Behemoth/East Coast TPR Trips PTR

[Ben]

Now, let me just say before I start this, this is a PTR I did for TPR just copied and pasted, so there'll probably be a lot of crap that doesn't make too much sense on here as I go along, but, whatever, I aint writing two trip reports so, live with it.

OK, so I figured that although there’ll be about a million of these, I still wanted to do a PTR of the beyond-awesome time I had on the Behemoth/East Coast trips. Now, the amount of photos I took just sort of plummets to about two a day halfway through the trip, so a fair amount of the parks will be nothing more then like, those two photos, a few comments and not a lot else. But, the majority of those days (ie. Morey’s Piers) I was having too much fun hanging out to worry about photos, so that’s OK by me. Plus, the photos of rides aren’t really any good, so I’ll try and avoid posting a lot of them, plus, something tells me you might have seen a couple of those by now anyway! Still, this trip was about a LOT more then coasters, so a coaster-lite report is another thing that is OK by me. I also can’t promise I’ll finish it, but I have nought to do for the next few weeks, so I’ll do my best!

Now, just before I start with everything, I just want to say a BIG thank-you to everyone that made this trip SO memorable and the best two-odd weeks I’ve spent doing anything ever. So, a shout-out to y’all who I won’t name cause A. You know who you are and B. You’ll all probably turn up in photo-form anyway so I can’t be bothered to type what I’ll just show later anyway! Although there are some people who I loved hanging with but don’t have ANY photos of! Like David, how did I go all that time and still not have a photo of us!

And one last thing- Robb and Elissa, you guys freakin’ RULE! Thank-you! I was a bit worried I wouldn’t get the huge, amazing, fall-in-love addiction to the TPR trips that everyone goes on about, I thought that would probably a bit too much hype. Have I ever been so happily wrong about anything before? No. No I have not. Seriously, if there’s even a simmer of hope you could do a trip in 09, DO IT. I know I’ll be doing one at least every year until they end!

OK, so day one of the Behemoth trip was Seabreeze, a quaint little park with an AWESOME Log Flume which would strike a Log Flume-obsession which would run through the trip (Dorney’s Log Flume = absolute pwnage on a stick while Busch’s = absolute fail just as a sidenote). The woodie-which-I-can’t-remember-the-name-of was fun, but Bear Trax WAS NOT! Fail at getting on that was upsetting. Whirlwind was good fun, and the ERT on that and Bobselds was a great way to start the trip off with a bang.

Wooden Roller Coaster 1 starts off the photos with a very exciting lift hill porn shot.

The big stick that it uses to slow itself down is very geekily arousing.

TPR members get ready in the scary-Morgan-train

After the woodie we found the park’s highlight show- random hot people get semi-naked and stretch

The park’s proper coaster highlight was this awesome MS spinner

Which I CAN remember the name of, since I have this handy photo to tell me what it is

This would be better if the people weren’t totally random but I included it to say how awesome the first drop is backwards

The other coaster in the park was the famous Bobselds

A strange woodie-steel-ex-kiddie-coaster-that-got-extended hybrid, it was a fun ride, but really scary at points

Random generic group queue shot 1

Kimmy and Eric seemed to be enjoying something

I can’t think of anything to say, so I’ll just let Brooke’s face to the talking

Although the scary pathing and garish theming doesn’t look great, it’s actually a quaint little park with buckets of charm

And the amazing Log Flume makes an appearance. It started off with a randomly fast cement trench thing, but the highlight was the freakin’ steep drop!

See, freakin’ steep! This meant for a LOT of airtime, sending me off my seat in a way no Log Flume should be allowed to do.

The… Screaming Eagle (?) ride was a lot of fun, especially since you get to look at the people sat opposite you and scream at each other.

And a random group shot of us before braving the might-be-called-something-Eagley ride closes out Seabreeze

I’ll put Darien Lake up next, so remain tuned.

 

[marc]

Good report sounds like you had a good time.

 

[ECG]

Yeah Boyee!
Looks like I need to stop by Seabreeze on the way to CW.
Can't wait for the next one. I wanna see more!

 

[Ben]

Oooops, totally forgot to post the Darien Lake part, so this'll be two-updates-for-the-price-of-one...

