tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91737275949225425732024-03-12T23:47:37.941-07:00America 2012Malcolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977481428906109347noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173727594922542573.post-10373256459176925852012-06-22T11:15:00.000-07:002012-07-14T04:18:40.806-07:00Introduction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2002 saw my first ever major club trip with the <a href="http://www.coasterclub.org/" target="_blank">European Coaster Club</a> to the American West Coast. With just 3 days notice that someone had dropped out and an invitation to attend I found myself with little time to prepare and I just showed up and went along for the ride, or 70 of them.</div>
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10 years later and the club had decided to repeat the trip, visiting the majority of the parks visited a decade ago. There were some new ones and a decision to end the trip in Utah rather than Vegas as we did previously. Whilst I had ridden a lot of the rides, there were still plenty of reasons to revisit. Aside from the parks and rollercoasters I also planned to do some sight-seeing and to feed my other OCD, take some photos of Banksy pieces following his graffiti tour of the US to promote his "Exit Through the Giftshop" film.</div>
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and here's the report of that trip, including parks, coasters, elephants, graffiti and random, and sometimes completely made-up ramblings of a madman.</div>
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As ever, please take the report in the spirit in which it was written. No offence is ever intended. As Bill Hicks stated, just enjoy the ride.<br />
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After a fairly lengthy multiple stop flight that took us to LA via Detroit and a fairly bumpy landing into LAX we got to the hotel, collected our bags and headed straight to the first park on Santa Monica Pier. At this point a 24-hour day had become a 36 so we were all fairly tired.</div>
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This was the hotel, a stones throw from the pier as long as you've built up your arms on the nearby muscle beach before attempting the throw that is. The hotel, being in heart of Santa Monica was perfectly located for checking out the area, but at night-time meant you had the ambient sounds of club music, fighting and on our visit a man trying his best to throw up for 20 minutes at 5 in the morning.</div>
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There's the pier, which has been around for around 100 years and as well as being a popular movie/TV landmark is also a popular attraction for the locals who enjoy it's amusement park, food establishments and, for those who wish to get away from their wives, fishing opportunities off the back of the pier.</div>
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The pier is also one end of route-66, the famous road that is frequented by bikers who are interested in finding the quickest way of getting here from Chicago. Apparently Route-66 is the name of the road that leads to here. If you go the other way around you're on Route-69</div>
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The park is actually called Pacific Park on account of it being over the Pacific Ocean, albeit by a few hundred metres. We were here to ride it's West Coaster whilst trying to stay awake.</div>
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and there it is. It's a mid-sized coaster with one hill, and one big helix, and as such was the perfect park and coaster for people who just wanted to go to bed. It was popular with the locals and at least one other coaster group who were also there, albeit at the end of their trip rather than the beginning as we were on our's.</div>
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Around the helix section I recall there being a rather cool Flic-Flac ride there last time. This time there was some other kids ride and one of those 2-seater TopSpin rides that I first saw in <a href="http://malcolmsscanidtrip.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/day-3-moscow-and-train-to-st-petersburg.html" target="_blank">Russia </a>and never thought would come to the West. Times have changed indeed.</div>
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The coaster was actually alright, big roomy trains that are usually found on much bigger rides and a fairly pleasant-at-most ride. Done with that and not wishing to ride it again, completely blowing the financial decision of getting a wristband, I chose to have a quick walk around the pier before heading somewhere else.</div>
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A trapeze workshop had been set up on the pier. Quite cool, but as it was almost their closing, there was no opportunity to have a go.</div>
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Like terrorists at Guantanamo the pink monkey immigrants had been rounded up and kept in crammed conditions.</div>
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The pier was the perfect introduction to a jet-lagged and tired group, and whilst some decided to remain at the park, others headed off elsewhere. In 2008 I introduced a friend Jeppe to Hooters and we both fell victim to the tomato salmonella outbreak that hit Texas that year. In an attempt to undo that <a href="http://malcolmssecondustrip.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/guadalajara-to-houston.html" target="_blank">bad experience</a> we decided to give the one in Santa Monica a go and am pleased to say it went much better with no side-effects...its also worth mentioning that neither of us actually ordered anything that contained tomato. Clearly neither of us were prepared to risk a repeat at the start of this trip.</div>
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The obligatory spinning globe as exists at every park, however this one looks a little more historic with it's metallic effect. Prepare to have to jump in in front of other visitors to get the shot.</div>
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The main entrance into the park has you walking the red carpet, a nice touch although it would be cool if they had used the park photographers as paparazzi here, rather than have them swarm on you inside the park like those charity muggers that you find ways to avoid back home.</div>
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The Transformers attraction is the newest attraction in the park and a superb ride it is too. It's an updated version of the Spiderman attraction where 3D screens are mixed with live effects and you ride in a 6-axis hydraulic car. In January I was fortunate enough to ride the first of these in <a href="http://malcolmsdownundertrip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/universal-studios-singapore.html" target="_blank">Singapore</a>, and loved that so I knew I was going to enjoy this a lot too. There aren't many folk out there who have been fortunate enough to do both!</div>
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The story has you working with other transformers to escape from a compound with the all-spark, a transformer energy source. Standing between you and freedom are an army of Decepticons, doing their best to stop you. The ride has a single-rider queue which if can't early can give you a 5-minute wait time compared to the 50 minute in the main queue. However later in the afternoon it got too busy and they closed it temporarily.</div>
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Like Singapore to complement the ride the park has some highly detailed Optimus Prime and Bumblebee character actors. It must be hot in those suits as well as difficulty to walk in the stilts they have to tower over the people.</div>
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First coaster of the day was "Mum the Ride", an enclosed ride themed loosely around the Mummy films with you exploring an Egyptian tomb and having a run in with the sand flinging monster of the films. This was the last of the Mummy rides for me to do having ridden the others in Florida, Singapore and Osaka, and it seemed to be a different ride to the others with a heavy use of UV lit monsters (which worked really well). There's a room full of bugs that works better here than elsewhere as there's a trick in the car that makes you think they're in the car. They also appeared to have the best themed trick exit of all the rides I'd ridden until I was asked to leave the car and exit the station. Huh? The other rides have a whole section where you come into a fake exit and the bad guy takes it over and screams at you more before you're launched off for some more riding, but it was missing here....and that's why I called it Mum the Ride, and not Mummy the Ride. It's not the full experience :)</div>
