Jeezus Juice

I posted the wrong picture for the one 4 pics up. For now, enjoy the strange Elephant Statue!

It looks as if they are working on that water coaster/shoot the chutes in the back of the park. It closed in 2003 huh? From the looks of it I would have guessed it'd been closed since 1903! As for the wild mouse, I don't know if you've ridden any american mice but there all pretty much braked to death. Wild Mouse OTOH HAS no brakes! plus there are several points where you can reach out and touch other parts of the course while cars are running. Once I started to learn how to ride it I was able to do Motocross tricks on some of the hills! For pure fun Wild Mouse and Rollercoaster topped the list for me, but then again I'm not used to coasters with no restraints! :o Day 3: Origionally we had planned on doing some rides at Blackpool in the morning then spending the rest of the day at Southport Pleasureland. However, given the amout of sheer joy we were having we decided to spend another complete day at Blackpool! I know for an absolute fact that we'll be going back to BPB so well get to Southport eventually. In the mean time, more pics! Oh Valhalla, why do you make all other water rides suck? I'm told this rides foundation sits on the same sand it was built on over 100 years ago! The other Noahs ark, and completely different from the one at Kennywood The Mouse travels over several buildings, If you fall out of your car don't worry, there are plenty of sandbags and 20 foot drops to break your fall Man this ride is awesome I can't believe they let me ride this! Me and this cool little Ice Cream snack went around the park meeting people Our cute little Nissan Big Blue! Here is a shot from the monorail of that old looking chutes ride they are refurbing As you can see racial sensitivty abounds in the UK This room was unavailable due to the dead hooker in the bathtub We were thinking about staying here next time since its so close to the park 5 of the 7 rides I got that day was in Fergie for some reason. I guess pink mice cars like me In the Norge' Norge' Norge' Norge' Norge' room... Avalanche has a great curvy layout the Weiner ride Another Awesome Mack Bobsled

Oh man, the wild mouse...Let me just say that that ride has hit the top of my wood coasters list. Our second day I believe I rode it 6 times in a row. It helped that queues for it woern't more than a few minutes. I have some more Blackpool pics I'm going to post later. All in all I took just over 2150 pictures so it take a while to sort through them. Plus I just flew in yesterday so it's also my first time seeing them as well. I also rode the crap out of Steeplechase. Having grown up at Knotts I have a great respect for this ride. It was great waking up every morning to Big Ones midcourse and all the little horseys going around the track. Oh, and some of the employees looked like they walked right out of the industrial revolution! All cockney'd and what what. Plus they had some great homemade cockney dock worker tattoos. Nice buch of blokes though. More pictures in a few minutes.. -Don

I'm glad you guys are enjoying the pics. I'm doing these from work so I have to fit these in between patients. The midday rush is just about over so I'll throw up some more pictures. Day two, Mission:Blackpool After Thorpe closed at 5PM! (stupid tussaud hours!) we drove up to Blackpool. We made it up there at around 930 and checked into Big Blue, BPB's official Hotel. The hotel room was nice and they let us park for free, but when I opened the window OMFG there were no less than 9 coasters directly outside of our room! Now I'm sure we all have heard how cool this place is but I was still totally blown away. If Kennywood, Knoebels, and Cedar Point had a threesome, Blackpool would look over and be all "I've been doing that for like 100 years, wankers" It's like everywhere we went at the park their was a new darkride, or coaster, or crazy walkthrough, or darkride that turned into a coaster, or walkthrough that turned into a darkride and exited by a coaster. The place is absolutely incredible. Even the Arrow coasters are good there! I didn't think The Big One was rough at all! Especially compared to Desperado and Magnum...ewww, Magnum. There were some rides and coasters we didn't even discover until the second day. Enough sucking up, onto the pictures: Me and my award winning shot of the Big One's drop shot on location in front of Pizza Hut. This is probably the worst upcharge minigolf course I've ever seen. Later in the day it was PACKED too...weird. The first of many European Towers I didn't want to pay to go up in, and the Blackpool strip We even had time to pick up the "other" Blackpool credit at the South Pier There indoor coaster actually had stuff to look at! No random darkness. Also it looks af if they had a skyway at some point. I wonder what happened? There ticket booths had some pretty intense themeing. I tried to open it up to find the smaller one inside but felt weird about grabbing its midsection Gifts were available for all ages But the ride was even better. You hear that Malestrom!! Dude! The Valhalla gift shop was awesome! I never did get to try an IRN-BRU, even though they were available in diet Plenty of softdrink themed rides here, and a maze in the distance The view from our hotel room window. Did I mention the windows in hotels here open all the way? I could've leaped onto a Big Dipper train from here!