OK, so the morning of Day Two saw, as everyone probably already guessed, Darien Lake. I thought it was a much nicer park then I’d imagined, yes it had some bad pathing issues, but the setting by the Lakes and general atmosphere was a lot better then I’d heard about. Also, Ride of Steel was great! I really, really enjoyed it almost as much as SFNE’s, and a million miles more then SFA’s garbage can version.

What else was of interest? Oh, Predator freakin’ sucked! I can’t even remember what it did other then beat me up. The Log Flume was hilarious, the sickening flats lived up to exactly how I thought they would be, and so did the SLC, which I also funnily enough, can’t actually remember other then it sucked. Y’know what, I’ll just put my thoughts down with the photos as opposed to before.

Just in case you’d forgotten where this is a report of, a gaggle of TPR members mix under the sign to remind you

And then everyone heads off

And have to go through this suck-fest to reach…

The good stuff… side note, these photos make it look stormy, was it in the morning?

I think the station’s real cute, and in no way do the colours link in anyway to Superman. At all. Coincidence.

Everyone’s hopping at the thought of morning Intamin

Sucks to wait in this huge line we had to… did that make ANY sense?

Then we went to ride Predator. Again, the line in ERT was HUGE. And has anyone ever waited this for this piece of crap? If so, send me your address on a postcard and I’ll send you all the £10 I currently have to my name in sympathy

I don’t even have to say what was next

Where Beth waited on her own. Cause she’s no fun.

Kim and Roxy find Beth’s loneliness hilarious

Yeah, that don’t impress her much

Reactions to the ride seemed to be pretty much unanimously “meh, it was fun but nothing great”

And it has the mystical power to make Luke’s wrists limp… well, limper

These guys seem impressed

And here’s my version of the exact same, albeit better, photo that Natalie took. She kept stealing all my photos ideas. I should therefore have the credit for her PTR

You guys excited?

Well, they certainly are now

By now it was time for Beth to take her ride. Did I mention she was still alone? Boo her.

Um, yay?

Apparently queues are something I take a lot of photos of. Must be a sad geek tendency I didn’t know I had

Yep. Clearly a geek

Roxy’s ready to be… ‘rang’d?

Kimmy looks slightly more worried

Although there’s now obviously a joke they all get which Luke isn’t involved in

Yes Robb, we are all asking the same question

Lol, no comment needed

Again, Luke obviously doesn’t get whatever’s making the others smile. And anyone find it weird that Kimmy and Neil are doing the same thing at the same time

That poor Universal-rip-off-statue didn’t know what was gonna to happen when it went to work that morning

I don’t even know who this is

Ew

Natalie, you KNEW what you were about to ride, right? Cause you looked far too happy.

I included this cause it’s the only photo with Brooke’s AWESOME socks in it, and they need to be shown to World

Fascination, which apparently makes Kimmy make weird faces


Yep, Neil hunted out the beer

And while this thing freakin’ sucked, it was possibly the funniest flat ever. Sorry we laughed at you Brooke, but it WAS funny

There was some really good views of Ride of Steel from lunch, especially of this suck-fest of a trim

The first drop was certainly one of the highlights of the ride for me

But this was my real favourite part

The penultimate ride we did (just before the infamous final Ride of Steel ride) was the Log Flume, which again, continued my love for them. But, from this photo you can’t tell it’s a Log Flume, just it’s a group. Queuing. For something. But it was the Log Flume, trust me.

Which we all decided was built on top of a sewer, but did provide a fun ride

Somewhere Roxy has a very similar photo, just of me instead of her

She was showing me her beer thing, but all that it looks like is a blur

Erik, did this ride get you wet? Yes, yes indeed it did.

And then was the infamous Ride of Steel run, which funnily enough, I didn’t have a lot of time to take photos of. And, however scary it was, for that last fantastic ride, it was well worth it.

So, overall I really liked the park, certainly a lot more then “equivalents” like SFA. Ride of Steel was a great coaster, and then things like Viper and Motocoaster were fun.

Up next is part two of the day, the awesome Martin’s Fantasy Island.


