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CONGRATS ON HITTING THE TOP 10 SHANE, YOU DA MAN!!! Peace, Big Mike

I just wanted to add that the Theme Park Hoodie at only $20 is the steal of the year!! Not only do you look super cool when you wear it, but you also stay warm and comfy too! Once I put my zip up TPR hoodie on, I could not control all the hot babes throwing themselves at me! That hoodie is a magnet for sexual activity!! Also, while out on the road during The Big Mike Road Show 2009, I keep my eyes wide open for any Theme Park Review attire!! As soon as I see you wearing a TPR hoodie or shirt, I instantly know that you must be pretty awesome and I take a photo for the entire Theme Park Review Family to see on my thread!!! Its like the old Big Mike saying goes..... "The results of wearing your hoodies... whenever you ride the woodies... is hot babes show you their goodies!" Peace, Big Mike Proudly wears a TPR Hoodie whenever it is too cold for The Official Big Mike Road Show T-Shirt! Hoodies rule!

The Dave Experience is the ultimate sensation and any tokens given to you by Dave himself should always be cherished and saved forever!!! Dave = #1 Peace, Big Mike Dave is da man!

^ I would stick around for the midnight buffet too, I thought you knew me better than that Chuck! LOL Peace, Big Mike

Hey Gary, glad to help you out here! http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/museums/ This gives you a list of all the museums, zoos, ect and the participating weekends! Here is a summary of the states that have places you can get into for free with your Bank of America card: GA AZ CA IL NY RI MD DE NJ FL PA MA WA MI CT NC ME TX Just by me, I can get into the Liberty Science Center, Bronx Zoo, NY Aquarium, Intrepid Sea/Air/Space Museum, American Museum of Natural History, ect. Hope you find a place near you! Peace, Big Mike Oh, and one card is good for 2 people at most places!!!

Sooner or later, one of these ships is going to add a kiddie coaster and I will be so there for that! Peace, Big Mike

Hi Friends!!!!!! This trip report highlights one of the many John's Incredible Pizza Company places in California! This report also covers this past weekend's trip into NYC! I hope you enjoy! Peace, Big Mike Picked another random place to conclude this trip report, hope you enjoyed! Peace, Big Mike I am now spoiled with box seats. The evening show was Mary Poppins! Eye candy = Big Mike It got lots of good reviews, but Big Mike thought it was just ok. The matinee show this weekend was Sleepwalking with Me. There seemed to be a huge protest too. I asked someone what it was about and they said the ban on bikini pictures in The Big Mike Road Show. While I was in the neighborhood! The Intrepid, located on 46th street, a fun place to see and hang out. (Especially for free) There were some hands on exhibits too. Hi Rick. There is also a gift shop. Hi Craig. A scorecard on how many planes and boats it sunk during service. Displays too. Inside the ship, they have some rides. The submarine was closed, booo. But since it is free, I will be back. The British Airways Concorde is also on display here. All kinds, all shapes. Lots of planes on top deck. Big Mike has a big gun ladies. Sleeoing arrangements. Welcome aboard finally. I have wanted to visit here for a long time. When I arrived, somehow the boat got loose and started drifting away, but Big Mike reeled it back to port! Look how close it is to UPS too. The Intrepid is docked right next to the Norwegian Gem. If you have a Bank of America card, you get in free the first weekend of the month. The programs is called Museums on Us, and it has participating zoos and museums from the East coast to the West coast! Check it out! Prices. Overview. Todays fun, The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. I know some Big Mike Readers will like this. Happened to wonder by the 43rd Street UPS, which is where I could have been transferred to a ways back. Back in NYC again this past weekend! Notice the strategy of eating the buffet after I rode the coaster, just to make sure I would fit! I am not sure which I was more happy about, the coaster or the buffet? A few other rides at the place: Credit #727 for Big Mike! The lift. The train. Overview. The Incredible Express! Big Mike takes the plunge and away we go. The prices. Some people may not like this idea, but you have to buy the buffet to be able to enter and ride the coaster. To Big Mike, it is just a means to the end. John's Incredible Pizza Roseville!

I just voted!