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The new attraction in the tour is Kong, which replaces the large animatronic one that burnt down in the studio lot fire a few years ago. This one relies on a huge 3D screen on which is projected a massive fight between Kong and some T-Rex's. The tram is on a pneumatic platform that bounces as the monsters roll over the tram. It's a very clever production, especially given the length of the tram and the fact everyone in the tram has to have something to watch. My tip to you is to sit on the outside of the tram for the best view, and if you don't have a head for heights sit on the right, the left has a huge canyon drop for most of the second half of the film.</div>
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The Need for Speed attraction is rather rubbish featuring 2 nice looking cars that explode using hidden robot arms and then they end up doing some sort of bizarre dance. Good to know that Universal found a better use for the robot arms as they're also the ride system used on the Harry Potter rides.</div>
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This is work in progress for the new version of The Addams Family, which is due to come out next year. Yes, they really do use the sets to make stuff and not just to drive naive tourists around. Right hand side for this one.</div>
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Entering Wisteria Lane where supposedly there were some desperate housewives or such like. I'll take their word for it but would suggest that they reconsider pimping women in such a manner. </div>
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The Bates Motel, setting for the film Psycho. Last time we just drove past this, this time you have a near-run-in with Norman as he spots the tram drive past and he walks up menacingly towards it with a knife in hand. I have no idea how security allowed this guy into the park with a weapon and the security ought to be urgently reviewed.</div>
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The finale to the tour is the rather excellent looking plane crash scene from War of the Worlds. Our guide told us that the studios bought a real plane and ripped it apart to make it look like a crash. If you've bought the super-rich VIP ticket you're allowed to walk amongst the wreckage. Normal people are asked to remain in the tram.</div>
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The Simpson's Ride is the same as the one in Florida, but perhaps not a surprise given they've both replaced the former Back to the Future rides. It's the same style of ride with a large immersive 180-degree screen and a number of hydraulic cars within it. The film however is much more crazier than the old Delorean number as you find yourself flying around the Krustyland theme park. Definitely a fun ride although be prepared for lengthy queues on this one.</div>
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At the end of it there's a pretty cool indoor sky diving area, this one is cooler than most as it has a huge window where the public can watch, making a rather clever advertisement for their big screen. Having <a href="http://malcolmspage.blogspot.co.uk/2006/01/xscape-milton-keynes.html" target="_blank">tried </a>a similar attraction a few years ago and realising how bad I was at it, I wasn't prepared to try it today.</div>
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Before leaving the sprawl that is Los Angeles we were very kindly given a 3-hour tour around the city. I'm not a fan of the city at all, in previous visits I found it too big and a sprawl to have any sort of character but it was nice to be given the opportunity of seeing those parts of the city that are deemed touristy. Below is a recollection of the facts I could remember being told and the gaps being filled with made up nonsense...much like the majority of the report.</div>
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First stop was the Hollywood Bowl, a music venue built into the Hollywood hills and quite surprising in that we were able to stroll in and walk around with out being stopped (although there were some people working on the stage that prevented us from rushing it). Whilst really well known to the locals, the most famous event that took place here that the Brits know of would probably be the Monty Python concert, which took place exactly 30 years ago. </div>
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From the bowl you can also catch sight of the famous Hollywood sign that used to actually read "Hollywood Land" until the "Land" part fell out of it's foundations due to weather damage. It was here that the word "landslide" was coined.
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Another famous landmark is this cross that was built by a woman who had some involvement in the bowl's construction. When Pope John Paul visited LA they changed the Hollywood sign to read "Holywood". Sad!</div>
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Arguably the most famous star on the strip and the one that had queues to photo is this one for the King of Pop. The symbols below the name indicate the industry in which the person was most famous. This one is obviously music, although given the final years of his life I'm surprised it wasn't awarded for his service to child care.</div>
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Some of the recipients are imaginary, which I think makes a mockery of the whole place. Unless one of the natural disasters that hit the city was a giant dinosaur coming out of the sea, I doubt very much that he'd have been able to attend his ordaining.</div>
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There is only person who insisted their star be placed on a vertical service instead of on the ground as he didn't want anyone to walk over it. Realising I didn't get the best photo, well done if you knew it was Muhammad Ali.</div>
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Inside the Kodak theatre, where the Oscars are often presented, they keep a record of every Best picture winner on the pillars within it. 2011's winner the Artist joins such other best pictures as Gigi, the Bridge on the River Kwai, Driving Miss Daisy and Kramer vs Kramer.</div>
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Also within the Kodak Theatre and when there isn't an Oscar ceremony taking place there's Iris, a Cirque de Soleil show that is themed around the golden era of Hollywood. I'm a big fan of these guys but unfortunately I had no time in our itinerary to squeeze a trip to this in...next time.</div>
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Next door to the theatre is the Hollywood and Highland Centre, a large shopping and entertainment complex with a North-East facing arch through which you can see the Hollywood sign again...just not from this angle. I'm such a numpty.</div>
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Random marketing which seems quite content to have you live their brand by eating unhealthily. Choosing not to "Rock the Combo" it was time to move on. And as for the vague combo/casbah wordplay, "Sharia don't like it" </div>
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For Hard Rock Cafe whores, and I know there are several out there, Hollywood has a new Hard Rock cafe in which you can eat portions big enough to placate a bear and purchase a fridge magnet to celebrate. I know of 2 whores who ate a starter in the other branch before coming here for their main.</div>
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Getting back to our coach we had a little bit of entertainment from this truck driver who had managed to beach his truck on the top of the hill. This must happen quite a lot in LA given all the large number of stretch vehicles in the city.</div>
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This is the old egyptian theatre that was built in the 1920s and for those who've played LA Noire is the one that you spend ages chasing a guy through fairly early on in the game. It was built by the Grauman's, the same dudes who built the Chinese theatre nearby. Chinese, Egyptian, these guys were well ahead with their theming. If only people didn't go on to ridicule them when they announced the Avatar Pandora theatre with it's 7ft smurfs working behind the counters.</div>
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Whilst on the coach we got a brief overview of the area where things such as this expensive restaurant were pointed out. People here are so vain that they eat outdoors so that they might catch a famous person eating or so that people driving past think they're famous. So waving good bye to Elton John, Madonna and Jack Nicholson it was time to move on.</div>
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This is the Viper Room, famous for being partly owned by Johnny Depp and having River Phoenix die outside it in its opening year, this place gives me some great memories as I visited it in my first ever trip to LA and partied the night away to the sounds of Bootie Quake, a great covers band. We had ZZ Top there just chilling in the VIP area too. Good times!</div>
