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Dear Friends, The Superbowl is now over and we have another Theme Park Review member that is going to be getting a Big Mike prize pack!!! During the game, we had 14 players hold the lead at one time or another, and 2 players actually had the lead twice. Finally though, our champ took the lead with 2:07 to go in the game and held on to the victory! Here is a recap of the night, a little more expanded than Monkey Overlords, but that was a good job keeping everyone updated dude! GB 6-0 1pizza14 GB 7-0 coreys junk GB 13-0 nrs2420 GB 14-0 monkey overlord GB 14-3 the bebes GB 20-3 queer rudie GB 21-3 coreys junk GB 21-9 iloverides GB 21-10 printersdevil78 GB 21-16 nathant32 GB 21-17 nrs2420 GB 27-17 chroniq GB 28-17 sidra GB 28-23 coasterdude2002 GB 28-25 coasterguy4 GB 31-25 JAKIZLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats Jake! Send me a private message where you want your prize pack delivered to and what place you want your $25 gift card from. Thanks for everyone who participated Peace, Big Mike PS - Maybe it is good luck to be the 1st person to sign up for the contest!!! Lucky Dog wearing his Green Bay Packers bandana today!

Thanks for playing and thamks for all the great comments!!! Here are your numbers!! Remember, the Packers are the 1st number and the Steelers are the 2nd number, and don't forget, everyone gets 2 chances to win! Good Luck Friends!!!!! (everything is in lower case for time purposes) jackizle - 5,1 and 1,5 mechanic - 7,6 and 3,7 sidra 0,1 and 8,7 traincrossin - 9,9 and 8,2 queerrudie - 0,8 and 0,3 yeti762 - 5,4 and 2,9 adamico2 - 3,2 and 9,6 printersdevil78 - 5,8 and 1,0 yamez - 9,3 and 0,6 derek lentz - 5,0 and 9,2 cal1br3etto - 3,6 and 9,4 nrs2420 - 3,0 and 1,7 willn - 8,1 and 7,9 the bebes - 4,3 and 0,9 coreys junk - 7,0 and 1,3 coasterweasel - 0,4 and 2,0 str8fxxxinedge - 4,6 and 0,0 chadster - 7,4 and 1,1 spaceace12 - 4,7 and 9,1 pirouttes90 - 2,1 and 5,7 monkeyoverlord - 4,0 and 7,2 brandy524 - 3,4 and 6,7 disneymoc - 6,5 and 3,1 iloverides - 1,9 and 9,5 wfchris - 1,2 and 4,9 beatle11 - 5,2 and 0,5 x2coasterfreak - 3,5 and 9,8 kidcoaster2 - 2,8 and 5,3 footballfreak - 8,4 and 4,1 the ghost - 2,4 and 6,1 coaster cow - 4,5 and 9,7 tiggernel - 0,7 and 6,2 guy t keopp - 8,9 and 7,1 mush619 - 7,5 and 2,5 jon34ma - 6,8 and 2,3 chris benvenuto - 0,2 and 6,4 coasterguy4 - 2,2 and 8,5 1pizza14 - 6,0 and 1,4 jjune499 - 7,8 and 1,8 bpmitchell - 5,5 and 6,9 carolina caniac - 7,3 and 9,0 nathant32 - 1,6 and 8,0 coasterdude2002 - 6,6 and 8,3 crazy4coaster! - 2,6 and 8,8 chroniq - 4,8 and 7,7 fire2box - 4,2 and 3,9 park trips - 8,6 and 6,3 the setco guys - 3,8 and 3,3 mightbeawannabe - 4,4 and 5,6 kconn - 5,9 and 2,7 Best of luck my friends!!!! Peace, Big Mike

Please check back right after kickoff for your numbers! (if I ever get out of work) Peace, Big Mike

The contest is now closed!

