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My Awesome Coaster Adventure!

Postby matteocrepaldi » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 am

PAGE 1:
- Gardaland - Minitalia Leolandia - Heide Park
PAGE 2:
- Chessington World of Adventures - Thorpe Park - Alton Towers day one
PAGE 3:
- Alton Towers day two - Magic Halloween at Gardaland
PAGE 4:
- Parque de Attracciones de Madrid - Parque Warner
PAGE 5:
- Mirabilandia
PAGE 6:
- Europa Park DAY 1!
PAGE 7:
- Europa Park DAY 2! - Linnanmaki - Sarkanniemi
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- Gardaland

OTHER TRIP REPORTS:
- 2006 Mirabilandia
- 2006 Halloween at Movieland
- 2007 Europa Park



March 25th 2008: I went to Gardaland to get the new season pass and the new Vekoma Mine Train credit!E
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As I got into the park I went straight for Mammut to be on the first train on the day.
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Unfortunately the ride was still closed beacuse I've heard that they were replacing some wheels on one of the trains.
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Many people decided that it wasn't worth waiting so they went to ride the Blue Tornado wich had a very short wait.
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Finally the operator got the ok from the station and wolked us in. This is a shot from inside the Mammut station.
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A closer look at the third lift hill. The first and the second one are hidden in two wooden tunnels.
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Here you can see the wooden tunnels that hide the first and second lift hill.
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The theming is really nice even if they are still working to complete the last few details.
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A really cool thing about this ride is that it iteracts a lot with the queue line by passing above it at least 4 times.
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This is a shot for all the transfer track enthusiasts!
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Another look at the theming of this cool ride.
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That one is a real 1946 6 wheels truck. There are two of them. The other one is somewehre around the ride.
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A look at Mammut from the Blue Tornado queue line. I was lucky and I got the front seat. I hate the front seat but it's not easy to get that spot. I finished the ride with a headache.
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After some rides on Mammut and Blue Tornado it was time for some Intamin fun but the wait was too long so I just took a couple of pictures hoping to find a shorter line in one of my next visits.
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Is this an acceptable amount of water???
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It was a great weather to take some nice shot to the most photogenic ride in the park: the SLC.
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A close up of the second part of the first element. I wish it was as good as it looks like!
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First drop!
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First drop with train in the middle!
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The helix is so close to the ground that you can almost trim the bushes with yout teeth.
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A different angle of the same helix.
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Then I decided to ride the Flying Island to check the wait for the free fall tower and to take some areal shots of the park.

Here's a view of two other "awesome" credits: Magic Mountain: the Vekoma double looper and Sequoia Adventure: the Screaming Squirrel by S&S!
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This is a view of Lake Garda: it's the largest lake in Italy and it gives the name to the park.
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Somwhere in this picture you should see a red 1st generation Intamin free fall tower. It belongs to another park called Movieland and it has been built in 2006 but it was actually open in 2007.
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A nice view of Mammut from above. You can see on the left that they are still working to pave the road and to finish the theming.
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Here you can see the first, the second and a small piece of the third drop.
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Finally it was time for Space Vertigo: the most intense free fall tower I've been on. I was lucky enough to ride it twice without getting out of the station.
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Hey Derek!
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Hey Derek!!! I hope you like the angle!
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The final part of the ride! It was running ok today. I rode it once in the back.
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Some paople are having fun on the free fall tower. The one in the back isn't Mammut's theming but it's a real mountain covered with snow!
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Blue Tornado through the trees!
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Some happy riders going upside down!
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A couple more shots for those Vekoma enthusiasts! This once was my favourit part of the ride.
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The last inversion!
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A never seen before shot of Blue Tornado taken from Mammut's brake run!!!
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I leave you with this shot of Mammut. If you look closely on the right you can see that the theming is still not completed.

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Postby RIP Psyclone » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:07 am

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Postby Groteslurf » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:26 pm

Great pics.

Mammut is well themed as all the rest in Gardaland it seems.
I'm looking forward to my visit to Gardaland in 5 weeks.
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Postby matteocrepaldi » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:00 pm

March 30th 2008: I spent a couple of hours with some friend in a small park called Minitalia Leolandia where everything is made by Zamperla.
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This is the main entrance to the parking lot. The name Leolandia has been added this year; it used to be called Fantasy World.
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Right next to main entrance you can see the two main reasons why I decided to visit this park: getting the credit and try this new tower.
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While I was waiting for my friends to arrive they were testing the rides.
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This crazy looking guy is Leomonster and he's the new main character of the park.
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This is a picture I took last year. This park has a scale recreation of Italy with all the main cultural and geographical features. It's pretty nice but I didn't visit it today.
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This is me.
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This are my friends who were with me today!
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One of the new rides for this year is this Disk'O. It spin a little too much for me but it looks pretty cool.
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The park was pretty much empty at this time of the day.
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Zamperla upskirt!!!
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Trying to get an artistic shot of this ride!
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This is the new tower by Zamperla. It's a double shot tower and it has the most unpredictable ejector airtime ever!
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Next to every ride you can find lots of Zamperla signs just like this one.
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A random view of a random ride by Zamperla!
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Next we went to the kiddie area of the park. It has lots of strange rides like this one.
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We all had lots of fun on those rides.
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Is that a credit I see???
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Just in case you forgot!
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Extremely overbanked turn!!! OMG!
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Signature shot!!!
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Dirty chain close up!!! Wow!
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A shot for those lift chain and anti roll-back enthusiasts.
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This one was next. It a classic ride but it's always pretty fun.
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This is another pretty cool kiddie flat ride. As you can see there are Zamperla labels everywhere on the ride.
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After that we came back to where the newest ride are located to get the spinning credit!
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Another POV shot! I liked this ride. It didn't spin too much.
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Nice themed Zamperla spinning coaster cars.
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I leave you with this shot of the crazy airtime Zamperla tower!

