Blue Turbo

Hello, I'm Nathan/Blue Turbo, and welcome to a collection of my adventures from summer 2014. Contents: (Numbering based off of the start of TPR trip) Day -6 and -5: Coaster Campout and Cedar Point (Below) Day -4 and -3: Kalahari Resort Link Day -2 and -1: Boring stuff we won't mention Mini New Hotness Day 0: Coney Island and Stricker's Grove Link Day 1: Kings Island Link Day 2: Kentucky! Link Day 3: Holiday World Link Day 4: Indiana Beach Link Day 5: Six Flags Great America Link Mini East Coast Day 6 and 7: Hersheypark Day 8: Knoebels Day 9: Dorney Park Day 10: Six Flags Great Adventure Cedar Point Coaster Campout This summer was amazing! My first (and technically second) TPR trip, meeting some great people, and riding roller coasters. But before we get to that, I had some fun on my own. This first update is more wordy than picturey (yes I know that's not a word) because I just got a new camera for the trip and most of the night picture didn't turn out. Plus it was raining in the morning so I didn't want to risk it. Cedar Point held their first ever Coaster Campout on July 18th/19th. It was a free event for members of coaster clubs, and it was outstanding. The original plan was to have guests camp in tents in the grass of the Antique Cars, but due to the overwhelming registration, they had to make the event three times as big, covering the entire area near Maverick. Even while writing this I don't know how they were able to hold this event. There was a couple hundred of people camping in the park, and a large number that were just their for everything else, and every person got admission for two days, two meals, night and morning ERT, and the opportunity to sleep in the park. Did I mention that it was free to attend this event? However they managed to pull this off, it was indeed a great event. The morning of the18th, I went to check in to get my tickets and credentials and then was free to enjoy the rest of my day. I got Fast Lane Plus since last time I was at the park I didn't get on very much and I did not regret it. After an incredible day it was time for dinner. There was a simple buffet for all the campers that was rather tasty. Next, I went back to the hotel to get my gear for the night. After getting my campsite number, I had to haul my tent and bag from the resort entrance to Mean Streak. They sent people in groups to help the staff at the campsites, but we got many strange looks from GP as a large number of us walked through the Gemini midway carrying camping equipment. After setting up my tent, it was time for some ERT on Mine Ride, Skywalk, and Maverick, which was a blast. The ride-ops were having fun, the lines were short for how many people were there, and Tony Clark was there riding rides and eating Smore's with us. Now it was time for what made this event truly unique, spending the night inside of Cedar Point! I fell asleep and then around 2am, I am woken up by some creepy music and screams in the distance. I try to look outside of my tent, but since I was way back at the exit of the train, I could not see what was happening. This went on for about fifteen minutes when a voice comes on over the speakers. It was the witch saying that there were cowboys and werewolves running around as a preview for the new Haunt maze that was by Gatekeeper. While I am not a fan of Haunt related things, I thought it was a great way to get people excited about the new maze. The morning meant that the event was almost over, but there was still fun to be had. It had rained on and off during the night, and the sky looked very ominous when I packed up my things. I took my stuff back to my hotel and heading over to Millennium Force for some ERT (Gatekeeper was also including but I didn't go over there). On my second ride of MF, I could feel it starting to sprinkle, and by the third the rain was coming down steadily. I didn't let that stop my, I threw on my TPR poncho and kept riding. I got a total of ten rides that morning before I gave in because the rain was rather painful while going 90 mph. I headed over to breakfast at Coasters Drive-In. While there I got to talk with some of the workers that were responsible for the event which was really cool. A huge thank you to Cedar Point for putting together such and incredible event. They did a great job, especially with the size of the event and the fact that they had never done something like this before. Now some picture of my journey and the event: My mom doesn't like flying so we took the train for 36 hours...and that's just from Needles to Chicago More train, getting into Sandusky at 1am There was a lot of this on the way there See And more. Riveting. I was mostly just testing out my camera with these At the park, and I wonder what this sign can be for Time for dinner Standard theme park buffet food: Burgers and hot dogs. I better get used to this My tent that a bought solely for this event I was in the corner next to the train station, Mean Streak, and Maverick. I could hear maintenance doing some work on Mean Streak's trains I got to sleep this close to Maverick, which just happens to be one of my top steel coasters! The view from inside of my tent Back when this event was people were speculating about what this meant More Maverick. Thank you to my camera for focusing on the trees Everyone that camped got on of these blankets I thought it would be cool to show the souvenirs I got from each park. Here I got a Millennium Force hoodie and a 2014 shirt And to wrap up this update with even more Maverick. Please ignore the ghost people, thank you This marks the end the Coaster Campout, but this is just the beginning of my fun! Next time, the Kalahari Resort.

