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LOL Joey! I got yelled at the other day from some random guy who just started talking to us about North Korea firing missles at California! Anyways, I'm not too concerned. I just think it's funny that we have so many resources in the Middle East with stuff much more serious going on in so many other places. (But I'll save this rant for OFF the internet!) Here's to Japan not getting blown up!

Liseberg Europa Park Blackpool Those would probably be my top 3. You can fly RyanAir from London to Liseberg pretty cheap!

Have you been there before? If you've been to Disneyland Paris before (even if you have NOT been to the studios) you'll be fine with 2 days, and 1 day at Asterix. If you have NOT ever been to the resort before, spend 3 days there. This also depends on if you're into Disney, or more into Coasters. If you're not that into Disney, you'll also only need 2 days.

^^I'd be careful with that too Larry! We had our video camera to catch a female teenage linejumper at Cliffs and she actually hit the camera! (Pretty hard) Although, we did show it to security and get her kicked out of the park so that was cool.

^I'm glad someone picked up on that! Yeah, we were wading through some nasty stuff in most of the queues!

^Joey is going for the top of the list!

They will both be crowded. Neither of the parks have a mainstream Fastpass type system. CP can handle crowds much better than PKI. Have you been to them both before? Which one would you rather go to?

All rides were pretty poor operations wise. Batman, Revolution, Psyclone, and X were both one train on a Holiday! Didn't really look at most of the other rides, but they weren't constantly out on the circuit. It's just kind of sad. We all saw what the park was capable earlier in the year (friendly staff, rides running multiple trains, clean park, etc.) and now the park is back to its old habits and some new ones!

Its just, I was going to sign up for this trip, but I live in England and I thought it would be out of order of me to be a part of this UK trip as I live in the UK & visit these parks on a regular basis and I could taking a place that someone from America wanted. Not at all! TPR is not an "American" theme park site as we have a large percentage of members from all over the world. While we might be based in the US, that's not the home of many of our users. The UK trip had members from the US, Canada, Australia, UK, and Japan. (and originally Germany too!)

Ahhh, the Intamin Woody Airtime.... Every park needs to get an Intamin Woody NOW!

Had a few of us get together today figured we'd check out the mountain to see if there had been any improvements and to check out the 4th of July fireworks...I'll let the pictures tell the story but first a quick rant... I really like Tatsu, like really like it!... but every time I go to the mountain it is being run worse and worse. Tonight we were witness to six minute and worse dispatches, ride ops asking each other what's going on and if so and so quit yet, (all over the main microphone), bad queue management, spitting and smoking in the station, it was just awful. 31 minute wait with flashpass with half of the rides capacity going to the flashpass queues! It's breaking down all the time, ride ops don't seem to care or know what to do (in fact one of the green tags was ranting about how much the park sucks and hasn't trained them for any of this). This was also all going on with a supervisor in the station. It is really hard to convey how disappointing it has been trying to get on and enjoy Tatsu lately. Thanks for reading! And finallly, Joey and the defunct Freefall. We've been hearing that it will open up in 'two weeks' for about 4 months now! Last train of the night on Riddlers (which misses it's only good rideop!) I want to go to this park! Riddlers misses Hypotenuse, so now it's only called 'Revenge'. Mmmm, Fireworks through Deja Vu (which was actually running until shortly before this picture was taken!) Oh yeah, it was some holiday today too! But they were playing Knotts music so I felt dirty. Even Sylvester was trying to escape! Same Shop, Different Employee, Same Apathetic Nature. It took 31 minutes with FlashPass. Keeping in mind flashpass was getting half of EACH train and the line was down the stairs. Ugh, I don't even know what to say. The Tatsu operations were so HORRIBLE that we couldn't' take it! I got Joey and Joe confused! We get to the top and see the friendly ride operator sitting down half asleep! Yay, Sky Tower was actually open! Joey got his first ride in 6 years!

That's awesome! Family friendly all the way! Our visit to SFMM was interesting tonight, but not 'driveby' interesting.

Wednesday is a big camp visit day, I would avoid it. Go to X first. If you bring a coke can you can get buy one ticket get one free.

Don't know what to tell you guys, I just tried on 3 different computers and page 1 worked. Did you try closing your browser, reopening it, and refreshing?

Robb says: Space Mountain at WDW... Kind of funny, he's from California and I'm from Florida, yet our first credits were from each others states!

Thanks! It was fun! Looking forward to doing a Vow Renewel there someday and inviting all of TPR!

Just so everyone knows, I have setup a MySpace account so that at least no one else can register my name. It has one picture and tells people to visit this site if they actually want to know anything about me! I feel dirty now, thanks!

Come on now! I can't keep doing all of your Japan research for you! It just takes some patience and looking at links. 2 Clicks from the main page you'll find this: http://www.fujikyu.co.jp/fuji-q/information/calender2006/7.html That's for July. It looks like they do not have September schedule up yet. Try again soon!

Was Predator down or were you just smart enough not to ride it? I always thought that SFDL's Superman was the worst of all the Intamin Hypers Intamin Rattlewise, and 2nd from the bottom ride wise (Stupid Thunder Dolphin!) Nice Report! Stupid elusive kiddie credits!

^I knew I liked you Larry!

^Good to hear Derek, looking forward to your whole report! As for the Alvey's Summer...nothing else planned right now, just trying to do some site stuff after the big UK trip. If we do anything it will be either SFGAd or PPP.

Actually, I'd be curious to see what beaver he posts!

Um, I think you are confused. No one died on Speed Boarder, in fact it was open in January when we were there. Someone died on their freefall ride and that has been scrapped.

From the Joypolis Website: Yup, it took over the Speed Boarder area.

^Was that in English or drunkness. I seriously do not even know what you're saying!