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Day 10, Part Two: WORLD'S LARGEST IKEA!!! If you know your TPR then you'll know that Ikea is one of the favourite non-park haunts of many, many members. So with that in mind how could we visit Stockholm WITHOUT visiting the largest Ikea in the world?! This was just amazing, as amazing as any visit to Ikea is, but BIGGER! Have a look... And that was the world’s largest Ikea! It was awesome! I just wish I could have worked out how many floors it had! Good thing Ikea provide these trolley things so we can all safely transport our purchases! I think you’ve had enough, Erik! Sir Mike says "YOU’RE FIRED!" Okay guys, get them out on the table. Brad’s taking measurements. If it’s not ice cream then Erik’s not happy. Brad got everyone together for a bit of a communal air wank. TPDave with a frying pan… Oh dear. STAY AWAY! Maybe this is more his taste! Brad takes a minute to find a drinking glass for the rest of the trip. Russ was a sad casualty of the demon hangers. We like fish, we like fish! Brad’s a man who knows what he wants. Just a typical morning after a Brit Crew night out for Steve. Keep the curtain closed Andrew!!! Now Steve, that’s not nice! There is NOTHING hidden in this photo so don’t even look! It’s just like a big nipple! Steve is scouting for scare actors. Can never be too careful! It’s MALOU! I was disappointed to find that this tap only dispensed sparkling water. Andrew! Put your big furry ginger thing away! TPDave re-enacts “the evening before an assignment is due”. Just like a normal day in Canada for Andrew. Right? Is anyone else disturbed that TPDave is trying to cover his privates with a pillow? What were you doing behind that curtain? Scottish Steve doesn’t care about the funhouses in the parks anymore. Ikea destroys all! Mike got fed up of TPDave refusing night time cuddles and sorted himself out with this little beaut. TPStay! Ikea has some perfect diversions for TPDave if he starts annoying you! Aww, ain’t they cute! TPDave’s bedroom is filled with artefacts like this. Really. Not quite what I was looking for! Whatcha reading Lou? Please tell me it’s porn! This is what Mike calls his “power sh!t face” Andrew, when you live in the UK you will see that this is how every day will begin for you! Did you know that Lou’s penis is six years long? Put a tape in Lou’s hands and she can’t help but start measuring everything. Now before we do anything else, can anybody tell me how many floors this place has? Reason why you do TPR trips #17,233. Yay, we made it to the World’s Biggest Ikea! Ah, maybe it’s this way! Anyone know how to get to Ikea? We're sure it's around here somewhere.

Day 10, Part One: SKARA SOMMERLAND Our next park was this wee gem right in the heart of Sweden. The park itslef has mostly kiddie rides and it isn't thtat big, but what's there is nice. It's owned by the same crowd as Grona Lund and they really put on some great stuff for us so that we got the most out of our visit. The big attraction here is the new S&S contraption - Tranan. This thing was pretty weird! In a good way though! The seats and restraints didn't feel that safe (although I'm sure they are!), which really made something that at first glance looked a bit tame into a bit of a crazy ride! Pictures will sum it up better! As I said the park is good for what it is and hopefully this S&S ride is just the start of good things for this park. I could see a GCI woodie fit in perfectly at this place! Here's some photos... On Erik’s command I got myself a FREE ice cream! Skara Sommerland rocked! Looking forward to seeing what Gronalund has for us seeing as they’re owned by the same crowd! In fact that’s where we’re headed next! Although we do have a slight detour to take before getting to that park… Toblerone games for the win! We need these in more parks!!! Erik thought he’d try something extra kinky and have an ice cream threesome! Steve found an interesting method of getting round the park’s smoking policies. Smoke liquorice and you’re all good! I like fish. BAD PONCHO! Go to your room! Mike spent his whole day in the Wiki, Wiki, Wild Willis Salloon. If you need the bathroom in Skara just look for the appropriate body part name next to the door! We didn’t spend long in the park but the small water play area looks quite cool! It’s a boat motherfudgers! How about some free coffee too? Skara rocks! Skara Sommerland got even more awesome in our book by bringing free pastries out to us! TAKE THE TUNNEL! We’re riding the powered coaster, bitches! In the queue you got a good view of Emperor Palpatine having a good scratch. Next up we had some powered coaster ERT! Here we are pretending we are not totally freaked out by this thing! I did actually quite like this ride, though the concept will probably be worked on a bit more before we see another one of these. Let’s just hope it evolves and we see more! This is the point when you realise there’s nothing else quite like this anywhere! Even on the lift hill some people won’t let go of the train! Time to fly! Or hold on for dear life when you get totally freaked out by this thing! I don’t even know why I included this photo. Brent getting to the ERT last was such a common sight on the trip that there must be thousands of photos like this. As we got in the line we got given this cool park branded water! Never seen something like this at a park like this before! Loving this park so far! We like to call it “Tranny”. That weird looking blue thing across the water is some new intriguing S&S stuff! It doesn’t matter how much free food and drink is on offer you can’t forget to cream up first! That blue wristband means that we get ERT and cool stuff like that and the red one means we get unlimited free food and drinks from the park! How cool is that?! Today we’re at Skara Sommerland, a small park right in the heart of Sweden! Has anyone seen Russ? It can be tough keeping track of that short dude sometimes!

