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New comics posted! And keep in midn theres one or two comics fluttering around my photo TR at http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38255 which are yet to have been posted here.

Holy cow! How steep is that first drop?!

^Lol, that's why I said it's no big deal... But we're totally veering off topic here.

^Either I don't understand the question or there isn't a roll o plane that doesn't tilt. All I know is I was tossed aroudn quite a bit.

^Lol, it wasn't a lack of updates. What I meant was that only a few minutes after I posted the update the thread was already at the bottom of the forum page, but no worries, it's no biggie Though it would seem less and less people are updating their TRs, while we're on the subject.

Golly, sure didn't take long for this thread to croak... =\ Might as well post the little A-Meriik-A pics already. And yes, I HAVE PICS! OF MY OWN! WOOHOO! This time I tried to decrease their size a little less, so let me know if they're too big. LITTLE A-MERRIK-A We all stopped in the big truckstop in the sky. I had never seen a truckstop, let alone one hanging over the highway. But there were plenty of them wherever we went. That is when I bought a disposable camera as my dad suggested. We left on our way to our UBER SUPER SECRET SURPRISE BONUS PARK, at some point Robb and/or Elissa announced the UBER SUPER SECRET SURPRISE BONUS PARK was oging to be Little A-Merrik-A. Which was pretty cool, even though some people already figured out that that was going tobe our UBER SUPER SECRET SURPRISE BONUS PARK. Over the course of the bus ride Elissa did not stop saying UBER SUPER SECRET SURPRISE BONUS PARK. It was funny. Robb told us he has good news and bad newsa nd asked us which we wanted to hear first. Everyone shouted together "BAD NEWS" He said "Well, the bad news is that Meteor, the park's new coaster, won't open untill next week..." And everyone went "Awwwwww..." Then he said "...And the good news is we get to have a "SNEAK PREVIEW"!" (He said something else but we were asked to use the term "Sneak preview". And everyone went "YAAAAY!!!" Well, we arrive at the park, who's entrance looks nothing like a park. It's basically a little wooden bridge. At best it looks like an entrance to a restaurant. But it really gave it that cozy small town feel. The park's parking lot was on the grass and the park itself was on concrete. Like Beech Bend. Go figure. First was our "sneak preview" on Meteor. I rode in the 2nd row of the first train, righ tbehind Robb and Elissa(Robb once again turned his video camera around which made me self-concious, but I was just happy to be in the DVD). That was completely kickass. The ride is as smooth as a baby's bottom. I could not BELEIVE how smooth it is. I had no idea wooden costers could BE that smooth. I honestly have a hard time imagining what Balder is like, seeing as I didn't know woodies could be that smooth. If you'll look ariound you'll see that it doesn't even have the same color on the track itself as regular woodies, that's because it hasn't been worn in yet. Problem is, because it's not very tall, it's rediculously smooth, and has no airtime, it was probably the most BORING coaster I have ever ridden. I have ridden Big Apple coasters that were more thrilling. But the fun of knowing we got a "sneak preview" of it totally made up for that. Also, since we were only allowed to ride it once, they let each train go around twice, which was pretty kickass of the park! Next up was the Toboggan. Apparantly this was the first Toboggan ever. I had never ridden a Toboggan before and was both excited and scared. Not of the layout, but moreso of getting beat up by an inanimate object. After waiting a loooong itme in line, even though I was on the first train of Meteor(Keep in mind that we were 100 people in a park that looks like it had maybe 20 people in it on average), I climbed into the car(Which I had to duck in order to fit into, and my head was totally smooshed against the padding on the roof of the car) the train started going up the vertical lift, which was pretty wacky. Robb compared it to "Missile Silo - the ride" and he's definately got a point. It then goes into the megahelix, which was actually alot of scary scary fun! And then all heck breaks loose as the car dips and twists its way to the station. This was followed by alot of cartoony