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^Thanks Methos! Didnt even ntoice anmyone else tok a pic there let alone a zoom in

The racing coaster at SFGADv. Because I decided for once to not be a credit whore and just have fun. How stupid of me. Though,f or some reason, on the same visit, I rode both the park's kiddie coasters

New comic posted!

Part 3 - still Holiday World When we last left our heroes they were standing in line for The Legend! While waiting around an occasional distant howl could be heard. I expected some extreme latreals because I heard the coaster doesn't have enough banking, which was clearly visible. Visually speaking, Legend is a very impressive coaster. Seems so big. We finally got to the station, which was themed to a claustrophobic panic attack. Boop beep boop To skip ride review skip to next dotted line ------------------------------------------------------------------- RIDING LEGEND - daytime I decided to ride in the 2nd to last row with Max. How foolish of me. I'm just glad I alwayss ride on the right side. The train goes up the lift hill. It gives a nice view if I'm not mistaken. When ou reach the top a speaker plays a recorded howl, which is where the howls I heard in the queu line came from. The train turns and dives. Where we sat we got some REALLY good fun airtime, and not really knwoing what was ahead I was also kind of scared. It's good to be scared on a ride(Assuming it's not because your seatbelt came undone... But that's not untill Indiana Beach). The beginning of the drop was one of the only enjoyable parts of the ride. I have no idea what's the ride like airtime-wise because my body just went into survival mode. The ride was so unbeleivably rough and the latreals were killer. I vaguely remember diving under one of the water slides in the waterpark(again, visually its an awsome coaster, intertwining with the slides), and hanging on for dear life. Max did not sound like he was enjoying himself either. The ride had one good airtime hill and then all heck broke loose. Now, I heard before that the ride didnt have ENOUGH banking. I was not prepared for what happened next. The turn had NO banking, at very high speed. I was crushing Max. Then came the helix. 25 seconds of pure squishing-the-person-next-to-you-pain. Unluckily for max I have very bad grip and weigh 80kg. Then comes this part which I think I may have blocked out. I honestly have no clue how the people are enjoying themselves so much in this picture. This is pretty much as banked as the track gets. Then you turn and hit the brakes. It felt so nice to hit the brakes As we rolle dinto the station I exclaimed ot the people wiating in line "DO NOT!!! RIDE IN THE BACK! WE WARNED YOU!" We left the ride aching, as I was thinking I would never ride it again. I told Max they shoiuld've switched Legend and Raven's names because Raven is named after the poem, and in a show I saw the engineer said that he wanted peopple to ge off the ride and say "nevermore shall I ride the Raven". And I ahd no intention of riding Legend again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I dont remember exactly what was the chronological order in which we did things but I think after that we went to the Thanksgiving zone, and gave many thanks for the free drinks the park ahd to offer. I never loved PEPSI as much as I did that day. Though I think I mostly drank Mountain Dew. Gobble gobble. We only rode this way later in the day but Turkey Whirl was a very fun ride! We rode the park's very unique Turkey themed dark ride(go figure, right?) in which you have to find escaped Turkeys and... uuh... shoot the thing they're hiding behind with lasers that make gobble sounds. Yes, Turkeys, lasers, and free drinks. Starting to get why everyone liked HW so much? It was a fun ride. I kicked Max's ass but we were both kicked by the guy who sat behind us who got double my score. Voyage is so huge you didn't even notice Max is standing in front of it. It was then time for lunch. I think this may have been a typo but I'm starting to think foul play was at hand. Food was really good. They had delicious cookies, too. With green... stuff... on them. I spent the lunch with Casey's harem. The view from the picnic grove was awe-inspiring. I wonder if they had it there before Voyage was built? sure turned out nicely. After lunch it was time to credit whore in the 4th of July section of the park. I hate coasters where they stop the train, ask the kids if they wanna go again every single time, and let the train go again, instead of just making the thing go on 2 consecutive laps. Kiddie coasters had hte longest waits on the trip. On the way off Howler I saw anotehr trademark Holiday World butterfly that wasn't afraid of humans. I really didn't get it. I kept trying to take picture of it but someone would keep getting like REALLY close to it and it'd fly off. Max eventually spotted it in the kiddie playground. He actualy managed to get it to go on his hand. Max