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Wes The Travel Mom
Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Total posts: 8765 Location: Like, The Valley OMG Age: 27 Gender: Male |
 Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: Photo TR: It Came From Wes's Closet |
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So here's the deal: I used to big a big freaking roller coaster nerd. Obviously I still like coasters and parks, but not even to a tenth of percent of how I used to be back in high school. At some point, I realized this obsession was a detriment to my social life, so I took a long break and focused on other interests that I loved as well.
Still, I had amassed a bunch of extremely hilarious and probably embarrassing coaster crap over the course of my obsessive years. I was over at my parents' house today to do a bunch of laundry and decided to dig around my closet in my old room to find some of the "awesome" memorabilia. So here it is.
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| Some old coaster books, including a Time Warner era guide to all the Six Flags properties. |
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| Remember when X and Deja Vu were new? I do. So does this cup. |
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| I think this may be my only patch, or at least the only one I could find. Any takers (Jeff?)? |
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| SFMM used to sell the commemorative coins for each of the parks roller coasters. Here's the Colossus one. |
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| Stealth's opening season at PGA. |
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| Before it was Six Flags America, it was Adventure World. Also notice the glowing review from Cal Ripkin Jr at the bottom. |
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| An older postercard for Viper. Looks like Sylvester has the correct reaction to the coaster. |
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| HEY JEFF!!! Remember this CD?!?!?! |
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| Embrassing Photo Time. Here's me and my friend (and little brother) celebrating Batman's opening in 1994. |
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| My stepdad and I braving Batman. |
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| Circa 1998, here's me with the wood used to build Ghostrider at Knott's. |
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| My friend and I rocking out on Steel Force at Dorney. |
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| Here's a glimpse into how f***ing nerdy I was: A Photo of Riddler's construction wall with.... |
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| ...ACTUAL paint chips from the wall. Yes, I saved paints chips from a construction wall. Oh god. |
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| Were YOU cool enough to rock a Ghostrider wallet? |
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| Some prizes from when I got on the hot seat at Millionare at DCA. |
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| ACE magazines. These aren't old, they just showed up in the mail today. |
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| The Ghostrider Media Day press package! One of the first times I met Robb was on that day. |
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| Indiana Jones Adventure decoding card for the Mara language in the queue. They handed these out the first couple years of operation. |
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| Some sort of photo collage I made for an art class. Yeah. Pathetic. |
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| The VERY first enthusiast made coaster tape, Coastered! |
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| An Indiana Jones commemorative Disneyland ticket from 1995. |
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| An Alpengeist poster that hung proudly on my wall for years...why wasn't I getting laid?! |
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| HAT TIME! A sweet Alpie hat! |
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| Millionaire Hat from getting a certain number of questions right in the hot seat. |
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| Goliath hat, I think we all got these on media day. |
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| I'm not sure if it was for the movie or the coaster, either way it's retarded. |
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| This is the worst hat in existence!!! Why does Dueling Dragons spawn the absolute worst apparel of any coaster? |
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| "Hey ladies! My name is...hey wait...where are you going? Don't you wanna hear about my track count??" |
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| An old Figment doll back from when Imagination kicked ass (ie: no scary Eric Idle moon face) |
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| Bad t-shirt section. Here's Ghostrider and Dodonpa (I think to Dodonpa one was given to us at a Solace where Stan Checketts talked) |
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| Riddlers and Superman: The Escape....pretty terrible. |
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| Yeah, rock this Steel Force shirt and impress your friends and family. |
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| Steel Force mousepad, my mom actually still uses this!!! |
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| I think this is a piece of wood from Boulder Dash, they sold them in the gift shop. Worst $5 ever spent. |
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| I'll leave you now with this...a CCI tarp (they used to ship the wood with these) I got from Knott's that I hung on my ceiling. Seriously, how did I ever get ANY action?!?!?! |
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| A letter from B&M. I, like nearly every coaster obsessed teen, wanted to design rides for them. |
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| thrillrideseeker Baby I'm Ready To Gooooooooo Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Total posts: 2189 Age: 21 Gender: Male |
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...WOW... That is a lot of random roller coaster sh!t.
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ginzo Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 28 May 2006 Total posts: 3569 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Age: 32 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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This is your best post yet.
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| RIP Psyclone Banned
Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Total posts: 1262 Location: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Age: 29 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that Jesus on the Boulder Dash wood?
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| PKI JizzMan Jizzy jizz jizz jizz jizz
Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Total posts: 2617 Location: Stuck in Ohio, wishing he is in Australia. Age: 18 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome stuff, Wes. I think I see King Henry VII in the Boulder Dash wood! I guess I'm still in that stage you were, just not collecting much but pictures. I'm going to try to get into mechanical engineering, but who knows.
-J "I have an old 1996-1997 SFMM video...that's it" Z
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| timberskara Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Total posts: 111 Location: Shakopee, MN Age: 24 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, this pretty much sums up my closet/bedroom at home too. I am so ASHAMED!
--Robb's old school movies...check
--Letter from coaster company/park CEO...check (bonus 10 pts to me for having it framed at the time...oh my)
--Worthless pieces of Ghostrider wood...check
--Stolen park banners...check
--Coaster books...check
--Patches...let's not go there.
Even though looking at all this old stuff is sure to give you some head-shaking, "What was I thinking?!" moments, it's hilarious to look back and reminisce about it too. And hey, some people never "grow out of it," so give yourself a pat on the back for doing so. Thanks for the laugh!
But hey...umm....I'll give you $5 for the paint chips. And $10 for the sweet DD hat. 
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| sfotkid BANTRONNED
Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Total posts: 663 Age: 15 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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 Wow... Paint chips from RR? I thought I was bad for getting at SFOT at 8 when it opened at 10..
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| Wes The Travel Mom
Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Total posts: 8765 Location: Like, The Valley OMG Age: 27 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| RIP Psyclone wrote: | | Is that Jesus on the Boulder Dash wood? |
Probably a spooge stain. Haha. I actually think there was a small metal placard on it but it fell off.
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| ParkTrips A tie for 1st Place = 3rd Place
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Total posts: 6892 Location: Falling down 'the list' Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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haha, wes, you are awesome. This makes me feel better about myself, but its really only because I never got into much park merchandise... I think you should give your Dragons hat to cool Rich to compliment his shirt and in turn create the greatest outfit ever
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| Meteornotes Keeper Of The Carnivorous Bees!
Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Total posts: 6914 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, this was all sorts of awesome. I loved the DD hat. That needs to be a prize in some sort of TPR contest.
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| Quote: | | ACE magazines. These aren't old, they just showed up in the mail today. |
is funny because it's true...
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