mjollner

Awesome to see Jack improving so fast! The last 3-4 updates have all brought a big smile to my face. And so good to see the thumbs up and the nod when you say he'll want to remember this later... He's been out cold for such a long time, and even tho I imagine he's far from wide awake due to weakness and heavy sedation... He still has his spirits.

While I've never ridden a spinning-coaster that I liked, I have to say I applaud Busch Gardens for daring to build something different. This is one of the rides this year I really look forward to see in action.

Maybe it's different when you're actually on the ride, but the second half after the brakes looks painfully slow. In parts almost like it's not going to make the circuit. First half looks awesome!

I stayed at the wonderful Gothia-Towers( tower 2) yesterday and I paid a little extra to have a view over Liseberg. Took these pictures and I thought I'd share just because it's a pretty nice angle of the whole park that you don't see a lot. Also, if you have the chance and money to eat at ' Heaven 23', take it! The food and view of Gothenburg is stupendous. ( http://heaven23.se) I like how natural the new ride looks. On the first, second and third glance I thought it was the old catapult " Uppskjutet". Sorry for my reflection in one of the pics, but it was unavoidable with the light being what it was. Helix is clearer in this one.

I'm glad Jack is awake and making real progress. So awesome to see him awake and sitting up. However briefly. And awesome idea from KidTums to write Ellen. True humanitarian. Dream big and anything can happen!

Double post.

I rode RRR three times when I went to Universal. It's fun... I love the inversion on top of the loop. And I rode it far back all times, I just didn't have the patience to wait... But that last drop before the station totally caught me off guard the first time. It was awesome! I don't mind the music, but I don't need it. It's not adding a ton of fun for me. And yes, it was pretty rough... But where's the greatness in a smooth coaster if all of them were smooth?

Track...

Looks rad. But with a name like Valravn... I don't think anyone is going to be able to enjoy that drop.

Latest update is a wee bit better... Finally getting some fluid out of his lungs. Still a long way to go... but Go Jack!

This is possibly going to be the single best coaster-element in the world. I also love how the upwards-swoop into the station looks. And the launched hill over the first drop into a second bigger drop, with airtime over both... into that large banked turn.... I can't wait to see how if this thing actually rides as good as it does the concept.

Robb, There HAS to be a TPR-POV of this, complete with plenty of ' wee's' and ' oh crap's'. I will be visiting the park in July and hopefully I'll be able to record that video then! Awesome! Can't wait. You might be annoying to some people but I think your articulations of excitement make the videos. I scream my lungs out whenever I ride anything, so having a vid with no reactions is just meh...

Robb, There HAS to be a TPR-POV of this, complete with plenty of ' wee's' and ' oh crap's'.

I donated 25 earlier today. I wish I could do more... The video of Robb and Jack riding Falcon's Fury is literally one of my fave-vids ever. Jack just always strikes me as a really likeable and genuinely cool dude. On a sidenote, to a guy from Sweden, the fact that a good man who works to support his family needs people to donate a ton of money so him and his family doesn't go bankrupt when he gets sick is insane. A good American family goes down because of a little bit of bad luck? I'm really not after a political discussion here, I just found that to be incredibly saddening. Get well soon Jack! Your wife and daughters need you around for a long time still... And I want more videos of you riding things that terrify you.

I've had contacts since I was around 15 years old and I've never once experienced any kind of dryness/ problem even though I've been on a ton of big coasters. Don't worry, be happy... And fly!

That looks like some seriously twisted sex! Can't wait to see how it rides. Big props to Walibi for daring something different!

