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Exactly 1000. Because I am awesome.

17/20. Though it's my home park, so I do have an advantage...

OK, so it was time for the first full day of the East Coast tour with Six Flags New England. Now, we spent two mornings here, but I’ll just do them as one trip report, cause I can’t be bothered to do it any other way. I is lazy, I know. So where better to start then with an entrance photo? I have no idea if this was first or second in ERT… But, we rode it in ERT! I really liked it, and thought it was a lot of fun. Kind of along the lines of Nemesis Inferno, which I also think is cool! Anyone spot the irony here? You all have been warned. But, they can’t enforce it, so I guess you haven’t been THAT warned. Yay, TPR members getting ready for their ride On the “counter-clockwise” coaster. The weirdest one was Pandemonium, which was “spinning”. So it’s “clockwise” for the SLC, “counter-clockwise” and then “spinning”. Well done. I really liked how you could bump into characters around the park. Very ghetto-Disney And so I don’t have to explain who he is… The Drop Tower was cool, only because we rode with some randomer who was terrified. Yay, Kiddie Coaster whoreage! I didn’t take any of the ride, so the sign will do While this Woodie sucked awfully, what is that I see in the structure? Subtlety-fail! Oh, they happen to have this ride too… But, a few of us preferred this ride… VERY few though We hung out in the Justice League for a while because A. We couldn’t be bothered to ride at this point and B. It had air-con We found Batman in the Justice League! And actually bumped into some other guys we knew SMILEY CONTROL PANEL Yeah, the Wonder Woman was in amazing shape And no, Robin is NOT Batman’s bitch. And yes, we asked Group photo time! Ew. Yes that IS sweat. Back sweat. Charming. I kinda liked this area (we see you Superman) Embarrassing photo 1 Superman. I kinda liked it, but not how it was hyped up to be. Overall, I preferred Dutch Goliath Thus begins random characters with me photos Shaggy. Baby. Haha, Tweety at lunch was awesome! The SLC wasn’t half as bad as some others I’ve done, but that might have been because I rode with Dave who kept yelling at me how to do the Vekoma Brace Position - thanks, it helped! Eh, Darien’s non-Superman did that better For the Aussies. I still don’t know what it’s all about… I was gutted it was shut… Less fun. Speaking of which… OMG, it’s the Japanese/Chinese/whatever guy! I didn’t ride cause these things suck! And I close it off with “the wheel” I really liked SFNE overall. For anyone that’s been, it really reminded me of a less themed version of Warner Bros Movie World Madrid. They could do with something else though, but I’m not entirely sure what… Next up would be that evening at Quassy, and the awesome Lake Compounce!

OK, Coney Island. A place that ended up pretty much terrifying me, but I kinda liked. It was a lot like I thought it would be, but even more ghetto and scary! The drive to the park was probably the most interesting part, with views like this being quite exciting to someone who is used to London and all both of its skyscrapers. Although, I am aware this is a terrible photo, it gets the point across But, that didn’t compare to some of the stuff we saw in Brooklyn… McDonalds Express, for instance. What the hell is that? Then we arrived at the park, and everyone headed to this… Well, I tried to find a toilet. Interesting experience to say the least… By this point we lost like, everyone else, but got to be the first in the front after Robb finished, so it wasn’t all bad. Apart from the fact it sucked in the front I mean. This part sucked perhaps the most. Apart from the really random painful sideways hill at the end. And yes, I only look like that because this is before we rode… We then managed to catch up with everyone, rode the scary Mini Apple (eventually, after the human equivalent of 101 Dalmatians cut in front of us), and then hit up everyone’s favourite - another kiddie coaster! Which, BTW, Luke, there’s no need to look so disgust about… OK, maybe you should have stuck with disgusted… It gives a pretty view of Cyclone, which at this point still sucked And then it was time for the Wheel, which I thought I’d hate, but I LOVED! BTW, these must be the closest whore opportunities ever. Love them. The wheel gives you a view of what I imagine explains a lot of the park’s clients Josh didn’t like it as much as I did… I see you tiny-yet-awesome Drop Tower And random kiddie rides. Yay. Exciting. A few things to note. A. Hmmmm, what beautiful atmosphere the bottom of the photo gives. B. This must be where every school bus in the US comes to sleep. C. You can’t see it, but that stadium has a really cool little fake coaster on the side. D. Awww, poor Parachute Tower. There’s a bridge. Big. May have a proper name. I don’t know it however. This creepy guy hung out above the awesome Spook-a-rama. Another scary dark ride we had to take Josh on because we’re cruel. There’s the Wheel with a car in mid-awesome-swing This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen anywhere ever. That’s not our bull! Seriously, freakin’ insane little thing! This alley-area was scary as hell! I’m sure this is the one where we got randomly attacked by a game stall man who didn’t want to leave Josh alone So, we went back to re-ride… And this time we walked-on (plus point one) And rode in the back - and it was AWESOME! A lot smoother, and a much, much better ride! We also did the insane manual Top Spin, which was out of this World! And ate pizza next to a highly a-musing bin (get it, a-musing, like a-team…) Here’s the Big Wheel. And a stroll along “Brighton Beach” finished the day off. Ironic I’ve been to this one, but not the English one. Good work Ben. And that was it for Coney - a scary place, but I’m glad we did it since it doesn’t look like it has too long (Astroland, at least). The next day was SFNE! Woo!

