Photo TR:Canadas Wonderland

[Carnage]

Finally got a chance to write my TR from the weekend. I met up with Derek and Nicole over the weekend to hang out at PCW.

 

Friday night I took off from work an hour early to meet up with Nicole for about 2.5 hours. Friday was one of the weirdest days I've spent at the park. Everything seemed to be breaking down around us, not too mention some very strange ride ops.

 

Rides that broke down inlcuded:Minebuster,Italian Job, Wild Beast, Tomb Raider, Top Gun(lost article search).

 

Tomb Raider with ride ops climbing all over it

 

This could explain all the breakdowns. When in doubt, blame Microsoft

 

I hear ACE was in the park today

 

Nothing is more relaxing after the park closes then a good helping of sin

 

Saturday I headed into the park for opening to meet up with Derek and Nicole. I got a call from Nicole as I was entering the parking lot, saying that Derek and her were in line for Tomb Raider. So I headed over to meet them at the exit. I already have that credit, so I didn't miss not riding TR.

 

Quite possibly the worst job of handstamping ever. It took me forever to clean that crap off my hand.

 

We headed over to Wild Beast, where we were treated to a wild boards ass, complete with metal ass nuggets.

 

I was going to teach a physics lesson to Derek and Keith. But then I remembered I got a 21 in grade12 physics

 

Overwhelmed by the sight of Drop Zone, Derek assumes the position

 

This Dragon was more then happy to provide Derek with another groping credit. It wasn't all that interested in Nicole for some reason.

 

Today was cheer leading day at PCW. These don't look like cheer leaders though. Way too much clothing to be cheer leaders.

 

Best coaster in the park, even though if it does suffer from some of the usual Arrow vibration.

 

Derek and Nicole do some credit whoring. What followed for me was a ride of complete pain and torture. With my knees firmly pinned against the metal seat back, this resulted in me nearly getting off limping.

 

In TPR tradition, Vortex as seen through trees.

 

Thunder Run. Note the guy in white glaring at us. Not quite sure what his problem was, as I noticed him giving us that dirty look in Vortex's line as well.

 

In Canada we grow bagels on trees.

 

Worst wait of the day. It was long, cold, and rainy. Though at least we were inside when the lost article search hit.

 

Credit whore or the next pop princess?

 

Two fun rides, that aren't run all that intense.

 

Overall I had a great time, and we got alot done in the time we had at the park. Plus it was nice to meet some more pople in person that I'll be going to the UK with.

 

And to end off this TR: "CLLLLEAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!"

[niiicolaaah]

Yay for having to plug our ears every time a train was dipatched. lol.

 

or

 

"Hello, ma'am, how are you??" Best ride op EVER!!!

[Carnage]

^ I love the fact that we were sitting in the last seat, and yet we still heard him say clear while sitting on the brake fun.

[BarryH]

 

I'm not sure why Derek's legs are so spread out in this photo. Is he giving birth? Is he doing the "Bubba prison" pose?

[pkdcoaster]

why would the wait for drop zone be longer for high winds

 

it should not even operate in high winds.

 

JEFF

[Carnage]

^ We were wondering the same thing.

 

All it meant was that two sets of cars weren't running. Not sure if the direction of the wind can affect which cars can run or not.

 

Or it could very well be just an excuse not to run all the cars. Kind of like Superman at SFMM being down for too nice weather conditions.

[pkdcoaster]

Yea seems like an excuse to me too....but at least they had a sign out.

 

I wish more parks had signs that said how many cars/trains were running.

 

JEFF

[Carnage]

The weird thing was that on Saturday the same two seats were not running. But yet no high winds sign.

 

So the whole thing is kind of confusing.

 

Unless winds were causing the cars to go up/down slower. But again that doesn't really seem that likely.

 

Maybe they put random signs out just to produce conversations.

[DerekRx]

^The winds may have caused a glitch in the system resulting in those pods' catch getting stuck at the top. Instead of having them constantly failing all day, they probably just closed them off. On Sunday a different side was down, but one of the ones on Saturday was opened again.

[Rugged One]

Nice pics Paul and it was nice meeting you on Saturday. I'm glad you explained what was up with your handstamp. That thing was starting to scare us a little.

[Joe Cool]

Haha that hand stamp cracke me up!! Nice PTR seems like you guys had fun!!

[Carnage]

Hehe, yeah that hand stamp was gross.

 

It was pretty funny whenever the ride ops would ask to see my hand stamp. They'd kind of get this shocked look on their face and then just move on to the next person.