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Hello Fantastic Friends!!!! I have totally updated the West Coast Bash pictures with names and prizes won!!! We have 83 people tagged, but still need 90 more to go!! Tell me if there are any mistakes. Follow the link to make it easier to get to: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41995&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=2630 Peace, Big Mike I forgot to mention how much I LOVE this picture!

ATTENTION EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a WINNER!!!!! Corey and Danielle have found the very first Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game Piece of 2009!!! AWESOME JOB GUYS!!!! This means that "The Bebes" have the hardest quest out of the way and are 25% of the way to qualifying to become The Big Mike Road Show Reader of the Year 2009 and win a free one week condo stay!! Keep reading the trip reports for more chances to complete the Mikestery Treasure Hunt Quest!! Also of very high importance!!!!! Another FIRST TIME POSTER right here on The Big Mike Road Show!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE it when that happens Welcome to the TPR Family Corey and Danielle!!! I would have to say that with all the big name players around Magic Mountain, this has got to go down as a MAJOR upset with the rookies stealing the prize Congrats again and thanks very much for playing!! Peace, Big Mike

Hey Chris! Good observation and question! One would think that Big Mike, like other models and stars has a "good side", thus only has pictures from that angle. I am here to confirm that Big Mike has TWO good sides and looks sexy from both angles, at least that is what all the hot babes tell me. Big Mike is right handed and would figure to take pictures with his strong hand, yet it is the opposite as everyone can see. I think I use my strong hand for tight hugs while taking the pictures instead! The only time the right handed hug rule gets over ridden is when Big Mike takes a hot babe to the movies. Then, Big Mike sits on the right and uses the left arm for the arm to put around the girl, thus leaving the strong hand free and available for exploring!! BIG MIKE EDITOR NOTE - Any hot babes that want to go to the movies with Big Mike, PM me now for availibility!! Actually, it is a very simple answer to your question, but I have a lot of free time at work to pass.... The camera's button to take the picture and the grip handle are both on the right side of the camera, so when my photographer or video man is not around, I turn the camera around and can only take pictures with the left hand! Peace, Big Mike PS - Hot babes, what movie do you want to see???

ON THIS DATE IN BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW HISTORY MARCH 28, 2008 I was sooooooo jet lagged yesterday, I forgot to post the original version of On This Date in Big Mike Road Show History Lets make believe it is yesterday On this day one year ago, Big Mike met up with his first Valuable Big Mike Reader of 2008 for a full day of coasters! Rich (sfne2005) and I visited 4 parks in one day. One year ago also was the debut of The Official Big Mike Road Show T-Shirt to Theme Park Review!!! Concluding the day at Dollywood! This picture started mass posts for its mistakes. The Big Mike Road Show Shirt is born. Rich (sfne2005) and Big Mike.

ON THIS DATE IN BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW HISTORY MARCH 29, 2008 Exactly one year ago today, Big Mike had the great honor of meeting 4 brand new friends named Rick, Gyendolynne, Scott, and Shannon, along with his good buddy Rich at Six Flags over Georgia for Spring Fling! It was an awesome day of fun and the start of some great friendships! It was also Big Mike's first interview with The Big Mike Road Show! Hope you enjoyed! Peace, Big Mike Shannon (Scott's wife), Big Mike, and Gyendolynne (Rick's wife). Rich (sfne2005), Rick (coaster palooza), Scott (Beemer Boy) and Big Mike.

