Ben's Behemoth/East Coast Tour PTR

[Fry]

OK, so I figured that although there’ll be about a million of these, I still wanted to do a PTR of the beyond-awesome time I had on the Behemoth/East Coast trips. Now, the amount of photos I took just sort of plummets to about two a day halfway through the trip, so a fair amount of the parks will be nothing more then like, those two photos, a few comments and not a lot else. But, the majority of those days (ie. Morey’s Piers) I was having too much fun hanging out to worry about photos, so that’s OK by me. Plus, the photos of rides aren’t really any good, so I’ll try and avoid posting a lot of them, plus, something tells me you might have seen a couple of those by now anyway! Still, this trip was about a LOT more then coasters, so a coaster-lite report is another thing that is OK by me. I also can’t promise I’ll finish it, but I have nought to do for the next few weeks, so I’ll do my best!

 

Now, just before I start with everything, I just want to say a BIG thank-you to everyone that made this trip SO memorable and the best two-odd weeks I’ve spent doing anything ever. So, a shout-out to y’all who I won’t name cause A. You know who you are and B. You’ll all probably turn up in photo-form anyway so I can’t be bothered to type what I’ll just show later anyway! Although there are some people who I loved hanging with but don’t have ANY photos of! Like David, how did I go all that time and still not have a photo of us!

 

And one last thing- Robb and Elissa, you guys freakin’ RULE! Thank-you! I was a bit worried I wouldn’t get the huge, amazing, fall-in-love addiction to the TPR trips that everyone goes on about, I thought that would probably a bit too much hype. Have I ever been so happily wrong about anything before? No. No I have not. Seriously, if there’s even a simmer of hope you could do a trip in 09, DO IT. I know I’ll be doing one at least every year until they end!

 

OK, so day one of the Behemoth trip was Seabreeze, a quaint little park with an AWESOME Log Flume which would strike a Log Flume-obsession which would run through the trip (Dorney’s Log Flume = absolute pwnage on a stick while Busch’s = absolute fail just as a sidenote). The woodie-which-I-can’t-remember-the-name-of was fun, but Bear Trax WAS NOT! Fail at getting on that was upsetting. Whirlwind was good fun, and the ERT on that and Bobselds was a great way to start the trip off with a bang.

 

Wooden Roller Coaster 1 starts off the photos with a very exciting lift hill porn shot.

 

The big stick that it uses to slow itself down is very geekily arousing.

 

TPR members get ready in the scary-Morgan-train

 

After the woodie we found the park’s highlight show- random hot people get semi-naked and stretch

 

The park’s proper coaster highlight was this awesome MS spinner

 

Which I CAN remember the name of, since I have this handy photo to tell me what it is

 

This would be better if the people weren’t totally random but I included it to say how awesome the first drop is backwards

 

The other coaster in the park was the famous Bobselds

 

A strange woodie-steel-ex-kiddie-coaster-that-got-extended hybrid, it was a fun ride, but really scary at points

 

Random generic group queue shot 1

 

Kimmy and Eric seemed to be enjoying something

 

I can’t think of anything to say, so I’ll just let Brooke’s face to the talking

 

Although the scary pathing and garish theming doesn’t look great, it’s actually a quaint little park with buckets of charm

 

And the amazing Log Flume makes an appearance. It started off with a randomly fast cement trench thing, but the highlight was the freakin’ steep drop!

 

See, freakin’ steep! This meant for a LOT of airtime, sending me off my seat in a way no Log Flume should be allowed to do.

 

The… Screaming Eagle (?) ride was a lot of fun, especially since you get to look at the people sat opposite you and scream at each other.

 

And a random group shot of us before braving the might-be-called-something-Eagley ride closes out Seabreeze

 

I’ll put Darien Lake up next, so remain tuned.

[grinch1313]

Great TR so far, Ben! I look forward to more photos!

 

Bobselds cracked me up. That is why I look so amused in the photo. It was such a strange little ride, but really fun!

 

I will also agree to the comment about the scary airtime on the flume. I was in the front and we started going down the drop when I realized just how steep that was. It was totally amazing!

[krazekiddd]

Ben! I can't wait to see your updates! Another amazing PTR to follow to pass time at work.

[Erik Johnson]

The log flume was beyond awesome, it was very unexpected. It was cool to meet and hang out with you on the trip. I can't wait for the rest.

[ms13]

The log flume didn't look like anything special, so I skipped it.....

....maybee I shouldn't have.

[natatomic]

^That was the scariest log flume of the B/RF trip! The drop didn't look like much from the ground, but DANG, what an illusion that was...

 

Great TR so far, Ben.

[Wood Dragon 1988]

I skipped that flume because I was cold......but there is NO WAY it was better than Martin's!

[televisedconfession]

^the drop on this one was better than Martin's

 

It scared me actually. Didn't expect it.

[Fry]

Lol, I'm glad y'all are enjoying it so far after one update, lol!

 

And yes, that Log Flume truly was freakin' awesome, but Martin's was better! Martin's was just... insane.