Hello, My name is Per and this is my first contribution to this wonderful forum... Comments or suggestions on how to improve my reports are warmly welcome. Lets get right down to it. T'was a few days after Christmas and me, my girlfriend and two friends went to the Christmas-market at the very ' curious and quaint' Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen... Founded in 1843, Tivoli is the second oldest amusement park in the world beaten only by ' Bakken', which is a mere 13 kilometres away but a whopping 260 years older ( founded in 1583). T'was a cold day... But despite only 3 brisk degrees C ( ca 37 F), all rides were open except Freedom Flyer which was closed due to winds. Probably a good decision as the wind was cold enough to make my nuts want to turn back and hop on the train home to Malmö. But, we soldiered on... There was after all warm beverages with enough alcoholic content to convince any eloping body-parts to hang around( har har). After a quick shot O'Glögg, we got in line for Rutschebanan. I get excited around rollercoasters, so I passionately started rambling facts about the ride while we waited. I got so caught up in it that it wasn't until just before boarding, that we realised this was not the line for Rustchebanan, but actually a water-ride called ' Minen' ( The Mine). We got on, because... We didn't want to look stupid... and after all, what could be stupid about going on a water-ride when it's 3 degrees outside? The ride was thankfully a very un-wet shoot-em up. I'm not sure what we shot at, but I won. After that, we went on to Odinexpressen. It's a motordriven MacRides-coaster built in 1985. It does three laps on it's circuit and the back-row packed a surprising amount of " wheeee". Also, the fact that it's motordriven makes it very curious, as there are not that many around these days. I couldn't find a TPR-video, but there are plenty on youtube if you're interested. Next, we found the right line for Rutschebanan. Rustchebanan ( translates to ' the slide' or something) is an old school wooden coaster built in 1914. It's so old that it needs to be braked manually... It's a lot of fun, and surprisingly smooth. It's also said to be haunted, which in combination with the brakeman riding along makes it very curious and quaint. After that, we jumped on the drop-tower, mostly because I'm scared of them and my girlfriend knows it. Standard drop tower. It goes up, I crap my pants and then comes down with me smiling and thinking how silly I am for always being scared. Drop-rides are awesome! After this, we walked past what has to be one of the most intense rides in the world. Don't take my word for it, because I didn't go, but Vertigo is supposed to pound your ass into your seat with the sustained force of 5G's for most of it's duration. It looked insane. I informed people getting on it was insane. And as they got off the informed me it was insane. That video doesn't lie. It looks fake! Like reality sped-up. That's how insane this ride is! I didn't ride. None of my friends wanted to go and it just wasn't calling my name loud enough, so we went looking for food and alcohol instead. We lunched in the bowels of a pirateship. Down below was a restaurant, with a Caribbean-inspired menu. The food was good but even better was seeing the kids who were totally immersed in their pirate-dream. Next up we rode Daemonen ( The demon). I have a serious weakness for parks who try to fit big rides into small spaces. Daemonen is just that, it's a B&M floorless coaster that tries to deliver ' Kraken', but in a fraction of the space. It's a fun little ride, and what it lacks in force, it more than makes up for with a ton of heart and feisty personality. Not 100% sure but it could be the smallest B&M ever built, which makes it extremely curious and quaint. I meant to get back on Daemonen for a second romp, but the line tripled and with only one train on the circuit, I didn't want to keep my friends waiting. The lines were really short all day ( 0 - 10 minutes) but as the shadows grew bigger, so did the crowds. In conclusion: I love this park! It has so much personality, curiousness and quaint-ness. It has a very nice selection of rides for a park of it's size and being just outside the Copenhagen central-station ( two stops from Copenhagen airport), it's relatively easy to pay a quick visit, no matter where you are in the world. You could also combine your tivoli-stop with a quick visit ' Bakken', which would give you the credit for " two oldest parks in the world", possibly in one day. Pretty quaint, if you ask me. Now for some pictures... Tivoli is a quaint little park in the heart of Copenhagen. Lots of cute little restaurants and stores with curious souvenirs for sale. Tivoli is packed with cute little details... like this snowman. - " Come here" he seemed to say. " Come here so I can murder you!" My glove-less friends nearly lost their fingers to frostbite, luckily we found this quaint pile of glowing coal to warm them back up. Feathers will beat the weathers... Feathers and love. We found this pirate-ship, which turned out to be an awesome restaurant... Me at the helm I guess this means ' Calamari' is off the menu. Starvin' Marlin and Dead Hammerhead tenderising... Daemonen turned us into demons, complete with scary faces, horrific screams and white knuckles... This quaint bird-house is actually a pretty accurate replica of the OJ Simpson crime-scene. Oh the quaintness... Heads or tails Shinyness More shinyness... 5 dollars for Glögg and they let you keep the cups. It's a sponsored but quaint little souvenir. This report has been brought to you by Me ( Per) and my girlfriend and photographer Carolin. We sincerely hope you found it entertaining... and quaint.

It says; - Thanks for today! Awesome that you wanted to come. The last sentence can also be interpreted; Awesome having you... I consider Liseberg my homepark, and I used to go loads every summer... But since I moved away from Gothenburg I haven't been in like 10 years. Really sad, as it really is a great park. I hope I can make it up there soon and ride all the new stuff...