Hello Fantastic Friends!!! Big Mike is safe and sound here once again at Big Mike World Headquarters!! Thanks one last time to everyone for making my trip to the West Coast so enjoyable! Since there have been about a dozen trip reports on WCB already, I wont have any construction pictures or coaster pictures, just some behind the scenes shots to help you better enjoy Big Mike's WCB Weekend! This report will also have your first chance to play the Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game, which is probably the hardest of the 4 Big Mike quests to achieve in order to win a free ONE WEEKS CONDO STAY!! We will also find out who is the first person of the year to check off California on The Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt! Hope you enjoy! Peace, Big Mike Concluding the day in grand fashion and historic tradition, Josh (Crazy4Coasters) checks off California on The Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt!!! I hope you enjoyed! Peace, Big Mike Final Clue - THERE IT IS!!! The 1st Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game of 2009 HAS NOW BEGUN!!! Good Luck! 4th clue - I bet a Mikestery card would fit pretty good into that opening. 3rd clue - Now we have zeroed in on where it is. 2nd clue - This should narrow it down better. 1st clue - The Mikestery is hidden somewhere in this picture at Six Flags Magic Mountain! OK, Friends! Here is what you are looking for in The Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game! This is one of the quests to complete to be crowned Big Mike Most Valuable Reader of the Year 2009 and win a one weeks condo stay!!! Be the first to go find it and then post when you have it in your possession so we save other Valuable Big Mike Readers the time of going to look for it for nothing! Big Mike took up 2 FULL benches with all his prizes! Exclusive shot of the future webmasters and heads of Theme Park Review and Ride World! Big Mike, still really impressed on how super hot Elissa looked yesterday, couldn't wait to get his hands on her hotness! Big Mike really enjoyed taking pictures with everyone and handing out entry cards to the Big Mike Kick-Off Contest! Even Mr. Six entered and got a card. Big Mike admits that even though Robb said to spread out during ERT, Big Mike planted his ass at X2! The Retarded Yellow Hat Club makes a rare encore appearance at WCB! The wristband group seemed to enjoy thier job very much! There was lots of commosion that Big Mike was in attendance, but even more importantly and I think grossly overlooked, ICEBAT WAS IN ATTENDANCE TOO!!! Big Mike bows down to IceBats greatness! Here we are waiting for the crowd to be let in and the fun to start! Big Mike Editor Note- It was raining, that is not Big Mike sweating from all the hard set up work he did My day started at 5:30am helping set up the registration tables and such! West Coast Bash 2009! The night concluded with a TPR Trivia game with some cool prizes! Big Mike Editor Note - The yellow gift bag on the shelf was from Big Mike, too bad no one got to see the super cool gifts inside Big Mike had always heard of Robb's Hot Wings, and I had to watch the master chef in action. We got treated to a TPR New Release DVD at the condo theater, which was extremely comfortable! The Alveys sure know how to throw a party, from Pizza, Chips, cake and drink at the birthday party, to Chinese, hot wings, drinks, and lots of desserts at the condo! Old or new friends, Big Mike just likes ALL friends! Here are some of them: Big Mike met some brand new friends too! Big Mike meets old friends that he has not seen since the inaugural TPR trip in 2006! The scene now switches to The West Coast Bash Pre Bash Party at Robb and Elissa's Condo Club House! A fantastic time was had by all! Everyone at the party got to sign this adorable poster for her birthday. Robb was sitting in the King's chair, yet I don't think he quite had his role down yet. Kristen blowing out the candles and making a wish for more ERT time on the Super Slide lol. Everyone sings happy birthday to Kristen! Big Mike Editor Note - Big Mike thinks Elissa looks super HOT in this picture! The Birthday Cake! I checked out one of the other play areas and found JimmyBo looking all sexy waiting for birthday cake. Time after time after time, her smile never left her face! It was not long before Kristen figured out what her favorite thing to do was lol. JimmyBo too! While Kristen was occupied elsewhere, the adults let thier inner kid out, like Wes is doing here. Joey gave her some rides on this merry go round type ride! Dan showed her how to play air hockey! Those feelings disappeared quick as soon as she got to ride the super slide. Look at that smile riding with Hector! Kristen seemed overwhelmed that everyone was here for her. The hostess gathered us all together to tell us the rules and give some extra attention to KidTums. Speaking of JimmyBo, here he is now! More impressive though, Kristen displays her masterful spelling abilities, here spelling out TPR and JimmyBo! We were put in a waiting area to start, where Elissa's Dad entertained and impressed us! The big favorite, the super slide! Here is the second. Our area consisted of 3 play attractions, here is one of them. Kristen's 2nd Birthday Party was held at Scooter's Jungle, a play place which allows adults to play too!

Hey Friends!! Big Mike is safely on his plane heading back to Big Mike World Headquarters!! Thanks to Everyone for making this a fantastic week!!! Hope to see everyone again soon! Peace, Big Mike

AWESOME! I love when people make their first post in my thread, shows that I am doing a good job!!! James and Patrick, I totally ditzed out on the times!! I added 3 hours instead of subtracting 3 hours, so I missed the final round! Too many coasters at WCB I think. Lol Please get back to me with a rescheduled time!! FYI - Those rides on top of the Stratosphere are insane!! Peace, Big Mike