looks all calm and stuf fbecause he doesn't want to scare the butterfly but through the enitire day he kept saying his greatest acheivment of the day was holding that butterfly in his hand. It was pretty friggen cool though. The huge playground with heide-park-like slides that hurt Max and made me laugh at him. The creepy old lady who lives in a shoe. I don't know what but somehting about this show amuses me. I suspect it's the phrase "hot diggity dogs". It was then time for our photo walkback of Voyage, two walkbacks for the same ride the same day. Way too cool. Good job Holiday World. Also, NINETY DEGREES. Shiny. Airtimy goodness. Voyage really did rule. Second time I rode it that day, having not ridden a good coaster in a long time I was so overwhelmed from the first go that I coudlnt scream, my hands were limp(and yet the airtime hills still pulled them up) and it even brought tears to my eyes(or it couldve been the fast wind blowing straight at my wid eopen eyes for two rides in a row, go figure). At firsTI htought aht was weird, but then I heard that rides brought tears to people's eyes for various reasons alot during the trip. Michael's head finds it's way into another one of my pics. This is the definition of the word 'curvacious' Not just hte staff at Holiday World weref riendly. people were waving to us from the ride. Mmmmmmmm Half this hill is underground. It is full of airtimy goodness. You know what I want to say. A bad picture of me. ... EGGCORNS! ... No, that's not the caption I was thinking of. It was funny seeing everyone point their cameras at hte same place at the same time. The Voyage really goes out back! It ends up int he middle of nowhere forest! But the inside-out banked turn was as far as we were allowed to go. And so it was time to head back. I nearly split my head running down that gravel path. It was thent ime to ride the Spider ride which I have only seen before in the movie "Grease". It was nice. They had red and blue soft ice cream. Take a wild guess what part of the park this was in. It was really weird for me to see it though, in Israel we only have chocolate and vanilla soft ice cream(Didjano? In Israel soft ice cream is called American ice cream) People ramming each other with ramming rams. I dont care what Freddie says, this ride was fun! Didn't ride these but had I had more time I probably would have. Me and Holidog go way back to training school. When we came back we saw the sign has been fixed. We then hit the waterpark which had rediculously long lines. The few rides we did get on were pretty good though, and the view of Legend from the line to the waterslides is pretty awsome! It was funny seeing people get knocked around in their seats. Their purple family raft slide was GIGANTIC though. I think it might be the tallest in the world 'cus it's certainly the tallest I've ever seen. Correct me if I'm wrong. Quote from Bakuli(the fmaily raft space bowl slide) while the raft is spinning through the part before the steep drop: Max: Wait, so am I going backwards(through the drop)? Me: No I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmm!!! After that we went and rode the river rapids, got a whole lot of free drinks and waited in line for a night ride on Voyage. But then it got stuck and we had to wait. On one hand it sucked, 'cus, you know, wait. But on the other hand it was awsome because I wanted a REAL night time rid eon it and it wasnt really night when we started waiting, but by the time they got the ride running it was pitch dark. While waiting, I think, I tlaked to Freddie and he told me that he really love Legend(I figured he would, he's a latreal G enthusiast), but then he said it was smooth. I didnt know what the heck he was talking about. I told him I rode in the back and it was terrible. He said he rode in the front and it was great. Despite me and Max's plans to night-ride Raven, I had to see what Legend is like smooth, or if Freddie is full of it. We rode Voyage, it was, again, amazing, and I quickly scurried off to Legend while everyone went to ride Raven. As opposed to the morning, this time Legend had zero line. I got in the front and the train took off. We went up the hill, through the howl and went through the drop. The ride. Was. Amazing. Like, REALLY amazing. As in "How-the-heck-could-riding-in-a-different-car-make-such-an-unbeleivable-difference" amazing. The ride was WILD but it was not rough. It felt like it was BUILT for night rides. Things were flying past the train, and it felt unbeleivable. Even the unbanked turns were fantastic. You could almost say it gave Voyage a run for it's money. As I got off the ride it was 5 to 10, the park closes at 10. I quickly ran over to Raven to try and get a night ride, the gates were already closed so I jumped to Hallow's swing, rode it, then ran to the park entrance, where I met Casey and Harem. We all went to grab a free drink and were off to the buses. It was a truly amazing day. Legend = Total WTF ride.

