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Postby planea380 on December 30th, 2004, 10:58 pm
Started off my trip at the airport like usual. I flew Ted by Untied. For a company that doesn’t pay taxes...their service is really bad.

Our Hotel was: Monte Carlo

Day1. Went to New York, New York; Game works; Hilton; MGM; Paris/Bally’s; Bellagio. At New York, New York I went straight to one of my all time favorite rides Manhattan Express. I have been on this ride many times before: A few weeks after it opened, and two years ago. Manhattan Express has gotten really rough since the last time I have been on it but it is still an amazing ride if you ride it at night. Still one of my favorites. Gameworks, eh it is gameworks. After that we went to the Bellagio to eat, but of course there wasnt anything I liked on the menu so my eldest brother, my little cousin, and I went to Harley Davidson Café. Following dinner, we headed over to Paris/Bally’s to catch the monorail since it was free while we were there. We went to the Hilton to see how much it was for Star Trek...too much so we Paris to pick up our show tickets for Tuesday. Time to walk back to Monte Carlo and hit the hay.

Day 2. Went to MGM; Sahara; Stratosphere; Belagio; Caesar’s Palace; Luxor, Venetian. Walked to MGM and did a CBS new show survey, fell asleep in it. We walked over to the monorail station at took it to Sahara, then walked to the Stratosphere. Rode Big Shot and X-Scream(Didn’t go on High Roller for I had been on it before and disliked it.)X-Scream was a great ride, man I was scared on it. Big Shot has a new program on it, and man people thought it used to pull serious negatives....wow the amount now is unbelievable. Stratosphere really has got their act togther since the last time I was there: Ops are good, loading is fast, and the overall tower does not look ghetto now. Next I walked to Sahara and rode Speed the Ride, still is a great ride and I still like the second set of LIMs better than the first set. After that walked to the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace watched the Sinking of Atlantis show, and it is a great show that puts a possible explanation into why Atlantis sank. Walked over to Belagio to watch the Fountains, I consider the Fountains a form of preforming arts, and I really love preforming arts and the fountains keep on getting better as they change the shows. Following, I visited Luxor to do their famous IMAX simulator ridefilm about a temple underneath Luxor. The simulator itself is still awesome, but it is starting to get the Stargate effect of only simulating earthquakes. Back to Monte Carlo to Sleep. BTW, had dinner at Venetian and took my uncles’s wine. :D

Day3. Went to Circus Circus; MGM; Hilton; Paris/Bally’s. Woke up walked to MGM to take monorail, but ended up taking a taxi. Arrived at Circus Circus adventure dome and got our wristbands. Started down pouring outside....I thought the Adventure Dome was a controlled environment, I got more wet from the leaking ceiling than from the water ride. Went on all the thrill rides...Canyon Blaster is running smoother and faster than ever, I don’t know what they did but I am liking(The air time on the first drop is more intense than the Demon) This was the first arrow I got tunnel vision on, which didn’t happen the past two times. Adventure Dome had the worst ops I had ever seen in a park, made me really appreciate how well Great America functions. Took a taxi from Circus Circus to the Hilton, caught the monorail. Man the monorail doesn’t run good in the ran; it was the like the whole city broke down, in the end result: the MGM station lower level was flooded and closed; Imperial Palace had flooding around it; Las Vegas Blvd. was flooded; and the nudie card passerouters left the strip. At the end of the day went to go see We Will Rock You. Great show it makes fun a lot of modern culture with people that actually could sing the Queen Songs. IF you go to Vegas and it is still showing go see it. Went to bed and went the airport the next day.


In addition
-Stratosphere had the best ops
-Manhattan Express needs to put the mid course brake run back to the way they used to have it
-Circus Circus needs to be remanaged
-Monorail needs to take advantage of the modular cars and add two cars to the trains, it is already starting to look like the Japanese Subway
-United used to be a good airline, but what happened. Cut backs don’t count(sorry if you work for United, I love the airline but Corporate still needs to shape up.)
-Got 2 onride photos...Manhattan Express and X-Scream
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Postby DejaVu The Ride on January 5th, 2005, 8:43 pm
Hmmmm. Nice trip report. I think I might be going to Vegas someday.

Something that surprised me though. You liked Manhattan Express. :wink: Most reviews(especially of late) have been horrible for the ride, and the fact that it's Togo.... :shock:

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Postby planea380 on January 5th, 2005, 9:45 pm
Manhattan Express is such an underrated ride. Like i tell people modifications can kill a ride, before they started modifying it it was great. I went on it in its prime...two weeks after it opened. After they switched from the togo split harness to the S&S split harness, and now the magnetic brakes. The ride is still great, but they killed the best parts with the modifications. It is an awsome layout with 1 extremly rough point....tranistion into vertical loop. Heck there was more pain on Shockwave.
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Postby The Beast on January 6th, 2005, 1:09 pm
planea380 wrote: Heck there was more pain on Shockwave.


Is that even possible? :lol: :wink: Did you (or ever) ride Desperado?
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Postby Aero737 on January 6th, 2005, 4:07 pm
Did you gamble? I would be at the NL Texas Holdem Tables more time than I would spend on the rides. :P
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Postby w00dland on January 6th, 2005, 6:24 pm
^Probably a lot different in Vegas than in college. Not to mention Omaha is better anyways. :D
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Postby Galvan on January 9th, 2005, 8:38 pm
The title of this post is "What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas" so the question I have for you is, Why are you telling all of us? 8)


Good TR never the less.
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Postby sixflagsguy5 on January 11th, 2005, 7:34 pm
It sounds like you had alot of fun. Too bad you didn't get to ride Desperado, it looks like a sweet ride.
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