You two are sooooooo cute together! Thanks for the pictures, keep them coming! Peace, Big Mike

Well at least I am a King now, thats an improvement Peace, Big Mike

Hey Friends!!! Thanks for all the New Years wishes, you all rock! The next stop on The Big Mike Road Show 2008 was Nut Tree Park in California!! There has also been a high demand for the FINAL results in Fantasy Football for 2008, so we will cover that too! Plus, Big Mike's Christmas Card Collection for this year! All the Valuable Big Mike Readers that took me up on sending me a Christmas card, you will automatically be put on the master list to be sent The Official 2009 Big Mike Road Show Holiday Card next winter!!! Everyone who missed the post about the holiday cards or were just to busy during the holiday season, you still have one more chance!!! Big Mike's birthday is 2 weeks from today!!!!! Jan 16th!!!! Everyone who sends a birthday card will also automatically be put on the Big Mike Road Show 2009 Holiday Card list!!! Send your birthday wishes to: Big Mike World Headquarters Attn: Big Mike Betzler 126 Revere Ct Montville NJ 07045 Now, on to the Fantasy Football Finales!!! The Big Money League in which we needed a win or a Scott loss to clinch 3rd place money was a success!!! Big Mike won while Scott lost anyway. Brad 15-2-0 MikeK 13-4-0 BIGMIKE 12-5-0 Scott 10-7-0 TracyWins 10-7-0 Art 9-8-0 Shannon 8-9-0 PeaseAnks 7-10-0 Carol 7-10-0 Kevin 5-12-0 Bob 4-13-0 Dave 2-15-0 Big Mike's Team: D Brees A QB C Williams A RB T Hightower A RB D Bowe A WR R Moss A WR J Witten A TE J Stewart A RB-WR-TE M Bryant A K Dolphins A DST P Thomas RS RB R Bush RS RB R Rice RS RB B Berrian RS RB-WR-TE D Avery RS RB-WR-TE L Coles RS RB-WR-TE J Carney RS K Little Money League ($150) Head to head with my friend Zinger. We were both tied at 8 wins a piece, whoever won got the cash! Big Mike was victorious!!! Here is the winning email: BIG MIKE IS BACK TO BACK CHAMPION!!! ZINGER NOW "EMBARRASSED" HE SHOT HIS MOUTH OFF! MIKE STAYED QUIET, ZINGER DIDN'T. MIKE WON, ZINGER DIDN'T. DIDN'T FOLLOW HIS OWN ADVICE, COST HIM TITLE. BIG MIKE STOCKED TEAM FOR WEEK 17 WHILE LETTING ZINGER BACK IN THE GAME. ZINGER SCORES ALMOST 200, STILL NO MATCH FOR THE MIGHTY ONE. BIG MIKE "BREES's" TO EASY VICTORY. PHILLY D OUTSCORES ALMOST ALL ON ZINGERS TEAM. THAT IS WHY BIG MIKE CHOSE TOMLINSON FIRST OVERALL. NUMBER ONE FINGER WAVES FOR ANOTHER WHOLE YEAR. Zinger: 197.8 Warner - 33 Rivers - 21 Peterson - 16 Williams - 17 Slaton - 18 Forte - 7 Wayne - 1 Fitzgerald - 25 Smith - 13 White - 10 Clark - 5 Witten - 6 Prater - 1 Kaeding - 9.8 Carolina - 14 Chicago - 1 Big Mike: 220.7 Cutler - 17 Brees - 38 Tomlinson - 27 Grant - 12 Turner - 26 Jones - 2 Boldin - 0 Owens - 10 Marshall - 5 Johnson - 26 Gates - 4 Gonzalez - 11 Kasay - 17.7 Bironas - 0 Minnesota - 2 Philadelphia - 23 Big Mike 9-8 ESPN League: Winner's Bracket Championship Matchup #4 Red dragon Thepuppetmaster (slyr) (6-6-1)shawn demorgandie 119 #2 New Jersey PowerDominators (BIG) (9-4) 174 League Champion CONGRATULATIONS 2008 League Champion! New Jersey PowerDominators Owner(s): Big Mike Betzler Regular Season Record: 9-4 Just in case you wanted to know, here is how it looked on ESPN last year: League Champion CONGRATULATIONS 2007 League Champion! New Jersey Power Dominator Owner(s): Big Mike Betzler Regular Season Record: 10-3 I own ESPN lol. OK, no more fantasy football talk until next year!! Everyone who suffered through that to get to the report, I am sorry I hope you enjoy Nut Tree Park!!! Peace, Big Mike Here are Big Mike's Christmas cards!!! Thanks everybody!! If you see yours, feel free to shout it out Don't forget, Big Mike's Birthday Jan 16th Peace, Big Mike I hope you enjoyed Nut Tree Park. Interesting that I am so far from home yet Interstate 80 is only 1 mile from Big Mike World Headquarters. Here are some other rides at the park: Credit #726 for Big Mike! The drop. The lift. Take a seat in the back Chump! Winner! There was no way I was going home without riding in the tractor! LOL I could have grabbed whatever they were harvesting, but I was already in game mode for the race out the exit! Big Mike pouts in the back seat and knows from watching the last half hour that this guy and kid is just going to run out the exit and back in the front car! It's On dude!!! The front car is a tractor! Big Mike sooo wanted the tractor and this guy laughed at me when he stole it from me! The train. Aerial view. Overview. The Harvest Express! The prices and how much each ride costs. Nut Tree Park!