Aww, so it was time to say bye to (most) of the people who would be leaving us today! Brooke, Robbie, Natalie, Neil, everyone, you guys were missed! And after a few tears were shed (well, one lonely one stood in a parking lot, ha, I’m so lame!), we were off to Sesame Place, which, while only a “kiddie park”, I really liked! I thought it was really nicely kept, and the place would have been a blast if I was ten years younger. Despite the fact we rode a grand total of one ride, the rope course and Elmo-show were a blast! And the food in weird and wonderful plastic shapes was also a lot of fun! My blue Cookie Monster takes pride of place on the toilet in the corner of my room. The view you get when coming in (though I took this leaving, it makes sense at the start, so blegh to continuity) Just in case you didn’t get where we went, Roxie will model it for us OK, so this was basically the reason all of us whores were there Someone will have to explain what the ride/name is actually all about, I didn’t really watch Sesame Street… I’ve always loved these tire lift hills cause the amount of tires seems so random. I’m sure there’s a reason, but I just hear Vekoma going “oh, we’ll have two here, two here, oooh, put five there, and just one there, on it’s own” We then ate, and came to highlight number one, being creepy at the back of the Elmo show! Roxie’s a little *too* excited! As is Luke… who is wearing shades inside… Gawd… The show was a little trippy, and had something to do with fish (the animal, not the girl…) I think Elmo was dancing at this point Who *is* this, I must ask? Sort of reminded me of a cartoon version of Borat, only American And a woman handed Elmo her baby. Well, the baby she didn’t eat. See, knew it had something to do with fish, here’s Elmo demonstrating This was just weird, she was explaining *something* There was a fish playing a sax, so it gets points for that Um, did say it was trippy I don’t even know what to say about this… Then it was time for the rope course! It was awesome! Roxie wasn’t so impressed though… And too show her disapproval, promptly fell over Yes… yes… that’s a nice bag Roxie tackles one last bit before she gives up and leaves halfway through! Boos to her for not finishing! It gave a pretty decent view of the ride area Yeah, I think that’s a “screw this” face if I’ve ever seen one! Yep, that’s a lot of on-the-knee-rope-burn And Josh needed a rest before we finished But promptly perked up when someone suggested we tickle Luke (loving all five of those chins as well, BTW) Yeah… he obviously appreciated that a lot And that green box is where I almost got my ass kicked by a 6 year old from Northampton (but the American one). Psycho kid, I just liked your top! Honestly, we did not touch it And that was Sesame Place! Off to Coney Island next!

^I'm not really sure how you ended up on my finger. I think we were probably being thrown painfully out of the car on one of the drops, and before being slammed down, I put my hands down to stop the oncoming onslaught of pain, and where I placed my hands happened to be exactly where you sat, although you only managed to land on one finger, not sure how that all worked out, lol! And I just had a random flashback to that scary man in the Mouse at DelGrosso's queue. And after all that talk, he didn't even ride, lol!

^Yes, or otherwise my two fingers would have been the other way round and very, very firmly aimed at that hunk of crap coaster. Well, actually, I couldn't really do anything with the index at this point since a certain someone (ROBBIE!) sat on it during the ride, lol. So, just the middle, which would have worked better since the ride was American, it would have just stared blankly at me if I did two fingers... Ooo, and Robbie, I had another one at some point on the main trip (I wanna say Hershey?) and it just wasn't the same...

