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It's amazing how many new photo ops there are when a ferries wheel pops up. Great TR.

#100- The Beast- King's Island Talk about an awesome milestone coaster! I almost lost my 100 sign on the double helix of insanity! Also #150- SROS at Darien Lake.

Why am I the only one finding the Banana Battle sign hilarious?

^^Yes, He needs to learn from me!

You should have used the single rider lane at Griffon. I got on it 7 times in one day!

Is that with or without the footers?

Happy Easter!

Mr. Pibb is the exact same thing as Dr. Pepper only he didn't go to school as long.

Yup, the second one. I remember, I saw it in theaters I'm a loser, yes. OMG... That movie was TERRIBLE!!!!

Big Update! Hey, everyone. I'm currently on spring break, and now that I have a few days of I'm going to go full force to get my syndicate package complete. I now need ten more dailies and a cover letter, before I’m ready to submit. I'm starting to line up some of the concepts I need to show in the next ten strips in order to give a view of all the aspects of my strip, but I have the meat of the daily examples already in place. And this is where I ask your help. I have the ten daily strips that make up the meat of the package posted below. I can still replace some if I feel it’s necessary, so this is what I want you to do, Please tell me which is the best strip of the ten and which is the worst. Emphasis on the worst. Please, I am not going to be mad, in fact I will be allot happier than if you say “ I like them all” or “ they’re all good” because that’s probably not the way the syndicates are going to look at them. Even if you say “this one sucks” I will be happy because I will have an idea of what to put on the chopping block if I feel its necessary to add a new strip but don’t have room. I have gotten allot of nice comments, which I greatly appreciate, but now I ask for any constructive criticism you have. If you see any spelling mistakes, or things I missed shading or anything, PLEASE TELL ME. Even if you have a tip of how the dialogue could be reworked to make it funnier, it will be greatly appreciated. So I have ten strips below, which you may or may not have read. Please post something along the lines of this: Best: comic # Reason Worst: Comic # Reason and suggestion Please give a shot explanation of why you chose these, or what in it could be changed. If you feel that a daily strip in this thread belongs in this batch, feel free to tell me also. Again, do not be afraid to tell me any of them are bad. Criticism is what I need most now, so that I can change and fix to make it better. I will proably ask for more suggestions on newer strips down the line, but for now thanks in advanced for the help! Comic #1 Comic #2 Comic #3 Comic #4 Comic #5 Comic #6 Comic #7 Comic #8 Comic #9 Comic #10 These make up 10 of the required 24, for the submission, although one syndicate is requesting only 18. I have a two strip series done and a few others that are not quite finished, but when I have more of possible dailies for the package, I will post them again. Also, some good news not related to the syndicate package, I recently went to a banquet for the Pennsylvania 2009 Keystone Award Winners for Scholastic Journalism, since Ribroast run in my school paper, and I managed to take first place for the cartoon/ graphic illustration category! This was great for the strip, since now with the certificate they gave me can be photocopied it and placed it in my syndicate package to make it look more impressive. And again, one giant thank you for any help you give!

My computer has a NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. I use a Program that came with the camcorder called Image mixer 3 SE to get the files off my camcorder into folders where they are saved as M2TS files. Then I open those files in Premier Elements, by selecting "get media from files and folders". Then I can edit them as M2TS files, without converting. As I mentioned before, I’m also still figuring out HD video, but I hope that helped at least a little.

Cool! That’s great! I have an HD camcorder myself, its a Cannon Vixia HF 10 , one of the commercial handheld kinds, but it's highly rated on the consumer market. It's really compact and easy to carry, so it's perfect for on-ride filming, plus it has a great IOS system. Also because it has flash memory instead of a hard drive, it can handle the vibrations and turbulence of some rides. I'm still figuring out all the details t myself, but overall I’m very satisfied with it so far. I edit on Premier Elements also, but so far there’s been allot of lag time because of the large image sizes, although I imagine that’s because I need a better graphics card on my computer. As for capturing video from the camcorder onto Premier, It's allot different that capturing from a DV camcorder. It's more complicated with my camcorder, since I have to use a special program to save the video files into a folder, which I then have to open in Premier elements to access the files. But in general, its more about transferring the files instead of recording clips into files. It's sometimes a bit more work than DV camcorders, not often. It's definitely worth it, though. The quality is so great; it just produces such better videos. I can't wait for some of the new HD TPR videos!

