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Hmm where did you buy your drugs cause I want some before I hit Vegas again!

Considering every INTAMIN rocket is custom except Kingda Kaka .. that should explain alot .. hopefully we have inversions with this one .. rockets look cool with inversions.

There were two Wet 'N Wild's in the Dallas area, the Arlington one is now Hurricane Harbor, one of the largest water parks in the country and the one in Garland is now a CarMax after Six Flags closed it. The parking lot is still there however and the tunnel under the street.

INTAMIN Parachutes rides are now even less if this is true. Not sure why they would remove it since it's a ladnmark, one of the first rides you see coming in from Downtown area. Oh well, hopefully it's a nice layout and decent .. with the most recent B&M's has me a bit concerend.

Runaway Mountain at SFOT .. love those Schwarzkopf trains

Dunno of any discounts at Dollywood, if you have an SDC pass you get in for 1/2 off however, around $21. The hotel we stayed at was the Comfort Inn/Suites right across from Dollywood Lane. It was very nice actually and clean. It was right next to a Marble Slab and Burger King, so it made food runs easy.

Dania Beach Hurricane Thunder Run at SFKK Nex Mexico Rattler

Oh yeah another photo: Sam attacking me again at SFKK!

Rest!? What is that? Thing is we had 3 more parks to do .. we gave those up .. so at least we got some sleep. The new GL waterpark looks very nice from what I could see, should be a nice addition. Kennywood and IB were the only days without clouds and the Galaxi is running at IB .. it was closed in 2002 on my first visit but opened later in the day. Looks like its in bad shape, but runs smoothly.

Robb has PowderKeg and I've seen a few SheiKra's out there.

IB put the flyers right behind the building with Tig'rr on top next to the paddle boats. They built a new platform for them .. kinda cool over the lake and all. The old Water Park still has some slides and the old wave pool for now .. I'm sure after they expand it next year, those will be gone and expansion room for the park. It looks all weird now by Steel Venom and Head Spin without that huge slide complex. Greezed Lightnin runs ok, I know they've always braked the weight-dropped modles, but this brake is on HARD. It smells bad and barely makes it up the back spike. Kinda of a dissapointment, but Thunder Run and Chang were running AMAZING. I've got some more photos, just need to resize them and stuff .. should post them later tonight.

More Photos wall.wmv Me running into the wall at Indiana Beach! The crazy YoYo Praise Anton! Lost Coaster .. interesting little ride Frankenstein's Castle Me like corn .. Cornball Yay for snappage! Air Crow, new Larson Flyers Thunderbolty New entrance .. amazing New entrance gates Cute fuzzy bunny with rocket New logo rules! Yay for Vekoma! Wildwater Kingdom, doesn't open til Mid-June

