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While I've never lost sunglasses on a coaster, my mom almost did. Her sunglasses flew off on Vortex @ CGA, but luckily, some one in the back row managed to catch them, so that was lucky.

100 pages of an interesting topic. Cake or Ice Cream?

I ate tamales, tried some really interesting Japanese Soda, and am planning on heading to a blues concert tonight. Hopefully the world will stay in tact for at least the opening act.

Hundeprutte-rutsjebanen (Dog Fart Coaster) Go! Go! Banana Coaster Superspeed Cool Cool Bear Snake in the Grass

I'm 19 and my first roller coaster was Gadget's Go Coaster at the age of 5.

^ Yep. All of Gotham City is currently closed off until Green Lantern opens up.

I rode X2 6 times in a row during a downpour. And it was awesome.

All right. Onto the next day. This day was spent in the Wisconsin Dells where we went to Mt. Olympus and Timber Falls. Mt. Olympus, it was definitely my least favorite park on the trip (and also my least favorite park I've been to.) It's best if I just leave it at this. As for Timber Falls, I found it to be a nice little place. A nice Golf'N'Stuff style place with a crazy kickass wooden coaster running around the place is awesome. And we even ventured into Knuckleheads for some real good credit whoring. Anyways, onto our day. All right. Today started off with a bus departure at 5:00 AM. Not a fun way to start the day. All right. Let's start the morning off with Hades. Looks like we picked a very good day to come to Mt. Olympus. While I really liked Hade's prelift section and tunnels, the rest...not so much. You're gonna need that extra padding. Not impressed. Zeus was sh*t. Next!! All right!! Cyclops!! I was really looking foreword to riding this!! Aww. Looks like the ride is having technical difficulties. "Wait a minute. I don't see a mechanic fixing the ride. In fact, I don't see anyone up there. Hello? Are you invisible or what?" Nope. The ride op simply didn't arrive yet. NOT IMPRESSED. Good news. Cyclops was fun and this drop did not disappoint!!!! Cha Ching. Credit gotten. Credit whores, put on your sad face. No adults on the kiddy coaster. The final credit we needed here. In true Mt. Olympus style, the car was barely spinning at all. FAIL!!!!! Hey wait a minute. Didn't there used to be a DiskO in here? You never know when you'll need a clean pair of socks. ; ) Well, at least the water park looks cool. Hades from the other side of Mt. Olympus. I wish that someone who knows how to run a theme park will buy Mt. Olympus. Not a fan of big waves. Count me out. Yeah. This pretty much sums up what we did for the rest of our time at Mt. Olympus. Just sit around and do pretty much nothing. While these Go Karts look cool, they're not worth a 3 hour wait. Meh, these may be the park's lame go kart track, but with only a 15 minute wait, I'll take it. I'm just happy I managed to get on anything at this point. Good Grief. Even the animals here look depressed. Don't worry Mr. Goat. I heard that goats have a short lifespan. And the moment we've been looking foreword to for the past 2 hours!! Lunch!!! Good bye Mt. Olympus. I certainly hope you shape up next time I come back. When walking over to Timber Falls, I came across Riverview Park. They used to have credits. But now they got rid of them and it's now just a waterpark. All right. Next stop is Timber Falls. While they have a cool skyscraper here... And this log flume doens't look half bad either... However, this is the real reason we came here. Yup. Turns out that we have ERT on Hellcat for 30 minutes. Hmm. Looks like a fun ride. Hellcat was originally called Avalanche when it first opened, but then they renamed it to Hellcat for some reason, but they must have forgotten to take down the Avalanche Sign. You guys ready to experience Hellcat? While Hellcat may be small... It packs quite a punch and is easily the best coaster in the Dells. Much better than that so called better coaster in the background. I'm suprised the train doesn't have any motion bluriness from the sheer speed of the ride in this picture. Let me tell you this now though. Hellcat is a brutal ride. It's a violent little sucker and it will SLAM you through all those turns. Do not go in expecting a smooth ride or else you will be sorely dissapointed. But it's so worth it for the speed and airtime and laterals that this ride has. I just got the sh*t beaten out of me, and I loved it. And while that concludes our time at Timber Falls, we made a bonus stop at Knuckleheads. Why Knuckleheads you may ask? Yup. They have a credit here. It's credit whore time. Would everyone who finds themselves sad and pathetic please get into a single file line please. Thank you. Yup. We're really going to ride this thing. Well, there goes the last shred of my dignity. "Dude. You're on a TPR Trip. None of us had any dignity to begin with." They've also got a tornado at Knuckleheads. And yes, Knuckleheads is also a bowling alley. So if you want the credit, just have a bowling night, then sneak off and get the credit you shameful secret dirty credit whore.

