ParkTrips

^ The problem is that would leave 15 teams in each league - someone would have to be off in each league every year. That might work in the NBA or NHL but not MLB or the NFL (who was stupid enough to do this before - some teams had byes in the first week) I agree, if there isn't a west coast team in the game, screw em. Make it easier on those in the playing teams' markets to watch btw I don't like the idea of rotating alignments. I mean its not like Atlanta is in the Western Division anymore, and I say this even as a fan of a team that is competitive every year yet spends very little

In ATL 2 days before my birthday... sweet.

^ I'm just surprised someone outside of the south has heard of Project Pat! Even after all these years, the Triple 6 is relatively unknown, yet alone an understudy artist like him..

^ The area around the park is pretty hood, but the park itself isn't too bad, unless you choose to visit on a Saturday in the summer! You heard wrong, this is jesus country. Sunday mornings are really dead, and the park doesn't typically pick up too heavily, especially this early in the year. I only remember one year off the top of my head, when they replaced the brakes a few years back

My thoughts on the park ARE pretty much on par with Larry's - except when I went, everyone thought it was a dump (excluding one former forum member who was fanatical about the place). Its supposed to be improving now, but Larry just confirmed my thoughts that the park itself hasn't really come around yet. Its still 15 rides spread out among 17 square miles.. Still lots of apparent operations issues, and I doubt the park has tons of matured trees since my last visit (among other things). For the third or fourth time... I have no doubt the TPR day was fun, but was it because Visionland was awesome, or because the people on the trip and hosting the group were awesome? I do believe this was the same group who had a blast at Kentucky Kingdom several years ago. Like ginzo pointed out, TPR needs the parks to support them and vice-versa, while Larry does not. Not saying Robb is being misleading, cause again I'm sure they had fun, but he has to be a lot more careful with his words, even if they had a terrible day, than Larry Nope - opinionated? yes. Negative and ignorant? I really don't think so. Maybe if I had never been there you could say that. The first few posters recommended that the guy visit the park, I shared an alternative, and then when that wasn't an option, recommended that he avoid the park unless he wants to pay a good chunk of money for one good coaster and not much else. And, since this has degraded to insults, that's all I have to say about that. edit, actually one more thing... following up on the shot at Six Flags: Its funny you say that because the guys who designed the signs, wrote the code of conduct, and made the smoking areas are from a Cedar Fair park. lol

I was referring to Larry's trip report, a visit on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend - or as he described, "10 hours of my life that I will never get back". See my prior post for the link. Before it gets mentioned, yes, I know Labor Day weekend tends to be a slower for the parks, but still... Good luck Visionland/Magic Adventure/Steel Waters/Alabama Adventure/whatever PS - what is the admission? I only see season passes for sale. That would answer the OP's question. I wouldn't pay more than $30 for the park, as it is already a 3 hour driver from Atlanta, and doesn't offer a whole heck of a lot more than an evening with Rampage

Oh believe me, I fully understand you guys are working on it. So is the park going to be fully staffed on weekends in the summer now? No more rolling ride closures? Maybe they should change the name again, since there were some rough years under the "AA" banner as well. Sounds like they are trying to take the Mark Shaprio approach of cleaning the parks and spending more carefullyhis , which seems to have done good things for his chain. Good for you guys. However, I can't help but think that was an attempted dig at your competition... not very professional IMO If this park didn't have a top-20 wooden roller coaster, it would be held in the same respect as Wild Adventures, Magic Springs, Beech Bend, Cypress Gardens, or any of the number of other mediocre 'permanent carnival' amusement parks that plague the south. Again, no doubt the TPR day was fun, but how much of it was due to the people there, or even Rampage, and not the rest of the sun-drenched park? Hell TPR can even make a day at Knott's fun.