Doritos. Since Six Flags have never installed anything like Soarin' before I'm not really sure what to expect. That said, I am very interested to see what this attraction ends up being like. The cynic in me thinks it will be a 3D movie type thing with extra effects, let's hope there's more to it than that!

The song in question was "All By Myself". We made it into quite the party banger on Uppswinget! (I loved that ride too!) The other song of the day was "You Say It Best" in the Rabalder station! Thanks for the comments everyone, I'm so glad that everyone seemed to love Liseberg as much as me!

Day 9, Part Two: LISEBERG Okay so that was the behind the scenes cool stuff but what about the rest of the day? I was kind of apprehensive about the visit to Liseberg. When I first visited in 2006 Balder blew me away and instantly became my number one coaster, never to be bettered despite me adding literally hundreds of coasters to my count in the time since. I think I was worried that I remembered Balder being better than it actually was or maybe the coaster hadn't held up so well in the past few years... Thankfully my fears were completely unfounded - Balder was AMAZING!!! Seriously, these were the best coaster rides I'd ever had. Even first thing in the morning it was running as good as I remember my night rides being in 2006. Then when evening ERT hit, well Balder just propelled itself lightyears in front of any other coaster I've been on! It was that good! We also got a behind the scenes tour of the park's haunted walkthrough, Hotel Gasten. This was really cool! It really was amazing to see all the detail that goes into these things and we really did love going through the maze a couple of times throughout the day! As for the rest of the park, yeah it's amazing too! I just love the place so much. It has such a great mix of atmosphere and fun rides. I think Robb said it best at the end of the day when he proclaimed that "Every trip needs an add-on to Liseberg!". Sign me up. Well we had to leave Balder eventually. But still, it was absolutely phenomenal this year. It truly cemented it’s position as my number one! More Swedish fun to come! Thanks TPR and Liseberg for sorting out all this ERT! It totally rocked! Can you believe it? It’s running even better! These were the best coaster rides I’ve ever had! At last, night has fallen, time for some more Balder ERT!!! It’s not the best accelerator out there but even if it was it would still be totally overshadowed so it really doesn’t matter! No, I haven’t forgot that Kanonen exists. It just gets a bit overshadowed with Balder next door! Where else in the world could you find a theme park game that lets you win a hoover or a microwave??? Lou’s still trying to teach everyone else how to look Japanese in photos. I honestly can’t remember if this is the shot or drop tower! Looks nice though! Everyone is majorly excited to be checking out Panda-fudging-Vision once more! Quick, everyone sing the escalator song! Ice Cream Rap Battle! Attack! Yup, Steve moonlights with a Kiss tribute band. TPDave challenges Steve to a lick off. How will Scottish Steve respond??? Once again, Erik sought out some local food that he’d never tried before. There was someone sitting there at the start of the ride but there was a hungry Intamin cable lurking. Another recent addition to Liseberg is the Disk’O. Looks pretty cool for a Disk’O. Ben accidentally walked past the log flume and this is what happened to him. What do you know, I sat this one out! TPDave looks like he’s having fun though! And so this is where we leave Sir Lampsalot/Campsalot. Don’t worry Dave, Mike will be sure to text you every day! Yeah, it was better still! We still have night ERT to go as well! With Fudge 3 preparing to leave us we all agreed to ride Balder again. Like we needed to find a reason! Wait a minute Steve, ghost trains scare you but this doesn’t? Mmm, Liseberg steak! I love TPR included meals!!! OMG, is that? No, it couldn’t be. Is it? YES! It’s