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A little advert like this would be better except some of the biggest adverts we saw on this trip were for Brave, the new Pixar movie. Well trying to pitch the film about a ginger-chick with a bow and arrow can't be that easy perhaps there's no choice but to put it in peoples faces.</div>
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Magic Mountain is one of the exception parks on this trip in that I had visited it more than once before, back in 1994 on my first ever holiday to the US. Since then the park had grown quite considerably to have 19 rollercoasters now. Even since the trip in 2002 the park had invested in quite a few rides so I was still looking forward to visiting this park.</div>
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The famous Wally World entrance is still in place, and still gives an impression of not being completed. One day they will get the roof in place.</div>
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Quite a busy day today, fortunately we'd arranged to get those Q-Bot devices that allow you to jump the queue as if you're a celebrity.</div>
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The X2 passed without a hitch except for having to leave my camera and glasses in a locker before getting close to the ride. A bit of a downer but park rules are park rules and I'm quite sure they know what they're doing.</div>
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So I only managed to get a couple of rubbish photos once the ride session was over. I had ridden the ride in 2002 when it was just called plain ol' X. Since then they'd given it a paint job, added some fire effects, changed the train and put a sound system in it. During our morning session we got the fire, and the new trains, but not the soundtrack. </div>
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Time to get the Q-Bots now whilst the public were making their way over to the ride we'd just left (thankyou park!) As part of their training the park mascots have to be shown how to deal with troublesome staff and Daffy's Duck Fu does look weak but still better than Bugs's camp stance.</div>
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Whilst we were at Magic Mountain we arranged to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee by donning red, white and blue and then having a ride takeover where we wore Royal Family and famous Brit masks. A little bit of PR for the club, and the park, and an opportunity to jump the queue for us!</div>
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If you're going to come to the park and want to make the most of it you will want to consider the Q-Bot. It basically allows you jump the queue for a price. The big ride X2, and the new ride Green Lantern had an additional charge on top of the additional charge. Some might say Q-Bots are a cheeky way to make more money, the bolt-ons even more so...but if you can afford to pay them they make the day much easier.</div>
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Most rollercoasters divide opinion with few pleasing everybody. Revolution is perhaps an exception as nobody likes it. It would be OK if the cars had their original lap bars rather than the retrofitted over-the-shoulder ones. It's also been braked in the wrong places completely killing the pacing of the ride. The best example of how not to run a Schwarzkopf coaster.</div>
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The newest wooden coaster in the park is Apocalypse, a strangely themed ride that used to be themed around the Terminator storylines but having dropped that a while back is now associated with Falling Skies which I'm told is a TV show about communities surviving an alien attack. Nobody has yet been able what the bleak future storyline has to do with wooden rollercoasters; the new generation of wooden rides perhaps not having a bleak future at all. </div>
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I absolutely loved Riddler's Revenge when I rode it in 2002. In 2012 I liked it still but not as much. In the 10 years since I'd last ridden it I Batman had done something to Riddler's ears as it's there that he's getting his revenge. I'm guessing the cars aren't quite gripping the track as they should as I did take a few knocks to the side of the head, not something you'd expect from a B&M. This ride also features a quite manic queue station, be prepared for a scrum as you enter a free-for-all where the only tip I can give is that the shorter queues are towards the back.</div>
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The new ride in the park is Green Lantern, an Intamin Zacspin which I've ridden similar in <a href="http://malcolmsscanidtrip.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/day-12-linnanmaki.html" target="_blank">Finland </a>and <a href="http://malcolmspage.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/sweden-tour.html" target="_blank">Sweden</a>. With a tiny foot print this is a ride that can fit in most parks and an easy means in helping the park get their ride count up (Magic Mountain is always competing with Cedar Point for that title). </div>
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Like X2 the ride sits on the side of the track and the cars get to rotate around their axis. The rotation on these are governed by the weight of the riders and the layout of the track and not built into the ride like the big red machine we rode in the morning. That does introduce some re-rideability as no two rides are likely to be the same however there's a catch; get a ride where you don't spin at all and you're not going to re-ride ever again, and that's exactly what happened to us. Green Lantern? Boo!!!</div>
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The final coaster in this section of the park is the still very excellent Batman coaster. This was the new ride when we visited in 94 but the queues were too long on the day for us to ride it. It rode extremely well in 2002 and I'm pleased to say it's still running really well now.</div>
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A most excellent ride and quite rare for this park, a ride with decent photo opportunities. Of all the rides in the park I think this was the one I rode the most. </div>
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"Batman, can I have my photo taken with you please?"</div>
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In addition to Green Lantern the park had decided it was time for a new baddy-themed ride and they'd gone for Lex Luthor's Drop of Doom. In the centre of the park is Superman a launched coaster (which is why Flash got demoted to a spin ride) that shoots up a 400ft tower. The Lex drop ride was being built onthe side of that. It meant that Superman became the first elephant of the trip as it was closed whilst the construction continued.</div>
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Onto Colossus, the old school wooden coaster that has been running since 1978. Although clearly aged, it still offered a really good ride, but (here we go again), with more brakes than MTV the pacing of the ride has been destroyed and if they opened half of them up I think the ride would be pretty special. Also on the days we were there only one half was running.</div>
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Everything in the park so far had been for the teenagers and adults. For the little kids there's a Loony Tunes area with <span style="background-color: white;">a great little crib to chill in, just a shame the fridge was empty. There's also </span><span style="background-color: white;">a better selection of rides than the main park which is really just coaster after coaster after coaster. </span></div>
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Canyon Blaster is the final kid coaster and one I didn't ride in 2002 but made up for this year. Tick!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">So did I enjoy Magic Mountain? Very much so! The park has a reputation for poor operations but I didn't really see that today other than the awful announcements at the end of the ride telling you to go and try another. </span><span style="background-color: white;">"Thankyou for riding Tatsu, please try riding Scream" etc. Fair play to the guy taking the piss out of the rule on Riddlers who prompted us to try Dippin' Dots because they're were Dippingly Dotty. There was also a trace of "visual scans" on some rides, an operational rule introduced two years ago which I see no value in. The park has a very good selection of rides but whilst not all are running excellently visiting is still an excellent day out.</span></div>
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The next park was within walking distance from our motelish hotel, and so a decision was made to give the coach driver the day off and head over on foot like a group of tourists, sticking out like sore thumbs. </div>