I imagine many people of Birmingham feel the same way. Though, truthfully, I'm not too sure how much it has REALLY improved. I trust Larry probably more than anybody on this site, as far as aligning with my thoughts and feelings. Doesn't look much better than my experience years ago. I have no doubt TPR had a great group trip last year, I mean the park does still have some nice folks, and a great woodie for some fun ERT. A little hospitality can go a long way polishing a turd.

^ Cool deal, I think you've got your plan then. Six Flags doesn't need a day and a half, especially on a Thursday. The park can be done in a day without fast passes, but they will make your day a hundred times more enjoyable. Go for Rampage, it actually is pretty good. And it will always be Visionland to me.

An evening at Lake Winnie, its a better park, and not out of the way like Visionland

Amazing deal on the foreclosure at $150M, I wouldn't be surprised if the land alone didn't cost that

They know who bought this stock. The dividend was a nice reason for long termers to buy the stock, as it was fairly stable and paid a good dividend, but even at the peak of $0.48/share, this huge losses would amounts to about 8 years worth of dividends if you bought in the mid-upper $20s! I'd be less worried about the dividend than getting my initial investment back

Awesome captions, I'm sure Jon is proud

maybe not everybody is a miserable 27 year old virgin who wants to cry about it on a website for theme park nerds

they may have won gold, but on the hottness scale, I have it scored like this Finnish woman's hockey team > US woman's hockey team > Canadian woman's hockey team Way to out-dyke the world, Canada

yeah that was definitely incidental contact. All those skaters in a really tight corner, and stuff like this happens

United States: 7-9-12-28 Germany: 7-10-7-24 Norway: 6-6-6-18 Canada: 7-6-2-15 So much for owning the podium...

"snitches get stitches" I just wanted to post here cause this has been one amazing thread.

Was the victim hot?

^ I totally agree! The CLS used to be one of the sexiest German cars in my book, though I think I'm just seeing them too often these days, as I seem to be jaded towards it Totally agree, I was surprised that they didn't have an RS- version till now. Audi has had some big hits lately - even the TTS was surprisingly good to drive, hard to believe its a TT at heart. I'm still not undecided on these $5K gearboxes with 24 settings and such, which Audi really seems to be pushing towards quicker than others, and I hope they aren't as buggy as their reputation goes, but I like their current class of cars

The spoiler thing was just a minor nitpick of mine, really. I think its just the 3/4 view that I don't really like it in too. Its weird, at first glance, I didn't care for the wheels either, but that was only for about a split second. Not that I love them, but I can live with them. Seems like I never like stock wheels on these cars, so the fact that I'm neutral towards them is a plus. I guess wheel design is just beyond me these days.

ok I've never seen an Audi I liked more than this (and yes, that includes the R8) http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/1002_2010_audi_rs5/index.html If I had to pick one thing to critique, it would be the spoiler - I'd like to see how it looks down (assuming its powered and not fixed) PS Panamera is an abomination to me, but I'm sure you knew that

oh wow, yeah, I'd say German drivers drive faster, but not what I'd call more aggressive. They seem to be better at following the rules of the road, whereas American drivers will swerve in and out of traffic, with one hand on the wheel and the other on the phone, all while neither signaling nor leaving enough space on either end. I felt the autobahns were a much safer environment than the American roads I'm used to.

Some cars are just meant to flip the bird to the ozone layer. As an aside, I have changed my views on texting while driving. No single event changed my mind, but I just got tired of it. I always looked at it from a personal liberties and responsibility choice, and there are just too many idiots out there who can't handle it, and most of them are young drivers like myself. I'm tired of people doing 15 under in the passing lane at 2am cause they are pounding away on their iphone. I won't defend them anymore, even though I do still think it is possible to both drive and text.

Though I agree its not like the 1980 win, I'd say its still a bit of a david vs goliath. How many players did you know on the US team? I'm not a huge hockey fan, so I only knew 3 of them, yet I knew half the Canadian team... Is it possible for the US to play Canada in the finals? I still want the US to deny them gold on their home turf!!