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  1. Fantastic trip report. Definitely alters my opinion of Mexico City. May have to get down there sometime. A definite plus if it's also inexpensive....
  2. Mine has been submitted. My list is not so different from others, except that Mean Streak which I rated as the WORST wooden last year moved up to my "category 30" as it was a completely different ride this year when I was there for Coastermania. It was downright smooth! COASTER NAME PARK LOC <--Please leave this El Toro SFGAd NJ,y,y,1 My Favorite Steel Anypark Anywhere **,y,y,2 Boulder Dash Lake Compounce CT,y,y,3 Phoenix Knoebel's PA,y,n,4 Thunderhead Dollywood TN,y,y,5 Ravine Flyer II Waldameer PA,y,y,6 Comet Great Escape NY,y,y,7 The Beast Kings Island OH,y,y,8 Lightning Racer - L Hersheypark PA,y,n,10 Lightning Racer - T Hersheypark PA,y,n,10 Jack Rabbit Kennywood PA,y,n,10 Thunderbolt Kennywood PA,y,n,10 Twister Knoebel's PA,y,n,10 Leap the Dips Lakemont PA,y,n,10 Cyclone SF New England MA,y,y,20 Wild One SF America MD,y,y,20 Rebel Yell Kings Dominion VA,y,y,20 Grt Am Scrm Mach SFoG GA,y,y,20 Wildcat Hersheypark PA,y,n,20 Wooden Warrior Quassy CT,y,y,30 Racer Kings Island OH,y,y,30 Le Monstre La Ronde QU,y,y,30 Mean Streak Cedar Point OH,y,y,30 Gwazi-Tiger Busch Gardens-Tampa FL,y,y,30 Gwazi-Lion Busch Gardens-Tampa FL,y,y,30 Yankee Cannonball Canobie Lake Park NH,y,y,30 Thunder Road Carowinds NC,y,y,30 Racer Kennywood PA,y,n,30 Hell Cat Clementon Lake NJ,y,n,30 Thunderbolt SF New England MA,y,y,30 Roar SF America MD,y,y,40 Hurler Carowinds NC,y,y,40 Hurler Kings Dominion VA,y,y,40 The Grizzly Kings Dominion VA,y,y,40 Dragon Coaster Playland NY,y,n,40 Blue Streak Cedar Point OH,y,y,40 Wild Beast Canada's Wonderland ON,y,n,40 M.Can.Mine Buster Canada's Wonderland ON,y,n,40 Great White Wild Wheels Pier NJ,y,n,40 Comet Hersheypark PA,y,n,40 Georgia Cyclone SFoG GA,y,y,40 Comet Waldameer PA,y,y,50 Ghoster Coaster Kings Dominion VA,y,y,50 Wildcat Lake Compounce CT,y,y,50 Excalibur Funtown USA ME,y,y,50 Rolling Thunder SFGAd NJ,y,y,58 Cyclone Astroland NY,y,n,59
  3. Great trip report, Steve! Dan and I are looking forward to Christmastown this upcoming weekend. It looks even better than last year, especially Escape from Pompeii.
  4. Wow! That was too funny!!! I will never look at any mini-golf place quite the same ever again!
  5. Absolutely fantastic trip report! I am so impressed with the beauty and landscaping of Europa Park. I love Busch Gardens Williamsburg for this very reason, and I have to say, it looks like Europa Park is far more beautiful and more extensively landscaped!
  6. Ravine Flyer II and it was my first trip to Waldameer (on the way home from Coastermania)! Excellent!
  7. I went to SFA last year once and again this year once. Last year when I was there, Skull Mountain was running. This year, they appeared to be trying to get it going, but were ultimately unsuccessful. I know everyone loves to trash SFA, but I think those that do haven't been there in the 2010/2011 season. The staff there is so friendly and so enthusiastic it shocks me as I grew up going to SFGAdv where the staff couldn't give two sh*ts about anything. They high-five you on the way into the park, and on many rides as well. Definitely helps contribute to the "all around park experience" which for the most part, CF and SF parks have completely lost (although CP ride operators are great!). They have the rides, but not the overall experience. HOWEVER, I did think Skull Mountain was a lot of fun when I rode it once last year (1st and only time). I'm surprise they have so much trouble there with it, but then again, SFA's continuing problem is that their ride maintenance department is one guy with a hammer. It's ashame to see it go. Being only 1.5 hours away, I'll probably have to make an emergency trip to ride it once more before it's gone for good!
  8. Guess what guys! I was one of the 14 winners of the Facebook contest to be the first to ride Mach Tower before the official grand opening ceremony! Stay tuned for a trip report!!