1. yeah, doesnt really seem like fun to me, either. not to mention - imagine what he line for the waterslides looks like. 2. I was kinda hoping the parents got home eraly, too, but thena gain,s eeing as they were away for a week, and it took a weeek to build, and id like ot think it took more than 5 minutes tot ear down, they probably saw it at some point. 3. I dont like to think about thoe questions because its probably naswers I wont like, seeing as I doubt she treats all her cats great, can afford it, remembers all their names, cleans after them, neuters them, etc. ^So true!

I'm a cartoonist for Israel's top teen magazine. I also make comics for the top comics magazine but I don't get paid for those.

^O_o I somehow doubt that... Also, two new vids added

Those japanese sure do love their waterparks... http://www.flabber.nl/archief/021258.php Poseidon's rage anyone? EDIT - Someone taking homemade slip n' slides a liiiiittle too far while his parents are on vacation: http://www.pandachute.com/videos/best_slip_and_slide_ever EDIT 2 - This has nothing to do with coasters or waterslides but I just stumbled across it and it made me laugh so hard it brought tears to my eyes. Behold, crazy cat lady: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=24644

Invest alot. do whatever's necessary to establish my career as a cartoonist. eventually build an amusement park. maybe open a restraunt/candy store based on my parents' recipes.

very very very awsome TR, Will, cant wait to see more! I tried to figure out how to do long exposure on ym cam. couldnt figure it out. as for getitng puked on on the rock o planes... dont worry, i think that was just me.

Ha ha ha! Awsome TR! And yes, the Q bos are indeed the bees knees. That is, if bee's knees were in any way, shape, or form, cool, as opposed to disgusting. And all the poor GP had to wait in line for 3 hours just to get to Superman's STATION! We just reserved it on our Q bot and by the time we got to the ride it was time to go on it! SFGAm was a really awsome day. I was shocked though that Viper ended up being the best ride in the park includin Raging Bull.

^Thanks The videos kinda show it, but it's nothing compared to feeling it. After the brake run, when the train dives into the tunnel there's a double dip. It's not very big but it has UNBELEIVABLE airtime. Kinda like Jack Rabbit in the back, only you're moreso fastened in.

cool TR! Did you check the recycle bin for the deleted photos?

join the chat, we have a party with a bunch of hot girls. ...and by a bunch of hot girls I mean Michael. Or, you oculd, you know... work.