sound effects. Both by the ride and myself. Next I headed over to the Wild Mouse when I saw Robb standing on top of Meteor. That was weird. Looking at this picture now kind of reminds me of Indiana Beach. Go figure. Ah yes, the Wild Mouse. As you can see int his pic, Casey fit. I had never been on a Wild Mouse of this sort before. Waiting in line I could tell a couple thing sby looking at the ride: 1) The control panel was an antique. They were operating the ride with bigass metal switches. Who had to be constantly operated(they were in charge of brakes, too) 2) The big "drop" and turn were fun 3) The dip before hte brakes is completely nuts. I remember at some point the ride op strayed to talk to someone and someone's car almost overshot the brakes and took a crazy hairpin into an occupied station, but the ride op realized it in time and urshed over to turn on the brakes. I rode. The ride was deliciously weird and fun, adn the last dip leaves you thinking "WTF was that?!" Uhm. Ferris wheel. Huzzah. Next up I headed to the last credit - The Kiddy Coaster of Death. Seriously, does that thing actually have a name or does it jsut go by TKCoD now? I had alot of hard time finding it. Despite the fact the park is pretty much a scale model of a real park. Despite being about 2ft long, the layout still managed to surround an enitre zone in the park. That's because the rides in ti were pretty much miniatures. So much contrediction. This is like the only coaster I got a POV shot of. I didnt remember what parks it was okay to shoot on the ride in and Robb said in some parks you shouldn't even ask, so I rathered jsut not shoot POVs than get me and Robb into trouble. I think this time Robb told me to ask. Just in case you've been living under a rock(oh my gosh I jsut realized how inappropriate that is), this is why it's called the Kiddy Coaster of Death. It wwas completely and utterly morbid and weird. I in fact tried not to scream on the coaster because I didn't want to be disrespectful. Someone said, and I don't remember if htis was at the park on in a TR something along the lines of: "Alright Timmy, we paid respects to grandpa, now lets go ride the ferris wheel!" Jokes aside, though, the coaster was pretty CRAZY! It really kicks you up and down and forward and back, and pretty much every other train overshot the brakes. How come it's the kiddy coasters whoa re always the nuttiest? The parks skyline. Next up I headed for the tri-rail monorail. The parking lot. Compare this to pictures of the park itself. The ride op on the monorail had some problem with the way the other ride op was handling things, but they were on opposite sides of the station(it's a long station) so he couldn't tell him. He told me I shouldn't leave the park without riding the railroad. This made me really want to ride it. But when I asked later how long is the railroad I was told it's like 20 minutes. Sadly we did not have neough time.(Did I mention we were only in the park for an hour and a half?) The tri-rail had some pretty good views of the park and showed me rides I didn't even realize were there. I then went and rode the... Uuh... Test pilot thing... I don't remember what you call the kind of ride... not loop-o-planes, something similar, only it spins. I didn't know what to expect, I had never so much as seen one of them before. I figured it would be a reallly fun ride. I sat backwards, as the rid eop recommended. THAT RIDE IS INSANE I honestly have no idea what a ride like that is doing at a kiddy park. It was one of the weirdest, widest, most fun, thrilling rides I've been on the entire trip! You honestly can't tell how crazy it is by looking at it! Also, I rode alone, and apparantly, if you ride alone, you get tossed around the gondola a LOT, I actually had to keep breaking my own fall onto the walls or I would of gotten seriously hurt! Safety regulations anyone? Despite the fact it's really not a hard ride to get hurt on, I came out safe and sound and exhillirated. That ride rocked. I then played Dare Golf with Anthony(I lost and had to eat a handful of flaming hot cheetos at once), and we all got back on the buses and headed over to Mt. O. When we got there, every 2ft had either a water park, amusement park, a weirdass building, or a hotel that had one of the above. Right from the get go you could see the Dells was going to be a kickass town. And indeed it was. More on that later

