hansrubens Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 (edited) Hi everyone, Finally I found some time to start my review of TPR's west coast trip. I started the trip in San Francisco in stead of LA just to avoid the big bus ride. I thought it would be terrible but if I could do it over I would start in LA. I missed Shark Attack 3 you know. Anyway we did some sightseeing and some shopping in San Francisco. Our flight had an 3 hour delay in NYC. We planned to be at the hotel at around 7 pm but due to the delay it was around 10 pm. At that time we still needed something to eat but everything, except for the In and Out, was closed. Nonetheless we had a great first day in San Francisco. On to the Pictures. Well guys I'm not that good in reviewing a city. Mega random building alert. Random building alert the Full House bridge. Of course we came across the rock and... Beautiful overview of the city from here. some sunbathing ^ Seelions We started the day on Pier 39 which was not busy at all except for the... It was nice and cosy and had free internet. Our hotel for the first night. Edited March 3, 2010 by hansrubens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groteslurf Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Finally I don't regret we flew into SFO because I really enjoyed that day in San Francisco. It's a pitty we didn't get a picture of the 2 taxi's we took and especially their drivers : first the crazy, GTA limo driver and secondly the Vietnamese female driver. I'm still laughing when I think about the conversation you had with her about New York : Hans : 'You know that the Netherlands founded New York ?" She : 'Oh, you discovered NY ?" Hans : 'No, we founded NY'. She : 'Yes, you found NY. You discovered NY'. Hans : 'Yeah, we found NY ....' Looking forward to the updates Hans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 ^ Yeah that vietnamese taxi driver was really funny. She lives in the US since 1982 and still don't speak proper English. -----Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 Day 1: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom The day at Discovery Kingdom was awesome. We had morning ERT on Medusa and evening ERT on V2, Roar and the now epic ERT on Tony Hawk. The park was kind enough to show us some of their wildlife animals. This was definitely the best Six Flags park I've ever been. In the afternoon we left the park for a little surprise trip to the Jelly Belly factory. I never heard of it but after I've been there I even spotted some shops in Holland who sell them so thanks TPR for introducing me in the world of Jelly Belly's. After the evening ERT I left the park, I think together with Voyager (correct me if I'm wrong), and we were already a bit late. Trust me you don't want to be late on a TPR trip especially when it is the first day of your first trip. It turned out that we were the first at the parking lot except for Larry of course. So we were pushing Larry to put the bus at a different location but of course Larry stayed loyal to TPR. On to the pictures.... Guys don't cheat. Tony Hawk's cup's challenge. This was the spot where Robb was doing his 'thing'. Well actually he dumped a whole container of water over the passing trains. Time for the nighttime ERT. making big dumps. Big animals... but is it an exceptable amount of wetness. Not so big splash.... Interesting picture. Who is cooler: Benny or the cool looking American dude? Through the loop. Yeah Australia. V2 is very unique with it's 'flatened' peak. Seconds after I shot this they drank each others pee. The park is so good landscaped for a Six Flags park. Mr. Penguin During lunch they showed the TPR crew to... This is the only picture I have of Roar and yes it's crappy. My favorite element on a coaster. well Medusa is cool. Which is cool cause.. We started the day with ERT on Medusa. It was really cool that they brought out all the animals. and some other animal related stuff. a talking camel with a lady. TPR peeps are waiting for..... ALways start a report with a parkmap. Arrival early in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMike Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 That looks so fun. Did you do the tony hawk's challenge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbit Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Looks fun! California looks cool! i really like to see some pictures of Medusa...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 ^^ Yes I did the challenge but I was really bad at it. I only had one drop of water left. ^ Sorry but those are the only Medusa pictures that I have. You can always check the park index for more Medusa pictures. ---Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Day 2 - Morning visit to Gilroy Gardens Girloy Gardens is a nice themepark not a park you would expect in the USA. We had ERT on Quicksilver Express an Morgan minetrain which surprised me in a good way and it had a serious headchopper moment right after the second lift. Pictures!!!! The place is just breathtaking. Tree shot #2 We're all so dirty. Second credit of the park. ^ It was quite difficult to get out of here. Rock maze. American side. Canadian side. They even have the Niagara Falls in