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I think I have it fixed now. Guess I need to preview what I do more often.

I was in Denver on the 14th of july to attend something for work. I had to present an hour presentation and then I was done for the weekend. I was lucky enough to be the first presenter on the conferance and it was being done afew blocks from Six Flags Elith Gardens and I guess you are getting where this is going. I have to say that I was not really expecting alot from this park, but I have to admit that Elith was a pretty good park. I can see why it is on the chopping block since there is just no where for them to go in any direction. Anyway on to pics and I do hope you folks enjoy it. Sams Sayes, "Enjoy this update and look for more soon!" The Cow Themed Tilt-A-Whirl Sidewinder Station and Loop The Falling Star Half Pipe The closed Teacups that I did not get to break. The Flying Coaster!!!!! What is an Update without a Loop. Falling Star Top Spin Goodness that Broke While I Was in Line. The Boomerang My Exclusive Shot I am sure some of you will enjoy this pic of the Pub. Typical SLC The Wheel and the Flag Close up of closed Sky Tower Entrance of Park After exiting the rental car, I see this. Twister II The PTC Carousel

My review: CoasterFanatics Review Glad you folks enjoyed the TR.

After a long day at the Media Day at Holiday World, I drove down to Bowling Green to spend the night. I was heading over to Beech Bend for the Media Day for Kentucky Rumbler the next day. It was later in the day and after being up about two days with work and driving up to Santa Claus the day before, it was great to get an hour or two more of sleep. I arrived at the park and noticed that a dragrace was going on the same day as the Media Day. And headed in to get my name tag. There was more at this one than the one at Holiday World and around 11 am everyone headed back to the coaster. The park had a ribbon cutting for the coaster and it was off to take afew laps on her. Since there is only one train, I decided to hang back and make my way up near the end since I figured people would only ride afew times and then jet out after lunch. They even let us go inside the restricted area and take some pics. Going to let the pics tell the rest of the story, but I will say that this is a solid ride for Beech Bend. I compare it to a better version of Ozark Wildcat. I am sure it will be a hit when Rumblefest rolls around. Enjoy! One Last Shot Looking Up Banked Turns Great View From the Inside The Drop Coaster Crosses Over Alot View of Bottom of Lift Here She Comes No Train Yet Getting Tour of Restricted Area of Coaster Oviewview of Ride Train During Station Fly-By Train Wrapping Around Bottom of Structure Overview of Lift, Drop, and Fan Curve Train Heading Bacj Towards the Center of Ride Train Attacking the Turns Lift and Drop View from the exit ramp Train leaving station This is what the train sees at every station Fly-By

Had the chance to attend the Media Day for Holiday World this past Thursday for Coasterfanatics. I will have a full review later up on Ted's site as soon as I finish it, but just wanted to drop afew pics and a short view of the ride. After 43 rides I can say the Voyage does live up to the hype that surrounds the coaster. It is fast and intense. There is some good air time on it and that will increase when the coaster gets broke in. The turn around is just intense and as the day went on, it got even more intense. I can only imagine how it will be at night. The second part of the ride is just plain insane. It all starts as you exit the safety brakes into the triple down and gets out of control by the time you go through the tunnel by the station. Then there is the part where the train blasts straight out of the tunnel into the daylight and into the last part of the ride. I can only wait till Hollywood Nights. Enjoy the Pics guys. Wishing Everyone One Hiding Behind Door Scene Inside Welcome To Gobbler Getaway Granny Telling You How To Use Turkey Caller Station and Entrance to Tunnel by Station Exiting Last Tunnel One of Many Twist and Turns Cresting the Second Hill The Lift Transversing the Track The Voyage Station

Since I am attending this for another site, I made hotel reservations at the Drury Inn in Bowling Green for Thursday and friday night (Staying there after Voyage Media Day and Beech Bend Media Day). It was 20 bucks cheaper to stay friday night than it was thursday. Plus Bowling Green is a good two hours from the Derby. See you folks that are attending Beech Bend Media Event Friday.

I have a pass from Carowinds and it does not have a pic on it. I got it in the fall of last year, nut I have heard that they have started putting the pics back on at Carowinds. Should be interesting to say the least.

Had the chance to head up to Dollywood today to attend the Media Day for Timber Towers and thier other additions in 2006. I was asked by Rideworld/Thrillride if I could attend since Chris and his wife where attending the Media Day at SDC today. The ride fits the park since anyone can ride it. Enjoy! My Exclusive Pic Since Everyone Needs One 300 Pound Catfish Dinner! Even Dolly Was There Beware of the Spinting Beavers! Careful of the Water! And It Topples UP She Goes The New Eatin Joint Timber Tower Even added a new sign!

