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Day 2, Part 2 After our morning at SFNE, we headed over to Quassy for a credits stop featuring the Mad Mouse of DEATH! For those of you who don't know, this coaster sits on top of a grass field with almost no foundation. Seriously, I wonder how this thing passes safety inspections and standards. This could also be known as High Die. Nate and Bethany ready to face death: the ride! Why do Nick and Jay look so happy about this? Surprisigly, it withstood our group takeover. Carousel takeover! Dave, Robb, and Tyler doing their thing! "Absolutely no pole dancing Drew!" KidTums credit number 7! Hanno was eaten by the Quassy shark... The "Hanno takes a picture" bingo square credit! This dino was violated on unimaginable levels! Oh my god...This is a new low for TPR. After the epic takeovers and statue violations, a few of us went over and took over the RCT style slide. I'm surprised nobody died on this while we were here! We also took over the yellow slide of death (like the ones at ghetto fairs). I forgot to get a picture of it but you can see it briefly in my east coast trip video posted below. This was no ordinary slide. Before going down, the guy at the top greased the track with some sort of lube/grease for extra speed. For the last run of the day before getting back on the bus, the ride op greased up the middle lane, and gave Jay a nice strong kick start wich sent him flying down the hill at crazy speeds! That's all for our 2 hour stop at Quassy. One of the most memorable credit stops of the trip. And now for the music video! A music video about the Theme Park Review east coast trip in 2008. This video features the song Oceans (Deep Blue Sea Mix) by Cosmic Culture and lots of off-ride footage including the new for 2008 attractions Dominator and Fahrenheit!

Day 2, Part 1 Here we are at Six Flags New England! Why does this look more like Cedar Fair in this picture than Six Flags? Oh right, the trash cans.. I'm not so sure about sacrificing my brain this early on in the trip. The original Dark Knight! With ERT! Best part of the ride! New favorite coaster? Oohh! New loose article policy. Seems a bit strict to me, but as long as it works. Superman is TPR approved! Airtime is always good! Next up, we had ERT in Hurricane Harbor on Typhoon (Deluge style LIM slide) and another one which I forget the name of. Whatever one was the large family slide - it wasn't that one. Not even 20 minutes into ERT we broke our first ride of the trip! Too bad I couldn't have been on that raft.. Good times! Shark Attack slides were short, but fast. Yay for body speed slides! The other Dark Knight was replaced by a football field. Didn't this come over from Astroworld? Group lunch time! This too nice for Six Flags standards! Q&A with the management was quite interesting! Not quite Supreme Scream... That's all for day 2. We also went to Quassy and Lake Compounce the same day!

Day 1, Part 2 After meeting up with the rest of the group at the Quality Hotel after Sesame Place, we did the long drive up to New York to go to Coney Island. "Not Just Chicken" adds to the randomness of shops on the streets of Brooklyn! Slavery not gone entirely. Um that bum is just sleeping... Here we are! CREDIT 100! Crap for Prawg Dawg's donation! What's with these east coasterners and their obsession with big asses? Didn't get around to doing Deno's wheel. Credits were more important! Cedar Fair trash cans form before the modern era now reside along the Atlantic coastline. Look at the whores (of credits) Jahan and Axel! Adults on a children's ride? Never! No bumping the hot chicks! Boob credit! Despite what others said about it being rough as hell, I enjoyed it. It's sure better than Mean Streak! Dante's Inferno was quite good for a dark ride! No we are not at SFGAdv yet. Oohh all light up! Next up, Six Flags New England!

Adam - did you not see the last picture? Everyone - thanks for the comments! Day 1, Part 1 This morning, the first park for most of us was an optional trip to Sesame Place. Those who eiter arrived later in the day, or slept in missed out on a TPR takeover of epic proportions. "Hi Elmo, we're to take over your park!" A group of 50+ adults walking up to a park themed for young children felt kind of awkward at first. We all felt like pedophiles walking up with our cameras ready and smiles on our faces. Quick to point out that Robb's ass already has a home at Sesame Place!:'> Tyler and Brad get the award for being truly sad and pathetic! "Drew, do NOT molest big bird!" Bird will never be the same after what happened later during TPR's visit! May have to close after our takeover. I don't think the park or the ride was designed for people like us! "Drew it's bad enough that you molested Big Bird, you've had your fun, now it's time to let him go and recover!" Part 2 of Day 1 will be posted shortly featuring the first official park of the tour and my 100th roller coaster credit!

