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Will be coming and bringing a factory-new wife-person.

I'll definitely be there, and I'll be bringing a guest--my fiancee will by then be my wife, and she'll be coming along. I'm looking forward to it--it's been too long since I've done anything in a park with other people.

There's a joke in here, somewhere. Something about first dates and/or first times . . . I can't find the joke, but Trombi did remind me of . . . bad stuff, in roughly the same was as Fly Away at Bobbejanland did. It made me feel dirty, somehow, and cheap; also, used.

Fixed your typo, Craig.

It really wasn't for lack of trying. If it makes you feel better, we did break at least one car.

I agree that the park rocked, but I wouldn't call it "hidden" so much as "way the heck far away from practically anything, except itself." It was definitely one of the highlights of the trip, and I eagerly await video/pictures from the Grand Prix. That could be . . . interesting. SPOILER: No one died. (Bummer, I know.)

I'm not certain I want to live to my eighties, but if I do I hope I can still ride coasters and enjoy them.

I noticed that, as well, and wondered how they felt about it (and how someone like Terry would feel about it). It didn't seem particularly disrespectful to me, but I'm not really in a position to judge that.

My head is spinning as I try to imagine how much worse EGF had to have been running (or how much better Silver Star was) for them to be even close. For me, when we rode them, it wasn't.

What he said; it was what I was trying to get at, though it would take a lot (and some bad rides), I think, before I could get jaded about that coaster.

I'm agreeing with Chuck. The day we rode it, EGF was about as good as hyper-style steel gets. I find myself agreeing with Terry and preferring Winjas and Troy, but that comes to preferences--I like hypercoasters just fine, but I like unpredictability and out-of-control-ness more. There is no "right" or "wrong" here. (Unless you're trying to say that, say, Gouderix is better than Expedition GeForce, in which case you're probably brain-damaged.) EDIT: If Expedition GeForce is a "lower top-ten coaster" for you, what coasters are you ranking higher? Are the ones you ride rarely or have traveled great distances for ranked higher? For that matter, how many coasters have you ridden? (It's possible that having a broader experience may give you a better idea of just how special EGF is on a good day.)

While I'd agree that Black Mamba isn't the best B&M invert, it was nice to get on something inverted and inverting that wasn't a test of pain tolerance after SLCs three days in a row. I'd have been happier if it had been at least a skosh more intense, but that's a minor complaint, and the park was a blast--though I missed the rapids ride (not hot enough for me to get wet that day) and Talocan (I don't like Top SPins, though Talocan looked to be running a great program) and I found myself puzzled and at least a little disappointed by Mystery Castle. Winjas is awesome, and Colorado Adventure (Michael Jackson) is a fun and intense mine train, and the dark rides are fun if you're with the right people and in the right mood to sit back and let the cheese flow over you and cover you and eat away at your brain cells.

^Because it's funny, Craig.

Not only that, but that photo is one of the very few ones you'll see of me on a coaster where I don't look as though I'm in a coma. I actually look as though I'm having fun. Nice job, Hanno.

It was definitely one of the pleasant surprises, probably less so for me, as I hadn't been any X-cars; but I got the feeling people who'd had bad experiences on similar coasters were almost in shock.