Very nice Jen! I love how Claire was having so much fun! I am a sucker for kids having a good time Thanks for sharing! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Fantastic Friends!!!! The Big Mike Road Show is sponsoring a Superbowl Box Pool Contest!!! Best of all, it is ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have seen them, everyone who enters the contest gets a box on a 100 box grid, with one side of the box being the last number of the Packers score, and the other side of the box being the last number of the Steelers score! Who ever has both numbers correct for the final score wins the Grand Prize!! The Grand Prize for this contest consists of: a $25 gift card of your choice to any place I can buy a gift card. a Very rare and limited edition road worn Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt. a Mikestery Mystery Card which WILL COUNT as if you found it on the road for the Big Mike Reader of the Year Contest for a free condo stay! a Big Mike Road Show Pin and a combo collection of a 2009 Big Mike Holiday Card and Business Card! No skill needed to win, just the luck of getting drawn to the right box! No cost either, its a no brainer!!! To enter, just post the following and you will be automatically entered to win..... "Big Mike, I would like to enter the contest because my favorite part of The Big Mike Road Show is (fill in the blank)." This lets me guage what works and what doesn't and if you actually write "fill in the blank", you will not be entered Thats it, easy, simple, and free fun to win nice prizes! The only catch, there are only 100 boxes, so enter before they all fill up!! * UPDATE - As of this post, there are 36 people signed up to play!! Does not look like we will hit 100, so we will run the contest with the first 50 people to enter!!! EVERYONE GETS TWO SQUARES AND NOW YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING JUST DOUBLED!!!! 14 spots left!!!!! Check back at kickoff to see which numbers you have!!!! Good Luck! Peace, Big Mike

Very nice Laura! The big 1000 in the Big Mike Road Show!! I love how everybody picks my thread to have the big milestone at Wonder why that is??? Peace, Big Mike

I have loved all the comments so far my friends, but this one really brought a giggle to my day! Peace, Big Mike

Thanks Brian!!

Big Mike loves The Bebes! Plus bonus pictures of Brittany is cool too Peace, Big Mike

Thanks for the kind words, still lots of boxes left! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Fantastic Friends!!!! The Big Mike Road Show is sponsoring a Superbowl Box Pool Contest!!! Best of all, it is ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have seen them, everyone who enters the contest gets a box on a 100 box grid, with one side of the box being the last number of the Packers score, and the other side of the box being the last number of the Steelers score! Who ever has both numbers correct for the final score wins the Grand Prize!! The Grand Prize for this contest consists of: a $25 gift card of your choice to any place I can buy a gift card. a Very rare and limited edition road worn Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt. a Mikestery Mystery Card which WILL COUNT as if you found it on the road for the Big Mike Reader of the Year Contest for a free condo stay! a Big Mike Road Show Pin and a combo collection of a 2009 Big Mike Holiday Card and Business Card! No skill needed to win, just the luck of getting drawn to the right box! No cost either, its a no brainer!!! To enter, just post the following and you will be automatically entered to win..... "Big Mike, I would like to enter the contest because my favorite part of The Big Mike Road Show is (fill in the blank)." This lets me guage what works and what doesn't and if you actually write "fill in the blank", you will not be entered Thats it, easy, simple, and free fun to win nice prizes! The only catch, there are only 100 boxes, so enter before they all fill up!! Good Luck! Peace, Big Mike PS - Big Mike's 800th coaster credit coming up in the next report!!!

