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WillMontu On the other side of the camera Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1626 Location: Gainesville, Fl Age: 26 Gender: Male |
 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: Photo TR: TPR Midwest trip, Geauga Lake, and Dollywood |
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Geauga Lake 1
Geauga Lake 2
Geauga Lake video
Dollywood
Coney Island
Holiday World
Kentucky Kingdom
Beech Bend
TPR rides T2 Video
White Castle Takeover
Indiana Beach
Little America
Mount Olympus part 1
Riverview Park
Timber Falls
Great America
Great America continued
Cedar Point (parts 1 and 2) - Arrival and first rides
Cedar Point (parts 3 and 4) - More rides
Cedar Point (parts 5 and 6) - The second day, along with Ryan riding Jr. Gemini
Cedar Point (parts 7 and 8) - Lunch and Trash Can Randomness, Maverick, Night shots
Kennywood (Racer ERT)
Kennywood (Thunderbolt ERT)
Kennywood (Noah's Ark, Phantom)
Kennywood (Laughing Sal, Casey fits into Lil' Phantom)
Kennywood (Jackrabbit, misc rides)
Kennywood (Photo Walkbacks)
Kennywood (Lunch and pictures of Bryan)
Stricker's Grove (part 1)
Stricker's Grove (part 2)
Panoramic shots
I will not be posting Kings Island due to lack of interest.
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Geauga Lake (part 1)
I met two days before the start of the trip to hit a few parks with Evan (What Now) and Dave (methos). Since Dave wasn't flying in until late, Evan and I hit up what was left of Geauga Lake. Geauga Lake was my first experience with a Cedar Fair park
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| It isn't a proper rental car without a fancy dash mounted GPS. |
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| Upon approaching, we are greeted with a Boomerang! |
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| The park wasn't very crowded. Most of the rides were walk-on |
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| Villain was a CCI woodie after G-trains tear it up |
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| This picture shows the effects of both Six Flags and Cedar Fair on the park |
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| Cedar Fair even themed the parking lot |
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| I can understand one or two, but isn't this a little overboard? |
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| Probably the only picture I got of Double Loop |
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| The queue for Dominator (Batman) |
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| Some of the quality merchandise offered for sale in the gift stores |
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| Raging Wolf Bobs was one of the park's three woodies |
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| One of the trains de-railed, closing the ride for the rest of the season |
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| Another shot of Dominator Knight Flight |
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| It's a standard B&M floorless. Now its at Kings Dominion |
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| Dorney has a Thunderhawk, being a good woodie. GL's is an SLC, and is now banging heads at Michigan's Adventure |
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| Do we really want to see ourselves in pain? |
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| There wasn't much special about it, besides like a lot of other SLC's, it was partly over water (I can't figure out what Blackpool Pleasure Beach is going on about) |
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| The log flume. Maybe if it was Diet Pepsi, it might be Dan Friendly |
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| The park also had a standard Boomerang, this one with Arrow trains |
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| Conveniently located near the Boomerang |
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| More GL pictures on the way... |
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Last edited by WillMontu on Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:58 am |
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| Erik Johnson Former captain of the Arrow bus.
Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Total posts: 5303 Location: Gainesville, Florida Age: 36 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What a good start, I can't wait to see all the rest.
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| jynx242 Donkeys are my way of life!
Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Total posts: 672 Location: Savannah, GA Age: 38 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the GL pictures. I was happy that we (as a group) decided on Kennywood, but I don't know much about this one.
Glad you got to go.
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| spaceace12 Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Total posts: 2574 |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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If....when I win the lottery, I will give you my current dslr when I get my d200. Nice pictures so far.
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| WillMontu On the other side of the camera Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1626 Location: Gainesville, Fl Age: 26 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Geauga Lake continued. Dollywood coming soon
In short, Kennywood > Geauga Lake
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| Big Dipper is one of those "classic" woodies. It is very violent in the back row |
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| It still operates with NAD Century Flyer trains. I'm surprised Cedar Fair didn't replace them with used G-trains |
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| Back to Dominator for a signature vertical loop shot |
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| If you look closely, you can see that the train is mostly empty |
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| A floating walkway connects the Geauga Lake section to the former SeaWorld section |
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| Does anyone know what these riverboats were used for? |
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| Another remnant of SeaWorld. SeaWorld Orlando has a stadium like this formerly used for water-ski shows. Now it's used for a Sesame Street show. This one appears to be dormant |
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| The Tornado slide was probably the main attraction at the water park |
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| They also have this slide tower. Other than this and the Tornado, the water-park has little to offer |
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| There are also several flat rides on the SeaWorld/waterpark side |
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| There are several spin-n-pukes, a pirate ship, and some others. |
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| Looks like some leftover SeaWorld theming (with some Cedar Fair theming as well) |
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| Leftover Key-West theming. SeaWorld Orlando also has a Key West themed area |
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| This play structure is identical to Shamu's Happy Harbor at other SeaWorld parks |
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| This was probably the old SeaWorld gate. |
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| Another shot of the slide tower |
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| They also have a water play structure with some small slides, similar to Splash Attack at Adventure Island here in Florida. |
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| Back onto the bridge to return to the Geauga Lake side |
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| This Sky Tower was on the GL side, though it doesn't look like it had operated recently. |
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| BrownStreak Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Total posts: 476 Location: Cleveland, OH Age: 36 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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All this recent talk about Dominator heading to CW has me worried! That and the 'Dipper are the only two real reasons I have to go to GL 
This whole thing with Cedar Fair buying the park and then shipping all of the good rides away makes me think back to the summer when Fantasy Island was called Two Flags Over Niagara as the person who owned Great Escape (prior to Premier/Six Flags) bought the park primarily because that is where the Comet was being stored. Once he removed it he re-sold the park.
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| MidtownCoaster I Love Donkeys!
Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Total posts: 80 Location: Atlanta, GA Age: 27 Gender: Male |
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| FlyingScooter Sorry, Not Feeling Very Creative Today!
Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Total posts: 3044 Location: Cleveland ohio Age: 47 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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The boats were used during the Six flags years for shuttles from one side to the other. I think CF may have used them for the their first year. They stopped using them because they were not efficient at all. Took like 20 mins to load and 20 more to unload. It was faster walking.
good pics.
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| Homer AWESOME-O-SAURUS!!!
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Total posts: 3796 Location: SRQ, FL Age: 20 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Great TR Will, it is still kinda sad to see Geauga Lake being kinda abysmal with attendance.
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| cobra_roll06 Steve Hawking
Joined: 29 May 2006 Total posts: 795 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Age: 20 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Hey nice TR! Is Dominator any good?
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