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Yes but when you factor in all the cement at CP, 5-6 feet long really doesn't seem so impressive

Not specifically at him, more at the dozens of times I've seen "irony" misused on this board. It gets really annoying after awhile. It's a pet peeve, just like "you're" being spelled "your", "they're" being "their", etc etc...

Horrible trade for SFFT. I'd think SFNO would need to add in a 1st round draft pick to make it a bit more even.

Nice TR, the pic of the cracks in the pavement was awesome. I gotta find that when I'm there and pose with it. The emo troika car made me sad for about a quarter of a second, until I realized that it was an inanimate object on a crappy ride. I'd be sad, too, if I were in it's place.

The first thing that popped into my mind when reading this: "We can rebuild him. We have the technology." This is an interesting theory, and if it's been successfully used in various other endeavours, it makes sense that an amusement park, which I'm assuming loses quite a bit of business with consistantly rainy weather, would use it as well. Let's hope they don't screw it up and that the particles don't release those dinosaurs that expand when put in water.

At first I was looking forward to the buzz that this coaster would generate, but after 29 pages of arguing over the freakin' set-up of the trains, it's just bored me and may have actually dampened my excitement over the ride. Nitpicking is one thing but this is just getting out of hand. That said, I work across the street from the park so it's going to be a lot of fun watching them construct MapleHawk right in front of my eyes! Hell, I even get paid for it!

THAT IS NOT FREAKING IRONY. DOES NO ONE KNOW WHAT THE $*%^@ WORD MEANS?! Anyway, your situation is an amusing COINCIDENCE, and it looks like it could be an interesting movie. I highly doubt the amusement park will be used for anything other than "background" of the movie.

Alrighty! You've got that rock star status, with groupies and all! Did any ask for autographs on the back of their amusement park tickets? Terry When we met up with them at Kennywood, I was planning on running up screaming "OMG R&E OMG U GUYZ R SO AWSUM" and jumping up and down asking for their autographs in very mocking fashion. But then, I'm a good enough actor that it probably would've looked too real to be fake haha. Or would that make me a poor actor?

I am kinda jealous about that. And I completely forgot that Ex admission got me into Ontario Place for free, or else we would've gone over that way! Bummer. Maybe Nikki and I will get on that when we go to the airshow next week!

It's pretty close, yeah. If you're taking the subway, Bathurst station offers direct streetcar service to it, which is what we used. That's probably the easiest way to get there...

What? You couldn't go topshelf, gloveside from there? And you call yourself Canabian? Last time I checked Jer was not Andrew Raycroft. No, then I'd be allowing soft gloveside goals, not scoring them And I'm a pretty poor hockey player, it's quite sad. Hopefully Europe is not far off!

^ Oh boy, if that's the case, a lot of people need to be banned then!

Win.

Why are your brothers grtting $1.8 million and not you? Did I miss something, what is the mini UK trip? If your brothers are loaded, why are you worrying about saving a few bucks on airfare? well they are each getting 850,000 each and they said they want to look at low cost airfair they will each front half the cost They just got $850k and the first thing they do is look for low-cost airfare! That's rich.

As far as I know, it helps "maintain" the coaster slightly longer, as it would put less forces on the track and the train for the parts following the hill. It also would obviously lower the forces, and if a certain coaster is deemed to be "too forceful", trim brakes would help tame it down. There's probably other reasons but those are the first two that came to mind for me.

I suppose I liked Raging Bull enough with the trims that if this ride is like that, I'll still be moderately happy! But yes, trims kill rides. And the sheer amount on this one [it was what, at least three? Plus the MCBR...] have a good chance of destroying the asses air-to-seat ratio.

Ohhh, barring a financial collapse [which is about 40% likely], you'll be seeing Jerkki in Texas!!!

I agree, and Nikki and I have already pledged to do just that.

There is no "goth rulebook". To be "goth", you don't necessarily need to fit every stereotype that is pressed upon you. Nor do you necessarily need to be considered "goth" if you fit some of the stereotypes... ie: I used to wear basically nothing but band shirts [which happened to be black], and black jeans [because I didn't like the way blue jeans looked on me]... you wouldn't believe how many people would call me "goth" based on that alone. Anyway, I can understand jokes made about the "goth culture" or whatever you'd refer to it as, but calling them sad, discussing how all of them need to be beaten with bats[!], telling them they need to "grow up", and generally referring to them as "useless" is kind of ... well, stupid, to be honest. Just because you don't agree with their choices of dress/behaviour doesn't make it any of the things you described it. [i have no clue why I'm defending goths]

The water coaster at Mt Olympus... we just decided it would suck balls, and passed on it. What's it called? Atlantis or something?

Nothing surprising here, except the height, and the trains. I was figuring it would be about ten feet taller than Goliath, just enough to trump Six Flags' "tallest in Canada" claim. The seating looks really stupid, and I agree with all the criticism of it on here so far. That said, I suppose it will be an upgrade on everything else in the park, but with the plethora of trim brakes and the lack of a distinguishing feature, I can't see it being much better than "fun", nor can I see it giving Wonderland an improvement on it's "get the credit and get out" image.

Awesome TR! I am very impressed by some pictures, they are very vibrant. The Maverick shots are awesome.

Tooniehawk Edit: After work I drove by Wonderland... the piece of track everyone is orgasming over and saying "OMG MUST BE A FLOORLESS COASTER BASED ON THIS ONE PIECE OF TRACK, IT'S FROM AN IMMELMAN OR A BARREL ROLL OR I'M A HUGE LOSER", it's basically just a piece of curved track. There's nothing special about it at all. It could be from the damn pre-drop. But yeah, there's a TON of construction around the back of the park, and this project is certainly moving at a brisk pace!

