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Um? Did you READ the trip report? Mammut is *NOT* built by GCI!
--Robb
I don't know about that, Ryan. Holiday World promotes themselves as THE family park. And what kind of coasters do they feature? Three very aggressive woodies, including The Voyage, which is as aggressive as it gets. I think they could have safely turned up the juice on Mammut a bit.
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by robbalvey » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:26 pm
Day 9, Part 1 - Tripsdrill
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- Today the role of Ride Operated will be played by yours truly! Be nice or you don't get to ride. Be REALLY nice and you get DOULBE rides!
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- G'sengte Sau is filled with awesome airtime and fun. And if you can pronounce the name of the coaster you get fifty bucks from Dan!
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- The first drop sends you straight to HELL!!!!
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- Guys...you're only on the LIFT HILL!!!! Stop freaking out!
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- Tripsdrill is so beautifully landscaped you almost don't even notice the coaster.
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- Flowers and airtime. What a joyous combination!
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- "Robb as a thank you for not killing any riders, we present you with this official Tripsdrill bank made out of an old coaster wheel!"
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- Oh, yes! There is a new ride here too...Mammut! This is the first woodie built by pre-fab manufacturer "Ingenieur-Holzbau Cordes" (same guys that built the track for all of Intamin's pre-fab woodies)
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- Mammut was an "interesting" ride. Clearly you can see that everyone in the picture is having fun, but at the same time the ride was kind of a let down for some of us. It's a pre-fab woodie like Colossos at Heide Park, and looks a lot like Troy at Toverland. But it rides far more like a "family" coaster with very little airtime or forces throughout the ride. It's VERY smooth, which is awesome, but I think for the size of the ride we all expected something a little more thrilling.
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- A little bit of lift hill porn for you!
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- Lots of happy faces.
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- NERD Shot!!!
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- Super UBER NERD SHOT!!!
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- Would you like a little first drop with that sandwich?
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- As a ride for the park it's perfect, but for coaster enthusaists, the expressions say a lot.
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- Although we are all giddy like schoolgirls while riding!
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- It's twisty, curvy, and smooooooth...just like Elissa!
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- What could be in that tunnel??? Snakes? Trolls? JOEY?!?!?
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- Thank you Norman for helping make some of our favorite rides!
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- For those of you who remember our updates from last year you may remember the drop tower. If you not then...
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- ...you may not have seen faces like this one!
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- Or this one!
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- "I just love what you've done to your hair!"
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- Not sure why Tim is plugging his ears, but look at the position of his lanyard!!!
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- Guess what?
Chicken butt! - Viewed 12596 times
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- Tripsdrill has lots of these little "display" type of attractions.
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- This one requires you to climb a ladder and one of many characters pop out. Robb got the pretty girl!
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- Chris got the old hag!!!
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- "What? She's had a GREAT personality!!!"
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- Ahh, the famous "Bathtub Log Flume." And what makes it famous?
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- A room full of BOOBS!!!
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- Ok, so maybe a lot of them are old hag saggy boobs, but still...BOOBS!!!
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- Ok, she makes up for the old saggy nastiness.
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- Oh, yeah you get good and wet too!
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- "NO!!!!! NOT THE HAIR!!!!"
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- Hanno on the "Wobbly Bike!"
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- Yay! KidTums gets a bunny credit!
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- Lunch was pretty awesome...but we wish Morgan was here to translate the menu. :(
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- The art on the wall of the restaurant was...um.... "interesting?"
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- Tripsdrill had a rapids ride!
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- I just *know* I've seen that somewhere before!
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- Cannot forget the giant windmill slide of death!
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- Another KidTums approved credit!
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- Piers and the Hoffman Girl ride the bizarro basket ride...but on closer inspection what is that we see?
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- MORE BOOBS!!! I love Europe!
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- This year on the car ride, Robb and his giant camera attachment smoked everyone!
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- TPR says "Thank you Tripsdrill for an awesome day!"
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by Nrthwnd » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:00 pm
Man, we're a sexy-lookin' tour group!
Great stuff on Tripsdrill, Robb. It's a pretty, landscaped park that has a few really great wtf-omg attractions here and there. I really enjoyed just strolling through it all, when getting to the rides.
Tripsdrill was me and Jon/flossy's Canada Day park, on the tour.
Of course, we went to Holiday Park the same day, but Tripsdrill was a nice start to Canada Day. (And Holiday park was the FIREWORKS, to end it LOL.)
I got a free glass! And bought some wine to put in it, lol.
(Actually, everybody got the free glass, but it was still nice to get it on that day.)
Great stuff on Tripsdrill, Robb. It's a pretty, landscaped park that has a few really great wtf-omg attractions here and there. I really enjoyed just strolling through it all, when getting to the rides.
Tripsdrill was me and Jon/flossy's Canada Day park, on the tour.
