The Official "TPR Europe Trip 2008" Thread!

[mash80I Love Donkeys!]

First time poster (and only been lurking for a week), so hi all, great community you have here!

Just wanted to say that some of these German parks look awesome, I really had no idea. I'm gonna have to get myself over to mainland Europe to check them out, with maybe a quick visit to Toverland too. Oh well, am already saving for my first TPR trip, so maybe in the next couple of years

Thanks for all the updates and TR's. Some of the captions from this tour (and all the others for that matter) really make me lol

[coaster05I prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

I would actually go, isn't that incentive enough?!?

I am sure you will say you will go, but then I'll get time off from school to go and you'll decide not to, since you somehow believe going on a foreign trip with me will rip a hole in the space/time continum.

[Nrthwndbitchbikerbearhousewife]

^^ Welcome to Theme Park Review.

And yes, if you want to save and spend your money on something really worthwhile when it comes to visiting parks and riding coasters and other attractions, a TPR Tour is without a doubt, one of The Best Things Ever you can save up for.

The Europe Tour was my third tour with TPR and each one was unique, had a great bunch of people to tour with, was loaded with great memories of some amazing parks and coasters....um .... and left me ... uh... with this un-natural craving.....

for More TPR Tours, BWA HAH HAH


Hope you get to do a tour (or more) in the coming years.

[KrautWithAltitudeI know quite a lot about Donkeys!]

@SharkTums: Acoording to the current headlines of http://www.coastersandmore.de/ the coaster has already been sold to Gorki Park. Note that the makers of this site are pretty much dead serious about their work (they also feature some articles in English, in-depth technichal information with lots of excellent pictures).

@Robb: I love to hear that! Still waiting for enough accommodation?

@olimonn: Gruezi!
You seem to have a pretty accurate picture of things going on
That´s right, installation of prefab track is quicker and therefore saves overall time and money, although the costs for raw material and machining are higher. Making laminated track takes a lot more time and effort and may not last as long as prefab, so I think Intamin have a good point in their patent (and make the customers pay dearly to use it ?). Intamin own the commercial rights on this track created by Mr. Stengel´s office, as to my knowledge, which may be incomplete here. Since most of the joints in the supporting structure are made with standardized timber construction parts, noone can patent such a kind of prefab structure, the knowledge lies in correct analysis and dimensioning of the whole mess of timber, nails, screws, dowels, bolts, custom metal parts...

@Ryancrash: Thank you. Work wasn´t that hard for me, I like to leave that to the others if I can

Norman

[robbalveySite Admin]

Day 9, Part 2 - Holiday Park
Home to Theme Park Review's #1 Steel Coaster in the WORLD -
Expedition GeForce!

Lots of photos by Hanno...some by Robb...some by random people. Thank you for your pics!

[WillMontuOn the other side of the camera]

Edit: Never mind

[KrautWithAltitudeI know quite a lot about Donkeys!]

Airtime, Hairtime,... and Racktime! No doubt the king of all steel coasters:



Norman "OMG I´m a celebrity now... "

[coaster05I prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

Great TR and this is my new number 1 steel.

[ELZI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

Extra Extra Extra ERT on EGF was amazing. The guy running the ride was a maniac! A stunning ride, even with the 'trims' that first drop, quote Lou quoting Dave (TheBat), really is a religious experience because you'll be needing the messiah to calm you down after it!

Best coaster of the trip and a quaint little theme park to boot, again they let you put six in a flume boat, which we took serious advantage of. That vekoma could do with... well taking down really but the Star Flyer was insanely good and the Intamin drop tower was fun.

Great fun on a great day.

[ginzoI prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

Great TR and this is my new number 1 steel.

Same. Just a great, great, great ride. I can't say enough good things about it.