FLIPDUDE
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Originally I meant for htis to be a Midwest trip thread but then I figured this can apply to anyone and any coaster photo.
Well, for those of you who make photo TRs or just plain take pictures at amusement parks, what are your favourite photos which you took?
Here I posted a couple of mine fromt he Midwest trip, which mostly turned out great because of the weird "sometimes-disposable-camera-photos-turn-out-better-than-digital-ones" effect.
INCOMING!!!
I love how unrealistic this picture looks for some reason.
Dispatch on Avalanche
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I gotta say, I was amazed iwth Robb's crowd control skills on the trip. If there was a busy conversation and he asked for everyone's attention, within 5 seconds all you could hear was crickets. When he asked us to form a line we were a big mess of people, 15 seocnds later we're standing in two neat rows.
Or maybe I'm just not used to all that seeing as I just graduated from high school, where stuff like that never happens
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I want to edit my midwest video footage but my camera encodes videos as .mov , my only video editing program is Windows movie maker which only opens windows movie files (.AVI, .mpeg, etc.)
I tried googling for a good free .move to .avi converter but all of the ones I find are trial versions who only save %50 of the movie unless you buy them.
Does anybody know of either a good, full, free .mov to .avi/.mpeg program or at least a good program in which I can edit .mov files?
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Please. Someone edit that and add Benny Hill music. Please.
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^How was that the worse? Didn't you ride T2, mean streak, son of beast etc?
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Am I the only one who enjoyed Iron Wolf?
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^Ouch, man, total missout.
We had southaprk on the bus too, actually
The McD's and White Castle were right across the street from each other but it took me like 15 minutes to get from one to the other because the road had absolutely no traffic lights and very busy traffic.
I tried White Castle for the first time, didn't really like it. Got me some stuff at the K mart and 7 11 and went back.
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Ho... ly... s***! Those are AMAZING man!!! Such detail! Wow!!! You should be working at a real coaster company!
I saw that first design and thought ot myself "heh, that looks like a hybrid between storm runner and italian job", then I scroll down and see the car design XD
Oh wow, dude, if you have any more I would LOVE to see!
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Awsome TR, Will! I love tha thalf the time your description shows exactly what I was thinking at the time(like the lazy river remindimng me of the RCT rapids and basically every other RCT comment you made)
Lol, you're also the only person to have taken a picture of fascination form the other side of the building. You can see me sitting out and eatingm dippin dots
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^You are really talented, dude! Do you put your art skills to a more practical use(such as work, making graphics for stuff, or whatnot)?
something I drew on the midwest trip which I scanned and colored in photshop
A character from the same series
A character of mine from another comic strip
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Oh man, dude, this has got to be one of my favourite updates of any TRs to date! You captured the park so well, bothin your pictures and your descriptions! I also like that the TR was long as opposed to some "five photo TRs" out there.
Very good job!
If you have some extra time on your hands I'd love it if you could send me unuploaded IB pics? Its my favourite park on the trip but since my camera was broken I didn't get no pictures in it.
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^ Ouch, that mustve been really painful!!! I rode WITH the darn things and my onride photo shows me in sheer pain.
And thanks! I know that I'm much of a bigger fan of PTRs than the regular type, and I didn't want to make the TR uninteresting so I just hijacked some photos and drew some. But dont worry, I got disposable cameras on the way to the next park, little a-merrik-a
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Next up: Possibly my favourite park on the trip(only comparable to Holiday World with the awsome service there included)...
INDIANA BEACH!
Since you're awsome enought o ber eading my TR, you get a "sneak peek" at a yet unposted lil' robby rob comic!
Well, this is what happened once we got off the highway...
You'd think once oyu get off the freeway that means you're close to the park, no?
Well, no. We had to drive through HALF AN HOUR OF CORN.
NOTHING but corn.
That is after having ridden through nothing but corn on the freeway all the way form Louisville!
To which we got to through... Take a wild guess.
Corn!!!