Holy crap, you mean the ride vehicle acts as its own brake?! I've gotta try that. What sort of backup breaks are there? This sounds pretty effin' sweet. I just rode Sequoia at Gardaland and thought it was fantastic. BTW, how is the S&S park coming? Don "Yay S&S" Garrison

Hey guys, I just got back from our looong Europe trip and decided to post a day by day TR with Photos! Our trip started with a few days in the UK before flying out to Budapest to start the ECC Coaster Rhapsody trip through Hungary, Austria, Italy, and a special bonus of 10 miles in Germany! After that we flew out to Paris for our first trip to DLP and even found a few hours for Parc Asterix as well! All in all is was a GREAT trip and also our first in Europe. We already can't wait to go back. Heres Day 1: We landed in London Heathrow at 10:30am and picked up our rental car for the next few days. We ended up with a nissan micra, a super small 4 door automatic which was actually really roomy inside. Thorpe park was our obvious first choice since its less than 20 miles from the airport so we headed there and arrived just after 11. Thorpe was a pretty fun park for only having 3 coasters. Being july in the UK meant that there were loads of school kids in the park but lines thined out by the end of the day. Collossos was first and we waited about an hour. I've been looking forward to this coaster for awhile so it was really cool to finally ride it. First thing I noticed was how small a footprint is actually has. A 10 looper B&M wouldve taken up half of the park, but collossos is pretty compact. The first course is nothing really special, it feels alot like CA Screamin' with a cobra roll actually. Thankfully it has the same restraints because it would be pretty painful with the new Intamin ones. The heartline rolls are pretty cool though. They wern't uncomfortable at all really. Theres no zero G moments, just alot of hang time. The very last one though is pretty cool because of how close to the ground you get. Overall I thought the ride was pretty solid. Nemisis Inferno was pretty damn good actually. It has a cool prelift course through a misty tunnel, then a very twisty layout. Much like the other Nemesis (but to much less degree) it uses the terrain a bit for some cool fly bys. Let me talk about X:No Way Out for a bit. I have to say I was rather dissapointed with this coaster. I knew very little about it going in but I was pretty hyped for it after hearing it was a bit unconventional. A backwards ride in the dark with very long block brake stops isn't really that great. Does anyone know if there were ever any effects on this ride at all? Anyway, we were able to hit the 2 new flats ,Rush and Slammer, and collossos again after the kids left at about 4. Enough of me, on to the pics! That shot of Collossos that evryone has X:/ Waste of Time Awesome Invert! Insert 70's rock joke here Monica was too busy making out with sign to pay attention to me I waited here for an hour and no one proposed to me...grrrr Pencil Sharpened: THE RIDE Collossos is super twisty Yeah! Our first UK park! Monica says "What up from H'Row!" My first 20 quid! Unlike Canada, their money has some chick instead of a duck

That was my costume for PPP last year. The coasterbears really liked it. grrrr... -J

I totally forgot about the tag! I looked at that pic too, weird. Still seems like there would be a better wat to get steel to china than to ship from the middle of a land-locked state. <----but what does he know anyway -Don

Doesn't B&M have a production plant closer to china than the one in Ohio? I'm not totally convinced that this is china flyer track. The pics on rcdb look like they were from a camera phone and could either be unfinished Patriot track or SFMM flyer track. Whatever track it is, I can't wait to see what the layouts are for next years crop. B&M is doing some interesting things lately, maybe we'll see the first Dive Machine with a jo-jo roll -JJ

^ well, onsite in Ohio anyway. Seems like a good year for B&M though. I wonder if the SFOG hyper will be any different from the ones we've seen already. I guess another Nitro wouldn't hurt. Also, any word on Cedar Points 9 Jo-Jo roll floorless yet? -Don

I'd say floorless too. I'm thinking that maybe Hydra was just a test. If CP built one with like 5 jo-jos they could possibly take the inversion record. And they have TONS of room with all that concrete and no trees! -DJ

.::Correction::. I just taked to Duane from rcdb.com and he informed me that the coaster isn't really there. Apperently the people who operated the park also operate a traveling carnival, a part of which the coaster is. They were thinking at one point to put the traveling coaster at the fixed park but that apperently has not come to be. Update your website Paradise Island, sheesh.. -Don