Way to go Patrick! It was great seeing a behind the scenes tour of the whole operation! Makes me proud that a Valuable Big Mike Reader came through with the goods!!! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Fantastic Friends!!! Big Mike right back at ya with the promised once a week trip reports until we are all caught up! Big Mike's comeback trip report on Tivoli Gardens was a huge success Thanks for welcoming Big Mike back into the TPR family once again after a long hiatus! It is great to be back and back on the big stage once again! Yes, you heard it right everybody, this is Big Mike's birthday week It was actually this past Sunday, but Big Mike did not want to announce it just for a cheap pop in the ratings! I will share with you a cool story though! Big Mike checked his mail bag here at Big Mike World Headquarters today and was pleased to find 3 Happy Birthday cards from Valuable Big Mike Readers!!! Somehow they knew without Big Mike even announcing it!! The 1st card came from Stephanie and Wagner, one of my dearest couples here on TPR and someone who I keep in constant touch with through texts, thanks guys! The card was a photo of all of us together on the helicopter pad on our TPR cruise, it was awesome! The 2nd card came from my future wife Megan, aka Mrs. Big Mike as graciously annointed by the title fairy! The card was perfect and she made Big Mike blush There was even a bonus photo included of her dog Hampton wishing me a happy birthday! Will save it forever! The 3rd card came from someone I never even met, actually never even heard of before. The card came all the way from SPAIN!!! This is why I love TPR and The Big Mike Road Show soooooo much!! It reaches far and wide, brings everyone together in a nice big family, and no matter where you go, there are always friendly faces and wonderful people at every turn! That is why Big Mike HAD to come back, he was missing the love! A special thanks to Guillem who goes by the screen name "willn", who admits is addicted to The Big Mike Road Show and has spent 2 full weeks reading it and is only up to page 250 lol, so maybe he will see this sometime next month! Big Mike should make this thread into a 700 page novel and make millions!!! I also want to send a special thanks to a lot of people who sent holiday cards to The Big Man, and I will thank them on the debut of the real Big Mike Road Show's actually show coming in March! So, before we get to this weeks trip report, I know EVERYONE is wondering what to get Good Ole Big Mike for his birthday??? Big Mike does not want to have his friends spend thier hard made dollars, or whatever currency they use where you are reading from, on Big Mike! There is something that is free though that would make Big Mike really happy tough, maybe you can help The Big Man out this way! Last week's debut of the Road Show was BIG!! Almost 2500 views BIG! Very happy about that Yet, there is this nagging thing still getting to The Big Man. Like I stated last week, a 3rd element has been added to the statistics to rank the best threads here on TPR, a "subscription" catagory, and since Big Mike has been away sooooo long, The Big Mike Road Show was not even in the Top 50!!! YIKES!!!! So in short, almost 2500 views last week but only 84 people helped Big Mike out by hitting the subscribe button on the bottom of the thread! OUCH! Don't get me wrong, we jumped up to 39th on the list, but when The Big Mke Road Show is BEHIND "Whats the weather like where you live?", theres something wrong!!! In closing, if you like The Big Mike Road Show and want to get your good buddy Big Mike a birthday present, hit that little subscribe button Love to all and hopefully see you on the road in 2011!!! Peace, Big Mike Bakken in Denmark!!! The prices. Park map. Rutschebanen! The Park CEO wants to meet Big Mike and the rest of TPR before we ride. Can't all coasters just have restraints like this? Don't rub your eyes, the lift is actually crooked. 1st drop! The 2nd drop is a double down, one of Big Mike's favorite elements! Back to back double downs!! Tunnel action! There was even a VIP section for us to take pictures at. Coaster Credit #795 for Good Ole Big Mike! Oh please please please can I have all these balloons! Tornado! Coaster credit #796 for Big Mike! You can see here that it is an indoor coaster. The seating. I guess it is not all indoors as you can see it blows out of the wall over here. The tornado turn! This coaster really spun! The Brit Crew takes time out to feel lie they are back home! 9 people in the picture, but Lou is pointing to what everyone is concentrating on! Mine Train Ulven! Coaster credit #797 for Big Mike! Lift. The drop with some tree head choppers! Nice long tunnel ahead. Look at this sharp turn hiding in the tunnel. More tight turns! This is our bus driver for the trip, Lena! Watch in further episodes as Lena really didn't stand a chance to not fall for The Mighty Big Man! Racing! The car. Lift. Lots of twists and turns on this baby. Coaster credit #798 for Big Mike! I really really love playing Find the Ducky on The Big Mike Road Show!!! Mariehonen! The lift with KidTums. Riding with KidTums is nothing new for Big Mike, he was there for KidTum's Coaster Credits #2 and #3! Coaster Credit #799 for Big Mike! How long do you think it will take for KidTums to pass The Big Man??? Big Mike is pleased to meet another Valuable Big Mike Reader on the road, Rene' "Dane". Other rides at Bakken: Afro must mean tea cups! This particular tea cup is loaded with some big beef, hope Patrick does not get squashed! OH NO! KIDTUMS IS IN THERE!!!!!!!!!! Extreme. Mini Dumbo. Jeepen. Bumper Cars. Vandkanonen. Rodeobanen. Spogelsesslottet. Polyp. Boat swing. Hip hop. Double shot. Enterprise. Carousel. Svanebanen. Bakke Ekspressen. 5-D Cinema. Dillen. MS Hurlumhej. It's an indoor funhouse! The indoor funhouse has a lot of cool stuff, like bridges... ... slides... ... and the coolest thing of all, A BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW MIKESTERY CARD THAT HAS STILL NOT BEEN FOUND!!! Live near Bakken??? Go see if it is still there!!! "Move your ass Big Mike or I will run you down!!" Everyones favorite time of the report, seeing all your TPR friends enjoying themselves at Bakken! If you were on the trip, no charge for taking my pictures for yourself! Thanks for taking the time to read everybody! Hope you enjoyed!! Don't forget Big Mikes birthday present, subscribe to the thread!! Peace, Big Mike