It will open on April 7th in the afternoon after Media Day.

That is enough to ax that idea then. Will just enjoy the few smaller parks as I head up towards Magic Mountain.

Since I will be out in the area for the Media Day for Tatsu and I am flying into San Diego. I noticed a park in Tijuana called Mundo Divertido that is a short drive from the Airport. I was wondering can anyone give me any advice about the park and should I just say the heck with it and not head into Tijuana? Thanks folks.

No telling what that crazy guy from NC will do on this trip.

There is always other parks that people can attend if people get bent out of shape over the price going up for season passes and parking. Lets all face it that it is not going to be cheap in the future to buy a Six Flags Pass. This might even cut down on the parks from being cheap babysitters. The same thing happend to me for I waited till the price went up at SFoG before buying mine. It cost me over 80 bucks to get it dropped off at my doorstep, but I paid it and did not complain since that little old piece of plastic is going to get me into about 10 parks that I am going to. It sure is alot better than paying full price at each park. After all lets also recall that Six Flags is out to make a profit so it can pay that massive dedt down and might even buy something new to put in the park. I really do not have a huge problem in paying that extra amount myself. It is apart of life. Prices tend to go up on everything. There is really no need to complain about it here on a coaster board. Maybe placing a call to the park and voicing your displeasure might work alot better.

It would appear that the $125 deposit to hold your spot will go towards your total. So I take it you are going the single room route? All I can say is I am sure you will have fond memories of this trip. I know as going on the last two Treks, I can say that they are a blast and I am sure you will have tales to telll. Might even get to hear some tall tales from prior Treks.

Came across these pics of the Kentucky Rumbler that was took on the 14th of jan. These are not mine for I am just passing them on. http://www.pbase.com/kentuckyrumbler1/inbox

RideWorld is only 10 bucks.

Rated PG-13? I would go more with a strong R rating. Could even put in the Pu-Tang Pie clip from the East Coast Trek. Great Videos. Great to see some coaster when there is ice outside the window.

Few days late on getting this up, but better late than never I always say. Since I did not have to be at the park till about 10 am and it was about six miles down the road, I used that time to finish the Day One Trip report and enjoy a cup of coffee or two. Just the shear thought of doing a TR about one of my trips was amazing in itself since I average maybe one a year if I am lucky (This being #3 this year). I got to the park around tenish and headed towards the main entrance. I noticed my good friend Judi and her family where buying 2006 Six Flag Season passes for 46.95, but the only drawback was the park could not process them till next year. Since I live in North Carolina that would do me no good what so ever. So I voted that idea off the island without much thinking. I entered the park and just milled around till it was the dreaded group photo in the area where all the bricks that have the names of each county in Texas. To my surprise, there was a ladder so the person that was going to take the pic could get it done in a hurry. Once again I was thinking this pic was going to take forever but after just a mere two snaps it was done and we where off to the Morning ERT that consist of Superman Krypton Coaster and the tour off the cliffs above the waterfalls. I was looking more forward to the tour than riding Superman Krypton Coaster, so after about three laps I decided that was enough of it and it was time for the ride up to the cliffs to snap afew pics. I rode up with Judi and her family in one of the minivans provided by the park for the tour. I took afew pics on the drive up around the Rattler and was dropped off near the shack that sits on top of the cliff near the waterfalls are. If my memory serves me, this is where the end of the night fireworks show takes place. I did not catch it when I was at the park afew years ago due to time and travel. It was a great view from the top. I hear that 90% of the people that work at Fiesta Texas have not even been up there. It is such ashame since it is a great view of the park and the coasters from a spot that the average person does not have access to. I will upload afew this evening. After hanging out up there for a mere 30 minutes, it was time to head back down to the area around Superman. To my surprise, the park had got the swings and the Top Spin open early for us. It is nothing like so ERT on the Top Spin. Again I am a sucker for a Top Spin and the odds of getting ERT on a Top Spin is about zero to none with my luck. SO then came the end of all the planned things that was Fiesta Fest 2006. So I grabbed a bit to eat when the park opened with Judi and friends after a spin on the Bug's Log Flume. And it was decided that it was time to head over to Seaworld Texas for the remainder of the day. After a great day and a half at Fiesta Fest, I have to say that it was really worth the money spent to go.