Of course, we went to Holiday Park the same day, but Tripsdrill was a nice start to Canada Day. (And Holiday park was the FIREWORKS, to end it LOL.)
I got a free glass! And bought some wine to put in it, lol.
(Actually, everybody got the free glass, but it was still nice to get it on that day.)
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by koaster krazy » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:10 pm
the park realy looks like fun and butiful.....i wanna go. 
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by Ryancrash » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:19 pm
Tripsdrill was indeed a beautiful park - some of the best landscaping / scenery of the entire trip I thought. That log flume was a hoot! (Rub-a-dub-dub, SIX men in a tub!) The tree drop tower actually surprised the hell out of me (in a good way).
I even enjoyed Mammut. As a coaster enthusiast, I think it's real easy to get spoiled on coasters like "Kentucky Rumbler", for example - we see other new woodies of a similar size, and expect them to deliver the same kind of thrills. And I don't think that's really what Tripsdrill was going for with Mammut. Mammut was certainly a more family-oriented ride, but what it does, I think it does quite well. It's certainly smooth, which is always good in my book (let's not forget this was the first woodie we rode after Bandit!) - and I thought the tunnel was great. A bit more speed would have been nice, but just the same, I liked Mammut for what it was.
I should also note this was the day Ivan bought the water pistol! That ended up providing quite a bit of unexpected entertainment. I'll never forget coming down the "giant slide of death inside the windmill" and getting a faceful of water at the bottom! Too damn funny...
And Robb - thanks for not killing or maiming any of us on G'sengte Sau! You are now hereby promoted to operate a bigger coaster...
Tripsdrill was great, yet another gem of a park from Germany. I seriously need to spend more time in this country!!
I even enjoyed Mammut. As a coaster enthusiast, I think it's real easy to get spoiled on coasters like "Kentucky Rumbler", for example - we see other new woodies of a similar size, and expect them to deliver the same kind of thrills. And I don't think that's really what Tripsdrill was going for with Mammut. Mammut was certainly a more family-oriented ride, but what it does, I think it does quite well. It's certainly smooth, which is always good in my book (let's not forget this was the first woodie we rode after Bandit!) - and I thought the tunnel was great. A bit more speed would have been nice, but just the same, I liked Mammut for what it was.
I should also note this was the day Ivan bought the water pistol! That ended up providing quite a bit of unexpected entertainment. I'll never forget coming down the "giant slide of death inside the windmill" and getting a faceful of water at the bottom! Too damn funny...
And Robb - thanks for not killing or maiming any of us on G'sengte Sau! You are now hereby promoted to operate a bigger coaster...
Tripsdrill was great, yet another gem of a park from Germany. I seriously need to spend more time in this country!!
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by coasterking2981 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:07 pm
Great TPR!
Though, knowing that GCI has not released any designs yet, I guess me and all other coaster enthusiasts in California can expect Six Flags Magic Mountain's new Terminator wooden coaster to be a clone of Mammut or something similiar to it? With Mammut seemingly to be a more family friendly coaster, and Mark Shapiro making Six Flags more family oriented, it seems to me that a Mammut clone would be the best choice.
Though, knowing that GCI has not released any designs yet, I guess me and all other coaster enthusiasts in California can expect Six Flags Magic Mountain's new Terminator wooden coaster to be a clone of Mammut or something similiar to it? With Mammut seemingly to be a more family friendly coaster, and Mark Shapiro making Six Flags more family oriented, it seems to me that a Mammut clone would be the best choice.
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by robbalvey » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:08 pm
coasterking2981 wrote:Great TPR!
Though, knowing that GCI has not released any designs yet, I guess me and all other coaster enthusiasts in California can expect Six Flags Magic Mountain's new Terminator wooden coaster to be a clone of Mammut or something similiar to it? With Mammut seemingly to be a more family friendly coaster, and Mark Shapiro making Six Flags more family oriented, it seems to me that a Mammut clone would be the best choice.
Um? Did you READ the trip report? Mammut is *NOT* built by GCI!
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by dammie16@vt.edu » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:29 pm
At least that rapids ride looks like it actually has rapids...
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by coaster05 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:42 pm
Yep Rapids and NO wetness on back to back rides.
I really wish I could have felt better on this day. this place had a lot of great attractions, but I just wanted to sleep.
I really wish I could have felt better on this day. this place had a lot of great attractions, but I just wanted to sleep.
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by ginzo » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:12 pm
Ryancrash wrote:Mammut was certainly a more family-oriented ride, but what it does, I think it does quite well.
I don't know about that, Ryan. Holiday World promotes themselves as THE family park. And what kind of coasters do they feature? Three very aggressive woodies, including The Voyage, which is as aggressive as it gets. I think they could have safely turned up the juice on Mammut a bit.
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