Photo TR: Garbles and Friends go to Canada!

[Jakizle]

First of all, a HUGE thanks goes out to Robb and Elissa for making this an absolutely amazing trip. I loved every single minute of it and am deeply saddened that it is over. That being said, going through all of the pictures and posting them for everyone to see is enjoyable and a great way to help some of the pains of being back home dealing with real life. Also thanks to everyone I got to meet this trip and hang out with, you guys rock. A lot.

 

Before the trip officially started, a few of us made the 90 minute trek over to Rochester to visit Seabreeze. After getting back to the hotel we also decided to make a midnight run to Niagara Falls, on the American side. Without any further ado bring on the photos! I bought a new camera before this trip so this was the first time out with it!

 

I will keep a directory of the updates here on the front page:

 

Day 1: Seabreeze and Falls at Night ON THIS POST

 

Day 2: Herschell Carrousel Factory Tour and Niagara Falls, Ontario

 

Day 3, Part 1: Private take over at Conneaut Lake!

 

Day 3, Part 2: Epic afternoon and evening at Waldameer on Ravine Flyer II!

 

Day 4, Part 1: Darien Lake and Intamin Goodness!

 

Day 4, Part 2: A quick hop over to Martin's Fantasy Island!

 

Day 5, Part 1: Morning ERT and 16 coasters before lunch at Canada's Wonderland!

 

Day 5, Part 2: Backstage tour of Leviathan and Wild Beast!

 

Day 5, Part 3: More Leviathan Porn and Night Time at CW!

Welcome to SeaBreeze, right on the coast of beautiful Lake Erie

First things first, whores are gunna whore.

Bear Trax had some pretty nice landscaping for a kiddie coaster.

Thanks to whomever let us on the coaster, I will take anything I can get

I think Bob is enjoying his ride

The classic Jack Rabbit is located directly across the path from Bear Trax.

We decided to wait for the front row for our viewing pleasure

 

Love the lack of air gates!

Here we go!

And up the lift we go. Don't stand up!

First drop action.

The ride actually uses the terrain a lot, dropping down a hillside.

Some of the hills (like this one) has big surprises of airtime!

Just flying by one of the park's parking lots.

Double down! Not of the chicken variety...

I am also shocked at how incredibly smooth the ride was for it's age. Kudos!

The finale is a spiral down into a tunnel...with even another surprise drop in there. Great ride!

Soupy and Bob are excited for their first ride!

Had just flown into BUF, we were hungry and took a stop at the grill for some food.

Next up, Bobsled. Or was it Bobselds?

This was very quirky, having been converted from a wood to steel coaster. NTAG's predecessor??

Gotta love a nice, long...

 

prelift.

I quite enjoyed it for the uniqueness factor!

Soupy and Bob represented for the USA. AMERICUH!

Last but certainly not least was Whirlwind!

We really lucked out with no lines at ALL during our visit to Seabreeze.

I like how the first drop and following turn are left unspinning, before releasing you into...

...a madness of spinning! Seriously this thing was insane and little did we know it would be the best spinner of the trip.

Also next door was the park's disko, and the boys wanted to give it a ride.

Chadster seems to like it.

Hold on there Bob!

Having a conversation up there?

Another spinning ride, another chance for me to sit out and take photos

Oh god, this can't end well.

Initially the ride was pretty lame...

But then it kicked into high gear and sent children flying!

While some chose to sleep...

...and these guys got crushed

Yup, still snoozing

We found out most of the crowds were in the water park on this beautiful day.

I liked how the water park was situated on the hill looking over Lake Erie.

Chad also wanted to get his log flume credit in

Did he get wet or possibly soaked?!?

Nope! Still dry.

Went for another Jack Rabbit ride before heading out.

The parking lot offers a few nice shots before heading out.

Nothing wrong with airtime! We would have a lot of it this trip

Last one from Seabreeze. I definitely recommend stopping by if you are in the area for it's small park charm, unique attractions, and 4 credits to boot for you whores

Fast forward a few hours, midnight trip to the falls!

oooh, pretty

I think this is the same photo, oh well.

