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You don't get it back. You're basically paying to rent the unit for the day, then also paying to put people on the unit. Elissa "does that make sense?" Alvey

Nice! Waterparks are really taking off. Palmdale, a kind of scary desert town is opening up a small waterpark as well! Elissa "yay!" Alvey

Like everyone else said, go for the 4, it will be more than adequate for what you need it to do and save you some money in the gas department. Elissa "although it still cost me $30 to fill my corolla!!" Alvey

Yeah, I wish the parks would be more consistant with their crazy kids policies. That stupid kiddie at SFStL comes to mind! I saw this fat kid get off of the ride, so I went up and begged to ride. The guy said I was too big. I told him that I didn't actually weigh more than some of the kids, but he just laughed and said no! Elissa "Boooo" Alvey

LOL!!!! I love the Walmart picture! Elissa "was that MGM tram lady going to that area?" Alvey

Very cool! Interesting seeing creepy stuff like this! Elissa "the street names were funny!" Alvey

Dude that sucks! It just came out of nowhere too! Elissa "sad to see a waterpark die" Alvey

Yup this made the LA news as well! "2 Girls Scared for their life, 900 feet in the air on Stratosphere's newest roller coaster" Wow, there's some great reporting going on! Elissa "although it is a problem that it wouldn't come back!" Alvey

Yeah I clicked on the paypal account, and it talks about how it's been revolked for fraud! HAHA! Elissa "the rodents will all survive!" Alvey

Hey! Leave him alone, maybe he's just excited about having the Old Guy on his pass! Elissa "I have him on my Hurricane Harbor pass too!" Alvey

Putting your video on a MiniDV tape is great! We're estimating that the winners will be announced the weekend of our Party! As for honorable mentions, it will depend on how many entries we get and awesome they all are! Elissa "so far they all look amazing, it's going to be hard judging!" Alvey

^Cool, glad I could help! We're actually going to post more about our trip soon so that everyone can meet up with us! Elissa "less than 8 weeks!" Alvey

Ok... Qbot - Limited amounts sold, can sell out, I've seen it sell out. Supposed to make you wait the same amount of time as the normal line, realistically it makes you wait about 80% of what the normal line is. It's a little device that kind of looks like a pager. You scan it at the ride you want to ride, it tells you when to come back. Meaning you can go ride something else while waiting in the 'virtual' line for whatever you queued up. So I'm thinking that this season you would get one, queue up Kingda Ka, go ride everything else in the park in 6 hours, and by then your time should be ready for Kingda Ka! You can queue up multiple rides at a time, but the 'count down' of when you can ride each one doesn't start till you've ridden the one before it. If this doesn't make sense please ask me more questions and I will try to explain it better. Gold Qbot - Even more limited amounts sold. Double the price of normal Qbot. Same exact device, it's just programmed differently where you will only have to wait 5-10% of what the line actually is. We went one time, chiller had like an hour line, we would be told to come back in 5 minutes. We did this about 5 times in a row and really pissed off the people waiting in the normal line! For what it's worth, I think that Qbot is actually the BEST 'skip the line' program out of all of them. Elissa "hope this helps" Alvey

^No, I don't think I got that!!! Wow, that's awesome! Elissa "will the divorce also be televised? " Alvey

Pre-Kingda Ka, the Qbot system worked AWESOME! I don't know how that ride will affect it, but I would go for it! Elissa "you can also upgrade to Gold for very little queue time!" Alvey

^Come on, you know your favorite part of that day was running into some old friends! Elissa "or when the bug stung my eye!" Alvey

Wouldn't be the first typo we've made! The best ever were the 25 videos that went out with the title: ...75 Mintues of... instead of Minutes...luckily someone caught it for us before we sent too many out! Elissa "we'll fix it at some point" Alvey

Ok...I've been staring at this picture for awhile now...and trying to jog my memory and I think I figured it out... There is a seatbelt...but much like Soarin, it was optional! I'm remembering that we were loading when I took that picture, the boys pulled down their restraints (just to pose for the camera), then went to put them back up to put on the seatbelt but the ride op told us we didn't need it. You can kind of see the belt and plug in the picture if you stare at it long enough. Very interesting. Elissa "my eyes hurt now!" Alvey

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS And yet again, the old people have sold their soul to stay in the game despite stupid Gretchen getting her fat ass in the elephant for no reason! You know that I'm fine with gay people, being that half of this site and half of my friends are gay, but can I just say... I'M SO GLAD THE GAY GUYS ARE GONE!!! I just couldn't stand them!!!! Oh, and I can't believe she shaved her head, oh well...she actually did look pretty good bald! Any of those white girls would have looked awful! Elissa "good episode!" Alvey

http://www.kernies-familienpark.de/ My mom told me about this on the phone today so I had to check it out. It's a pretty cool looking kiddie park, any of our posters ever been there? It's built at an abandoned Nuclear Power Plant (the plant was never actually completed). They even have an attraction where you can climb the side of the cooling tower! Elissa "too bad the coaster is powered!" Alvey

Elissa "sorry, I don't have a Steel Force one" Alvey

LOL, that's awesome! Elissa "as long as they don't serve rodents!" Alvey

Can you organize your trip so that you can pick up and return a rental car to the same place? This way it will only be about $20/day with all taxes and fees and you can go when and where you want! Elissa "seriously, don't do public transportation in this country" Alvey

Buzzbars! I like it when restraints don't touch my body! On the flip side, I think that the new Premier Lap Bars are pretty awful, I mean I love the idea, and they're better than getting your head bashed apart, but the weight of them on my stomach makes me sick. I could barely ride Mr. Freeze because it was hurting so bad. Elissa "so for upside down rides I like the Intamin stuff!" Alvey

Wow! That coaster is pretty cool looking! The pictures are also great, it looks like you guys all had a great time! I hate seeing all of these little German parks because then I want to add them to my trip! Elissa "wow, cool looking park!" Alvey