307 goes to the Ex! Featuring a few guys who don't post on this site! The Canadian National Exhibition [aka the CNE, the Ex] is an annual three-week carnival/faire/showcase to end the summer. It runs from mid-August until Labour Day, and features a midway with about 20 to 30 rides, numerous buildings such as the International Building, where you can buy a bunch of crap from different countries, the Sports Zone, the Arts and Crafts Building, and of course the agricultural building which always features a horrible animal abusing petting zoo. The final three days of the Ex also bring with them the Canadian International Airshow, or, my main reason for going. One of my favourite things about the Ex is always the food, and despite looking forward to it every year, once I get immersed in it, I always wonder why I cared. It's mostly overpriced food made with the lowest quality by the least attentive people in the world. But nonetheless, I was pumped for food! Little did I know that by the end of the day, I would conquer one of my biggest fears! Starring in the show would be me, Jer [307], as well as Paresh, Bundy, and Real. You will be seeing Paresh a lot more in the coming weeks, as I will be going to Valleyfair, Timber Falls and the Park at Mall of America with him in a few weeks. Another note: the pictures were all taken by Paresh, and he's far from a good photographer, so excuse the crappy quality of the majority of them. You've been warned! On with the pictures. After that, we went and ate a ton more food, and then went home! But instead of that, you get the camwhore picture of the crew. See you guys in a couple weeks, when Nikki and I post our Photo TR of Cedar Point, Geauga Lake, and other shenanigans! The lighting was awful, and the show wasn't much better. It was basically an old guy talking for 35 minutes, and then a bunch of dogs jumping over things. Yawn. We then walked over and watched some of the Eukaneuba SuperDogs! show, which was celebrating it's 31st year at the Ex. That's a long damn time. I suppose the dogs aren't the same as they were in the first year... Ah, the Snowbirds... a tribute to Canada's "air force", featuring planes that are more than 40 years old and are LITERALLY falling apart. I truly salute you, boys! They had a big section dedicated to the Canadian Armed Forces, and Paresh decided to enlist, go through training, and head to Afghanistan all within five minutes. Here he is preparing to board his flight! I SURVIVED. But I was more angry at how much of a waste the tour was more than I was about how terrified I was of the thing. Once I got in the air it wasn't too bad at all. Next step in conquering my fear: go to Europe! And here's an aerial shot of the Ex - it's pretty big. There are tons of "WE STEAL YOUR MONEY" carny games, too, and the kids running them are mostly washout burnout high school kids with very little going for them in life. Here's a shot of Ontario Place... you can see how tiny and stupid it is. The log flume takes up almost half of the damn island. Here's what Toronto looks like from a helicopter. To be honest, the tour sucked... it was $35 per person, and basically all it did was bring you up 1500ft, fly to the other end of the CNE, spin around a couple times, then bring you back. Bah! Here's BMO Field, the place where the awful Toronto FC soccer team plays. This thing was a gigantic waste of money, and not just because I hate soccer. For all you coaster fanboys, here's the CNE's coaster for the year: a crappily run spinning mouse. Seriously, I didn't understand how one of the cars could make it through the circuit, they had the brakes on so damn hard. Well I'm a bit chilled and I'm trembling a little, but I can still put on a brave face! So they have helicopter tours of Toronto. I'm terrified of flying. But after some persuasion from the other three [and them paying for me], I decided to brave my fears and get onto the helicopter. I guess the outcome isn't in doubt, since I'm posting now... and not from a fiery burning wreckage. Bundy talked us into riding the Orbiter, which is an awesome out of control ride. Unfortunately I'm not sure of the actual manufacturers name or what it's really called, but trust me, it was AWESOME. I just really like this picture. Paresh tried his luck at the strength hammer thing... what the hell is it called? Well anyway, he only managed a 94, and we all laughed at him. We went on this horrible haunted house ride... not only were the lights on, but it was about 30 seconds long, and there were only four "scary" sections of the entire ride! And it cost five damn dollars! Talk about a rip off. This picture is probably scarier than the actual ride. I'm very unimpressed with my 50mph, though I did end up besting it a few minutes later. Then we went over to the speed pitch area - Bundy schooled us all, throwing a whopping 13MPH faster than second place Paresh... he managed to hit 66 on the gun, which is impressive, considering how weak and girly Bundy is. They had a bunch of horrible "challenges" in the Sports Zone... here's me failing horribly at "hit the targets"! To be fair, if I was ten feet closer, I probably could've hit one of them! There was a pretty lame BMX/skateboarding/rollerblading "extreme" show going on, and we stuck around long enough to get this crappy picture. The only cool thing was the nine year old kid pulling out bigger stunts than the 20-something guys. Oh look, it's a crappy picture of me! Bundy and I are duking it out at MLB 07, which is a pretty good game - although I got my ass handed to me today. After eating food, then walking to the lego tower [right next to the food building], we were hungry again and had to go back and get more food. Here, Real demonstrates how to get white stuff all over your mouth. And this is when he was CLEAN. During the first three days of the Ex, Lego encouraged people to come out and build a huge lego tower - it ended up being 30 metres tall! That's a big ass tower of lego. Bundy's quite happy with this, as he was the one who got to eat said hot dog. Paresh neglected to take a picture of the grand CNE entrance, so instead you get a picture of a hot dog.

Loosen your belt and lessen the ego, jesus. Does this even make sense?