Erik Johnson

Welcome to the web site. If you are looking for good parks to visit I suggest you look at the other members TR (Trip Reports). You can find them in this forum as well as the Past TR forum. There are plenty of great park videos you can check out on this site as well. Have fun!

I know this isn't the topic of this post, but what is a furry? I must have not watched that CSI episode yet.

Dang it....we will not be able to join you this weekend. I wish we could though

Im sure we could get a Florida group together for Sept. It would have to be a weekend for us though...we work Mondays-Fridays. We will just do BGT though, we didn't care much of Cypress Gardens...maybe once they add a few more coasters.

Hello...could you change mine? Welcome to The Swamp, home of the Fighting Gators. Many thanks!

If you ever go to Busch Gardens, do you get to get in free?

Yes if you sit in the back car front seat of the Ninja at SFOG..the ride is actually quite fun.

After playing Yahoo Grafitti tonight. Maybe the next theme can be drawings of our favorite rides in the "Yahoo Grafitti" style.

Did you do this while you have been sick?

Wow..you have some really nice TR pictures there. I really want to go to Disneyland Paris sometime.

While I do like the new game systems. I still bring out and play my older systems from time to time. (I wish my Commodore 64 still worked). Its funny how I have my Xbox connected to our wide-screen TV with the Atari Collection game disc currently in the system. (Yeah, Adventure at 1080i). The Sega Dreamcast is connected to the other TV at the moment with Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (Eat my IOA line up (Hulk, Spiderman, and Dr Doom Mr. Computer)). I think that Halo 1 has really stood up very well these past few years....and my wife Leanne (as well as do I) love puzzle games (Metoes anyone?) but for some reason I keep going back to playing those old sprite games.

Rock N Roller Coaster at MGM I rode 15times in the matter of a couple of hours. "Make it a super-stretch.." (Let me outta here) It was media day which meant there were very few people in the park. I also rode the Dueling Dragons 16 times in one day (8 times fire, 8 times ice)....You got to love it when the re-ride entrance is open.

Cool, Less than Jake is from my home town (not far from you) Gainesville.

Favorite band has got to be RUSH. I finally got to see them in concert last year during the 30th anniversary tour. They played 2112...how cool was that? For other bands....Tool, Metallica, and Iron Maiden.

Tom Petty (his hometown is my homeown) came through my line early one morning while I was a cashier at Albertson's...same with Bo Diddley (regular shopper at our Albertson's). Other people I have met..they all turned out to be very nice. Gregory Peck Michael Moore Emmitt Smith from the Dallas Cowboys (was a Gator) Gene Simmons from Kiss Lloyd Kaufman from Troma. Steve Carlton (Baseball player from Philly) Kevin Smith Robbie Knievel (sat a few rows behind him on Rock N Rollercoaster at MGM) Oliver Stone Hmmm maybe a few others....

I believe the Q-bot (as well as the Qbot-entrance) was located by the exit of the ride. I am not 100% on this though. It sometimes was difficult to find the Q-bot stations/entrances for some of the rides at SFOG.

I know someone just posted this...but yeah first putt-putt I have ever seen with real water hazards....Very cool. Nice TR as well

Busch Gardens Tampa, Carowinds, and Six Flags Over Georgia. Check out the Photo TR: Johnson's Coaster Vacation which I finally finished.

The day after visiting Six Flags Over Georgia we made the five hour trip back to our home in Gainesville, Florida. lucky for Leanne she was able to play our Nintendo DS on the way back...we love Meteos. Both Paramounts Carowinds as well as Six Flags Over Georgia are recommended parks. Next year we hope to hit Cedar Point as well as some others on the way. In the meantime we should post an occasional TR of some of the great parks less than 2 hours from our home. Again thanks again TPR for all the information which really helped make our trip a good one. --Erik and Leanne Johnson Well the grass is another week longer...boy its starting to get pretty bad. We picked up our Cat Libby before going to our house. She seemed very happy to see us. The first exit on I-75 south that takes us to our home.

Ok...This is my last posting for Six Flags Over Georgia....I just wanted to say we had a really great time at this park. I heard it was a nice park, and it did exceeed our expectations. We will have to go back sometime for a weekend getaway since its only about a 5 hour drive north of here. Maybe next time Mindbender and Deja-Vu will be open. Anways enjoy these last few pictures of Six Flags Over Georgia. The Georgia Scorcher at night. The Georgia Cyclone at night. Leaving Six Flags While we did get to ride Superman a 2nd time...The rain finally came down at around 7:45 that evening. The Bat Logo that is located in the Batman: The Ride loading area.

Ok my yahoo user name will be tpr_erikj. Which section is Graffiti loacted in? I could not find it.