Hey Friends!!! First, a HUGE thanks to Shawn (packfanlv) for spending the whole day with me yesterday hitting every coaster in Las Vegas!! Now, the BIG question, did Big Mike get that all elusive Miner Mike credit at Adventuredome??? 1st step - the ride op was a guy, so I knew right away that The Big Mike Charm was going to be rendered useless! I asked and of course was told no. 2nd step - need to talk to his supervisor. Supervisor comes over and says no adults are allowed to ride but when asked if he has ever seen an adult ride, he tells me he himself has ridden after the park is closed... I have hope!! 3rd step - time to see the big boss, General Manager. Instead of getting to see him, he tells his secretary to give me the number to the Corporate Public Relations Department, being I am now considered "virtual media" with my Big Mike Road Show!! 4th step - I talk with Corporate and tell them about TBMRS and the Miner Mike being my last coaster in Nevada, and tell them I will come before opening, stay after closing, whatever it took! They told me they would get back to me, and they did! Now, what was the answer??? Guessing time! Scroll down! DENIED!!!!! The reason given was that the county rules are very strict on the height measurement, not such a weight problem! I said thanks for trying and hung up. Taking a look at the ride, I do not see where the height should be a factor, being there are no places where you could hit your head anywhere??? This fight is not over. 5th step when I get home - call the county and get an answer on the height reason! Stratosphere, Buffalo Bill's, and LAX today!! Does Big Mike have the kahonies to be thrown off the top of the Stratosphere???? We will find out in a half an hour!!! Peace, Big Mike

Hey Friends! Big Mike coming to you LIVE from the Las Vegas strip on his Blackberry! All week I had free internet, now I get to Vegas and its 15 dollars a day! I will update everyones pictures when I get home! I should be at the airport to post the Find the Ducky Championship question!! Keep telling me who everyone is!!! I have 4 words for the Vegas strip.... High Heels Short Skirts! Peace, Big Mike

Hey awesome friends!! Anyone who was really cool and had thier picture taken with Big Mike can go check them all out at: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41995&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=2630 Thanks to everyone, I hope to see you again real soon and hang out again! Peace, Big Mike

Even MORE Friends!!! 178 Once again, Thanks to everyone! Even though the event was superb, it is still and always will be about the people you meet, hang out with, and become friends with! Peace, Big Mike 177 176 Chris (Volt) 174 173 172 Caroline - Chris's (cgodsey)daughter 170 Elissa (SharkTums) 168 167 166 165 164 163 162 161 160 159 158 157 156 155 154 153 152 151 150 149 148 Jen (The Real Tinkerbell) Jen won a CoasterMania Hoodie! 146 145 144 143 142 141 140 139 138 137 136 135 Sarah! (The love of Cody's life) Cody! (Calicoasters) 132 131 130 129 128 127 126 125 124 123 122 Robb (robbalvey) Made my list twice because he is soooo special!

More Friends!!! Chris (Scream162) Gregg (Sir Clinksalot) 118 117 116 James (JimBeach) James won the $25 Gift Certificate for a future TPR Trip/Event! 114 R.C (rcoques) 112 Jessica (cedarpointfangirl) Matthew (rawtotheargh) 109 Shannon (ShannonSomerville) 107 Zak (Zakkster) 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 Matthew (hotstreak) on the left, Matthew's friend George on the right. Matthew won the Roller Coaster magazines! Kevin (XII) Michael (coasterobsessive) William (Rollerman87) Amy - Joey's wife Joey (jray21) 90 89 88 87 86 85 Larry (Rideslover) Andy Erika - Nate's friend Nate (rollercoasterfreak91) Nate won a Coaster Expedition Volume 8 DVD! 80 79 78 Mr. Six Shawn (supershawn) 75 74 Shane (montezooma) Miles (rllrcster) Miles won a 5 year membership to Ride World! 71 Ray - Gabriel's brother Gabriel (dino) Cody - friend of Cody's Cody (24) 66 65 64 63 62 William (wrs28330)

