derek_lentz Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I was one Frank Gore Broken Hip away from making the playoffs. So close, yet so far. Oh well, maybe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Linn Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I lucked into Peyton Hillis. Not only in this league, but another one too. Matt Ryan becoming a dependable fantasy QB paid dividends as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mike Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Dear Friends, Â Â After nearly a full year hiatus after my Dad's death, we have some good news............... Â Â THE BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW RETURNS TOMORROW!!! Â Love Big Mike Just in case you missed Big Mike and his hotties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy T. Koepp Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 ^If that last picture is any indication of the year to come. I am all in Big Guy! Bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traincrossin Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Â Yay! I can't wait for the return of the Big Mike Roadshow!!! Bring on Big Mike and the hotties! Â EDIT: 900 posts! What better place to get my 900th post than the Big Mike Road Show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryH Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 ^^So I take it from the photo that the Big Mike show will be visiting strip clubs around the country? If so, where do I sign up? I so wanna go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mike Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) Hello Friends!!!  Nearly a full year after the sudden hiatus of The Big Mike Road Show due to my Dad's death, The Big Mike Road Show thread is now proud to be back!  The love and support of the TPR community during this rough time was amazing! Cards, emails, words of encouragement, and a LOT of people showing Big Mike love during his recovery period!  I am happy to inform everyone that we have a HUGE TPR star that will make a special appearance at the start of our trip report too, a great way to start things off!  I admit, I thought of closing up shop for good, and since cancelling my trip to West Coast Bash days after Dad left, its sad to say I had no urge at all to hit the road anymore. Slowly during the year, I did get to gradually hang out with coaster friends again and the constant encouragement from everyone to come back has led me to where we are today, the continuation of one of TPR'S most favorite threads!  I feel the urge again! I want to go ride coasters right now! I want to hang out with all my good friends as soon as possible! Finally, I want to entertain my Valuable Big Mike Readers!! I really underestimated how many people actually enjoy my thread. Friends and people that I have not even met always sent positive vibes my way, and that meant the most in getting me back into the saddle! THANKS!!!!!!!!!  So here at Big Mike World Headquarters, if you have not heard yet, we are very hard at work constructing the set of the BRAND NEW "BIG MIKE ROAD SHOW" actually show set!  We are sparing no expenses and the stage set is really taking shape!  The Big Mike Road "Show" will be a monthly video show in which we have a lot of fun stuff planned, including:  1. A video trip report of seldom seen parks each month (PTRs are old news, Big Mike launches to the next level of VTRs) while still showing all the rides, prices, fun, and extra shenanigans!  2. Big Mike's Mailbag - a segment Big Mike answers all questions sent from TPR members.  3. Contest updates and standings on the Big Mike Most Valuable Reader Contest, who will win a 1 week free condo stay! (Big Mike did not want to stand everyone up mid-contest, so we will finish that contest and send someone out to stay in a condo for a week on The Big Man! It is not too late for everyone to enter)  4. Induction ceremonies into The Big Mike Road Show Hall of Fame.  5. A Behind the Scenes of the Big Mike Road Show segment showing videos of Big Mike bringing the Valuable Big Mike Readers to other very cool places with him.  6. Viewer Videos section, where you can create your own video tribute to Big Mike and have it aired on the show for all of TPR to see your talents.  7. A NEW CONTEST FOR 2011!!! As always, besting the Grand Prize from the year before, the winner will once again get a FREE ONE WEEK CONDO STAY of thier choice, but, this time will ALSO get $100 in spending money to increase the fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Big Mike never did like or use the word "Epic", but this contest will be "Super-Epic" and every single person on TPR will be able to participate and win the grand prize!! Details soon!  8. A TPR Hottie Interview!!! - Big Mike interviews a different TPR Hottie each month so you get to know each of them better and find out more interesting facts about them personally! Hopefully, maybe a few of the interviews will come straight from the Hotties bedroom! (Big Mike's goal of calling it Big Mike in Bed with the TPR Hotties). We need some good sports  PLUS MORE content still being worked out!!!   So, this is where all The Valuable Big Mike Readers come into play!!!!  You can help in a wide variety of ways to get the show off the ground and to make it very enjoyable to watch!!!   Big Mike World Headquarters needs and requests the following:  Send any and all questions for the Big Mike's Mailbag segment to the below address. You can ask ANYTHING, Big Mike's opinions, personal stuff, behind the scenes info, goals, likes/dislikes, ect.  