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Here's the next elephant on the trip, Xcelerator the rather scary looking launched coaster that was down for maintenance. 10 years ago we got to watch it testing, so this coaster is now my credit-nemesis in that I've been 100% unsuccessful in riding it. </div>
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I'm more than happy however for a ride to undergo maintenance than have this happen to me. (Xcelerator cable snap of 2009)</div>
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The park proudly claims to be "America's 1st Theme Park" although I'm quite sure the owners of Lake Compounce will have something to say about that, having been opened over 60 years earlier. The more observant amongst you would notice that there are no people in sight, that's because we were being given a headstart with a rather excellent morning exclusive session.</div>
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Before entering the park Nick did his daily morning prayer, or perhaps he was just taking a long time photographing a plaque commemorating the park in some way or another. </div>
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The first coaster in the ride session (yes there was more than one) was Ghostrider, the park's wooden coaster. Back in 2002 we had a similar ride session and I promptly left the coaster after one go vowing never to ride it again. 10 years on I thought I'd give it a second chance. </div>
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A rather apprehensive group get ready to depart on the first train of the day. It's a brave or stupid man who chooses to ride this in the back.</div>
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So it was time to head over to the other side of the park for their B&M Inverted rollercoaster, Silver Bullet. Unlike Ghostrider this was a coaster that I hadn't ridden before and one that I knew would be good.</div>
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With the public making their way into the park and us having an excellent head start it was time to mop up the other rides. Sierra Sidewinder is a rather peculiar spinning coaster where the trains don't feel like they free spin at all but suffer a controlled rotation instead. Quite a cute ride though.</div>
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We didn't ride this one because although some people could make an argument that this met the criteria of a coaster, it wasn't. This is the second one I've seen with the first being in a much more precarious location atop the <a href="http://malcolmssecondustrip.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/las-vegas-day-2.html" target="_blank">Stratosphere </a>hotel in Las Vegas.</div>
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The original birdcage theatre is in Texas but there was one in Orange County CA where a number of now celebs got their stage performance wings. The most famous was Steve Martin who isn't funny any more.</div>
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and if you're from the UK and wondering where you may have seen the park before it features in this rather excellent ident for Channel 4. Now you know!</div>
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Time for the happiest place in the world as headed south to Anaheim home of Walt Disney's old playground. Our itinerary had us spending 2 days at Disneyland and California Adventure and for simplicity's sake I've done a page on each even though I visited both on both days. So if the sequence is a bit haphazard, that's why.</div>
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Back in 2006, Banksy visited the park and left a little gift beside the Runaway Mine Train. Sadly this piece had a life shorter than one of Snow White's dwarves.</div>
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The main train station at the front of the park. Easily overlooked, if you or your kids like dinosaurs, then you'll only see them on this ride if you take the train from Small World round to the entrance.</div>
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Main Street is the same as the other parks offering a nice scenic walk for those who know what legs are for, for those that don't there are a number of different ways of shifting your fat lazy arse up the park. I wonder if these horses ever feel the urge to turn right? Zoolander would be jealous. </div>
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At the top of the main street and also easily overlooked on account of it being so tiny is the Princess's castle. You never see this one in silhouette on their packaging; I think our motel was taller.</div>
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First up we did what the horses aren't allowed to do and turned right to head towards the not so futuristic future themed part of the park. That in the background is Space Mountain, first ride of the day!</div>
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I did ride this in 2002 but in 2005 it was removed and replaced with a brand new spanking ride. Bonus!</div>
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It now features on board audio and a cool spacefield effect inside, no photos as it'd be dark.</div>
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and yes it was also my 1300th coaster. Boo Yah indeed!</div>
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The space theming is alright in this park, but easy to do if you plonk rockets all over the place :)</div>
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Next ride was the revamped Star Wars simulator ride, which had you escaping from Darth Vader and escaping to one of the planets in the Star Wars galaxy. When we rode it we went to the Wookie planet Kashyyyk. What I didn't realise is that you can get different planets on different rides. </div>
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Like the other parks in the chain there's a Buzz Lightyear shooting game although this one lacked the cool animatronic Buzz in the queue line. He does feature in the ride though. A fun shoot-em-up but I didn't win.</div>
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In 2002 the lagoon was just sitting there unused. Now in 2012 they've added a submarine ride with Finding Nemo Pepper's ghost theming. It's a claustrophobic ride and you can't get your mobility scooter into the sub, just so you know!</div>
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Autopia is a popular (just look at the congestion) but now dated ride, and there must be some technology that would allow the car driving without the rails preventing you from crashing. Perhaps similar to the taxi in The Fifth Element would be a good idea!</div>
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Splash Mountain is their flume ride themed around Briar Rabbit and the Song of the South. Having managed to not get wet on this trip this ride was skipped. We did find out later that some of the group got soaked on this, so the right call was definitely made.</div>
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Into the jungle themed bit of the park and as a fan of puns, the Jungle River Cruise is a must do for me. Yes I groaned throughout the ride but at least I didn't fall asleep like I usually do. This ride runs so slow that it's easy to nod off.</div>
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Just be nice to them and don't annoy them. (a classic youtube clip from a few years ago)</div>
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Well Disney is Disney, a huge money making machine that gives kids the right environment to play up and act like brats when they don't get what they want. If you're bringing a family I feel sorry for you, it must be an absolute nightmare but it'll give kids good memories I guess whilst you remember the last time your bank account was so empty. That aside there are still some good, and unique rides in the park with Indiana Jones and Space Mountain still being my favourite.</div>
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<a href="http://malcolmsfourthamericatrip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/disneys-california-adventure.html">Onto the other Disney park</a></div>Malcolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977481428906109347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173727594922542573.post-6373614121811535502012-06-21T11:57:00.000-07:002012-07-14T04:25:48.307-07:00Disney's California Adventure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Opposite the old school Disney park is Disney's California Adventure, a newer and more unique park that supposedly encapsulates all that is good about the sunny state of California. In 2002 this was a very new park having only been open a year but still offered a very good day out. Further investment had taken place in subsequent years including a major step-change announced this year with a whole new section of the park.</div>
