coaster1000 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I wish I was you. And that's just 2009? Damn you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 I wish I was you. And that's just 2009? Damn you. Heck, I wish I was you! I don't particularly want to face puberty for a second time, but your potential credit count is so much higher. I'll probably have to stop riding in 30 years, but you'll get to ride all of the coasters built after 2040 that I'll never see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelinwood Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The american hot-dog stand is priceless. I've also never seen that euro-fighter before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bat Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Great report Martin!!! You guys had a big year. I really liked some of the choices of the images. Hope to travel and coast with you again soon. -- Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash.1111 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Is that all!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 Great report Martin!!! You guys had a big year. I really liked some of the choices of the images. Hope to travel and coast with you again soon. -- Dave I love that you are "The Bat"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeForce Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 (edited) -- Edited January 8, 2012 by GeForce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 Great Photos, But the Phantasialand Photo is not from 2009 I'm not getting the smiley...Do I know the poster? Yes, it is 2009. We moved to Holland on January 2, 2009, and a couple of weeks later, the great Leon S. of TPR Tokyo Trip 2008 picked us up at Breda Station and drove us to Bruhl, home of Phantasialand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Finn Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Gardaland... Firstly, where is that located? More importantly, I have a roller coaster book from, eh, 2008. It mentions the idea of a screaming squirrel prototype. I'm assuming the coaster shown in the picture is the final product of the screaming squirrel? Like a wild mouse that flips you upside down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted February 21, 2010 Author Share Posted February 21, 2010 Gardaland... Firstly, where is that located? More importantly, I have a roller coaster book from, eh, 2008. It mentions the idea of a screaming squirrel prototype. I'm assuming the coaster shown in the picture is the final product of the screaming squirrel? Like a wild mouse that flips you upside down. Gardaland is in Castelnuovo del Garda in northern Italy, right here on a Google map, approximately equidistant from Milano and Bologna. We flew into Bologna so that we could go from Mirabilandia (in Ravenna) to catch our return flight. Yes, that was the Screaming Squirrel prototype, named Sequoia Adventure, and if you look at the Flamingo Land picture, that is the current generation of that coaster, Mumbo Jumbo, which is S&S Power's El Loco model. Indiana Beach has one called Steel Hawg. Unfortunately, both types are lacking, IMHO. The Screaming Squirrel was braked so much that you're spending a lot of time hanging upside down. Quite slow. The new version has some of the same problems: a bit too slow and upside-down hang time embeds the restraints into your shoulders. But it is a nifty ride nonetheless, just not my cup of tea. Sequoia Adventure is definitely nice to look at, with every round support painted to look like a giant California redwood. Incidentally, there's a fantastic review of Mumbo Jumbo in First Drop Magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 (edited) Happy Holidays, everyone! It's that time of year: Every park that we hit in 2010...71(!) parks...one photo per park, and excluding Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, Texas, as it's exclusively a water park. Overall, I think the quality of the photography is lacking this year, maybe just because we went to too many damn parks. Notable this year that two of the parks we visited no longer exist, although one was really just an FEC. Anyway, thanks for checking it out. (Just added a forgotten park at the end!) Plopsaland Hasselt Disneyland Disney's California Adventure Universal Studios Hollywood Six Flags Magic Mountain (WCB) Alton Towers Camelot Theme Park Lightwater Valley Pleasure Island Family Theme Park Fantasy Island (UK) Botton's Pleasure Beach Drayton Manor West Midlands Safari & Leisure Park Blackbeard's Cave Funtown Pier Knott's Berry Farm (Whoops, should have come after SFMM, also WCB) Jenkinson's Boardwalk Keansburg Bonbon Land Bakken Tivoli Gardens Fun City (Sweden) Liseberg Fårup Sommerland Tivoli Karolinelund (Founded by the Lind Family in 1946 - Defunct 2010) Tivoli Friheden Djurs Sommarland Six Flags America Canobie Lake Park Wild Adventures Dixieland Fun Park Six Flags Over Georgia Six Flags Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Magic Forest Park Jeepers! (Albany, NY - Just found out: Defunct!) Clementon Park & Splash World Luna Park (Coney Island) Six Flags Fiesta Texas Sea World San Antonio Nickelodeon Universe (TPR Middle America Tour) Adventureland (IA) (TPR Middle America Tour) Hoffman's Playland (another oops, should be after Magic Forest) Worlds of Fun (TPR Middle America Tour) Silver Dollar City (TPR Middle America Tour) Six Flags St. Louis (TPR Middle America Tour) Holiday World (TPR Middle America Tour) Indiana Beach (TPR Middle America Tour) Six Flags Great America (TPR Middle America Tour) Mount Olympus (TPR Middle America Tour) Timber Falls Adventure Park (TPR Middle America Tour) Knuckleheads (TPR Middle America Tour) Valleyfair! (TPR Middle America Tour) Speelpark Duinen Zathe Speelstad Oranje Drouwenerzand Attractiepark Hansa Park Heide Park Wiener Prater Vidámpark Sea World Orlando Universal Islands of Adventure Universal Studios Orlando Magic Kingdom Old Town Fun Spot USA Busch Gardens Tampa EPCOT Parque Warner Madrid Parque de Atracciones Madrid