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Very nice video of a very sh*tty ride. For anyone who doubts the roughness of the ride, it is as bad, if not worse than people claim.

Depends on how much you paid me. Would you eat a piece of paper for $1,000?

I voted yes since my job generally has me working weekends as well as weekdays. So attending a weekday bash wouldn't be any more trouble than a weekend bash. And if its something I'm interested in, I'll be there.

Dodonpa @ Fuji Q

I listen to Penn's Sunday School weekly.

Yep. Are you going to a concert anytime soon?

Nice video of a fun GCI in just about the best park on the planet. Like other people have said, you should get here at least once in your life.

Diga Diga Doo - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

All right, after a fun morning of credit whoring at Walygator Parc, we were off to our next park. Holiday Park. And yes, Expedition Ge Force is as good as everyone claims. Its got great ejector air, good floater air, strong laterals, and a great first drop. Its got nearly everything. Its Definitely in my Top 5 Coasters. And honestly, I was impressed with the rest of Holiday Park. The other coasters while not amazing, were at least fun. It had a good selection of other attractions including a decent sized Starflyer, a good drop tower, and a cool dark ride. All right. Now onto the photos. Well after a fun morning at Walygator, we went over to Germany so we could check out Holiday Park. Hmm. The park really looks nice. I see Plopsa made some nice changes to the park. Well there's only one main reason we decided to come to Holiday Park. Yep!!! To check out their mascot Holly the Parrot!!!! Actually what we really came for is just over here. Yeah. We came to ride Expedition G Force. Yeah. I know we have ERT on it later tonight, but we're gonna still wait in the 20 minute line for it now. Mostly for two reasons. 1: I'm antsy since I've been f*cking wanting to ride this coaster for years and after years and years of waiting, I'm not going to wait a couple more hours. And 2: I'm getting an insurance ride in incase the ride decides to blow up and ERT has to be cancelled. But hey. That's a very unlikely scenario. But with a ride this good, you don't want to risk it. The park must have known we were coming today. All right. Its time to ride this thing. Dude. That is one of the best first drops ever. An insane assload of laterals and ejector air!!! And hey. After that insanity just comes some really long goes on forever floater air. But don't you worry about the lack of laterals. We've got that covered on this ride as well. These overbanks are very much like the one on Bizarro @ Six Flags New England where the curves are also really tight and have a whip to them and aren't just fun cruiser elements like on Xcelerator and Millenium Force. And yeah. These bunny hops deliver a TON of airtime. What is up with the girl in white? And whys the guy in the back starring off to the side? Ok. Lets go check out the rest of the park starting with their dark ride. Ok, so I'm not exactly sure what this dark ride is about. I just see these two together. OH NO!!!! BOOBS!!!! PROTECT THE CHILDREN FROM THE HORRORS!!!!! All right. Lets just focus on getting the other two credits here. Yeah. After Expedition Ge Force, this is what we have to suffer through. Though to be fair to the ride, this was by far the best Vekoma Corkscrew that I had been on. It was fast and not that rough. I had fun. Now we just need to focus on the other credit. Hollys Wilde Auto-Fahrt. Yeah. Its just another Wild Mouse. Nothing special. Much like the Corkscrew, this thing was running great. It was completely trimless and running like a bat out of hell. Hey look!!! The Starflyer here actually has some height to it!!! It actually feels intense!!!! I loved it!!!! I've heard good things about this log flume. And yeah. Its got a nice theme, a fun little backwards section, and a cool double drop. Yeah, this is a good one. Ok, lets get some dinner in before we head over for our ERT. Hey look!!! Club Cool was right!!! They really do have Mezzo Mix in Germany!!! Funny how I never saw a single Beverly in all of Italy, and now I constantly see Mezzo Mix in Germany. Dude. The Schnitzel they have in this park is just fantastic. Yeah, Great Schnitzel, Fries, and High Quality German Beer sounds like a good dinner to me. Oh no. It didn't happen. SH*T!!!!! EXPEDITION GE FORCE BROKE DOWN RIGHT BEFORE OUR ERT!!!! AND IT BROKE DOWN GOOD!!!!!! =( But they opened up the Drop Tower for us while they tried fixing Expedition G Force. It was a good drop tower, but from what I've been told, it was rethemed to some random British Kids Show. I have no idea what its about, but I already hate it. There. That makes the show much better. While the parks maintenence crew was doing their damn best job to fix the ride for us, the park treated us to complementary ice cream and muffins. "Hey, I may have missed Expedition Ge Force since I was too busy drinking beer, but look at this way. Now I can drink even more beer!!!!" "DAMN YOU INTAMIN GODS!!!!!!" Ooh. Everyones lined up. This should be good. OOH!!! THEY MADE PROGRESS!!! WE JUST MIGHT GET OUR ERT AFTER ALL!!!!! After a couple test runs, it broke down again and it would take even more time, so yeah. We couldn't wait any more and had to just leave. Yeah, it sucks. But hey, thats just life. Nasty Sh*t happens. And I want to thank Holiday Park for providing the ice cream, beer, and muffins and for doing their damn best they could to get it fixed. Well I'll definetly be back to get some more Expedition Ge Force rides since it is one of my favorite coasters ever and this park is just awesome in general. Thanks for reading and please post your comments. Europa Park will be up next.