LOL Would you believe I was going to put up Nut Tree Park tonight too!! Whats the chances of that?? I am always a minute too late and a dollar too short! Nice to see the whole family having fun! Peace, Big Mike

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to many to decide upon! Peace, Big Mike

Mike, The Fantasy Football update will be in the next post! I have to spread my fillers out since these Cali parks were so small and not much to them. Pete, welcome to TPR!!! Congrats for your first post too!!! I am honored that my thread has been a little help so far in getting people involved here Thats my goal, to make TPR better any way I can! Welcome to the family of Valuable Big Mike Readers!!! Scott, he did sound like Sinatra but its not the same sitting there watching some sound alike dude. The show just got off the ground, they were using another shows set, they plan on having a band but now is just a piano player, and he was still reading off a script to his side most of the show. The rest of the crowd did give him a huge ovation at the end though. Peace, Big Mike

Hello Friends!!!! To all The Valuable Big Mike Readers, Have a safe and happy New Year! Talking about New Years, included in this report is a sneak peak at Times Square setting up for New Years Eve, along with some special events, the two shows I saw this week, a tribute to the friends that have come to visit Big Mike in NYC, and Robb and Elissa's names up in lights on Broadway!!! To starts the report off though, the 2nd scheduled stop on the California Tour of Big Mike's Road Show was Train Town. The park was open, yet the coaster was closed. I did not add this to the front page or the total parks visited number due to the fact that I could not supply The Valuable Big Mike Readers with a quality shot of the coaster. Thus, not to short change the readers but to bring as much info as possible, the park did not count but I will post what I saw anyway. I hope everyone enjoys!!! Peace, Big Mike That's it for now. Just snapped a picture in a totally random place to wish everyone a fun and safe New Year's Eve and a fantastic 2009! Peace, Big Mike A special EXCLUSIVE picture of the back of the ball drop. This was in Briant Park and very crowded. I will wait for the holiday crowd to leave and skate at Rockerfeller Center instead. The Empire State Building was in holiday colors and ice skating was a big hit. The evening show was My Sinatra, which is an obligation to see if you are from New Jersey like Ol Blue Eyes. Between shows, it was nice to walk in NYC in late December at 6pm and have it be SIXTY FOUR degrees! The show was about him and his nightmares about horses. If you look at his body closely, it is actually a horses head. I never noticed it until I saw the show because I was more excited to see the totally naked female lead, which I did from front row center in the orchestra for a GREAT view!!! I admit I did sneak a peak at Harry Potters weiner also. The matinee show I took in was "Equus" with the Harry Potter dude. I liked it. Can you see anything strange about his body in the picture??? I can still vision Renee standing there with her cute pink hat and scarf. Great memories! Now that I was in a cheery mood again, I went back to visit the place I now only call "Our Spot" ... and I miss Brian, but I got a pretzel to cheer me up right before taking this picture!! ... and I miss Renee ... It was not all fun and games though. Every time Big Mike visits NYC now, he remembers the fun times shared with the good friends that have come to visit so far. I miss Rick ... Of course, Big Mike's name up in lights on Broadway with a picture of two hot babes on his arms was a good touch too. While in Times Square, Big Mike used some of his pull to thank Robb and Elissa for ANOTHER year of die hard dedication to making this site the BEST THERE IS out there for Theme Park websites and for being GREAT friends!!! Big news in the Big City for Big Mike! I just wish someone was there to get a wide picture of the swarm of cameras that surrounded Big Mike at that moment! My camera could not get them all! It was the big moment when Big Mike shredded the Haters and all the cameras converged to cover the event... As soon as the press heard all about The Big Mike Road Show, they had thier top story of the day! The AP news was one of 4 interviews Big Mike gave! Big Mike chose to shred all the Big Mike Road Show 2008 Haters that spewed all thier negativity at the hard work and dedication Big Mike made to entertain and inform everybody. It was a great day to come into NYC, as it was Good Riddance Day, where you could shred your bad memories of 2008! Your first view of the 2009 sign under the ball. Back in NYC this week! You can see there are 3 days left until New Years Eve and they already have the speakers up for the celebration and it is almost 12 o'clock! Only the front of the park was open, so this was as close as a picture I could get of the coaster. Just means another visit to the Coaster Palooza Hotel!!! Other rides at the park: Extra locomotives. I did not ride the train as a form of protest. The prices. Boo, the coaster is not! Why? Yay! Welcome, Train Town is open! Train Town in California!

