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Sweet, camel toe paintings... I've attached a few photos of our day at Bay Area Bash, although most of mine are also of animals and my family, so probably not as interesting as others. Enjoy! Ugly creature... and Taz too. Sexiness personified... well, HER anyways. Don't worry, I won't eat you little girls... I'll save you for the TIGERS! If Bertie the Bus picks up two passengers and drops off three... Broken Erection: The Ride A little more to the right... that's it...

WOW... that's all I can say about the event yesterday. My first "official" TPR event too and my family and I had an absolute BLAST. I was and continue to be impressed with the profesional and efficient way that everything was handled yesterday, from registration to the ERT later in the evening. The Tony Hawk water challenge was a serious highlight, and even though I don't find the thought of my daughter being consumed by a large, 2,500-pound killing machine, the more I think about how each tiger in the meet-and-greet seemed VERY interested in her the more I have to laugh... nervously laugh, but laugh nonetheless. Even my wife and step-daughter, who are notorious for not liking theme parks very much enjoyed themselves. My wife even took a ride on Medusa in the morning, but that didn't seem to go very well with her vertigo. Needless to say, no more rollercoasters for her until she gets that under control. My daughter got her first theme park ride under her belt on Bertie the Bus, even if she was so tired she didn't really care much about it. I can't wait until I can take her on her first coaster or better yet, her first ride at Disneyland. Anyways, thanks to Robb, Elissa and everyone at SFDK and many, MANY thanks to Gregg (Sir Clinksalot) for hanging out with us and for giving me a ride home after ERT. It was great to see you and your son again. Hopefully this won't be my last TPR event. Thanks again!

^^^ Ahh, memories. If only the park still had that much space around it to build...

I agree with Robb... I grew up going to the Great America here in California when it was Marriott's and while I loved our Tidal Wave, I always thought Montezooma's was better. Having ridden the one that used to be at Great America in Illinois, I can say that one sucks too. By the way, awesome photos though. I should dig through my old photos to see if I can spot any Great America and old Magic Mountain shots from back in the day.

Not the first to close, and unfortunately not the last. This is too bad, but hopefully that GCI gets relocated somewhere. I hear CGA would love to have a GCI...

Let's see: California Washington State Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia Florida South Carolina North Carolina Tennessee Missouri Indiana Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania New York Maryland Delaware New Jersey Kentucky Minnesota Wisconsin South Dakota Colorado Montana Idaho Utah Wyoming I believe that's it. 34 in total... but still have yet to set foot in another country. Well, save for the red states, of course...

Ok, I lied when I said the Count was my last one...

My vote goes to Duck on X:WTF w/ Dicaprio. Best one so far.

I promise this is the last one I do... unless I think of another one. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN INVERSIONS! Ahh-ahh-ha-ha-ahh...

Another lame-ass attempt from me: He wants to ride Christian Bale instead...

Someone with Photoshop will do a much better job with this idea, I think, but here's for starters: Gay Zorro on El Toro! OLE!

^ Will it be called Raw 2: Electric Boogaloo? Ok, that wasn't funny. I thoroughly enjoyed Raw volume 1, so I'm looking forward to volume 2. I've always been one of those "coaster footage" geeks, except I don't sit there and act like I'm on the ride... Really... I don't... ok, maybe I did just once, for fun...

That's all well and good, but nothing beats walking into a random McDonald's in the middle of Podunk, someplace in the Midwest and and getting recognized by the pimply-faced kid behind the counter... (a few people here I'm sure know who I'm referring to) To me, that's the moment you know you've hit the big time. Justin -- who still thinks that was one of the most awesome moments that trip...

Really, that's kind of what I figured but I wanted to check. My coworker wanted to take her kids to DK to do the Halloween events. Seems like maybe I should tell her to take her kids to CGA instead. I'm still trying to convince my wife to let me take the family to DK so I can get my THBS credit. It's all about baby steps, baby steps...

^ So in your opinion, is the Haunt at CGA worth going to? How does it stack up against what DK has or what Knott's does? Obviously Knott's has been doing it a lot longer, but I'd be curious to know from anyone that's been to CGA's version. Later, Justin

I think I can not be an asshole for a few hours, at least.

I may have to see if I can steal away for a little bit on Saturday at DK if you wouldn't mind meeting up. I still haven't gotten my credit on THBS. I'm kind of an asshole, though... No seriously, I am. Ask Robb.

^ Maybe the cop was a huge fan of TPR and Big Mike's trip reports... yeah, that has to be it. Either way, you got into the final game at Yankee Stadium, and that's something to cherish. Even if you hate the Yankees, which I do, (die-hard Oakland A's fan here) you still have to respect their history and respect the house that Ruth built. RIP Yankee Stadium. Thanks for the memories... and thanks for sharing the photos. Good stuff.

Best pictures ever. Although I do have to say that, while happy to see another headbanger munched to metal, I could see how people would be sad. For me, it would be like seeing The Demon at CGA get demolished... even though I don't ride the thing anymore because it's not in my body's best interest. (I like to keep what's left of my brain intact) I've already seen Tidal Wave/Greased Lightnin' go the way of the dodo, and that was actually my first looping coaster. Talk about sad. My first multi-inversion ride was Demon. Sad, innit? Alas, all things must come to an end... notice how I didn't say all GOOD things come to an end... because not much Vekoma or Arrow did or does is good. COME ON YOU RED DEVILS.

Yeah, the video makes it seem like it seriously slows down the train, but I have to agree with Beemerboy that I did forget about the midcourse by the time the ride video was over. I looked up the park's website too and Everland looks like a really nice park. I still haven't downloaded the Eagle's Fortress video, but going to now. I don't think anything will be as bad as Goliath's MCBR... I remember riding when it first opened and was blown away at the speed and intensity... then the next time I rode it was circumsized in a bad way.

Oh. My. God. That looks freaking amazing. Except for one thing. I'm assuming that the mid-course brake is tuned up so high to keep the slimmer and shorter Koreans from flying out of the ride? Here in America it would just be to keep from getting sued for being too "intense", but there I can imagine flying Koreans everywhere without some sort of stop-gap. Justin "Feeling rather un-PC today" Adams

D'oh! Only 16 out of 20... man, I'm slipping.

Great pics, but tell your friend to lose the AC Milan jersey... seriously, he needs to support a better team.

Well, there you have it... that's my luck innit? I find a ride that I think looks pretty amazing and it sucks. Oh well, plenty more out there that I'll probably never get the chance to ride. Oh, and Mash... GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED! I'm also a United fan. We better start scoring goals soon. Starting off like we did last year isn't exactly good for stress control. Hopefully Berba can step up and earn the right to wear the shirt.

A Saturday at Drayton Manor = much better than a Saturday watching Nottingham Forest. Nice TR. Drayton looks like a great park, and G-Force looks like a great ride. I've actually been looking at pictures of that ride online and it just looks purty-like.