Send really cool videos put together of Big Mike and any other cool tributes to the same address so that Big Mike can display them on the show.  Send your favorite 8 X 10 photo of you with Big Mike to the same address as each month, Big Mike would like to display different TPR friends on the main desk of the studio set, I will frame them, and by you sending your favorite picture in, you are saying you want to be on the show and displayed proudly for the camera to see!  Big Mike needs Hottie Interviews!!!!! Big Mike is looking for invites to your house so that he can interview you, just fun stuff, not serious stuff. Maybe see some other hobbies and talents you have, answer a few questions, ect. If you want to show your cool side and invite Big Mike over to do an interview on your bed, Big Mike would be GREATLY appreciative (No bed, thats ok too) Big Mike will also bring a few pizzas over too for compensation!!! So if you want to help Big Mike out, especially if you are near Big Mike World Headquarters like Renee, Lena and Meghan, shoot Big Mike a message and set it up!!! (Please lol). Big Mike will also set up interviews when on the road too!   Thats all we are tipping off for now on the show, but if you have any cool ideas or suggestions for the Big Mike Road Show "Show", feel free to post them too!!!! Many great ideas come from the Valuable Readers!!!!  So send all of those questions, videos, photos, gifts, ect to:  Big Mike World Headquarters 126 Revere Ct Montville NJ 07045  Even if you are just a guest here on the website (there are a whole lot of them and maybe some of them even enjoy Big Mike too), feel free to participate too!  Big Mike wants to do his best to bring TPR the continuation of all remaining trip reports in our vault (over 50 of them), Finish the find the ducky rounds and the Big Mike Reader of the Year Contest, and to bring smiles and laughs once again to all the Valuable Big Mike Readers!  We are shooting to do a photo trip report each and every week from here on out and also debut the once a month new aged, cutting edge way to do trip reports from now on, the Video Trip Report (Mixing video with pictures to give a complete trip report of each park) on March 15th to coincide with my Dad's death and to dedicate it to him and actually get me past that day!   Just a few more things, this is a Find the Ducky game!!! Count how many hidden duckies you can find in this trip report and post how many you found after reading through it! Do not say where you saw them, just how many. Once you have guessed, you cannot edit it. We have only played 3 games so far, with 12 to go, so everyone still has a chance to win if you are a newbie to The Big Mike Road Show! Give it a try!  Lastly, this is my 1st update since the new TPR format. We used to keep track how well The Big Mike Road Show was doing in views and replies, but now there is a 3rd catagory... Subscriptions!!  Since we have been absent for a year, not many people are subscribed to The Big Mike Road Show, and not seeing my thread in the Top 20 just isn't right So, if you enjoy The Big Mike Road Show, PLEASE show your support and hit the link on the bottom of the page to subscribe to it, it would mean a lot to me and you can easily stay informed on all the exciting things coming up!! Thanks again friends!   That is it from The Big Man, help out the Big Mike Road Show by sending everything and anything we asked for above!  Love to all and I hope you enjoy my return to Theme Park Review and the continuation of The Big Mike Road Show!!!   Peace, Big Mike Tivoli Gardens in Denmark - 2nd oldest amusement park in the World! Prices. Park map. Big Mike is lucky enough to have TPR superstar and legendary bad ass Ice Bat to welcome Big Mike back and to tell all the Valuable Big Mike Readers which ducky to find today, because YES, this IS a FIND THE DUCKY game!!! (This ducky does not count toward your total) Rutschebanen! Don't mind the mint in the side of Big Mike's mouth, have to stay fresh for the hotties! Our driver. Yep, there is actually a brake man on the coaster, how cool is that? The brake. The lift. Lots of drops and tunnels, exciting! Great airtime here! I borrowed this picture, but this explains it the best! Big Mike in an "Oh Shiiiiiiiiit" moment! Our brake man Kurt! Ka-Ching! Coaster Credit #791 for Big Mike! We were lucky enough to have a behind the scenes tour of this classic coaster, TPR style! Well hello!!! Look what we were greeted to upon enterance Robb shows Big Mike how he used to get the ladies all warmed up, BEFORE he was married of course. Now only one super special girl gets the Robb treatment! In return, Big Mike shows Robb how he heats the ladies up after they have been warmed up! There could be some promise to the Robb/Big Mike combo ticket! Special exclusive diagram of the layout of the coaster. The "Wall of Horror"! These are the brake men who have derailed the coaster for going to fast. Hey, our brake man Kurt leads the pack!!! Good thing we took the tour AFTER we rode and I did not have to worry! The repair shop. Take into account, all of this is built INSIDE the coaster! Reenactment of when Kurt is the brake man and what could have happened to your beloved Big Mike!!! Notice, no seat belts! Big Mike would have been splattered on the ground. Here we are inside the track.... ... and here we are outside by the track. Big Mike decided to sit by the track