Hello great Friends!!! What a fantastic time I had at West Coast Bash!! I figured that since everybody will do a trip report with the same pictures, and I just reviewed Magic Mountain last year, I would just concentrate on the most important thing: The Valuable Big Mike Readers that I met!!!! I will do a trip report in a few days, consisting of Kristen's birthday party, the Pre Bash Party, and some random West Coast Bash pictures! Thanks to EVERYONE who came up and said hello and had their picture taken with me, that made me VERY happy! Here are all the pictures coming up in the next 3 posts! WOW, thats a lot of people Even if you did not attend West Coast Bash, see how many friends of yours that you know! I will put the picture number down, and I please ask you to post which picture # is yours, your real name, your screen name, the names of any family or friends in the picture with you, and what you thought of and how you were treated by Big Mike, good OR bad!!! Also tell me if you won a prize and what it was since I did not get to see who won what!!! Throw in anything else you want to add too! Plus everyone I meet I put on my "friend list" on TPR! Even if I know you already, please respond with the info to make it official for the contest! When you tell me your picture, I will go back and change the info so you get credit for completing one quest in The Big Mike Road Show 2009 Most Valuable Reader of the Year Contest for a One Week Free Condo Stay!!!! Have fun looking at the pictures and seeing how many people made funny faces behind us!! Even Mr. Six did it lol. Peace, Big Mike Ryan (Ryan King) Wes (Wes) Hector (RCFreak) Paul (newrollercoasterlover17) Ellie and Chad, Justin's (65skylark) kids. Cameron (Cameron) Daron (derwood) Dave (Meteornotes) Stephanie (tigerxeyez) John (dws_57) 50 Catrina (ImAPrincess) Ted (CoasterFanatic) Robb (Robbalvey) Chris (cgodsey) Bob (gisco) Chris (COASTER FREAK 11) Dane (gotdane) 42 Shawn (packfanlv) and his wife Jasmine! Shawn won a 5 Year Membership to Ride World and Jasmine won a UPS Hoodie! 40 Jim (JimmyBo) 38 Brent's guest Brent (socalMAN123) Ryan - JimmyBo's friend. Erik (Erik Johnson) Justin (65skylark) Marie - John's wife Kevin - John's son Jesse - Charlie's best friend Charlie - John's son Whitney - John's daughter Tyler - family friend of Johns John (Mechanic) Eric (EBL) Eric won a UPS Travel Mug! John (CreativeForce) John won a 5 year membership to Ride World! 23 Craig (Token Yankee Guy) Kyle (RaptorBoyASU) Josh! (crazy4coasters) Josh won a Coaster Expedition Volume #8 DVD! Josh also won the right to check off California on The Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt! 19 Steve (shpm5150) 17 16 Chris (HEADCHEEZ) on the right, and his brother on the left. Al (ajinaz) IceBat! Chris (ZipityDoDog), Jess is Chris's girlfriend, Ryan is Shane's friend, and Shane who is Chris's daughter. 11 10 Rose (bonjovimonkey) Dave (davydo5172) Matthew (UberBeavis) 6 5 4 3 Scott (coasterguy4) Benji (COASTAH FREAK)

I am SOOOOOOOO sorry Cody!! I did meet the other 3 guys, but I didn't get to ride with them either. I did some picture taking and they were gone when I went back I was looking through my pictures from WCB tonight and when I got to yours, I said to myself, it looks like we would get along real good and lo and behold, you were at Belmont! I am bumming right now I got stuck at Sea World. To make a long story short, Atlantis does not open until noon, which I did not know. I did a lot of the rest of the park and when I went to ride Atlantis again, it broke down and they kicked everyone out of line. An hour later I tried again, and it broke again! I finally got on it at about 5:30. I think I rolled into Belmont at about 6:20. Sorry Pal, another time for sure! Peace, Big Mike

^^ Rest is not what I am worrying about, it is trying to find the time to post my pictures from West Coast Bash! lol Pictures for The Valuable Big Mike Readers > Rest Hopefully tonight! I never saw the turtles, and I love turtles! The turtles drew me real close to another spot higher on the replies list though Off to Sea World, see ya there!! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Friends!!! What a great day at West Coast Bash today! Met a lot of great new friends!! Thanks to EVERYONE who came up and said hello and had thier picture taken with Big Mike!! That was awesome Congrats to all the winners at the Big Mike Kick-Off Contest!! Special thanks to Robb, Chris, and Magic Mountain for putting on a spectacular event!! I will put up all my pictures as soon as I get a chance! I can't wait to see you all again!!! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Fantastic Friends and Faithful Valuable Big Mike Readers!!! Big Mike is in California and ready to have a blast at West Coast Bash with all the great Theme Park Reviewers!! If you have a chance today, The Big Mike Road Show 2009 will be at Castle Amusement Park picking up 3 brand new credits starting at noon! Making it's debut at West Coast Bash will be the NEWLY DESIGNED Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt!!!!!! We also have a new Big Mike Road Show 2009 logo!!! The Big Mike Road Show 2009 is really shaping up to be quite a great year and hopefully we get to see a TON of Valuable Big Mike Readers out there on the road this year!!! Today we announce the GRAND PRIZE for The Big Mike Road Show 2009 Most Valuable Reader of the Year!! Last year we gave away a 2009 Season Pass to the park of your choice, this year we topped that easily! I think if you are a coaster and amusement park fan, this prize will come in quite handy for you. More on the prize a little later, lets get to the rules on how to win it!!! THE BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW 2009 MOST VALUABLE READER OF THE YEAR CONTEST Each Valuable Big Mike Reader will have 4 quests to complete in order to be in the running for the Grand Prize! These quests are: 1. Meet up with Big Mike once during the year and have your picture taken with Big Mike for his thread and super wall mural at The Big Mike Hotel! 2. There will be 15 Find the Ducky games this year, each Big Mike Reader will have to correctly guess the number of duckies hidden 3 times! (3 out of 15) 3. Each Big Mike Reader will have to win ONE Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game! This new game will have Big Mike hiding a Big Mike Road Show 2009 Logo Card somewhere in each park he visits. When the trip report posts, I will show you a picture of where the Logo Card is hidden and it is your job to find the hidden treasure. 4. The most easiest, post your very own Valuable Big Mike Road Show Banner in your signature. Some of you are already 25% of the way to winning already! The others can wait if you still want to resist the coolest club on TPR until you finish the other 3 quests I guess That is it!! Finish all 4 quests and you are qualifed to win the Grand Prize! If only one person finishes all 4 quests, that person is crowned Champion! If multiple people finish all 4 quests, there will be a lottery drawing to determine the winner! A SPECIAL RULE - Since The Find the Ducky Game and The Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game will be a running game throughout the whole season, whoever comes in first place in either game (the most ducky wins or finds the most Mikestery Treasures) will get an exemption from one of the quests, so the winners will only have to finish 3 quests and can use a "free pass" on the 4th quest! NOW FOR THE GRAND PRIZE!!!!! The GRAND PRIZE this year for The Big Mike Road Show 2009 Most Valuable Reader of the Year is: A ONE WEEK GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR USE IN BIG MIKE'S CONDO CLUB!!! This gift certificate can be used for ONE FULL WEEKS accomidations to any of the Condos in Big Mike's Condo Club! This is good for a ONE BEDROOM CONDO, and Big Mike is even picking up the processing fee!! You will be sent a vacation voucher and all you have to do is make the reservation whenever you want, there is NO EXPERATION DATE!! Do you have a big family?? You can upgrade to a 2 bedroom condo for a mere $25 more a day. and that option is available for you with this certificate! Warning - There is a "high season" upgrade of $20 a day at certain times, but the certificate can be used for ANY season. So this certificate can be absolutely free if you get a one bedroom condo anytime but high season, or at worst it can be $315 if you upgrade to a 2 bedroom AND go during super high season! NOT BAD AT ALL! Where are The Big Mike Condos at you ask? Here is the list: (Notice they are right smack dab in the middle of coaster country!!!) NJ ME MA VT UT AR MO CA CO ID NV (Las Vegas) WI DE MD PA VA (Williamsburg) SC (Myrtle Beach) NC TN AL FL (Orlando) TX Dont want a coaster vacation and would rather just relax? How about these places: Dominican Republic St. Lucia Virgin Islands Bahamas St. Maartin Aruba Molokai Honolulu Nuevo Vallarta and Cancun!! *Some of the above destinations have a mandatory All Inclusive Package, you will have to check with the resort! How do you check out all the resorts??? Here is the link of all the places, and pictures and details of every place: http://planwithtan.com/Properties/PropertiesbyRegion/tabid/899/Default.aspx Big Mike is quite sure that you are not really reading this post for the Grand Prize anyway, you all want to see the Brand New Official Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt!!!!! Good Luck to Everyone in The Big Mike Road Show 2009 Most Valuable Reader of the Year Contest and go find those Mikesteries and Duckies and I will see you at WEST COAST BASH!!!! Peace, Big Mike The front of the newly designed and awesome looking Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirt!! Look for it at a park near you!!!! Comments or questions on the new shirt, the contest, the Grand Prize??? Let me know! Peace, Big Mike The back of the NEW Official Big Mike Road Show 2009 T-Shirts this year!!! The Mikestery Treasure Hunt Game Card that you will have to find at each park! The card is laminated to protect from the weather and colored after the Big Mike Road Show shirts!! The NEW Big Mike Road Show 2009 Logo! Here are your 2009 Find the Ducky participants!!!! My awesome friend MOOSE donated them all to us!!! Each Ducky will only have to work once this year, a big break from last year when 2 duckies did ALL the work!

The Big Mike Road Show is back in California!!! Just checked into the penthouse suite, a little after 4am MY time!!! Since The Big Mike Road Show has been idle for the last 5 months, a little rust has set in! Just so that Big Mike is not rusty at his own Kick-Off Party, we are going to have a little warm up park visit tomorrow at Castle Amusement Park at noon if anyone is interested! If not, West Coast Bash on Sunday!!!! See you there!! Peace, Big Mike (Going to bed!)

7:45. Flight just landed, next flight 8:05!!! Get me off the plane ang get that luggage out!!! Peace, Big Mike

Thanks Dave for the help in moving my post! Yes I am aware of the mistakes on the shirt. I will take blame for the Country mistake, the shirt guy takes blame for the Coaster Ridden (as he did not let me proof the shirts beforehand) and the filled in states were just bonus states visited after the original schedule came out! UPDATE - Big mike has made it safely and on-time to La Guardia... But of course the flight is delayed! Will Big Mike make his connecting flight?? Will his luggage make it or will it be left behind like last trip?? Stay Tuned!!! Peace, Big Mike

Ride World is a website that is Co-sponsering and hosting West Coast Bash! Chris runs the website and was nice enough to donate some 5 year memberships!! Wow! If you want to go to a park sponsered event and need a coaster club card to get in, this is the prize for you!! Peace, Big Mike

The Big Mike Road Show is very proud to announce that they have just added MORE prizes to The Big Mike Road Show Kick-Off Contest at West Coast Bash!! See the rules on how to enter the contest and the just released Upper Tier Prizes here: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41995&start=2580 Good Luck and I'll see everyone at The Bash! Peace, Big Mike EDIT: Moved to the right topic - TPDave

Hello Fantastic Friends and soon to be Co-West Coast Bashers!! One hour until Big Mike leaves to the airport for his trip cross country to West Coast Bash!!!! Can't wait to see everybody! Before I leave, it is time to announce the final round of prizes for the Big West Coast Bash Big Mike Road Show Kick-Off Contest!!! Remember, all you need to do to enter the contest and have a chance to win a very cool prize is to find Big Mike during the day, ask Big Mike to take a picture of you and Big Mike together, and you will get a raffle ticket for a chance to win a prize! It's easy, plus you get your picture posted on The Big Mike Road Show 2009! GREAT NEWS JUST IN!!! With the announcement that 100 more tickets just went on sale for West Coast Bash, that means Big Mike Productions ALSO had to increase the number of prizes Announcing the prizes are going from 35 prizes to 43 prizes!!!!! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Also, a matter of top most importance: Just to reiterate, there will be a GRAND PRIZE for the person crowned Big Mike Road Show Most Valuable Reader of the Year 2009!!! The Grand Prize is the biggest prize that Big Mike World Headquarters has EVER given out!!! The prize will be revealed soon, but.... One of the 4 quests that the Valuable Big Mike Readers will have to complete in order to have a chance at the Grand Prize is to have your picture taken with Big Mike at least ONCE during the year! WEST COAST BASH is your chance to do it!!! Enjoy the prizes, pick out your favorites, and go find BIG MIKE!!!!!!!!!! Peace, Big Mike The last prize of the Kick-Off Contest is the right to be the Official Checker-offer of California on The Brand New 2009 Official Big Mike Road Show T-Shirt, making it's World Debut at West Coast Bash!!! See everyone at The Bash!! Time to go catch my flight! Peace, Big Mike A LIMITED EDITION (Only 10 in the world) Official Big Mike Road Show 2008 T-Shirt!!! A $25 Gift Certificate to a future TPR Trip or Event!!! A $20 Gift Certificate to the TPR Store!!! A 5 YEAR Membership to Ride World!!! There are 3 of these prizes, and Chris awesomely donated two of them to The Big Mike Road Show Prize Patrol! THANKS CHRIS!!! Robb awesomely donated 8 DVD's to the Big Mike Prize Patrol!! THANKS ROBB!! We now have 2 copies of each of the following to give away also: Roller Coasters in the Raw - Volume 1 and 2!! Coaster Expedition Volume 8 and 9!! Coaster Expedition 8 and 9 were selected because both dvd's have Big Mike as a guest star!

I laugh at all of you that are saying it is going to be chilly at 50 degrees when some of us more unluckier folks would think that is very warm right now! If there are no hoodie sales at the event (which I do think that was a very good idea for sure), The Big Mike Road Show Kick-Off Contest has one up for grabs! * Edited - I see Robb's point on the hoodies! Some of my most fun trips happened in the rain, more bonding time! Peace, Big Mike