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^Again, that what makes it weird, and a joke.

Nice TR liked the behind the scenes of a group photo shot XD keep it up!

^Lol, sorry, but I suffer from character overload. I was even thinking hard of should I put MYSLEF in the comics despite actually having been on the Midwest trip. Not to mention now that I started doing Midwest comics there are gonna be awhole lot new characters popping about.

^^theyre all the same one, which doesn't work

^^Well on the picnic grove signs we were stuck at the back?

Awosme TRs, Robb! I really can't wait for the full updates!!! Hopefully some of them will be posted before my recruitment or I'll have to spend my entire free weekend reading them. Also, too bad you didn't ride in the backseat of Tornado, or I am absolutely sure you would not have described it as "a few good pops of airtime". That's kind of an understatement on a Cyclops scale. Max almos tlost his penguin on that ride. You can interpert that any way you want.

WOW! That ride looks CRAZY and SO MUCH FUN! I think "falling star on crack" was a pretty accurate description of it. I'd hit it.

^Lol, pictures of me are scarce but there are a couple of 'em in random TRs(mostly Will's). Problem is in all of them I look either weird, crazy, ugly or sad. Also, there are no pictures here but there are plenty of pictures I took in my TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38255&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 It's kidna lengthy ebcause I tried to really capture the EXPERIENCE in detail and not jsut hte visuals, but if you want you can skip the reading. Help! Poseidon's coming to get me! Despite me looking like a total retard this is still probably one of my favourite shots. I'm so glad they had waterproof disposable cameras. Me and Holidog kickin' it old school. We go way back. Helllooo Henzel... Hellooo Gretle.... Why don't you little sweeties come into my house? I saved this pic with it's caption because it made me smile But no, me and the ride op were not having a "moment". Shut up Dave. One of the few pictures of me looking both happy and halfway normal. Beech Bend. I was extremely bummed that day, having just broken my brand new, super expensive super state of the art camera my dad bought me for the trip. I have the "yeah yeah lets get this over with" expression on my face. But later on my mood did improve. Beech Bend is apparantly that good of a park. Me on T2. Really hard to tell if this is before or after the ride, because I'm looking neutral, Chuck is always smiling anyway, and GCI Joe may be smiling but he's looking down at his crotch so that might be because of some restraint damage.(Hey, I don't judge.) Me at the edge of the table at Coney Island. Looking sad, potentially because this was taken like 10 minutes after I was thrown up on on the rock o planes.(Though actually it didnt really bother me that much at the time, I think it might have been the mountain dew going the wrong way)

Cartoon Jeff says: Howdy y'all! I wasn't on this midwest trip thingy but just wanted to let you all know a new comic is posted! Now if you don't mind I'm going to go get me some Racer action! Bye!

I dreamt this like two or three nights ago, if you were ont he Midwest trip you'd probably find it hillarious. We were at Indiana Beach(though in the dream it didn't relaly look like itself too much) during a beautiful sunny day and as I was walking on some concrete boardwalk clouds started gathering, by the time I get to the midway a storm is raging and a tornado hits. A huge tornado and it starts shredding the park apart, so I yell at people to run and take cover in a shop which I hide in, and when we get there we try to secure the doors as much as possible but the wind is making it really difficult. I'm fairly certain the dream was longer than that I just hardly remember it. It was pretty friggen sweet though, especially considering how I kept thinking a tornado's gonna hit while we were at CP, because there was a storm there that started when we were in Indiana Beach You obviously have not yet heard of my dreams... My dreams are so absolutely insanely weird and bizzare people's only response when I tell them about it is usually "O_o". The dreams shown below are not even half of what my weirder dreams are like. Yes I had a dream like that once, I think it wasnt too logn after watching Waterworld(My dreams tend to be about what happened or what I saw before I went to sleep). I dreamt that the ice caps were melting and my city's gonna be flooded so I had to say goodbye to my pets. That part really really broke my heart. I think I was crying in the dream when I had to do so. In fact I'm getting tears in my eyes just now thinking about it. They had no idea what was going on. We left the house and gathered with the rest of the city on top of a hill as the water level started rising. Which was odd in retrospect because the entire city was only 100 people, when in reality I live iin the 2nd largest city in the country. Now that I think back it also reminds me of an episode of a TV show I saw. Well the water was rising and as it got too flooded to stand we all started swimming in random direcitons towards another continent. And we all knew that out of the 100 of us only one of us will make it. I think that's where the dream ended. I woke up so frightened and sad. It was probably my most emotional dream to date. The "dream of what I see before I go to bed" thing also worked on several other occasions. there was a week where every night I would dream of what I saw on TV or whatnot. Well, one night I saw "The Apprentice" and thought to myself "Man I would love to be on a realit TV show... Though I'd probably do horribly on one like "The Apprentice"..." then I felll asleep... If you'd like I can share what I dreamt that night, it was pretty wonky.