I like how they change up the colors for night viewing.

Favorite shot

America! Go USA

And lets just say, this sums up Chris Con's night. Next up: Day 1 of LeviaTHON!!!

Edited October 15, 2012 by Jakizle

[QueerRudie]

Interesting park pics all around... particularly those of the Child-crushing Trabant.

 

It is good to see a classic small-park that has some charm in it, and I can't wait to see what the rest of the trip brings.

 

R.D.

[Erik Johnson]

It will always be Bobselds to me. Though Elissa would probably kill me.

[PKI Jizzman]

Wow the falls look great at night. Great work!

[shivtim]

Nice pics. Lucky you got on Bear Trax - I was at Seabreeze last week and the operator wasn't having any of it! Accompanying child required! I thought it was a nice little family park, with great views of the Lake, especially from Whirlwind.

[Guy T. Koepp]

Awesome pictures man! I love the night time shots of Niagra Falls. I am looking forward to the rest of this TR.

[RoCo]

Really nice shots all around and I LOVE the coaster-like supports for the log flume! (That is what I'm seeing, right?) Very cool.

[Jakizle]

Really nice shots all around and I LOVE the coaster-like supports for the log flume! (That is what I'm seeing, right?) Very cool.

 

Yeah! Haha. The log flume was interesting. Before the lift it made a long run through a concrete trough with a few down slops on the way. The drop looked really steep too! I didn't feel like getting wet although we found out later on you don't. Oh well!

 

Thanks for the comments! I'll throw up Day 1 of the official trip tomorrow and then more on Friday!

[alilstronger]

Seabreeze is a nice little park. I am glad I decided to come up a day early and head there.

[Xcoaster]

Yeah, I think their log flume held (maybe still holds) a record for one of the steepest drops on a flume. I got quite a lot of scary-airtime going down it.

 

Anyways, I really liked this little park. It reminded me a lot of a mini-Waldameer for both its setting near the lake, the coasters (kiddie, spinner, small out-and-back "woodie", and larger terrain woodie), and the quirky small-park historical aspect of it. Bobsleds and Jack Rabbit were both a lot of fun (supposedly Bobsleds was inspired by Matterhorn; it certainly rides similarly), and I liked that they had little signs all over the park detailing the history, and explaining what used to be where.

 

Great TR!

[Philrad71]

I live about three hours from Sea Breeze and am ashamed that I have never been there...I really need to get there and ride Jack Rabbit and the Bobseld. The water park looks interesting as well.

 

 

Thanks for sharing! I wondered who Robb was talking about when he said "Garbles" on Leviathan night time ERT...now I know!

[chadster]

I still have a bruise on my arm from the Musik Express.

[cfc]

Bob looks like he's having way too much fun on Bear Trax.

[Jakizle]

I live about three hours from Sea Breeze and am ashamed that I have never been there...I really need to get there and ride Jack Rabbit and the Bobseld. The water park looks interesting as well.

 

 

Thanks for sharing! I wondered who Robb was talking about when he said "Garbles" on Leviathan night time ERT...now I know!

 

Oh god, I forgot about that. I guess I'm a Canadian legend now too

[coasterkid21]

I went there when I was seven. I was too scared to ride Jackrabbit, so I rode Bear Trax instead over 13 times. It was like ERT for me!

[sspaz1000]

If you have 5 people in the seat on the log flume, you get quite wet, and it's quite interesting trying to get out of the boat. Though it was a great way to get introduced to some TPR peeps nice and close

 

Great start to your report! Looking forward to the rest!

[kidcoaster 2]

Great pictures! I really love how Seabreeze feels like Waldameer in a lot of ways and how it over looks lake ontario. Curious how did you all manage get the kiddie credit?

[BrownStreak]

Glad you enjoyed Jack Rabbit...its still on my all time Top 10 Woody List! Seabreeze overall is just a great little park!

 

However...

 

 

Psst...that's Lake Ontario...not Lake Erie...

[GayCoasterGuy]

Great pics! That log flume looks like some sort of relic - with new plastic logs of course. Same with Jack Rabbit - I wonder what sorta train they will get when that old Morgan wears out?