and greet the riders going by. "Hi everybody, I am Big Mike!" After the tour, it was time for Big Mike to do yet another interview for the masses on his wealth of coaster information and his amazing journeys to coaster super stardom! After the interview, I asked this hottie if she would be interested in the Robb/Big Mike Combo ticket, and she was not into it???? She does not know what she was missing!! Daemonen! I know it is the lift hill of Daemonen, but Big Mike was still a little flabbergasted that he got turned down and forgot to take a picture of the coaster sign. The drop. Hard to get a good picture of all the action of this coaster, but this sums it up pretty well. I told Hot Fuzz Rich I would get him into The Road Show more often! Ka-Ching! Coaster Credit #792 for Big Mike, while riding with his good buddy Robb and an empty seat that could have been for the interview lady! Big mistake lady Big Mike passes Bill on the way to the next coaster and he is enjoying that ice cream way to much for Big Mike not to want one, so Bill shows us where he got it. Oh my goddness! Too many choices!!! Kid Tums had no problem knowing what she wanted while you can see in Elissa's face that she is afraid that bucket of popcorn is going to wind up on the ground. "Mommy, I am a big girl now" Karavanen! The course. Ka-Ching! Coaster Credit #793 for Big Mike! Oden Expressen! Long track. Turns. Tree tunnels! Real tunnels. Ka-Ching! Coaster Credit #794 for Big Mike! Time to go check out the parks brand new attraction - Vertigo!!! Wow, this thing does flips, barrel rolls, and even has a turbo button!! Big Mike interview time again!! This is a new Big Mike World record, 2 different interviews in one day!! This guy did not believe me that I was not afraid of this monster ride and that I would ride with my hands up! Here you can see that the ride turns you completely upside down, inside out, over and over again! A good shot that once you are way up top, this comes straight down to the ground, and it comes down FAST!!! The Danish TV guy wanted one more quick interview with Big Mike, as Big Mike bragged that he would dominate this ride for all of Denmark to see by riding the newest, fastest, death defying ride with his hands up! Click the link below to see the actual interview that broadcasted all over Denmark and to actually see how insanely fast this ride actually goes! IT'S A MUST SEE! http://www.tv2regionerne.dk/?id=487653&r=5 Since this ride was going so fast and Danish TV could not come up with any good footage, we were lucky enough to have one of our TPR members actually catch the magnificent moment on camera!!! Big Mike, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, will go down in Danish folklore as the Man who came and conquered thier monster! After the ride, Big Mike was cemented in history as the best there ever was! Crowds gathered around and wanted pictures of the amazing dare devil in the gold T-shirt! Sure, as you saw if you watched the video, Danish TV did not want an American stealing thier spotlight, so all of Big Mike's interviews were left on the cutting room floor, but everyone there that day knows I came and conquered! As a bonus for reading the Big Mike Road Show, I will let you in on a little secret that I have never told anyone yet... That Danish interview lady came back after hearing of Big Mike's heroics and said she sooooooo wanted The Big Man after that, and I turned her down flat! After that insane ride, we needed a rest so we all watched KidTums try to win some prizes! Kid Tums was great at catching the pink ducks! After that, we went to the balloon dart game. Just so happens that Big Mike used to run a balloon dart game on the Seaside Heights boardwalk back in the day! Everyone is happy that KidTums was cleaning up on prizes! Time to show you some other rides around the park: Verteran Bilerne Dragon Boats Panda We sent the USA Expert on these type of rides to see how it was. She liked it! Bumper Cars Minen Indoor boat ride. Interestng penis theming. The fun house was a big hit! Lots of fun slides! Fun bridges. Crazy steps. Spinning floor craziness! Too crazy for Tom! They even had a rolling barrel!  Only here at The Big Mike Road Show can you get such exciting pictures!  If I don't have 50 Elissa Fanboys commenting that I am thier God at the end of this report, I will be disappointed! One of the nicest carousels so far to date. Can you guess which one Big Mike wants to ride? The giraffe! I have a great friend named Shannon who told me back in the day to always name who you are riding, so the tradition continues! This is Renee, since giraffe sounds a lot like Girard! Even a nice little trolly ride! When you are used to riding a whole bunch of kiddie coasters, Big Mike is not ashamed to ride the kid trolly either! Since we are at Tivoli Gardens, you can tell by the name that there is going to be some nice scenery, like these fountains... ... and this statue... ... and this theming... ... and other things like sea turtles. Big Mike loves sea turtles!! Crabs, not so much! So, Big Mike had heard that Tivoli is best known for the beautiful lights that come on at night, so Big Mike was going to wait until dark. Big Mike not knowing much Dutch just figured that this sign meant there was a topless bar in the vacinity, and Big Mike was going to relax there for a while. No such luck, but I did find the Copenhagen Hard Rock, and I thought of my good buddy Rick. Yay, the lights are starting to come on! Sure, Big Mike puts up