Next up was Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, which was a full 5 hour ride from our hotel. Wait, did I say hour? I meant minutes. It was practically within walking distance, I was suprprised you couldn't see it from our hotel. It took logner to get on the bus than it did to get there. We passed Twisted Twins a couple times. Fred was lost or something. I never saw a proper layout picture of Twisted Twins so I figured it's a hard coaster to get pics of, so I tried to snap several ont he bus, because you could see it pretty well. Good thing, too, even though it surrounds you at some point in the park, it's still hard tot kae a good picture of it's layout. On the way there we saw ALOT of hotrods. No, I mean ALOT of hotrods. I mean like A WHOLE FRIGGEN LOT of hotrods. I'm talking 'bout a "Someone get me out of this Hot Wheels set!" amount of hotrods!!! And these are just the few of which I took pictures of and decided to upload! The place was CRAWLING with them! Much like Coney Island, we had to go in thorugh the back entrance. I guess Kentucky Kingdom didn't want anyone to see us. We were either respected VIPs or unwanted guests. Assuming I didn't see no Papparazzi I assume it was the latter. We were asked on the bus not to make any jokes about feet getting cut off. This became difficult when thinking of T2. Did I mention we saw alot of hotrods? Apparantly the convention center where they were ahving the hotrod convention was right next door! As we got off the bus we saw a HUGE parking lot FULL of hotrods! And all this conveniently placed under the watchful eye of Greez'd Lightning! This worked in our favour because the parks aid that because of that convention the park would probably not be full. Another "nobody else has this shot" shot. This view was pretty much from the same place as the picture before, but looking the other way. jsut to show you how close the two are. Chang... In all it's pseudo-cinese glory. Now, all joking aside about us being unwanted guests, SFKK was EXTREMELY nice and awsome to us. We were supposed to have ERT on Chang, Twisted Twins, Thunder Run AND Deluge, SIMULTANIOUSLY!!! We were greeted by the PR lady, who then told us that Thunder Run was broken down and that they are trying to get it back up(it never did go back up), and a consentual feeling of "awwwww" swooped our group. But then she announced that to make up for it they would open up Greezd Lightning and T2 for us! How awsome are they?! As we ran in they handed us maps(I had to keep asking Robb about maps before we went into every park and then he would go "Oh! Right! I should take care of that!", but now I have all sorts of nice souvernier maps) Before we got in we bunched together for a group photo. This photo stolen from the official TR: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=435680#435680 I was on the far right end of this pic together with the PR lady. I guess we didn't make the cut... Get it? Cut? I crack myself up. Eenyhoo... After the picture we started walking towards Chang, which was the nearest ride as well as the most attractive one on our ERT(considering Deluge didn't open for us untill later). I was walking at the front together with some people when we all started picking up the pace, then someone said the phrase "running of the bulls" and that was my cue, we all raced towards Chang. I went waaaaay past everyone. I have no idea how, I always come in last in Gym. Then again, I was in agroup of people who hadn't come last in gym since they were... well, in school. But just goes to show ya what alittle incentive does. Though apparantly Robb said he wanted to be first on Chang to get a video, but I didn't hear it, so I later found out that when I ran to chang alot of people found it obnoxious, so, apologies, didn't know. A "nobody has this shot" shot. Long story short, I got there first and rode in the front row. We climbed up the lift hill, and as we crested it... Guess what I saw? THE BIGGEST SEA OF HOTRODS I HAVE EVER SEEN! There were hundreds of them sprawled down across the entire parking lot of the convention center, I had just enough time to be dazzled by it before the train whipped to the left and dropped down. Chang... Much to my disappointment... Was pretty much just a headache with visuals. I could get pretty much the same thing from ODing on Tylenol. The only enjoyable part was the corkscrews. Corkscrews are extra fun on standup coasters. Chang was really a "love it or hate it" coaster. Some people were AMAZED by it, but a handful of us rode it once and didn't look back walking away. It was pretty visually pleasing though. It had almost no latreals, and the more vertical Gs it pulled the bigger headache I had at the moment. That's why I don't like B&Ms(with the exception of Hypers, which is also to be changed later in the trip with Raging Bull.) As I go off the ride I snapped the pictures shown above and headed over to... T2! I heard my fair share of horror stories about this ride... And that's just on the way TO it! Hard to see from the shrunken picture but the track had alot of places where it had red blotches on it. Which may have seen like the coat of paint had peeled off, but it was actually blood of poor innocent riders.