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[LiveForTheLaunch]

Awesome report once again! I never noticed the golden bolt on Twister either even though I have only been there once.

Had to spend some quality time with the wife after dinner last night

*ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh* naughty jerry!

 

[Antinos]

I fail to see how that's naughty. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

 

[ECG]

Quality time with the wife consists of putting down the laptop (me mine & she hers) & just watching a movie or some TV, talking, etc. Nothing naughty about that.
Besides, the naughty bits don't take all night. I'm good, but not that good. :wink:

 

[Jer]

You've really never noticed the golden Bolt before? I've only been there once and it's right at the entrance.

Anyway great report ,both of them (just read Dorney too)

 

[RCF]

Oh. My. God.


Jerry, you are amazing.

 

[ECG]

Just when you thought they would never make it on here - my photos of Kings Island & Holiday World (with links to high res images for Hixee).

Faffing about while waiting for Kings Island to open.

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Diamondback ERT <3

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Half of us sat out Delirium.

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And away they go!

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Can you spot the CFers?

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There they are!

Lunchtime cool down with Panda Express!

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Brad's amazing kiddie coaster shenanigans!

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He should definitely be in the running for credit whore of the year.

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Another kiddie cred, but one everyone could get.

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Marc shares another pointless fact with Aidan. ;D

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Views from the observation tower:
Back Lot Stunt Coaster (aka The Italian Job coaster)

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Diamondback <3

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Vortex

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Racer (with Flight of Fear & Firehawk in background)

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Firehawk all on its own.

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Flight Deck (aka Top Gun)

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SoB

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Lovin' Beast at Night!

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We had to wait for the fireworks show to end before we got a second nighttime ride on the Beast. Here's a video I took from the station.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QnvqMEN_f8[/youtube]
Waiting for the last ride of the night on Beast.

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Yours truly included!

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Here's the POV in case you haven't seen it. Definitely one of the best nighttime rides ever!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHvr-7vL6A[/youtube]
Snoopy's Starlight Spectacular light show!

Here's the video I took as we headed back to Firehawk after park closing to retrieve Marc's wallet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCO9yv_l2xU[/youtube]
In spite of almost no sleep the night before, the first official day of the Live went pretty smoothly (other than Marc loosing his wallet on Firehawk & then leaving Gavin behind at the same coaster). Everyone had a great time & we started off the Live with the largest group of the entire trip.
It seems that almost everyone changed their opinion of Diamondback (just a year after riding it for the first time). Brad says he hated it, but I still feel the same & rank it as my #2 B&M floater behind Behemoth.
Double rides on Beast at night was the absolute highlight of the day (even though Marc would probably rate getting his wallet back right up there as well).

We got to the hotel pretty late, but didn't have to hit the road too early the next morning in order to get to Holiday World at park opening.
First up was the Voyage, which was running just fine but I wish we could have tried out the new train...

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...which was sitting on the tracks on the other side of the station.

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After rides on Legend & Raven (which had a stupid long queue line) it was time for yet another kiddie cred...

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...much to Snoo Snoo's dismay.

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Credit whores

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Lots of kiddie lovin'

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Marc has an imaginary friend.

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After the plunge...

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..it was time for the best park food ever.

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After chowing down we took some Voyage re-rides & hit the road. We had a very, very long drive to Worlds of Fun & it took 5 hours just to get to our hotel along the way.