Nice Photo TR Martin. All these parks in Malaysia and Singapore look really cool. I'm definitely hoping to make it out to this part of the world some day.

All right. It's been a while since the last update of this Photo TR was done, and since I want to finish this before a year passes between the trip, I better get started now. So at this point, the TPR Italy Trip officially ended and now we are onto the TPR Europe Trip. We said good bye to a few friends from Italy and hello to a lot more coming in for the Europe Trip. For the first day of the trip, not too much happened since it was just a driving day. But hey, we drove through Switzerland, which is so beautiful that its the equivalent of literally driving through a post card. You look out the window, snap a picture, and now you have a great photograph. This goes on for hours until you reach France and it stops being beautiful. After reaching the hotel, we got to unpack and get a nice dinner from the hotel. The next day was the first day of the Europe Trip where we got to go to ride roller coasters, and today we were going to be at two different parks. Walygator Parc and Holiday Park. Walygator wasn't originally on the itinerary, but Robb added it on so we could a couple more credits, which as a credit whore, I am always in favor of. Especially when one of them is a kickass Raptor clone. But yeah, aside from the Raptor clone, there isn't much here other than some crappy credits, a few generic flat rides, and the French Equivalent of Grizzly @ CGA, which while not as bad as I was anticipating, still seriously blew. After the few hours we had here, I was more than ready to move on and get to Holiday Park and ride Expedition Ge Force, but I was still glad we stopped for the credits, especially the Raptor clone which was awesome, so Thank you Robb & Elissa for squeezing this onto the itinerary. Now onto the photos. Well, the Italy portion of TPR's Mega Europe Trip has ended. Now I loved Italy and the Italy parks were all awesome. So its sad to leave. But hey. Look at the bright side. Now I get to check out all the awesome parks in Germany and France. But to say good bye to Italy, here's some photos of a beautiful Italian Town I drove by. Ok. We are now in Switzerland. Now Switzerland isn't one of the official countries of the trip. Those would be Italy, Germany, and France. But we did drive through Switzerland. Now normally just because we drive through somewhere, that means jack-sh*t. But just being in Switzerland is amazing. Just driving through it is incredible and makes me happy. I mean look at that!!! Bonus Stop at the Waterpark anyone? No need for any movies or TV Shows to play on the bus. Just look out the window. We decided to stop for lunch at this Rest Stop so we wouldn't starve and to just get out and enjoy Switzerland. Now for as much as I love Switzerland, theres one part I can't stand. HIGH PRICES!!!!! THIS COUNTRY IS SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE!! A plate of spaghetti and a coke cost me €19!! That's the equivelant of $23.35!! Hey, the rest stop may have robbed me, but look!!! Such a beautiful view of the Alps!!!! Its so green over here. Can't stop taking photos of Switzerland!!! So f*cking beautiful!!!! Every photo I take looks like it should be on a post card. Ok. The beautys all gone. We must be in France now. Ok, its not terrible. It sure as hell beats driving through any of the Midwest States, but come on. We were just in Switzerland. We have arrived at our hotel. And hey, it looks like a nice quaint little place. They served us a really nice dinner which I really enjoyed. Yes. I really did mix Coke and Wine. And it actually tasted really good. Think of a sort of slightly bitter Coke that has a strong wine flavored aftertaste (Nice photo-bomb BTW Patrick). Something tells me that that stray cat is carrying some sort of diseases. In preperation for us riding what is claimed as one of the worst woodies in the world, Anaconda, Terrance says a prayer for us hoping that it won't murder us. YAY!!!! WE'RE AT A PARK!!! It's been over 24 hours, I'm starting to have withdrawls. Big shock. The Space Shot and the Topple Tower are both closed. Hey, you may hate us now for locking you in the phone booth, but you'll thank us when we all come back injured from Anaconda ERT. Busy day I see. All right. Lets go head into the park. Eew. Another Malaria Lake. Is that theming or did a plane really crash here? All right. Time for us to get some ERT on the main coaster here. Monster. Monster, which came from Expoland in Japan, is basically a Raptor clone. And Raptor is awesome, the only difference is that there are no mid course brakes here!!!! Yeah. That makes it a really crazy ride!!! I loved it!!! Now after that, we get ERT on one of the worst coasters of all time. Anaconda. Keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't kill us. "Somehow, I have a feeling that I'm going to be raped." Well the good news is that Anaconda didn't kill us. The bad news, is that Anaconda, or as I like to call it, French Grizzly is one of the most boring coasters of all time. I swear to god, the continents are moving away from each other at faster speeds than this thing. Hey. After Anaconda, this Wacky Worm is actually going to be thrilling. Oh No!!! I just realized that this is the last Wacky Worm of the trip!!!! ='( Time for us to get the last credit of the park, Space Comet. Yeah. It sucks. But at least its not Anaconda. The Terror House was not in the least way terrifying. But apparently the girls in front of us were scared, which made this a very funny experience. With this closed, and the other two Topple Towers closed, this seems to be an extinct ride. While I'm not too bummed as the ride did look boring from videos, I did want to try it just because it was unique and it probably would've at least been interesting and somewhat fun. Don't worry. I'm on a TPR Trip. I'm clearly happy. Holiday Park Photos will be up next. Thanks for reading and please leave your comments.