(see what I meant earlier with the no jokes comment?) AS you can see, despite ERT, the park was FULL of people. Deluge was right next to us so I snapped a pic of it, however to get to it you have to make amagor detour 'cus it's in the park... I'll get to it later. Is it just me or is it kinda creepy how unsupported it looks? T2 from the station with the awsome vines climbing the 1st support(too bad its jsut that one, it looks pretty) and the... uhm... *cough* peeled paint... Deluge through T2's station. Was probably taken while I was pondering what does T2 mean, anyway. Okay, so this was my first time riding an SLC that is not the one at my home park, which was built in 2001, so I knew it was kinda smooth. And having heard lots of bad things of SLCs and T2 in praticular, I, naturally, couldn't wait to ride it. I got on, and was really scared going up the lift, only then was m credit whore gene supressed and I started thinking "why am I doing this?!". As I rode it I realized something. This ride was designed to kick you in the nuts. I am not joking. The train kept stopping and accelerating for NO APPARANT REASON, in a really sudden way that would thrust you against the seatbelt coming down from the OSTRs. The ride was really one long kick in the nuts. Take a wild guess why the girl is the only one looking happy in this pic. It was one of those things you're glad you did once just for the sake of doing them but don't ever plan on doing them again. As you can see the ride was so bad even people who ARENT riding it are giving it thumbs down. The park was kind of a one-way road... Once you enter you have no choice where to go but on one single road. Kinda like Canada. Delly sexing it up for us. For suc a pretty ride it sure is hard to take good photos of it! We got our 2nd credit in and still not a soul in the park... A guy could get used to that! On another note, though, what is with the theming for the river rapids? It was so rusty, and kind of odd. The rapids went on a twisty watery track through rusty ice capped mountains and into a big old new england type building? I don't get it... I didnt ride it, I'm just pointing out the stuff visible from the path. Next we headed over under Thunder Run towards Twisted Twins. Spot batman in this pic. This was right next to the Roller Skater. Whoever designed this place has a magor shoe fetish. TPR's two meanest gangstas, Luke and Shirley. Better step back or they'll bust a cap in yo' ass. Mile high falls looked awsome but it wasn't operating today. Yay! You can see some of Twisted Twins' layout here! Entering the TT plaza. Once you enter the Twisted Twins plaza it surrounds you, so no matter where you look you cant grab a picture that shows more than just a tiny bit of track. Only the blue side was running when we first got there. It was fun watching the train come in though. The blue side really was fun. It had a very original and unpredictable layout. It wasn't crazy or painful but it's definately enjoyable and re-ridable. In fact I rode it twice, I think. Coming out of the plaza. Thundy looking closed and sad Next up it was time to enter the waterpark ...for a little funtime on Deluge! So I left my stuff with Wanda and went for a ride on Deluge. I didn't expect TOO much of it having heard Robb and Elissa's thoughts about Schlitterbahn, but the ride was really really GREAT! One of, if not the best ride in the park! Going up the hill you slow down normally but all of a sudden you feel as though someone kicked the boat and you go up faster! then theres a waterfall that gets you all confused and next hting you know youre twisting and turning. A real top notch ride! However, despite being a credit whore, I could not allow myself ot count it as a credit. The ride's exit is a great place to take photos from I can't tell if the white girl in the middle is a martial arts fighter, a robot, or both. Crap, more people discovered my super secret awsome spot for pictures. Fred's Fun Fact: SFKK is RIGHT next to the airport Planes were passing all the time, really close too. It would someitmes look like a plane would crash into a ride. The first drop is really hard to grab pictures of. This would become more magor of a problem than you'd htink later in the TR. Anyhow, I rode again and Robb and Elissa, who had just ridden it themselves suggested I ride it with them. Naturally I jumped on the opportunity, plus, Knowing I weigh 80kg and knowing Robb weighs his fair share too I knew we were in for one interesting ride! While waiting for the boat it appeared as though my superpower accidently triggered itself on and I once again made a ride get stuck right before I'm about to go on it. It ALWAYS happens, yet I have not gotten stuck while ON a ride!(except pirates of the carribean when I was small) Some people actually VALLIED, it was really cool, but thanks to it being a waterslide, instead of having to wait an hour plus untill they get the trains back to position, they just removed the boat by hand and let the ride go! The ride was so crazy the 2nd time around! We got magor airtime and severly wet! It was time for the park to open so I rushed over to the Tornado bowl before hte guests came in. I really didn't expect much because I figured it's gonna be like a pirate ship only milder and shorter. I have never been on a Tornado bowl before. Joke's on me! The ride was FANTASTIC! It was completely wild and the angle of the enitre place gave for a relaly dizzy distorted feel ofthe ride that kept making it look like we're gonna crash! Just as we got off the GP started entering the park. Though it did not in any way shape or form fill up. Today was a beautifully lineless day. I was really glad I didn't wait the hour wait for the Tornado bowl at Holiday World. Me and Max then went and hit the waterslide tower. Only one slide of which was a body slide, which kinda sliced my back. The rest were very very fun though. Especially going backwards on the yellow one! The lazy river seemed like so much fun and so relaxing but I was too worried about time so I didn't ride it. At some point I went and played for a suspiciously long time in the kiddy area, trying to figure out the waterworks. Half of them didn't really waterwork. Erik Johnson was there too, yet there were no kids in sight. The Deluge tower really ddi make for some nice shots of the park See? Eeeevil This picture is the definition of good and evil. Ying and Yang. SFKK's ferris wheel loomed over the entire park the whole day. Superman was closed, for obvious reasons. The park had this beautiful little spot for food. It was really nice and pretty. Chang from waterpark exit, I think. more coming right up!