Haha, that height restriction was hilarious! Jake and Luke were SO obviously over it, but by bending over to "scan our wristbands" and engaging in small talk about bling, we managed to get on. Still, smacked my head getting out in the station, haha! Loving the PTR, although far too much Stabland and too much Kiddie Coaster we broke and quickly exited from, haha!

OK, so as I said before, I failed at Idlewild, and I left my camera on the bus- so zero photos! Such a shame because it was one of my favourite parks of the trip. Just everything about it was awesome- Rollo, the Mouse, Mr Roger’s, Adult Hand Karts, Confusion Hill, the Caterpillar, Paul Bunyan… loved it. So, I guess I’ll skip straight to Lakemont, a pleasant enough place, the highlight of which was certainly Peanut Butter Shake- The Ride, a much better alternative to that scary, ghetto flat, eh Robbie? The first thing we did (well, second, the first we did was eat) was my 250th, the “classic” Leap-the-Dips, and to prove it’s classic, even ACE say so (not that it didn’t seem by this point that they gave these out like candy) And there it is. Looking innocent enough, but this ride hurt me like no other ride or other physical experience has hurt me. Sitting in the back was NOT fun as the whole car came off the track, launching us up with it, only to slam back down, and yes, slam us back down with it. The bruises at the bottom of my back eventually did go, so there’s a slight positive. I guess. Although, crazy how different riding experiences can be between the front and back, since Kimmy and whoever rode with her, liked it! Madness I tell you! (Oh, and who took the photo of us doing ghetto-250? Me want ). God, this caption went on, I’ll post the photo now… And the Toboggan, which yes, we squeezed two in. Just. Resulted in a hilarious ride, and it didn’t hurt (well, too much). We will not discuss this ride. Woo, Skyliner. It was fun, but eh. Just kinda “there”. See, “there” it is But, these guys seem to be blurrily enjoying it, so it’s all good There was something interesting about these, but, yet again, I fail at remembering what This is the view you get in the front seat (and I warn, I get geekier then this shortly) I did warn you, but I was just so excited to be allowed my camera on a ride, I had to take lift-hill porn Wow, there actually ARE photos of people at Lakemont. Jeez. Sorry it’s taken this long, ha. I’m not sure what Josh is doing… I’m 99% sure he was telling me to move my fat head so he could get in on the lift hill porn… Oh yeah, this is the woodie that’s “famous” for being next to this… I wanna say baseball stadium? It’s obviously a very popular place, whatever it is Uh, yeah OK, I didn’t warn it’d get THIS geeky… But man… that spring… I’m not entirely sure what it’s doing there… I never noticed how slanty the brakes were until now… This was in the “queue” for the Toboggan (ie, a hoard of people somewhere approximately near the entrance of the ride)… Robbie’s obviously just heard my suggestion we ride together Oh, we’re over at DelGrosso’s now. How’d that happen? I only have photos of the kiddie coaster, for shame! So no sauce, and even sadder, no blacklight ninja kittie! Anyway, this is all the whores, and I think I see one kid, and they’re not with us. For shame! Aww, but the one kid does at least love the camera attention I’m posting this whore photo cause, A., whose random thumb is that? And B. You can see Luke’s shirt, which leads me to say, dude, your “slogan” shirts were awesome. You need to get one that says “keep this park clean cause MY FAMILY come here too”. That’d be too cool. And my God, possibly the worst photo of me ever, but this is to illustrate, yes, we did have to be sad and pathetic cause we wouldn’t fit on the first train… That’s it for Lakemont/DelGrossos, sorry it was a fail as far as photos go… But, Sesame Place and the start of East Coast next! Yay! That’s gotta count for something…

Ha, as awesome as he was, the woman doing restraints on Talon was even better, the best ERT op IMO. The woman who stapled with all of her might, haha, she was so cool. Loved her, had a great laugh with her "Staple me! C'mon, I KNOW there's another click in there somewhere!". Haha, brilliant. Have a feeling it was only Luke and me that appreciated her, haha, everyone else just seemed to loathe the stapling.

100- The old side-friction Log Coaster that used to be in Rhyl 150- NO idea! 200- This ghetto old kiddie coaster in the north of England, near Pleasure Island, but I can't remember the actual name of the ride, haha 250- Leap-the-Dips, Lakemont Park 300- Back Lot Stunt Coaster, Kings Dominion Sadly, the old Log Coaster was the best of them!