No we didn't stop at all that day. I had checked out W.P. prior to setting out but it was the first day of our 7 week coaster road trip and honestly I didn't know if we we're going to have the funds to complete it. I decided it would make the most sense to do a "best of" tour to make sure we we're able to complete our trip. For example, that first day of our trip started in Anaheim at 4 am and ended at a KOA in Fort Stockton TX 9:30 pm that evening. Day 2 took us to SFFT at opening, an hour at Sea World San Antonio, then a drive to KOA #2 in north Houston. I made a 60min DVD of our road trip last summer. It's got some pretty funny parts and gives you a good idea what it would be like to take 2 months driving around the country camping and going to parks. Maybe I should make it available again this year? Jeezus "56 parks in 49 days" Juice

Wow, these things are all over. We drove through El Paso last summer, maybe we could've added a credit? Oh, and as for your comment ^^^ I did and (check my sig) I did!! <---feels dirty

Tilt-o-whirl-Redondo Beach Pier, Redondo Beach, CA Thats also where I first played Super Mario Bros. 3 back in the day. Play Choice 10, Ha!

I found out that a small FEC in Sacramento appears to be getting a Schiff/Molina & Sons kiddie coaster. I know it's not much, but I report the news, not make it up. Anyway heres a link to their ride page with the tell-all info: http://www.paradiseislandpark.com/rides.htm Click the Roller Coaster: Coming Soon! link for a picture. Apperently it's located by the expo center. Whoo.... -Don

I'm guessing your going with a wooden layout? I've come up with a track design using 2X4s as crossmembers and slotted 2" PVC as cap rails. But the real challenge is rolling stock. I was planning on going with skate wheels and teflon upstops. What are you planning on doing? Don "Curious backyard enthusiest" Garrison

The Paris RnR has a dance club lighting package throughout the course instead of the black-lit plywood donuts Orlando has. Other than that I believe all 3 coasters are the same layout wise. -Don "The third being Xpress at WW" tha gansta edit because Robb beat me to it, grrrr...

Theres a pretty good reason you don't see alot of the older flats around anymore. Over the years as ride companies change focus/ go out of buisness, replacement parts become harder and harder to find. In some cases parks are left to fabricate their own parts and the cost associated with that can be pretty steep. In some cases it makes better financial sense to scrap older rides for new models/lemon chill stands what have you. Some parks I would look at that still have many operating vintage rides would be Rye Playland, Kennywood, and the Holy Grail of traditional parks Knobels. They still have gas operated rides. :shock: Indiana Beach has a Tilt-o-whirl that spun me pretty stupid, so theres another one. -Rideman Don

^ We looked for you dude but we wern't able to find you! Next time we'll make more specific plans. We were only at the park for about 3 hours before we'd ridden all the coasters, drop zone, and Logg Jammin! I was able to get the Taxi Jam credit! Un-freaking-believable. Wally had a good laugh at my expense but it was worth it to FINALLY get the holy grail of PGA. The 6 year old I had to ride with didn't seem too weirded out either, but then I beat a hasty retreat after we got back to the station. (I even popped my own realese knob to expedite the departure.) I swear I've ridden more kiddie coasters this year than I have in my whole life... Don "Won't seem like such a Cre-Ho after this season"

I've met homeless people that "commute" to San Francisco because the handouts are pretty good. There was this one guy who lives in some bushes in Eureka who saves beercans to buy a bus ticket to SF every year. He says a few months on the street in SF will give him enough money to stay high for the rest of the year "back home" Apperently the cardboard housing market in Eureka is pretty good! Jeezus "In San Francisco, the homeless are like the pigeons" Juice

This is the camera I use when I wanna film on waterslides or log flumes: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=MPKDVF7&Dept=cameras&CategoryName=acc_DIAccessories_MarineAccessories I actually have two so I can leave one in the car incase I go to the beach or something. every enthusiest should have at least one of these IMO. -JJ

^ Also that camera fits in your pocket. You should fasten some kind of leash to secure your camera to yourself before shooting any POVs. Oh, and uh...make sure your get park permission and stuff like I always do. And if your falling into a fountain, be sure to throw your camera into a nearby flowerbed as you go down. Which is exactly the opposite of what I did last week. Jeezus "My camera is working again, but its pretty pissed at me" don

I'll be there at opening, doods. Are y'all up for some second hand Manteca slides?! -Slave...er...SLAYER...ER Don "Doesn't know what I'm wearing tomorrow"

Your link is sending me to streamload.com. Did your internets break? I posted my video straight to the boards. Look a few topics up^^^. Or down depending on how popular it is. -Don "Picturing it in my head and enjoying the nudity" Juice