Ok so this is delayed cause of work and travel delays .. stupid airlines! Anyways .. my semi-hellish weekend as follows: Day 1: - Left DFW around 650am, it was way too early, but I got to ride the new automated people mover which is the largest airport train in the world currently and it's very nice. Just something scares me about French-Canadian Automation. We landed at IND (Indianapolis) around 10am, picked up the rental car, set GPS and head out to Holiday World. Due to slowness of the driver, we didn't make it to Holiday World until almost 1pm. Got our ACE Discount tickets, my handful of park maps and headed for the Raven. - Waited for the train to return, buckled into the back and head out. Got about 8 clicks up on the rollbacks and bam, we stop. The mechanic was working, employees came out to tell us everything was ok, then he said it wouldn't restart. So they evaced us, something I've yet to do on the Raven, but I got to walk on it. We waited around for a bit longer in the station house and then they said it wouldn't open the rest of the day, final cause .. "Drive Fault" on the panel. Ok so headed for Legend. No lines here, ended up with around 20 rides or so. Also did the new Hallowswings, Eagle's Flight, Liberty Launch and then we left after checking Raven one more time. - Next was a quick stop at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. It was empy, got my 315th coaster in as Greezed Lightnin, then hit Chang, T2 *shudders*, Thunder Run and Twisted Twins. The park took maybe 30mins to complete .. I love when parks are that empty. It was now around 5pm, so we decided we should book it to Cincinnatti if we wanted to make PKI. We hit PKI right around 730pm. Headed in and got placed on Italian Job by Jeff. Nice little ride, the line was about 90mins without the reservation system going on. Got 2 rides on the ride and we left. Stopped at White Castle *puke* then headed up to Sandusky for the night. Day 2: - Arrive in Sandusky around 1am, checked into the Breaker's Express and fell right asleep. Woke up around 430am, showered, got dressed and headed up to CP. Got our CoasterMania buttons and headed in the park and right for TTD. Saw 4 rollbacks while waiting for it to open. Got 3 rides during the ERT, which was fine with me. Got 6 Millennium Force rides during ERT. After ERT, we headed out for Geauga Lake. - Got to GL around 11am, to very empty parking lot, but alot of busses. Tried to get in with our WOF passes, but you have to have Guest Relations sign you in then escort you through the gate. Now if Six Flags can make barcodes work at their 20+ parks, why can't Cedar Fair do it with their 7 parks? Anyway, hit Steel Venom first, since last year the holding brake was off. Got that, checked the line for X-Flight .. umm no .. around 90mins. Hit Big Dipper next. I love this ride. Dominator was next and wow, this thing sucks now. It beat the living snot out of all of us, it's worse than Superman Krypton Coaster now. After that was Raging Wolf Bobs, the retrack is extensive in the first curve and straight-away, after that .. still painfully rough. - Villian had a huge line for some reason, turned out to be a break down. Did Double Loop and then we hit Big Dipper and Steel Venom a few more times and headed out. We were going to do Conneaut Lake and Waldameer, but we decided against it since we were exhausted from the night before. We headed back into CP and ate at the Midway Market again. Hit more rides like MaxAir, Disaster Transport, Sky Tower, Wicked Twister, Chaos, Gemini, Millennium Force, Wildcat, Blue Streak, Corkscrew, Mantis. Did the evening ERT on Disaster Transport and MaxAir, or should I say Muffleheads roasting on a hot light ride. Raptor was running well, no head banging in the Cobra Roll. Day 3: - Woke up early again, and headed for Pittsburgh. Arrived at Kennywood at 1030am and was stunned by the entrance. They did a very very nice job on this. Kennywood had more cars than last time in the lot, but crowds weren't bad. Hit Garfield's Nightmare first then Jack Rabbit. The new seatbelts are ok .. they don't pull them, just check to see if they are buckled. After that hit Gold Rusher, Phantom's Revenge several times, Whip and Exterminator. Ate Potato Patch, then Noah's Ark and more Phantom's. Ended up with Thunderbolt and we headed off for Primanti Bros in downtown. After filling up on the wonderful food that is Primanti Bros, we headed out back to Cincinnati, our stop over for the night. We drove through West Virginia, which we had to stop for the "Visitors Center" and then left. Day 4: - Woke up early AGAIN. Headed out from Cincinnati to Indiana Beach. We arrived in Monitcello around 955am. Stopped at the local gas station down the street from IB and got some drinks and such. I drank my water too fast and ended up throwing up in the parking lot .. that's lovely. We got to IB at 1015 and noticed the rides didn't open til 11. At 11, got our wristbands, only $10 for ACE members and hit Hoosier Hurricane first. It's running a bit better, but still very much a letdown. After Hoosier Hurricane, it was Tig'rr time. Since it was closed last time I was there, it was new for me. Nice little ride. After Tig'rr, it was time to give the new Larson Flyers a try. They have a sign stating no snapping is allowed. - The flyers are AMAZING. I got 6 really good snaps in without even trying, it was alot of fun. Sam lost his hat in the lake and a guy with a boat helped us retrive it. Nice guy. After that we hit Cornball .. man how I love this ride. After that we did Frankenstein's Castle, new for me as well. I also ran into the wall and got it on tape. Did more rides and such, Lost Coaster was another new one for me since it opened three days after I was there last. It made me kinda sick, but it's interesting to say the least. Headed back to the airport, stopped at Steak 'N Shake for food before we left. Flight was delayed almost 3 hours cause of storms in Texas. Photos: New nasty colors Steel Venom .. Geauga Lake formally known as Six Flags Worlds of Adventure formally known as Six Flags Ohio formally known as Geauga Lake Ouch .. but has a new sign Yay for John Miller coasters! Coolest coaster with "beaver" in the name droppage mmmmmmmmmmmmm Doesn't look so big now ! It goes ... SWOOOSH It's umm Deliri ... MaxAir! Schwarzkopf Wheel ... that's why I like it ! The ever great Gemini! Old Frontier Lift station .. yes I was bored mmmmm Arrow Sunset at CP Yay for Blue Streak! Blue Streak! Tornado! poor Quake Tornado ad thingie Entrance .. yay? Still one of the better INTAMIN freefalls Greezed Lightnin! The new water tower Raven .. I miss it

