Hhappy Posted March 21, 2010 Author Posted March 21, 2010 Update They could only fit about 10 people at a time inside Calico Mine Train. Lower Glory Hole?
Sir Clinksalot Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Awesome updates!!! Yesterday was so fun and it looks like Knott's is a hit so far. Can't wait to see more. Â Question, is it possible to get the audio from Terminator from last night? It was so awesome!!!
Hhappy Posted March 21, 2010 Author Posted March 21, 2010 More photos Calico Mine Train claims the "cleanest maintenance bay" if ant park! Hooray for backstage tours! Oh...so THAT is the Glory Hole...ahh, ok!
Hhappy Posted March 21, 2010 Author Posted March 21, 2010 Locomotive roundhouse tour Next up was a tour of the locomotive roundhouse. This is where the big trains go to sleep.
tiger01 Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Awesome! WCB Just gets better and better. I'm very tempted to come along myself next time!
Hhappy Posted March 21, 2010 Author Posted March 21, 2010 (edited) Galloping Goose and don't forget to e-mail Dan !!!! They took us into the roundhouse. Gave us a history lesson. And let us take as many pictures as we could! Oooh Galloping Goose. How I love thee. We even got to walk part of the track where guests were normally not allowed. Tom explained how the Steam engines worked, what daily maintenance needs to be done and what the Galloping Goose is. The Galloping Goose was built during the great depression as a cost effective way to tranport mail. The Galloping Goose...NAKED!!! Wheels. Really big giant wheels. Hi my name is Dan. I'm a train dork and I would like you to email me at mrt0ad13@aol.com and say "hi Dan.". Edited March 21, 2010 by Hhappy
Guy T. Koepp Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 I am so sad right now. I wish I was there with you all.
larrygator Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 I am so sad right now. I wish I was there with you all. Â Â E-mailing Dan will make you feel better.
Guy T. Koepp Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 ^He an I have already been texting this morning, so I already have that covered. I'm still sad.
PortugePunk Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Yesterday was so much fun, as usual! I, unfortunately, had to work until after 2:30 a.m. every night this week, so I was just flat out too exhausted to make it to night time ERT (which, yes, I'm kicking myself for, but all the coffee in the park couldn't remedy it), but the morning and rest of the day was AWESOME! Thanks, everybody, for making this great. Â My one big regret (other than above) - as usual - I still haven't made good friends with anybody on here to meet up with at these events. I need to change that!
Hhappy Posted March 21, 2010 Author Posted March 21, 2010 Credit whoring and group photo Yay! Credit whores! MOST XTREME COASTER EVER!!!! Piers makes Montezoomas Revenge "fancy". Supreme Scream ERT!!! All hail Vekoma Boomerang! "Hey Elissa! Go Gators'l "Enter here." Pony Express! Hooray! My how awesome that new Club TPR shirt looks. Knotts group photo!!!
Philrad71 Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Thanks for the updates, Hanno....I surely miss WCB after last year. Despite the fact that we had rain, hail, sun, cold, frogs and everything else thrown at us - it was still a blast! Â Have fun, guys!
printersdevil78 Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 As much as I found to dislike about Knott's during my visit as part of the West Coast Tour last summer, their portion of WCB looks really, really cool!
ZeroG001 Posted March 21, 2010 Posted March 21, 2010 Yesterday at SFMM was my first TPR event ever, and my friends and I were very impressed! We had a great time, and I'm wishing I could have gone to the Knott's portion today, too. Hopefully if it's two parks next year, I'll be able to make it for both days. Thanks to Robb and everyone at SFMM that put on such a great event yesterday, and I'll definitely make sure to attend WCB 2011 next year, too!