 

I've heard many great things about the Bobsled/Bobsleds coaster. Seems it's a big of a local legend. I was *this* close to the park a few years ago, but they were closed that day/open the next. But I had to go home

[deguy123]

Great pictures of Seabreeze and of Niagara Falls that night we headed there! It's hard to believe that was the first night, plus the car ride to and from the hotel was amusing Can't wait to see the rest of your pictures!

 

The Musik Express was great and was also a good way to get to know Chris and Kristin first thing!

[televisedconfession]

Great report Jake, looking forward to the rest of it. Congrats on the Bear Trax credit.

[Brandy524]

Great start! Looking forward to more!

[gisco]

Bob looks like he's having way too much fun on Bear Trax.

 

Was Not!!!!!!!

[Jakizle]

Day 1 of Leviathon!

 

So as you may have read already, as we were departing the hotel to begin the trip, Martin's called and said they weren't opening because of the threat of storms in the area. This was our only park schedule for the day, but luckily Robb and Elissa had a special welcome lunch planned already and were able to pull off an amazing day by bringing us to the Herschell Carrousel Factory and the Canadian side of the Falls! It was a unique way to get to know everybody day 1 and gave an extra day of drinking in Canada for us 19 and 20 year olds, so no complaining here! To top it all off, when we returned to the hotel we had our international snack exchange. Only on TPR trips can you pull stuff like this off!!!

 

(some iphone pictures thrown in for inclusion)

Our group meal was held at Anchor Bar, home of the original buffalo wing! The food was DELICIOUS

And here we are at the Herschell Carrousel Factory and Museum! It's just north of downtown Buffalo.

This is what the building looks like from the outside.

Everyone inside the door!

This is where they build horses.

For a second I thought this was a real person. Oops

Just in case you were wondering what the facility layout was like

Across from the horse building area was all of the music equipment.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe our wonderful tour guide told us this is the only place that still produces the paper scroll things!?!

A horse in progress.

A map of all of the carrousels.

Herschell also makes some kick ass children's rides.

In fact, they are in the progress of building an area outside for visitors to ride some of their creations! Awesome

There was then a room of finished horses and random carrousel animals to look at.

As much as Robb and everyone would like me to choose the cock, this was my favorite.

I dig this company logo.

Also showing off a model of their kiddie coaster!

A closer look. Pretty!

For the little ones they have a kiddie carrousel set up and a children's play area.

Warp speed kiddie carrousel!

How many adults does it take to solve a kid's puzzle? Answer: we still don't know.

Last but not least, we took a spin on the full sized carrousel.

Overview.

Artsy!

Enjoying our ride

As were Robb and Bob. That has a nice ring to it

Another cool feature was the tea cup style seat! These guys really got it going.

And one last look. It was time to head to the falls!

Once you can see the mist you know you're close!

I see you MarineLand. Last park of the trip...

Rainbow Bridge was pretty back up this day.

Last chance to turn back!

The bridge does provide an excellent view of the falls.

While we wait, Amber shows off her awesome nail job.

You are admitted

Apparently we just crossed into Australia. WTF mate?

We took pictures of water.

There's this side...

And then there's this side!

And this is what it looks like from up top. While still awesome, I did prefer the falls at night time.

After getting a little wet, we had time to play some more in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

First stop, Canadian ATM.

Baller.

They had a ton of touristy stuff like the big wheel.

Forevercloseddroptower, so it's time to drink!!!

BEER IS GOOD

First order of drinks.

Canada is great.

We did Jager bombs together

And we drank some more.

Yes ladies, it's quite a handful.

Time to leave, better chug!!!

PASS OUT.

But then we had snacks!!!

This S*&@ was F*&(%$^ disgusting.

This foul creature chugged the entire container. NEVER IN MY LIFE

But luckily we ended the snacks with ice cream and Milo.

Awww, what a nice day

 

Conneaut and Waldameer next!!!

[Nyteowl]

Great pics Garbels! Ugh just thinking about the taste of vegemite makes me gag .