Nice Update Divv. The City Museum was great. And like you said, these photos don't come close to justifying the City Museum.

Awesome Photo TR. I miss Silver Dollar City

I'm in. Sounds like it's gonna be a really fun day.

Cobra @ La Ronde. Not only is it underridden, but most of the reviews from those who have ridden it are bad. I however, thought it was a pretty fun ride and and some really good pops of ejector air.

Revenge of the Mummy @ USH on Sunday.

Great Photo TR. I love seeing Photo TRs of parks that are rarely shown. Keep up the good work.

1. Dueling Dragons Fire 2. Montu 3. Dueling Dragons Ice 4. Raptor 5. Batman the Ride Clones 6. Top Gun 7. Silver Bullet 8. Talon 9. Patriot 10. Great Bear

F*CK THIS NIGHT!!!!! After getting a lovely wake up call at 3 AM from our fire alarm, which I'm pretty sure has a minimum decibel level over 120, as my ears are still ringing from it. We were then lead outside for 30 minutes wondering what the hell is going on. Eventually, we were let back in, only to have the alarms go off yet again and then being led back outside for another 20 minutes.

We need more crazy people in this world and less stupid people.

All right onto the next park. Six Flags Great America. This was the one park on the trip I had previously visited. Except this visit was much better due to the fact that my last visit did not include ERT, Backstage Tours, or a bridge party in a thunderstorm. All of which were present on this trip, which made this great park even better. Anyways, onto the photos. During our drive to SFGAm, our bus driver pointed out this gorge. I forgot what it was called, but I took a photo of it and it does look cool. Meh. Screw that gorge. Who needs it when we have Ice Bat. Shockingly enough, there was NO Chicago Traffic at all, which brought us to our hotel much sooner than expected. While many people took this opportunity to go out drinking, or hanging out at a local restaurant, I decided to take advantage of the fact that our hotel was within walking distance of SFGAm and have a little bit of bonus SFGAm time. Somehow, I feel like I've already gotten this credit. (Oh yeah, I already have.) Hey Six Flags Great America. I haven't seen you in a while. Glad to be back at this awesome park. First things first. I finally get to get my Whizzer credit that I couldn't get last time due to a damn break down. While it was fun and all, I prefer the Tig'rr Coaster @ Indiana Beach that I rode just this morning. Giant Drop at night. To end my bonus night at SFGAm, I took a couple night rides on Viper. (And if I thought those rides were good, I just had to wait 24 hours to really see how good this thing can run.) Fast foreword to the next day, we got the special privelage of being the first riders on Superman Ultimate Flight. "Hey Kevin!! I saved you a seat!!" "Syke!!!!!" I miss Tatsu already. While I may not be a fan of S:UF, being the first riders on any ride will make it better. Up next, Ragin Cajun, the park's spinning mouse. Not only is this ride not on the Qbot, but I also don't have the credit. Good thing we're riding now. Good news. THIS RIDE KICKED ASS AND SPUN THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF US!!!!!! MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN PRIMEVAL WHIRL!!!!!! Continuing on the path of getting the credits I don't have here, we rode the Little Dipper next. While my morning ride on it was fun, I'm really looking foreword to our ERT on this tonight that will not and I mean not under any circumstance be cancelled for any reason whatsoever. Up next, V2. I may already have this credit, but V2 kicks ass. Twisty Goodness. Ok, back to getting new credits that I don't have. Cha Ching!!! Yup, next up was Iron Wolf. Now a lot of people hate Iron Wolf because they claim that this ride is unbearably rough. And they're right. It beats the crap out of you. But for some reason, I still like it. It's sort of rough, but in a funny weird hypnotic way. Bad news for American Eagle. It