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I used to order, and recieve in the snail mail packets for Cedar Point, from the park to where you could stay.... Their main magazine was so cool, with coupon entry offers for a great visit there.They really were and still are I percieve about their park and it's importance in the Ohio economy, strong on this principle. To the present day. I really wish I could visit this park, some day, while I still can, ay my age.

^ I totally envy your timing with the crowds on this visit! That's great for you guys. I am hoping for that kind of visit, when I go back there, since.....1996? When there was still a parking lot? Great tour thru it all. Thanks for sharing.

And here's what happens, when I dropped several "Magic Cubes" into a glass of tepid water. An INSTANT DISCO in my glass! Awesome. Enjoy it.... [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=MVI_6327_h5f4[/coastertube] Bought in the mall shop on the overnight ferry, Stockholm to Helsinki. At the cashier desk! Cool!

One of the very few, if any, stand-up coasters that beared the BATMAN name on it, this was at ASTROWORLD back in the early fall of 1992. I was there for a conference, but actually had the Sat.afternoon off, so I immediately went to Astroworld, where the new BATMAN Stand-Up Coaster had just debuted that season. I rode it several times. It was great for a stand-up at that time, and I really remembered that one. So, that's my "Other" choice. EDIT to add: It also had an inline (?) corkscrew, which I had never seen or ridden in a stand-up, for that time period, late '90s. I had ridden a few by then.

I just popped over to Playland yesterday, after the PNE had shut down for the year. And who did I run into, but a regular TPR Tour friend of mine, Karl! He was up here from the States. To marathon Coaster several times. Then, back to the USA! But just before he left, we ran into each other! Cool! Here's my (somewhat okay) selfie of me and him.... Me and Karl. Man, I am so short! The taller more suave looking, is Karl there.

Great tour of the park! And this is my favourite photo you took... Really a lovely shot.

A Bollywood park sounds awesome! But so much dancing. How will the gp ever cope?

^ Why isn't more CA theme park food, done with artichokes? Or is it being done? Curious, and sighing over the possibilities.

Dinner ~ Followed by more coaster riding! Dinner was supposed to start at 9. Some of us headed back to the main building for cocktails, then dinner. To our surprise, they had everything ready for us before the 9 o'clock start! That was cool, so those of us there, took advantage of the early start. Everybody eventually arrived, and the food kept coming and coming... After dinner, we were let go to go back to the park, ride the rides, close the place out, and then have evening ERT on Thunderbird! It was a great end to the evening. And my late night cocktails, too LOL. And here's a brief video of how these shot glasses and "cubes" I bought on the overnight ferry, look when they're in water. Psychadelic! [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=MVI_6326_0rla[/coastertube] By this time in the tour, I had figured out the knack of making "meat salads." (o: And it was delicious! Yeah! I am interested! What are you eating? Overview shot of where we were all eating. But then, I fiddled with the exposure, and.... And there you are, Patrick! Got ya! Sculpture over a small pond by the main building. Another overview. Hi Jenn! How ya doing? More people eating. It was a great dinner. Random sculpture, overhead. This - this I could enjoy! Loved the car - love the park's logo! Back to the park to ride the rides and stay till closing. Then, Thunderbird ERT! It's a great coaster, to ride again and again. Good photo shots from all angles of the coaster. A bit dark, but it's there. Final shot, before heading back to our room for the night. Cocktails. In a brightly blinking glass! 10:57 pm A quiet chat, late in the evening. 12:33 am Nighty night!

"not criminally responsible"

This isn't my favourite artist, but... We have a corner building almost across the street from us. It's a former business bldg. which i think has been sold, and is eventually to be turned into townhouses with underground parking. It's sat for years, empty. But it's been used for two specific media projects, As a small gorcery store from the film "Better Than Chocolate" and a small liquor shop for an episode of "Supernatural." Last weekend, a few drawings appeared up on the walls of the building. This happens from time to time, stuff being pasted up on it's walls. But this looked nice, so I got the camera out, and photographed all of it. Sadly, it only lasted a few days, as somebody thought it right to take all the drawings down. Critics. From across the street, I saw this. One. A closer look. The other side of the building. The third drawing. And another. Closeup of style. Shaky, hmm? It's part of the design. Unfocused. But still great. A few days later, all gone.