Okie dokie, Martin’s, which is the first “yeah, I took like, zero photos at this park” day. However, it was a freakin’ awesome day! The Log Flume was the funniest thing ever, like Jahan doing a successful leaf grab, which I tried to mimic and almost uprooted the whole tree… ooops! Then Silver Comet was an AWESOME woodie, Full Tilt was an insane flat ride, and the gentley-rotating Mouse was… well, OK, that was crap, but you can’t win them all! The Starflyer was freaking awesome as well, Natalie, you provided me endless entertainment on that ride, and it was well worth the dollar I spent on it! What else did I pay you a dollar for…? Oh, I Got It? That game was hilarious, throwing our balls all over the place, so funny. When they’d fly back out, and all stack, AGGH, SO frustrating!

OK, photo time!

This is THE only photo I took of Silver Comet, so enjoy. Also, “Forward Per Train Design”… OK…

Natalie, this photo’s for you!

A very shadowy, but proud Natalie after her ride… eating her hand for some reason… maybe she’s motioning to me that she stole my dollar…

I could make a Adam, balls, groping, new, experimenting joke… but I won’t stoop to that level

Full-Tilt made everyone go into a dancing mode… or the ABBA that kept playing, whichever

Natalie does a more “seductive” dance… most likely directed towards at her new Alabama-raised squeeze

Robbie just plain points at something… or maybe it’s his version of a dance?

This up-skirt was the best photo I got of this freakin’ insane ride! SO funny! Although, Robbie, I felt so bad for you on your own, what was it you said about that group that couldn’t possibly have moved along one… I can’t remember, but it was HILARIOUS

And the ride had this awesome “heart problems are represented by a band-aid” warning sign that was for some reason a lot funnier then that lame quote I came up with to describe it


And although I don’t have any photos of the Log Flume itself, I did document the aftermath. It got Roxy ever so slightly wet. Just a bit. Just a little. Just a *hand gesture to show really small*

Yeah. Wet.

And that’s all the photos, haha. I did say they start getting useless, just wait until I reach the main part of the trip… LOL! Although, Canada’s Wonderland, which I’ll put up next, is gonna be full of a lot of photos cause I took a literal tonne that day!

 

[Mike]

For the person who you don't know, it's not too difficult, as he wore those clothes for every single day of the trip.

Good stuff so far Ben.

 

[ECG]

Glad to hear that you liked DL better than we did and you are so right... Predator sucks!
Now you've got me wanting to go to Martin's as well. Damn you and your awesome PTRs!
I still want more. Bring it on...

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

Awesome trip reports, but the Darien Lake picture makes me sad that I missed so many credits when I was there. Oh well, I was young and stupid, and the only one I really regret missing out on was Superman. I was going to do Predator, but it ended up being closed when I went there ten years ago, but I guess that spared me the pain. I bet it wasn't as bad as Wild Beast though, eh?

Looking forward to more!

 

[Ben]

^NOTHING (apart from Leap-the-Dips) is as bad as Wild Beast!

OK, Canada’s Wonderland/Behemoth Bash. This was without a doubt the “biggest” park of the trip, but it wasn’t my favourite! That’s not to say I didn’t like the place, and I had an AWESOME day there, but all the coasters (bar three) STUNK. And to say the Powered Coaster was the third best coaster in a park of that size is a depressing thought. However, the flats were really fun, especially Sledgehammer, which I’d never heard a good thing about, but I LOVED! Psyclone was awful, it ran for maybe one full swing, but the Drop Tower was hilarious (Natalie loved it more then I did though, I could tell), and the Top Scan was running really well (although, my bad memory has a question, who did I ride that with, who had only “ridden” it on RCT3?). And I have to say, Behemoth rocked my socks a LOT more then I thought it would. The trains are seriously cool, and the last back-car rides with Roxy and Robbie were AWESOME to say the least. Shame it ate my name paper tag thing, but I forgive it. What else, oh yes, I really enjoyed Vortex, but it did try to kill my back, so I couldn’t re-ride it much. Wild Beast was one of the worst woodies ever, Kimmy, our ride on that was SO funny! Going up the lift like “uh, this is already rough… I’m scared” was a trip highlight for me. And I got to try funnel cakes, which I liked for maybe a bite, and then just felt sick, haha! I think that’s everything for CW… oh, and the SLC was awful! Big surprise there! OK… photo time.