I disagree, I love locosumo as a coaster and ifnd it to be very reridable. then again i ahvent ridden it twice in a row so i wouldnt know

awsome TR, keep it up! You can really see how good of a mood I was in after having broken my camera. I got that "Yeah, whatever, let's just get this over with" look on my face.

^He did,a ctually. It's wandering the site somewhere. The old version of the ride looks so cool, too bad they took it out and replaced it with that silly old coaster. It looks pretty awsome, and the goat with the light flashing behind it... pure genius! Seriously, though, as far as replacing the ride with a coaster of the same concept, chart one awsome point for Indiana Beach, hard to beleive what the ride is now has ANYTHING to do with the ride I just saw.

Thanks! I should make some new ones

^^It seems as though the bridge is still under construction

^I dont know, I looked up in google the background for the 2nd panel, and it looks to me like it does actually go through Ohio, but then again this is Fred's territory so what do I know?

^Sweet! I'm an architectrue fan so that's really cool in my book. I played my fair share of the bridge builder game in all its various forms

very awsome TR and I love the video, man! good job!

^Well I sure got it! And a video, too!

^^You wish, Vekoma bus is where it's at And good picture of Fred! too bad I didnt have one before drawing him

Cool TR Will! Keep it up!

^Oh yeah, the triple down was most definately one of the scariest awsomest parts of the ride, doubly so in night time

^^Zing!

Here's mine Or should I say, don't sit under hte guy who does. Good old Raven