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Thanks for all the comments guys! And yes Nick, it was a very fun day. Anyway here's part 2: That we are! Lets go this way! No that way! No, the other way! This thing! Oh, and those two blurs are the ghosts of Tidal Wave and Stealth. Still around. Arrrrrrr. Wait, what? How is this a pirate ride? Inside of the Joe Cool Cafe. We had the Joe Cool burgers. Looks pretty good. This and the next few pictures were taken from the chairlift. Go carts. I had a funny experience in line for Grizzly: a couple of kids saw the back of my shirt and were discussing what TPR could mean. The winner? Toilet paper roll. So, from now on, I will refer to TPR as a bathroom item. A Vekoma and Arrow in one shot! What horror! Actually, Demon is still quite fun. Swing, swing, swing. This slide was testing, there was water running in it and everything. So many colors! My eyes! This revolution looks so... small. Always a fun ride! We never saw Firefall open all day. Vortex is actually a pretty compact ride. Rapids loading station. Staring at the rotating platform makes you dizzy. Vortex really needs to be repainted. Perhaps a Cedar Fair red? The palm trees are sad that they are to big to ride Top Flight Deck Gun. So close... and yet so far. She's happy no one sprayed her. Random spy cabin? Red alert! Battle stations! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! I actually got reasonably wet on this ride. Nick escaped almost unscathed, however. Anyone know what this island is for? I like to think its a secret paradise for special people. You were closed all day! Got the sniffles? Water wins. Unless the fire is hot enough to evaporate the water first. But that would be pretty hot. Here you can see just how wide B&M trains are. What happened to Alpha, Beta, and Gamma flyer? It stayed pretty crowded all day. Vortex tries to appear American. But we all know he's actually Swiss. And all this time I thought Mount Rushmore was in South Dakota! Why is this bear so happy!? Perhaps because his flowers are pink... I wish they would bring back the original Demon theming. Invertigo is kind of bad at hiding. This guy will pull the train up the second lift when Invertigo opens. Invertigo stole the Toys "R" Us" R"! Why does Vekoma call this a Butterfly Loop? It looks more like a cobra... A rare moment when a train is not on this turn traveling at 0.00001 MPH. Why do the cars travel up the tower at different speeds? Drop Tower was our last ride of the day... ...AKA "Pord Rewot!" The sneaky Demon almost escapes my camera! This must be a very boring job. But who knows, he could be sleeping under those sunglasses. Invertigo stooped testing in the middle of the day. About the time a guy started to mess with something above the station. Two classic rides in one shot! Score! Almost forgot this sign. Old Triple Play queue. I swear the train was there a second ago! Almost out of the park... I think Cedar Fair park are so clean because if you just throw a piece of trash, chances are that its gonna fall in one of these. Isn't having on a hat and hood on at the same time kind of redundant? "California's Great CGA America." Last shot of the Columbia Carousel! I swear! Is this the real Tidal Wave or a just a model in guest services? YOU DECIDE! STAMPEDE OF PHYSICS KIDS! Some random kid who made me take a picture of him. Oh wait, that's me. I had fun! Whoo, I know know a TPR member outside of BAB! Nick had fun too. This trash can seemed so... out of place. Also, is it just me or is it camouflaged? Last coaster shot! Still have no idea what to call this thing. No comment.

