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So this will be the final update of my first of two horror weekends in Oct. (Next one is from Knotts and HHN Hollywood at end of month). This was the longest of the two and have to say that it will be an annual trip for me. Nothing like some good park Halloween Events in my book. I will close this update with some pics from Seaworld Texas and their Howl-O-Scream event. Hope you folks enjoyed the update as much as I enjoyed going! Parting shot of the gang Bling Bling macking on the phone with his Ghoulfriend. Play that sax Bones Ever mans dream or nightmare The Haunted Forest awaits you. Someone is going to be wet. Thought it was a great pic Bling Bling on the phone Do not think I have ever saw this one. Nice hat buddy Tubing with the family This guy got abit off course Start this one off with a coaster and get it out of the way.

I had the best intentions of getting this update up by saturday evening when I got back into the hotel. But it just was not in the cards for that to take place. Better late than never I guess. I will update with Pics from Howl-O-Scream from Seaworld San Antonio early in the week. I hope that is. Enjoy! And day one ends! Scenes from Monster Bash Singer during Mayor Slayer's Monster Bash Mayor Watching over his Zombie Woman Creatures appear for Mayor Slayer's Monster Bash! Elvis in Last Chance Legends Heading towards the interlocking corkscrews A little Superman action Mayor Slayer seems to be in town. Spider Zombie coming out of the tower Outside Last Chance Legends These kids rode the Frisbee afew times to much. Entrance to Haunted House The Blood Fountain outside entrance

I have to admit that I thought Howl-O-Scream in Tampa was a better all around event than HHN is this year. I am not saying that HHN is bad this year. I just thought Howl-O-Scream was a better well rounded Halloween event. I arrived for the Dinner Show they offer at 6pm in the Desert Grill. They had a great selection of food to choose from and even had all the rides in that area open for the people attending the dinner. It is well worth the price for the dinner and getting a chance to hit some of the houses before they opened up the gates at 7:30. I did noticed that everyone seem to flock towards After Hours when the gates did open. Enjoy the pics and the next update will be Saturday night after Fiesta Fest. Want to go Clubbing? You need a map? One of the Dancers outside After Hours (Club Muse) Dancer at the entrance to park The Show known as Awakenings Enter these Woods with extreme caution This guest did not make it it appears. Inside Bone Grinders Enter at your own risk!!! Even ferns look menacing Anyone need a hand for supper? Welcome to Zombie Junction and no I did not find any Zombie Hookers. I go which way now? Mood Lighting through out the park Walking through the Pharaoh's Revenge Scare Zone. Outside of Trapped in the Walls Carmon is looking for the killer! Did you do it? Show in the Desert Grill Figured I atleast needed to have a coaster in this update. I think this one will work just fine. Entrance used for people attending the Dinner Show.

The park was pretty crowded for it to be a wednesday night. I think it was the most crowded that I have ever seen for a wednesday night come to think of it. The lines for the houses where running anywhere between 30-45 minutes from what I saw. Will post pics from a great Howl-O-Scream friday while I am hanging out at the airport for mu plane to San Antinio.

Robo destroyed the car in the street between Mummy and where you enter Screamhouse at. I had never saw it in action and I over heard some of the cast telling people that there was going to be a show at 10:30 as a dry run. It was pretty cool. Busch Gardens was pretty dead when I got there around noon. I decided to do the Dinner Show at 6 tonight. It is sorta taking the place of eating at the Underwater Grill at Seaworld since I had to take a later flight down Wednesday. Glad you folks have enjoyed it so far.

Every year around my birthday, I head off down to sunny Florida to Halloween Horror Nights and what not. The plans for the weekend had been changed over the last few months. At one time I was doing HHN on a Wednesday and then heading to Knott's Halloween Haunt Thursday and then on to San Antonio for Fiesta Fest, but with having to head out to LA for work at the end of the month. I dropped Knott's from this trip and added Howl O Scream in Tampa Thursday. I flew down to Orlando on Airtran Airways since I had a free one way flight with them. Might as well save money when I can. I got a call earlier in the week and was asked if I would take a later flight and I agreed. I got bumped up to Business Class and have to say it was a nice flying first rate on my 35th birthday. I connected through Atlanta from Charlotte. I will connect through Atlanta for the connecting flight to San Antonio and the trip back home Monday evening. I guess I will know a good bit about Hartsville Airport by the time I get home Monday evening. Enough Rambling and on to some pics. I will sum each update at the end of the set of pics or at the end of this PTR. Robo through the trees. More Fire!! Someones better check to see if that is their rental. Added bonus tonight was a show by Robosaurus. These two have graced HHN for the last few years. Is it real or is it a prop? More strange figures watching over the crowds. The Pumpkin Crow is waiting. The Pumpkin Guy is waiting for you in the Harvest Of Souls. Incase you forgot what this PTR was about. Up close of one of the woman of the night A first for the site, Zombie Hookers! Another Vampire wanting to suck your blood. One of many Images projected on buildings. Beware of the Statues. The Arrival Stage Chainsaw Chuck chasing unsuspecting victims. Bet she can cut the heck out of some trees Sinister woman heading my way. A Monster Chick with some cleavage A pic for you cloud lovers out there. The view from Charlotte Terminal A