 

OK, so the morning of Day Two saw, as everyone probably already guessed, Darien Lake. I thought it was a much nicer park then I’d imagined, yes it had some bad pathing issues, but the setting by the Lakes and general atmosphere was a lot better then I’d heard about. Also, Ride of Steel was great! I really, really enjoyed it almost as much as SFNE’s, and a million miles more then SFA’s garbage can version.

 

What else was of interest? Oh, Predator freakin’ sucked! I can’t even remember what it did other then beat me up. The Log Flume was hilarious, the sickening flats lived up to exactly how I thought they would be, and so did the SLC, which I also funnily enough, can’t actually remember other then it sucked. Y’know what, I’ll just put my thoughts down with the photos as opposed to before.

 

Just in case you’d forgotten where this is a report of, a gaggle of TPR members mix under the sign to remind you

 

And then everyone heads off

 

And have to go through this suck-fest to reach…

 

The good stuff… side note, these photos make it look stormy, was it in the morning?

 

I think the station’s real cute, and in no way do the colours link in anyway to Superman. At all. Coincidence.

 

Everyone’s hopping at the thought of morning Intamin

 

Sucks to wait in this huge line we had to… did that make ANY sense?

 

Then we went to ride Predator. Again, the line in ERT was HUGE. And has anyone ever waited this for this piece of crap? If so, send me your address on a postcard and I’ll send you all the £10 I currently have to my name in sympathy

 

I don’t even have to say what was next

 

Where Beth waited on her own. Cause she’s no fun.

 

Kim and Roxy find Beth’s loneliness hilarious

 

Yeah, that don’t impress her much

 

Reactions to the ride seemed to be pretty much unanimously “meh, it was fun but nothing great”

 

And it has the mystical power to make Luke’s wrists limp… well, limper

 

These guys seem impressed

 

And here’s my version of the exact same, albeit better, photo that Natalie took. She kept stealing all my photos ideas. I should therefore have the credit for her PTR

 

You guys excited?

 

Well, they certainly are now

 

By now it was time for Beth to take her ride. Did I mention she was still alone? Boo her.

 

Um, yay?

 

Apparently queues are something I take a lot of photos of. Must be a sad geek tendency I didn’t know I had

 

Yep. Clearly a geek

 

Roxy’s ready to be… ‘rang’d?

 

Kimmy looks slightly more worried

 

Although there’s now obviously a joke they all get which Luke isn’t involved in

 

Yes Robb, we are all asking the same question

 

Lol, no comment needed

 

Again, Luke obviously doesn’t get whatever’s making the others smile. And anyone find it weird that Kimmy and Neil are doing the same thing at the same time

 

That poor Universal-rip-off-statue didn’t know what was gonna to happen when it went to work that morning

 

I don’t even know who this is

 

Ew

 

Natalie, you KNEW what you were about to ride, right? Cause you looked far too happy.

 

I included this cause it’s the only photo with Brooke’s AWESOME socks in it, and they need to be shown to World

 

Fascination, which apparently makes Kimmy make weird faces

Yep, Neil hunted out the beer

 

And while this thing freakin’ sucked, it was possibly the funniest flat ever. Sorry we laughed at you Brooke, but it WAS funny

 

There was some really good views of Ride of Steel from lunch, especially of this suck-fest of a trim

 

The first drop was certainly one of the highlights of the ride for me

 

But this was my real favourite part

 

The penultimate ride we did (just before the infamous final Ride of Steel ride) was the Log Flume, which again, continued my love for them. But, from this photo you can’t tell it’s a Log Flume, just it’s a group. Queuing. For something. But it was the Log Flume, trust me.

 

Which we all decided was built on top of a sewer, but did provide a fun ride

 

Somewhere Roxy has a very similar photo, just of me instead of her

 

She was showing me her beer thing, but all that it looks like is a blur

 

Erik, did this ride get you wet? Yes, yes indeed it did.

 

And then was the infamous Ride of Steel run, which funnily enough, I didn’t have a lot of time to take photos of. And, however scary it was, for that last fantastic ride, it was well worth it.

 

So, overall I really liked the park, certainly a lot more then “equivalents” like SFA. Ride of Steel was a great coaster, and then things like Viper and Motocoaster were fun.

 

Up next is part two of the day, the awesome Martin’s Fantasy Island.

[natatomic]

Wow, I definitely don't remember Neil's skull caressing my left boob over at MotoCoaster.

 

Also, this?

 

 

THIS IS AN ILLUSION OF THE CAMERA. TYLER DOES NOT HAVE HIS ARM AROUND ME OH MY GOSH NOOOOOO EW EW EW MY EYES OH HOW THEY BURN.

 

Ahem.

 

Just wanted to clarify.

[Erik Johnson]

^ LOL. Just think that was the hand that is responsible for the Winnie the Crap Puppet show.

 

[dammie16@vt.edu]

The way the photos were with the captions was too much for my tired brain, I was sitting here like, "God these captions suck they make no sense!"