Each October I always plan the same old trip to Orlando for my birthday. I have done this for the past four years. It is an easy choice since I always stay with my buddy and his wife right out of Orlando. I always attend HHN (Universal Orlando) and Howl-O-Scream (BGT), but I decided to do something different this year. I can and will attend HHN abit later in the the month. So Fiesta Feast was moved to October this year and I have always heard it was one of those events that was a must to attend. So after checking some flights out, I decided to book a flight to Austin, TX. and drive down to San Antonio for the weekend. Got to love the traffic on a friday afternoon around San Antonio. So day one of Fiesta Fest began with the meeting of old friends and soon to be friends at registration. It is always great to see people that you have not seen in a few months, plus seeing some who had to deal with Katrina and Rita. After picking up the packet and the bright orange event shirt, it was time for some riding. Now I am not a huge fan of any S&S tower ride since once you rode one then you have rode them all in my view. I passed on Scream and decided to stick with Poltergeist for the first morning session of ERT. My riding partner was my good friend Judi who I meet her and her family down the road afew years back when ACE Spring Con was at Astroworld. I think we rode about seven times before it was time to move on to the second session of ERT for the morning. We stopped off to get our pic with some of the monsters that had decided to make an appearance for the ERT. The next area of ERT was in the Boardwalk area which consist of a Frisbee, scrambler, ferris wheel, and Scooby Doo (Interactive Dark Ride). I decided to try the Scooby Doo Haloween Invitational to see just how many points I could get. Needless to say, it is safe to say that I did not even come close to winning at all. I took a few rides on the Frisbee before it was time to head over towards lunch at noon in the area above Hospitality. I noticed that the park was not to crowded for opening as we headed into lunch. Lunch is what you would not call the usual coaster event food that you ate off of paper plates and plastic forks. I was served on fine china with real silverware. Lunch was chicken, green beans, carrots, roll, and cheese cake. I am sure I forgot something else that was also offered. I got to see abit of one of the shows since I decided to sit on the balcony while I dined. I could say that I was starting to see why Six Flags Fiesta Texas has won the Golden Ticket for seven straight years. After lunch it was time to meander towards the boardwalk for some EST (Exclusive Scare Time) at Necropolis. You started by going through the old Q-house of Joker's Revenge that is filled with clowns. You exit the q-house and wait for the tram to take you to the Maul. I am not really going to go into alot of detail about what is inside the Maul since I do not want to spoil it. After the EST, I just wondered through the park to see what I had missed out on during my first stop in 2003. Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of Top Spins. I was hoping that theirs was open since I have had bad luck all year at parks that have Top Spins in them, but I hit the nail on the head today. Their Spin was open and it was off to enjoy a spin on it. Now the first part of the program was great with five spins, but the ending was what I call a 'Dorney Park' ending since there was zero spins. It reminded me of the Spinner at Dorney, which is the weakest Top Spin with zero flips. After wondering around the par, it was time for the first ever show I have seen at SFFT. I arrived early for the VIP seating at 'Last Chance Legends' that took place in Purgatory Hall. I now see why the park has won so many Golden Tickets for their shows. There is noone that I have seen that could even hold a candle to this show at any other park I have seen a show at. Not really going to get into detail about the show but it is well worth it to sit through. Next was Dinner, which was another outstanding meal that puts any other coaster event meal to shame. So after dinner it was off to the main show at the park 'Mayer Slayer's Monster Mash Bash' which takes place 30 minutes each night during Fright Fest at the amphitheater. And it was a sight to see a very large number of people come rushing in when they drop the gates. it reminded me of the'Runin of the Bulls'. This show was the crowning jewel of the park and I have to agree that it was awsome. After the show it was time for some ERT on Rattler and Roadrunner Express. I decided to take a token ride on Rattler in the front. I had recalled that in my prior trip to SFFT that it was best to attempt to ride this puppy in the front since I did not felt like having the heck beat out of me. Now I have to say that this one and only ride was not that bad. Now that did not mean that I did not jump right off and run back around to ride again. I figured one was enough and it was off Roadrunner to finish off the night at SFFT. This concludes day one at Fiesta Fest. Stay tuned for day two late sunday evening.

Does it really matter?

The Golden Tickets are mainly used for PR by the said park that has won the Golden Ticket or placed in the top whatever area that the park has won. I am in no way saying that you should take this list or any other Top Ten list to heart. For I have said this a number of times and I will say it again. The only Top Ten list that should matter to you is your Top Ten list not Golden Ticket or any other list that are running around today. There really is no need to complain about a poll that some feel is outlandish or rediculous. Hell I voted in it and I do not agree with some of the listings but afterall it is just a poll and should be treated as a poll.

I also rode the GASM at SFOG 367 times or 248 miles. I even sat behind Tommy the whole time.