Tanks4me05's best photos for 2014

[Tanks4me05]

EDIT: I rarely upload photos here, so can someone tell me how to properly rotate photos on the website so that vertical photos are displayed correctly? They're the proper orientation on my hard drive, but not on TPR; it's rather annoying.

 

I don't do full-fledged PTR's anymore because they're too much of a chore, but I still do a lot of photography. Every year I touch up my absolute favorite pictures (which usually ends up being 50 - 60) and I spend $150 - $200 in ink and high quality paper to print them all out so I can line my dorm with them, in order to remind me of why I'm putting myself through the nightmare that is college as a Mechanical Engineering major. So you won't have any ride ratings or cute captions, only photos. That being said, I'll make a bit of an exception to talk about the New York State Fair this year:

 

It's held in Syracuse, NY every year. For the last 60 years, Strates Shows has been supplying the rides, and honestly they were not good and were in a pretty nasty condition. However, some big local news was that Wade Shows won a ten year contract instead, and honestly it's far better and probably one of the best carnivals I've seen in the US. (We all know that Germany still takes the prize, but over here in Yankee Land, it was actually really good.) This year it goes from 8/21/14 - 9/1/14, so those that are in the area still have four days left to go there. Most of the rides still ran rather short programs, but at least many of the rides were in a much better condition and were of higher quality than what usually has been there. The more notable rides were as follows:

 

-ARM Vertigo (portable Starflyer.)

-Tivoli Orbiter

-ARM Rock Star

-Zamperla Crazy Mouse

-Moser Maverick

-a massive fun slide that was six lanes wide and must have been 60 feet tall.

-Chance Zipper

-Larson Fireball

-Huss Rainbow

-a GORGEOUS Enterprise

-the Pinfari RC-48 (Honestly it sucked, but at least it was very pretty.)

-Technical Park Street Fighter

-Technical Park Ejection Seat

-Some sort of smaller KMG Speed type ride (about 90 feet tall; I couldn't figure out who the manufacturer is.)

-The star of the show, a brand new Technical Park Pegasus 16.

 

The major downsides to the ride selection were that there were four himalaya type rides (a couple were very nice looking, though) and the probably four or five fun houses had only half of their mechanisms working, but otherwise it was really good.

 

As for wacky fair food, I had:

-Donut Burger (a cheeseburger with a glazed donut as the bun.)

-Fried Bubble Gum (Marshmallow dipped in a bubblegum-flavored batter and deep fried.)

-the Twinx (a twix bar stuffed inside a twinky, wrapped in bacon, deep fried, and covered in hot fudge and powdered sugar.)

-Calamari Roll (panko breaded calamari with shredded Parmesan in a lemon butter sauce and in a hot dog bun.)

-Kangaroo Spiedies. (Spiedies is a regional dish in Central New York State where meat or poultry is chopped up into cubes, and sits overnight in a marinade made of canola oil, lemon juice, white wine vinegar and various spices, and is later grilled and either served on its own or sometimes in a sandwich bun. These guys went different and used Kangaroo meat, but honestly it wasn't anything too wild; it tasted almost exactly like beef but a touch more game-y.)

 

Anyway, the photos are below, in no particular order. It looks like the website isn't properly flipping my vertically oriented photos, so I'm going to try to upload them separately as a reply to this thread to see if that works.