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Yes Have you ever dreamed of sleeping in and missing an important sporting contest?

Y'all beat me to Kill Bill Vol 1 and Princess Bride, and I'm amazed anyone remembers Night Patrol other than me (though mainly for the Unknown Comic one liners). Stephen Seagal has a pretty savage sword fight in Marked For Death, he slices the guys nose down the middle in the sword fight. To top it off he gouges his eyes, break his back over his knee, and then throws the guy down an elevator shaft where he is imapaled on something with his heart on the end of it. And then utters a rather memorable one liner. They don't do retribution like that anymore.

Nice shots man, thanks for putting them up. Although I prefer the Intamin hypers like SROS at SFNE, these are still pretty good rides. Here's hoping they won't trim brake the life out of this one.

There's two types of people in the corporate world, the ones who understand what they don't manage, and the one's who manage what they don't understand. In my professional life, it never ceases to amaze me how stupid some higher ups are. Mostly it's more about who you you know not what you know but these types sometimes wind up in jail when they try hiding their ineptitude from the balance when business conditions become challenging. I think investment in SFNO would be unwise, and I'm glad the idiot's didn't get the money to do it unlike HRP, which was incredibly near sighted.

I so want to get back to this park anyway, this addition just gives me more incentive.

How much will that cost, your life?

But I thought this B & M was going in Sam Cassell's backyard? Isn't he building a Neverland for hot white women.

^ & ^^Thanks guys, I'm all Busched out after that epic of a park report. Onto Kings Dominion, and we all know how "interesting" that place was. Matt, now you've got a car, will you be seeing Busch more times?

Busch IV: The Undiscovered Busch (The Final Chapter, Thank F***!) We had an excellent time in the Busch but it was time to pull out and look for action elsewhere. But not before further exploration of Busch, winding up with some phenomenal ERT on Big Bad Wolf. Thanks for a great day Busch! Goodbye Busch, I love Busch, I need much more Busch in the future. Thanks for the memories, I'll see Busch in my dreams. The Griffon was also our high school school emblem - ah that takes me back - sleeping in class, promiscurity, underage drinking, and arms dealing. Griffon goes up, the sun goes down and soon TPR will own the night, lock up your sheep. It was a Hot August Night in Virginia but thankfully no Neil Diamond. I was slagging Neil Diamond on another forum, I said he sucked so much - like 37 d***s, in a row (gratuitous Clerks reference). I've challenged Neil to a cage bout but he declined. 8 o'clock signalled happy hour at the moonshine distillery in the hills above Busch. They say the Hills Have Eyes but in this case the Hills Have Beer Goggles, more inbreeding ensued. Many wishes were made at the well that day including 69 requests to lose their virginity - who could that have been? Tony just wished to go back to his home planet, I wonder if it was Uranus? I've never wondered why I haven't longed to go to Europe, between Vegas, Epcot, and Busch Eurobeer - I got it covered. Up they go on Apollo, I wish the Commonwealth of Virginia (I remembered, CFC) should outlaw cruel and unusual use of trim brakes - the Chariot was running like the handbrake was on over those bunny hills. Dave gives us his signature look - jolly blue steel. Either that or he swallowed a goose while riding Apollo. Ducky went for a swim near the sewer outlet, duckie died. The second drop on the Big Bad Wolf didn't look real, but a horde of TPR tourists screaming like little girls was proof enough. Arrow suspended went meh to majestic on this tour. Loch Ness is one sexy coaster, those loops are positively Freudian. The coaster geeks in the cable car wound up leaving a very unsavoury reminder of their ride. The famous Trevor from Waldameer is working his way up the ladder for this. You would have got your ass kicked in Saturday Night Fever for wearing clothes like this, let alone modern day Virginia. Britney's back - oops I did it again! Yes, there was a reason for a hetero watching such a gay show. This technicolour nightmare left me crosseyed but excited, but why I wonder? Everything at Busch is so beautiful and orderly like the park was in Stepford. They even had number 1 and number 2 signs at the bathrooms as well. Dave and Adam double the fist, while Bethany rediscovers her love of wood. Max seems to have found a knothole out back. Bethany look shagged after the dangerous liaison with the Hummel Boy but Dave is getting right into it. Dave is a big Deep Throat fan, but this is taking the fanboy thing way too far. And I thought Trekkies going to classes to learn Klingon was mental.