Onto Gotham City where the next two coaster credits await us. We walked by the Gotham Crime Wave swings but we decided to pass on it to go ride The Mindbender. We walked up to the entrance to the Mindbender and noticed something very bad. NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Mindebender was closed for the day! Drat......Anyways we got our time, using our friend the Qbot, for a ride on Batman and walked around Gotham a little. We took ride on the swings, which was a lot of fun then proceeded to go ride Batman. Batman is a great inverted coaster (first Batman coaster I have ridden). It was a lot more intense than expected, especially the 2nd half of the ride. The exit of Batman takes a cue from Disney as it exits right into a gift shop. They had some neat things in there including a toy replica of Kingda Ka. We had lunch at the Panda Chinese place. After lunch we proceeded to use our next reserve time that we got before lunch for the Monster Plantation. The Qbot had us wait...ohhh about 30 seconds before we could load into our boat. I had no idea that this was a water ride, Woot!. Well...not really a woot! It was fun, but you can tell the ride has seen better days. Back to Gotham, where we proceeded to ride Batman 2 more times (it was a walk-on so we did not need the Qbot). The queue area was very nice for Batman (something you miss out on with Qbot). You walk through a nice park until you reached what looked like a run down part of the city. This section of the queue ends up in Batman's Batcave where the coaster loading area is. We had to get a front seat experience, (Qbot did not give us the seating option earlier) which is a must for all inverted coasters. What a great ride. Ok more pictures! Back for some more Batman goodness. Monsters trying to have some fun. I had no idea this was a water ride. The Monster Plantation. The Kingda Ka roller coaster toy. I hope it comes with replacement parts in case something breaks. Batman: The Ride loading area. Batman heading up its chain lift behind Mindbender. At least Batman: The Ride was open. Mindbender was closed!!!! sob. The Gotham Crime Wave swings Onto Gotham City.

Thanks for posting your TR. It looked like you guys had a great time.

Superman Ultimate flight was the coaster that influenced our decision to visit SFOG this trip. I showed a picture to Leanne (yes from TPR) and she said, "Let's go!" Yeah this coaster was really great. For the most part its very graceful, yet it features the intense pretzel inversion. It truly felt like we were flying through the air. After SUF we walked over to Six Flags newest attraction, Skull Island. Skull Island happens to be sponsored by Publix, Leanne's employeer. I was not sure if adults could go and explore Skull Isalnd, but we decided aginst it because we did not feel like getting soaked again. We took a quick and fun ride on the bumper cars before getting our next coaster credit, "The Dahlonega Mine Train." It was an OK mine-train coaster, though it has the highest number of chain lift sections in a coaster I have ever encountered (3). Oops, I forgot Big Thunder at WDW has 3 so never mind. Next was the Great Gasp, one of the classic rides of Six Flags. Six Flags posted the night before our visit that on Aug 14th they are closing The Great Gasp. That is too bad since its a great ride. After The Great Gasp, we decided to get another coaster credit on the newest coaster in the park, Wile E. Coyote Canyon Blaster. While we did go through the Qbot entrance (The exit), the Coyote coaster has to have one of the strangest ride entrances we have ever encountered. You basically walk into a room which reminded me of one of those side rooms you would find in an old bowling alley. It had an arcade as well as a small kiddie flat ride. Notice how well the "Piggy" ride pigs resemble Porky Pig. Very strange. The coaster itself was a little strange as well. The normal line for it was huge...it had to be at least a 60min wait for this thing. The Coyote Canyon coaster only has one train and it did take a few minutes to dispatch between rides. (i.e. a very long wait). The coaster itself was fun but very short. What made it strange was the very beginning of the ride in reaching the first chain lift. It took the coaster at least 30 seconds to go around a short bend from the loading area to reach the chain lift itself. Mind you this really was a short distance for the train to travel. The chain lift "approach" as well as the chain lift itself was longer than the actual coaster. Fun coaster? yes. Worth more than a 5 min wait? Nope. Make sure you use a Qbot on this one. After the Canyon Blaster we took a ride on The Confederate Sky Buckets ride, the shortest sky ride ever. A view of Deja-Vu from The Confederate Sky Buckets. We got to meet Wilie E. Coyote himself. The Wilie E. Coyote Canyon Blaster on its first drop. Check out the line for Wile E. Coyote WOW! The very strange entrance area to the Wile E. Coyote Canyon Blaster coaster. I'm happy our chute opened up! The view from The Great Gasp! Loading area for The Great Gasp! The Great Gasp! The loading area for the Dahlonega Mine Train coaster. Bumper Cars.....yeah fun! Skull Island Superman's coaster train ready for dispatch. Superman's loading area. The bottom of the intense pretzel inversion. Superman Ultimate Flight in Action

Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" or Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"