PTR Tömmioh Goes West

[Tömmioh]

Hello! , sorry for bothering again (not, really) here's some photos from my trip from home to Sweden and Norway in July this year. While most of them are non-park pics, there'll be photos in all of the 3 updates with at least some park photos in them, so I think this topic belongs here, but if not, mods, feel free to move this to Random.

 

So, here we go:

Woo! Tusenfryd!! The park had closed when we drove by, well we weren't going there anyway that day, but later of course. To be more precise in the next update. Thanks for reading.

Wait! What's that? I've never seen such a hot chimney.

On the way to Oslo in Norway, we drove through 3 toll 'plazas' had to pay 20NOK each time, that's about 3.5$ or 2.5€, 1.7£, 139 Indian rupee's, anyone else?

Here we are in Norway or Norge or... wait a typo? hahahaa...

 

 

Seriously, there's two different official Norwegian languages.

Niiice.

Yay, approaching new city and country credit.

Strömstad, translated to Current City (as in electricity or water), the last Swedish city before Norway, it was quite a tourist place.

Huge marshmallows taking a rest, collecting some energy under the cloudy tilted sky.

It was a part of Axels funfair collection.

Coca-Cola spinning cups through the bumper cars.

The closest you could call a credit, ok some people would call that 3 credits, but let's move on right?

This was their biggest ride.

Planet Hollywood the game arcade.

On the way to Norway we stopped for a café in this town Trollhättan and they surprisingly had a fun fair there, although closed at 11:30 am.

Some farmhouses and cows? or inflatable king-size sheep, you decide.

Willy's shape. Hmm.. what could it be?

 

 

 

Ok, if anyone is tired of my crap-jokes, I'll just say that...

 

 

 

Boo!

 

 

No but, Willy:s is a supermarket and Shape. is a house interior shop, happy?

Air Blow Gun Short, My Name Tarzan

A castle ruin at sunset, Sweden's 2nd largest lake, Vättern is truly enjoying it.

On the highway, before the sunset.

You can see a bit of Stockholm here, Gröna Lund is somewhere there behind towards the left.

Some industrial pipelines... wait, pipeline? Coaster reference! Everyone cheer!

 

 

ok that was lame, I apologize..

 

 

Pipe..

 

 

sorry.

A blurry fart.

Some trees THROUGH The Island of THE dead TREES!

Nice summerhouses and erect poles by the sea.

Of course you have to have some Swedish meatballs when you're going to Sweden.

OMG! I can see Gröna Lund's drop tower from here!

Some slotty slots, I think I won 1.2€ in total, Wohoo!!

 

...and played with 1.4€

 

Oh yeah and look to left Wild Thing!, A Coaster reference !

The cabin, luckily I didn't have cabin fever nor haven't watch cabin fever.

This just a random cruise-ship they're building here, you know two Royal Caribbean Cruise ships, have been made here.

Here it is, the almighty SeaWind Line!! with just 1 restaurant/cafe, 1 shop, 1 bar opposed to Silja's more than 6 and 6 and 3, but hey! this is a lot cheaper! but hey! but hey!

A Silja-Line ship to Sweden, although we didn't go on it.

Turku's middle-age castle and OMG! a skycoaster!

 

al right I'm joking, but you needed some action in here, right? RIGHT??

Nice looking house.

Mmm... fresh donut.

This is Turku, Finland's 3rd largest city, just bigger than Tampere, they should have a park here, ok they have Moomin world quite nearby, but it doesn't count.

Drill in there! YEAH!!

 

 

 

ok, why did I take this picture??

A landscape photo, A boring caption.

Yay! for yellow triangular poles. Had a semi-crappy breakfast here.

That was the view, when I was awake for 10 seconds.

Really there's just like fields, meadows and some farmhouses, nothing special.

Needed something to properly wake me up at 5:30 in the morning so I had some spam.

[viking86]

Like my friends from England said: "Welcome to Norway, the country where everything costs 400 billion pounds"

 

Nice update! Looking forward to see more.

[Tömmioh]

^Thanks a lot for your comment, I highly appreciate it, as it seems no-one else likes this PTR... and yeah it was expensive in Norway, like 11€ for a normal size pizza in an out of town, scrubby pizzeria, but however it must be nice for you Norwegians when everything is so cheap abroad (in most countries anyway).

 

Now, onto some Tusenfryd photos.

With this shot (I know that the text ruins it, sorry), I end this update, thanks for reading!

Weee!!!

"and now for something completely different"

Speeding up a bit.

aaahh... launch aaahhh... cool element

Is it just me or does that clown-tent ruin the beautiful carousel.

Hello Brits!

My meal which I shouldn't have had, costed in euros about 9€, or 12$

 

funny thing's the soda would've costed about 4€ had I bought in a mug, but there were vending machines, from which you got it for 2.5€

Rats throwing up, monkeys pooing, ducks burping, in other words, Bonbon-candy.

Right click, Save As, Print and you have an "not-quite" complete chessboard or an emo-flag.

Rock burger!, Rock!

...appeared to be plush turtles.

Local delicacies...

Plain Plane ride.

Ooaehwahehhaa!! Rogaine didn't work for me, now I'll wave this stick until it worns out and then I'll take a new one and continue, oogghh.

The cat's rack with Simpson prizes and Thundercoaster trying to hide behind the stall.

The most boring flume I've been on.

Brain cooler, with a smashing name and price.

Fruity-man!

The water fountains did only slightly wet a few people of the ride, I didn't get a drop.

Roll-Over, which I hope could roll over and die, really make me feel nauseous and crushed my balls twice, ugh.

