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  1. I'll definitely be there, and I'll be bringing a guest--my fiancee will by then be my wife, and she'll be coming along. I'm looking forward to it--it's been too long since I've done anything in a park with other people.
  2. There's a joke in here, somewhere. Something about first dates and/or first times . . . I can't find the joke, but Trombi did remind me of . . . bad stuff, in roughly the same was as Fly Away at Bobbejanland did. It made me feel dirty, somehow, and cheap; also, used.
  3. It really wasn't for lack of trying. If it makes you feel better, we did break at least one car.
  4. I agree that the park rocked, but I wouldn't call it "hidden" so much as "way the heck far away from practically anything, except itself." It was definitely one of the highlights of the trip, and I eagerly await video/pictures from the Grand Prix. That could be . . . interesting. SPOILER: No one died. (Bummer, I know.)
  5. I'm not certain I want to live to my eighties, but if I do I hope I can still ride coasters and enjoy them.
  6. I noticed that, as well, and wondered how they felt about it (and how someone like Terry would feel about it). It didn't seem particularly disrespectful to me, but I'm not really in a position to judge that.
  7. My head is spinning as I try to imagine how much worse EGF had to have been running (or how much better Silver Star was) for them to be even close. For me, when we rode them, it wasn't.
  8. What he said; it was what I was trying to get at, though it would take a lot (and some bad rides), I think, before I could get jaded about that coaster.
  9. I'm agreeing with Chuck. The day we rode it, EGF was about as good as hyper-style steel gets. I find myself agreeing with Terry and preferring Winjas and Troy, but that comes to preferences--I like hypercoasters just fine, but I like unpredictability and out-of-control-ness more. There is no "right" or "wrong" here. (Unless you're trying to say that, say, Gouderix is better than Expedition GeForce, in which case you're probably brain-damaged.) EDIT: If Expedition GeForce is a "lower top-ten coaster" for you, what coasters are you ranking higher? Are the ones you ride rarely or have traveled great distances for ranked higher? For that matter, how many coasters have you ridden? (It's possible that having a broader experience may give you a better idea of just how special EGF is on a good day.)
  10. While I'd agree that Black Mamba isn't the best B&M invert, it was nice to get on something inverted and inverting that wasn't a test of pain tolerance after SLCs three days in a row. I'd have been happier if it had been at least a skosh more intense, but that's a minor complaint, and the park was a blast--though I missed the rapids ride (not hot enough for me to get wet that day) and Talocan (I don't like Top SPins, though Talocan looked to be running a great program) and I found myself puzzled and at least a little disappointed by Mystery Castle. Winjas is awesome, and Colorado Adventure (Michael Jackson) is a fun and intense mine train, and the dark rides are fun if you're with the right people and in the right mood to sit back and let the cheese flow over you and cover you and eat away at your brain cells.
  11. Not only that, but that photo is one of the very few ones you'll see of me on a coaster where I don't look as though I'm in a coma. I actually look as though I'm having fun. Nice job, Hanno.
  12. It was definitely one of the pleasant surprises, probably less so for me, as I hadn't been any X-cars; but I got the feeling people who'd had bad experiences on similar coasters were almost in shock.
  13. I found Anaconda to be boring, but painless. Bandit was interesting--in a Chinese curse sort of way; every turn and hill and twist and piece of flysh!t on the track felt like a kick in the ribs. Different experiences is all, probably.
  14. Right. I hardly ever comment about "favorite" coasters or any of that stuff, and I'm not even comfortable comparing, say, Troy and Colossos, because they're clearly designed with different experiences and effects in mind. And I don't bother much with polls or voting, if only because my tastes are odd and idiosyncratic (I genuinely thought Winjas--the combination of both sides--was the best coaster on the Europe trip). But: Colossos is a good execution of what it is there's lots of airtime on the hills where there's supposed to be airtime, and it's fast, and it's smoother than the average woodie. I prefered Troy and Tonerre de Zeus, but that's because I like a variety of forces in my coasters, not merely airtime. Bandit was probably the worst coaster we got on during the trip; judging my my experience, the second-worst isn't even close (but I got relatively pain-free rides on some notorious coasters like Gouderix and El Condor). Steve bought a DVD of him and Lou riding, and it's quite funny, in a schadenfreude kind of way, but the best comment on the ride is at the end, where you can hear someone say, "We don't have to ride it again," and the entire train breaks into cheers. It may seem at times as though there's love for Intamin, but there's love for all the coaster builders, if you look (well, maybe not for RCCA), and when someone--anyone--gets something really right, you find out about it. If someone gets something really really wrong (and Bandit needs approximately thirty more really[/]'s), you find out about that, too. It's really a shame about Bandit--and to a lesser extent MP Express--the park is really nice, and treated us very well; but those two coasters are pretty much teh suck.
  15. There is nothing like the pain that awaited us at Movie Park Germany. I'd rather be strapped into the Foreman Grill Ride while in the throes of caffeine withdrawal than ride that . . . thing. Either of them. ANY of them. (Take your pick of three.)
  16. Clearly I was more tired than I realized when you took my picture, your bigness. I look as though I've just been hit on the head with something large, heavy, and blunt. What can I say? It was the last day of the trip, or close to it; I was pretty thoroughly fried.
  17. Somewhere, I have a photo taken in 1986 of me standing in front of that old sign for The Beast. It's nice to see it.
  18. Good luck, Robb! It's good to hear that you're off to a good start. I myself have lost something in the vicinity of forty pounds (possibly more) since the beginning of May. Some months I dropped close to ten pounds, others it was closer to five; I've consistently been losing weight, however. I did something similar to what it sounds as though you are doing. I stopped pigging out and had to cut out certain foods I have weaknesses for (fried potato products; cheesy and/or creamy foods). Cooking for myself instead of eating packaged food/takeout has helped a great deal as well. My not having a car give me opportunities for moderate exercise (walking), and I'm having to do more errands with doing my cooking than I was before. The escalators on the DC Metro work well as brief exercise, as well. It's possible. I'm planning to be down to something approaching "normal" weight (in the vicinity of 170) by the Europe trip. Me, before.
  19. If it's an invert, it won't be a B&M; Great Bear fills that need pretty nicely, as I recall. It's also worth pointing out that at least in the case of S:ROS, those dollars aren't identical to 2008-ish dollars.
  20. I seem to have been one of the last TPR people to get the Face-Off credit (yay, me!). It's ironic because it was nowhere near the top of my priority list. Beast at night was probably about the best way the trip could have ended. Thanks to R&E and everyone else for making it probably the best two-week vacation of my life. I'll be seeing at least some of you in Europe next year.
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