By the way, I wanted to mention, these comics will be eventually poste dont he lil robby rob thread along with others which I am yet to have drawn, but you guys are getting sneak peks

Awsome TR Looking forward to Timber Falls.

^Heheh, I actually think that might be less frustrating. I kept getting buzzed out at 4 lights in a row and 5th on the way.

I never saw those custom rides before, where'd you get those?

After watching the POV I gotta say... ...And I don't mean this as a joke... ...But seriously, it really does look like an AQUATRAX. There, I said it.

PLEASE NOTE: MY MEMORY OF HTE DAY IS REALLY SCRAMBLED, AND I DON'T HAVE PICS OF MY OWN FROM THAT DAY TO HELP ME TIMELINE, SO I MIGHT MIX UP THE ORDER OF THINGS. ---------------------------- RIDING HOOSIER So next up was the turn of Hoosier Hurricane. I climbed up to the station(Just walking aroudn the park was like being in a giant Jungle Gym) Picture from Will's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 Well, the station had zero line(much like every other ride in the park for the rest of the day, it was awsome, especially since it was too hot to be waiting in line) so I went and got in the front car, I think? Robb had the front row so I sat behind him. During the ride he turned his camera back so it showed me and Max. This made me very self-concious all thorugh the ride and I couldn't really scream so I just kept going "Woo!!!". The ride starts out very awsome(I'm reffering to the first drop), then there's a really sudden turn that really kicks you sideways. The track then dips under the bridge you walk into the park on(so cool) and it goes about it's course, going over the mini golf course, next to the ferris wheel(they come REALLY close to each other, it's really awsome!) and then come a bunch of mediocre floater airtime bumps untill the ride ends. It was a nice ride with a couple of sudden turns that kcik you around wiht surprise latreals. I rode it twice the entire day, but Cornball was definately the superior of the two. Picture from http://www.rcdb.com/ig270.htm?picture=1 I really liked the pre-drop. Don't know why. Picture from http://www.coastergallery.com/2003/IB09.html This is my favourite part on Hoosier. Not because of the way it feels but because it goes over like 2-3 different rides and goes REALLY close to the ferris wheel, which is a really imprssive sight. -------------------------------------------- Well, after that(or before that ) me and Max went to ride Tig'rr. I found this coaster to be really awosme since it's built on TOP of a restraunt and surrounded by Cornball. Waiting in line Max kept repeating how awosme the first turn looks. I couldn't help but agree. A couple girls we were standing in line with of asked if we were riding alone and then his catchphrase changed to "Dude, those girls totally wanted to ride with us." At some point we realized the coaster almost vallied because a bunch of.. Uh... larger TPR men rode together. Sadly, I missed it. Well, we got in the train and the ride started. It was a very very fun ride. Especially the first turn and the helix. The fac the ride had no seatbelts was both awosme nad also kinda reminded me of hte coaster at my home park. me and Max then headed towards the midway boardwalk type thing(Nothing is just a plain ANYTHING in IB. Everything is either a combination of two things or somehow weird.) where the pirate show was running. Lots of stuntment taking high dives and explosions. IT was pretty awsome, but I didn't recall there being people riding jet skis while on fire in pirate times. We satched for a while and then Max pointed out the skycoaster that was over the water. We hunted down methos, who had a video camera and went to ride with someone else. I don't remember who. I was really scared, I had never been on a skycoaster up to that point. --------------------------------------- RIDING THE SKYCOASTER They strapped us in and got us standing on a platform. They made us do alot of weird instructions(hold this bar... let go of it... put your feet in front of the bar... behind the bar... assasinate the president... shake it all about...) but then came a part that I gotta say, despite the ride being really scary was still scarier than the ride itself. While we were holding some bar, and attached to the cable they told us: "Now fall forward" We all looked at them in a "Say whaaa?" kinda look. Especially because we're holding the bar so we can't really break our fall. But then did just that. We fell forward and the cable stopped us like two inches off the ground. It was really really scary. And then the ride started. I was soooo scared. We went up and up and up. I was firghtened. Then the guy we rode with pulled the cord and we went flying. SO. MUCH. FUN. I was scared as heck during the first couple of swings but I was loving it. The fact it's all built over water really adds to the effect, you're really flying over the water. I never did understand how a ride that doesnt og vertical have weightlessness moments, though, but I really did feel weightless on that ride. --------------------------------------------------- picture from http://www.rcdb.com/ig460.htm?picture=17 Then came the turn of LoCoSuMo We waited in line but I think then it broke. so fast forward to later(like I said, I don't remember the timeline of the day), we rode it. Picture from http://www.coastergallery.com/2003/IB19.html I knew that this was supposed to be a big "WTF" coaster. As you can see in the picture it's not very tall(This is practically it's entire height, top to bottom) but it was supposed ot be very unique. --------------------------------------------- RIDING LoCoSuMo We get into the clhaustrophobic cars sitting backwards(if you ride it, you must start by riding backwards and NOT LOOKING BEHIND YOU.) and the ride goes. pic from http://www.rcdb.com/ig460.htm?picture=18 The train then went up it's trademark elevator lift. In the pic you cans ee it's close proximity to the chairlift and Hoosier. The ride goes. The train is tilting and bumping and rolling all over the place. I have NEVER felt a coaster do what LoCoSuMo does. Best way to describe it is a kiddy coaster gone haywire. then it reaches the big drop and turnaround into the mountain. The car gos through tunenls and turns and whatnot. Sometimes it goes REALLY slowly but it does tight enough elements to make you not notice it(kinda like a wildmouse) It was an awsome ride. When we rode it later that day they turned on alot of effects that weren't on before. On