I remember hearing that too, so when I saw Lightning Racers testing I went crazy. I first saw it on the lift, and it looked like they were synchronizing the chains since they had both trains moving slowly, when occasionally one would pick up speed and then stop completely. I was finally in my car in the shopping outlets when they were synchronized and cleared the lift, although I missed the first cycle. I kept my camera on and got that photo. I was only there for about fifteen minuets, but I saw it cycle with two trains about five or six times. We’ll just have to see what happens…

I was there yesterday for an event at the Hershey Lodge. Take a look at this photo I snaged. I'm going back up there Saturday if anyone wants to meet up.

I wish mine would turn purple!

Beck: Pay no Mind "Give the finger to the rock and roll singer as he's dancing upon your pay check sales climb high through the garbage pail skies like a giant dildo crushing the sun" Beck is my hero.

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I know that, I was just making fun of all those Blue-ray commercials that talk about how amazing HD is. Haha, I like your new avatar, Gaven! As soon as I get some time I’ll post the video. It is pretty entertaining.

Now it's time for... Bizzaro Update! All shots are legal, BTW. Hahahah, it's a pun, get it? Two out of six faces??? This must be busted too!!! All this breakage makes me want to post some flam on the internet. GRRRRR!!!!! I was surprised that the stuffed animals weren’t having mechanical difficulties. Even the Dark Kight theming wasn't working! A FOOTER!!! This only further proves my theory that an Intamin Mega coaster is coming! Its so big, it stretches from one end of the park to another! What is this building for? B&M sexy curvage. This picture could only be more awesome if there were a train in it. How did Gaven get wet? You decide.. I flimed eveyone on Saw Mill because I didn't want to get my camera wet. Dirt! The whole Bizzaro thing is all a cover-up for the world's largest Intamin mega coaster!!! Bizzaro: Previously sponsored by Corn nuts, Danmials Yogurt, and Hentz Ketchup is now sponsored by John Deere. You can't see it from the ground, but the ditches are at least 5 feet deep and have reinforcement bars in them. This is the ditch I was talking about. You can see it from Toro Sweet curves. Money shot. Random lack of pathway. Panorama. Thanks for reading! Awesome picture. Bye bye Cream Machine! It's time to leave, Good bye Superman! This was shot from BTR’s station around 7:00PM. Its for anyone who doesn’t want to believe that Nitro vallied. This picture turned out perfect! ummm.... EPIC FAIL. After that we had a contest to see who could spin the fastest on the teacups! I have that on video too! You get to be the judge! After riding about 10 times (which counts as 20 since it goes around twice), Jordan and Mike got stuck in the front seat, and they had to call maintenance to get them out. But since the rest of the train still worked, kids still rode it, meaning Jordan and Mike had to keep going around until they fixed it. I caught the whole thing on video. Gaven had to ride with the bar between his legs. ouch. This turn was leathal. Now is when we started to screw around. I told everyone that I don’t have a Road Runner Rally credit whore credit, even though this is my home park, so we decided to go ride it, but then since it was one out of about 5 operating coaster we decided to start a marathon! This is the scariest part of Skull Mountain. Exiting into Wiggles World. "Im sooooo tired of people jumping in my cage" If you can’t figure it out, it’s probably not a good idea to climb into a tiger cage!!! You got that right! Gasm, Looking very orGASMic. Is this even an inversion? Twister's sign now pops out. ZOMG!!!! This is the only legal picture of the Dark Knight you can get besides a picture of a massive blue box.

