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Not so off topic, but I am glad Gilroy Gardens has held on so well through the years, and still gets a good sized crowd every year. From what I have seen on trip reports, there.

From the artwork, I hope and think it's going to be even more amazing with the green track beside it, etc.

Retracting here what I posted before. The vids are lousy and should be trashed ASAP

^ And a huge cheer is heard by thousands of high school students, across America, if not The World.

Okay, I get it. But why "redneck"? Sorry, but that's really why I asked. Why not call it a "redneck donut" then? Still curious here. "Driving Everybody Nuts Since 1975!"

Here's a couple of photos, with me in them centre stage of course, during our annual Out On Screen queer film festival. These were taken a month ago. Party On! (The Mickey shirt was from HKDL.) Not noticing the camera. Noticing the camera, lol! {Photos taken by Clark, thanks Clark!}

RIP Polly Bergen

I went to Playland yesterday, and checked out how their prep was going along for the upcoming Fright Nights at the park. There are seven haunt houses this year, but I manged to photograph/find only five. Hmmm. Am going back tomorrow, Playland's lasy day of it's season, and find the other two, lol. The list of Haunt Houses goes like this: Haunted mansion (the park's permanent walk through) Asylum Darkness Fear Car-N-Evil Keepers Doll Factory (the new one this year) Hollywood Horrors Tickets for Fright Nights go on sale, on Monday. http://www.pne.bc.ca/ The entrance to the park, redone for Fright Nights. More will be added, too. A Welcome sign. Last year's, there was 'smoke' every where! It even filtered out to the street, lol! Coaster's getting ready for the Nights. This is the unload part of Coaster's station. This guy is an annual 'regular' to Fright Nights. He rises and lowers, and that's it. This haunt, Darkness, has the most queueing space available of all the haunts, so they make good use of it here, from entrance to the haunt itself. The entrance gate to the Darkness haunt. Stuff every where, for now. The haunt itself, in back. I couldn't figure out all the names of the haunts, but I am guessing this one could be Fear. And this one makes me think of Asylum. Not sure of this one. But it looks like it could be the Doll Factory. Good old Haunted Mansion. The up charge (during park times) gets included with Fright Nights. Part of the HM's queue set up.

jewelry

Vancouver's Coaster. Easy.

This is the one report of the entire site, I should avoid entirely. Otherwise I start salivating, prematurely.

No brake

^ Thanks Benny! I've going through all that about the tour being "so long ago" etc. Oh well. It was a great tour while it lasted. More Wasalandia park, lunch, then on to Tampere, Finland! The park had a pretty nicely themed haunt walk-through, just beyond the kids' rides. It sort of looked out of place, with everything around it, mostly for children. But that was okay. The park people let us go through it, and I really enjoyed it. It definitely had it\'s moments. Then, we all went to the coaster in the park. And after that, we bussed over to another place, where a quick mid-afternoon meal was had. And then - off to Tampere! Tom was on hand, to make sure, the "not very wet" got "very wet." (o; More splashdown. One more time! The spookhouse walk-through, with a pretty intense-looking facade to it! This was a sort-of a Phantom of The Opera thing. Dim light in a mirror. Look what I found - boobs! One half of the pirate ride. Hi guys! The other half. And the only person looking at the camera, isn't one of our group, heh. And up they went! At the coaster, looking back to the rest of the park. The coaster is called CYCLON And it apparently has a laundry facility there. Some of it. Except for a rather sudden braking near the end, it was a pretty nice little coaster. Thanks Wasalandia! Where we had our meal. The place was called Tropiclandia. The meal. And then off we went! I see you Sarkanniemi observation tower! Tomorrow... Quick culture shot, before we reached our hotel for the night.

'Tis time, 'tis time me mates and scaliwags! Hows they says it in Denmark, swabs! ....Ghhrrr?

Um...redneck biscuits?

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Damn, I'm missing the Scandi tour so much, now. And your great TR isn't helping, Thad! Also yeah, that Bayern Curve ride op was .... oddly slow.

Not likely, huh?

From Power Park >>>>>> Bonus Park & Credit! More riding the rides in Power Park, and then it was time to head out, back south to Tampere. But, not before we came across a Bonus Park that Robb and Elissa had arranged for us to visit, along with a quick mid afternoon meal, too! The park's name is Wasalandia, a small park with a number of flats, rides for children...and a haunt walk through that was really a good one, I felt. They divided us up into groups and then led us different directions, and rides, but eventually all ending up at their coaster, Cyclon. Here's some of the photos, both from PowerPark and Wasalandia... Power Park had this "rustic small village" set in back of the park, behind Thunderbird. It was actually built for a movie shoot based on characters of a well-known Finnish story. Then the park decided to just leave it, for everybody else to enjoy looking through. This is the entrance gate. You walked in, and the whole thing opened up to a central square area, and all the various buildings around it. It's a tree house! (o: I love this use of discarded wood and pieces that wouldn't work in regular housing. Looked like an outhouse, could be a dwelling, too. Everything looked wonderful! One of the biggest dwellings on the site. Neo's Twister, the new spinning coaster for the park. Ben & Jerry's ice cream break, of course. Then, we left the park, and went to get our luggage ready for the bus, and continuing on to Tampere. Inside the Palace - go kart tracks! It's a pretty packed together layout. Just before I left, I said goodbye to this nice young woman at the park's entrance gate. Her name was Petra and she stayed there at the gate, all day! Thank you for our great visit, Petra! And then whooosh! Here we are in Wasalandia, with a cool looking juice can ferris wheel! We didn't get to ride it, sadly. It was a quick visit, along the way. Nothing like getting your butt stuck in a kids swing, eh Neil? Map of Wasalandia. The coaster is at the bottom of it, there. Even the face looks just wrong. Flume! Several took advantage of "maybe" getting wet. Most did. Another splashdown. (More pix coming up soon...)

The original Big Thunder had always been a great ride, for myself. And the new ending looks great, although I'm sure it looks muuuch better, in person.

X-Treme Racers ~ Legoland, Denmark

This is from Disney & More... The Shanghai Tourism Festival Parade is a night one. Cool! Looks busy, without giving anything about the park itself, away. (o;

Here we go. Several days late (Sept.12) I know. But still... ~ Happy B Hong Kong D ~

Ukko - Linnanmaki park, Helsinki

Before I finally get into the 'haul' from the Scandi Tour this past summer, I found a mug I had forgotten to show here. Well, now's the time. This is from Tokyo Disneyland, 2011. And this is the first time I saw Philharmagic, and in Japanese, too! I also bought the attraction's t-shirt and CD soundtrack, again in Japanese lol. Pardon the darkness of the shots. I lightened the first one, so that you could see the whole mug, better. The mug. I get a kick out of the little Sorcerer's Apprentice cap on the lid-cover. Closeup of the front of it. Jasmine and Aladdin there. There's Donald. And the Mick down below him. Where it's from, and who made it. JC and me in front of PhilharMagic, TDL 2011