the lift there was a skeleton figure sitting in a mine car saying "That lift doesnt look veyry safe, heck, I'md ead and I wouldn't ride it! Oh, and watch out for the bear!" I think at this point EVERYONE, including people who already rode were thinking "What bear?" Now, while the ride was very fun, the entire time everyone were trying to find the bear. and sure enough, before one of the last turns there was a really plastic looking stuffed figure of a bear standing pointlessly next to the track holding... a mardi gras necklace. It was random and cheap and stupid but everyone including me LOVED it. It actually made the ride better. ----------------------------------------------------------- It was boiling hot the entire day. I mean REALLY boiling hot, it was in the 100s, and I was sweating BULLETS. I mean, I live in a city on the shores of the mediterranian sea and I didnt remember sweating so much ever. Taken form Will's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 But then came lunch time in the awsome awsome skyboxroomthing that hangs directly over the arcade. We all gathered in the air conditioned restraunt and ate. While I love IB, I really do, the food selection was terrible. The food itself was okay, there just wasn't much of a good choice. Taken from the official TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437328#437328 It did amuse me to all of a sudden see Terrance and his posse wearing these for no apparant reason, though. I don't know why but it amused me that they also served corn. I spent alot of the day playing mini golf with Sean and Wanda. I loved that the course was under the ferris wheel, through the railroad and inside Hoosier Hurricane's turnaround(which was very distracting, but in a good way). While playing all of a sudden we saw a guy on fire riding a jet ski next to us, then jumping with it and actually dipping it INTO the water somehow to extinguish himself. Gotta chart that up as one of the weirder awsomer things I've seen. It was the guy on fire from the stunt show. At some point in the day I also went to ride Galaxi. Its a very big Pinafari coaster strangled by waterslides. Photo from http://www.coastergallery.com/2003/IB07.html Having a pinafari overload where I live I knew the best place to ride was in the back. And indeed the ride was AWSOME in the back car. I rode it later in the front and it was really just "meh". I think I didn't realize it was bigger than the model in my home park untill I was actually on the ride. At some point I was trying to convince Sean to come ride Hoosier with me but he got addicted to some stupid game and kept saying "just one more go".(It wasn't even Fascination!) That's when I started seeing why he had the reputation he did on the Arrow bus. I got pissed at him and went to ride it myslef, but on the way I saw the log flume and rode it. It was quaint. Kinda had a trailer-mounted feel to it even though it wans't. The tunnels were FULL of gum stuck to the walls. Image from WillMontus' TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 I wans't holding on to anything so after the drop the boat stopped REALLY suddenly(kinda like in RCT3) and I hit my hand on the front of the log. For the next couple of days I would have trouble bending my fingers O_o. The last paragraph was pretty much the only nasty part about IB, and it's not even IB's fault. Later that day I got me some dippin' dots and headed where everyone was oging - the fascinaiton parlour. I never even heard of Fascination, let alone played it. Everyone went straight for the game but I originally sat out ,finished my dippin' dots, and had fun with KT and Casey's Harem. Which is why I'm only in a couple of photos.(you can see us sititng in the back) Fscination fricken RULES but it totally drained me of a LOT of money! Very risky! Basically you roll a ball into a wooden platofrm that has 25 holes in it, and as the ball goes in, a light goes up on the wall showing where the ball went in. If you get 5 holes lit up in a row the game goes "BZZT" and you win. But this keeps happening: Late at night we had ERT on Cornball and LoCoSuMo. I rode cornball in the front again. While this time my belt didn't unbuckle, it did strech so much it went past the lapbar. I came into the station completley frightened and warned the kid after me not to ride there. It started raining just as ERT was about to end so we all started heaidng back. We could hear thunder and we knew a big storm was-a-brewin'. This is the same storm that would terrorize us in CP a couple days later. It was truly an awosme day at an awsomer park. And it was really beautiful going back to the buses through the empty, middle-of-the-night lit-up fantasyland that is IB. Some things that need to be mentioned hat didnt make it into the TR: -The double shot tower had CRAAAAZY airtime. It launches you down, and then you go up and it lasunches you down harder. Amazing fun. -The ferris wheel is OVER the midway. How cool is that? -The entire day "Knock on wood" by The Mighty Mighty Bostons was playing in my ehad because it was Indiana Beach's song in Robb's 2001 coaster videos. Photo taken from Will's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 -The waterpark had a lazy river that looks like it can be bought in Toys R' Us. It really did look like the river rapids ride from RCT1, and had hairpin turns. It was an out-and-back layout that was really smooshed together. Also, it wa sbuilt over water. A lazy river OVER water. Something just doesn't sound right there. -You can sitll see Locosumo's old track which is kind of weird yet awsome Picture from Will's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 -Me, Will, Roob, and a bunch of toher people all rode the antique cars(wich, by the way, go up and down and all around) together and kept stopping and stalling htem so we can take pictures. Picture from WIll's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=457075#457075 -Max kicked my ass in DDR. -There was a hotel like RIGHT UP to the skyride queue. I mean if you're athletic enough you might be able to make the jump to one of the balconies. I gotta find out the name of that hotel and stay there next time I'm there. -The entire place's arhcitecture was jsut amazing. -The park is so cramped that hte railroad track actually has to split up, turn around, and go back over itself. I. LOVE. INDIANA. BEACH. Also, good news, after IB I started buying disposable cameras, meaning FROM THE NEXT UPDATE AND ON I DON'T HAVE TO STEAL PICTURES! YAAAAY!

