Photo TR : Copenhagen, Bakken, Tivoli Gardens, Bon Bon Land

vuurvogel · August 15, 2011

this park is high on my to do list, it looks wonderfull

cfc · August 15, 2011

Europe in the Air was still Corkscrew Hill (a 3D motion simulator) back in 2008. Glad you had a good time there--it's my "home park."

DJeXeL · August 15, 2011

This has probably been answered before but what exactly is Drachen Fire's station used for now? Howl-o-screams maze?

Groteslurf · August 15, 2011

^I have no idea at all. Think you better ask that question in the official BGE thread.

harper83087 · August 15, 2011

Great pics of BGE!! I haven't been since '03 and I really need to try out Griffon, I still haven't been on a Dive Machine . I like your style of photographing rides, I love close ups of trains.

QueerRudie · August 15, 2011

Great Photo TR- it makes me miss what was my home park for the better part of a decade...

The old DF station was well behind the BBW track area- in an odd corner behind the Festhaus. You can still see it from behind the Bumper cars pavillion- well in the distance.

Groteslurf · August 16, 2011

Thanks for all comments.

I suddenly remembered the name of the food we ate for lunch : pretzeldog

Synshine · August 16, 2011

Europe in the Air was still Corkscrew Hill (a 3D motion simulator) back in 2008.

Corkscrew Hill was a hell of a lot better than Europe in the Air. So was Questor.

Groteslurf · August 17, 2011

First day of the TPR NE trip. KD & BGE were amazing, but I was even much more excited for the NE trip.

We still had a long drive ahead from Williamsburg to Newark. On a stopover I discovered a new favorite drink

Passing by DC. Clique .... that's close enough.

Don't know what it is but it looked funky.

I have been talking to the moon a lot recently. We slept over at West Deptford again.

After a smooth drive to Newark, drinking something to get awake a bit more (I think we had been to the local liquor store the night before didn't we Hans ?) we arrived well in time at the EWR hotel where we would meet up with the other participants

And BAM, the trip started. We all got married at Bowcraft. I don't remember to whom I got married. Well, if that's important ....

This is how I take group photo's.

Yay, first unofficial official pre-pre add on day to the official NE trip credit. Officially it is a credit. Unofficially it is too.

Funky train

It was a very nice ride. I expected it worse.

Random flatride

Love this wheelie kiddieride

next credit

whiiiiiiiii

And moving on to an afternoon in NYC

Hooray for tunnels

Hooray for traffic jams in tunnels.

Everybody was really excited. Well just before and after taking this picture that is. True story.

WTH is that ????

The TPR bus has landed.

There was an interesting story about these things, but don't remember exactly what the story was.

The fast and the furious

The mix of Central Park and the skyscrapers is simply amazing.

So beautiful .....

Hi there

Ok, back to reality. We're here on a damn rollercoastertrip !!!!

So let's ride the central park coaster.

Loads of track

Hooray !!!!

Martin

Belgian food. I was not hungry

Yay ! Skyscrapers !!!!!

24/7 Apple store. Let's do it !!!

Oh wait, why are we queueing into the store ?

OMFG !! How can people actually find and buy something anthill ? I prefer to buy my Apple stuff in the shop near my work where I'm sometime all alone in the shop.

I left the shop immediately

And went to join the rest of the TPR gang in this store

Toystores in NYC are huge !

He called me precious or something. True story

The love of my life

I like those miniature things. Wanted to buy some for my kids but all the stuff was really, and I mean really expensive.

Wanted to see the muppet hype everybody was talking about. I grew up with the muppets, but never been a huge fan. Still, creating your own muppet when you're a fan must be awesome. If they would have had a Joey Ramone muppet, I would have bought one

I'm on holiday, no work for me.

I became hungry after watching everybody working on their muppet, so Subway time

59th street. I was explained how to find your way in the NYC blocks several times, but I still didn't understand. I must admit, I really hate big cities, so that's probably why. My main goal that afternoon was staying close to Elissa so that I didn't get lost. I managed to do that (unlike Hans at a certain moment ) and I must admit, I really liked the NYC vibe. Walking around in my home city (Antwerp) during lunch at work, really made me wanting to be in NYC again.

Let's do it !

TPR subway take over. Did we all fit into one train ?

AWESOME QUESTION ! I think we did.

Meet Scott, our pizza tour guide. Okay, here's a really true story : I didn't really prepare for the trip. I even didn't read the guidebook. I didn't know the names of all parks we were going to visit, barely knew which coasters we were going to ride, but I knew we were going to eat pizza that evening. I didn't know that there would be a tour and when the obsessed pizza man started to talk, at first I was thinking he was a stand-up comedian.

