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Update: Avifauna This park is a birdpark. It has 3 main attractions and lots of other exhibits featuring birds. In the last few years they are really making an effort to dress up the park a bit. But in comparison to the park they have the best flight show I have ever seen. Difficult to take pictures (there are some) but they use 3 species of owls, 3 species of vultures, red macaws, small parakeets, eagles and to close the show an arial display of 4 brown kites doing near misses, glides and all kinds of aerobatics. But let the photographs speak for themselves. First up australia kookabura lori exhibit my brother being attacked by a gang of them I'm gonna get ya! next up cuba this is the only large building in the park with a bar outside during the summer wich serves as an entrence to the cuban exhibit which is quite big lots of pink birds in here smaller pink treebird I'm not pink..... yet Highlight of the day, the free flight show They told this kid to close his eyes because a giant predatory bird will land on his arm impressive for all you americans, your not the only country with eagles

^It is a magic donkey and yes, you have to catch his number 2

I say, I will buy them. Even if the footage is not shot in high definition, it does not mean it is poor quality. And if you have the original shots and really redo the whole thing on blu-ray trhe quality would be better. I must say I rewatch my RAW blu-ray twice as much as the normal raw dvd's. But I will go for the whole set for $75, I will not buy them single because I allready have the raw dvd's and then the price will be to high for me. Advise to all, If you do not have the RAW dvd's. BUY THEM, now is your change to get them in very good quality!!! P.S. I think I will give the dvd's to my mom, she loves them and does not have a Blu-ray player. Actually I gave her the dvd player as well

Hi All, In the last years I have build a nice archive of picture from parks and Attractions I have been. And I thought it would be nice to share them with you. So check back once in a while for new updates. Burgers First up: Archeon This park is build on the location of a former Roman Military Camp and has grown to a historical park where you can experience live in the stone/copper age, roman age and medieval times in the Netherlands. You can not only choose to go one day as a visitor, but also stay for a week, garments are included but beware you have to stay in character for the area you live in for that time. So no modern stuff for a week. It is a nice park where the employees that play the roles of peasant or soldier and tell you about the life of past era's actually live the whole season on site and in character. They are a nice source of information and let you participate in lots of activities. You can do a quick course Roman Garrison Marching or learn how to make fishing baskets. And a 101 different craftworks and skills. Highlight of the day are the Gladiator Fights. These are only half acted because they fight hard. I spoke to one of the Gladiators before the fight, and we talked about sword mastering. I train in Japanese sword skills and it was nice to compare it to the Roman sword techniques which are totally different. But the Gladiator told me that it was common in the fightshows to get injured. They use real weapons and bad things can happen. In a former year a gladiator lost an ear! But here are the pics. Medieval Town Some Details They have old Lifestock Races Ready for Harvest The Roman Bath Learn to make Mozaik This is where high Romans relax Opening of the Games Making sure no visitors escape Bam! Locking on WHAM

Luckily you got my good side . I was vast asleep by the looks of it.

Except you trying to crash the bus by flashing the driver (with your camera), I do not remember much about this ride. So I am curious about the photo's

Green Dot above the restaurant. It is in the bay of the skullpirate theme area together with the splashbattle webcamshot from a few days back

I see the new tagline about three times a day, every time I look onto the website (I'm an addict), and I have to laugh every time It is great

The cake looks like schwarzwalder kirch, can you confirm that?

EB: Hoogland, NL - Efteling and Walibi World

^ I would say A, C, D and C again. But that is just personal taste Like the photo's BTW, can't wait for Efteling

I like option 3 and 4. Voted 3 to keep it in the running I really love the tagline, It is a small change but it is already grown on me. It gives the site a bit more class

Haunted House, with the excellent doorman. Right Hans

It was at least the wettest one we did this summer. But that did not matter because of the heat. You dried in an instant.

I will follow this report closely. Was a great day in London, we have had our holiday exercise that day. Must have walked 30 miles or so. But the weather was nice and London is a great city to walk around. Especially along the thames (it was a hot day).

Roller Coasters in the Raw 5. Awesome. I like the new smaller caskets. It means more room for more coaster dvd's. I think it is good to have a bit more time to read the coaster specifics. I used to pause the dvd's. that is not necessary on this dvd. Great work on this raw edition. I didn't remember the speed of ispeed, I thought, wow, that fast.

Just got and watched the CE14 DVD. It is a great disk. It reflects the feeling of a tpr trip. Fun with little bit of .... Great PSA!! Memories of last summer came back to me and it was not even the same trip. Thank you guys for making this.

I have all their albums and the non-album songs. Attended 5 concerts and have a bunch of band merchandise. T-shirts, hoodies, belts, etc. Does that make me a fan? Favorite songs, Nebel, Fruhling in Paris, Roter Sand, Feuer und Wasser, those lyrics are pure poetry.

And so it comes to a close. I really liked to follow this tripreport. It makes me wish I was there... Oh wait, I was there Great report Hans

Nice to hang out with you for those days. And I still dream about that girl, not sure it is a nightmare or not I am game for next year.