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Uh Oh! Hoardings galore as soon as we entered the park was a big sign (pun intended) that the new Cars section of the park wasn't going to be open for us. It turns out that we missed this by a week. We did see people with wristbands being allowed in that officially were character actors but unofficially were probably hotel guests...unless they've recruited school kids, scouts, and pensioners amongst others into their ranks.</div>
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Across from the Tower we took time out to see their Aladdin Broadway style show. I didn't take any photos of the show itself as we were asked not to however I did sneak this hidden Mickey in the decor. The show was actually pretty good but there were pockets of the crowd who sniggered whenever the politically correct wheel-chair bound actress was on stage, especially when she was playing the part of the pyramid in the flying sequence. It really was just her in her chair with a pyramid on her head driving through dry ice.</div>
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Another cookie cut show (that sounds much worse than I intended as they're still great) is the Muppets 4D show which contains some very good 3D effects and clever use of animatronics. </div>
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All the nice girls like a sailor. A meet and greet opportunity. Kids never question why Mickey can change outfits and move between the parks so quickly. I wonder if they coordinate his appearances between the parks?</div>
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Now that's what a rollercoaster should look like, this part of the park is great looking. The Wonderwheel copy now has the Mickey centrepiece where before I think it was a sun. </div>
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We caught the Pixar Parade which consisted of lots of loveable characters from your favourite (Disney) Pixar films coming past on large floats and every single one of them doing their best to spray you in the face, or perhaps they just singled me out (even Crush had picked on me earlier in the day so perhaps not a surprise)</div>
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California Adventure has actually come on quite nicely since my last visit but as with the other elephants encountered we just missed the opportunity to enjoy Car Land by 2 weeks. But the Screamin' coaster is great and Tower of Terror is just superb. Both are great attractions but my favourite attraction was Turtle Talk which is still impressive and horribly overlooked.</div>
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A rather cute car that's too important to park in the car park with everyone else. Why pay for priority parking when you can theme your car and park wherever you wish!</div>
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Meeting us at the park was this wonderful old chap with a patter on the microphone that bordered on the torturous. Fresh from a stint at Guantanamo where he became a replacement for water-boarding after that was outed, he subjected us to a 30 minute barrage of park promotion whilst we waited for tickets.</div>
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The worst word in the ride description is of course "water" because it meant that to get the tick for this one you'd have to get soaked. This ride could have been drenching, but fortunately I escaped with just one wet leg.</div>
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Aside from the 2 coasters there are a small number of well themed spin rides including this rather well themed spin ride. Now, how's that for the worst caption ever!</div>
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Wild Arctic is the penguin and puffin enclosure that was ruined by too much condensation on the window indoors that meant you couldn't see much going on at all. For all we know the penguins might have been having a full on orgy behind the mist...perhaps that was the cause.</div>
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The first ride of this type that Mack built was the rather excellent Blue Fire at the Mack owned <a href="http://malcolmseuropetrip.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/europa-park.html" target="_blank">Europa Park</a> in Germany. Expectations were high that this would deliver something similar.</div>
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Seaworld was a nice stop-gap park and not much more than that. Whilst Manta was being well received by the public, and acknowledging that it was really good for this park, personally I'd have expected more. Still if you were in the area you'd be daft to ignore it.</div>
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Whilst the club remained at Seaworld I found myself being kidnapped and whisked off to collect a rather silly credit in the area; One that wasn't on the itinerary.</div>
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Boomers! is a chain of Family Entertainment Centres all around the US. Five of them have coasters, three of them in the state.</div>
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and this was the coaster, a rather embarrassing ride that did take effort to fit into but which, much to my liking, the park staff had no issue allowing us to ride. Thanks park! Tick achieved it was time to quickly move on before we alerted local authorities and we headed back to join the group at the next park.</div>
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and this is the park, Belmont Park on Mission Beach. Mission Beach gets its name because it's a mission to get here.</div>
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The hurricane simulator is nothing more than an enclosed wind tunnel that gets up to 80mph. A good way to dry off from the water rides that the park don't have...There is always the sea but then using this to dry out from there would leave you salty and windy.</div>
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Nice old style tilt a whirl ride. It's the older rides that I think fit well at the seaside parks. Keep a bit of history and have people ride for sentimental reasons.</div>
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This is a unicoaster, a strange ride that has the car going round a circle and there's a joystick in the middle that allows you revolve the car. So you can ride it normal, turn it into a flying coaster, a flying coaster on it's back (like Air at Alton Towers) and even upside down and backwards. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Bear in mind there are 2 seats and one controller so prepare to have a fight over who's going to control it. I started out OK but a rather excited European sat next to me quickly wrestled control from me whilst shouting "wheeeee" and I just left him to do what he wanted. That aside it's a really really really fun ride, and deserves to be in more parks.</span></div>
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They also have a larger tunnel version called BMax, short of "Bruticus Maximus". This was quite a spectacle and I spent a good amount of time watching the people of varied ability give this a go.</div>
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Some nice architecture and art in the area.</div>
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There are plenty of eateries in the area and I know some of the group checked these places out, and had good things to say. I just kicked back at the beach and drank beer whilst the dj played classic hip hop; early Beastie Boys and Snoop Dog. Good times.</div>
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Now I've done countless fairs in Europe from the little local one up the road from where I live to the epic scale fairs of Germany and Seville, but I'd never done an American Fair before. In the week leading up to the trip a local club member mentioned the fair would be up and running and the organisers did a great job in adding it in.</div>
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The San Diego fair takes place in the city showgrounds near Solano Beach, which is about half an hour out of town, and this year's theme was outer space. Nice entrance.</div>
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There fair was actually pretty large in size and contained a good mixture of rides. The initial plan was to buy a book of tickets and use them to ride the coasters of which research had discovered 5 to locate. After the cre-hoing we'd eat and then we'd end the day with some spin rides.</div>
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The fair is in 2 halves, with the majority around the southern end of the showground racetrack and a smaller childrens fair in the centre of the track. This did of course mean the other coasters were kiddy ones. Joining them was a small underpass on which was painted a rather nice mural making a nod to the coaster history of the fair.</div>
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...and hello to the main park. The park was of a decent size and much more than I had expected.</div>