California. Circus tree. Benny's ready to pick up some chicks. Took the tunnel. But the setting is amazing. It's just an oldtimer car ride. I think this was the best ride of the park. We're so cool. Skytrain POV. The employees were very nice too. Sky Train the only people mover I know that has a lapbar. Wheee. We're having so much fun. Ok we're ready to go. Robb are you? Is everybody ready. First of for Quicksilver Express ERT. I was kind of surprised by the Busch Gardens/Efteling standard of landscaping. As most of you know the park is very well landscaped. Park entrance. Seasonpass processing. Parkmap. Larry parked his bus on a nice spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Day 2 - Afternoon/evening visit to Santa Cruz This was one of the parks I really looked forward too. Yes even before the beer party was announced. The setting is just perfect and the hospitality was awesome. On arrival the park was packed and I only got the credits out of the way before the beer/food/volleyball party. After that we had an awesome behind the scenes tour at the park. Thanks to the beer party I really needed to pee during the tour but luckily there was a toilet at the infield of the Giant Dipper. What a relief. On to the pictures. TPR members go crazy. A good shooter dark ride. Big mike's biggest fan. Something themed to a giant Octopussy or a mega shark. The rock 'o plane is really an insane flatride. I think I managed to do 10 spins on one cycle. Some random flatrides. ^ ^ Machinery/motor room of the Giant Dipper. The head mechanic. ^ ^ ^ On the infield of the Dipper. I feel so much safer right now. Cool upskirt carrousel shot. The bras ring thingy machine Tour started underneath the carrousel. TPR people in action. I think this was the first ever TPR volleyball match. TPR Party deck. This is the nice man that gives us the behind the scenes tour. The third coaster of the park. This coaster is only worth one picture. (sorry Josh) it didn't take long. Although there was quite a long line Some fun facts about the dipper. First off to the dipper. This place is awesome. After the relaxing morning at Gilroy this was something totally different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jds03 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I guess Bas and I are the only people on the trip who like Hurricane. We're a small and decimated group. And I agree about Rock-O-Plane. It was totally awesome, except I had to ride it alone because nobody else in my group wanted to. The G’s are amazing when you pull the bar at the top and don’t let go the whole cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_Hollibone Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Why would I have wanted to ride the rock-o-plane josh? Death trap if you ask me. Awesome TR so far my friend Hans. I look forward to the next instalment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printersdevil78 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Awesome TR (and not just because I'm in it three times)! I really, really liked SCBB. If I could relive just one day of the trip, it would be the Gilroy/SCBB day, hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted November 9, 2009 Author Share Posted November 9, 2009 California's Great America - Day 3 Today was a day of getting all your credits and get out of here. No kidding we did leave early but we voted to leave early and I think everyone agreed. I didn't knew much about this park except that it was used in Beverly Hills Cop 3. Pictures.... That lifthill is definitely not straight. Catch the blue train. Ok thats better. Come on peeps show some exitement. TPR people in coaster heaven. Empty train speeding by. Coasternerd taking pictures of a coaster. And finaly Grizzly opened. Random picture from the sky ride. Bonus picture. Sorry guys I really hoped you got soaked. But when they arrived the water canons had technical difficulties. So I was already hoping that they would get soaked at this point. Paul asked me too guard his backpack while he and Josh took a ride on the rapids so whilst waiting I took a few pictures. Vertical loops are good. The first part wasn't actually that bad. Ah another death machine. And we're welcome at the picnic grove. I love the random train in the station pictures. Cause we are too. I wonder how many people of our group did fit on this coaster. Help don't eat me. with the smallest splash in themepark history. White Water Falls. Which is not so good for a B&M ride. Next ERT session was on Vortex. From a distance. I heard some people almost Blacked out on the helix after the loop. Looperdeloop. Very forcefull but I like B&M's that way. We started with ERT on flight deck. ---- 2009 prices. Entrance gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 Day 4 - Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags treated us very well during our visit. Not only our scheduled day but cause we arrived early we were allowed to enter the park that very night. Thanks for that it was really awesome. Benny and me were one of the few that did not hit X2 for a night ride but instead we already got in 3 credits - Superman, Scream and Colossos. After park closing we were treated of an hour of ERT on Goliath. The next morning