Once again another great PTR from Jarvis.

Those of us that attended Night of Thunder this year got a chance to get a Construction Tour of the Mystery MIne before ERT started. We meet at 6:30 by the gate to be let into the area that will open to the public Friday April 13, 2007. I could go on and ramble on but I know you want to see the pictures. WIll get the rest up after I get back from the ballgame sunday. Enjoy! Some Brakes Ted pointing...I guess he is pointing at the Mystery Mine Some early theming of ride Oviewview of back area View from above Over and Under I prefer 69 but 62 will be fine in this case. Terrain hugging helix One of the Verticle Lifts Got more curves that a super model! Twisted Turn on backside of building Track inside the Structure Closer view of the Mystery Mine Building Just about 5 months to go. What is this we have inside the building? The Mine itself Justin admiring the inversion before taking a pic to remember it by. The 95 degree drop View while walking up to the construction area. As you can see there has been alot done since my last trip to the park.

I have learned that the best night to go to HHN is the only wednesday that it is open. I have never had to buy those Express Tickets for that wednesday ever, but I do know it is hard for some of the out of towners to hit in on a wednesday. I am thankful that I have a job that I can get time off in the middle of the week to attend things like this.

Looking at those pics brings back fond memories of when I was stationed near Frankfurt. The only thing I am wondering is no RDL pics. Figured you would atleast walk through it. It is an interesting tourist attraction.

Here is the list folks. 2006 Golden Ticket Awards

Timber Tower revolves abit faster now then it did when it opened up to the public. The last time I rode it was Media Day. Now it is not some insane increase to 40 revolutions per minute now. I also noticed that there seem to be more people heading for it than heading for Thunderhead when the rope was dropped that morning. The park was pretty dead, but traffic was increasing as I left to head back into NC for my meeting that afternoon.

I was referring to another Paul. I have never meet Drabek in person for I have no view of him. And for the record, I voted Voyage number one on my ballet.

I had one of those really exciting meetings for work and it seems that is all I am in is a meeting. Now this meeting on a friday morning allowed me to gets some use out of my brand new camera that I am still learning to use. It has to many bells and whistles on it. I doudt I will use half of them for awhile. So if some of the shots are bad than I will use the excuse, "But it is a new camera and I am still learning it." I hope you folks enjoy this update and you need a sense of humour. See you next friday Dave. Seems they brought in this moronic film for the Kid's Fest. And yes I think Spongebob is stupid, but the kids love him for some strange reason. Atleast it was not a Barney ride. Incase you forgot, they did have a Golden Ticket Award in 2005 and lets see if we can refrain from the stupid comments from the Holiday World fanboys. This is for all you bird lovers out there. Some of the theming is award winning though. What would an update be without a non-award winning shot? Noticed the mist from the fans and it was hotter than two pigs in a sack....Well you know what they where doing. As you can see the bald guy's train is heading to the turn before the break run. You can even take a pic of a bald guy wearing a Hawaiian shirts on Thunderhead from that playground now. Just to exciting. The infield by Thunder is now a children's playground. The tower tilts towards it. Do not wake that bear folks. Then the bear started growling loud as... And the much improved Timber Tower tilted towards the Beavers. ! was making my way back to the front since I had another meeting in North Carolina at 2 pm and saw those blasted Spitting Beavers. But you will have to wait till 2007 to get behind this gate. Non DCCS are not allowed! Going in!!!!!! There is just nothing like see a dump truck dump dirt. This is getting way to exciting! How an ant would see the sign. Alot of activity has went on behind those supports. Non DCCS will never see it till next year. Good old Rebar to reinforce the concrete and as you can see they have afew. Do not forget to say hello to Mr. Backhoe in the forground. As you can see things are moving along pretty good. Doing abit of bragging for the award they got in 2005.