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Postby matteocrepaldi » Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:59 pm

April 6th 2008: Heide Park with my friends from www.theparks.it!
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This is our plane that will take us straight from Bergamo (Italy) to Bremen (Germany).
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This is us waiting to get on the plane!
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From Bremen airport we took a privat bus and we finally got to our destination. Here's a nice view from the Holiday Camp entrance which was where we spent the night.
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Welcome to Holiday Camp!
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This is me with the Holiday Camp in the background. It was really cold!
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Another random view from the camp.
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Before dinner we had a walk around the park to get a closer look to this Intamin monster.
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A closer look at the turn around.
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This was the smallest one I could find!!!
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And finally the day we were all waiting for arrived. We woke up with this light fog that covered the top of Scream!
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This is us walking toward the park entrance.
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We walked straight to Desert Race just to find out that it wasn't open because it was too cold.
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Desert Race operator told us that Colossos was operating so we went there. We were pretty much the only guests in the park.
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Colossos is awesome even if I was expecting it to be more intense and less rough.
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After riding twice Colossos we went to check the other coasters but they were all closed due to the extreme cold weather. So we went to ride theawesome gyro drop tower!
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Scream was running almost empty when we got there. We rode it twice.
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As you can see there are only two people on the whole ride!
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I guess that 35 degrees isn't exactly the best temperature to ride the log flume!
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It was still too cold for the Vekomas to open.
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Colossos signature shot!
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Vekomas signature shot!
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So we went on Grottenblitz; the powered coaster. It's pretty good but not as good as the one at Europa Park.
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Finally it was time to ride Desert Race!
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0 to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds! It's short but it's pretty intense!!!
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A little bit of airtime before hitting the brake.

Desert Race is a really good ride with a pretty interesting layout. The only problem is that it's too short.
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This is the end of the first part... more pictures coming soon!
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Postby matteocrepaldi » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:47 am

Here comes the second part...
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Lets start this second part with a classic Colossos signature shot! Nice!
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After a couple of nice rides on Desert Race we had only three credits left: the Vekomas and the bobsled coaster. We went on the bobsled coaster first.
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Everybody's having a great time on this ride!
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From this picture you can have a pretty good idea about the weather we had. It's also a nice panoramic shot!
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When we all finished our ride on the bobsled coaster we saw that Big Loop was testing so we went there to get the credit.
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This monorail kept getting in the way!
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Much better!
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Random Vekoma close up!
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Then it was time for the last credit left: Limit!
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Probably the best part of the ride!!! Cool!
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This could have been a nice shot if the monorail wasn't there.
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Random flower shot taken while waiting in the train station.
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So we went on the observation tower to get some nice views of the park from above!
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Construction update of the new kiddie area!
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A view from above of the Vekoma side of the park!
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Another areal shot of Colossos.
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Can we ride it???
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A couple more shots of Colossos! In the afternoon it was running much better!
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Dirty Colossos upskirt shot!
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Airtime!!!
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Ok... I leave you with this nice shot of Scream's empty seats!

Let me know you liked this photo trip report.

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Postby lil jimmy norton » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:05 am

Very nice report. I love those mine rides, Mammut looks like a lot of fun.
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Postby hansrubens » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:28 am

Great pics.

Heidepark is a park I still have to visit.
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Postby ginzo » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:51 am

Thanks for the pictures of Heide Park. I'm really looking forward to getting my second Intamin woodie credit in this summer.

As for Desert Race's OTSRs even though there are no inversions:

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Postby Wood Dragon 1988 » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:49 pm

^Yea, but so does Kingda Ka......and Rita........and Stealth.

On that note, I was looking at some pics of Zaturn (basically a Stealth clone) and I came across this pic: http://rcdb.com/ig3454.htm?picture=9 Are those some new sort of Intamin restraints that I haven't really heard about?

Heide park looks outstanding. Much better than the UK's Merlin parks. I think Colossos's layout is far more appealing than El Toro's-more airtime hills, less turns, a bit more "raw." But I do not doubt the overwhelming opinions that ET delivers more. Although, your comment about Colossos being a bit rough was the first I have EVER heard about the ride. In fact, the only complaints about it I usually hear are about it being too smooth and steel-like.

Man, I wish I could afford that TPR Euro trip!

And matteocrepaldi I want to give you props for a great Photo TR. You've really put a great deal of effort into this, and for whatever reason have gotten hardly any responces. I have really enjoyed reading it.
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