I don't relaly get to see corn fields very often but at some point on the trip I thought if I was gonna see another corn field I would pop. But now that I'm back form the trip thinking of the corn fields gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Taken from the official TR at http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437328#437328
Me sleeping on the bus(2 rows behind Ryan). You can't see it in a static picture but my head is going "Thunk!... Thunk!... Thunk!..."
Well, after riding through 4 hours worth of corn(and about 5 seconds of Indianapolis) we get to this little town-like area. I try to find any resemblence between the houses I see and hte houses on the TV show "Close to home". Little is found.
Well, there's little more exciting on a coaster trip than the first sight of an amusement park. But even though we've been seeing signs for Indiana Beach(and a couple for Holiday World) and we were already in the town, Indiana Beach is nowehre in sight.
Next thing you know, it drops out of the sky and we're there.
Just popped out of nowhere. We couldn't see it untill we were at the gates.
Indiana Beach was the park I was most excited to visit, I would soon learn that that was not in vein.
Picture taken from official TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437328#437328
We got off the buses and went through the gate that looked like the entrance to a community pool. Jus tthis little tube fence-type thing.
Picture taken from the official TR(Chris shown in pic):
http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437328#437328
They stopped us on the lawn and deivded us into two single file rows. They gave us brochures and keychains and ponchos and wristbands and pretty much everything except maps.
Picture taken from Evan's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38420&start=10
Picture taken from Evan's TR:
http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38420&start=10
We were then walked by a staff member across IB's EXTREMELY KICKASS suspension bridge, which I had really hoped we'd get to cross.
It started raining slightly, but not anything ominous, just a drizzle.
Picture taken from rcdb.com: http://www.rcdb.com/ig270.htm?picture=3
Had an amazing view of the park.
Picture taken from rcdb.com: http://www.rcdb.com/ig741.htm?picture=1
Now, even though the last two pics are taken from RCDB, and are probably old, I doubt anything is different about the park now. That's what's beautiful in Indiana Beach, I don't care if they were announcing a terracoaster, I would not want them to touch a THING int hat park. It's so beautiful and impressive as it is!
Well as we reach the park itself I see that we're still elevated, and we're actually walking across a bridge that goes both over AND under Hoosier Hurricane, and does all sorts of odd manouvers tog et down to the midway. It was like something out of RCT. I knew right then and there I was gonna love this park(Architecture nerd. I like things to be stacked).
Well they were leading us towards a gorup photo in front of Cornball, but we all stopped for a bathroom break and then everybody split up and there was awhole mess, long sotry short there was no group photo.
We were in apark path that was prett ymuch completely covered by Cornball and Hoosier, just looming overhead, as if coasters are supposed to float. It as pretty amazing. Especially considering Cornball's station is waaay up int he air and you have to climb this tall staircase to get to it.
Well, since I was sitll waiting for everyone to arrive for the group photo(Silly me), me and a couple other people(Can't remember if its freddie, max, both, or someone else), went and rode the Flyers.
Photo taken from Evan's TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38420&start=10
They were flying over water! It was so cool!!! I don't even know if other people consider it to be as cool as I do, btu the entire park's layout was kickass.
It was then time for Cornball. I climbed up the steep steep tall stairs to get up.
Now, having my "Front seat is always better" blown clear outta the water by Voyage, I figured I'd go straight for the back on Cornball.
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Riding Cornball
Well, I get in the back car , front row(No axel seats for me ) with Max(Hmm, maybe that's who I was on the flyers with), Shawn and Anthony are behind us(according to the onride photo. My memory sucks).
The train departs and it does not take any tim before hte track shows very low clearance and crazy layoutness. Even before you get to the top of the lift you pass like 4 headchoppers and a criss-cross with Hoosier's lift.
Image taken from RCDB: http://www.rcdb.com/ig741.htm?picture=6
The traint hen starts it's drop and it's crazy right form the start as I get swooped around the turn and get airtime at the same time.
The entire ride is absolute CRAZYNESS, airtime from here to Dakota.
The ride is rough, but it's not the bad kind of rough, it's the good, wooden-coasters-are-supposed-to-feel-like-this-even-though-this-one's-made-of-steel kinda rough.