Enjoying ERT by any chance are we Neil?

Roxie doesn’t seem to share the enthusiasm…

This is a sight I like to see in ERT

See… I’m happy about it. Or am I happy that I just about still have my name tag?

Yes, I took many vanity-shots on the trip, and I will force you all to look at them. This was my “yay, I <3 Behemoth but will still look grumpy about it” face

This… thing… opened late, but I thought it was awesome of them to open Psyclone for us instead. Shame they couldn’t have run it on a better setting with more then one swing, but I aint complaining. What I AM complaining about is they opened the Volare at all

Seriously, WHO designed these restraints? Someone without feelings, that much I can tell you

Yes, this photo is needed in any Cedar Fail PTR

I’m wondering if there’s more people or bins in the queue


Brooke displays everyone’s general look when they see an SLC. And Roxie’s just giving me a “PUT THE FRIGGIN’ CAMERA AWAY” look. And Robbie, anyone else reminded of Cyclops from the X-Men when they see those glasses? Which, BTW, I think are awesome.

This was funny… for reasons I don’t remember. Something about the blacked in teeth that Brooke said made me laugh enough to take the photo, but obviously not enough to remember the quote

We interrupt this to remind you how much *this* part of the Volare sucked, even compared to the rest of it

And although the photo sucks, this shows just how bad the SLC was. Look at that head-slamming action. SMACK. Bitch goes down.

There we go, a nice photo after putting you through a photo of a Volare AND an SLC in a row

This was during the whole ATM debacle, so Neil looks suitably saddened by the ordeal

Yeah, I sat on the floor, so the next few photos are bought to you in midget-view

Luke… what’s happening with your ear in this photo…? That’s about all I can notice to comment on… Oh, other then dude, seriously, pull that necklace out

Cyclop… Robbie, I mean, enjoys what I hope is coffee, if it’s not, you coulda least shared!

If anyone can tell me why this was funny, they can have a dollar

Oh, Natalie’s perked up now I’ve started to offer dollars round

Roxie’s reaction to not being able to find an ATM was not a positive one

Cyclops-vision of moi

Yikes, waiting past this sign wasn’t a good… well, sign

Fortunately…

The infamous “no jumping over six people” queue sign made an appearance at The Fly

This was another attempt at taking a photo of the ride wait sign… thanks for that Roxie

Anyone think she’s enjoying it?

Dude, those Icees were freakin’ awesome! I think it was around this point my mouth started to turn a slight blue. But, this is not a photo of me, if you can’t tell.

Random-queue shot

Wow, what a lucky animal he is…

Yep, another random-queue shot

Looks like Roxie has penis envy, just directed to Nat’s camera

Yeah, my inner-geek came out

The Behemoth walk-back was very cool, and I LOVE the kink at the bottom of the great first drop

They all be enjoying it too

I was happy, honestly

Not that I look it… maybe that’s because, as you can see, Behemoth ate my name-tag

I liked groping the nuts

This last hill was cool, but being able to wander under it was even cooler

And I LOVED this drop off the helix, very cool at the back

VERY pretty looking coaster

I wander what the person at the front of the train is saying to his friend

It’s a goose in Canada… that makes it a…?

Yes, man in blue, that was pretty much my reaction too

I have to take this photo as an opportunity to say how much I HATE the American way of running stations, just letting huge queues build up in these huge airgates

Kimmy gets ready, something that Brooke finds hilarious for some reason

Yet another photo of Natalie…I’m not 100% why I ended up with so many, but this was in the queue for the AWESOME Sledge Hammer ride which was so totally better then I thought it would be

Another random queue photo

Haha, why is this the best photo I have of this great ride?

And this the only photo of the fountains? Man, my camera just dies when the sun goes down…

OK, that’s it for Canada’s Wonderland, a park I enjoyed more then I thought I would, and I had a great day there.

Next up would be… Marineland? Yeah. Or RCT scenario land.

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

Wow Ben, I just noticed how high your coaster count is, haha.

Nice Canada's Wonderland report you have going there. I'm glad you enjoyed Behemoth, but it definitely is not anywhere near as good as El Toro. As for the kink at the bottom of the drop, I didn't think you'd be able to notice it, but I actually did notice it and I actually wasn't even looking for it because I forgot it was even there.