started with 1.5 hours of ERT on Viper, Revolution, Tatsu and X2. After that I got in my other credits and got very wet on a bloody waterride and did a Goliath-Marathon with Josh. Thank you Gold Q-bot. In the evening we had ERT on Terminator and Deja VU it turned out to be the best ERT session of the trip. Big thank you to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Pictures.... I think this is the coaster of the trip I rode the most. Saying goodbye to Magic Mountain. Yeah Kiddy credit and we were allowed to ride. Or Josh? Who's the better impersonator of Tweety? Me? Help let me out. ^ ^ We had lunch at Johnny. Terminator down it's first drop. ^ ^ ^ ^ Some skytower pictures. Evening ERT = Epic. I like those Arrow suspended coasters. Being artsy. Mister cool. This is what you look like after riding X2. First of to X2 during morning ERT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groteslurf Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Great update Hans. I so loved the Goliath surprise ERT. Most of the ride-ops had to ride with us to have the required 9 riders on the train because everybody on the WCT was still at X2, except for us 2, Bas and Larry (if I remember well). Although I couldn't stand the heat the next day and had to return to the hotel for some cooling off in the afternoon, it still was my favorite day of the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 On the day at Magic Mountain we also had Waterpark ERT. I did not participate but I took pictures instead. I took tons of pictures but most of them turned out wat too blurry. The pictures are hilarious..... Enjoy. and finally out of the funnel. and a foursome. A twosome. Going up really high. or is it TPdave. Is it fear or joy? or cry out like little babies. Just act cool. Incomming. Tubing. ERT on Tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggernel Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Looks like a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jds03 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Great update! Magic Mountain was EPIC! I still need to get my video finished, then I'll finaly post annother update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speeddeamon128 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Nice update Hans! I didn't go to the water park ert so I could film & take pics longer & get more coaster rides in. Looks like everyone had fun who went to HH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRapidsNerd Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Just caught the CGA portion of this and wanted to say thanks for the Rapids shots as well as the Magic Mountain water park shots. Some very clear, sharp pictures. Enjoyed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansrubens Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 Day 5 part 1 - Universal Studios Hollywood After the late ERT at Magic Mountain this was a very early morning but with Mummy ERT looming I could cope with it. The park is nice but since I'm not that much into shows I didn't expect anything from this park.The rides that they have did surprise me. Jurassic Park was awesome. The behind the scenes tour of the Mummy and ERT were phenomenal. I even enjoyed Simpsons the ride and that's a small surprise to me cause most of the times I get nauseas on simulator rides. On to the pictures... The Horror maze was fun no more no less. Great setting. This was really awesome. but I still managed to take some pictures of the planecrash site. Due to the late night and the early morning I fell asleep on the Studio Tram Tour. I think Bart is looking for something. I did like the Simpsons ride. Look someone who's nearly as tall as me. Imho this show is very lame. and you gonna get wet. And yes there was water, water everywhere. It was not too busy when we rode it. Massice JP entrance. where all the cool dudes had gathered. Next ride was the escalator. Looking down from the controlroom. We also met some celebreties. Coaster part. Launch area. We're about to get cursed. It was really cool to walk so close to the coastertrack. ^ Darkride part. and yes everybody was listening very closely. Behind the scenes tour began at the maintenance dock. Mummy entrance. We were waiting to be escorted to the Mummy for ERT. USH shopping. Early morning arrival at USH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printersdevil78 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Great photos! Sorry about walking into the first one.... It's hard to believe this trip was four months ago already. I can't wait for the 2010 TPR trip season to open! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speeddeamon128 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Nice update Hans! Nice pic of me on escalator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursemelis374 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I am still so jealous that you guys got to go backstage on Mummy! So cool and thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_Hollibone Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Hahaha, that look of me on the escalator, priceless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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