April - Python Pit @ Go Bananas, Harwood Heights - Python Pit @ Go Bananas, Arlington Heights
May - Dark Knight @ Six Flags Great America - Meteor @ Little Amerricka - Mad Mouse @ Little Amerricka - Toboggan @ Little Amerricka - Little Dipper @ Little Amerricka
July - Runaway Train @ Paige's Crossing - Sea Serpent @ That Fun Place - Kombo @ Indianapolis Zoo - Steel Hawg @ Indiana Beach
August - Tornado @ Adventureland, Iowa - Dragon @ Adventureland, Iowa - Outlaw @ Adventureland, Iowa - Underground @ Adventureland, Iowa - Fairly Odd Coaster @ Nickelodeon Universe - Avatar Aircoaster @ Nickelodeon Universe - Back in the Barnyard Hayride @ Nickelodeon Universe - Screamin Dragon @ Como Town
* Little Amerricka has been planned since 2005. * Little Dipper wasn't planned but then I found Out I could fit in the Cars. * Fun Spot and Arnolds Park were Closed When I got there. * Nickelodeon Universe And Como Town were Last Minute Trip Ideas (Me and My Mom thought of it the Morning before we got to the Park.)
And Also I made 4 Trip Reports and Are almost 90% Sure Where I'm Going next Year:
- Six Flags Great America - Six Flags Over Texas - Mount Olympus- The Parthenon - Knucklehead's Bowling & Family Entertainment
it does make more sense here, so time for the great move...
I've had sort of a slow year this year, what I come up with is..
539. Dark Knight Coaster- SFGAm 540. Super Flight- Rye Playland 541. Crazy Mouse- Rye Playland 542. Dragon Coaster- Rye Playland 543. Cyclone- Coney Island, New York 544. Kingda Ka- SFGAdv 545. ElToro- SFGAdv 546. Dark Knight Coaster- SFGAdv 547. Superman Ultimate Flight- SFGAdv 548. Python- Playland's Castaway Cove 549. Flitzer- Playland's Castaway Cove 550. Runaway Train- Gillians Wonderland Pier 551. Wacky Worm- Gillians Wonderland Pier 552. Pirates Hideaway- Casino Pier 553. Wild Mouse- Casino Pier 554. Hot Tamale- Casino Pier 555. Family Coaster- Funtown Pier 556. Looping Coaster - Funtown Pier 557. Mighty Mouse- Funtown Pier 558. Flitzer- Jenkinson’s Boardwalk 559. Ladybug Coaster- Long Island Adventureland 560. Hurricane- Long Island Adventureland 561. Steel Hawg- Indiana Beach 562. Crazy Mouse- North American Midway Entertainment (Farrow) 563. Sea Dragon- Columbus Zoo (Wyandot Lake) 564. Avalanche- Amusements of America 565. Pepsi Python- Coney Island (Cincinatti) 566. Evel Knievel- SFStL 567. Maverick- Cedar Point
So far that's it, I might head to to Minneapolis to see the bears game next month if everyone doesn't back out, will swing by Mall of America and pick up the Eurofighter credit. Also I don't count how many rides I get on specific coasters, I have better things to do with my time/life. Though I rode just about every coaster at every park I visited excluding most kiddy coasters.
My best year was 2001 with 188 credits in one year. Costs to much to pull stuff like that off though
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
I still contend that that sort of information/record keeping doesn't benefit me in any way shape or form. Maybe I've gone old school but I just ride rides for the fun of it these days, outside of a basic track record and list of parks visited in txt format on my computer, I don't keep track of stuff.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
FParker185 wrote:I still contend that that sort of information/record keeping doesn't benefit me in any way shape or form. Maybe I've gone old school but I just ride rides for the fun of it these days, outside of a basic track record and list of parks visited in txt format on my computer, I don't keep track of stuff.
I wouldn't other than coastercounter.com has the feature of allowing you to enter how many rides for each coaster so each time I update my count I add how many rides I got (because unless something is really good I'll only ride it once anyway)
also I get in the situation alot of riding stuff repeatedly just cause it has a short line or cause it's ERT, now at Moreys this past July I sat on the SLC for an hour and a half with one break to use the bathroom, I couldnt even guess how many rides I got, probably somewhere between 30-50 rides.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
Oh yeah well if it's an event with ERT I won't keep track I'll just estimate, like at HWN in 06 I sat on Raven the last hour of ERT and must've gotten around 20 rides but I'm not 100% on those...but if I'm just visiting a park I'll usually ride each credit only once (except the good ones)
Superman - Ultimate Flight Ragin' Cajun Iron Wolf Raging Bull Viper Demon Whizzer American Eagle - Red Side The Dark Knight Vertical Velocity Batman - The Ride Little Dipper - Kiddieland American Eagle - Blue Side Spacely's Sprocket Rockets Evel Knievel - SFSTL Mr. Freeze - SFSTL The Boss - SFSTL Tony Hawk's Big Spin - SFSTL Batman - The Ride - SFSTL
Yes, all the Great America ones are new to me as I had never been to the park before late August and already made 13 trips there. Next years new credits for me are all the ones at the big 8 in FL (all 4 Disney parks, 2 Universal parks, Seaworld and Busch) that are open before April 8th(come on new Universal ride open by then.) Might even get to hit the Dells as well, but a week at Disney is not cheap even with the new deal (book 4 nights get 3 free.)
Honestly workin at CP gave me the opportunity to visit more parks cause all my crew members/co-workers, are all "coaster crazy". i used to only visit one park a year beside great america weekly haha, and that was CP.
The parks I got to this season were... Kings island- Adventure express, *Beast, *Son of beast, Backlot stunt coaster, Firehawk, flightdeck, *flight of fear, *Invertigo, Racer, Rugrats, & vortex.
Hershey park- *Fahrenheit, Great bear, *lightning racers, side winder, sooperdooperlooper, *Stormrunner, Trail blazer, Wildcat.
That was terrible. I was halfway through the ride cycle and you're like here we are on credit number 343 and I'm like lets see this is... 400!! And then that was followed by a ton of swears and me pulling out my 400 sign. Good times.
There aren't any park rules at Astroland my friend. I did break a parking rule though. I parked next to the cyclone for two hours and didn't pay the meter. I didn't get caught though so it's ok.
ben_the_bear wrote:There aren't any park rules at Astroland my friend. I did break a parking rule though. I parked next to the cyclone for two hours and didn't pay the meter. I didn't get caught though so it's ok.
I thought that was me, and you did break a rule, you didn't eat a nathan's hot dog!