You exaggerate with the Volare and the SLC. Time Warp wasn't bad at all; yes, it had some sharp transitions, and the restraints are a bit weird, but even if the restraints are weird the only part you're hitting against is the head cushion. Flight Deck wasn't bad either; I didn't come off with a headache like I did before on Thunderhawk, but to me they're about the same. It wasn't too terrible.

The standup wasn't as bad as you say either. I didn't get really any headbanging on that. And I agree that they need to take better care of the stations in terms of the over crowding. Wild Beast had possibly the worst station cramming I had ever seen. Oh and speaking of Wild Beast, I have to agree that it is one of the worst wooden coasters ever. As soon as I was down the first drop I wanted off.

 

[Ben]

OK, I’m gonna do Marineland and Waldameer as one for three reasons. 1. They were the same day. 2. I took like, five photos at each. 3. I can.

OK, Marineland. I did not like this park, not really. And no matter how far they made us walk, I disliked it the same amount. It was just a huge grass area with a ride at either end and an endless walk. And my lord, trying to get up that hill to the S&S was like a marathon! As I think either Robbie/Luke said, it’s like a RCT scenario where you have a huge, dumpy park with one ride and have to raise money from one coke stand in order to finance the place. And Dragon Mountain was fun and all, but it did hurt me…

This was probably taken from the closest other ride.

FRIENDSHIP COVE! Haha, that’s for you Robbie

The “no Robin Hoods allowed” sign

The Topple Tower which terrifyingly dangled you over some… FLOWERS! Ahhh… scary…

I thought this part of the ride was cool how you’re in a tunnel and then *BHAM* light

And how it follows the ground made me think of a Arrow version of the Ultimate, just less… good

This is a bear. They are cute. That’s about it. They were the best about Marineland, really. Or, as I’ve now decided to call it, Six Flags Sea World. Although, I prefer it to Sea World. That place really grinds my gears.

He got wet

Bear-soup!

Now, there are two rows of people on this that don’t need to feel dirty. I’ll let you figure out who.

OK, you ALL should feel dirty (and yes, this was when I was queuing…)

Culture credit 1

But, there’s a ride in this picture, so it doesn’t count as culture. Yay!

Over at Waldameer, a park that I LOVED. It had such charm, and it helped it had what was at this point, my favourite Woodie!

Oh, and only the best show IN HISTORY. Complete with, yep, some of you guessed it, TIE-DYE! Even before it was cool! Wow, does their power know no boundaries?

Yep, a huge group of coaster enthusiasts did choose this AWESOME dude over a great woodie. Twice.

The women even went as far as grinding Luke in an attempt to be as awesome as Trevor, they still failed.

I bet there’s someone here that can still remember exactly what they’re singing at this point

I know they’re 70s, but I really liked that dress…

Doesn’t work as well as a top, but Trevor pulled it off

HAHA! The 80s part! “It gave way to awesome sayings like NOT!”

I think this may very well have been the highlight of Brooke’s, well, life… it was certainly Trevor’s

See… note how everyone, and Tony, is watching from behind, haha, thought that was hilarious the attraction was deserve

Oh, there were coasters as well…

And a freakin’ insane Drop Tower!

Ravine Flyer III was ALMOST as good as II. Not quite, but we re-rode it cause it was that good

This is the ONE photo of RFII I have for a few reasons. 1. It’s built on, well, a Ravine, and you can’t see it… good. 2. It was dark when we actually tore ourselves from Retroactive and rode it, haha!

Oh no, who could possibly have done that, I have no idea…

And I close the photos of Waldameer off with another RETROACTIVE!

And I must say, that ERT session was Godly. Roxie, our ride when the heavens just opened is *the* moment of the trip I will never, ever, ever, ever forget. That was insane to say the least! And running through the park after and just turning to Robbie “do you have any idea where we are?” “um… no…”, that was so deliriously funny in the wet, cold, thunder, confusion… etc.

Next up, well, not Idlewild since I failed at photos at that park and took none. But, Paul Bunyan and the Caterpillar are forever lodged in my mind. So, Lakemont and DelGrossos!

