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  1. Great updates! Any idea if tomorrow and Friday are general public admission days with the reduced admission price?
  2. Congrats!!! Kristen is a cutie! Lucky she takes after her mom! Good to hear she's eating like Robb and that she is doing well. George - just a month and 5 days late...
  3. And that would be because you ARE their Number 1 Fan. Remembers when Elissa was picked up by Chip (or was it Dale) at Disneyland...
  4. Know of any discounts for SFMM in October? Heading out there for Knott's Scary Farm, a day at Disneyland and then the pure torture of SFMM (since a friend hasn't been) and I'd like to reduce the impact on the wallet. Also, any other suggestions on sightseeing or smaller parks - I know about Adventure City and Scandia from before. BTW, its Thursday, October 6th thru Sunday, October 9th if y'all want to join us. George
  5. Things I have faith in about Holiday World and The Voyage: - maintence, this coaster won't suffer the issues that many steel structured woodies have because it'll get the tender loving care of Jeff; - it'll kick butt, I would say ass but its in Indiana and I think butt is pushing it; - May 6 needs to get here soon... george
  6. Knoebel's is one of the best classic parks around. Phoenix is a great coaster, especially at night - offers some nice airtime and its not rough. Twister is good, I've never gotten a top notch ride on it, others have raved about great rides so your experience may vary. Food is awesome at Knoebel's - Pirogi's, Caesari's Pizza, White Birch Beer - its all good. And its cheap. Try everything, don't think you'd regret it. Knoebel's ride operations are fast, lightning fast - Phoenix and Twister have the fastest loading times I've ever seen on a coaster, people get out and the new people board, get restrained and checked in a matter of seconds. I'd recommend staying as late as possible for better Phoenix rides, to get the coaster option wristband if its available and to eat and have fun - not too many of these type of parks around and Knoebel's is one of the best.
  7. Its all about bundling. A water park with the Sea World tag would be popular and can be bundled with Discovery Cove and Sea World tickets for an upcharge. Plus there's more than 50 acres over there if its the spot I'm thinking about - Busch acquired a LOT of land around that area when they bought Sea World, it was part of the package. So a starter 50 acre water park with nice room to expand would work well for them. If you noticed there are a ton of No Trespassing signs on several vacant areas across the street from the park that are labelled with Busch as the owner. That was of several months ago, don't know if the signs are still there, but I know they've been there for several years.
  8. I've been hearing the sell-off rumors as well. If they decide to expand the park, I doubt they'd get another coaster - Kraken just isn't that popular and the park is in the position of either: a) continue developing more thrilling rides in order to build a clientele but you compete with BGT; or b) discontinue developing thrilling rides, stick to their main focus of animals and build rides compatible with that focus - for example, a raft ride, other water-related rides or kid rides. Thrilling water rides work too. I see b as more of a real business decision than a, I could also see a Sea World waterpark as a potential build, but the market has a LOT of waterparks - we also have a lot of really hot summers so it works...
  9. Don't let it kill your skipping! As a Florida native, Hurricanes are very hit and miss. Looks like we're entering a more active cycle, similar to the early 1900s. I doubt it'd affect your Orlando/Tampa vacation plans, hopefully we won't have a repeat of last year and storms tend to hit coastal areas more than the inland Central Florida corridor. George - who's getting ready for hurricane season anyways, like I've done every other year...
  10. Going to hit all of the above - figure SFMW and maybe PGA or SCBB on Wednesday and Bonafonte and PGA on Thursday, then my friends fly in and we're at SBC park on Friday and Saturday evenings with touristy San Francisco stuff during the day. Was looking at rates and found a place mentioned in a TR on RRC called the Ocean View motel in San Francisco, close the Golden Gate park at $95/night and right next to a streetcar line and BART station.
  11. Ok, I'm getting some details done for my August 10-14th trip to N. California and my last part is booking hotels. I could definitely use some advice because most of the San Fran area hotels I'm looking at are $150+ per night and for such a long trip thats a bit much. I'm looking for a good hotel that is close to SBC park or you can take public transport to SBC park for Friday-Sunday and I fly into San Jose on Wednesday and wouldn't mind getting a decent hotel in that area to base myself out of for 2 days alone. Thanks for the help! George
  12. It was great meeting everyone and hanging out with old friends, we need to do that more often! A great evening, a sampling of Epcot dark rides - who could ever forget that the future is sparkly and sponsor-free and the your imagination is hosted by poor Eric Idle. Love Eric Idle, cynical about Journey into Imagination with Figment. Poor Figment for that matter! Dragon abuse by Disney? I could skip the trip back home though, it poured with gale force winds - took about 1:45 for my usual 1 hr trip back to Melbourne. Cool effects from the wind and rain flowing sideways off of the bridges and signage though.
  13. Great TR Robb, much better than some of the gamer sites I tried to browse to get E3 info. They were uniformly crappy, too much PR/media hype and spin and no info. As soon as you posted the Batz-maru game photo it screamed Elissa must buy this. See anything interesting for the PSP? Picked one up and its pretty great, love being able to xfer movies from DVD/PC to my PSP so I can watch em while travelling. So if those booth babes are coming to the BBQ I may just have to fly out there...
  14. On your coaster or noncoaster trips? One of my favorites: Mr. Weenie was found in Peru, Indiana on the drive between Indiana Beach and Cedar Point following some Mapquest directions. We stopped in Peru to get gas and found Mr. Weenie - he's classic. Didn't try the hot dogs though, maybe next trip... More to come as I keep going thru photos. George
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