really declined in quality over the past 2 years. It's not necesarrily a bad woodie, but it's not nearly as fun as it used to be. (Nah, the ride's probably the same. It just feels like crap now that I have ridden the all mighty holiness of Prowler.) Well at least Giant Drop hasn't declined in quality and still offers a giant drop. Meh, Raging Bull is still fun, but I just see so much wasted potential in this ride thanks to those trims. And with that said, it's time for lunch. Lunch was quite entertaining as was the Q&A with it. We even got to see Dan's weiner. After lunch, we began our giant backstage tour with a look at Superman Ultimate Flight. "Hey!!! Tatsu may have forces, fun, a great view, and speed. But you can't get this shot on Tatsu!! So keep that in mind next time you judge me Kevin!!!" "I'm still the inferior flying coaster. Arn't I." Moving on with our backstage tour. "Yes it's true. I do in fact 69 on a daily basis and I'm damn proud of it." "Yarr!! Who dares blow my head off!!! They don't know that they just messed with Yosemitie Sam!! They'll be sorry they ever decapitated me once I get through to them!!" Is this the park's new 2011 attraction? Bullsh*t!! The sky is blue!!! Yeah. Backstage tours are awesome. Because you can get great rare shots like this one. One Splash Battle ride is enough for this trip, thank you very much though. I didn't ride Demon this year. But I'm sure that it hasn't changed since 2008. And now, lots and lots of Raging Bull Backstage Photos. You read the sign. Everyone slow down and form a single file line please! "Umm, a little privacy please?" "Thanks. That's much better." I should warn you all, this ride has very nasty trims. Thanks for the warning strange man with the camera. YAY!!!! Backstage Viper!!!! Double Dip Goodness. Yup. Time for another Batman the ride Clone. "Hey, you know that the blue color scheme is currently in." "So, I'm still the original and best Batman the ride." Yeah, it's still an awesome ride. Speaking of Batman, I still have to get my Dark Knight credit. "Who's the freak with the mask?" It's not a bad ride. It's just not nearly as good as the park makes it out to be and doesn't match the theming. It's basically the Dr. Von Dark of coasters. (Or rather, Dr. Von Dark is the Dark Knight of water slides.) Uh oh. Those clouds don't look good. Come on. You're going to close the coasters just because of a little rain? Well, now it's time to play the Find an open ride game. We found a winner!! Fiddler's Fling was still open!! No, that's not a blurry photo. The ride actually spins that fast. Please don't tell me that this is the end of our Little Dipper ERT. Welcome to the TPR Bridge Party. Where all hopes and dreams of Little Dipper ERT come to die. Holy crap. The rain really got a lot harder. "No!! I must flee the TPR Bridge Party before all my hopes and dreams of Little Dipper ERT die!!!" "I'm making a rain angel. And I shall call him Mr. Angel." Oh crap. We've got lightning here. I repeat. We've got lightning here. Yo!!! I'm the lightning beeyotch!!! I have officially murdered Little Dipper ERT! And if I continue to have my way, it'll be the end of Viper and Raging Bull ERT too. Give me some thunder!!! *evil laugh* When did it become daytime? Oh, it's just the lightning. Yeah, that rain is coming down pretty hard. "A little help over here. I'm kind of stuck." I'm not sure how it happened, but Dan actually got wet!!! =o All right. The storms dead now. Time for Viper ERT!!!! YAY!!!!! VIPER ERT!!!!! EXCITEMENT EVERYONE!!!!!! While last nights rides were fun, they had nothing on this ERT. To make things better, the ride ran much better thanks to the rain. We also had ERT on Raging Bull. Yeah, this kicked some serious ass. I think the rain helped Raging Bull as well since those were the best Raging Bull rides I ever had. Somehow, I wouldn't be suprised if this weather report was actually accurate. Up next, Mt. Olympus and Timber Falls Photos.

I got a job interview with SFMM next week!