That's weird, I was sure I alreayd commented. Well I jsut wanted to say that osme of the Mt. O pics were REALLY pretty! Like, better than stuff you'd see in a brochure! Good job!

very awsome! The first picture really took me bysurprise with how cool it looked. Layout is awsome and you cans ee you put alot of effort into the supports, which look awsome. I did not hwoever like the supports sticking out from the track. I would rather see the track hover slightly above them rather than going through. Awsome work!

Awsome TR You had some REALLY good shots up there! good job

Am I the only one who went "Awwwww!" upon seeing the kidtums #1 sign picture? So cute!!! And yes, Kristen truly is wonderful, she was always so cute on the Midwest trip, hardly creid at all, and the few times she did it wouldn't be long before she'd stop. She was sooo cute at the airport too. I made her smile or laugh or something Robb and Elissa told me along time ago they planned for the railway to be her first credit, but it's still so cool that it all worked out and everything

^Oy, tell me about it. Getting off the ride I saw a small child climb into the same seat, I warned him not to ride there.

Then flip over and face DOWN. The restraints go across your chest. Sheesh. ...He's complaining about NOT ENOUGH support on the back. The restraints only support your stomache.

^Lol, were you sitting next to me? I don't remember who was around me at the time. I just rememebr that it was one of the most fun rides of my life. Who knew that actually fearing for your life could be so much fun? Though I would iamgine this to be one of, if not the only situation in which that applies.

LOL! Cool TR! I love the picture of Anthony on the Wild Mouse

Heh, homer, if I remember correctly the problem with T2 wasn't so much the shoulder restraints, it was more of the strap that goes between your legs. Which is an awfully inconvenient location for it considering the ride keeps suddenly stopping and accelerating over and over again.

^What do you mean "if he is out"? Anyway, tha tlooks extremely cool! You can also tell he learned alot from building blue flash. Blue too looks alot more proffessional.Kinda reminds me a little of those old kiddie coasters. I would love to ride his coasters someday. I think this guy has the only backyard that can be considered a "bonus park" on a coaster trip. Tomi "He inspired me to want to build a coaster in my backyard but sadly I live in the middle of the big city and have neighbours" Zandshtein

Very awsome! I never saw photos of the complete blue too, last I saw it only had the lift and first drop. It looks pretty fun! However I am confused at the part where you said you introduced yourselves... Did you just show up at his doorstep and ask to see the coasters? I would iamgine he wouldn't show them to just anyone? What am I missing here? Eitehr way it is very very cool. I'm surprised to hear he live in Indiana. I don't know why but for some reason a part of me remembered somethign about him being Australian. Ah well.

^^^I think your arms aren't spposed to go that far back on a coaster anyway. Also, what ever happened ot that lap bar design that was announced a while back?

^^Really? So it wansn't me! My belt DID unbuckle! Or at least now that's a pluasible explanation! Oh, and I didn't realize you were reading odd signs out loud... =\ in fact I originalyl meant to draw myself int he comic but your MSN name inspired me to place you there instead. (The riding through the corn fields line) ^mcjaco, not that I think it IS amazing i'm continuing the TR without photos of my own but if you're trying to imply something do keep in mind I credit every TR and website from which each picture is taken with a directly given link. I just know that experiences are emphasised alot better with pictures