Final shots of the PNE, mostly of the Mystic India show, that had dancing of all types, including Bollywood, taking everybody through a history on India, as it was. Entertaining, and exhaustive, watching the dancers tearing into every number. The first part of it was on a stage far far away from us in the audience. Then it moved to the main floor and was great! Got some ribs at the BBQ cook-off, then me and David headed home. First, a visit to the barns and seeing these magnificent Belgian (?) horses. The stage and floor area in the Pacific Coliseum at the PNE, for "Mystic India" show. The audience. It's a free show, included with admission, so why not? On the stage, the show begins. Lots of colourful costumes and flashy, energetic dancing. This number starts on the stage... ...Then moves to the main floor. With drum guys! A level above, what is already take-your-breath-away dancing! Now it's back to the stage. How the stage looked, from where I was sitting. One number featured black light costumes. It was fun. The guys got their legs shown off, pretty nicely. (o; End of the show, bows. Final Bye Bye to the audience. Final shot at The Fair. AtmosFEAR star flyer on the other side of the grounds. Till next year, PNE! (o:

One week's warnin' mateys! Arrrrrr, handicap indeed.

pray

This will be extra awesome, if they also, eventually, decide to put the Ratatouille Adventure in back of the France pavilion. One can only hope.

^ If you normally don't get up at those times - usually between 5 and 6/7 - it's an adjustment. But I've done the tours now a number of times, so I come to expect early early mornings, etc. Big surprise is when we actually don't have to get up really early, move luggage, etc. But that's a rare ocurrence. I never really keep track of what beers I drink on a tour. I go for lagers, either in draft or bottle, where I can get it. What I have liked lately, through the tours, is Strongbow Cider. I like it when I can't get hy "home brew" BC Growers. Very tart and refreshing, in a cider. The beer glass in question may indeed be holding the beer on the label. But I forgot.

~ After Check-In ~ Rides before Dinner! Continuing on, enjoying the coasters and the other rides in the couple of hours we had, before we started dinner back at the main building. Thunderbird was just as fast and good as it eve3r was. And I still maintain that COBRA is one of my Top Boomerangs, if anybody ever counted such stuff! Still smooth, five years later. And I rode it at least three more times, absolutely happy with each ride. The park also holds one of the more interesting themed shooting dark rides in a park. Devils Hotel is a shooting dark ride, but for myself, the real joy of seeing this attraction is from the outside, and how the park has worked these trees into it's location. Here's the "Photographs Apres Dinner".... The sign says THUNDERBIRD, and that's all you need to know, right now. It's a great paint scheme on the train. One way it's red... Other way it's blue! OMG How Crazy is That??? My Fave Boomerang-er. Cobra. What's this? What's this? I can't believe my eyes. A shooting dark ride in the woods That's all I can surmise. (o; This puzzled me. They had smoking area borders ion the ground, I could understand. But this? Nothing. Power Park is such an Awesome name, they named their bumper cars after the Park! My booster, my booster. I really enjoyed this one. A few times, too. Apparently, this used to be known as "POWERLAND". Lots of motion and sexy curves in this shot. A last shot (for now) of Thunderbird, while heading back to dinner. (8pm)

Nessie - Hansa

^ I want to live at EPCOT, especially during the Food And Wine Festival, on soon.

it wasn't love ~ it was sex that ruined their marriage

steaks - sidedish - salad... a great dinner this evening, coming up.

From the "By The Way..." Dept. As many of those on tour found out, I was smoking during the tour. I stayed within the boundaries that parks set, mostly with set smoking areas, and others totally without (good for you Tusenfryd!). It's a bad habit I know, but right now I have no intention of arguing this. I do it during (most) tours, and don't do it at home. And these are a few shots I took, which actually feature how a couple of parks did treat their smoking guests. And I think it's credit on the parks' part, who do something for these patrons. So, hold your breath, and it's only four shots. And I apologise to those on the tour who accidently "caught my breath," so to speak. My bad, sorry. EDIT to add: Post #11111 My out-of-park time at the nice bar, outside Grona Lund. What Grona Lund did in one area, near Twister, for smoking patrons. My smokes and my liqueurs at Power Park. Ashtray was right there, outside. For my Midnight Cocktails. At Sarkanniemi park in Tampere, Finland - just beyond where we had lunch. Extra shot! This was taken in Liseberg, not because of it housing the Gasten Hotel, but because at the front (of the back) there, was a designated smoking area (one of, and this was a quiet one) the park set up. Thanks!

Really? This is something deliciously new, to me.

^ I agree. I hadn't posted any itineraries with any of my previous tour reports. So I thought this might be a unique way of showing those who haven't done a TPR Tour, how "our day" goes, heh. And remember, even this schedule had it's changes, alterations and substitutions. But everybody knew that was possibly going to happen. Even those who are on their first TPR Tour catch on real fast, and get into the schedule quite easily. It was a good group tour this time 'round, speaking for myself.