TPHanno!!! Lou continued that Betty Boop thing all day! Get a room you two! Larry approves of people taking more flat ride photos for the park index! Make sure you do it! This Fudge was a wee bit nervy. Actually he was so nervy that he pretty much RAN through the house to get away from the scary people! Very funny! Unless you’re Scottish Steve, in which case you’re on bag lady duty! Liseberg also have an amazing haunted walkthrough (which we’d had a special walkthrough of earlier in the day!). Really, it's not to be missed! Russ was the Ultimate Carrot Champion. Well done! This was a tense battle to the death! Liseberg have so many awesome games too. In this case: Throw the carrots into the buckets! If they’re wearing a Balder hat or bright green bunny ears then they’re probably with TPR! Okay, I guess we better get the credit! Liseberg played some awesome music in the station which allowed us all to have a good sing song. How hot am I with my bunny ears? It’s been a good 15 minutes since Mike last creamed up. Look how red he’s getting! Okay Brad, we get it. You can use the hat many different ways. I don’t even want to know what’s happening here! Oh my! Now Brad is gonna show us the many uses of “Balder hat clips”! Would you like to see this man come to your door on the 4th of July? Just give Mike a shout! Liseberg did a really cool thing this year: they replaced their kiddie coaster, meaning a new credit for me! Yay! When Lou sees anything Betty Boop related be prepared to take lots of photos! Schwarzkopfs just make Mike think about creaming up. Liseberbanana lives here too and its pretty damned good. Probably my favourite Schwarzkopf. We’ll come back to Balder later. Surely it can’t get any better than this? Amazing airtime right from start to finish! Only problem was that the amount of airtime kept sending me to the bathroom! I wasn’t sure if Balder would still hold up three years on but somehow it was even BETTER this time! Mmm… Intamin airtime hills… Look at that nice empty station! Lots of Balder rides for us! Seriously, it was running as good first thing in the morning as it was when I rode it at night in 2006! Mike and Erik can’t believe how good Balder was! And these guys are in AWE during ERT!!! These guys are excited for some ERT! So writing on it was amazing, how will it ride three years since it became my number one coaster?

Day 9, Part One: BEHIND THE SCENES ON BALDER! Wow, what an amazing morning this was! Not only were we getting to visit one of the greatest parks in the world and not only did we have ERT on my favourite coaster in the world; we actually had a welcome session in the middle of the coaster which included FREE BEER! They also gave us pens and nails and let us mark the coaster in our own way! Seriously, this was one of the best trip things ever for me, in a very geeky way of course. I'm glad there was the free beer to diffuse the dorkiness of it all just a little. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD DO TPR TRIPS!!! (Reason #17,514) Here's some photos of the Balder Reception... So that was our early morning Balder welcome. A huge thanks to Liseberg and R&E for organising this, I loved it! Let’s go ride the thing now!!! Photos from our day in the park are up next! Balder is Brit Crew approved!!! Ice Bat and Balder is one of the greatest combinations imaginable. Who else can we poke fun at whilst we drink beer and write on Balder? Poor Shawn couldn’t make it to Scandi so we thought it would be fun to laugh about that! Lou takes a minute to say hi to those people who are too old to travel internationally. DJ Lance fans unite! Lou shows everyone how you hammer the wood. Nail fail. Balder has been TPNailed. Oh yeah they gave us HAMMERS, NAILS and BEERS too! Like this! They gave us pens and let us adorn this Intamin goodness with our names! Woohoo, we’re at Liseberg, arguably the most anticipated park of the trip! The park isn’t ready to open to the public yet but Liseberg has some special stuff for us to do!