I'm confused, do you work there or something? Anyhow... Part 3: Holiday World Itself! Well, we continued our walk in our walkback to The Voyage. Me and Max kept pushing ahead and staying in front of the group. We were being total geeks but at the time it was so much fun. Over the hills and through the woods, to The Voyage we go... Oh signature shot happyness. We got some good views of Raven, definately, but it pretty much goes AROUND the trees rather than through them. Only part of Raven that really goes through the trees. Also the most fun part. I really liked Raven. While it didn't meet expectaitons it was still awsome because it had a very unique layout. The drops didn't always go all the way down to the ground. Which, while not being the recipe for speed, sure makes for an interesting layout. We continued walking on this path on the edge of Lake Rudolph(I'm sensing a theme here, are you?). It went out and back. While, in retrospect, it seems kinda pointless, it did make for some good views of our own group. My cartoonist sense is tingling. There was a camp... trailer... type... thing... on the other side of the lake. This shot includes a counter to show just how many times a similar shot has been posted somewhere. At some point Legend reared it's impressive, yet disturbing head.(I dont recall any of the coasters in the park having this peice of track but the no banking implies this is part of legend) I think this might be a part of the HIGH SPEED helix. Yes. That sort of banking on high speed. Very "ow". Helixy... Goodness? It doesnt really show in the pictures but the Legend really did seem HUGE! Way more than I had expected! I figure wood coasters always seem taller than they do in pictures and steel coasters are the other way around. The high dive show from BEHIND! Wooooo! I liked that the log flume interacted with Legend I want to give Will a caption on this photo but I can't think of one. Hark! Tharr she blows! Voyage mi amore! The top of the drop is one of the few enjoyable parts of the ride... sorta(explanation later on) We kinda snuck up ont he water park. came in from the back. This tiny fence was the only thing keeping us from being IN the waterpark. And later on would be the only thing to keep GP from going where they're not supposed to go. I found that odd and intriguing. The log flume seemed to be lacking something. Anyhow, then Robb had everyone squeeze together for a group photo. He always counts down from 3 and asks us to do a craaazy face! This is the picture form the official TR. I'm at the front in the red shirt doing the "Booyah!" pose, apparantly taking the crazy face thing too seriously and looking like a total retard. Not to mention it ended up looking like I don't have an arm. Just a hand. We then snuck up a path and entered the park through an oddly low gate located across from Hallow's swing. I guess the restricted areas aren't so restricted after all. All along the walkback the PR lady from Holiday World was explaining stuff about the park and the area. It was very nice. Seeing as the part still hasn't officialy opened yet everything was empty and it was pretty darn cool. We then headed over past the waterpark entrance over to... The Voyage! Pictures don't do it justice. It looked so amazingly impressive. This picture makes my pants feel funny. I guess they ran out of room in the Halloween section of the park. Makes me wonder, though, what was in the Thanksgiving section before The Voyage opened? Just the two rides? As cool as it is, seems like an awful long walk to get to Turkey Whirl. Toto, I don't think we're near Legend anymore. Ooooh yeeahh... Low-to-the-ground-about-to-go-in-a-tunnel goodness. Well, there I was, thinking a walkback meant strictly going to places where the public isnt allowed, but next I knew it, Max and I were standing at the front of the line for Legend as it was about to open just for us! Surprise ERT! We were the first riders in the first train in the first row!!! It was such an awsome surprise. It also explained why we have two walkbacks in the same day. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We got up to the station and they ran a couple empty rains. once they got back to the station they put in the morning testers to go through the course. When they came back I was looking to see their reaction to see if the ride was good or bad, they seemed kinda neutral. I figured "Eh, they do this every morning. cant expect a decent reaction from them" and got in the trai as soon as the air gates opened. We were off. ------------------------------ RIDING THE VOYAGE We climbed up the lfit hill, extremely excited for our first mgagor coaster of the trip. It kept oging up and up, and as we looked behind us the view of the waterpark was unbeleivable! We got to the park and I said "Here we go!" We kinda hung over the edge a little bit and then the train plummeted. Everybody was scremaing hteir heads off, the ride was AMAZING! We got ejector airtime every single hill! And then we emerged from the tnnel into the turnaround area and the train pretty much lost any sort of control it may have had! If it weren't for the lapbars we would've been thrown halfway to Minessota on the double dip that followed!(most extreme airtime pop on the ride, I think) Then came the inside-out banekd turn, which was such a bizzare sensation! So much fun! The entire turnaround area was really rough, but not the bad kind of rough, the kind of rough that a coaster should have!(I'm not a B&M fan) Then came the 90 degree turns, which were, shockingly enough, the most boring, forceless parts of the ride, even though they were awsome! I didn't even really notice it the first time around. The train then dipped into the tunnel once again and emerged into the brake run. I saw the videos, but what came next was still completely weird to me. The brake run is pretty much at ground level. It's about 8ft off the gorund at best. And even though I knew we were on a hill, it absolutely did not seem like the train had potential to do what it did next. It dove back underground and started ejecting us back out of our seats on airtime drops like we were going 90mph. The train flew back out of the ground and twisted through the support layout, going so fast it leaves you confused as to where it got all it's speed. It then flies into a not very banked turn, which leads into a 90 degree turn, wich drops you into a dip(in which the onride photo is taken). You then fly up in a turn and twist to a dropping turn to the other way around, like on certain intamin hypers. It dove under the queue and next to the station into a tunnel and sprung rihgt back out again. It twisted it's way into another tunnel, which lead into an airtime pop. The train showing no sign of slowing down. We helixed our way up and hit the brakes. That was one spectacular ride. It was truly unbeleivable. Later while buying the onride photo I found out that not only is The Voyage tall, fun, fast, and smooth, it's also... SLIMMING! Is this coaster the best or what?! Me and Max quickly rushed back into the line to ride again. This time in the back. For a long time I beleived that riding in the back cannot possibly be better than riding in the front. untill I rode Voyage in the back. You have not ridden Voyage untill you've ridden it in the back car. The feeling of being pulled over the lift hill is sensational, not to mention the layout is built in a way that back car would get alot more airtime than the front. We came back intot he station and got out as the park was starting to fill in as it opened. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From there Max and I decided to move towards Legend, which was the closest coaster, but on the way we took the wrong path and ended up being closer to Raven so we figured we'd go hit it first. We did get a couple good shots of Legend from where we were though. The line was already pretty long(all the lines were at their worst seeing as everyone wanted to get the credits out of the way first) but we waited the 30 minutes or however long it was. We rode in the front. Like I said earlier, the ride was surprisingly smooth(possibly 2nd smoothest wooden coaster on the trip), and had a good layout, but was not what I expected it to be, being formerly the #1 wood coaster and having aseen a TV show segment about it and whatnot... But then again it had a very big name to live up to. Apologize for not having any pics of Raven's layout but like I said, you don't really see it from inside the park. After riding it we took the pathway out. Hurray for elevated, RCT-esque pathways! But then it was time to head over to the dive show! ..No, not really, I mean the little greenish-brown thing behind it.(Did I mention how green Legend was up close considering its supposed to be brown?) Lines were pretty unforgiving as they stacked the cars up pretty bad. Spot the coaster nerds. More coming up later, because I jsut realized it took me 3 hours to write this thing.

