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  1. Argh, I was at Six Flags Over Georgia the day before it debuted. I shall make a trip back there soon, if I can. This does look like a very interesting system. Less time in line, more time in the wave pool and lazy river! (Or other slides.)
  2. I made yet another trip to Atlanta, and while there I had to make another trip to Six Flags Over Georgia. This time around, I wasn't going for getting on as many rides as I could, I know I wouldn't be able to do that, so I just went om my favorite rides and one new ride! I didn't hit Dare Devil Dive first-thing because there were no nearby lockers. The nearest lockers were in the line of Goliath, which by the way was my first coaster of the day since the lockers were closer and Goliath had a shorter wait than Dare Devil Dive. The coaster still rocks and gives a few unsuspecting people grey-outs on the helix. It's still a little jagged on the bottom of a few drops, but I still love it! The second coaster I hit was Dare Devil Dive since my fluffy, fluffy bunny filled with... (well, you get the idea) lasted two hours. Being my first Gerstlauer coaster, it was amazing. It was fast, tight, smooth, and comfortable. It is a very fun coaster to ride and re-ride; in fact, I rode it twice that day. The first time I waited 1 hour, the second time the line shortened to a 30 minute wait. There is a serious air conditioning problem in Batman's queue line that needs to be fixed. With people cramming the windowless stairwell and loading area, it was HOT in there. Plus it was about 90+ degrees outside, so it felt more like an oven. With that said, Batman was still the B&M inverted coaster I knew, one that always leaves me disoriented after each ride; and that's one reason why I like it! I seriously think someone should pick up on making more Schwarzkopf rides like Mindbender. It is still a fun and intense coaster that I love to ride. I also always find it's line to be a walk-on whenever I go to Over Georgia. After Mindbender I rode Scorcher. I was surprised to see a less than 20 minute wait for front row and walk-on for every other row. As soon at I finished my front-row ride and walk all the way over to acrophobia, it started raining. I waited in an ice cream parlor near Acrophobia until the rain stopped. An hour later, the sky was on the verge of getting darker and the rain had slowed to near stopping, so I walked all the way to the back to wait for the rides to open. Even though rides haven't started yet, I found Superman's line stretching past the 30 minute sign, so I skipped it. I waited with a small group of people outside of Ninja's queue for it to open, and it did after they tested it's two trains multiple times. After my safe 3 near-nighttime re-rides on Ninja, I walked back to Acrophobia and re-rode that 4 times. There was my entire day! Here is my ride count: Goliath: 1 Dare Devil Dive: 2 Batman: 1 Mindbender: 1 Georgia Scorcher: 1 Ninja: 3 Acrophobia: 4 Below is HD off-ride daytime footage of Georgia Scorcher, Dare Devil Dive, Batman: The Ride, and Mindbender. There is also Nighttime footage of Ninja, Splashwater Falls, and Acrophobia. [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=Six_Flags_Over_Georgia_2011_kjzh[/coastertube] I also didn't take as many photos on this day since I've taken many photos of this park already, so enjoy what i do have! This coaster still rocks! Being my first Gerstlauer, this coaster rocked as well! If you're wondering where my Batman coaster photos went, I only took video of that coaster. "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!" Two operators sung this while operating it! Went back for a second ride since the line shortened to about 30 minutes. It doesn't stop here, it slows down. It's like a rocket! (Cell phone camera) Dark clouds start to loom overhead. (Cell Phone Camera) I didn't mind waiting less than 20 minutes for front row of Georgia Scorcher. Soon it was heavily raining and a lot of people went home. A LOT of people went home! After an hour, the rain stopped. Before rides could even test, there was a line for Superman. Pass. After passing Ninja, it started testing. Believe it or not, it's one of my favorite coasters at this park. It looks cool and scares me a little! That's why I like it! This guy's eyes stayed open for 19 years straight! I don't know if this is super important, but there was this train making rounds with nobody on it. The operators would only open the gates for the other train. Closer look. This train had a basic color scheme with no logo on it whatsoever. I was crazy enough to ride this coaster three times in a row, twice without getting off! This ride looked beautiful during this time. Soon lights were illuminated and the area was lit-up. The guy on the right looked bored. Bah, blurry.. I'll get this credit someday! I rode and re-rode this ride until the park closed... and until a certain area started hurting. It's still my absolute favorite ride in SFOG. Georgia Cyclone Again. This ride looked pretty at night. People making last minute rides on Goliath. And, that's it! I had a great day!