OMG, that looks AMAZING! Okay, so who really loved it more Elissa - you or KT? Yo Gabba Gabba is starting to take off in the UK now, if something like this came along here I'd totally arrange a Brit Crew get together! Glad you guys had fun! - Divv "I like snacks" Walsh

Day 8, Part Two GOTHENBURG DRINKING TIME! So after we got back from Tusenfryd we decided that for a little change we'd go out and drink. Gothenburg's an awesome city so it was fun to get to see a little bit of it. I should also say that Kopparberg rocks and other forms of pear cider are just pure magic. Here's some boozy photos... Shortly after this we did head to bed. Will we make it to Balder intact? Of course we will! They have beer for us! Hold on, the sun is up. Maybe we should stop drinking soon. Don’t we have Balder ERT in the morning? Too many for Russ it would seem! Lightweight! How many hours have we been drinking for now? Doritos and a Carlsberg beeramid. Yup, this was a good night! No more nipping outside for a fag for Steve. Do you have one of these in your house yet Steve? Now for something that completely changed the smokers’ worlds! Random Group Photo #3! I don’t get why everyone is pointing though. Brad loves that anywhere in the world he visits he can always go and earn a few quid at work if needed. Random Group Photo #2! Where’s Dave? I’ve no idea why we thought this was a funny photo op. Anyone remember? Was it really just the England flag? And since I didn’t make it into the group photo here’s one of Russ and I. Random group photo!!! Steve, what have you stole from this place? Trust Dave to find us the one bar in Gothenburg that has a lamp post inside it!!! Mike loves himself some Goteborg Rape. Lou likes it even better when it’s in her drink. Has everyone seen Brad's tongue? Good. Lou stole my camera but Dave makes this photo. Sir Campsalot in his prime. Okay, let’s take another break from the parks for some drinking fun in Gothenburg! First of all, let's get out of the creepy lift!

^ I can imagine that would have been pretty amusing! Yeah our group waited for the SuperSplash only to get turned away after waiting for ages! That went over well!

Day 8, Part One: TUSENFRYD Well it seems that there has to be a day on each trip where I'm horribly ill. In 2008 it was that self-infflicted mess at Movie Park. This year it was at Tusenfryd but alcohol can't be blamed this time. Unfortunately a stomach problem that seems to haunt me every so often struck me today. It made the bus ride to the park hellish as I was in excruciating pain all day. Thankfully as the day wore on it subsided quite a bit but the rest of the trip I was plagued with these issues. It never got worse than this morning thankfully and I was still able to enjoy the park. Tusenfryd has a really cool setting, it's on the side of a hill and there's some really nice trees and scenery all around. The park also has some good rides. Speed Monster is the obvious one here, and it didn't disapppoint. Thunder Coaster wasn't quite as good as I expecting based on previous reports but it was definitely the of the Vekoma woodies for me. I will say that some of the operations seemed a bit lacklustre compared to what we had experienced so far on the trip but still, I've seen much worse. I didn't ride too much today so let's move onto the photos... OMG, I’m touching the track! Despite me having a horrendously sore stomach for most of the day I still liked Tusenfryd and even managed to get all the credits. I’ll need to go back some day! Now we’re done with Norway so we can get rid of those NOKKERS and get out our SEKS! Wahoo! SEE!!!! This is as far into the control room thing that I got, the geekiness was all too much for me. How geeky am I? Bet you wish you could be this geeky! Well just wait because it gets even more geeky! Behind the scenes on Speed Monster! One more look at Thunder Coaster before we move onto more cool TPR trip stuff… Although maybe that was just a bit of anticipointment. Because we did have some good rides. While I did think it was fun and definitely the best of the three it didn’t really stand out to me. The other big attraction at Tusenfryd is Thunder Coaster. Much touted as the best of the three Vekoma woodies I was interested to see how it compared to the two I’d tried a year ago. Spin Spider is Tusenfryd’s new for 2009 ride. Tusenfryd showed a lot of respect for those guests who want to try out the newest contraption by assigning ONE ride op to operate the ride! Cha-frickin-ching! It’s not a Vekoma but Erik loves himself some Teeny Weeny. We were all pretty excited to add the world’s smallest to our counts! Mike never misses an opportunity to cream up in front of lesbians. "Did you see the lesbians in the Dragons mouth?" --TPDave. TusenFryd. 15:52 Apparently an Arrow guy sneezed on the blueprints for this one which is why it’s so rough. At least that’s how Erik tells it. It’s just a(nother frickin’) Vekoma! And now for things that we wish weren’t built at all… It’s nice to see an accelerator that’s built on the side of a hill and not just a flat piece of land. Speed Monster was really good! It reminded me of Maverick quite a bit actually. Hey look, the Road Show’s in town! That’ll explain why it’s so busy today! Southern Steve loves going Zoom-Zoom! The first port of call in Tusenfryd always has to be Zoom-Zoom the ride! The first thing you see as you enter Tusenfryd is this very pretty carousel. Everyone’s excited to partake in some Intamin penetration! I was horribly ill most of this day but let’s just pretend that I wasn’t and have some fun at Tusenfryd!