  9. It looks like they are able to be zipped open and rolled up so that it can be opened up, so perhaps on hotter days when they want more air flow. Seems to me that those walking by are most likely on their way to something else anyway, but it does kind of change the way you can kind of casually watch for a moment while heading one way or the other. Those plastic shields on the theater in Italy were added late last season--they may have been there for Howl-O-Scream and were definitely there for Christmastown. My guess would be that maybe they'll take them down once it gets into HOT season there in VA, but they left them up for early Spring......
  10. I don't usually post much on here, but found this topic kind of interesting....... My partner and I made our first "emergency" theme park trip last summer when I found out that BBW was in it's last season. I hadn't been to BGW since my last family trip there in the late 80's. I had to go ride it as an adult as for years, I had told people the story of "the last time my mother rode a roller coaster". I remember being at BGW in 1984, when I was 8 and BBW was brand new and had a 4 hour line. My father and I convinced my mother to ride (she was not much of a coaster fan, other than the Runaway Mine Train at SFGAdv), telling her, "You'll be fine--it doesn't even go upside down". The ride scared her so badly that she held on so tight to the OTSR that she bruised her arms and chest. By the time she got off the ride, she was bawling in tears, walking past the folks who has been waiting in line for hours, making them even more nervous to ride the brand new beast. So we made the trek in August 2009 to ride BBW one more time and for me to experience it as an adult (it was my partner's first trip to BGW). It was very enjoyable, particularly at night. I really enjoyed the free swinging action of the ride, and it's terrain setting in a beautiful park. It was a fun ride, and I do like the uniqueness of the swinging action of the Arrow suspendeds. I miss it, but more for nostalgia than anything else. We had so much fun at BGW on that trip, that we bought 2-year passes this past July and have been 4 times this year (July, September, Howl-O-Scream and Christmastown) even though we live 4-5 hours away. We went to 16 other parks this summer, and BGW is still our favorite, despite them having only 4 coasters right now. I was curious about Iron Dragon at Cedar Point and and Vortex at Canada's Wonderland (my first time at each park this year). After riding Iron Dragon, we referred to it as "Little Red Riding Hood" due to it's major lameness compared to BBW. Vortex seemed to lack the swinging action--the most swinging seemed to occur when the train hit the final brake run..... It's really all about nostalgia. When we were at BGW this summer, as we were entering the queue for Alpengeist, the queue attendant was checking a boy's height who was obviously right on the cusp of meeting the height requirement. The look on his face when he was told he could ride was priceless. I'm sure in 20 years, that boy will have a soft spot for Alpengeist they was so many of us do for BBW. I grew up in South Jersey, and frequented SFGAdv quite a bit. I remembered riding GASM in it's opening year, waiting in eternal lines to get on. When I found out they were closing it, we made another "emergency" trip, and we were even part of the nostalgic idiots who bought seats on the very last ride of GASM. Was GASM impressive in 1989? Yes. Did anyone really want to ride it anymore? No. Obviously BBW was more enjoyable and less painful than GASM, but like every other park, BGW needs to keep adding and changing, or people will stop going. I'm sorry to see it go, but I look forward to the replacement. BGW is my favorite park--they do almost everything extremely well. At least parks now announce it before they tear down a ride--giving the enthusiasts and those with fond memories an opportunity for one last nostalgic ride. I'm glad I had the opportunity to ride BBW and GASM one last time before they were gone. Change is inevitable, and with steel coasters, usually always for the better. We all can probably agree that the Intamins and B&M's of the 21st century are much better than the Arrows and Vekomas of the 1970's and 80's. RIP BBW--but we look forward to what comes next to an excellent, world-class theme park.
  11. King's Dominion (twice) Cedar Point Busch Gardens Williamsburg Six Flags Great Adventure (twice) Kennywood Lakemont Park Hersheypark Six Flags America Coney Island Playland (Rye, NY) Lake Compounce Six Flags New England The Great Escape Upcoming: Dorney Park Knoebels Hersheypark (again) Canada's Wonderland Busch Gardens Williamsburg (again) Six Flags Great Adventure (again)
  12. This was our first TPR event and we had an EXCELLENT TIME! The King's Dominion staff was excellent and the ERT and backstage tour were unforgettable! We LOVE Intimidator 305! Will definitely be back to King's Dominion again in the future and will definitely be on another TPR event! Thanks so much to TPR and King's Dominion!
  13. OK, so what are all these references to donkeys......I'm confused..... Sorry if this is a stupid question.....
  14. What happened to the effects on Bizarro? Was there this past Sunday and no fire, no sound. Only effect that seemed to be on was the mist in the triangles and the tunnel.....
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