It goes through scaffoldings, and Hoosier's support structure(they actually share supports), and pretty much everything that CAN be gone through.
But what was the craziest was that after the helix theres a tiny little dip, and then a tiny little uphill slope, and you expect another tiny dip to follow but instead there's a huge drop that Yanks you down. It was crazy(It would later prove to be crazier, read on and find out why).
When it came to the brakes I knew I jsut rode an awsome coaster.
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Now, I'm rpetty sure this didn't happen right away but I don't remember when it did happen so I'll put it here:
Well, at some point Freddie told me that he rode int hef ront and the front has way more airtime, I decided I have to try this and rode.
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My 2nd ride on Cornabll -AKA - THE RIDE THAT ALMOST LEFT ME AS A SMUDGE ON HOOSIER!
Well, I get in, and I don't knwo if oyu knwo this but Cornball has two sets of restraints - one is the lap bars, which arekinda like a non-inverting pirate ship lap bars. Meaning they pretty much stay 3ft away from you in every direction. And each seat has little airplane type seatbelts.
Well, I get in, and the ride goes. During the ride I realize "WHOA!!! This DOES have a whole lot more airtime!!!" as I'm pretty much getting sucked out of my seat.
The entire time I'm feeling somehting between my knees but I ignore it. Halfway through I check it out... And realize my seatbelt is unbuckled.
I freak out. I'm on na airtime monster and my seatbelt is gone.
Well, my brain quickly realizes that if I start trying to buckle it while riding theres a good chance I'll get ejected before I manage to get the thing closed, so instead I just hang on to the front of the car and scream my head off "MY BELT'S UNBUCKLED!!! MY BELT'S UNBUCKLED!!!", partially so if I do get ejected nobody dares to balme it on rider supidity(though thinking back I think I forgot to buckle it, doesn't seem likely it just unbuckled itself. so yeah, it would of been my fault ).
But then I see that we're reaching the end of the helix, and I know what this means... The airtime drop. I knew that if ANY part of the ride was gonna do me in that was it. So I held on to the front of the car and screamed my ass off.
But I guess soemwhere I knew nothign was gonna happen because I had a smile on my face the whole time.
After that I realized there is NO greater thrill than the thrill of REAL terror on a coaster.
As the coaster hit the brakes I had this shocked, shakey, maniacal, terrified smile on my face and as we rolled into the station I jus theld up my unbuckled seatbelts and screamed "MY SEABELT UNBUCKLED!!!"
I don't really remember what happened next.
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Well, more coming up some other time, I'm tired.
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^It depends of how extensive the section on track is.
Splash mountain and Dudley do right's is simply an uphill slope. You might as well call any shoot the chute ride a coaster if you're gonna go according to that.
Dive to Atlantis has a lift hill that is chain-based, like a coaster, not conveyor belt based like a log flume, 2 turns, 2 drops and an uphill slope.
If you think about it, kiddie coasters and the older dive coasters dont have a whole lot more track than that, if at all.
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Is too a credit.
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^Oh my goodness.
And no, that's way off from my idea.
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^ Lol, That actually gave me an idea.
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^Well I see you live in Cincinatti so hwo about calling the park and telling them about it? It's a local call
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^Oh yes, after Indiana Beach I started buying disposable cameras by the truckload. (excluding the very expensive PKI where a $7.99 camera ost twenty bucks.)
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LOL! Hillarious trip report, Robb! Looks relaly awsome out there! Are you guys still on the trip or did you come back already?
I would like to see more detailed reviews though in terms of how good is a coaster, like that jupiter one but I can wait for the unofficial TRs
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Lol, nice TR, but I think it might be alittle too short... You copuld hardly see any bit of the park.
Also, is it jsut me or would nobody handslap that guy on ANY ride? I think he got denied on Rumbler too.
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^Did you talk to people in the park? I found their "hold on" policy to be rather bizzare.
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^Ah, okay, cool! That must explain why I remembered seeing the fudges earlier than the ERT session.
And whats a good way to finish my TR? I'm only at Beech Bend O_o
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^Lol, dare I ask?
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^Hey, that's awsome! Congrats!