I'm really impressed at how well SFM did at retheming Tony Hawk and making it look like a really good ride. It seems much more fun in Mexico than it did in Northern California. Really hoping to make it to these Mexican Parks some day.

Had a Cherry Coke at lunch today.

My home park is Six Flags Magic Mountain and the best ride is definitely X2.

Depends on what kind of cheese we're melting here.

Fantastic Updates so far. The trip seems awesome, I wish my schedule was more flexible so I could've made it on this trip.

Love this thread idea. Here's a good place for lunch or dinner if you're at Six Flags Magic Mountain: http://www.rattlersbbq.com/ Fantastic BBQ Restaurant. They have great tri-tip, ribs, and they give you a ton of food for a reasonable price.

Considering that it'll be Spring Break, it'll most likely be very busy. I'd get there very early to process your pass and try and get ahead of everyone else. I'd also recommend hitting up the back of the park first since its much less crowded in the morning and take advantage the single riders lines for Riddlers, Green Lantern, and Lex Luthor.

Hmm. Hard decision as both rides look totally amazing. I suppose I'd say Outlaw Run looks better by a single hair, but they both look amazing. Get back to me in August after I've ridden both and I'll see which one is better.

Because We Can - Bon Jovi Fantastic song from Bon Jovi's newest album. If you haven't heard it yet, definitely take a listen to it.

Too hard to just pick one band, so here's a big list of some of my favorite bands. Pink Floyd The Beatles Queen Aerosmith Led Zeppelin Primus Rolling Stones The Who Rob Zombie Weird Al Guns 'N' Roses Rush AC/DC Bon Jovi Van Halen Elvis Presly Chuck Berry Iron Maiden Journey Jimi Hendrix Tom Petty The Scorpians The Beach Boys Andrew W.K The Clash Dream Theater Nirvana Korn Owl City Peter Frampton Tenacious D Doobie Brothers Boston

The Butterfly element on Gouderix. Horrible element that causes a ton of headbanging. It doesn't even look natural. It literally looks like the inversion was designed with a coat hanger. Also surprised to see just how unpopular Cobra Rolls are. They're not my favorite element, but I never had any problems with them, so it was intersting to see just how many people chose Cobra Rolls as their least favorite element. Horrible HORRIBLE element on a horrible ride.

Favorite Defunct Coasters: DejaVu & Lazer. Favorite Defunt Coaster (Not counting relocated coasters): Speed the Ride Favorite Defunct Ride: Perilous Plunge Rides I was most glad to see go: Son of Beast and Psyclone

1. Timber Wolf - While I certainly don't think of this as a good ride, I don't think of it as a horrible ride, which is more than I can say for all the other Summers/Dinn Coasters I've been on. 2. Wolverine Wildcat 3. Psyclone 4. Mean Streak

Mickey Mouse Cocaine or Heroin? (And no, you can't pick neither)