^ Ned is proud! Everyone should have their coaster count on a spreadsheet to help with things like this! - Divv "Ballot done!" Walsh

If anyone is confused by the ballot they should check out Robb's awesome "Idiot's Guide" guide: http://www.themeparkreview.com/mitch.htm My poll this year shouldn't be too much different from last year. The biggest difference is that Balder is even further ahead of everything else this year!

This is great news! As much as I loved The Voyage in 2007 it really wasn't very re-rideable. Hopefully these new trains change that!

Day 7, Part Two: KAROLINELUND Our last park in Denmark, Karolinelund was a brief stop for us on the way to the ferry to Sweden. The park is quite small but is nice for what it is. It really was just a credit run (well not for me since I already had the credits) and we also took a quick spin on the ghost train. It's a nice park to check out if you're nearby. Here's some photos... So that was our quick visit to Karolinelund. It’s a nice place to check out if you’re ever nearby! That’s us finished with Denmark so we can all put our DKKs away and get out our NOKKERS now! FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!!! (Shut your eyes and scroll down Steve!) My favourite ride at Karolinelund is Spogelsestoget. Or Scottish Steve’s worst nightmare. Not only does this have ghost and ghouls to frighten him it also has… As was disembarkation. Yes that is a TPKnee sticking out the car. The screams of pain were quite amusing! TPDave and Erik prefer giving themselves a bit of a challenge. Lou and Andrew do something smart and find someone on the opposite side of big to make sure they have a comfy ride. OMG, I love this! Wacky Worm with TWO TRAINS!!! Don't you think Mike does a real mean Mr. Potato Head impression? Check out everyone in the “Pinfari brace position” Can’t wait to see that Pinfari Loopers In The Raw DVD!!! Before anyone else even got in line one person had made it on and off. Quite impressive really! After the sheer enjoyment of the Boomerang the group then moved onto better things… well different things at least – the Pinfari looper! Does someone sense a lamp post in proximity? Those poor, poor souls. At least the coaster has a quality colour scheme! Here’s a closer look! Having fun Scottish Steve? Can you see the excitement on everyone’s faces??? Erik just loves being in the centre of a Vekoma beast. The big attraction at this park is the Boomerang! Glad I’ve got this credit! Today’s second park is the northern-most park in Denmark – Karolinelund!

^ I think that postcard sums up Bobbejaanland perfectly! Love that place! Thanks for posting this, Mark!