So, today was frustrating and awesome at the same time. As you’ve probably seen in the other opening day trip reports, at just about any given time over half the rides in the park were closed, but on the other hand, there were tons of TPR members and people from other sites, so I still had a great time. So, remembering past openings of Gadv, I realized it may be a good idea to get there early so I can buy my season pass on time, which was a really good idea, since they were just as un-organized as ever. So I got there a full two hours before the gates opened, and I was forced to sit at the drop off area for about 25 minuets because the security wouldn’t let me go to the gates until they let parking through. So after that, I walked up to the gates, and tried to find where I could buy my pass. They moved the season pass processing to pervious VIP experience building, and there was a line building, but unfortunately I soon realized that everybody in line had an online voucher, and I needed to buy mine somewhere else, but none of the ticket gates were open. So I moved over to the brand new “self ticketing station” which only accepted credit cards, and I only had cash. Joy. Eventually, I saw a security guard come out with this old woman holding a duffle bag, which I realized was probably the cash for the registers. Luckily it was and I was first in line for the ticket window. It was sort of neat to see them put the wads of cash into the register and everything, but I was more eager to get my pass bought. After that, I had to wait in line for the pass processing…AGAIN. And because they now have three registering computers and two slow processing people, it took forever. Once I finally got it though, I got in line for the gates, which opened after about 5 minuets, making me very glad I got there so early since Six Flags management once again did not exceed my already low expectations! So even though there was still about twenty minuets until they let everybody out of main street, that allowed me to meet up with Gaven (coasterguy618) ,Jordan (Jfc1), and Mike(Mpr.). They knew me from when Gainsider was big, before it became GadvOutpost. When the security finally let the crowds enter the park, they were insisting on doing the walking method and not letting the crowds trample anyone on the way to the coasters. But being the sneaky butthole enthusiasts we are, we knew of the arcade shortcut to Toro and soon got there before anyone else. But, big surprise…IT WAS CLOSED!!! We waited for about 2 hours for it to open, but when it did Gaven and I got the back seat of the first train of Toro for 2009, since Jordan and Mike were in the front row. The drop was great as ever, but the rest was really slow, since the train had not been in use for a while and it had the wind working against it. But it was amassing none the less, and it felt so great to let the off season to be officially over. On another note, from the top of Toro you can see they are digging ditches in Medusa’s (Bizzaro)’s Helix after the MCBR. I have off ride pictures later. So after that, we spent the rest of the day riding what we could, or just screwing around in LoonyToons Seaport. I saw a bunch of TPR members, I remember seeing Matt (Speeddeamon128) and a bunch of other people around the entrance to the Golden Kingdom, and I saw Big Mike around Bizzaro but didn’t get a chance to say hi. I also saw a group with TPR hoodies at Rolling Thunder, but I didn’t recognize any of them. But anyway, enough of the Talking part of the TR. Nobody every reads that. On to the pictures! Shot in HD! Now you can live my PTRs in their fullest quality thanks to my amazing HD camcorder! Video coming soon. The whole park was at one flag today. More to come... Mr. Six smells like latex. Never before has this angle been captured. In HD that is!!! Random Toro Picture. In HD!!! It's still there, they just put a bunch of bushes in front of it. I didn't even notice they closed Tango when I ran to Toro. This is going to be cool when it opens. No flags, no rides, no fun. This is the brand spankin' new self service ticket thing. It only accepted credit cards, which meant it was extremely helpful to me. Also, one of the signature pads already has a huge crack though it. I was surprised at how many people already had Bizzaro shirts. If you look close, you can see that two maintenance workers are sharing a special moment on Toro. Kingda Ka launched less that a minuet after this picture was shot, and that was the only time it ran all day. This is the entrance. This is also the greatest caption ever. This was breakfast. Yes!!! The off season has only one mile remaining!

I'm in the back row of your first two El Toro shots!

First train of El Toro for 2009! WHOOOO!!!!!

I like the half pipe element. That would be really awesome on one of the Tony Hawk Big Spin models.

I'm wondering what you searched to find those pictures.

So today during lacrosse practice this person throws a ball really far to this kid whose last name is Sachrison, but we all call him "Sach" for short. But anyway the guy throwing shouts really loud "Watch out for the ball, Sach"!