Blazing Fury rocks the house! Fire in the HOLE! Mine was *sigh* Titan at SFOT last night .. the more I ride that, the more I hate it.

Also the newer policy of bags in queues .. I can understand for MF, WT and TTD since they unload seperately or use very small unload areas .. but come on .. on Disaster Transport, Wildcat, Blue Streak, Gemini .. last year they allowed you to store on dock, now nothing .. at least give cheap and close lockers or be like IOA and give free lockers for the first 90mins or so .. made me very very PO'ed

Best: - Dueling Dragons - Posideon's Fury - Indy (DL) - POTC (either) - Anything inside with A/C Worst: - MaxAir (In mufflehead season, when they BBQ on the lights .. not so great) - Disaster Transport (When full .. so damn hot) - Top Thrill Dragster - Titan (SFOT) - Lost Coaster (IB) - Hell anything outside, not covered and without fans

Well we finally convinced him to go faster .. on the Kennywood-Cincinnati leg and the Cincinnati-Indiana Beach leg .. made good time and were the first to IB in the morning .. but forgot rides didn't open til 11am ..

Yanno another one that scared me was Flash Flood at Wet 'N Wild Arlington, now Hurricane Harbor. The underground waterslide that pushed you underground into a splash down pool. It had a large pump behind the start and the pump would release a "flash flood" of water. It's closed now, but it's still there. The pumps have been removed and the upper entry point is accessable, but closed off. The splash down pools and exits have been cemented over now. They closed it after the large waterslide on top, the Black Hole shifted in some land movement and cause one of the tubes to crack.

Lost Coaster of Supersition Mountain at Indiana Beach .. it's very strange and made me dizzy.

We were gonna be there on Thursday night, but didn't get into Sandusky til midnight or so from Cincinnati/Louisville .. our GPS was giving some weird directions, so we had to adjust them and our driver wouldn't go faster than 70 so it made for a LOOOOONG weekend .. TR to come soon.

Steel: 1. Phantom's Revenge (KW) 2. Millennium Force (CP) 3. Powder Keg (SDC) 4. Wildfire (SDC) 5. Xcelerator (KBF) 6. X (SFMM) 7. Montu (BGT) 8. Whizzer (SFGAm) 9. Incredible Hulk (IOA) 10. Shockwave (SFOT) Wood: 1. Ozark Wildcat (CC) 2. Thunderhead (DW) 3. Legend (HW) 4. Cornball Express (IB) 5. Raven (HW) 6. Jack Rabitt (KW) 7. Thunder Run (SFKK) 8. New Mexico Rattler (Cliffs) 9. Cheetah (WA) 10. Dania Beach Hurricane (Boomers)

Ah yes Action Park .. place was pretty scary but cool at the same time. The Tarzan Swing into the Mountain water was pretty neat .. the underground slide (I think "Cannonball") which spat you out into the same little pond/lake as the Tarzan Swing only several feet up and the Colorado River, which maybe three of ten rafts made it around right side up. I remember the Colorado River had two different ways to go depending on the line you got, most people flipped in so of the spots and had to ride down without the raft .. it was a fun ride none the less.

The looping waterslide at Action Park, now Mountain Creek in Vernon, NJ ... I was like .. HELL NO!

We passed by Joyland on our way to WOF and it looked worse than some other places I've been that have been closed for several years. There was no sign of any activity had been around in some time.

Well we leave in a few hours, so hopefully I'll have some daily updates from the trip .. but can't be sure of that since the schedule is so hectic: Thursday: - Holiday World - SF Kentucky Kingdom - PKI Friday: - Cedar Point - Geauga Lake - Conneaut Lake - Waldameer Saturday: - Kennywood - Idlewild - Primanti Bros Sunday: - Indiana Beach - Death at White Castle