I should have some photos for some of these rides from my travels, but I will have to go search for them. I will give it my best sot to help you out. Peace, Big Mike

As soon as possible if it was up to me! Meanwhile, Big Mike is saving up for the biggest ring ever!

CURRENT FIND THE DUCKY STANDINGS: (After 5th round of 15) 1ST PLACE WITH THREE WINS: picknyourseat 2ND PLACE WITH TWO WINS: depotrat coreysjunk The Bebes SuperShawn Chiquita Loquita 3RD PLACE WITH 1 WIN: The SETCO Guys traincrossin Lenaapple1974 kezrez11 bhartley Brandy524 Emiroo robinschroeder Coaster Palooza Reality15 STR8FXXXINEDGE mmousefan lisadancer Yeti762 megamatt hansrubens X2coasterfreak themeparkguy27 coasterdude28 Iggyskid Groteslurf sccoasterfan disneymoc LJGoBlue jbarner14 ILoveRides Hikaru-chan King of Ka spaceace12 ohiocoasters Mataceman jray21 broomy mush619 jason10 4TH PLACE WITH NO WINS: Everyone else on TPR! (Still only need 3 wins to qualify!)

Hello Fantastic Friends!!! Thanks for the huge welcome back and also for partaking in the Find the Ducky Game!!! This is the OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS: This is a good ducky! #1 This is a good ducky! #2 This is a good ducky! #3 This is a good ducky! #4 This is a good ducky! #5 This is a good ducky! #6 This is a good du.... oh wait, how did that get in here This is a good ducky! #7 This is a good ducky! #8 This is a good imitation of a ducky, but not a real ducky! I scoured my pictures to find this semi shot of what appears to be a yellow object with feet, definately not a ducky! Maybe Joe can ask his wife what it is and they can put up a picture!! Final answer is 8 duckies!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to The SETCO Guys, traincrossin, picknyourseat, and depotrat! Just so everyone knows that Big Mike is animal friendly and does not treat his duckies like circus elephants, this ducky used in this update has found a nice loving home in Oregon with someone special! Peace, Big Mike

That is awesome! Big Mike LOVES shout outs!! I will check it out if I can, the disk and my computer don't like each other. lol

FINAL GUESSING CHART: (What the Valuable Big Mike Readers guessed) 3 Duckies - 2 people 4 Duckies - 2 people 5 Duckies - 1 person 6 Duckies - 3 people 7 Duckies - 16 people 8 Duckies - 4 people 9 Duckies - 3 people So the answer HAS to be 7 duckies, right??? 16 out of 31 guessers picked 7 duckies, more than half that guessed, more than all other guesses combined! Official answer posted tonight!!!!! Peace, Big Mike

My name is Big Mike and I approve of this message! 1000% approve!!

Does everyone agree with the above locations?? Should we tell everyone who guessed 9 that they won?? Does anyone know of any other ducky hiding places?? Does anyone disagree with any of the locations?? Which ones did people miss?? Peace, Big Mike

This round of duckies is now officially over! Feel free to discuss now!

Sounds like a great idea!! Maybe a last chance to win ducky round!! Thanks Jon!

Reminder - 11pm EST tonight is the guessing deadline!!! With the extension of The Big Mike Road Show, there is still ample opportunity to win the free condo for everybody!!! You have to be in it to win it though, so guessing the right amount of duckies TODAY is the start!!! Good Luck!! Peace, Big Mike