I never brought my camera to the Bay Area Bash, and I wouldn't have had any time to take pictures anyway. So I guess that I'm making up for it now, documenting physics day at CGA. And yes, I was a physics student! My AP physics teacher decided to take us to the park as an end of the year treat. This TR will be full of park index love, as well as what I think are some pretty nice pictures, considering my aging digital camera. Anyway, here is CGA on Friday the 21st, less than a week after BAB! This also my very first TR, so please let me know what I I did right and what I could improve. Here I (Adam) am at 6:30 in the morning. Ugh. NOT a morning person... But note my park attire: TPR shirt, and roomy cargo pants so there is no need to rent any soft, soft rabbits engorged with drugs and slime. This applies more to SF parks, however. And yes, this is the famous home made TPR shirt that debuted at last years BAB and returned this year. Once again, its back by popular demand! Breakfast of champions! This is the picture that Kristen (KT) gave me at CGA during this years BAB. She gave out only about 10 of them, so I feel like I'm a chosen one or something! It's proudly displayed on my fridge. Twinkie: "Can I go with you to CGA? PLease, please, PLEASE?" Me: "No, I don't think they allow dogs there. Sorry!" "Stupid CGA..." Our physics room was used as the staging area before the hour trip to Santa Clara. "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?." NO, we're still in the school parking lot! ALSO: Notice the hat... Uh-oh. A busload of physics kids! Quick, someone run it off the road! AAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHH! Another one! "For lease." Hmmmmm... The next TPR headquaters? Ah, finally! After going right past it and almost hitting San Francisco. NOT a good sign. LOOK! Our ride has wheels! If your name starts with Jeff and ends with Johnson, chances are that you count this as a credit. Nooo! Physics day children! Gives you an idea how crowded the day was. Amazingly, I have a fellow TPR member in school that I JUST found out that morning! He saw my world famous TPR shirt and introduced himself. This is coaster-crazy AKA Nick AKA the guy who does all the SCBB Haunted Castle construction updates. SWEET! I now have someone coaster literate to go around the park with me! And that we did. AWESOME! I never expected to meet another TPR member outside a TPR trip. Star Tower. This can't be good. Obligatory shot! Wow, CGA FINALLY got a new ride! Bench: The ride. Vortex doing its thing. Those poor, poor people don't know that the chains were replaced with licorice sticks. Is Avatar playing? The all new Panda Express, brought to you by Nick! Later in the day, it had a line out to the Skycoaster.. It may LOOK like a Skycoaster, but its actually a giant slingshot. We see you testing Invertigo! OMG is it stuck again? Those lucky, lucky water dummies might not have heads or arms, but they get Invertigo ERT! Oh wait- that's a bad thing isn't it? TAKE THE TUNNEL!! " This is just an observation tower, ri- AAAAAAAAAAAA! Here's to Grizzly earning a 16th year as #worst! Its not THAT bad actually, the retracking helped a lot. But it still doesn't do anything. If only they could give it a Colossus style reprofiling, but in reverse... Even Grizzly had a long line! One of the weirdest wildmice ever, Psycho Mouse. Index love! That mouse creeps me out. What is it plotting? Today the old train station, tomorrow the world!? Nick trying not to smoke. Unfortunately, Planet Snoopy and Kidzville were closed. We missed the Intamin credit. We tried not to cry. I don't remember if we were successful. Formerly known as the Nicktoons cafe. Loggers run station. Imagine four high school students squeezed into one of these boats. Yeah, it happened. Yes it was tight! Weeeeeeeeee. This was a fun ride. You call that a splash? We did not ride this evil machine. More love! Old Tidal Wave/ Geezed Lightnin' footers. Sniff. Grrr not open yet. Freaky floating head and disembodied hand. LEGAL INFRINGEMENT! We can do this the easy way or the hard way, Mr. Pants... Flyers! Hey, this ride isn't rough, is it? Must... not... let... physics... nerd... emerge! My first Enterprise! The buzzer is EXTREMELY loud though. Painful. I figured out how to snap! I got some good *90 DEGREES* action. If it had "Hollywood" in front of the name, it could be called "HRRR." Totally original abbreviation. Really. Rattle rattle rattle. An intense loop. Your head goes WHAM into the restraint right about here. A random torture machine. Physics kids all look alike. The Top Flight deck Gun sign. Looks decently cool. Zero- GEEEEEE!!! Various rodents fly missions in these actual planes. WHOOSH. Didn't I get to see this from a better angle in the BAB backstage tour? Lucky number 7. NERD SHOT! This is actually the chain tensioning mechanism. Those missiles are totally real. Stored just in case of another Beverly Hills Cop III situation. Wow, that is one ugly butterfly. MUST. PUSH. BIG. RED. BUTTON. Yes I just rode Top Flight Deck Gun. Yes this is my Tom Cruise impression. No I did not jump on Oprah's couch. This is also my MANLY POSE. No, I didn't see Gertrude. And stop laughing. I think TPR is Robb's personal planet. The original bumper cars. So, when is CGA getting that Mega-lite? OMG! I want to ride that orange thing! As you can see, Star Tower had lots of invisible people in line. That's a lot of wheels... so its two credits! One for the trip up, and one for down. If you took the car off the tower, it would look like a giant blue doughnut. Whats this thing called again? Afterburn? Loggers Run and Boomerang Bay. No Yankee Clipper. No Stealth. A Vekoma creation. If only the gates had looked like this when the park opened... The Columbia Carousel is quite impressive. Gives you an idea of how close the office buildings are. And there is something missing from this picture that SFGam still has. As part of the physics day festivities, there was a FIRST robotics competition. OMNI-WHEELS! The Lego candy... CAN STACK! Apparently, these jawbreakers are "psychedelic." ... in what direction? No! I missed the splash. The pressure to think up of a witty caption is overwhelming. Bayern Curve. Demon was down when the park opened later in the day. I had a pretty good ride, ho headbanging. I braced my shoulder against the inside of the car. Demon doing that thing where it goes into a hill so steep that it loops around. Looks like the Arrow welders had a brain fart. Grizzly's famous hour long turnaround. The drop tower went down in the middle of the day. Literally and figuratively. Apparently the survivor contract will expire in a year. The it will be just called "The Ride." Um, I'll try? We still have our chairlift SFGam! In your face! I seem to have hit the picture limit, look out for part 2!