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

I haven't been to Marineland in ages, but I get what you mean; it's not a really spectacular park, and everyone complains about the long walk up to the drop tower. It's a good park for smaller kids with all the animals except the completely evil deer that literally swallowed my arm up to the elbow and traumatized me for life, but whatever.

And haha I like the Topple Tower caption.

 

[ECG]

XScream is one of my fav drop towers (with a D!) and Ravine Flyer II in the dark is one of the top rides of all time. But you did better than that by riding it in a storm! Ravine Flyer II + Night + Lightning & Thunder = overdose!

 

[Ben]

OK, so as I said before, I failed at Idlewild, and I left my camera on the bus- so zero photos! Such a shame because it was one of my favourite parks of the trip. Just everything about it was awesome- Rollo, the Mouse, Mr Roger’s, Adult Hand Karts, Confusion Hill, the Caterpillar, Paul Bunyan… loved it.

So, I guess I’ll skip straight to Lakemont, a pleasant enough place, the highlight of which was certainly Peanut Butter Shake- The Ride, a much better alternative to that scary, ghetto flat, eh Robbie?

The first thing we did (well, second, the first we did was eat) was my 250th, the “classic” Leap-the-Dips, and to prove it’s classic, even ACE say so (not that it didn’t seem by this point that they gave these out like candy)

And there it is. Looking innocent enough, but this ride hurt me like no other ride or other physical experience has hurt me. Sitting in the back was NOT fun as the whole car came off the track, launching us up with it, only to slam back down, and yes, slam us back down with it. The bruises at the bottom of my back eventually did go, so there’s a slight positive. I guess. Although, crazy how different riding experiences can be between the front and back, since Kimmy and whoever rode with her, liked it! Madness I tell you! (Oh, and who took the photo of us doing ghetto-250? Me want ). God, this caption went on, I’ll post the photo now…

And the Toboggan, which yes, we squeezed two in. Just. Resulted in a hilarious ride, and it didn’t hurt (well, too much).

We will not discuss this ride.

Woo, Skyliner. It was fun, but eh. Just kinda “there”.

See, “there” it is

But, these guys seem to be blurrily enjoying it, so it’s all good

There was something interesting about these, but, yet again, I fail at remembering what

This is the view you get in the front seat (and I warn, I get geekier then this shortly)

I did warn you, but I was just so excited to be allowed my camera on a ride, I had to take lift-hill porn

Wow, there actually ARE photos of people at Lakemont. Jeez. Sorry it’s taken this long, ha. I’m not sure what Josh is doing… I’m 99% sure he was telling me to move my fat head so he could get in on the lift hill porn…

Oh yeah, this is the woodie that’s “famous” for being next to this… I wanna say baseball stadium? It’s obviously a very popular place, whatever it is

Uh, yeah

OK, I didn’t warn it’d get THIS geeky… But man… that spring… I’m not entirely sure what it’s doing there…

I never noticed how slanty the brakes were until now…

This was in the “queue” for the Toboggan (ie, a hoard of people somewhere approximately near the entrance of the ride)… Robbie’s obviously just heard my suggestion we ride together

Oh, we’re over at DelGrosso’s now. How’d that happen? I only have photos of the kiddie coaster, for shame! So no sauce, and even sadder, no blacklight ninja kittie! Anyway, this is all the whores, and I think I see one kid, and they’re not with us. For shame!

Aww, but the one kid does at least love the camera attention

I’m posting this whore photo cause, A., whose random thumb is that? And B. You can see Luke’s shirt, which leads me to say, dude, your “slogan” shirts were awesome. You need to get one that says “keep this park clean cause MY FAMILY come here too”. That’d be too cool.

And my God, possibly the worst photo of me ever, but this is to illustrate, yes, we did have to be sad and pathetic cause we wouldn’t fit on the first train…

That’s it for Lakemont/DelGrossos, sorry it was a fail as far as photos go… But, Sesame Place and the start of East Coast next! Yay! That’s gotta count for something…

 

[Ben]

Aww, so it was time to say bye to (most) of the people who would be leaving us today! Brooke, Robbie, Natalie, Neil, everyone, you guys were missed! And after a few tears were shed (well, one lonely one stood in a parking lot, ha, I’m so lame!), we were off to Sesame Place, which, while only a “kiddie park”, I really liked! I thought it was really nicely kept, and the place would have been a blast if I was ten years younger. Despite the fact we rode a grand total of one ride, the rope course and Elmo-show were a blast! And the food in weird and wonderful plastic shapes was also a lot of fun! My blue Cookie Monster takes pride of place on the toilet in the corner of my room.