Efteling Edited April 3, 2011 by milst1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Nice Martin - now just waiting for another PTR to read your opinions about Wiener Prater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted December 27, 2010 Author Share Posted December 27, 2010 Nice Martin - now just waiting for another Photo TR to read your opinions about Wiener Prater. I could have sworn that I did a Wiener Prater report but I can't find it so I guess I didn't! Prater was okay...we loved the scenic railway and the nature park and the atmosphere and the food. But the park is definitely run down. The Zamperla flying was down because of the accident but we couldn't find any physical evidence of the accident even though 3 people were injured. I'm having deja vu because I thought I wrote about all this already. Anyway, thanks for looking Larry. This 69 photo thing took a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I didn't know Ashley got so dressed up at SFGA! Wow, that's a ton of parks! Great pictures! How many of them were new parks for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 ^I had the same thought when I first saw that photo! Great photo choices! It was fun seeing the familiar and the not-so-familiar. Looks like you had a great park season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 First, thank you so much for checking out the report. Last year's got so many looks so I was hoping for similar results this year. Oh well. But thanks for showing the love. Second, that's a good question about which parks were new...almost all of them except the Texas parks, USH, and every park on Middle America was new except for Holiday World. DAMN I forgot a park! I feel so stupid but now I realize that I forgot Efteling because I didn't see a photo in the 2010 collection. Gotta look...thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Thanks for posting this Martin! Great stuff!!! --Robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted January 8, 2011 Author Share Posted January 8, 2011 Hi Robb! Thanks for checkin' it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 (edited) 2011 Edition. We're still going to hit one more park in 2011, Xetulul in Guatemala, but not until next Friday and I thought it better to post sooner. I'll add the Xetulul photo later. Thanks to Cheryl for providing photos from our mini-Scandi trip. My laptop zapped my memory card (has this ever happened to others?) and my photos were lost. Cheryl was very good at taking pictures of the signs for every credit. Plopsa Indoor Coevorden Legoland California SeaWorld San Diego Belmont Park Efteling Parc Asterix Jardin d'Acclimatation Walt Disney Studios-PDR Disneyland Parc-PDR (full princess dining experience for our 5th Wedding Anniversary) Parc du Bocasse Parc Saint-Paul FarGlory Ocean Park Window on China Leofoo Village Theme Park Atayal Resort Discovery World Janfusun Fancyworld Formosan Aboriginal Cultural Village E-DA Theme Park Walibi Holland Speelpark Oud Valkeveen Sybrandy's Bellewaerde Park Boudewijn Seapark Familiepretpark Mini Mundi Shan GriLa Paradise (whoops, this was back during the Taiwan trip) Linnanmäki Särkänniemi Amusement Park Gröna Lund TusenFryd Scream Zone Adventurers Family Entertainment Center Lake Winnepesaukah Six Flags Over Georgia Kings Dominion Quassy Canada's Wonderland Bowcraft Victorian Gardens Wild Waves Six Flags Great Adventure (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Morey's Piers (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Clementon Park (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Knoebel's (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Hersheypark (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Dorney Park (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Kennywood (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Kings Island (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Jungle Jack's Landing (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Cedar Point (TPR's Road to Cedar Point) Parque de Atracciones de Zaragoza Terra Mitica Festilandia John's Incredible Pizza Company (Riverside, CA) Castle Amusement Park Scandia Amusement Park Adventure City Pacific Park Six Flags Magic Mountain Disneyland Disney California Adventure Universal Studios Hollywood (Hollywood Horror Nights) John's Incredible Pizza (Roseville, CA) Funtown at Micke Grove Oakland Zoo Happy Hollow Park & Zoo EPCOT Magic Kingdom Busch Gardens Tampa Kinderstad Heerlen Phantasialand Mondo Verde (Thanks for checking it out! Happy New Year!) Xetulul Edited January 7, 2012 by milst1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce232 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 That Cedar Point photo was priceless, love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddytheviper Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 You cannot comprehend how jealous I am of you and this epic list of parks... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milst1 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 You cannot comprehend how jealous I am of you and this epic list of parks... wow. Thanks very much for checking out our report. It was a fun year, and we still have one park in Guatemala to do this year. Just fyi, our first international theme park trip was the 2008 TPR Seoul-Tokyo trip, which was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatle11 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Tell Cheryl I'm really sorry that she had to ride that Togo death machine for her 700th credit. That night at Knoebels was epic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technfxrick Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Great Pictures, i wish i had the time to do something like this. It was great hanging out with you at Efteling, and i hope all is well with you and Cheryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I love seeing this recap every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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