2005 pics

Well, here are pics from most of my visits. I did take pics from the NY State Fair, but those got deleted. Go figure. Also the camera battery died before I could take pictures from Astroland and we didn't have time to recharge it. I took some of the FL trip photos and all the Seabreeze and Sylvan Beach photos. Everything else was taken by my family because I was busy filming (other than FL, didn't take the vid cam) Anyway:

Here you see Tower of Terror through the trees.

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I'm back and ready to ride a smooth Vekoma.

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Here we see Tower of Terror dwarfing pretty much everything else in the park.

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Grrrrrrr, I'm the angry but well themed drop tower and I'm going to eat you.

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Here's a random fish truck on that boring backlot tour.

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Here's the water tower. (I couldn't think of anything else to say)

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Yay, a fake P51 Mustang!

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It's a strafing run! Take cover! *makes machine gun noises*

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Yay, fire! (This was the best part of the ride)

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VROOM VROOM VROOM!!!!!! (Yeah, that's all I could think of)

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Rock 'n' Rollercoaster would be a lot cooler if this was part of the layout.

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UNIVERSAL ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE



In the far left you can see The Hulk in all it's beauty.

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Doesn't that look just so awesome?

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Best... Space Shot... ever.

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Ummm... here's the Hulk again. I'm running out of caption ideas here.

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Here's some spiraly stuff.

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Doesn't Dr. Doom look cross eyed?

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Another look at the world's coolest space shot.

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The Cobra Roll has a face if you look hard enough.

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Welcome back to random items smackdown! In this corner, is the super freaky looking tree. In the other corner is Ice's Cobra Roll. Who will win? Nobody knows.

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Here we have some more intertwining stuff.

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It's kinda cool that this was designed so you could see all 3 dueling zones between the dragon heads.



ANIMAL KINGDOM



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I know it's a little too late for EE construction photos, but IMO they are good.

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Another year old construction photo.

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Yay, a year old mound of dirt!!!!!

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More year old goodness. It may not look like it, but it was raining, and hard.

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Here's a little math lesson:
Zamperla Spinner + a heck of a lot of rain = an extreme truck load of pain.



COORS LIGHT BALLOON FEST



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This is the only photo, but I was busy using the video camera, as it was my first time with it.



DORNEY PARK



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Here we see the coolest Floorless coaster in the world.

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This is Meteor. Screamin' Eagle pwns this any day.

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More of the average Zamperla Hawk.

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Wow. My only hyper coaster for 2005. I'm pitiful. It was kinda cool though.

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Ummm... here's Steel Force again. It goes up and down and stuff.

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Even from here, you can see the spine needs a new coat of paint.

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Best... Schwarzkopf... ever.

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See what I mean?

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Airtime, baby! Complete airtime! And to think CP's is twice as tall, 20 mph faster, and posssible even free!

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Here's Talon, about 30 minutes before it started raining.



HERSHEYPARK



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The coolest coaster in the north east: Storm Runner.

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Here's Duke and Eb, HP's seals.

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I'm so jealous.



SEABREEZE VISIT 1



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Yep, this is the highly praised Whirlwind here.

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1,391 feet of track never seemed so fun.

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More twisty goodness. The fence is still orange from it's days in the spanish fair circuit (and so is the track in the station)

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Here you can see why I love this twisted, hulking mass of track known as Whirlwind so much.

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Here is Bobsleds, the coolest bizzaro family coaster ever.

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Best... pirate ship... ever.

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WEEEEEEEE! AIRTIME!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!!

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Here's Spring, where you go up and down an stuff.



SYLVAN BEACH



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Here's Laffland. No words can describe this ride or even this whole park but truly a classic place you can't find annywhere else that I can think of. IMO this a great home park.

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Here's Bomber ,one of the most painful flat rides ever. But although this hurts like crazy, it is worth a ride to ride something all too rare and ancient.
NOTE: IF YOU EVER RIDE THIS OR THE SCRAMBLER, NEVER RIDE WITH SOMEONE. YOU [/i]WILL[i] REGRET IT IF YOU DO.
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Here's Bomber again. Quite painful, but I still ride it at least once per visit.

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The sides of your body get ripped to pieces on this thing if you don't hang on with a death grip.

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Here is the fun and newly re painted Scrambler, with Galaxi in the background.

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Here are the super fast bumper cars. WEEEEEEEEEE!

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The uber forceful Tilt - A - Whirl

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From foreground to background: Super cool Tilt -A- Whirl, bored looking ride op, super ancient pain machine, Galaxi.

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Here's our first close up view of Galaxi, the tallest coaster in Central NY, at a mind boggling, terrifying, jaw dropping height of... 45 feet, lol.

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More Galaxi goodness.

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Here's Rock - O - Plane. Apparently, bees like this ride because almost every time I rode this a bee flew in the car. I'm not alergic but I have a low pain threshold so I freaked out when the bee came in.

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Here's Tip Top. Don't ride this in hot weather.

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Here are the tea cups. Sigh, so many memories behind this. (There are no plans to take this down that I know of)

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Here's the tiny Bumper Boat arena. In the background you can see the beach about 200 feet away. IMO you shouldn't go into the beach because the boats come right up to the border and their exhaust makes the water all oily.

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Here's Galaxi again. IMO this is one of the best photos I took.

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Here's the Super Slide. I skipped it given we didn't have enough tickets for both of us to ride it.

Well, that's all. I'll post my FL TR when I'm on the Disney Cruise ship Aloft (first ever cruise, w00t!)