But Scott was bloody serious about his pizza stuff. I had no idea there was so much to be told about pizza's. He even knew that the most famous pizza restaurant here in belgium in Domino. But from his reaction I could make up that this is a chain of restaurants, known worldwide, so nothing special obviously. But I'm certainly going to try it out one of these days. On the pizza tour we first went to Lombardi's, if I remember well the oldest pizza restaurant in the USA.

I liked the pizza at Lombardi's

We even got a kitchen tour over there

My kitchen looks different

Scott was nice enough to show us hell.

And someone's wet dream ....

Second pizza place. Arturo's

Also great pizza

Some in between shots

3rd place

Sorry, didn't really like that pizza

There was something but don't know what it was ....

Back outside.

Thanks for reading. Next update will be .... let me check my guidebook.

larrygator · August 17, 2011

One of those Stupid Yellow Things destroyed the plastic casing on my driver's side mirror yesterday morning.

It deserves to die.

Groteslurf · August 18, 2011

My memory isn't too bad after all, I didn't have to check the guidebook to find out where we went next : Coney Island

Elissa was very excited for the visit to Coney Island

There cannot be enough pictures of NYC from a distance

McDonald Express. I really want to know what the express means. An employee make you swallow a big mac in 1 second ? I don't know but I really would like to know.

Didn't understand this slang word, but I looked it up. And yes, with a 12 hours delays I had to laugh.

Not on back row, not on back row, not on back row .... I had to keep that in my mind.

I'm going to put the same sign in front of my house

We were early, so enough time for me to have a walk in the ocean.

And take some pictures of the park(s) from the shore.

The ferris wheel colors seem to be in 3D

Back to the park. These food/drink stands are so lovely.

As said, this is the way I take group pictures

Cyclone time. More pics later on in this tr

Kung Fu Neil

There were a lot of credits to get

Wonderwheel. I rode the one at DCA 2 years ago. That one is better. This one is more special.

Werner & me

It's rather difficult to take acceptable pics from the Wonderwheel because the thing keeps on swinging.

Wow .... Fata Morgana !!!

Maybe I really should get my 3D glasses for this

The Tickler

Looka left

Freak show on your right

Chill

I really love these shops

Bumper cars

I know

I wouldn't hire this dj for my party

Oh, is this really the place where this hotdog eating contest is being held ? Seems like that.

Nathan's

Barf sandwich

Lunch on a garbage can

2460 cal, I'm still in shock. That's what you need in about 30 hours time !!!!!

Mr Tickler again

Volare ... ho ho,

Cantare, ho ho ho ho.

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Felice di stare lassu

Written by Domenico Modugno

This was a great surprise

There was a fotoshoot going on

Here the promised Cyclone pics

The seem to enjoy the back row

I felt lonely for some reason

I don't have much comments today

Meeting up with Roxy again was so nice. Thanks for reading.

Groteslurf · August 19, 2011

Next park : Quassy

I had no idea what to expect of this park

Except the fact we had ERT on Wooden Warrior

The park welcomed us with open arms

These things produce awesome POV

Wooden Warrior is such a great little coaster

It was probably the most awesome surprise of the whole trip

If it's your birthday, this is the place to be

There was another credit to be conquered

Only the very brave put their arms up

Quassy is really a lovely small park

Dave/Dave

We were all celebrating our birthday that day

Roxy

Other TPR members getting their credit

The boat tour was so great

True story

Captain Jack (or similar)

Special Wednesday

Yes, we are all special

Is that Europe I see ?

Quassy from a distance

Some more Wooden Warrior pics

Hans & Chris managed to disconnect the rest of the train and were only using the front car of the train.

True story

RCT pinball

Loved the old arcade games

Preparing for a photo shoot

Young and old like Wooden Warrior

Well .... maybe not everybody

jray21 · August 19, 2011

We did a quick trip to Quassy before the Road to Cedar Point trip and Wooden Warrior definitely was a great surprise. Great report!

robinschroder · August 19, 2011

Wooden Warrior looks as if it is as much fun as Gröna Lund's Twister! And I love that final picture!

Groteslurf · August 20, 2011

Next was another lovely place : Lake Compounce

Same as in Holiday World, there is free Pepsi soda for everyone at the park.

There is a lot to do.

Not the best woodie I know

Kiddie coaster

Boomerang

Great theming

Awesome wood in the woods

Darkride

I love these things

Let's do it.

I wasn't a big fan of the laterals but the rest of BD is just insane

After 2 years, I almost didn't recognize Josh.

There is so much to do at LC. There's even a waterpark

Lovely people mover

Too bad this was closed. I heard it was because of the hunting season.

You might get wet

No comment

The dark ride was awesome

LC is beautiful in the dark

We were allowed to ride the kiddie credit without kids just before park closing

And then it was time for BD ERT

jray21 · August 20, 2011

I didnt' realize they had free Pepsi! When I did my credit run I didn't know I could have had free soda! But it is Pepsi so I guess it's not that great of a loss. Great pictures! Wish I could have joined you all.

