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Sorry to hear of this happening at your park. I'm sure it is quite a shock to Tibidabo also.

Photoshopped? I can barely take and upload picture, that's how the sign came out. Also, I thought I mentioned months ago that I would be in the area around Labor Day and you expressed burnout regarding parks. Then I thought you were moving to Maryland. Sorry for not following up as i got closer to the date.

Alabama Adventure is one of those parks best visited with TPR where you can make your own fun within a large group of friends and pseudo friends. I have been looking forward to Rampage for years, but not the rest of the park. I bought my ticket online and saved $10 and was able to enter the park at opening. The amusement park side was pretty empty (with half the rides not operating), seems like the waterpark is the big draw in the AM. Rampage was awesome for the hour or so that it was open. It was nice that they let you reride if no one is waiting for your seat. However once Rampage closed (after opening late) and stayed closed for an hour I had no desire to stay at Alabama Adventure much longer. The flat collection includes some of my all-time favorites but they didn't run great cycles when they finally opened (I think ride ops were alternating between the flats.) I will give the park props for very friendly employees. They even offered me a free soda because it was going to take 10 minutes to prepare a grilled chicken sandwich. As I mentioned in the last set of photos, I ended up back at Sticky Fingers for dinner. Awesome food.. I stopped at the Super WalMart in Gadsden on the way back to buy stuff to clean my windshield of bugs and saw those delicacies in the bakery department. I looks like somethig Robb would have crapped out after Carrabba's Jimmy f'n Page - half DEAD Satchmo - DEAD! Charlie Watts - ALIVE Ray Charles - DEAD! BB King - ALIVE Elvis - DEAD! I loved the artwork on their Musik Express incorporating the greatest living and dead artists. Breakdance's are awesome, even when you have to wait forever for it to open. One of the best attractions in the park. Seriously! I found a gondola that was free of Tyler's spooge and rode this. See Rampage is still closed. Always a good ride, especially when everything else is closed. The Scrambler operated on and off, but when work it just spun around in circles. The closed Pirate Ship. Although I thought the Space Shot would kill me, I lived. Open up you bastard! I want to get out of this place. Boomerang #27 for me. YAY! Ka Ching This is the entrance gate 20 minutes after I arrive. Why am I outiside the gates if I'm running late? Because I forgot Alabama is in Central Time Zone so I'm actually 30 minutes early. But that didn't prevent my first stop of the day. I left my hotel 30 minutes late as the wake-up call never occured.

It's not just you! Bring on the woodies. Regarding those who don't know anyone on these trips. You might not become friends with everyone in a week or two, but if you are respectful of others you'll make enough friends to have an enjoyable time.

OK, new TV season has started. Anyone plan on watching any of the new shows regularly. Flash Forward for me

^I believe we had 29 meals included in Scandi, but who's counting. In Scandi the extra money not needed for food was spent on extra alcohol by many. That is except for the "idiot" that went to the casino with his "food" money.

Scott - I told you months ago I would be there before Labor Day. You should have cleared you calendar for the final 6 weekends of the summer. 10 hours of my life I'll never get back coming up next: Alabama Adventure. Stay tuned, I'll try to have it posted on Monday. No, I wasn't there for 10 hours. I'm including drive time in the 10 hours.

^Unfortunately, I did not go to the largest one. I think I stopped at the first one on the right side of the road driving in from I-40. I think it was close to the world's largest beef jerky outlet, which I did not have time to stop at either.

We certainly don't want anyone afraid to post here because a couple of people are over-opinionated and feel a need to respond to everyone who disagrees with them. If anyone ever feels that they are being harassed by another member let the moderators know via PM. We can't always catch everything on our own. If the moderators think your own actions are causing people to get frusutrated with you, we will let you know. However, in this day and age it never hurts to be thick skinned when posting in forums as you have internet bullies and idiots who hide behind their anonymity. This is not anything special to TPR.

Since the rest of your report rocks, you are forgiven. I hope you don't plan on a trip to the "As Seen on TV" store, before I post my PTR later this week.

^No problem. Was the bouncy ride near Pirana a "Tagada". Here is a picture of one from China's Floraland. I have still never been on one myself.

Great photos as usual, thanks Hanno

^I just looked at all your posts and don't see the PTR you posted. Are you sure you posted it on TPR? I would gladly add it the the Park Index.

If you have more photos from the park please post them. I'd like to add as much as possible to TPR's Park Index in case anyone visting the Buenos Aires area would like a diversion from this wonderful city. Same thing when it comes to your upcoming visit to Chile. Post as many pictures as you can from the park to accurate depict the feel of the park. As moderators we tend to be more liberal with the amount of pictures posted in PTR when it is a park is one that not many on TPR have visited. thanks

The Sprint logo was on the large mocked-up phone in the Japanese office. In a world of channel changing and DVRs, advertising is reverting back to its roots in sponsorships and product placements/integrations. Funny think is that logos and brand names get blocked out so that clients don't sue the movie studios and TV networks for using them without permission. Then those same brands pay other TV networks and movie studios to display those same products.

After that epsiode with the clowns I decided it was time to visit other sights in Chattanooga. As a kid my family drove through Chattanooga from Orlando to visit my cousin who was stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. We were suckered in by the Rock City/Lookout Mountain signs but never did the Incline Railway. I could not let the opportunity pass. For those who don't know Chattanooga was considered a very strategic outpost during the American Civil War and a series of battles occured here. Many historians consider these battles on Lookout Mountain the most important in the Civil War. Lookout Mountain is also home to the steepest passenger railway in the world reaching 72.7 degrees near the top. Enough of the history lesson. This place had awesome ribs, but the real star was the Sweet Potato Cassrole. So good, I returned the following night. At dinner I got Sticky Fingers. But you can visit online! Even though they were closed. I just had to stop Another great tourist sight in Chattanooga. View inside the railway Coming down the mountain! Or real guns At the gift shop you could buy toy guns. And you can learn why they fought here. You can learn about the battles themselves from talking murals. You can learn about artillery At the top, after taking a short walk you can learn more about the Battles of Chattanooga. Right after the trains pass you can see 72.7 DEGREES, not quite as fun to yell as 90 DEGREES. The two trains run on one cable, when one goes up the other must come down. It is one track except at the midway point, so that the two trains can pass each other. Yes, you need a stinkin' ticket The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway The entrance to Seriously the reason for my sightseeing excursion Sorry to hear this was under water last week No coaster enthusiast trip to Chattanooga is complete without this place.

^Joe - I know you like to complain about things (ok, everything), but what exactly is wrong with the people that were chosen. Seems like two run of the mill people to me.

It's the Japanese Peena Puu! AWESOME!

I consider the posting of this thread proof that the coaster off season has arrived in the US.

All the coasters run as long as it's above freezing. Is it at 40 degrees or 32 degrees that they shut the coasters? 40 degrees sticks in my head as the temperature.

Anyone else prefer Vekoma SLC's? Not me! No way! Not even close!

Please use this thread Now that this is official I'm locking this thread, so please use the above link, thanks.

^^Perhaps Great Escape can not get municipality approval for the installation. Perhaps Six Flags wants to keep the unique charm of Great Escape and not install another coaster with inversions. There could be many reasons.

Look at it this way. What's the point of leaving a coaster to rust in a parking lot or field?

^^It seems every park labels a moved coaster as "new', we should expect this by now. I take excpetion with the fact that they mention their stupid facebook contest that Le Monstre won. The fact that LeMonstre won should be considered an absolute embarrassment to Six Flags.