus