Theme Park
Review's
2nd Annual Coaster Video Contest!
And
the winners are....
Thanks again to
everyone who participated! This year's contest was better than ever with
more people submitting
and more people voting than ever before! We look forward to the 2006 Theme
Park Review Video Contest!
All videos below are
20-30 meg
.zip files.
All movies are in .mpg format and should play on the latest version of
Windows Media Player
Videos have all been compressed to
the same visual quality in order to be fairly judged and to help reduce server
bandwidth.
To discuss
the contest winners on our forum, click HERE
For
the contest rules click here.
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Click this link to download Jon LoCoco's
"Hersheypark" Video Contest Entry
Hersheypark, home to many
great coasters such Storm Runner, Lightning Racer, Wildcat, Great Bear, and they
are all
featured in Jon's video! If you love Intamin rocket coasters, this is a
video you want to check out.
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Click this link to download Joseph Wanek's
"Adventureland" Video Contest Entry
Joseph and his friends with
the pink robe decent upon this small little park in Des Moines, Iowa and create
havoc for about
4 minutes or so. Funny video, bizarre people...you'll laugh a lot!
=)
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Click this link to download Alain Devester's
"Movie
Park Germany" Video Contest Entry
Warner Brothers Movie world
has changed names for the 2005 season, but from what we can tell of this video,
the park
still looks great!
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Click this link to download Brian Targett's
"Six
Flags Great Adventure 2005" Video Contest Entry
It's opening weekend 2005 at
Six Flags Great Adventure. Lots of coasters are featured in the video, and
there's even
some good shots of Kingda Ka, although not open yet.
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Click this link to download Paul Fowler's
"Knott's
Winter Coaster Solace" Video Contest Entry
Paul has managed to capture
the spirit of this annual coaster enthusiast event. Want to see Ghostrider,
Silver Bullet,
Xcelerator, and a whole lot more, start downloading this video!
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Posted June 6th, 2005:
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Click this link to download Morgan Obrien's
"BEST
MOVIE EVER!!!" Video Contest Entry
Morgan openly admits that
this video is a "shameless attempt to win the contest..." Well, we
certainly did find it pretty
funny with all the goofy antics with friends, and some great footage from park
that you don't see very often like Parque
De Atracciones in Madrid, Tivoli Gardens, and some fun at Oktoberfest!
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Click this link to download Julian Johnson's
"Vertigo" Video Contest Entry
Here is this week's Florida
entry! =) But this one features some very cool editing, great
pacing, and lots of good footage
from Busch Gardens Tampa, Universal's Islands of Adventure, and Sea World
Orlando!
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Click this link to download Jonathan Hawkins'
"Paramount's
Kings Dominion 2005" Video Contest Entry
Welcome to Paramount's King's
Dominion! Jonathan as his wacky group of friends will show you around the
park, ride most
of the coasters like Hurler, Volcano, Hypersonic, and even get you wet on the
parks new "Tomb Raider" top spin ride!
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Click this link to download Martyn Hoyer's
"GhosterForce" Video Contest Entry
Want some chills with your
thrills? Martyn and the CoasterForce
gang take on some Halloween fun during last year's
festivities at Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures in the UK.
Oh, yeah, and there is footage of coasters too!
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Click this link to download Clint Dulieu's
"Sea World
Australia" Video Contest Entry
Now here's a park that I had
never even seen footage of! Australia's own Sea World! Turns out
this park has quite a
collection of interesting rides including a flume ride with tons of special
effects, and an Arrow multi-loop Corkscrew.
This video gives you a great tour of this little-known, yet high quality park.
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Posted May 30th, 2005:
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Click this link to download Don Garrison's
"Universal
Studios Florida" Video Contest Entry
Don Garrison brings us to
Universal Studios Orlando um...kind of...uh "White Gangsta" style? =)
It's part "Theme Park
Review" part "Tommy & James" but all fun!
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Click this link to download Bernhard Wimmer's
"UK
Tour 2004" Video Contest Entry
Wanna visit Thorpe Park,
Blackpool, Drayton Manor, Alton Towers, Chessington, and Oakwood? Simple.
Download
this video and you'll get to visit all these great parks!
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Click this link to download Connor Thompson's
"Knott's
Khristmas" Video Contest Entry
This cool little video set at
Knott's Berry Farm during "Khristmas" comes to us from Connor, a 12-year old, up
and coming
video editor! Keep that in mind when watching this video as it's quite a
testament of what a young guy can do!
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Click this link to download Andreas Austgen's
"Holiday
Park" Video Contest Entry
Of course this video gets
instant props for having our favorite roller coaster "Expedition GeForce"
included, but it's also a
great video showing off friends having a good time in this cool park!
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Click this link to download Thibault Van Look's
"FUN!!!" Video Contest Entry
Want to know what "FUN!!!"
is? Easy! It's going to Europa Park, Warner Bros. Movie World,
Walibi Belgium,
Bobbejaanland, hanging out with friends, riding roller coasters, and watching
this video! =)
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Posted May 23rd, 2005:
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Click this link to download Tom Mueller's
"Busch
Gardens Tampa" Video Contest Entry
Tom brings us a Busch Gardens
Tampa video set to classical music. A very unique and cool approach to
showing off
this park! And, oh yeah, they sneak in some Sea World Orlando footage too!
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Click this link to download
Frederic Molitor & Nicolas Chavance's
"Weekend
Airtime 2004" Video Contest Entry
A group of wacky French
coaster enthusiasts go to Universal's Port Aventura. 'Nuff said! =)
Well, other than check out this video and be prepared for some funny antics!
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Click this link to download Alan Martin & Phil Hart's
"Carowinds
Opening Day 2005" Video Contest Entry
Alan, Phil, and the
Whootah
gang head to Carowinds for opening day. There's coasters, flyers and
floating heads!
What is it about all the floating heads in this year's video contest?
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Click this link to download Jonathan Hymes'
"Tripsdrill
2004" Video Contest Entry
Tripsdrill is a small, lesser
known park in Germany with some very cool looking attractions. Jonathan's
video shows off
the park's star attraction "G'sengte Sau" and a lot more!
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Click this link to download Brian Shinsec's
"Six
Flags Marine World" Video Contest Entry
Ahh, Six Flags Marine World.
Coasters and fish! What a great combo! =) The only thing that
makes it better is a little
Ska music and some great coaster footage you'll find in this video.
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Posted May 16th, 2005:
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Click this link to download Nick Collins'
"Bumps &
Bruises" Video Contest Entry
Nick brings us a video that
highlights the 'dark side' of roller coasters...yes...those "rough" ones!
This funny look at all those coasters that never seem to get mentioned...and for
good reason! =)
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Click this link to download Steve Lee & Karen Lawson's
"Shut Up &
Smile!" Video Contest Entry
Steve and Karen show us how
to have a good time in Orlando. Although Steve shows us that some things
can be a
bit "bumpy." =) Watch out for that Beverly!!!
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Click this link to download Lars & Cornelia Theissen's
"Phantasialand" Video Contest Entry
Lars and Cornelia take us to
Phantasialand. A beautiful park that we don't see too many videos of!
All the coasters and most of the dark rides are represented in this video.
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Click this link to download Albert Lam's
"Disneyland
Christmas 2004" Video Contest Entry
Ahh, Disneyland....the
original, the classic, the one with the small castle! =)
Albert's video shows off all the holiday attractions at the "Happiest Place On
Earth."
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Click this link to download Jarvis Morant 's
"Paramount's
Carowind's Top Gun" Video Contest Entry
This video is all about
Carowind's Top Gun! Jarvis takes us on board for some POV action and gets
about as many
off ride shots you can imagine!
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Posted May 9th, 2005:
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Click this link to download Guy T Koepp's
"It Came From
The 4th Dimension" Video Contest Entry
Wow! This is one hell
of a bizarre video! You got to see this one to believe it! Inspired
by "Ed Wood," Guy brings
us the first ever "Coaster/Horror/Comedy" video we've seen! It's part Beetlejuice, part um....we're not too sure! =)
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Click this link to download Ted Cromwell's
Solace Weekend 2005
Video Contest Entry
Ted's video covers several
parks during his Solace 2005 trip including Sea World San Diego, Belmont Park,
TONS of Knott's Berry Farm footage (being sarcastic here), and SFMM! Check
it out!
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Click this link to download Greg Spalding's
UK Parks Video
Contest Entry
Greg's video brings us to a
few of England's best amusement parks including Blackpool Pleasure Beach,
Southport's Pleasureland, and Thorpe Park. Some good footage of Nemesis
Inferno, Steeplechase, Big Dipper, and more!
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Click this link to download Tom Mueller's
Universal
Orlando 2004 Video Contest Entry
Tom takes us to Islands of
Adventure and Universal Orlando to check out all the rides and attractions!
Be sure to watch
the temperature on screen rise!
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Click this link to download Paul Ruiz De Miquel's
Terra Mitica
Video Contest Entry
Here's a video of a park in
Spain we don't hear or see too much about! It's very interesting as the
park seems to be very
well themed and has several coasters including a full sized woodie and a Vekoma
SLC! =)
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Click this link to download
Kevin Gillan's Orlando 2004 or
"Floruba" Video Contest Entry
Kevin's video covers just
about all the Orlando parks, but it's the bizarre intro that makes this video!
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Click this link to download
Bernhard Wimmer's
Marchenpark
Video Contest Entry
This videos comes from
Bernhard Wimmer, one of the video contest winners from 2004. We had never
heard of
Marchenpark before seeing this video, and you can tell by the antics that it's
one of those parks you can have a great
time at with the right group of people! =)
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Click this link to download
Alain Devester's
Toverland Video
Contest Entry
Nobody had paid much
attention to this small park in the Netherlands until they opened the first
Vekoma "Booster Bike"
coaster last year. Check out this coaster and more in this contest entry!
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Click this link to download
Thomas Owings'
"Texas Sucks"
Video Contest Entry
Thomas Owings, another winner
from last year, brings us a video from Texas...and apparently Texas Sucks!
=)
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Click this link to download
Andrew Hartman's
Wisconsin
Dells Video Contest Entry
There are a lot of coasters
in the Dells now and Andrew shows us some serious wood! All the coasters
including some still
under construction are all in this video along with the crazy antics you
may be familiar with from this group!
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Posted April 25th, 2005:
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Click this link to download
Martyn Hoyer's
Alton Towers Lovely Rita Video Contest Entry
Martyn's video contains lots
of footage of Alton Towers' latest thrill machine, Rita: Queen of Speed as well
as all the parks
other roller coaster offerings: Nemesis, Oblivion, Spinball Whizzer, and MORE!
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Click this link to download
Jon LoCoco's
Cedar Point Video Contest Entry
Want to see all the roller
coasters that Cedar Point has to offer? Jon covers almost all of them
including Top Thrill
Dragster, Millennium Force, Raptor, Gemini, Mean Streak, and MORE!
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Click this link to download
Nick Collins'
"Coaster
Season 2004" Video Contest Entry
If you remember Nick from last
year's contest, you'll know that his wacky group of friends know how to have fun
at parks!
This compilation video includes: Thorpe Park, Six Flags Belgium, Lightwater
Valley, Holiday Park, Alton Towers,
Efteling, Parc Asterix, Six Flags Holland, Tivoli Gardens, Mirabilandia, and
lots more!
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Click this link to download
Barry Hom's
Miracle Strip Amusement Park Video Contest Entry
This park might now just be a
memory, but Barry has captured it's spirit in this video. Includes shots
of all the rides
and has onride footage of the parks wooden roller coaster, Starliner.
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Click this link to download
Andreas Austgen's
"Warner Brothers Movie World 2004" Video Contest Entry
Andreas and some of the members of
Onride.de hang out for Halloween thrills at
Warner Brothers Movie World
in Germany (Now called Movie Park Germany.) Fun antics and lots of
coasters to see here!
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To discuss
the contest entries on our forum, click HERE
To
View the 2004 Video Contest entries, Click HERE
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