The view you get when coming in (though I took this leaving, it makes sense at the start, so blegh to continuity)

Just in case you didn’t get where we went, Roxie will model it for us

OK, so this was basically the reason all of us whores were there

Someone will have to explain what the ride/name is actually all about, I didn’t really watch Sesame Street…

I’ve always loved these tire lift hills cause the amount of tires seems so random. I’m sure there’s a reason, but I just hear Vekoma going “oh, we’ll have two here, two here, oooh, put five there, and just one there, on it’s own”

We then ate, and came to highlight number one, being creepy at the back of the Elmo show! Roxie’s a little *too* excited!

As is Luke… who is wearing shades inside…

Gawd…

The show was a little trippy, and had something to do with fish (the animal, not the girl…)

I think Elmo was dancing at this point

Who *is* this, I must ask? Sort of reminded me of a cartoon version of Borat, only American

And a woman handed Elmo her baby. Well, the baby she didn’t eat.

See, knew it had something to do with fish, here’s Elmo demonstrating

This was just weird, she was explaining *something*

There was a fish playing a sax, so it gets points for that

Um, did say it was trippy

I don’t even know what to say about this…

Then it was time for the rope course! It was awesome! Roxie wasn’t so impressed though…

And too show her disapproval, promptly fell over

Yes… yes… that’s a nice bag

Roxie tackles one last bit before she gives up and leaves halfway through! Boos to her for not finishing!

It gave a pretty decent view of the ride area

Yeah, I think that’s a “screw this” face if I’ve ever seen one!

Yep, that’s a lot of on-the-knee-rope-burn

And Josh needed a rest before we finished

But promptly perked up when someone suggested we tickle Luke (loving all five of those chins as well, BTW)

Yeah… he obviously appreciated that a lot

And that green box is where I almost got my ass kicked by a 6 year old from Northampton (but the American one). Psycho kid, I just liked your top!

Honestly, we did not touch it

And that was Sesame Place! Off to Coney Island next!

 

[Ben]

OK, Coney Island. A place that ended up pretty much terrifying me, but I kinda liked. It was a lot like I thought it would be, but even more ghetto and scary! The drive to the park was probably the most interesting part, with views like this being quite exciting to someone who is used to London and all both of its skyscrapers. Although, I am aware this is a terrible photo, it gets the point across

But, that didn’t compare to some of the stuff we saw in Brooklyn… McDonalds Express, for instance. What the hell is that? Then we arrived at the park, and everyone headed to this…

Well, I tried to find a toilet. Interesting experience to say the least… By this point we lost like, everyone else, but got to be the first in the front after Robb finished, so it wasn’t all bad. Apart from the fact it sucked in the front I mean. This part sucked perhaps the most. Apart from the really random painful sideways hill at the end.

And yes, I only look like that because this is before we rode…

We then managed to catch up with everyone, rode the scary Mini Apple (eventually, after the human equivalent of 101 Dalmatians cut in front of us), and then hit up everyone’s favourite - another kiddie coaster! Which, BTW, Luke, there’s no need to look so disgust about…

OK, maybe you should have stuck with disgusted…

It gives a pretty view of Cyclone, which at this point still sucked

And then it was time for the Wheel, which I thought I’d hate, but I LOVED! BTW, these must be the closest whore opportunities ever. Love them.

The wheel gives you a view of what I imagine explains a lot of the park’s clients

Josh didn’t like it as much as I did…

I see you tiny-yet-awesome Drop Tower

And random kiddie rides. Yay. Exciting.

A few things to note. A. Hmmmm, what beautiful atmosphere the bottom of the photo gives. B. This must be where every school bus in the US comes to sleep. C. You can’t see it, but that stadium has a really cool little fake coaster on the side. D. Awww, poor Parachute Tower.

There’s a bridge. Big. May have a proper name. I don’t know it however.

This creepy guy hung out above the awesome Spook-a-rama. Another scary dark ride we had to take Josh on because we’re cruel.