All right. Sorry for the delay. I just had life get in the way again (Damn life). Anyways, I'm hoping to finally finish this Photo TR and not have it delayed again. So anyways, our next park on the trip was Indiana Beach. It's a nice park with some good coasters. Don't believe me, take a look at the photos below. Our morning started off with us heading to the middle of nowhere. (We are going to yet another amusement park. Right?) Oh good. Today is the Indiana Beach day. We're here!!! You're sure there's a theme park here? Looks like a dirt lot in the middle of nowhere to me. No sign of an amusement park in sight. Well, I guess I should just trust the sign and see what happens when I walk through the gate. Wow. We went from a cornfield to this in a matter of seconds. Quite a big difference. First up, ERT on Lost Coaster. (AKA, What the F*ck the Ride.) Apparently, this was originally a dark ride, but then Indiana Beach wanted another coaster, so they converted this to a roller coaster. Yeah, I can totally see the dark ride in this. This ride is so confusing that it'll make your bones rattle. Have fun you guys. Continuing on with ERT, we're now at Cornball Express. EXCITEMENT GUYS!!!!!!!! Cornball Express is an awesome woodie. The ride is filled with good airtime and laterals. Yeah. This is much better than Lost Coaster. Ok. ERTs over. Now it's time to go on a credit run. First up, Tig'rr Coaster. For such a small ride, it packs quite a punch. Yeah, this ride is good. Well, we should definetly get this out of the way next. This looks A LOT like an old crappy coaster that was at my local fair years ago. NOT a good sign. Dude!! This thing was awesome! If you sit in the back, you actually get some great airtime!! Next up, Hoosier Hurricane. This ride is parrticuarly special to me... Because this was my 200th credit!!!! YAY!!!!!! I HIT THE #200 MILESTONE!!!!! Aww. Nobody cares. =( Anyways, while Hoosier Hurricane wasn't a bad woodie or anything, Cornball is simply much better. Well, at least my 200th credit wasn't nearly as bad as my 100th credit (A Boomerang). Luckily, Steel Hawg opened for us right after we got all the other credits. Wow. That looks like it was designed with a coat hanger. So how was Steel Hawg? Steel Hawg kicks ass, and I personally can't decide whether this or Cornball should be Indiana Beach's star attraction. Aww. The Double Shot is closed. =( Luckily, the other flats were open. Indiana Beach has one of my favorite park settings ever. The whole place has a lake smell that I really liked. The good news. Indiana Beach has flyers! The bad news. You can't snap them. =( Ok, I simply have to say this. If you're at Indiana Beach, DO THIS!!!!!! IT KICKS ASS!!!!! I normally don't do upcharge attractions, but this is by far worth the price you pay. Good thing we got on Lost Coaster when we did. While Indiana Beach doesn't necesarrily have any amazing state of the art flat rides, the flat rides they do have, while standard, are definetly the best of their kind. Though this was my first paratrooper, so I can't compare it to anything. These chairswings kick ass. They have a great setting over the water and they sway giving the illusion of falling into the lake. And yeah, their Falling Star is also great. And now, it's time to get some shots from the Ferris Wheel. You get some great Hoosier Hurricane Shots from up here. Indiana Beach from the sky. Yeah, it's now time for Music Express. (It wasn't that musical.) Anyways, looks like TPR is going to have a Fascination takeover. I however did not partake in any Fascination and instead just hung out with some of the awesome people on this trip, All right. Time for our official dinner at the Skyroom. Why is the Sky Room only 1 story above the ground and yet miles below the ozone layer? Some spot your skyroom is in. It's practically on the ground. In all seriousness, the Skyroom actually served us some awesome food. Thank you Indiana Beach. You guys are awesome. All right!! Bumper Cars!!! Anyways, back to Steel Hawg and it's beyond verticalness. Outside banking is awesome!!! More rides need outside banking!!! Steel Hawg is awesome and I hope more parks invest in S&S El Locos. Ooh. Twisty bit! One last ride on Cornball Express before we head on back to the bus. Good news for everyone. The people who played Fascination won a bunch of prizes and decided to give everyone on the bus a little camera shaped squirt gun. Thanks guys.

Perform this way - Weird Al

Fall off a building. You never said how high the building had to be, so I'd rather fall off a 1 story building and survive, whereas you don't survive getting crushed by a building, no matter what the height is. Pumpkin Pie or Pecan Pie?

Holy Crap!!! New Texas Giant looks SO good. It really makes me want to go to the Texas Giant Bash.

The Ragtime Theme from RCT2.

Hamburger. Snakes or Spiders?