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With the Tattooine sun starting to head down the rides began to light up and it having survived a beef stew, which was cheekily mostly rice to make the portion look bigger than it really was, it was time to see the park really come to life.</div>
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The entrance is similar to the others around the world. I still have a few to visit but the gaps are both new. The park in Florida that opened a year or so ago and the one in Malaysia that's due to open anytime now!</div>
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Next up was the largest of the rides in the park, the nicely themed test track coaster. Now this one I remember back in 2002 and the ride was much the same although we lacked the skidding sounds on the hairpins that I'm sure was there the last time I rode it.</div>
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Here was the view from our hotel in Pismo Beach as we headed out early in the morning to the next park Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Now I have pretty good memories of this park when we visited in 2002 so it would be interesting if it still retained it's charm...The theme park, not the caravan park.</div>
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After a short drive we arrived at the park and the morning fog had made way to beautiful blue skies; much better!</div>
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We had a wonderful welcome from the park manager who told us that we had a dedicated section of the beach given to us and that we were to have a great day in his park, which of course we would do. However there was some bad news, the wooden rollercoaster was being worked on following a minor incident a few days before, and there was no guarantees that it would be open for us. Not good, as the wooden ride is the main draw here, and is a great rollercoaster. </div>
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Since 2002 the park had invested in a small number of signs that gave a backstory and history of the resort which goes back over 100 years. I like parks that have a past, and they always seem to have a charm that the corporate monsters could only dream of. They've also invested in new benches that look like they've been given unique paint jobs.</div>
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This'll make sense to those of us who came here in 2002 although back then Andrew had much more lettuce on his plate!</div>
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Ghost Blasters is a shooting ride, that was pretty decent and I liked even more so because I totally kicked everyone's arse at it!</div>
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Weird hovering dodgem things that you steer like a tank with levers on each side. Too small for me to fit in however. It probably wouldn't hover with me on it anyway.</div>
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The park have done a really nice job with the theming on all of their rides.</div>
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Like the fair in San Diego there are some nice coaster themed murals. The guy at the front must be very tall or is partly standing on the ride. </div>
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Bill totally rocking out the rock-o-plane, which I never knew by that name. We always called it the egg. I find the ride a little claustraphobic so gave it a miss.</div>
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Canyon Adventure is a lengthy dark ride that is so relaxing (boring) that people often emerge back into the sunlight asleep or having lost the will to live. Not young kids though, they love it.</div>
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In the entrance to the arcade there's a nice history of the parks that used to exist along the Californian coast line. There are only 3 left and we'd already done the other two. Go us!</div>
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In the back corner of the amusement hall there is an amazing collection of old school video games including an original paddle controlling pong game. We spent quite a bit of time realising how much we sucked at Frogger, Pacman, Defender etc... Jeppe did do amazingly well at Ms Pacman though setting a new high score.</div>
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For those that have never been to Cedar Point mid-late 80s there's a simulator ride showing Gemini and Blue Streak that you can enjoy, assuming you can fit in that seat, that is.</div>
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and well the end of the day was supposed to be about the Giant Dipper, a ride that is almost 90 years old and which was running really well in 2002. As an apology the park gave us a couple of nearby rides to enjoy instead including a dodgems ERS with the power turned to 100%. Whilst a bit stop and start (we'd just get top speed for a short moment before recharging) it was a great alternative and I took no photos of it because it was too much fun crashing into people at legitimate top speed.</div>
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom was called Six Flags Marine World when I visited it in 2002 and back then it was the first coaster on the trip, on my first ever big club trip, so I have fond memories of the park.</div>
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The coaster is excellent despite being muted (they fill the structure with sand so that it doesn't roar) and although the best ride is in the front row I chose to spend the entire session trying all the other rows. The park had done some really good work on adding loads of foliage around the ride. Much better than 10 years ago.</div>
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That's the twisty end. This ride was a lot of fun and like Medusa seems to offer the best ride in the front. Whilst you don't go so high on the rear spike you do get the full rotation at the other.</div>
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Roar is the park wooden coaster, and whilst the rest of the group went and rode it like the enthusiasts should, this one went and looked at penguins.</div>
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There aren't just good coasters here. You can ride a killer whale if you wish.</div>
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Paramount Great America was a pretty good park when I visited it in 2012, with a good selection of rides and I recall having a good day in the park. It was there that I had my all-time most favourite rollercoaster experience on what became my number 1 coaster.</div>
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Top Gun is an excellent B&M inverter and in 2002 I was lucky enough to get the first ride of the day with the water dummies. The club had been given an ERS on Stealth, their, now absent, flying coaster and being bored of that I headed over to Top Gun instead and the staff let me ride. I also got the last ride of the day when having been running for 2 hours longer than it should have, it was riding insane, so bad that I was blacking out on every lap (yep I rode non-stop for the final hour so probably passed out about a dozen times). All of that just made it my number one, as mental as it sounds.</div>
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However come 2012, I didn't feel like going. Some of the rides had been removed, no new ones had been added, and not wanting to taint the memory of my favourite all time rollercoaster experience by riding it again, I chose to spend the day sight-seeing in San Francisco instead.</div>
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The park have announced a new wooden coaster for 2013 so I'll be back (crap, another Arnie reference)</div>
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With the club heading off to another park I chose to sightsee the city of San Francisco. I did have an ulterior motive in that I wanted to check out pieces of art by Banksy following his visit here in 2010. In the same way visiting theme parks allows me to see non-touristy parts of countries, searching for graffiti gets me into bits of cities that most tourists wouldn't hit.</div>
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Alcatraz Island, which the club did visit in 2010 and which I'd previously visited back in 1998 and 2002. Definitely worth seeing if you have the time and inclination. Top tip, none of the ferries in and around Pier 39 will take you to the island, only around it. You need to head over to the east for the official Ferry building.</div>
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The cannery building used to house a Del Monte factory but when they moved out ("the man from Del Monte, he say 'no' ") it became a little entertainment and shopping district. For those interested in the conversion of old factories, and I know of at least one person, this is definitely worth a visit.</div>