OK, I’m gonna do Marineland and Waldameer as one for three reasons. 1. They were the same day. 2. I took like, five photos at each. 3. I can. OK, Marineland. I did not like this park, not really. And no matter how far they made us walk, I disliked it the same amount. It was just a huge grass area with a ride at either end and an endless walk. And my lord, trying to get up that hill to the S&S was like a marathon! As I think either Robbie/Luke said, it’s like a RCT scenario where you have a huge, dumpy park with one ride and have to raise money from one coke stand in order to finance the place. And Dragon Mountain was fun and all, but it did hurt me… This was probably taken from the closest other ride. FRIENDSHIP COVE! Haha, that’s for you Robbie The “no Robin Hoods allowed” sign The Topple Tower which terrifyingly dangled you over some… FLOWERS! Ahhh… scary… I thought this part of the ride was cool how you’re in a tunnel and then *BHAM* light And how it follows the ground made me think of a Arrow version of the Ultimate, just less… good This is a bear. They are cute. That’s about it. They were the best about Marineland, really. Or, as I’ve now decided to call it, Six Flags Sea World. Although, I prefer it to Sea World. That place really grinds my gears. He got wet Bear-soup! Now, there are two rows of people on this that don’t need to feel dirty. I’ll let you figure out who. OK, you ALL should feel dirty (and yes, this was when I was queuing…) Culture credit 1 But, there’s a ride in this picture, so it doesn’t count as culture. Yay! Over at Waldameer, a park that I LOVED. It had such charm, and it helped it had what was at this point, my favourite Woodie! Oh, and only the best show IN HISTORY. Complete with, yep, some of you guessed it, TIE-DYE! Even before it was cool! Wow, does their power know no boundaries? Yep, a huge group of coaster enthusiasts did choose this AWESOME dude over a great woodie. Twice. The women even went as far as grinding Luke in an attempt to be as awesome as Trevor, they still failed. I bet there’s someone here that can still remember exactly what they’re singing at this point I know they’re 70s, but I really liked that dress… Doesn’t work as well as a top, but Trevor pulled it off HAHA! The 80s part! “It gave way to awesome sayings like NOT!” I think this may very well have been the highlight of Brooke’s, well, life… it was certainly Trevor’s See… note how everyone, and Tony, is watching from behind, haha, thought that was hilarious the attraction was deserve Oh, there were coasters as well… And a freakin’ insane Drop Tower! Ravine Flyer III was ALMOST as good as II. Not quite, but we re-rode it cause it was that good This is the ONE photo of RFII I have for a few reasons. 1. It’s built on, well, a Ravine, and you can’t see it… good. 2. It was dark when we actually tore ourselves from Retroactive and rode it, haha! Oh no, who could possibly have done that, I have no idea… And I close the photos of Waldameer off with another RETROACTIVE! And I must say, that ERT session was Godly. Roxie, our ride when the heavens just opened is *the* moment of the trip I will never, ever, ever, ever forget. That was insane to say the least! And running through the park after and just turning to Robbie “do you have any idea where we are?” “um… no…”, that was so deliriously funny in the wet, cold, thunder, confusion… etc. Next up, well, not Idlewild since I failed at photos at that park and took none. But, Paul Bunyan and the Caterpillar are forever lodged in my mind. So, Lakemont and DelGrossos!

