How did you end up here???

[ZipityDoDog]

I too was just looking for good coaster pics and videos. I now own all of Robb's videos. And as a new addition to the California population, find my self more drawn to the coaster craze...Thanks Robb.

[stingrock23]

I don't remember how I found them. I'm guessing westcoaster, but i'm not sure. I got the 2001 coaster videos.

[Spookbaby]

I searched "roller coaster montages" and I ended hooked to Rob and Elissa's hilarious videos!

[Jeezus Juice]

Dub C as well (I was a member of the Southern CA Coaster Club). Also I heard about your videos from Mouseplanet back in the day from Al or Kevin Yee, I'm not really sure.

 

But now I have to know, how did you guys hear about ME?

 

...waiting...

 

-Don

[Louise]

I used to visit another (shall remain nameless) park-related site, which I still do from time to time, but most of the guys over there have VERY little sense of humour. The guy who runs it is lovely, as are several others there, but the general feel of the place is pretty unfriendly, and you constantly get shot down with commentws such as: "what do you know, this is only your tenth post?". Not a good way of keeping new members.

That's why I like this place, everyone gets the humour. Over there you were made to feel really small if you hadn't ridden every coaster in the US of A, and as I'm British, and not exactly well off, so far I've not managed to do that!

Although I love to read the coaster boards, I don't post on them too much as unfortunately I have only had the opportunity to visit a few parks, although some of them repeatedly, so my span of knowledge is considerably less. But I can still talk to the same people via the random boards: nice to find a coaster site where the people who run it aren't coaster nazis who forbid you from discussing anything else!

As an insomniac, I really appreciate TPR, always so much to read and say.

You guys do a great job, keep it up!!

[coasterzak]

Someone posted something about how great and fun your coaster videos were. I ordered all the DVDs and absolutely loved them so as the forum finally came around I joined because I wanted to be in on some of the fun. So, it was something about the best. videos. ever.

[jamez9579]

wow my first reply!! i r speshal!! ok my first run in with these nuts was through westcoaster i forget when but i have checked the site out almot daily

[Teddymonster]

Good ol' Screamscape keep your site on its updates like no-one's business. I've actually been a fan of your trip reports, etc... for quite some time.

[alpengeistdude321]

I was looking for theme park review sites when I first got into roller coasters about 5 or 6 years ago and I looked on google and found this site. I thought it would be written reviews on theme parks but I found out it was group of coaster enthusiasts posting pictures with captions that made me laugh. I abandoned this site for a couple years until I signed onto the westcoaster forums about a year ago and saw that Robb, Elissa, Dan, Joey etc. posted there. Then I came here again and signed onto the forums, and I've been coming back here since.

 

Wow, there are already over 3,000 members. When I first started, there were only 400+.

[Reality15]

I've been visiting ever since the Memorial Day "Where is everyone?" trip update. Never have gotten one of the DVDs however.

[coasterfreak101]

I Yahoo!ed either Roller CoasterSites or Theme Park sites and went through all of them. This was the best. And to CoasterFanatic- I didn't find your site till this year, and I like it too!

[socalMAN123]

I found TPR a couple years back after looking at Westcoaster. I found out about Westcoaster from Screamscape. That just confused me!

---Brent 8)

[Joe Cool]

Found out from another website but I dont remeber.

[CoasterFanatic]

And to CoasterFanatic- I didn't find your site till this year, and I like it too!

 

Thank you.

[FishyFish]

A visit to Flamingoland (Velocity was closed )in the UK this summer peaked my interest and a variety of Google searches brought me here on the tides.

 

To be honest (and to my shame), I've only just been bitten by the roller coaster bug, but now I want MORE!

 

A trip to Blackpool soon should give me a fix - I'm egging myself to overcome "The Fear" and get my ass on Pepsi Max Big One (plus Big Dipper and Grand National if time and family permit).

 

Fishy

[robbalvey]

Wow! This is all very interesting to me! Good to see all those search engines do their job.

 

I think once we get a couple of things fixed up on the site (like the park directory and stuff) there will be a lot more functionality and hopefully seem like more tradtional "reviews" and such.

 

Glad you all seem to be enjoying the site. It's a lot of work to keep things going. Between Elissa and I it's like having 3 full time jobs!

 

--Robb

[Bush985]

Shameless plugs all over the net.. Haha J/k I really don't remember how I foudn TPR I have been reading for quite some time now, and heard the word that the boards were starting up. I haven't really posted, but I'll start sooner or later.

-RD

[Nrthwnd]

I just realized, I knew your site, and had it bookmarked early, much earlier than I've said, when I first went online in 98.

 

Didn't figure it out till tonight. Hmmm. Eee-hah.

[bobpuppet]

Well for me it was very slow day at work about 2 weeks ago. I was randomly clicking around google. I found my self in the themepark section and randomly picked a link. And this was it. So I started reading the TRs (from the Japan trip mostly). I thought wow these guys are crazy. I wanted more. Then I watched some videos. I was like wow!!If only I could have crazy coaster related goodness in my life too? So course I signed up for one the last spots on the England trip.

 

Pete

[Pelydr]

I found my way here from RRC probably 5 years ago, ordered a few vids, and loved reading the trip reports.

[mark.w]

I was looking for some onride videos and I found a link somewhere on Google.

[andrea]

i found this site by typing in coaster and ride pics and this site is the best!

[nyanko]

Um I guess I would've found this from RRC.

 

edit: and I was mentioned in this thread already XD

Edited September 28, 2005 by nyanko

[Gnome]

Well......

I remember I first found your site when I was looking for a POV of Pyrenees, only to find that you had to buy the DVD to see the full POV so then I forgot about the site. Then I refound it again while searching for Ghost Rider Pics, and then after that time, the site stuck in my head. But I never joined because I felt I was to busy to be active on a site and didn't want to register. Then about a year or so later(how ever long its been), I finally joined as a member. And now I'm here, almost a month old! .

[ParkTrips]

I have visited for years browsing photos, but didn't even know about the forums until I saw Robb plugging his site on Theme Park Critic

 

I must say I am glad I came over 8)