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Head a few blocks west and you enter this complete opposite environment with the city's Capitol building and a really nice farmers market, where I bought loads of nice fresh fruit to eat through the day. Part of the city's character is that it can change between polar opposites in no time at all. </div>
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The cable car (that is what it is) the only national historic landmark in the US that moves. It's also fun to hang on to as it makes it's way around the city; just don't fall out.</div>
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There are other ways of getting around the city including trams like this. All quite cool but the cable car is the best by far.</div>
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Just around the corner from the hotel the wonderful band Crocodiles were playing. (never heard of them but deserve better billing than the date, which had a bigger font). Temper Trap are of course well known for their wailing Australian warblings such as SweeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeet Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiispooooooooosition.</div>
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My walk took me initially north towards Chinatown, and this is the main entrance into that bit of town. I must have been up and out very early as I was walking around before they'd even opened up. </div>
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Shaky's secret is out. There wasn't just an old piano and a playing pipe behind the green door.</div>
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In the south of the city (this is the abridged report) the Hispanic communities can be found. I loved these cinco-de-mayo gratings.</div>
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This is the San Francisco Armory building, which looks more like a prison. Supposedly this whole complex was bought by a porn company and became a studio for their shoots. You wouldn't want to have a cleaning job there. </div>
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Haight and Ashbury is the birthplace of the hippy scene in the 60s and now a popular area for those who still want to live like one. The best smoothies can be found in the Ben and Jerry's emporium located around here.</div>
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Bootie is a bootleg clubnight that has been to the UK before. As a fan of mashup music I'd have loved to have gone to one of their nights here but the diaries weren't aligned :(</div>
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That's the Transamerica Pyramid, which was the Shard before The Shard was built. The tallest building in the city and rather cool.</div>
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Vesuvio is on Jack Kerouac Alley, a street named in honour of the writer who hung out here.<br />
"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry". A perfect quote for my trip.</div>
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The Stinking Rose is a famous restaurant in which garlic features heavily in the menu. If you suspect a partner of being a vampire then bringing them here might be a good idea. </div>
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That's the Coit Tower, which was donated to the city by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a woman who had a thing for firemen and became a bit of an icon to them. Perhaps that's why the tower looks like a hose.</div>
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Union Square is one of the public squares in the city and on this nice day looked to be the place where local office workers come to hang out for lunch. The statue in the centre is of Alma de Bretteville a woman who married a much older man who ran a sugar company, coining the phrase "sugar daddy".</div>
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This tower near the Ferry Port used to have a bell but it broke and rather than replace it they spent money on a speaker system and a recording of the Big Ben bells from London. Genius!</div>
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This fire station is the busiest in the city, dealing with approximately 1 million forest fires and 2 cats stuck up trees every hour.</div>
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The St Peter and St Paul church on the northern edge of Washington Square is a stunning looking building. Rather amusingly it's address is 666 Filbert Street.</div>
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Back to Pier 39 and it's here where you'll find such delightful cuisine as Hard Rock Cafe and other tourist friendly establishments. The seals can be found around the back of the pier complex, if you like the sound of lions and the smell of fish.</div>
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At the Western end of the promenade is this really nice Italian restaurant. I do recommend their special which is a seafood stew. They'll even provide you with an apron to protect you from spillage. How grown up!</div>
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I chose to do the red top tourist bus to get around the city, but there are other means such as this weird bike.</div>
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There used to be a rat with sunglasses here in an alley slap bang in the middle of the tenderloin district. Yes, I ventured into it and had no issue at all.</div>
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Down in the Hispanic area, a rat had been painted over with green :(</div>
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This one in a carpark under the 101 freeway was still perfectly in tact, and I liked the fact local artists painted around it rather than over it.</div>
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It wasn't me, honest!</div>
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In the centre of the tenderloin. Hard to believe something so stunning is in such a crap area.</div>
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A local art project where they covered the alley in spraycan art.</div>
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OK, so not art but a nice typo. (it's a fancy dress shop)</div>
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I loved San Francisco and had no regrets dropping a park to check the city out. It's seriously something I'd consider doing in the future. We had to leave our hotel at 3am in order to make the flight to Salt Lake City, and whilst boarding the coach the sound of gunshots could be heard. That's just another night in the Tenderloin.</div>
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In 2002 the club trip had us spending the last few days in Las Vegas. 10 years later and with no real coaster reason to revisit (most of the coasters there aren't great anyway) the organisers chose to head somewhere else. In 2002 Lagoon Park in Utah was a park with 5 coasters, in 2012 it had 9 and seemed perfect to visit.</div>
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Whilst waiting for the coach a couple of the older members do a bit of porching. I had to have at least one page where Bob was at the front.</div>
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The plan was to spend 2 days at the park, but myself and a few others had planned something else for the second day. So today's mission was to get all 9. The wooden coaster looked pretty decent and has in their defence has probably been here longer than the car park, so can't really be called a car park coaster. </div>
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Looking around there was a nice selection of rides stealing the skyline but some good foliage too. Shade is still essential in Utah.</div>
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Initial impressions of the park were really positive with plenty of nice touches and I think I've only ever seen the rotating hooped rock in one other park before. Japan I think.</div>
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Lagoon, like Thorpe Park, named their Top Scan ride "Samurai". It was quite popular with the locals and is probably the most extreme spin ride in the park.</div>
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The nice pun "lagoon a beach" is the water park which fortunately for us was keeping most of the public occupied making the task of getting around the rides a little easier.</div>
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A cute little ride that I don't think I've seen before.</div>
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There are 2 dark rides in the park, Dracula's Castle was the oddest due to the trains looking like half a Delorean. The ride itself was interesting with some nice little touches although not all the effects were working. Best bit was a tunnel section where the sound "cheebacheebacheebacheeba" played over and over again. It's almost as old as I am but, unlike me, holds up well.</div>