OK, Canada’s Wonderland/Behemoth Bash. This was without a doubt the “biggest” park of the trip, but it wasn’t my favourite! That’s not to say I didn’t like the place, and I had an AWESOME day there, but all the coasters (bar three) STUNK. And to say the Powered Coaster was the third best coaster in a park of that size is a depressing thought. However, the flats were really fun, especially Sledgehammer, which I’d never heard a good thing about, but I LOVED! Psyclone was awful, it ran for maybe one full swing, but the Drop Tower was hilarious (Natalie loved it more then I did though, I could tell), and the Top Scan was running really well (although, my bad memory has a question, who did I ride that with, who had only “ridden” it on RCT3?). And I have to say, Behemoth rocked my socks a LOT more then I thought it would. The trains are seriously cool, and the last back-car rides with Roxy and Robbie were AWESOME to say the least. Shame it ate my name paper tag thing, but I forgive it. What else, oh yes, I really enjoyed Vortex, but it did try to kill my back, so I couldn’t re-ride it much. Wild Beast was one of the worst woodies ever, Kimmy, our ride on that was SO funny! Going up the lift like “uh, this is already rough… I’m scared” was a trip highlight for me. And I got to try funnel cakes, which I liked for maybe a bite, and then just felt sick, haha! I think that’s everything for CW… oh, and the SLC was awful! Big surprise there! OK… photo time. Enjoying ERT by any chance are we Neil? Roxie doesn’t seem to share the enthusiasm… This is a sight I like to see in ERT See… I’m happy about it. Or am I happy that I just about still have my name tag? Yes, I took many vanity-shots on the trip, and I will force you all to look at them. This was my “yay, I <3 Behemoth but will still look grumpy about it” face This… thing… opened late, but I thought it was awesome of them to open Psyclone for us instead. Shame they couldn’t have run it on a better setting with more then one swing, but I aint complaining. What I AM complaining about is they opened the Volare at all Seriously, WHO designed these restraints? Someone without feelings, that much I can tell you Yes, this photo is needed in any Cedar Fail PTR I’m wondering if there’s more people or bins in the queue Brooke displays everyone’s general look when they see an SLC. And Roxie’s just giving me a “PUT THE FRIGGIN’ CAMERA AWAY” look. And Robbie, anyone else reminded of Cyclops from the X-Men when they see those glasses? Which, BTW, I think are awesome. This was funny… for reasons I don’t remember. Something about the blacked in teeth that Brooke said made me laugh enough to take the photo, but obviously not enough to remember the quote We interrupt this to remind you how much *this* part of the Volare sucked, even compared to the rest of it And although the photo sucks, this shows just how bad the SLC was. Look at that head-slamming action. SMACK. Bitch goes down. There we go, a nice photo after putting you through a photo of a Volare AND an SLC in a row This was during the whole ATM debacle, so Neil looks suitably saddened by the ordeal Yeah, I sat on the floor, so the next few photos are bought to you in midget-view Luke… what’s happening with your ear in this photo…? That’s about all I can notice to comment on… Oh, other then dude, seriously, pull that necklace out Cyclop… Robbie, I mean, enjoys what I hope is coffee, if it’s not, you coulda least shared! If anyone can tell me why this was funny, they can have a dollar Oh, Natalie’s perked up now I’ve started to offer dollars round Roxie’s reaction to not being able to find an ATM was not a positive one Cyclops-vision of moi Yikes, waiting past this sign wasn’t a good… well, sign Fortunately… The infamous “no jumping over six people” queue sign made an appearance at The Fly This was another attempt at taking a photo of the ride wait sign… thanks for that Roxie Anyone think she’s enjoying it? Dude, those Icees were freakin’ awesome! I think it was around this point my mouth started to turn a slight blue. But, this is not a photo of me, if you can’t tell. Random-queue shot Wow, what a lucky animal he is… Yep, another random-queue shot Looks like Roxie has penis envy, just directed to Nat’s camera Yeah, my inner-geek came out The Behemoth walk-back was very cool, and I LOVE the kink at the bottom of the great first drop They all be enjoying it too I was happy, honestly Not that I look it… maybe that’s because, as you can see, Behemoth ate my name-tag I liked groping the nuts This last hill was cool, but being able to wander under it was even cooler And I LOVED this drop off the helix, very cool at the back VERY pretty looking coaster I wander what the person at the front of the train is saying to his friend It’s a goose in Canada… that makes it a…? Yes, man in blue, that was pretty much my reaction too I have to take this photo as an opportunity to say how much I HATE the American way of running stations, just letting huge queues build up in these huge airgates Kimmy gets ready, something that Brooke finds hilarious for some reason Yet another photo of Natalie…I’m not 100% why I ended up with so many, but this was in the queue for the AWESOME Sledge Hammer ride which was so totally better then I thought it would be Another random queue photo Haha, why is this the best photo I have of this great ride? And this the only photo of the fountains? Man, my camera just dies when the sun goes down… OK, that’s it for Canada’s Wonderland, a park I enjoyed more then I thought I would, and I had a great day there. Next up would be… Marineland? Yeah. Or RCT scenario land.

"Rollo says... no hats" I LOVED Idlewild, such a fun day! The caterpillar! HAHAH! NEVER laughed that hard on a ride!

Yeah, Dragon Mountain certainly came to my mind when I saw the name of the topic. It was more when I sat down with Kimmy, going "what the hell, I'm battered, bruised and tired, but I'll just do it once, what's the harm?" and then I get told... "yeah... we need you to ride three times..."... ugh... lol... By the end of that, I'd have been glad never to see it again, haha! Hydra was pretty quick to loose charm as well, it was already grating on a second run, a third and I'm not sure I'd have liked it too much!