OMG, I somehow missed the last part of this TR when you originally posted it Larry! Dollywood just looks great, I really am hugely anticipating my first visit. Thanks for the Doritos truck shout out too! I've never seen a Doritos truck in the UK.

It's weird to see Beanoland getting torn away, I've never been to Chessington without it! I do have decent expectations of the new area. Merlin have proved themselves quite capable of created some decent theming. Thanks for the construction update, Craig! Hope you can bring us more in the future!

Hold on a minute! There was a SCAD TOWER at Tivoli Friheden?!?! How did I miss this?! Great photos Hanno! Even the one of me sleeping where it looks like something is growing out of my face! LOL! Looking forward to the next update!

Day 7, Part One: DJURS SOMMERLAND The next park on the itinerary was one of the biggies for a lot of people - Djurs Sommerland. A biggie mostly because of the Intamin Mega-lite, Pirate, that was installed in 2008. I rode Piraten a year earlier and instantly loved it so an hour of ERT was a tantalising prospect! Whilst it wasn't running just as good this as it did for me in 2008 it was still fantastic! The sun returned today too! Very welcome after a few days of rain! The park looks fantastic in the sun too! It really does have something for everyone! Oh, and I was on the first train of Thor's Hammer ERT this morning! That makes me that bit more amazing than you and you know it. Onto some photos... Djurs Sommerland really is a fantastic park that looks to have a really bright future! I'm looking forward to going back again some day! Scottish Steve had one failed attempt and then just curled himself up here and muttered things about ghost trains. Djurs added a Triangle of Death for 2009. This was awesome although there were way too many kids for us to make a proper assault! I mean why would they let kids near a thing like this? My, my Scottish Steve. That’s hot. TPEat!!! These attacks on the other hand were just funny! These malicious and unprovoked attacks were just cruel and unwarranted. Larry confused us all by actually doing these monkey bars the way they were supposed to be done. Again leading the way is yours truly. I'm an sssault course extraordinaire (until I get to the very last obstacle usually) Assault course takeover!!! I’m not sure if the boats are supposed to be bananas or old pickles, either way they make for a safe and enjoyable journey through Chicoland! I love myself some Poachers! The ride is part Lost and part Planet of the Apes. Now for the most random but funniest ride in all of Denmark – Chico and the Poachers! Good thing Mike creamed up well this morning. Hands up if you like walking around hotels naked! Yes, they let us play with guns! This park clearly doesn’t know us! Just in case you forgot, Mike will show you how to go WIKI, WIKI WILD! Yet again, Lou and Brad’s wardrobe coordination was spot on. I really like Djurs rapids. There's a cool "surprise ending" too! I think it took about two seconds before Steve regretted saying that we was sitting out the rapids. The sun is back so today’s update is brought to you by Nivea for Men. Perfect for all your creaming up desires. Wacky, worm, worm, worm, worm, worm. Because of these WHORES! OMG, look at the line for the Wacky Worm! Why would it be so long? These people got off very lightly in my view! Hot day. Log flume. SKLOOSH. Done. TPEmo. Yes, these things are so tame that even I ride them! They’re actually a Divv-approved flat ride but for all the wrong reasons! Dave was a bit nervous, but come on, even I was riding this, should have told him everything he needed to know about a Topple Tower! Another big attraction is Djurs is the Topple Tower. At least it is for those who haven’t done one before. I want one of these stools for my flat. Good thing we did have ERT, look at the stampede heading for the ride! Or maybe they just heard that the Road Show was in town? We got a LOT of rides on Piraten this morning. We really didn’t want ERT to end, it’s so rerideable! Even being slightly sluggish it still kicks all kinds of ass! Even last year we found that the ride got better as the day went on, which was again the case today. I will say that it wasn’t running as good as it was a year ago, but I think you have to put that down to the fact that the park had been closed for a few days before we got there. Yar, it be Piraten says I. The main reason to come to Djurs is of course the piratey Intamin Mega-Lite goodness! Mike has Steve’s FLAPS-OF-POWER-GLASSES! He must be edging his way towards becoming Fudge 1 now! Hey, the Road Show’s in town again! That’ll be why there’s huge crowds building up outside. Wooo!!!! We were FIRST on Thor’s Hammer at ERT this morning! Scottish Steve, Mike, TPDave and myself all rode the coaster before anyone else, are we the greatest or what??? I mean you're a NOBODY if you somehow ended up on the second train! Special guest star for the next few days is our favourite lamp post loving friend – Dave Fudge! Everyone say "Hi Dave!"

