donkeyman18 Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 Lock me in with 10 duckies as well please. AND.... LOCK ME IN FOR 10 duckies. Locked and checked!
jomisaca Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 I tried and tried to come up with a different number but I'm going to have to go with 10 duckies also. Please lock me in. Also Big Mike, I really like the top 20 things type of format. Keep it up. It's neat since your top twenty differs from what would be my top twenty.
RAWKIN_coaster38 Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 This week I didn't expect to go out of town, but when I saw that Big Mike had posted the hiding places of all the NorCal duckies, I knew I MUST get a trip in this week. Only problem? I live 3 hours drive away from the closest duckie. Â In a few short days, I worked things out so I could take off for a duckie/credit whore trip! Here's the result! Â After 3 hours of driving, I finally get to Funderland in Sacramento!! So excited to get a new credit and find a duckie! NEW CREDIT!! It was actually a pretty fun kiddie coaster! After riding, I whip out my duckie cheat sheet and go a-searching.... but to no avail! The duckie is no where to be found! I even asked a few perplexed employees if they had found any rubber duckies hiding about, but they hadn't. My only conclusion was that some sneaky TPR member had already snatched it up, and hadn't posted yet! I was slightly disappointed, but glad to have gotten credit #87 for me! Fun Town at Micke Grove Zoo? But I already got this credit when I was 5! There must be another reason for my being here... I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT!!!! I got the duckie!!! This is my "I'm such a coaster whore, only reason I'm riding this is because I'm here and it's here" -face. Next up: SFDK. I really was not expecting to find this duckie, I figured someone who lived a little closer would have gotten it right away, I made it to the park around 3:30 and went straight for the Elephant area. Holding my breath, I looked in the planter... leaves, trash... DUCKIE!!!! Duckie #2 for me!! And my home park too!!! Ka-ching!!! So proud of this! Day 2: drove to San Jose and met up with Rolercstrluvr, then drove to Gilroy. I explained to the employee in the parking lot that we weren't going to be going into the park, just needed to get into the parking lot for 5 minutes to find something for a scavenger hunt. She actually let us through without paying the ! Thank you awesome lady! We drove to the light post marked A10 and with baited breath lift the metal thing... nothing!! Then we realize that all of the posts in the row are marked A10, so there's still a chance the duckie is there! GOT IT!!! This is Rolercstrluvr's #2 duckie, I'm just posting the pic because I have it! DUCKIE POWOW!! Ironically, Rolercstrluvr's duckies are both male ducks, and my duckies are both female ducks! They all went on a double-date on my dashboard. After securing Gilroy duckie, we headed to the Boardwalk so I could secure credit #88, 89 and 90! I'm exhausted, but it was totally worth the 15+ hours of driving over the last three days! Thank you Big Mike for inspiring an awesome spontaneous trip!
HighRoller Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 Speaking of Dickie's potentially MIA, I'm posting from Knoebels this morning and though I have a picture of the ducky's hiding spot, there was no ducky to be found. Anyone else have it? Â I'll post my photographic evidence when I get home.
Big Mike Posted July 29, 2012 Author Posted July 29, 2012 Bob met me at the event today at Leviathon and showed me the Knoebels and Hershey Park duckies, posting soon!
beatle11 Posted July 30, 2012 Posted July 30, 2012 Great meeting you yesterday Big Mike! Thank you for the prize pack!
Coastinmiller Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 So, just curious Mike, did you leave one at Wild Waters and wheels. We searched all over and found nothing, evened asked and got some strange looks ?
Big Mike Posted July 31, 2012 Author Posted July 31, 2012 Yes we did, will post that soon! Â Did you like the pipeline coaster??
ahecht Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Any idea when the next round of the still-somewhat-epic contest will be posted? I will be on a remote island next week with Arosania, and with no real amusement parks nearby, we'd hate to miss it.
Big Mike Posted July 31, 2012 Author Posted July 31, 2012 Tell me what day you guys get back & I will post it a few days later as this round and the final round may takeva little longer to complete! Â Peace, Big Mike
Coastinmiller Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 Yes we did, will post that soon! Did you like the pipeline coaster??  Dang it. Looked everywhere as well, but with no clues it was tough to locate. Pipeline was awesome!
Big Mike Posted August 2, 2012 Author Posted August 2, 2012 This round of Find the Ducky is now closed!!!  You can now reveal the hiding places!   Peace, Big Mike   PS - Updated draft board picks coming soon!  Post your ducky findings!
ahecht Posted August 2, 2012 Posted August 2, 2012 Hmm, I just discovered that themeparkreview.com/bigmike will take you directly to this thread. How cool is that?
sspaz1000 Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 Just wanted to come in and say it was great to finally meet the big man during the Leviathan bash! and Megan too. Especially since we kind of grew up in the same general area
RAWKIN_coaster38 Posted August 6, 2012 Posted August 6, 2012 I wanted to dedicate my 1000th post on TPR to Big Mike, TPR's friendliest guy! Hope I get to meet you next time you're in Cali! Â And Who knew ducky hunting could be so insanely fun? Oh and my family thinks I'm totally insane now too. They just don't understand!!
Big Mike Posted August 7, 2012 Author Posted August 7, 2012 Thank you very much Janae!!!  Much appreciated   Promise to get those prize packs out by the end of the week, been crazy busy!   1000 posts is awesome, and so are you!   Peace, Big Mike
gisco Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 Funny thing happened to me last week when I was at Knoebels doing a little pretrip before Leviathon. I had spent the day at this great park when I was in line for a final ride on the new Black Diamond before heading South to Hershey. I was checking out FB when I see that Big Mike had posted a trip report the day before on Knoebels and had hidden a duckie here. A quick read of the trip report on my phone and it was off in search of the prise before the park closed! I remembered seeing this earlier in the day Looks a little familiar! Whith the brick out of the way, what is that I see? SCORE! My first duckie! Proof
gisco Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 I know double post, shoot me! Â A couple odf days later I was checking out Hersheypark and Chocolate World. Another familiar sight. Another score! Duckie number two for the trip! Proof!
The Bebes Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 Congrats on the DUCKY finds, Bob!!! Â The Bebes ALSO scored some new duckies!!!! See the proofs below!!! Â BLACKBEARDS Â JOHN'S INCREDIBLE PIZZA - ROSEVILLE Big Mikes Clue vs OUR View THE DUCK! Big Mikes clue vs OUR view The DUCK!
aiken85 Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 Wow, great information. What a Big Mike, that's a heck of alot of parks you have planned. Good luck, and I look forward to your trip reports.
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