What about western canada? Like Playland reputedly has an excellent woodie. You'll only need one option for this poll once Terminator comes out.

Ditto, I love this stuff, it's so beautiful, but I'd hate to be there myself - 12,000 miles from home and I can't ride. I'd go all Clark Griswold.

I have plenty of interests other than coasters, so if I'm with a girl who isn't interested in coasters (which is every girl I've ever hooked up with) then I have no desire to talk about coasters, so in my case I'm not really denying who I am - it must be a Gemini thing, I feel like I have a split personality sometimes. Though I will admit the whole coaster thing definitely isn't viewed as cool. I've really been stuck in a big in-between, the thought of settling down is totally boring to me and sleeping around has been making me feel like I have no soul. I hope I grow up before it's too late.

^I don't think Hillary did.

I was wondering what happened to the Village People, I thought they might still kicking around places like Branson, Missouri. Seriously, I have been very curious about this just because of the bizarre (and probably a little gay) name of the coaster, the great mystery is what is "Rick's Delight" - maybe some tag team action from the village people. Another Eurofighter is always a good thing, I wish they would put one or more up downunder. This one looks great.

Doesn't this place have the potential to become Six Flags Under Water again if there is another terrible storm?

There was a scrambler called Sizzler at Funland in Ulladulla (east coast of Australia) until about five years ago and this thing was so fast you felt like you were going to go back in time. I wonder if this one got shipped over to the US when Funland got refurbished?

I just remembered the last cruise I went on, and it was on the the actual boat they used in The Love Boat, it was an orgy so depraved it would have made Caligula blush. No coasters though.

Chris mate, what countries are you planning on getting sex in? Hopefully not Thailand, that place looks pretty skanky. Just don't mention coasters and tell her she's beautiful. Also just don't mention coasters, did I already say that? Corkscrew Hill was the only thing in Busch that set off the lame-o-meter, the setting was great but the 3-d film itself was pretty pissweak, it was a bit like having a Ferrari without the engine.

pre-loved goods + Michael Jackson = maybe not so good.

Is an alpine coaster classified as one of those 1 or 2 person toboggan things on a metal slide? If so, we have them down here - ka-ching, that's two more Jeff Johnson credits in the kitty. Also if I want to drive 5 hours south we have our own park called Magic Mountain with another toboggan and even an actual coaster. Don't they turn people into zombies in Haiti and not those trendy Romero shopping mall zombies either?

^Bill has a very good brain, it's just in the head that resides in his trousers.

"Commonwealth of Virginia," thank you very much. And to think that some people don't believe that Huge Hummel Boy leads an interesting life. Duly noted CFC, you should see if Virginia can go in the Commonwealth Games (you're not in our commonwealth but you might be able to scam it), Australia could use some competition - the poms, the kiwis, and tiny pacific atolls haven't been putting up much of a fight. I saw the Hummel Boy smoking a cigarette after we were finished with him - not sure what kind of cigarette though.

These are nice photos, I like how you got some angles on Beast and Blue Streak that I haven't seen before. Do you have the same angle on Blue Streak with a train going down? That would look amazing.

^Love your work mate, classic, I stand humbled - that was a good observation, I totally missed it. I hear if you sneak into the park at midnight, you will find they have screenings at Corkscrew Hill of the little known and thought to be lost early Bruce Lee film "Enter The Fist", in 3D no less.

^I'm thinking a Dive Machine width row would be needed to accomodate a typical supersize meal consuming customer. Ergo that would lead to lousy throughput and high customer dissatisfaction, ending in a catyclysm of Hard Rock Park proportions. I mean Big Mac : The Dive Machine Coaster would only take three guests each cycle. Then again, maybe if you fed them while they were waiting they wouldn't mind.