I know, I'm so gutted I don't have any photos of that! I was probably just too busy laughing at the whole thing. I even went through all the other people's photos that I stole and there was nothing. They were probably too busy laughing (or gently persuading Steve) to take photos too. Thanks for the comments people! I really do hope I find that elusive SCAD TOWER in 2010!

Ice Bat is such whore! I'm in awe! I've never heard Diable Swing Orchestra before but this TR has me very intrigued to check them out! Great stuff, Dave!

These look great! I might just try some out whenever I finally get an urge to cook some real food! What this thread needs now is photos of posters cooking their food and finished dishes to apetise me some more!

Day 6, Part Two: TIVOLI FRIHEDEN Our next park on this rainswept day was Tivoli Friheden. I'd visited the park a year earlier and was eager to return, but only really because there was a credit there that I needed! LOL. When I visited last year the new RideTek coaster Cobra was sadly days away from opening. (Which meant it was only a few more days from closing!) At one point it looked like I wasn't going to get this credit again as the damn thing broke down just as a bunch of us were about to ride! We did get on eventually although I do have to say it's not an experience I'm looking to repeat in a hurry. Tivoli Friheden has a very cool ghost train that we managed to drag (literally!) Scottish Steve on! Poor boy. LOL! We'd also heard reports of there being a SCAD Tower at this place. Did we find one? Read on... So we didn’t find a SCAD Tower today but we still had a good time at Tivoli Friheden searching for one. Maybe we’ll find one later in the trip! Fishing makes Steve wet. Very wet. Nah, it looks like one of those weird Danish fishing devices. I like fish. Hold on a cotton picking minute. Is that a SCAD Tower? Okay, since there’s no SCAD Tower in this park can we at least put some helmets and stuff on so that we can pretend there is one? Poor Steve still hasn’t recovered from this. Is there a SCAD Tower inside this building? No, but there’s something quite entertaining about to go in. That said, I finally got another Danish credit so it wasn’t all bad news! Definitely pleased I got to ride it even if I’m not hurrying back to ride again. The thing had quite a cool layout but just really hurt your ears on pretty much every turn, flip and straight piece of track. I wish I could say I enjoyed this but I really didn’t. Give me an SLC over this any day! Well maybe. Look at that happy train of stranded riders! TPDave is sad that he forgot to bring his fax machine into the park today so he could get in touch with Sartori. Wow, those zombie-proof shields really work! When I visited this park a year ago, this ride was only days away from its grand opening, which meant it was only a few more days before it’s grand closing. Thankfully, it looked like this year I would be getting this credit, or part of it at least! Maybe not, but at least Ben isn’t all by himself anymore! Woo, kiddie SCAD Tower! Dammit, no. It’s a spinning mouse. Although don’t let this photo fool you into thinking this thing spins! Is this a SCAD Tower? Woo, the Road Show is still in town! Although, you could be forgiven for mistaking this for a SCAD Tower. Nope, that’s Pinfari Looping Death!!! It’s still wet, but we don’t care and only have one question our minds: “Is that a SCAD Tower?”

Yeah, I really think the Scandinavian parks have to be commended for how they operated in the rain. They really are proof that it can be done, and done well. Thanks for the replies people! Tivoli Friheden up next...

I'm all for this, year round haunted mazes are a big win in my book. I just hope it's an upcharge or a fast track is available for it as I can see this thing getting crazy lines. Here's hoping a lot of effort is put in by Merlin on this! Remember everyone: If Scottish Steve asks, it's just a "Behind the scenes look at the making of the films".