^I had issues with building it, because the views are at 90 degree intervals. This is before i realized the "save as element" thing. So yeah its blocky... But "angular" sounds cooler!

Well I had absolutely no idea to call this. Its working name of "RCC#1EXSUPFIN.EX.4" was a bit of a mouthful, so here we are. Its my very first NL coaster, short of just playing around with the program. It took well over a year to build, working on and off, but its been mostly completed for maybe a year. It took me so long to post it because I was never quite happy with, and I'm still not, but I think its finally decent enough to release. The last few months have mostly been mucking around with it getting as many pumps, jerks, and quirks out as possible. There are still a few noticeable awkward areas, but nothing too major. Yes its only my first coaster, but I spent alot of time on this trying to get it as perfect as possible, with my current skill. I tried my hand at custom supporting, and as a result its about 50/50 CS/NCS. Its all hand built, save for a basic auto flanger and track smoother. I did cheat slightly though... The coaster is running without the improved friction... in the early versions, it was on, and then after I used the auto flanger it got turned off. I never knew, and re-profiled the entire ride to work with the mysterious new speed- I'm still kicking myself for not checking the friction setting!At that point it would have been too much work to fix it, so I left it with the reduced friction. Lets just say Intamin is using some breakthrough friction reduction technology, ok? So the coaster itself: a 225 foot tall 6780 foot long 77mph hypercoaster. It has three trains, each with six cars. Originally it had 8 (or 10?) but the friction fiasco messed this up, I had to keep the forces in check. It runs three trains to get back the capacity lost, and the blocking system is a bit weird, admittedly. There are two stations, and a MCBR late in the track. The first few times the trains run around, there is stacking on top of the lift hill, but after that they only stack for a few seconds before the station. This weird arrangement is thanks to running three trains on a track with the MCBR so late... I noticed this too late to fix it without re-working the whole coaster. So anyway, known issues: 1. Strange train timing/dispatch 2. Some pumps/jerks, that I can't get out 3. Some weird helix supports that cut into the track 4. Some macgyvered CS- but I am proud of my overbank supports 5. Its all built at 90 degree intervals to line up with the grid I am happy to report that it passes the tunnel test, and 99% of the forces are in check- there is a spot or two of red G's, but this is only noticeable in the last car in 25% speed/time, and only last for a split second- this as safe, I'm sure. Plenty of air time, and some neat/strange elements. The strange elements come from me starting this coaster when I had much less experience (which I gained over the course of its construction). I never removed them, I guess because they make it unique, and I kinda like them. The first is massive non-inverting immelman- with a turn. This is actually right after the initial drop, and was built as a result of running out of map room. The other is a non- inverting loop, that I downloaded from this thread- its jarmor's "hilloop." Yes, I know- using pre-made elements is discouraged. But I thought is was cool when I just got NL, so it stayed. Weird on a hypercoaster, but that's what makes it unique! Its also all built at 90 degree intervals- this was before I realized that you can make an element in another file, and then position it at the right angle. It was pretty much impossible to eliminate pups at odd angles before I knew this, so its all boxy overall. Doesn't really detract from the ride though. So without any further (and further and further and further) ado, I present My first NL coaster: Aurorum. Remember, its my very first NL coaster, so be gentle! Just a cool view 90 DEGREES!!! Its RED! And TWISTY! Red and twisty red and twisty red and twisty red and twisty... MCBR, first overbank, and final bunny hills The view from the top of the lift General overview RCC#1EXSUPFIN.EX.4.nltrack File download