  3. Bandit looks great, I don't want to go near White Canyon ever, and the rest of everything that you've shown looks great or good as well (except for what you said about Spin Bullet). Great Update Robb!
  4. ^Moonsault pulled around 7 G's in the pretzel loop I'm told. Great update yet again Robb, can't wait for more!
  5. Amazing update yet again! This park did seem to have a Cedar Point feel to it. All Cedar Point needs is the Bobkarts, wild mouse, and Demon Drop. And thank you for those water park pictures, there does not seem to be any better pictures of them anywhere else.
  6. Full video will be released with the download soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH9Z0kkHfQQ
  7. ^That has absolutely too many hills... I'm kidding. More hills mean more !
  8. Still got some work to do on it.
  9. Great TR, you almost had me on Wild Arctic being replaced with an outdated version of Star Tours! I also remember my first doughnut burger at the KY state fair. It can kill you, but it's SOOO good!
  10. You guys look like you are having an awesome time. The beginning to Jupiter is possibly one of the best (if not the best) beginnings to any roller coaster out there, and that giant flume ride looks amazing! Thanks for bringing the updates back to us! I'm really enjoying them.
  11. First I'd like to mention how I haven't played this game since 2005 and recently got it back, so I am dusting myself off and trying myself on making coasters all over again. I'm not the best, but I am trying to make better and better rides. Here Goes! -------------------- Nightmare Yes, it'll be dark! With visibility shortened to a few meters, you are left to conquor your fears of Lygophobia (Fear of darkness), Achrophobia (Fear of heights), and Tachophobia (Fear of speed). Height: 230ft./70 meters Drop: 176ft./ 54 meters Speed: 68mph Length: 1301.45ft./ 397 meters Duration: 1:12 Inversions: 1 Max G-Force: 5.4 Please download this environment to go with the coaster. AJ says: When you download the environment, copy it to the following folders - For Windows - C: -> Program Files (x86) -> NoLimits Coasters v1.6 -> environments For Mac - Macintosh HD -> Applications -> NoLimits -> environments Click here to download the coaster -------------------------- Edit: Is it okay to use this thread for all my coasters I might soon upload?
  12. This was an amazing coaster. Great job, especially on the theming!
  13. I downloaded the NoLimits Track Packager and it's not working at all. Whenever I try to open a track package file, it tells me this. It shows the same thing whenever I try to edit anything in the settings menu. Edit: I just found out that my computer is not giving NoLimits permission to save under the computer folder. How do I give it permission to do so? Re-Edit: aaaaaaand... I solved it! Forget everything I said!
  14. Will it be ridden between now and October?
  15. Off the top of my head... Being real, congrats on your milestone! Off to his next credit.
  16. ^^ too funny! I can try photoshopping. I'm crappy at it, but why not.
  17. The Legend at Holiday World. Great ride at night. During Holiwood Nights, got 9 rides in!
  18. It was great, downloading the DVD now. I especially like the idea of KidTums' Korner!
  19. Coastermaina looks like fun, sucks to have all those bugs around. I don't think I could handle only getting in 3 hours of sleep. Someday maybe, but not yet!
