booink
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Great job ! TPR made me love memes (I always thinked that the ones on facebook are terrible ) I would personnally have made one more winner, it says "So Knott's getting a new wild mouse ? - I hope it will be eaten by a wildcat !". (I just couldn't find it...) It was very great !
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Voted about 2 weeks ago, can't wait to see the results ! (I hope Goliath at La Ronde will be well ranked like in 2010, it was 14th out of 343 and that's at my home park ! Go Goliath ! )
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That's a winning entry !!!
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I'll give it a try :
SOB
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Can't wait to see screaming eagles take shape !
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^Nice ! I just don't see who would like to be chosen to ride an SLC, even if it's not a knock-off... I like it !
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And another one (my last)
He didn't looked for the dates !
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I'll try one :
Too many knock-off and Togo...
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Wow ! That's amazing ! I must go to Cedar Point someday...
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Sounds awesome ! Sad to see I can't participate (California is far, far away from Montreal)... Please do a La Ronde or Great Escape bash someday so I can participate !
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^Ok, thank you very much !
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I'm not going to reply again, the answer is in the previous post .
However, I'd like to know : does someone knows what beeing "TPR approved" means ?
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A very delayed TR but here it is anyway...
I spent a couple hours in La Ronde the day before Leviathan Bash in July and while I loved the park, I hated the operations. I didn't get a Flash Pass because I didn't want to spend the money and the crowds looked light enough that I thought I should be OK. For the most part I was correct and I think if I had paid for one for the 4 hours I spent in the park, I would have regretted it later.
I missed out on two of the Vekoma credits (not that I'm too sad about that) because the Boomerang and SLC were both closed. I was pleasantly surprised by not being bashed about too much by the Vekoma Corkscrew but not enough to ride a second time.
Vampire was Batman (no complaints from me).
Le Cobra was surprisingly fun considering I had heard less than great things about the smoothness of the old non-B&M stand-up coasters and the fact that maintenance was welding something in the brake run when the park opened. The nice pop of airtime in the front row was unexpected but definitely a plus. (Something I always wish the Riddler's Revenge's hill that used to jump Freefall had more of.)
I only managed to get the right side (standing in the station looking in the direction the trains travel) of Le Monstre due to one train operation and somebody losing their lunch on the left side while I was waiting for my ride. On a side note, Flash Pass only gets you onto the left side of Le Monstre. If you want to ride the right track, you will have to wait in line.
Goliath was a lot of fun and I managed to get 4-5 rides on it thanks to 2 train operation and a line that never really left the station while I was there. It was my first B&M mini-hyper and my first experience with B&M's lap restraints. Overall I liked the ride, but I wasn't sure where to place it considering I would be at Wonderland the next day riding Behemoth and Leviathan.
Dragon was also a lot of fun and a complete surprise. I would have missed it if I hadn't decided to walk over near the ferris wheel to see if I could get any good pictures of the SLC. I guess I should do better research before heading out to new parks.
I didn't try to get on the kiddie coaster and gave up on the Bobsled themed mouse after realizing it was 2 pm and I still had to drive to Toronto and that the line would take me an hour to get through.
Overall I think I had a generally favorable outlook on the park. I thought that other than Goliath, the operations were pretty terrible. With the two train operations, the returning train would sit on the brake run for 30 seconds before the train ahead was dispatched but it wasn't really anything to complain about. Like many of the Six Flags Parks, I think that it could use a nice chunk of change spent on maintenance, paint, and general sprucing up (went to SFNE, SFA, and Great Escape this year, SFMM, and SFDK were former home parks). That said, I have multiple pictures of the peeling red paint on the former concrete dolphin (?) stadium you have to walk around to get to Le Cobra. The worlds fair modern design of the building was pretty awesome and I thought the peeling paint just seemed to add that much to the atmosphere.
I will definitely try to get back to the park next year to try and get the missing credits and as part of a real visit to Montreal. Due to the limited time, I never actually made it across the river into Montreal proper.
Nice trip report ! Happy to see you liked the park (except for the operations, which I admit are horrible !)
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Hi Robb,
I wanted to ask if you could in 2013 make a video "behind the scenes" of your POVs... I'd very much like to see which cameras you use and you install them on the coasters to make such great POVs !
Thanks in advance !
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(This post doesn't have anything to do with the new food rule)
Hi, recently as I was getting rid of my 2012 calendar (I made it myself so I wanted to keep it), I found out some old La Ronde stuff from when I was very young. I found the ticket I used to go to the park for the first time (in 2001 !), my first season pass (2005), and other season passes from 2006, 2007 and 2008.
For peoples who doesn't understand french, on the 2001 ticket it's hand-written by my mother "3 1/2 years old, with his cousin Félix".
Also, for the peoples who are wondering why I hided my face, well I looked horrible on my old season passes .
Whatever, here they are :
Some old La Ronde tickets and season passes
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My first coaster of the year will probably be The Capitale Express if I go to Quebec City and to the Mall, if I don't before May, then it'll be Le Monstre at La Ronde.
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Maybe it could be a sort of Maverick like at CP, or maybe an Intamin mini-giga coaster (not probable, but we can dream !)
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I also received a newsletter from La Ronde about this awful new rule. The last time they tryed to instore such a system at La Ronde, they received hundreds of complaints since the city of MTL (former owner) was allowing outside food. I never spent a penny at La Ronde for food except for ice cream (because I LOVE ice cream ) and this price augmentation will most likely make me want to spend even less money for food.
In the worst case, I live 15 minutes from the park so I eat at home. Take that Six Flags !
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Ok, I'm heading to La Ronde just for that hockey mini game.
Seriously, that's awesome, I might actually be able to win that one.
Winning at that game is terribly tough ! I have a friend who's a super-excellent hockey player (don't remember his grade) and his best score ever at that game is 7. To get a big prize, you need to get at least 20 points ! Also remember the holes are small, you're far from the goaler, you have 40 seconds for 30 pucks (1.33 secs./puck) and it cost 10 $CA ! La Ronde know how to make money : average players won't make more than 5 or 6 points...
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That park really has a ton of potential if you got rid of the [...] clientele [...]
Please no ! I'm a good customer and I never did anything bad at my home park ! Plus, there's not so much bad clientele at La Ronde... I think the real problem with that park is the employees who lack enthousiasm, Ednör (SLC), and Cobra (Intamin Stand-up) because they are terrible !
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I'm not sure exactly, but I think my first B&M was Vampire at La Ronde (Montreal)
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[...] (being used for storage) along with Nightmares building (IDK if the coaster still in there).
The coaster is not in the Nightmare's building anymore ! The RCDB lists it as defunct, and I saw myself the building's doors open during a summer day and there was no roller coaster in it. Just a couple of piles of wood and metal, but clearly no Jet Star.
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Wow, that coaster seems awesome ! Please add a download link so I can get it !
GoPro questions from KICentral
in Ask Alvey
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I will answer too .
Personnaly I own a french website about roller coasters and theme parks, and I've asked a park to film a coaster, and even if I'm not very known yet, they accepted to let me film. I can't guarantee they'll let you if it's for personnal purpose, but I would suggest to send them an e-mail and ask. If you're lucky they'll say yes. Try !