STR8FXXXINEDGE · August 21, 2011

Loving the TR so far, Benny! It's cool to see these places through other peoples eyes. Even though we were there at the same time, we seem to have had some different experiences. I wish we could go back to New York and spend about a week just exploring the city, and eating more pizza. Looking forward to the rest of your photos!

fatdaddy · August 21, 2011

I like it! So many things I had forgotten, thanks for reminding me.

Groteslurf · August 21, 2011

The most intense day of the trip. We had morning and evening ERT, ERT at the waterpark, Q-bots, walk backs, hot weather, beer and more beer.

Pre-park work out

SFNE

Starting with ERT on Bizarro

Train load of TPR members

Another train load. I'll post all pics of this burst.

The parked would be packed, really packed that day. But look at the station during ERT on Batman

Almost halfway

Waterpark ERT

Great water ride

And the other ride we had ERT on.

Never rode one of these

It was awesome. Look how high we go

It was so great to have the waterpark for ourselves. Later on in this tr you will see how packed the waterpark was when I went back in the afternoon.

After the refreshing water park, It was time to ride coasters again. Again I couldn't resist to take a picture of this. Maybe I should do a poll again

SLC

Batman.

Q&A during lunch

TPR game

It had also something to do with Piers

oh yeah, there was free beer

Right after the beer lunch, we rode the nearby kiddie credit. Hans was still holding his beer when he had to board. But hold on, there is more .....

I bring you now the awesomeness of Hans !!

I only discovered this while I was watching the pics back at home. So it's a kiddie ride. Most of the riders are adults with kids.

More kids/parents

and more

And look ! There's Hans

Hans apparently still not realizing he's on a roller coaster.

oooooohhhhh, a drop !!!!!!

And more Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh

I think at this very point Hans only was aware he was on a coaster

Moving on. Wood.

It reminded me of another park for some reason.

This ride was quite weird; Partly new track and smooth, partly old track and rough. The new track was smooth but quite weird too.

But I liked it.

This was really fun. It was spinning but not too much. Just the way I like it.

No Fun - the Stooges

SLC .... same song

I went back to the watermark for some more pictures.

I liked it more when we had ERT over there

More Batman

Walk back time

Walking back was Bizarre

In fact it was a Catwoman walk back

But we could also take pictures of this ride

Waar zijn die handjes ?????

It's definitely in my top 10, but not on the 1st spot.

She's lucky she was wearing the bleu thing under the white shirt

Seven Flags

There once was a belgian TPR member wondering whether our camera was traveling alone and since then i included pictures of myself in every report. Hi Beeja !!!!

After the walk back we rerode some more coasters.

Although the parked was sooooo packed, which stressed me out a little bit, still our day at SFNE was one of my favorite days. After all perks we already had, we were all a bit tired and relaxed during dinner. And we had some beers .... what did you think ?

Edited August 21, 2011 by Groteslurf

Groteslurf · August 21, 2011

some more pics which didn't fit into previous post.

I love theme parks in the dark

Night ERT on Bizarro

And to end some water challenge pics.

Oh yeah, did i mention there was beer ?

Thanks for reading.

vuurvogel · August 23, 2011

I see you have a Camera with burst mode. Great series of Hans going down that insanely high drop.

cal1br3tto · August 23, 2011

Count me as another fan of the Hans series.

Great photos!

Groteslurf · August 24, 2011

Thanks EB & Laura !! Everytime I see those pictures of Hans on the kiddie, I have to laugh.

Next park on the trip was Palace Playland

On our way to the parks, we had a stop over somewhere for lunch. Don't remember what I ate. I do remember that I drank a Monty Python & the Holy Grail beer. And a Duvel. And a Hoegaarden. Or no, they were out of Hoegaarden. But I'm sure I had a third beer.

Palace Playland is a nice little park.

There was a lot to do.

Flume

First credit

Mexican flat

And the second credit

Caesar had to ride it because his friends wanted to ride.

This is where we were

More flats

Laura and Chad rode everything in the park I think.

More credit whoring pics

I think this was Steve's favorite coaster of the trip.

They were still busy ...

No parking.

I simply adore those parks near the ocean.

Roxy

It was so great to have a break with our feet in the ocean.

Yeah, the moon. Quite important to me lately.

I would NEVER put it on my house, but those plates are so great. What happens on the porch stays on the porch Another reason I wouldn't put it up, is because my house doesn't have a porch.

Neither do I own a man cave.

Never saw this at any park before.

I'm sure Laura and Chad are on it

There was a parade. And also a choir.

One last random pic. I just so weird that bikers don't have a wear a helmet in the USA. i was aware about that, but still it's strange every time I see it. Thanks for reading.