Japp Space Shot, named after yummy Japp chocolatebars.

A western ghost-town in Norway, thank the Vikings for it.

Splash!

 

Seamonster:-bah, I'm tired of this water, why can't they give me some Lucozade instead.

Oh, isn't it sad. The posh sea-monster's dad got a crush and got crushed by this humongous hill and now he's body is a walk-through ride.

Airtime!

Life tastes good Coca-Cola coaster.

Watch out for that rock!

Oh really?? [insert a sophisticated Brit- voice here]

A train on the brakes.

It was still really good, actually I think in my top5 woodie-list after the best ride I got on it, however the worst ride in the back was really different and worse.

Thundercoaster! It had been raining on the way to the park, but it stopped when we got there, well I would've hoped it had continue, as from what I've heard it's a lot better in the rain.

Loopen's loop, it's a Vekoma Whirlwind with a loop instead of the first corkscrew, it wasn't too bad.

It was a really good ride, the OTSR hurt a bit on the airtime 2nd hill, but that's everything I could complain about.

Straight on to Speed Monster, as you can see the queue was short, only around 10 minutes.

Here is Tusenfryd's entrance and a Norwegian unique, pretzel mmm... loop.

This is how he (it) got killed.

Death of Balder. This was a sad sign in Oslo (you'll see a bit more of the city in the next update).

[cobra_roll06]

Hey nice TR! Some nice pics of Speed Monster.

[Groteslurf]

Great TR and pics.

[coastercrazed49]

Cool pictures. Speed Monster looks so awesome with it pretsel loopingness.

[SteveC]

cool pics -AWESOME captions Tommi- and hey Swedish meatballs...Mmmmm!

[viking86]

Nice pictures! Shame it stopped raining because Thundercoaster is amazing in the rain. Not as rough and ALOT faster! By far the best coaster in the park in my opinion!! And they operate Speedmonster in the rain so you wouldnt have missed anything....

[jimbobcoaster]

Awesome TR. Man, Speed Monster looks so amazing and unique! I really want to ride it

[TPDave]

Great TR Tommi! How was Speed Monster? Do the inversions make it any good?

 

And you're lying in that first pic at the top, judging by the light it's about 1am in Finland...

[Shockwave]

Hey Tommi, great photos and I love the Monty Python captions!

 

Tusenfryd was great fun last year. I'm gonna have to go back some time for a few more rides on Thundercoaster and Speed Monster, only got one ride in before it broke down that day!

 

And I'll have to come over to Finland one of these days and check out the big 3 parks there!

[coasterbilly]

I really enjoy looking at parks in Europe and other foreign countries, I really liked this report, the park looks pretty neat with a cool variation of rides, thanks for sharing!

[Tömmioh]

Thanks a lot for the comments everyone!

 

Great TR Tommi! How was Speed Monster? Do the inversions make it any good?

 

And you're lying in that first pic at the top, judging by the light it's about 1am in Finland...

The Norwegian loop, pretzel thing is quite cool and fun, but not that intense or anything and the corkscrew, is just a 'regular' corkscrew, doesn't feel anything special really.

 

And.. Dave shush!

 

^^ Tom: yeah, I hope to see you here sometime !

 

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Here's the last update, there's not many park photos, due to how things planned out, this update will be quite like the first one I am afraid.

Still, enjoy!

Rice and pork!

 

This update just needed a picture of food. and, yeah now at last, thanks for reading!

Surprise! sorry, just remembered these, UlRICEHAMn, hmm...

Back in Finland! That was quick!

 

Thanks for reading!

In Stockholm.

The bending lamp, ready to make his move. -Come on plane, come a bit closer and I'll back up my upper body and crash the plane, Mwahhahaa!

Just to try and give you a bad-onesided picture of Sweden, I'll post yet another farm-picture.

This was slightly spooky. It says Welcome here, Welcome home, on the structure and that's my home town, not kidding!! Seriously.

Intamin?

 

 

No, Intakan, I almost thought I found their secret HQ.

There's two credits in here, a Schwarzkopf Jet Star and Big Apple, lol. So, according to their site on the web there are individual tickets for rides and a wristband. So I noticed gates in to the park and it turns out that you have to pay 150kr (21$) just to get in (there's a big zoo in there) and extra for the rides, it would've cost too much, barely worth the money, so we drove away.

A 3-D theatre seen from outside the park.

Here we are at Parken Zoo for 1hr max, the substitute for Gröna Lund, as they had Tall-ship races competition just below the park and expected about a million people to the city for that weekend!!

No , it was a limestone transportation thing.

What? a chairlift in the middle of nowhere??

Bye Bye Baldair!

 

 

The park was still open for 3 hours, and I would've had time to get there anytime within the next week from my grandparents place 80 miles, although I wanted to go to Gröna Lund instead, as I haven't been there.

Wait! It's Liseberg and Lisejoebanana-ride and the new "swings".

Sorry, blurry picture.

Hello, I'm Mr. Guardrail, I feel lonely because no-one hangs their clothes on me.

Triangular shapes approaching!

 

Math-freaks, come on get your calculators ready for counting does angles!

It was nice looking.

 

 

I know these captions suck, but my imagination has vanished.

A village with some castle ruins on a hill.

By the way, we drove past by the way, we're going back to Sweden.

Credits!

A look at the thing further away.

 

There was lots of statue credits to be had.

There was this pole of people-statue.

A small look at the park.

Baahh!!

 

This pissed-off kid was in a huge park, with many other statues.

Looking down towards the centre of the city.

The Royal Castle.

After the park we got in to the city, Oslo and this is their highest building, a hotel.