Okie dokie, Martin’s, which is the first “yeah, I took like, zero photos at this park” day. However, it was a freakin’ awesome day! The Log Flume was the funniest thing ever, like Jahan doing a successful leaf grab, which I tried to mimic and almost uprooted the whole tree… ooops! Then Silver Comet was an AWESOME woodie, Full Tilt was an insane flat ride, and the gentley-rotating Mouse was… well, OK, that was crap, but you can’t win them all! The Starflyer was freaking awesome as well, Natalie, you provided me endless entertainment on that ride, and it was well worth the dollar I spent on it! What else did I pay you a dollar for…? Oh, I Got It? That game was hilarious, throwing our balls all over the place, so funny. When they’d fly back out, and all stack, AGGH, SO frustrating! OK, photo time! This is THE only photo I took of Silver Comet, so enjoy. Also, “Forward Per Train Design”… OK… Natalie, this photo’s for you! A very shadowy, but proud Natalie after her ride… eating her hand for some reason… maybe she’s motioning to me that she stole my dollar… I could make a Adam, balls, groping, new, experimenting joke… but I won’t stoop to that level Full-Tilt made everyone go into a dancing mode… or the ABBA that kept playing, whichever Natalie does a more “seductive” dance… most likely directed towards at her new Alabama-raised squeeze Robbie just plain points at something… or maybe it’s his version of a dance? This up-skirt was the best photo I got of this freakin’ insane ride! SO funny! Although, Robbie, I felt so bad for you on your own, what was it you said about that group that couldn’t possibly have moved along one… I can’t remember, but it was HILARIOUS And the ride had this awesome “heart problems are represented by a band-aid” warning sign that was for some reason a lot funnier then that lame quote I came up with to describe it And although I don’t have any photos of the Log Flume itself, I did document the aftermath. It got Roxy ever so slightly wet. Just a bit. Just a little. Just a *hand gesture to show really small* Yeah. Wet. And that’s all the photos, haha. I did say they start getting useless, just wait until I reach the main part of the trip… LOL! Although, Canada’s Wonderland, which I’ll put up next, is gonna be full of a lot of photos cause I took a literal tonne that day!

Haha, the Pompeii thing happened to our boat as well! It was freakin' scary seeing this wave rolling along the front of the boat towards me, knowing I couldn't do a thing about it! Again, we also relatively survived Roman Rapids, the little girls we rode with weren't as lucky, but they deserved it for asking if we drove from England and even worse, Australia!

Kerryb- I'm just watching Bring It On and it reminded me of me, you and Luke dancing in the Talon station during ERT when the Talon ERT song came on. Booo, miss it!

^Haha, the Great White ERT was hilarious! I really didn't like the ride much, but for some reason still clocked in God-knows how many rides! It was always a case of "well, why not just one more time...?" It was just so funny when Luke and I decided "OK, we'll ride this wheel seat cause they want a full train, and it'll just be once", we get totally beat up, come back saying "never, ever again", and then they "kindly" give a re-ride without unlocking the restraints! Haha, love it! And I'm totally there with you on the marathon, must prize me off this coaster with a crow-bar attitude to ERT! Boulder Dash was a prime example, just sat in that back car with Kimmy for God-knows how long, not budging! And then Talon! OMG, the Talon ERT session was probably my favourite, that was the biggest blast ever! And I think I must just be slow, or naive, or both, cause I seriously didn't notice anyone complaining about ERT at all, haha! But, I didn't even notice ERT was late, the joys of my watch saying it was 8 for the whole trip! Also, people were all "yeah, certain people are being bitchy" and I was like... "really? I've not noticed anything". Haha! Or maybe I was just having too much fun and blacked out any complaints that may have fell on my ears. And the Screamin' Swing ride and re-ride after Great White was awesome! I'm so glad I got to do it... free!

Tibidabo and Tivoli World, both in Spain, have ones run by the same person as Blackpool's and Parque De Attractiones' (I know that's spelt totally wrong lol!)... at least, I think it's the same company. I'm doubting myself now, but I was told that, just don't quote me on it! I can only speak for Tibidabo's, but it's AWESOME. Not quite as cool as Parque's, but still. It's called Krüeger Hotel and features a lot of really cool movie stuff, which is always awesome! It's also really long, and free with the admission!