 

Then I realized what was going on

[All Clear]

Wow. Seeing pictures of Darien Lake reminds me of how sane and sober I felt at that point in the trip. I was struggling to keep it together at Canada's Wonderland...I think it was Marine Land where I finally lost my mind. A certain squishy sno-globe with a beluga whale in it comes to mind...

 

I can't wait to see more! It seems like so long ago...

 

I must focus on Scandinavia.

[Wood Dragon 1988]

and a million miles more then SFA’s garbage can version

 

You serious?

 

I used to love that ride before I went on the other two this year. I need to get back to SFA (all 30 minutes up the rode) and see if this slandering is actually true.

[grinch1313]

Wow, Ben, you have some amazing photos of me. I have all kinds of interesting expressions captured there.

[DCody]

Looking at those lovely photos makes me so maudlin! I WANNA GO BACK!

 

Natalie and Tyler: 2gether 4ever!

[printersdevil78]

THIS IS AN ILLUSION OF THE CAMERA. TYLER DOES NOT HAVE HIS ARM AROUND ME OH MY GOSH NOOOOOO EW EW EW MY EYES OH HOW THEY BURN.

 

Oooh! Natalie and Alabama sittin' in a tree!

[natatomic]

I hate you all.

[dammie16@vt.edu]

Seems you have found your custom title dream man

[U2Rox]

HA HA!!!

I can see how it could work out!!!

[downunder]

I look at it this way, how many people who wind up in long term relationships say they didn't like each other when they first met and possibly for a while after that. Smells like destiny to me, that Alabammy is a real catch, young lady.

 

Cue the strains of Bryan Adams - "I Finally Found Someone". You could do it as duet on your next trip together, with puppets.

 

Awww, young love.

 

Damn I love to stir.

[Fry]

Okie dokie, Martin’s, which is the first “yeah, I took like, zero photos at this park” day. However, it was a freakin’ awesome day! The Log Flume was the funniest thing ever, like Jahan doing a successful leaf grab, which I tried to mimic and almost uprooted the whole tree… ooops! Then Silver Comet was an AWESOME woodie, Full Tilt was an insane flat ride, and the gentley-rotating Mouse was… well, OK, that was crap, but you can’t win them all! The Starflyer was freaking awesome as well, Natalie, you provided me endless entertainment on that ride, and it was well worth the dollar I spent on it! What else did I pay you a dollar for…? Oh, I Got It? That game was hilarious, throwing our balls all over the place, so funny. When they’d fly back out, and all stack, AGGH, SO frustrating!

 

OK, photo time!

 

This is THE only photo I took of Silver Comet, so enjoy. Also, “Forward Per Train Design”… OK…

 

Natalie, this photo’s for you!

 

A very shadowy, but proud Natalie after her ride… eating her hand for some reason… maybe she’s motioning to me that she stole my dollar…

 

I could make a Adam, balls, groping, new, experimenting joke… but I won’t stoop to that level

 

Full-Tilt made everyone go into a dancing mode… or the ABBA that kept playing, whichever

 

Natalie does a more “seductive” dance… most likely directed towards at her new Alabama-raised squeeze

 

Robbie just plain points at something… or maybe it’s his version of a dance?

 

This up-skirt was the best photo I got of this freakin’ insane ride! SO funny! Although, Robbie, I felt so bad for you on your own, what was it you said about that group that couldn’t possibly have moved along one… I can’t remember, but it was HILARIOUS

 

And the ride had this awesome “heart problems are represented by a band-aid” warning sign that was for some reason a lot funnier then that lame quote I came up with to describe it

And although I don’t have any photos of the Log Flume itself, I did document the aftermath. It got Roxy ever so slightly wet. Just a bit. Just a little. Just a *hand gesture to show really small*

 

Yeah. Wet.

 

And that’s all the photos, haha. I did say they start getting useless, just wait until I reach the main part of the trip… LOL! Although, Canada’s Wonderland, which I’ll put up next, is gonna be full of a lot of photos cause I took a literal tonne that day!

[robbalvey]

Wow, I definitely don't remember Neil's skull caressing my left boob over at MotoCoaster.

 

Also, this?

 

 

THIS IS AN ILLUSION OF THE CAMERA. TYLER DOES NOT HAVE HIS ARM AROUND ME OH MY GOSH NOOOOOO EW EW EW MY EYES OH HOW THEY BURN.

 

Ahem.

 

Just wanted to clarify.

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

 

OMG! I just laughed so hard I peed a little!

 

--Robb "It's so cool when TPR creates lovers..." Alvey

[dammie16@vt.edu]

^TMI much???

 

 

 

Great round of photos here, it seems Natalie has now aquired what I like to call, "A TPR signature" (Like Dan and water/comas) that will follow her forever.

 

 

EDIT: Reputation changed to signature as that was the original word I was looking for and just remembered what it was.

[rollin_n_coastin]

Ben, great PTR so far buddy!