traincrossin Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 (edited) Glad you guys are having fun over at West Coast Bash, I wish I could be there to be a part of all the fun! Maybe a Midwest Bash? Random question, but isn't a train from Cedar Point at Knott's getting worked on? All hail Vekoma Boomerang! I'd rather not. Edited March 22, 2010 by traincrossin
the ghost Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Awesome updates!!! Yesterday was so fun and it looks like Knott's is a hit so far. Can't wait to see more. Â Question, is it possible to get the audio from Terminator from last night? It was so awesome!!! Â Agreed. Just in case it does not get posted for those non participants in the station there was a muffled voice saying "Take the Tunnel, Take the tunnel." The lift hill was (if I heard correctly) a voice that sounded like invader zim saying things like "Why should you be able to ride with no preshow" and "I demand you see the preshow!" Then on the ride it kept yelling "Take the Tunnel" and on the final break run, the audio went something like "We took the tunnel, we took the tunnel, we took the tunnel." It was overall awesome as it was completely customized and very TPR approved. Easily the best day I have ever had at any park. Also, I am kind of dissapointed cause I saw tons of people but I am shy, so a very late hey to the Bebes, Fitch Coaster, Doug and Shannon Barnes, all the mods and Jeff Johnson, and J man aka the Hoodie Wizard. Also we saw Jahan, so I am not sure what was said cause there were people talking to him on the tour, but that was cool. We said hey to Robb during night time ERT, but next year I will actually say hi!
cooksta77 Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Just got back from Knotts not for the event but it was awesome to see all the WCB shirts. Even saw Robb by GoastRider. Next year for sure.
coasternut Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Had a great time at the Mountain yesterday at WCB. I come across the country from Florida for this. Thank Rob and staff ! Â Hey any news on Xcelerator while at Knotts today? I see the Knott's website now has posted Xcelerator is down through April 30 . I opted to return to the Mountain for more today Sunday . Â Just a wonderful time with all the extras at the Mountain yesterday. Thanks all...
6flagsbrad Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Sounds like fun! Any backstage tours on Xcelerator?
atem122 Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 No tours, but the park manager estimated it'd be back up in about 3-4 weeks. Â I had an awesome day today, I really really really wish I could've gone to Magic Mountain though Oh well, next year! Thanks for the great day!
FitchCoaster Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 WCB 2010 was so much fun! From night ERT surprises and X2 tour at SFMM to the Haunt presentation and "short" Calico Mine tour at Knott's; everything exceeded my already-high expectations! Colossus racing and the remixed Terminator audio was definitely the highlight of the weekend, for Jaclyn and I! Â I'd just like to give a HUGE thank you to Robb and everyone else involved for putting on such a fantastic event. I arrived at home from Knott's about an hour ago, and my mind is still blown from how great everything was. I've always wanted to go to WCB, and now that I've had the chance to experience it for myself... wow. It was well worth every penny. So thanks, once again for everything. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Â PS - I'm counting on that backstage Haunt event at Knott's that was discussed at the presentation to happen! That would be AMAZING.
the ghost Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Had a great time at the Mountain yesterday at WCB. I come across the country from Florida for this. Thank Robb and staff ! Â Hey any news on Xcelerator while at Knotts today? I see the Knott's website now has posted Xcelerator is down through April 30 . I opted to return to the Mountain for more today Sunday . Â Just a wonderful time with all the extras at the Mountain yesterday. Thanks all... Â FIXED! ^ I totally agree, yesterday was the best day I have ever had at a park, and I got the go ahead from my mom to do both parks next year, as I am assuming that will still be the case, so thats awesome. I had an absolutely amazing time yesterday, and it is so weird to think that 24 hours ago I was either getting off of Tatsu or running to/riding X2 for final night rides. Â Anyway, Robb, Chris and all the Magic Mountain staff, you guys are all awesome. Shout out to our tour guide on the Goliath backstage tour, sorry, I dont remember your name, but we were the 1:55 group. It was awesome that we got to take pictures in front of the infamous "helix of death" and those will end up on facebook within the next few days. Thanks to everyone involved!!!
J man Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 I had an AMAZING time this weekend! I didn't get to talk with too many of you that were there, but it was great to see everyone! I am already looking forward to next years WCB! Â I really need to get some sleep. I've had maybe 4 or 5 hours of sleep over the entire weekend. I'm so tired, but it was so worth it!!!
fatdaddy Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 sfmm was awesome, the guys i took keep thanking me, so i gotta thank the tpr guys and sfmm team for making me a hero, gotta get to the gym and start training for next year
jdcoffeytime Posted March 22, 2010 Posted March 22, 2010 Me too, No sleep. Don't worry there's always time to sleep when your dead! Thank you all of TPR for making this such a great event! Will see you all at BAB!
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