This is a park that has been SBNO for a long time. I grew up going there. It will be good to see it open again. Ghost Town Reopens in 2007 Ghost Town in Maggie Valley, NC will open in May of 2007. A group of investors say they will reopen Ghost Town next spring. The theme park in Maggie Valley has been closed for five years. The owners of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad and two other investors have bought it and plan to spend $4 million to renovate it. The popular attraction filled with amusement rides, entertainment, and western style gunfights on a 4000 foot mountain is one of the state's oldest family theme parks. The new owners say they plan to reopen the park in may 2007. Renovations will spruce up the frontier town on the mountain, rebulid the rides, including the chairlift and the famous incline railway.

Always good to see a PTR on Alabama Redneck Adventure. Glad someone had a great time at this podunct of a park. I have fond memories of handing the ride op the seat I was riding in when I stopped by in June. The park is just an accident waiting to happen, but the people seem to really love that waterpark when I was there. Have yet to see why people are so high on Rampage? The coaster is so blah. Could really use some TLC. Glad you had a great time though.

I did 30 hours on the Great Amercan Scream Machine in 2003. I seem to think it was 367 laps for that 30 hours or 238 miles. I also did 30 hours on the Screamin' Eagle this past July. I think my lap total was close to 380 or so. I lost count due to the few hours that I was taken a nap on the ride.

Then let me say there are ZERO Trims on that coaster.

After riding it for 30 hours in July, I can tell you that there are no trims in that area.

Seems Elitch Gardens has axed all entertainment events this past tuesday. Make what you want of it. Six Flags Elitch Gardens Cuts Entertainment

I sometimes in shear amazement that people do not take the time to read this thread and ask the same questions over and over. Maybe it is time to drop back and punt folks. How hard is it to take afew minutes out of your life and read from page one to here? Heck you might even find what you are hunting for and even might learn something in the process.

I had spent saturday in Utah at Lagoon (eight hour drive from Denver). I drove back sunday morning to Denver and stopping along the way at varies spots. SInce I was taking the red eye to Atlanta (monday 1:05 am), I decided to killsome time at Lakeside once again. Figured I would see this place at night and take afew pics. I did not ride anything, just wondered around taking pics. I hope you enjoy this update and I even made $37.48 on this trip. Sometimes it is great to have a job that lets me travel, but not as much traveling as the old one I use to have. Wild Chipmunk Sign Lighthouse on the Dock Lights on the Traver Swing The Ferris Wheel Old Ride Junk Pile Old High Dive Platform The Heart Ride at Sunset Roll-O-Plane in Action Landmark For Many Years Lakesice Cyclone The Scrambler The Lights Come On The Steam Train Caught in Mid-Air Old Traver Swing The Train Rides Near Lake The Satellite Rock-O-Plane Lakeside Cyclone View Towards Lake Glancing back at the Entrance to Park

Got all mine in a nice wrapper for free. Sorta takes the fun out of trying to get to all the parks now.

Exciting pics of people just sitting down.

After leaving Six Flags and checkinging into the Drury Inn located in the Tech side of Denver, I was off to a park that I was really looking forward to called Lakeside. This park is what I call a real Gem and if you ever get a chance to get out to the park, then go. You will enjoy riding some flats that are pretty rare. The only bad thing that happend while I was at the park. I had my camera when I entered the park and decided to use my small case that I can put on my belt. Well lets just say that the Lakeside Cyclone was not that friendly with it. After I got off I noticed the LCD screen was busted, but I could still point and click. I had no idea if it was even taking pictures. I hung around at the park till around 8 and decided to head back to the hotel to see if the camera was taken pics. I really had plans on staying till it was dark to enjoy the lights, but I had a long trip to Lagoon in the morning (eight hours) and decided to come back sunday evening. Enjoy this part of the update. The Sunset The Ferris Wheel The Dragon View From The Train Across the Lake Hurricaine (Flyers) The Roll-O-Plane The Train Depot But it has not ran in a year of sundays Have Really No Idea What it Use To Do Not Many of These Left Test Run A Good Overview of Area Rock-O-Plane Cyclone waiting for dispatch The Lakeside Cyclone The Spider was off catching flies or something. The Tilt-A-Whirl It was closed when I got back this far. It was abit early and I figured it would be open later in the evening. The Wild Chipmunk The Fountain and Gardens The Whip The Kiddie Coaster in Action Decided to start this update out with a pic for the true coaster geeks out there. Here is the lift motor for the Kiddie Coaster! Exciting?