Lol, I'm glad y'all are enjoying it so far after one update, lol! And yes, that Log Flume truly was freakin' awesome, but Martin's was better! Martin's was just... insane. OK, so the morning of Day Two saw, as everyone probably already guessed, Darien Lake. I thought it was a much nicer park then I’d imagined, yes it had some bad pathing issues, but the setting by the Lakes and general atmosphere was a lot better then I’d heard about. Also, Ride of Steel was great! I really, really enjoyed it almost as much as SFNE’s, and a million miles more then SFA’s garbage can version. What else was of interest? Oh, Predator freakin’ sucked! I can’t even remember what it did other then beat me up. The Log Flume was hilarious, the sickening flats lived up to exactly how I thought they would be, and so did the SLC, which I also funnily enough, can’t actually remember other then it sucked. Y’know what, I’ll just put my thoughts down with the photos as opposed to before. Just in case you’d forgotten where this is a report of, a gaggle of TPR members mix under the sign to remind you And then everyone heads off And have to go through this suck-fest to reach… The good stuff… side note, these photos make it look stormy, was it in the morning? I think the station’s real cute, and in no way do the colours link in anyway to Superman. At all. Coincidence. Everyone’s hopping at the thought of morning Intamin Sucks to wait in this huge line we had to… did that make ANY sense? Then we went to ride Predator. Again, the line in ERT was HUGE. And has anyone ever waited this for this piece of crap? If so, send me your address on a postcard and I’ll send you all the £10 I currently have to my name in sympathy I don’t even have to say what was next Where Beth waited on her own. Cause she’s no fun. Kim and Roxy find Beth’s loneliness hilarious Yeah, that don’t impress her much Reactions to the ride seemed to be pretty much unanimously “meh, it was fun but nothing great” And it has the mystical power to make Luke’s wrists limp… well, limper These guys seem impressed And here’s my version of the exact same, albeit better, photo that Natalie took. She kept stealing all my photos ideas. I should therefore have the credit for her PTR You guys excited? Well, they certainly are now By now it was time for Beth to take her ride. Did I mention she was still alone? Boo her. Um, yay? Apparently queues are something I take a lot of photos of. Must be a sad geek tendency I didn’t know I had Yep. Clearly a geek Roxy’s ready to be… ‘rang’d? Kimmy looks slightly more worried Although there’s now obviously a joke they all get which Luke isn’t involved in Yes Robb, we are all asking the same question Lol, no comment needed Again, Luke obviously doesn’t get whatever’s making the others smile. And anyone find it weird that Kimmy and Neil are doing the same thing at the same time That poor Universal-rip-off-statue didn’t know what was gonna to happen when it went to work that morning I don’t even know who this is Ew Natalie, you KNEW what you were about to ride, right? Cause you looked far too happy. I included this cause it’s the only photo with Brooke’s AWESOME socks in it, and they need to be shown to World Fascination, which apparently makes Kimmy make weird faces Yep, Neil hunted out the beer And while this thing freakin’ sucked, it was possibly the funniest flat ever. Sorry we laughed at you Brooke, but it WAS funny There was some really good views of Ride of Steel from lunch, especially of this suck-fest of a trim The first drop was certainly one of the highlights of the ride for me But this was my real favourite part The penultimate ride we did (just before the infamous final Ride of Steel ride) was the Log Flume, which again, continued my love for them. But, from this photo you can’t tell it’s a Log Flume, just it’s a group. Queuing. For something. But it was the Log Flume, trust me. Which we all decided was built on top of a sewer, but did provide a fun ride Somewhere Roxy has a very similar photo, just of me instead of her She was showing me her beer thing, but all that it looks like is a blur Erik, did this ride get you wet? Yes, yes indeed it did. And then was the infamous Ride of Steel run, which funnily enough, I didn’t have a lot of time to take photos of. And, however scary it was, for that last fantastic ride, it was well worth it. So, overall I really liked the park, certainly a lot more then “equivalents” like SFA. Ride of Steel was a great coaster, and then things like Viper and Motocoaster were fun. Up next is part two of the day, the awesome Martin’s Fantasy Island.