Will be continued here for all the east coast trip parks. http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=631401#631401

The TPR east coast trip was the trip of a lifetime. Once again, thank you Robb and Elissa for everything you have done to make this trip amazing. I met many great friends and the memories and experiences of these past two weeks on the east coast are priceless! I hope everyone else on the trip had as much fun as I did. Day 0: Arrival and Six Flags Great Adventure (scroll down) Day 1: Sesame Place& Coney Island Day 2: Six Flags New England,Quassy& Lake Compounce Day 3: Six Flags New England& Rye Playland Day 4: Six Flags Great Adventure Day 5: Six Flags America Day 6: Busch Gardens Europe Day 7: Kings Dominion Day 8: Morey's Piers& Clementon Day 9: Hersheypark Day 10: Dorney Park Day 11: Knoebel's (and GCI factory tour) Day 0 - Arrival and Six Flags Great Adventure About 10 of us arrived early to hang out at SFGAdv before the official trip. After a night flight into Philadelphia, I met up with Drew and Oliver at the hotel before heading out. This sets a record for messiest car. Oliver went with the rest of the group to the park, while Drew and I decided to do a little side trip to Philadelphia to the home of the Philly Cheesestake - Geno's. After a long drive through the ghetto of Philadelphia, we found our destination. Lunch was great, and we arrived at SFGAdv around noon. The rest of the group went to another restaurant to get tacos, so we didn't meet up with them until later in the day. Yay we're here! After getting in free with my parking pass and our SF season passes, the credit run begins! First credit of the trip for us, Skull Mountain. Better than SFMM's Batman. A very sad and pathetic takeover of Roadrunner Railway - in the front seat! Last stop of the back of the park, Blackbeards Mine Ride, before heading to the other side of the park. It's like being back home at SFDK! A Cedar Pair amount of concrete. GASM isn't as bad as people say it is. Jahan will need new pants after riding this! Stupid GP. They don't know there's another side of the coaster with no line at all. After meeting up with Jay and everyone else in lne for Kingda Ka, we decided to head on over to El Toro and Medusa. Medusa west is still better in my opinion. Saw Mill Log Flume looked like fun. Too bad we didn't get around to riding it. Oh well, credits first. El Toro is probably what sex will feel like the first time. Fast, intense, wild, and lots of airtime! I got on every coaster except for Dark Knight and Superman because they had long lines and I have heard they are not very good. When we come back with the group, we have gold Q-bots and we can use those to get the credits. After we got back to the hotel in Philadelphia late at night, we met up with the group from the Behemoth trip that ended earlier in the day. Next up, TPR's epic takeover of Sesame Place with credit whoring to the extreme!

1. Windjammer - Knott's - April 1998 25. Riddler's Revenge - SFMM - April 2001 50. Tatsu - SFMM - April 2007 75. Gemini (Blue) - Cedar Point - June 2008 100. Cyclone - Coney Island - August 2008 150. Sea Serpent - Morey's Piers - August 2008

2004: Halfpipe (Elitch Gardens) 2008: SpongeBob Rock Bottom Plunge (Nick Universe) Avatar Airbender (Nick Universe) The Dark Knight (SFGAdv) Fahrenheit (Hershey) Dominator (KD) Voodoo (Dorney)

Hurricane Harbor expansion. Enough said.

Dorney Park today on the east coast trip.

Greetings from the Hilton Garden Inn in Williamsburg, VA. The trip has been awesome so far! Today we went to SFA. SFA is a fairly nice park, but the oeprations and the coasters sucked hard. When we arrived for ERT on Wild One this morning, it broke down on us so we headed over to Batwing after waiting around for 20 minutes. After we got our Batwing credit, we headed back and tried for Superman which happened to be having problems with the red train, so that was down too. We headed back to Wild One which had re-opened. After we got all our credits which we had by noon, there was nothing else to do, so we left after our group lunch. The operations sucked worse than the SLC and Roar. Ride ops had absolutely no interaction witht he guests whatsoever. There were many instances where the ops were on their phones, texting, socializing while riders waited for their restraints to be locked, dancing to the music in the station, etc. Many rides were closed and the signature Papa John's was closed too. Two Face is just sitting idle while guests walk past it. The 4 old water sldes that go through the trees next to the park entrance were blocked off for the new Tony Hawk slide in the water park. Because of this, this whole area is trashed. The splashdown pool was not drained and now is mosquito infested scuzzy water. The entrance for another ride goes right up alongside that and it is absolutely horrible. Onto the bad coasters now. Roar - OMG this was painfully rough. Jackhammering all the way. SFDK's Roar is better by a longshot. How can 2 coasters so much alike be so different? This was almost as bad as Mean Sterak. Mind Eraser - loose wheels not touching the track make for a very bumpy and rough ride. Resulted in sore ears and back. That's all for now. BGE tomorrow!

Maybe they are planning to sell off SFA to pay for the coaster.