some funny, pretty, comical, and informative trip reports, but if you have ever been on a TPR trip with Big Mike, he is also all about getting candid pictures of all the other trip participants. So if you were on this trip, or if you were not and want to see some of your favorite TPR personalities, I will put up a whole bunch of personal pictures in a few days, keep an eye out for them! Thanks to Tivoli Gardens for such a wonderful day! Jon (Moose) checks off Denmark on the Official Big Mike Road Show T-Shirt! I know the camera misfired here, but I think it is a great shot to end with! I observe a very happy Big Mike, the same happiness that I have now to return to TPR and share my travels once again to all the Valuable Big Mike Readers! I hope you enjoyed my comeback trip report and that you found all the duckies!! Also dont forget, if you enjoy the Big Mike series and want to stay caught up on the fast paced trip reports coming and want to win some awesome prizes, HIT THE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS TOPIC BUTTON on the bottom of the page!  Thats it my friends!! Big Mike is BACK!!!  Hopefully the wonderful TPR community remembers good ole Big Mike and welcomes him back with open arms!   Peace, Big Mike Edited January 6, 2011 by ernierocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudtheWeiser Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Great Trip report Its Great to have the Big Mike Roadshow back and in full effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs310 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) Welcome back BIG MIKE!!!!! I could only find the one duck in the pink rubber duck game. Â EDIT: I'm changing my guess to four ducks found. Edited January 6, 2011 by Migs310 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterbear30 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I found 7 ducks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerxeyez Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Hey Big Mike! Â Glad to see you're back and ready to go! Â Love ya! Â --Stef and Wag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printersdevil78 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Big Mike rides again! Great to see the show back up and running, and an amazing park to come out of "retirement" on! Can't wait for the VTRs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Tivoli  We spent all day there from the ERT session before the park opened to close. We did not go back to the hotel even once. Nor did we leave the park for any reason.  Good to see you back in action, Mike. Thanks for posting this belated update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Great to have you back Big Man. It was nice seeing you again in Munich! Â I loved Tivoli, but you also included a picture of my nemisis at the park: The FUN SLIDE! I had a really hard landing and to this day, over a year and a half later, I still get pain from it now and then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoCo Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Beautiful shots and very entertaining! I have never been to this legendary park, and I eat up with a fork and spoon any and all photos; thanks! Â Looking forward to the video reports and the hotties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picknyourseat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Welcome back BIG MIKE!!!!! I could only find the one duck in the pink rubber duck game. EDIT: I'm changing my guess to four ducks found.  Answer locked in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picknyourseat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I found 7 ducks. Â Answer locked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picknyourseat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Welcome back Big Man...just a little bit too quiet without you around here! Â This may be the toughest ducky game ever, so I am going to do a little more checking before providing the correct answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperShawn Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Great to have you back Big Mike! Hope to see you out this way for WCB this year! Â That was one tough round of find the Duckie. My final answer is 3 duckies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 That's it--get back up on that horse, Mike! Tivoli was definitely a great day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Welcome back!! So glad the show is up and running again! Â My guess is 7 ducks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picknyourseat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Great to have you back Big Mike! Hope to see you out this way for WCB this year! That was one tough round of find the Duckie. My final answer is 3 duckies. Welcome back!! So glad the show is up and running again!  My guess is 7 ducks!  Answers locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Love seeing the pictures of KT from a while back...it's funny to see how much she's changed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikaru-chan Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I guess I have to be the weird person and say 9 ducks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jomisaca Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 My guess is 6, but my mind might have created one! Thanks for the fun game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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