Photo TR BGE/ Griffon Soars!!

by **kraken613** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:43 pm

Nice pictures but pictures just dont show how big eveything is on this beast.

by **cobra_roll06** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:31 pm

Great pics man! Did you ride in the last row cause the airtime on the first hill must be something else?!

by **coasterdude5** » Mon May 21, 2007 1:37 pm

Great pics, Griffon seems to blend in the sky - it's awesome.

by **redfoot12** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:56 pm

Excellent pics, Jeff!

I'm hitting the park tomorrow and am looking forward to Griffon immensely!

by **Airtime&Gravity** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:59 pm

Great photos, and Griffin is one of the most photogenic coasters , and Expedition Geforce is the only steel coaster that looks better. While I'm not sure that this was worth an eight year wait, especially for BGE, it is great that the park has another world class coaster in its lineup.

by **jedimaster1227** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:42 pm

Maybe this whole floorless dive-machine thing isn't such a gimmick after all... That is a pretty cool looking floor-to-floorless setup... Oddly enough, this is making me even more giddy about my next return visit to Busch Gardens Africa!

by **coasterfreak101** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:48 pm

Wow, the pics are amazing! I was really hyped to get to BGE this year, and now that I've seen some pics of Griffon in action I'm even more excited!

So, by seeing that there was a video of the floor retracting, should we be expecting another great video from you

?

by **pkdcoaster** » Mon May 21, 2007 6:56 pm

Hi Everybody, Thanks for the compliments.

I will try to answer everybody's questions

BGE has many signs up now about no cameras on rides now, so no POV. But I plan to take my camcorder there within the week to shoot footage for a music video so look for that in the next couple of weeks.

Yes that was a black Snake that just wandered onto the sidewalk (stairs and hill right by the Rhine River Cruise) This kid got right in his face and his dad screamed at him. he was not poisinous but he can still bite.

No water bottles but they do have a water fountain in the que for Griffon and after a 45 minute downtime the line ended up being for a drink of water!

I only rode twice on Sunday (luckily I was assigned the front both times)
I got 15 rides on Thursday night at the VIP party

Yes they do Assign rows so good luck on getting the front!!

I did write my review of the ride in the official Griffon thread if you want to read it.

If anybody wants the high quality full size pic for a wallpaper or whatever just shoot me a PM with your E-mail and what pic you would like.

JEFF

by **ginzo** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:07 pm

pkdcoaster wrote:Yes they do Assign rows so good luck on getting the front!!

In this situation I sometimes politely ask if I can have a specific row. The ops usually go for it in my experience.

by **RiversideMan** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:30 pm

All I have to say is SSSWWWEEEEETTTT great job Jeff. That Northern Black Racer was a biggie lol I bet he finds all the kids food that they drop around the park lol. Does Griffon throw a lot of water out of the splash pool it looks like it does I bet they will get tired of that lol.... I haven't been to BGE in years just because I had been on everything but now its time to go for some serious ride time I'm glad they got the floor less trains on this puppy thats gotta be a sick feeling on that first drop, well thanks again man great job :lmao:

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