  20. Day Two: Day two began with waiting outside the gate for someone to finally open it. We then rented our lockers for use during the ERT at the water park. Not only did they have Wildebeest open to us, but also Zinga, Zoombabwe, and the wave pool to ourselves. The line for wildebeest during ERT was just a few minutes at the most, but there were times when it was less then one minute or nearly a walk-on (But that was for the people who made it there first). Zoombabwe was almost always a walk-on and Zinga soon grew a line after people had tried the Wildebeest. After all was said and done, the normal park guests showed up and water for Jungle Racer was finally flowing. I spent time in the amusement park and rode rides I have never been on before. Pilgrim's Plunge was pretty fun, nothing intense so it was nice to ride. Gobbler's Getaway was pretty interesting, I found that you could sometimes hold down the trigger and aim it at the targets. Liberty Launch gave me the most I've ever gotten on an S&S tower, and I loved it! Soon I went to the meetup spot for the Raven and Legend Walkback and went with the group. It was interesting to see the rides in the angles I got. And it was interesting to see other people getting their "perfect angles" for both coasters. I thought it was really cool to be that close to a roller coaster and not having something in between me and it. A few minutes after the walkback my leg locked-up. I received ice and sat down for a while, then made up my mind that I was just about done anyways. I rode all the rides I wanted and I was still prone to cramps, so I left Holiday World with my family (whom was at the park, but not with me during the event), went to subway, and drove home. I had a great time at Holiwood Nights. I don't know if I'll do it again next year or just go to another enthusiast event. Thanks for reading, here are some videos I was able to obtain: Legend [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=The_Legend_63e7[/coastertube] Raven [coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=The_Raven_ep6l[/coastertube] And now, on to photos. Waiting for the day to start, you can see both Dan and Pat Koch on the other side. Soon we are led into the waterpark. Once you stowed your stuff in lockers, you couldn't return there until after ERT was over. This was taken after ERT was over. During it a walkback tour of the slide was available but I didn't do it. I rode it 5 times that day. After ERT was over, I did a few more slides and walked straight to Pilgrim's Plunge. Fun ride, got me more wet than I had expected. It was great to come into air conditioning. I came back to the front to do a few flats. This was my favorite. I soon went to the front to begin the walkback tour of Raven and Legend. I broke out my telephoto lens and soon realized that it was a little too much zoom than I needed. Walking... Wood Raven going into it's tunnel Over the river and through the woods. Flying overhead The group stretched out pretty far. The "over the river" part. The "through the woods" part. Extra Wood Passing by the Legend now. You don't exactly know how big a coaster is until you stand next to it. Undercoaster shot! Just a few more photos left. Like I said, you don't know how tall a roller coaster is until you stand next to it. It was cool to walk around this area of the coaster. Soon, "It" happened. Soon I was back on my feet, but not in good enough state to finish the day. Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who made Holiwood Nights a great event.
  21. I always attempt find methods to avoid crowds. When ERT started the majority of people headed straight to Voyage. I knew something like this was going to happen, so I headed to Raven and Legend first. I also didn't know where I was going anyways, I was on a side of the pavilion that was closest to Raven and Legend. There were a lot of people, but they didn't show up in my photos.
  22. My first memorable coaster was at a carnival in Hawaii. Just a small coaster with small dips, but right then and there I was hooked on roller coasters. My first real amusement park credit is unknown, but possibly roller skater at SFKK.