The new models can be snapped. I got some snapping on the ones at Knott's, and that was my first time on flyers

This looks very interesting and I can't wait to see it being shown IAAPA, then we will really be able to see what it is like

This makes me really excited to go on this ship in January

Kentucky Rumbler during the ERT session on the Mini New Hotness trip this summer. It got pretty heavy as the night went on and there was some lightning in the distance which was really cool to see as you were riding

If to make a coaster nerd Halloween costume you can use stuff you already have. Guilty of this

Wildebeest at Holiday World. Sitting in the front, it feels like you are going to fly out of the raft on every hill unless you death-grip the handles

^ The only enjoyable part of that ride

^Sorry, I'll try harder next time

Great report! New Hotness was such a fun time, with so many bizarre memories like Mr Kentucky (well all of Kentucky ), Flight of Fear #InTheFastlane, and the ferris wheel rollback and Frankenstein's Castle at Indiana Beach. It was really great getting to know you over the trip and hope we can meet again someday.

Received my Bag-O-Crap today! Thank you so much Robb and Elissa, you are amazing. Contents: TPR Bag TPR magnet TPR pen Club TPR Ornament Club TPR magnet Club TPR luggage identifier Banshee Bash lanyard Grona Lund lanyard Geauga Lake bottle opener Nigloland bracelet Chimpanzee pin Banshee Media Day pin Knotts WCB 2014 Shirt Mystery DVD Large quantity of park maps! So much Crap! All of the maps! (I am especially excited by the Tokyo Disney ones)

The Norwegian Loop on Fahrenheit is probably my favorite inversion

I am apparently very good at breaking rides since I have been stuck on many different rides (My group from Mini New Hotness can attest to this ) Last weekend I was stuck on the final brake run on California Screamin for about twenty minutes before maintenance came to let us out. I have been stuck on the first lift hill of Thunder Mountain at Disneyland for 45 minutes before we were evacuated. Stuck of ET in the home planet scene for about 25 minutes before they got the ride running again. Pipe Scream at Cedar Point, the platform would not raise back up after the ride cycle Stuck on Demon at SFGAm at the final brake for about twenty minutes in the hot sun while the restraints were digging into my shoulders Tatsu during WCB 2013, the train started moving out of the station and then stopped, luckily I was on the second train that this happened to so maintenance was already there and they just switched the ride into manual and sent the train And all of these except Thunder Mountain have been within the past year and a half (and there is probably more that I don't remember)

This. Last night I was on California Screamin when it e-stopped and had to be evacuated and I thought it was so cool to have to have maintenance let us out and climb down the stairs from the brake run

I think we've learned from other videos that people can't read. "Where is this ride at? What ride is this?" All of that information is presented to them both in the video title and the description, so it is their fault that they can't be bothered to read them. There is nothing wrong with the video, there will just always people that are too lazy to watch the whole thing or read the description and then write rude/stupid comments that could have been easily avoided if they had done a little bit of reading. End rant

Was at the park last night and on the final brake of California Screamin the ride E-stopped. Maintenance had to come and evacuate us. This morning there was the CHOC Walk in the Park apparently, the whole resort was packed. Downtown Disney was crowded with all of the walkers and the stands for them. Both of the parks had long lines at the entrance, with DCA not opening for another hour. We decided to just leave early because it was going to be way too busy

I miss Knoebles so much. The East Coast Trip was my first time and I loved it so much, and I didn't even see half the stuff there

^Then it should be an ice explosion for Frozen

^But that's a coaster

^Or they would have to limit the number that could be used/assign times to offset the increased demand with a lower price

14 consecutive rides on El Toro!

This construction process is a coaster nerds wet dream, trying to figure out the layout based on the pieces of the ride

^I love a good pre-lift section and this one will definitely be great

The Screaming Swing was the only things we actually needed to use the Fastlane for, at the dry park at least, everything else was a walk on; this was a Saturday in July.

^While I agree that people are a bit over-negative, I would rather have a situation like Banshee that surpasses expectations than an overhyped ride that doesn't deliver.