I could just hear you in my head vividly with that..... "but nooooooo" Have a nice new years Ricky! Peace, Big Mike

I knew I was going to get that wrong Champ! LOL I still like! Peace, Big Mike

Ohhhhh, Big Mike loves the first person narrative!!!

Thanks Robb!!! Elissa's Mom is the best looking female in the world! I took that Alligator Alley from Dania Beach 2 years ago, saddens me that I was so close to Elissa's Moms and didn't even know it! Glad everyone had so much fun! Peace, Big Mike

Hello Friends!!!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!! Anyone coming in for New Years Eve in Times Square??? Let me know! Today we will have the FINAL answer to the Quarter Final round of Find The Ducky and see who advances! We will also have the first stop on the California portion of The Big Mike Road Show 2008, The Oakland Zoo! But first, with it being the last week of Fantasy Football and the Championship Games, we will update you on Big Mike's success!! Once again, you are looking for The Power Dominators! The Big Money League: Standings Team W L T Brad 14 2 0 Mike K 13 3 0 POWER DOMINATORS 11 5 0 Scott 10 6 0 Insomniac 9 7 0 Artie's Army 8 8 0 Taylor 7 9 0 Carol 7 9 0 Anks & Pease 6 10 0 FITZ HAMMER 5 11 0 Bob 4 12 0 Dave 2 14 0 Looks like we need a Big Mike win or a Scott loss to clinch 3rd place money! Little Money League ($150) Head to Head against my friend The Zinger, now tied 8 games a piece. Winner this week gets the cash! ESPN: WINNER'S BRACKET ROUND 1 (WK 14 - WK 15) #4 Thepuppetmaster 182 #1 Kingston Irie Ites 164 #3 berks county redrod 192 #2 PowerDominators 207 ROUND 2 (WK 16 - WK 17) Championship #4 Thepuppetmaster #2 PowerDominators Sports Illustrated/Facebook Quarterfinal 1 saints are underrated vs BYE Quarterfinal 4 Sea-Gals vs 5 Zillionz Om Quarterfinal 3 team Xtreme vs 6 Power Dominators Quarterfinal 2 D-Lions vs BYE Semifinal 1 saints are underrated vs 5 Zillionz Om Semifinal 6 Power Dominators vs 2 D-Lions Championship 1 saints are underrated vs 6 Power Dominators Lets hope for a good week for The Big Man! OK, now it is time for the first stop on the California Tour, The Oakland Zoo! Hope you enjoy and I hope your ducky guess advanced you! Peace, Big Mike ... would have won if only you found the FIFTH ducky hiding in the 2nd bird's mouth!!! FIVE DUCKIES is the correct answer!!!! Congrats to Traincrossing and Team Thriller for making it to the CHAMPIONSHIP round!!!! Hope you enjoyed! Peace, Big Mike PS - Go Power Dominators!!! This ducky is INCORRECT too! Still at four duckies! SO everyone who guessed FOUR duckies.... This ducky is INCORRECT, still at 4 duckies. Ducky #4 is correct. Ducky #3 is correct. Ducky #2 is correct. Ducky #1 is correct. The nice part about this place is that you did not have to pay for a zoo enterance fee to ride the rides, but could still see the giraffes! Could not see any duckies though, but here are a few I saw on the last trip report coming up. Some other rides at the park: Credit #725 for Big Mike! The drop. I sat on the "larger" side. It looked so exciting I ran right over to get tickets! .. and this second spiral. The ride consists of this first spiral... The train. There is the tiger! Here is a closer look. Overview of the track. It is hard to see with all the trees in the way, but at least there are no people in the way! The Tiger Coaster! The Oakland Zoo!

Is it me or is $19 for a zoo pretty high?? Maybe I am just out of touch lol. Peace, Big Mike

Hi Friends!!! The Official Find The Ducky Quarter Finals Answer will be posted tonight, along with the first stop on the California swing of The Big Mike Road Show 2008! Still waiting for someone to post the correct amount of duckies and thier EXACT locations Peace, Big Mike

^ Looking at the picture with your girlfriend, you are doing just fine my friend Thanks for the Holiday wishes everybody! Peace, Big Mike

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!! The entire crew here at Big Mike Productions, The Big Mike Hotel, The Big Mike Road Crew, and Big Mike World Headquarters wishes you and your family a wonderful holiday season and a terrific 2009!!!! Big Mike himself wishes all the friends that he has met along the way on The Big Mike Road Show and the Super Valuable Big Mike Readers the best holiday season ever and a tremendous 2009 with lots of new coasters and meet ups!!!! Love to all, Big Mike Praying for another successful year of coaster riding and friendship making!

Thanks Sue!! Nice to see you are having fun Tigger Terror was one of 3 coasters I missed at Wild Adventures, this should make it easier to collect the credit!! Peace, Biug Mike