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Looks like the park put on a pretty good show, too--along with those cookies. Good report, Larry.

Hell, I saw it back in 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHYpiR4JuM

^It's good to have priorities.

I just brought Kyle $20 closer to third place--who will match that?

^Yep--if I wasn't doing the China Trip, I'd be joining you. Europa is the best park in Europe, and Wodan looks like a great addition.

He's covered now.

Ride the hell outta that thing, Larry and Fran!

^ & ^^That's definitely a good thing. And with the exta bonus of Halloween stuff!

So shall it be written! So shall it be done!

Yay for Grizzly Gulch being open in time for the TPR China Trip!

^I second this! I'm $40 away from $1,000. Help me get to $1,000, and I'll kick in an extra $20 each to the Cedar Fair and Michigan's Adventure teams!

^I disagree. All Cedar Fair has done is read the writing on the wall. Disney, Six Flags, Busch, and Universal all offer some sort of "Fast Pass" system. CF had to follow suit eventually. If guests didn't want this option, parks wouldn't offer it. What will tell the tale is how the CF parks handle Fast Lane.

Ray Bradbury died today--he was 91. I had the pleasure of hearing me speak at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo back in my old college days, and he was hilarious and fascinating to listen to. I doubt we'll see another writer quite like him again.

Arr! Accordin' to this here map, we has to head sou by sou'west when we finds the Spewin' Skulls!

You're durn right to stay out of the garden . . . . . . it's infested with bears!

^Wow--that's a great setting for that ride.

Now he just has 40 bucks to go.

That is an excellent question. I think the worst park day (or partial day) I ever experienced was at Six Flags America (of all places) a few years ago. I stopped there with some friends on opening day while en route to Great Adventure. It took forever to get one guy's pass processed, and he needed every credit in the park. Well, he got Wild One--that's it. To top it off, one of our group was evaced off of Joker's Jinx, and park security and local cops had to drag some pervert out of the Superman line (he was groping teenage girls). To be fair, this is the only "bad" day I've had at that park, but I haven't been back since.

^Yes, a process of elimination of previous cities came in very handy.

That is one of the nicest pictures of Larry that I've seen. He looks like a particularly happy Marine Corps drill instructor.

Save Taco Time! I hope they do restore this beautiful old piece of history and give it a good home.

And Dumbo is meant for whom, exactly?

^I think this is a great idea to make the usually long, hot wait for the low-capacity Dumbo ride more bearable for parents and kids.

^Definitely. Parks usually have multi-year plans of some kind. That being said, a good dark ride is exactly what Movie World needs.

This is not "the best part" of Super Wirbel. That would be the exit. There can never be enough pictures of Europa Park on this site.