OK, so I figured that although there’ll be about a million of these, I still wanted to do a PTR of the beyond-awesome time I had on the Behemoth/East Coast trips. Now, the amount of photos I took just sort of plummets to about two a day halfway through the trip, so a fair amount of the parks will be nothing more then like, those two photos, a few comments and not a lot else. But, the majority of those days (ie. Morey’s Piers) I was having too much fun hanging out to worry about photos, so that’s OK by me. Plus, the photos of rides aren’t really any good, so I’ll try and avoid posting a lot of them, plus, something tells me you might have seen a couple of those by now anyway! Still, this trip was about a LOT more then coasters, so a coaster-lite report is another thing that is OK by me. I also can’t promise I’ll finish it, but I have nought to do for the next few weeks, so I’ll do my best! Now, just before I start with everything, I just want to say a BIG thank-you to everyone that made this trip SO memorable and the best two-odd weeks I’ve spent doing anything ever. So, a shout-out to y’all who I won’t name cause A. You know who you are and B. You’ll all probably turn up in photo-form anyway so I can’t be bothered to type what I’ll just show later anyway! Although there are some people who I loved hanging with but don’t have ANY photos of! Like David, how did I go all that time and still not have a photo of us! And one last thing- Robb and Elissa, you guys freakin’ RULE! Thank-you! I was a bit worried I wouldn’t get the huge, amazing, fall-in-love addiction to the TPR trips that everyone goes on about, I thought that would probably a bit too much hype. Have I ever been so happily wrong about anything before? No. No I have not. Seriously, if there’s even a simmer of hope you could do a trip in 09, DO IT. I know I’ll be doing one at least every year until they end! OK, so day one of the Behemoth trip was Seabreeze, a quaint little park with an AWESOME Log Flume which would strike a Log Flume-obsession which would run through the trip (Dorney’s Log Flume = absolute pwnage on a stick while Busch’s = absolute fail just as a sidenote). The woodie-which-I-can’t-remember-the-name-of was fun, but Bear Trax WAS NOT! Fail at getting on that was upsetting. Whirlwind was good fun, and the ERT on that and Bobselds was a great way to start the trip off with a bang. Wooden Roller Coaster 1 starts off the photos with a very exciting lift hill porn shot. The big stick that it uses to slow itself down is very geekily arousing. TPR members get ready in the scary-Morgan-train After the woodie we found the park’s highlight show- random hot people get semi-naked and stretch The park’s proper coaster highlight was this awesome MS spinner Which I CAN remember the name of, since I have this handy photo to tell me what it is This would be better if the people weren’t totally random but I included it to say how awesome the first drop is backwards The other coaster in the park was the famous Bobselds A strange woodie-steel-ex-kiddie-coaster-that-got-extended hybrid, it was a fun ride, but really scary at points Random generic group queue shot 1 Kimmy and Eric seemed to be enjoying something I can’t think of anything to say, so I’ll just let Brooke’s face to the talking Although the scary pathing and garish theming doesn’t look great, it’s actually a quaint little park with buckets of charm And the amazing Log Flume makes an appearance. It started off with a randomly fast cement trench thing, but the highlight was the freakin’ steep drop! See, freakin’ steep! This meant for a LOT of airtime, sending me off my seat in a way no Log Flume should be allowed to do. The… Screaming Eagle (?) ride was a lot of fun, especially since you get to look at the people sat opposite you and scream at each other. And a random group shot of us before braving the might-be-called-something-Eagley ride closes out Seabreeze I’ll put Darien Lake up next, so remain tuned.

1. Talon 2. Batman La Fuga/The Ride (GAdv) 3. Montu 4. Alpengeist 5. Duelling Dragons Ice

Haha, dude, Leap the Dips is going down in history as my worst coaster ride EVER. Every time someone even mentions it my back start to hurt. BUT, it was hilarious and I wouldn't have had my 250th spent any other way. And the Toboggan, haha! Something tells me shakes over scary psycho flat saved us and our backs that day! 6. Rolo says "No Hats" and asks "Does this get you wet?" Aww, dude, you're being missed on East Coast a lot. And basically, the Behemoth trip was freakin' UNBELIEVABLE! I've hands down never hurt from laughing so much as I did those few days, and must echo what everyone else has said (as long as it was positive). RFII was the ride highlight, with Behemoth just behind, but it was everything else that made the trip. I mainly think it was the SAUCE. And Trevor! FUNNIEST SHOW EVER! Leading to possibly my favourite photo of the trip... Hahahaha! Trevor, woo!

My favourite steel is by a long, long shot The Ultimate, followed by Rita and Oblivion. Everything else I can pretty much take or leave. I don't really like any of our Wood, but Blackpool's Wild Mouse is certainly my favourite of what we do have.