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I hope the construction pics of SFMM's flyer get me as excited as the pics of Black Mamba just did. For just being pics of the lift and a bunch of trenches, I shouldn't be this impressed. So is Phantasialand close to any of the World Cup venues? Not that I would have a choice as to which I get tickets to. I guess I should start paying more attention to the later rounds of tickets so I have a reason to go to Germany next year.

I'm too lazy to follow Champions League from here in the States. Maybe if I had cable and could watch all the time. Its not the same just looking at the stats and pics on the web. I'll have to do some research...

Based on the DLP site for 2005, the 2 night, 3 day Eurostar packages start at 259 British Pounds/per person (week days in June... 283 weekend) for the Hotel Santa Fe (on property). I'm not sure what the exchange rate will do to that price, but that gets you train from London to the Resort, two nights hotel, and a 3 day park-hopper. For shorter trips, I think you have to book everything seperate. Eurostar current fare is 180 British Pounds round trip. 2-day park hopper is 90 pounds, single day tix are 41 pounds

I'm so torn. I would love to go on the trip, but I was already planning on going to either Australia to visit a friend and hopefully see Kylie Minogue perfrom, or to Germany for the World Cup. Of course both of those assume that I am able to get tickets.

I like the Zipper, but I have trouble riding it because the cages are really unforgiving on people with long legs. I enjoyed the ride I took on one, but I was pretty uncomfortable during the ride.

I always thought the handicap entrance takes you under the towers and up the ramps with the rest of the people. There is the open side of the ramp that is accessible. My opinion on handicap entrance for Deja Vu... Let them wait in the line with everyone else. If they have a pass, they should be in a wheelchair becuase if you try SFMM on crutches, you're insane. That line is 100% accessable to wheelchairs.

I'm not sure what the age cut-off is, but I know if you are under a certain age, they will only issue passports that are valid for 5 years instead of the normal 10. My first passport at 15 was only valid for 5 years.

Huss all the way!!! Not sure about my favorite ride though. I'm enjoying the Frisbees, manual Top Spin, and of course the Breakdance (assuming the last two are being run properly). I'm sure I could get more if I could find them. I don't remember too much from my rides on Tivoli's Flic Flac, but I enjoyed them. As for Chance, their new rides while looking cool, have been kinda unimpressive once you get on. Chaos rarely delivers, and the Inverter gives weird visuals in the end rows, but doesn't get that super awesomeness the Huss rides deliver.

My friend an I saw her riding Viper at SFMM a couple years ago. I don't remember her being fat at the time. And speaking of Kirstie Alley, has she come out with any of the hilarious and yet very scary Jenny Craig commercials? "CHOCOLATE CAKE!!!"

I tried riding Space Mountain twisted so I was looking backwards once and got off feelin extremely dizzy and slightly ill. But I get sick on any flat ride that spins backwards. Coasters that run backwards are fine though. I guess its the difference between going in a straight line vs. just spinning in circles.

I like SFMM's Goliath Its not great, but its a fun, fast and most importantly smooth ride at a park that sometimes has issues with coasters. Of course, I won't go on it if the line is over 30 minutes so I guess that says something.

I loved Indiana Jones Backwards at DLP. I was so sad to hear they were turning it forwards again. As for coasters I would like to see run backwards, Colossus needs a full time backwards side. Call me insane but I would also like to try Flashback backwards once. I think the dives would be insane. And run Scream! backwards... At least then it would be interesting.

I shouldn't look at pics of DLP... It makes me want to go back. Now that I see the sky is falling, it makes the horrid Chicken Little ad at least slightly cool. OT: ^ Chrissie - I love your avatar. Robbie Williams rocks and the "Come Undone" video is so messed up.

At least they had signs. I was at SFMW earlier this year and their pirate ship was closed and the entrance just had a piece of yellow Caution tape across it.

Its a little funny when you visit PGA and most of the Tidal Wave (silly name change) station is still sitting there. The roof is gone, and half of the station, but the rest is just sitting there like they couldn't be bothered with demo-ing the entire thing. Very 6 Flags-ish I think.

Woohoo!!! I had all these kids looking at me weird when I was singing the Rescue Rangers theme on Gadgets Go Coaster one night. Now if only Warner would take the hint and release Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Freakazoid on DVD...

I love how the flipping is supposed to be rider controlled. If its true and it lets the car flip at a decent speed, this ride could kick some major butt. Or it could be majorly painful.

I forgot this in my first post, but at Solace the year before Xcellerator (still not sure how to spell it) opened, my friend and I sat on Montezuma for almost an hour. The ride-ops were awesome and as long as no one was in the station (or weren't harassing each other), they didn't release the lap bars, just reset the launch and let us go. We spent about 80% of the time in the back seat. The next year, them began making you go around every ride. That goes down as my best Solace experience.

I was so sad the day I visited the Trocadero in 2001. Pepsi Max Drop was closed for rehab or something silly. I'm not a drop ride fan, but I wanted to ride it because it was inside and had lots of stuff flying by. I had to settle for a ride on their Huss Breakdance. It looks very silly sitting there attatched to that tower.

The year Speed:The Ride opened in Vegas, I went on a day that it was empty and did 12 rides without leaving the station. The second to last ride was in the front seat and I was the only person on the train. My dad, who was waiting outside took a picture that ride so I have proof somewhere. I was going to leave after that ride, but the ride-op pushed me into the back seat and told me to go again. I decided not to argue. I also did 12 rides or so on Splash Mountain one night when I was there... and picked up a lesbian while riding... That works well, a gay guy and a lesbian. Then we moved to Gadgets Go Coaster for the last half hour the park was open and never left the station. My second visit to DLP, I spent the last hour the park was open on Big Thunder. It was December and there was ice in the Rivers of America (?) so I was really cold by the end, but it was so worth it.

I'm suprised to hear about the park in China. There was a great article this week about the Euro Powerhouse teams not being able to fill stadiums during their "Exploit the Asians" tours this summer because people finally figured out that they don't care about the fans, just the money from the games. But I'd like to take a ride on Beckham or Owen (if he hasn't been sent back to England) or someone else from that team.

The short version... Six Flags is run by a bunch of loser idiots who think its funny to put in a potentially awesome coaster, ruin it with horrible restraints, and then close it because too many people complained about the roughness. I'm not 100% sure, but it sounds the most plausable. It looks like its just sitting there waiting for riders and someone to turn it on. The train sits in the station with the restraints up.

I supposed it would be bad taste to make "I took a Disney Vacation and didn't die" or "I survived Disneyland/Disney World" t-shirts.

I like Deja Vu (when I don't have to wait more than 30 min). Maybe they could convince Nasa to give them some rockets to attach to the side of the sky tower and then they could launch it into space. It would be the worlds coolest piece of space junk. And then when they finally build that moon base that Bush wants they could incorporate it into the design. BTW, I love the construction pic. There is nothing there and the park has a really small parking lot.

I highly doubt they will implode the Skytower. If its coming down, it will be piece by piece. There are too many rides and buildings nearby to implode the tower. If it didn't fall straight down as planned, it could take out parts of Ninja, The Botttled Water Flume Ride, Rapids Camp, and probably even parts of Revolution. I say, as long as the tower is structurally sound, keep it. They could even get Intamin to stick Giant Drop tracks to the side of the tower. It shouldn't effect the structure much at all. If you keep one side of the elevators open, you can still use the observation tower, and have 5 drop cars. And it would get SFMM one of the tallest freefall rides in the world.