I hate that I agree with you.

Thank you! ^_^ I'm really glad you all liked it. More coming soon, I hope!

LOL! Thanks! There I was thinking I'm the last person to be using the phrase "Red dawn awsome" And I have more ideas than I do time and strength to draw, so sometimes I have to pick my battles

^Naw, that's the middle of the upside down section

They certainly are! ^What do you mean? And thanks!

^^Hee hee, I'm really glad you like it, Cora! I figure the harem hasn't made it's last appearance yet. even though it takes up the whole panel ^Thanks, Robb They were in a pretty big pile as it was, though!

^Thanks She was originally supposed to be a guy,a ctually, but it ended up working better with her as a girl

^Well nevertheless, I encountered alot of weird, unnecessary, fat-enablers during my visit. Not to mention my trip to SFGADv a couple yers ago when I saw everyone walk around with funnel cakes, and not knowing what they are I figured I'd go over to the nearest food place and order whatever it was on the menu that I didn't recognize. I ordered something, and got a large paper bag, and inside it were a dozen, 2 inch thick greasy donutballs laying in an inch thick layer of sugar, which you had to dip them in and then eat. Also, I saw a triple hamburger for the first time, not to mention it was the first time in along time I couldn't finish a plate of pancakes because it was too huge. But who am I kidding, I ate the donutballs, I ate the hamburger, and I ate the pancakes untill I couldn't eat anymore. I'm just saying.

^Which reminds me people. At what point in time did soemone go "Eeeeh... cranking this faucet's handle is so friggen tiring! I wish someone would automate it!" The airport had these weirdass automated faucets that took me longer than usualt o figure out how I'm supposed to operate.

ROFL!!! Very awsome TR! I love the espionage kind of feel to it. But despite the sarcasm, this actually looks like a pretty sweet park Doesnt seem too big but nevertheless