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Another egg style ride. If this one looks like a model it's because I'm on the chair ride that runs through the centre of the park.</div>
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The rather oddly named Colossus the Fire Dragon is another Schwarzkopf ride and I hadn't realised this prior to the trip. Lagoon is only one of two parks in the world that have 2 rides from Schwarkopf, arguably the best coaster maker of all time, and if you know where the other one is then well done...it's at Chapultapec in Mexico...and if you're Cal Jones well done for correcting me that there are in fact 3. I'd missed Nagashima Spaland in Japan.</div>
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The ride even has booster seats to allow little kids to ride. A wonderful touch and something that makes you think "why haven't other parks got that?"</div>
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Local kids definitely did this! A great way to include the local community in the park.</div>
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Around the park, there are signs explaining how the rides work and giving a back story to the rides in the park. I like stuff like this as it shows a genuine passion in the park and it's history. You don't really get this in the corporate parks unless a ride is down a la Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disney.</div>
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The park has an old classic carousel with a selection of wooden carved animals. Perhaps the only place in the world where you can ride a big cock in front of children without being arrested. </div>
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A rather interesting arcade style game. Did anyone ever manage to get the Funny Bone out when they played this? That one was always a pain to get.</div>
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For those that wish to rest their legs there's a train ride that takes you around the lake. There is a zoo that it goes through but the animals, whilst not pacing, could have done with a bit more space. There had been an online petition to get the animals moved but I didn't think it that bad, I've seen worse in China and South Korea.</div>
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Because this park impressed us so much we took the opportunity to thank the park staff as a group. With a good selection of rides, including the German ones and the rather excellent Wicked, and a wonderful character throughout the park, I think this won more of us over than any of the others, and we really had saved the best for last.</div>
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This was our tank, a rather big beast but we'd be driving in comfort.</div>
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The UK suck at the winter olympics but we did win a gold in curling and a bronze in skeleton.</div>
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Having done the toboggan we discussed splashing 60 dollars to ride the bobsleigh. In winter they run the real ice skate bobs, in summer it's these wheeled things called Comets. There were some spare slots, so we decided to take a risk and give it a go.</div>
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4 people ride each Comet, 1 driver and 3 paying passengers (oyster cards not accepted). We decided to split into 2 pairs: Lutz and Christof in one and Jeppe and me in the other. After much debate about the order of getting into the bob (I'd got it wrong thinking we boarded from the back, not the side) it was soon my turn.</div>
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People waiting to ride get to push the bobs. I think the staff have to do it if there's no-one else. The drivers get quite a lot of opportunities to practice getting a fast time. On our trip there were 2 drivers taking it in turn, as one was making their way down the track the other was being driven back up with the bob and passengers.</div>
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The ride itself was legitimately intense with sustained Gs and a fast blistering speed. The forces were so powerful that Jeppe fell back and pull himself back up. I was in the back so had the rear of the bob to catch me. It's scary (anything that has you signing a waiver automatically makes me brick it) but absolutely brilliant and I was so glad to have done it.</div>
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Here's some on-ride that I found on youtube. It doesn't really give the right impression of the forces, but you get a good idea of the speed. We made it down with the 4th best time of the day, which was a bit odd given we were a man down. Perhaps the Germans gave us the best push at the start.</div>
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From the Olympic City we then decided to go to the correct location for the Alpine Coaster, Park City, further to the east. Along the way we saw these large letters on the hill sides. I thought I'd be able to figure out the message on Google Earth but they're not on the imagery, so these must be fairly new.</div>
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This death slide is made by Stan Checketts who used to run S&S. He's a local man so perhaps not a surprise to see some of these in the state.</div>
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Saying goodbye to Park City we made our way Lehi City via Deer Creek, which was beautifully scenic.</div>
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Trafalga Fun Center, formally Liberty Land Fun Center is a small complex with a single coaster that we'd heard was down for maintenance. But on the off-chance we dropped by regardless.</div>
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A nice touch was that this showman provides seating to his fairs. I don't believe I've ever seen this before. A really nice touch! In fact this fair was really well run with friendly staff and their little park providing a really nice environment for families.</div>
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It was soon after this, when we'd visited all the parks that we soon realised that we'd missed something. In my research into North American Banksys I found two in Park City, and we'd not stopped to check it. Oops! It was also 90 minutes away and Lutz had to get the tank back to the rental place. He very kindly agreed to make the run, with us all then headed to the airport in a group.</div>
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But around the corner next to a wonderful smoothie bar and cafe there was another piece that had been preserved beautifully. Clearly proud of the addition to their property the owners had framed it and were constantly checking that groups gathered around it, such as ours weren't damaging it. A beautiful piece too, and a great ending to a super day. Thanks Lutz for driving us back here!</div>
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So that was Utah, and first impressions were very positive indeed.</div>
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<a href="http://malcolmsfourthamericatrip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/conclusion.html">All good things come to an end</a></div>Malcolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977481428906109347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173727594922542573.post-54958154106531646542012-06-19T01:39:00.000-07:002012-07-14T04:01:05.068-07:00Conclusion<div style="text-align: center;">
So that was the trip over and done with, and overall as ever with the club trips I couldn't have asked for more (actually some of those down rides being open might have been nice). The pacing of the trip was less intense than others with us not having to pack up for a different hotel every day as usually happens. </div>
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There were some great rollercoasters on the trip with Tatsu and Wicked perhaps being my favourite, the former for the ride experience and the latter simply for the surprising intensity that it offered. X2 was the most scary but purely for the jacket style restraint and fear of it popping open. But the best ride was the bobsleigh run, which admittedly wasn't on the official itinerary, but it's the one ride that I'm not going to forget anytime soon.</div>
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It was also great to get away from the coasters to find some excellent graffiti and to see more of San Francisco.<br />
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Thanks to Paul and David for pulling the trip together, for a first attempt at trip planning you did a great job.<br />
Also thanks to Lutz for getting the car and driving us around Utah.</div>
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Next year's big trip is going to take us to China. See you back here in 2013.</div>Malcolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977481428906109347noreply@blogger.com0