The Last Day This would be our busiest day. With 3 parks and 1 surprize ride. First up was Stuckenbrock Hollywood unde Safari Park. This Ghetto park was really fun. A good large Safari Park wich I found really weird. They put Black Bears in the same enclosure with Onagers (wild donkeys) and camels. A boatload of white lions and tigers, probably inbred, because the male female ratio was all out of proportion. And some randomly put to together antelopes. Species I mean, this was not a frankenstein park. The rides looked not well maintained and we feared the first ride we did broke down with us on it because the drop tower stayed up for a long time before it finally fell. So first the coasters, before they broke down. Another zierer double 8 and a Vekoma Corkscrew. This coaster recently changed name to flying tiger and was repainted. It had repainted old school trains and we feared it would be a Vekoma Death machine. But to our surprize this was the smoothest coaster on the entire trip. Yay, old school vekoma. The park also contained a small zoo, with some poor lonely animals. The only exhibit that looked good was the new cheetah pen. And these cats put on a good show trying to catch us. The other big ride this park has is a log flume with rubber boats. Some kind of water coaster year 0 style thing. It was still down for the day, but the guy working on it said it would open soon so we waited and hoped it would open because we had to go, to maintain our schema. It opened and next we knew we were stampeded by a hoard of russian kids. French crush is nothing compared with a russian stampede. They were all over the station and the operator had to yell and push them to get control back of his station. The ride itself was awesomely strange. The lift hills were very slow but the downhill part was so fast it had brakes on it, otherwise you would be launched out of the tube. Onto the next park. Oh no, we had a bonus ride. A mountain coaster in the middle of Bottrop. This one was not as good as the one at Fort Fun, but it was OK. The views where nice and we even spotted a USO, which we think was a viewing tower. Next park CentrO, little did we know we visited it on one of the last days of its existence. Yay, we have that credit. It had a good spinning coaster we apparently almost broke, because after our ride the operator said that we could not ride again with four adults in one car. Being of center these cars span even more and the coaster has some close encounters with the supports. We lend ourselfs to some german kids who could not ride unless accompanied by an adult. (yes, this also works the other way around. It is not only us who lend kids to ride kiddie coasters, you can lend yourself to kids who want to ride adult coasters ) Next up Movie Park Germany for our Halloween closure. We did not do many rides because all of us had all the credits. We just did the fun ones. The drop tower, Mack mouse coaster, vekoma junior suspended, the raft ride (I still needed that credit) and Bandit. I let myself go on, because somebody convinced me it would be less painful because it was retracked. How wrong he was. Bandit is still the worst coaster in the world in my opinion. Wooden Torture machine that it is. After that we did the haunted mazes and took in the Halloween atmosphere. It was a good end to a memorable trip. Thanks guys for taking me with you! Hollywood Old School Vekoma smoothness Caged animals are more dangerous lonely white rhino white is a theme here It may be gilded, but it is still a cage Lovely animals USO Nice dora croc moviepark germany smoke anyone? ahhh very nice girl this, even with the make up

Short onride from Die! Wilde Maus

Day 3 Heide Park and... This day would be entirely for Heide Park. It was my first visit there and it looked like the park would be large enough to fill an entire day. But, alas, colossos was down. Some small rides didn't want to go and a flume was out. Colossos was a bummer but the day would become a great day because colossos was down. First up we came through the area where they were building Kraken. So I will have to go back next year, it looked like a fair amount of ground the ride will cover. So Heide Park is on my to do list for 2011. Next up was the refurbished look out tower, wich is now a gyro drop. Insane ride, nice view. Then we did the Mack bobsled. It is a excellent long bobsled and now my #100 coaster . After doing all the other rides in the park and the other coasters, vekoma slc, vekoma loop, intamin accelerator, mack powered and zierer force one the log flume did open and we could do all the rides we wanted. It not busy in the park and 3 of us, (the most hardcore themepark enthusiasts (hansrubens, groteslurf and me)) went to serengetipark. The park we missed on the first day. Serengeti is a safari park with a nice collection of animals. So I played tourguide, look there that is a.. and there a ... etc. The other half of the park is a somewhat ghetto amusement park with old fairground rides, and some really special rides. The rides were good. But I did not think the log flume was very healthy. The water was Brown, smelly and foamy. The whole park was like a swamp, with water everywhere and the local residents took quite the interest in us. Luckily for Groteslurf and me, hansrubens had put on his YELLOW europe trip shirt, so we where left alone. The coasters where Ok and surprising. There was a zierer double 8 and a mysterious Fairground coaster wich was really good. But the best ride of the day was a trip on the swamp boat. A nice big engine roaring through a very bad remake of Disney's Jungle cruise. But the boat was absolutely great and being attacked by a very slow moving, but really large king kong made this ride one you will never see in a large mainstream park. The only ride I could compare it to would be Magma 2 in movieland studios italy. Only they have better special effects. It was a great day. something is not right in this picture Kraken will extend this Bay of the Skull pirates theme area next year Nice theming for the drop tower everything is better with Lego Safari time Did you do something different to your hair? Nice of you to notice I found your contacts Having a bath is best with your friends Please open your window, we are very nice, you won't feel much Like a real safari we took a lot of pictures Hope he has insurance Trunk this The creatures liked hans a lot, do not wear yellow in a swamp nice little coaster Here we go Best ride of the trip powered by this

colorado adventure; the micheal jackson thrillride

Yup, replaced. I have to salvage some documents from the other computer. But luckily these pictures were still on my camera.