^^ I'd bet that will be going to SFGAdv based on how much room they have for expansion now that Chiller and FreeFall are gone and the Old Country section of the park closed down. Silverwood will be getting a B&M standup. In 2010. Just a crazy rumor i heard from the friend of the cousin of the guy who works at the dip-n-dots stand.

I realize that I'm in the minority, but I actually like Kong. I'm tall enough that my head sticks out far enough to not get my ears punched by the restraint. I've honestly never had a "bad" ride on it and although it's certainly not anyone's definition of "smooth" I've never found it be exceptionally rough. My wife has never minded riding it either, but my kids all wince in pain at the mere mention of it. To each their own I suppose. I haven't been around to enough different parks to really understand why so many people dislike Vekoma coasters so much. I haven't hated any of the ones that I have ridden. In any event, as I said, I didn't ride it yesterday so I can't comment on how it was running that day. Unless you have not been on Kong within the last few months, I can understand where you are coming from. Back in May when I had rode it before, it was actually decent. And for a tall guy lime me whose head sticks above the restraints, it wasn't the head-banging that made it painful. The bumpiness probably through our backs out of alignment that ride on Thursday. -Sam "it was just THAT bad" J

Kong sure sucked that day, but not at a Mean Streak level of suckage. Remember how we could see the reason for it being so rough before we even rode it? God that was a horrible ride and a waste of time even with the walk on. I'm still amazed how V2 had a walk most of that day while Kong had a full station. I can't see how you dislike Roar on the same level of Kong. Just because it's not as smooth as an Intamin prefab, doesn't mean it's a bad ride. Roar has all elements a wooden coaster should have for an enjoyable ride! GCI rocks, but the CCI Ghostrider still ranks above Roar for me even if their other coasters suck.

^ Happened to me on Tuesday at SFDK with the lorikeets. < Only has 3 more nights living at home. V Wants some cheese.

I agree with that, but CGA's Invertigo stood out more to me as breaking the Vekoma standard for pain. It was an intense ride, but there was no head banging whatsoever!

I'll see you all soon!

It worked to get Adam's friend on Medusa last month and she enjoyed coasters after that, so I'm sure whoever it is on the trip will have a great time once we are able to help them overcome their initial fear.

The short burst of airtime on those drops is amazing. You can't really tell you are going beyond vertical while going down though. The only beyond vertical coasters I have been on so far are Maverick and SpongeBob Rock Bottom Plunge.

^ The park will automatically export the custom scenery to your hard drive when you load the file for the first time. ^^ Uninstall the game, delete all the files, and re-install it. If you want custom scenery back, just load the parks which have the scenery you want.

Dude, I just came across this and it's like reliving our visit to the park today! I loved the tiger shots especially. Hope everything works out well with the new camera and it was nice meeting you, Drew, and Ivan today. EDIT: That was the most painful ride I have experienced on Kong. Ever. We could clearly see wheels that weren't touching the track, and during the ride the side wheel on the left of the car in front of me had at least a couple centimeter gap between it and the track. It's insane how this ride has gone to hell during the past year in terms of ride quality despite how bad it was before. Now I understand why Vekomas hurt so much - their cars are misaligned with the track. Hopefully this is a sign of future removal! -Sam "still recovering from the pain" J

I usually look here for custom scenery downloads. You can probably find the supports you want from downloading a park from New Element. http://forums.nedesigns.com/index.php?showforum=50 Most of my custom scenery has come from downloaded parks though.

7-28 Before going over to the Twins game at the Medrodome (Twins won 7-0 for you baseball fans out there), we decided to stop by the Mall of America for a couple of hours. This meant three bonus credits for me I didn't anticipate for this year! Up to 86 now! See that dot on the wall? That is a chair from the old Twins baseball stadium that the mall is built on the former site of. The new stadium will be demolished after next season for a newer one. 106 games at the Dome left before it's over. Uhm, this pretty much confirms the demise of Log Chute. Log Chute is pretty much a newer version of Knott's Timber Mountain Log Ride in terms of theming. Although not as thrilling as TMLR, it will be sad to see this last non-Nick themed ride be converted over to whatever they have in store for it. Pepsi Orange Streak still lives up to its shortened name POS. For those who don't snowboard (I'm a skiier), there's Avatar Airbender. Tony Hawk's Big Spin kicks Fairly Odd Coaster's ass in terms of thrills. With an ACEr size lady and her son sitting across from me, the spinning was unreal! Only one ride op at Avatar led to even slower operations there. They only oeprated 2 of the 4 trains, and the dispatch times were unacceptable. Spongebob, despite poor operations, was a decent ride.

I hope it's that rumored GCII to replace Mean Streak.