^ Haha I remember that! Those tigers seemed VERY interested in your daughter. Your avatar is a picture of the sloth that visited us at mealtime, right? nyanko, I remember you! We had a ride together during the Tony Hawk Challenge. I was the one in the black home made TPR shirt. Medusa ERT was awesome, and we had plenty of time. I managed to get 5 rides in those 15 minutes, and 12 total throughout the day. The gold flash pass is GODLY!! I'm never going to another Sixflags park without buying one. Overall, I swiped 12 rides on Medusa, 5 on V2, 3 on Roar, 2 on Boomerang, 1 on Kong, and 1 one on Cobra. I rode THBS twice before ERT, and probably rode it 8 or so times during the ERT/Tony Hawk Challenge. That Challenge was incredibly fun and hilarious!! It quickly degenerated to dumping water on each other, and trying to soak each other from the people on the ride to spectators, and spectators to people on the ride. This all culminated in water coolers getting dumped on the cars entering the station. I had an awesome time. I would like to thank everyone for being there, Robb and Elissa for organizing this INCREDIBLE event, and SFDK for everything, mostly for creating the hilarious Tony Hawk Challenge! I had a GREAT time on my first TPR trip, and I'm definitely going to next years Bay Area Bash! -Adam, AKA the guy in the black home made TPR shirt

I'm so excited for tomorrow! Turns out I'm going to be attending alone. Well... you guys are going to be there, right? So not really! I have a few question though about the Flash pass; the 50% off discount is really enticing so I'm going to be getting one. Probably a Gold. I've never used one before, so I have a few questions: 1.It's an electronic queuing system, and the difference between the normal and gold version is $5 (With 50% discount. $13 vs. $18). For that you get special seating at the shows (Not really going to use that) and up to a 75% shortened wait time for attractions over the normal Flash pass. (Whoo!!) Is this right? 2. Is it going to be worth it to get a Gold Flash pass over the normal Flash pass on a weekday? 3. Am I right to think that it can be used an unlimited amount of times during the day, but only one ride can be reserved at a time on either version? 4. You have to leave a valid driver license or photo ID at the Flash pass booth in order to rent a unit. I'm 16 and I don't drive yet, so can I still rent a flash pass if I leave them my school photo ID? Thanks for any answers! My sister made me an awesome TPR shirt for me to wear at the bash. (I hope that's okay) My screen name is written on the back, so say hi if you see me! See you there!

Whoo!! This works out perfectly for me, I was planning to visit SFDK for the first time this summer. This will be my first ever TPR trip; I wanted to attend WCB, but I wouldn't have enough time to make that much money. I might bring my mom as a guest, I made her promise that she would ride a roller coaster at least once in her life. In return, I have to provide her a hand to crush and mangle during the ride. Its probably high time to introduce myself: I'm Adam, a 16 year old coaster lover from Maryland, who has lived in California for the past three years. I'm the only one in my family who enjoys roller coasters (although there may still be hope for my mom. We'll see August 7th) so I'll finally be among my fellow enthusiasts for the first time come the seventh! Hi everyone!

^Can you post a link to the said recreation?