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Photo TR: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 7-8-07


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Just got back from the Boardwalk a while ago, and we had a great day.

 

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Starting off, we met "Man" at the BART station and gave him a ride to SCBB. We got there around 10:20 or so. The weather? Cold and foggy...then it either warmed up or we just got hot from constantly causing Wipeout to spin like crazy...It was actually quite a workout. Like usual, we looked around, snapped a few photos of some SCBB history and some sleeping rides. Boardwalk rides open so we snag 2 rides on the Giant Dipper, trying to come up with some funny poses. Off to the "River Walk" section of the park, or as I call the Pit. We rode Ghost Blasters as there was no line and we wanted some competition. (It's a Sally Dark Ride involving shooting ghosts). After that, we hit up the Breakdancer 4/Rodeo, Wipeout. Walk on, and actually it was only just us 2 on it. And we had just as much fun waiting for the ride to start as we did riding by getting the cars to spin like crazy at a standstill. Didn't spin much during the ride until we found out that we could make it spin more while it's running. We then hit up the Rock-O-Plane and tried to flip as much as we could....I didn't even get 1 whole flip in...(Boo!) so I gave up. We met up with my bro and his friend and rode the sky ride over to hurricane..Almost a walkon, just waited for the train to finish it's course. Up next, Doubleshot. First ride today felt 'meh' as I didn't get any air or stomach tingles. Back over to the Dipper for 2 more rides...Sadly, ran in 1-train operations, but the crew still did a nice job getting people on and off. After, we split and Man and I hit up Fireball. (They actually let me POV it, but the op was really nervous about the camcorder being on there.) Back over to Wipeout again for some mad spinning sessions. Time for lunch...or snacks in this case. We just went into the liquor store for a candy and soda (I know...great choice of food). Back over to Double shot for 2 more back-to-back rides. Turns out that the operator recognized my TPR shirt and that he reads TPR's boards all the time. His screen name was SFMM something...(Forgot). Great to meet a fellow member once again. Finally, over to the Pirate for a quick ride. We headed back to the Dipper for the last ride followed by a few more sessions on Wipeout. (For some reason, this simple flat amazes me...maybe it's the lights, or what we could actually pull off on it). That pretty much wraps up the day. One last note that I must add: Moser Freefall kiddy rides are awesome! You get some nice pseudo airtime on it along with a nice tingly sensation. Now, onto the photos.

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Bouncy-Bouncy!

Thanks for reading!

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Preparing for liftoff.

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Queued up for Doubleshot, just before I talked to the ride op, Scott about TPR.

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Surprised this shot came out as the lights came on 1 of of a second after the shutter opened. (I had it open for 2.5 seconds)

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Yes, it's Wipeout again...This ride does a wonderful job with manual exposure settings!

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A rare feature for carousels today...which is what makes this worthy besides it's age.

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The newly installed Wurlitzer organ for the Looff Carousel.

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Sweet...mutated Runts!

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A trainload of riders plunging down the first drop and into the building! (Ouch!)

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Typhoon...didn't ride as it looked painful/uncomfortable.

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I just love this shot...Used (And learned) manual shutter settings for Wipeout, my new favorite flatride.

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Fireballs again... (Yes, I like calling it Fireballs.)

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So that's what they had before the Giant Dipper, eh?

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Wow...old photo of the Dipper. Yes, those are all people on the lift building it within 47 days. Great job peeps!

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Best element ever on Hurricane! Oh wait...I'm still feeling the headache from it.

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Some people call this coaster track, I call this abstract art!

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Wow...this park was crowded...(No, really it actually was. This only lasted 5 minutes.)

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Hurricane swooping down it's first "drop." Not a big drop, but I did get some decent airtime on it after the first drop.

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Uh...you too lady...Get a life, quit riding the sky gliders all day long.

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Yay for Doubleshot! How many birds have been killed by this contraption anyway?

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Doesn't this dude have anything better to do than ride this thing all day long and then sit there all night in the frigid Monterey fog?

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Dude...these things actually sell for like 5 bucks a piece on ebay...(No, not the shoes, the Carousel rings!)

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"Bleh...27 rock-o-plane flips don't agree with me...I'm about to blow some serious chunks!"

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Fireballs...

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Yay...the arse of Wipeout's car! (Actually, I meant to get a pic of Man, but his car turned suddenly and mooned me.)

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Before the park opened, I tried the UFO catcher crane...Almost impossible as they made it "butterfingers." My bro, surprisingly won something out of it.

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Ok, so I did get my picture taken with Mrs. Laffing Sal.

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Wow...scary @$$ woman!

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Pre-Neptune's Kingdom stuff. The plunge, which was an indoor pool n stuff.

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Who knew...The Giant Dipper was green! Looks weird. Any idea what kind of trains those are? (They look like maybe retro morgans)

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I just went to Boardwalk last week (July 3) and I LOVE WIPEOUT! The strobe lights make it the best flat ride ever. My other favorite flats are Cyclone and Rock O Plane. But Giant Dipper is hands down the most incredible roller coaster I have ever been on. If you've ridden it, you know why I say this. Have you seen the airtime you get on it?! AWESOME!