  23. I attended my first roller coaster enthusiast event and, at the same time, went to Holiday World for the first time. This had to be one of the best times I have ever had in an amusement park. It's not just the roller coasters either, my family and I were blown away by the cleanliness and family-feel the park gives off. The park has some of the nicest staff I have ever come into contact with. I have no idea why I have never taken the half and hour drive here before, it was great. Holiwood Nights was the first coasters enthusiast event that I have ever attended. The event had hundreds of other coaster enthusiasts from around the world come to have exclusive ride times on Holiday World's roller coasters and other rides. Many people from different clubs showed up. The only clubs I was able to spot was a lot of ACEers and a few ClubTPR members (I should have worn my club shirt, darn it). The first night was all about riding Holiday World's three wooden roller coasters, and a few extra rides that were open as well. I didn't try to get in as many re-rides like others were doing, but I did get a pretty good amount of rides in: Raven: 7 Legend: 9 Voyage: 5 When we were released from pavilion, I randomly followed a crowd to the first coaster since I didn't know how to get around. The group led me to the Raven. I was on the first train out of the station. This is the smoothest wooden coaster out of the three and is also the shortest. I like the tunnel it has at the first drop and the long lasting curve over Lake Rudolph. At night, the coaster is very dark which adds to the thrill since it was more difficult to predict when the next turns would be approaching. Next I rode The Legend, and this was my favorite coaster out of the three because it is much longer than the Raven and not as intense as the Voyage. The roller coaster also has a unique amount of airtime pops and a larger amount of laterals. This coaster also has a more intimidating drop than the Voyage and Raven because of how it curves downward into a tunneled left turn. The next coaster I rode after the Legend was the Voyage, and this ride was a monster. It had a faster lift, harder turns and bankings, airtime on most hills, and cold pitch black underground tunnels. I had the least amount of re-rides on this ride because it was very intense to me. It was a lot of fun, but it forces me to brace myself on some of the turns and bankings it has. The Voyage also lasted much longer than the other coasters. But like I said, I really like this coaster. I like that it's wild and intense. I rode and re rode rides during the nighttime ERT session and had a blast getting to ride great coasters with short lines. Before it was time to go, I re-rode the Legend 3 times in a row without getting off, which caused me to be on one of the last trains of the day on that coaster. You may be wondering how I am posting an early PhotoTR of an event that is still happening. After my photo walkback of the Raven and Legend on day two (today), my right leg cramped up causing me to be temporarily immobile. This was probably due to how I drank sodas during the day instead of water, and didn't have an adequate breakfast (lesson learned). Since I was still prone to cramps after that first lock-up, I didn't do the Voyage walkback; in fact, I felt I was in bad shape and too tired to continue the day, so I went home. All that I missed was the meal service they offered and more ERT on the same coasters and a few more select rides. I'll have what I did today up soon, but for now, here are the photos I took yesterday, Enjoy. ADMIN EDIT: I went ahead and moved the "Photo TR:" notation to the front of the thread title. Thanks for sharing this with us! We were introduced to Pat and Dan Koch and a few more people who went up to the microphone to talk. They also mentioned Will Koch. I wish I have met him, he sounds like a great guy. He will be missed. After the park was cleared of guests, we were "released" from the pavilion. This was where the random crowd of people I followed took me to. It's a great coaster. The second coaster I hit-up. Much better than the Raven IMO. In front of the Voyage, I raise my cup to HW's idea for free drinks. Be careful how much soda you consume though, it can be overwhelming to new visitors. Soon I rode the Voyage. Amazing coaster, but not my favorite in the park. People flying by. It was much darker when the camera took this picture, the sky was black, but you could see the top of the lift. Benefits of ERT, and I love it! Another picture where it was darker in real life. Walking between coasters, this was how crowded it was most of the time. They first had Turkey Whirl open, then they soon had Hallow Swings open. This ride is beautiful at night. This was my favorite coaster in the park. Lift hill and first drop, and it was darker in reality. I was enjoying myself to the fullest with these rides and low lines. Pat and Dan were to be found walking around the park watching the people have fun on the rides. Compared to the other coasters, this was a monster! Out in front of the Voyage, free cupcakes were being handed out. Because I had to get a picture of myself somewhere. This picture is missing a train... My last ride on Voyage. Only ghosts filled the empty seats on this solo ride. Coming off my last ride on the Legend and beginning to leave the park. I'll be back tomorrow Update 2 coming your way.
  24. I don't think the website can get any simpler to use, other than that mouseover drop-down menu ^^DoubleStuff suggested. I like being able to maneuver through a website easy and not have everything jumbled up, hard to see or read, millions of links on the first page, etc. The ClubTPR drop-down menu can have listed *join *View Benefits *Events *Code of Conduct *Contact *Login. Just an idea. The current website is easy for me to navigate around, but change is always nice. The Park Index came out brilliantly, so I wouldn't mind seeing something new. If I had to choose a side and stick with it, I would say keep it the way it is because there is nothing wrong with it.
  25. Some of the really, really, really bad videos on the internet, and a few scenes from both Hangover movies; especially the second one.
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