There’s the Wheel with a car in mid-awesome-swing

This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen anywhere ever.

That’s not our bull!

Seriously, freakin’ insane little thing!

This alley-area was scary as hell! I’m sure this is the one where we got randomly attacked by a game stall man who didn’t want to leave Josh alone

So, we went back to re-ride…

And this time we walked-on (plus point one)

And rode in the back - and it was AWESOME! A lot smoother, and a much, much better ride!

We also did the insane manual Top Spin, which was out of this World!

And ate pizza next to a highly a-musing bin (get it, a-musing, like a-team…)

Here’s the Big Wheel.

And a stroll along “Brighton Beach” finished the day off. Ironic I’ve been to this one, but not the English one. Good work Ben.

And that was it for Coney - a scary place, but I’m glad we did it since it doesn’t look like it has too long (Astroland, at least). The next day was SFNE! Woo!

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

I soo should have gone to Coney Island when I was in New York last year, but I didn't. It seems like a cool park, and even though the atmosphere looks like crap, I kinda like way it looks because it has that original park feeling from back in the day when they didn't theme things, if you know what I mean? You know, the original boardwalk style park feel.

I'm glad you ended up liking Cyclone; I would like to ride it just because of the fact it's a classic! Also, I bet that Top Spin isn't as insane as Geauga's was.. How many flips in a row did it do?

 

[Snoo]

George Washington Bridge.

Myself and UC passed over it a few times while traveling down south.

 

[ryan462]

Wow Ben, Great report.
Really enjoyed it so far !

 

[Ben]

OK, so it was time for the first full day of the East Coast tour with Six Flags New England. Now, we spent two mornings here, but I’ll just do them as one trip report, cause I can’t be bothered to do it any other way. I is lazy, I know.

So where better to start then with an entrance photo?

I have no idea if this was first or second in ERT… But, we rode it in ERT! I really liked it, and thought it was a lot of fun. Kind of along the lines of Nemesis Inferno, which I also think is cool!

Anyone spot the irony here?

You all have been warned. But, they can’t enforce it, so I guess you haven’t been THAT warned.

Yay, TPR members getting ready for their ride

On the “counter-clockwise” coaster. The weirdest one was Pandemonium, which was “spinning”. So it’s “clockwise” for the SLC, “counter-clockwise” and then “spinning”. Well done.

I really liked how you could bump into characters around the park. Very ghetto-Disney

And so I don’t have to explain who he is…

The Drop Tower was cool, only because we rode with some randomer who was terrified.

Yay, Kiddie Coaster whoreage! I didn’t take any of the ride, so the sign will do

While this Woodie sucked awfully, what is that I see in the structure?

Subtlety-fail!

Oh, they happen to have this ride too…

But, a few of us preferred this ride… VERY few though

We hung out in the Justice League for a while because A. We couldn’t be bothered to ride at this point and B. It had air-con

We found Batman in the Justice League!

And actually bumped into some other guys we knew

SMILEY CONTROL PANEL

Yeah, the Wonder Woman was in amazing shape

And no, Robin is NOT Batman’s bitch. And yes, we asked

Group photo time!

Ew. Yes that IS sweat. Back sweat. Charming.

I kinda liked this area (we see you Superman)

Embarrassing photo 1

Superman. I kinda liked it, but not how it was hyped up to be.

Overall, I preferred Dutch Goliath

Thus begins random characters with me photos

Shaggy. Baby.

Haha, Tweety at lunch was awesome!

The SLC wasn’t half as bad as some others I’ve done, but that might have been because I rode with Dave who kept yelling at me how to do the Vekoma Brace Position - thanks, it helped!

Eh, Darien’s non-Superman did that better

For the Aussies. I still don’t know what it’s all about…

I was gutted it was shut… Less fun.

Speaking of which… OMG, it’s the Japanese/Chinese/whatever guy!

I didn’t ride cause these things suck!

And I close it off with “the wheel”

I really liked SFNE overall. For anyone that’s been, it really reminded me of a less themed version of Warner Bros Movie World Madrid. They could do with something else though, but I’m not entirely sure what…

Next up would be that evening at Quassy, and the awesome Lake Compounce!

 

[Snoo]

Back sweat = epic.