 

But has anyone noticed that Rock O Plane makes some very wierd noises when you rock it at some points? I hesitated sometimes to make it flip.

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Seeing that I'm not the only Wipeout enthusiast out there, I threw a quick offride/onride clip of this ride in action including Man's mad spinning skills. For those who haven't ridden it will get the opportunity to see why it's cool. The ops didn't even care that we were making ourselves spin constantly before the ride started...Last year, different story. Anyway, you can check out the clip here. Feel free to rate/comment it!

 

Just added the Rock-O-Plane clip of 27 flips

. (I know, the crazy on Youtube did more but that's a good start!
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You should have ridden Typhoon, that ride is awesome. They leave you hanging there for like 2 minutes while your talking to the people in the other car.
lol we would've but most of us were feeling really sick by than
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I went on Typhoon too. Absolutely insane! I think it's the scariest flat, the way they leave you upside down for like ten seconds. I'm not exaggerating either!

 

I laughed at your comments about those random people on the skyglider. They scare me.

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You should have ridden Typhoon, that ride is awesome. They leave you hanging there for like 2 minutes while your talking to the people in the other car.
lol we would've but most of us were feeling really sick by than

 

It does, and I guess eating 3 cheeses on a stick 5 min before hand doesn't help.

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Some more photos...well, more like screen grabs from the video portion that I took. If any of you are planning on hitting up SCBB, I recommend shelling out the $4 (If you have the wristband) for Frightwalk. I actually jumped, which I usually never do on haunted walkthroughs.

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L337 Spinning Skillz! That's one of the reasons why I like this ride so much!

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The poor kid in this car kindly donated all of his carousel rings back to SCBB when he rode this...and on top of that, he lost his cellphone. (Luckily that remained in the cage).

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Extreeeeem Zoooooom...kinda..

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Flip-A-Rooni!

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Wiii! Fireballs again, onride! The op just told me to keep a good grip on it, which I did..infact, the G-forces kept the camera in my hands.

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Some constipated dude greeting us at the end of the Frightwalk. He even made growls that sounded kinda like farts when I played back my tape.

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Some random hot chick in the Frightwalk...even hotter than what Phazan spotted on his visit the other day :)

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Plunging into total darkness and old greasy smells!

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End it with a torn down Psyclone...which is the reason why I added more pictures to begin with!

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Nice pics! I like the Wipeout pic with part of the painted landscape in the background. I was the operator working Double Shot and said hi, when you came on.

Something about Wipeout, around the beginning of this year, they installed long blacklights on the ceiling. To me, these lights *almost* ruin the ride. I don't know if you went on the ride when it first opened.. but when the ride started and they turned the lights off, it was pitch black. Now, there's always some light in the room It's still a good ride, but it was just so much better when it opened.

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Nice pics! I like the Wipeout pic with part of the painted landscape in the background. I was the operator working Double Shot and said hi, when you came on.

Something about Wipeout, around the beginning of this year, they installed long blacklights on the ceiling. To me, these lights *almost* ruin the ride. I don't know if you went on the ride when it first opened.. but when the ride started and they turned the lights off, it was pitch black. Now, there's always some light in the room It's still a good ride, but it was just so much better when it opened.

 

I rode it July 4th last year and did notice quite a difference.

 

Comparing the recent visit and my

, it was darker before, and the strobe lights around the room were used more...which was a sweet effect in total pitch black, almost like swirling lightning.

 

This year, the car's headlights were lighting things up quite a bit (which made nice photos) but created tons of brightness. I also noticed that the patterns are random as I rode it first thing in the morning and it was almost completely dark, rode it later on, played the same soundtrack, and had more flashing lights.

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Angry Gumball, you are a genius! I was at Great America the other day, and decided to ride Spongebob's Boatmobiles (same ride as Wipeout), and I got some serious spinning action when the cars unlocked! I can't believe I neglected that ride at Great America!

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If anyone is interested (especially the 2 above posters) I uploaded this video just to show you on a more clearer sense of the spinning from these rides. You can see it here.

 

Have fun getting your local breakdancer 4 to spin! The trick is to shift your weight to the sides at the right time. By the way, it is harder to pull off with 2 people. Ride single for best results.

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Oh man, I hate when they leave skymaster/kamikaze rides upside down forever, just not a comfortable feeling! Especially because the only ones we got back in RI were of the carnival variety.

 

Nice photos, I'll be visiting one of these days once I'm all packed into my new home in Riverside County.

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If anyone is interested (especially the 2 above posters) I uploaded this video just to show you on a more clearer sense of the spinning from these rides. You can see it here.

 

Have fun getting your local breakdancer 4 to spin! The trick is to shift your weight to the sides at the right time. By the way, it is harder to pull off with 2 people. Ride single for best results.

 

Boradwalk is my ex-home park. I used to go there about once a week, for 4 years. "Wipeout" actually operated as a regular "Breakdance", just outside of the enclosure it currently resides in. The enlcosure used to house a set of futuristic bumper cars, but were removed most likely for low capacity isssues. It always had the longest line in the park.

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