Share thoughts, photos, and reviews from visits to Carowinds or any other amusement park
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By coasterfreak
#41717
Coaster Stock Rocked! Bryn and everyone done an amazing job planning this thing. It was my first coaster event and this is my 1st Trip Report.

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We got there at 8:45 but was still able to get in some good glider and Top Gun ERT
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It's too crowded!!!!
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Oh, Hello!!
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Look closely and you can see that Borghawk has surrendered
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I would like to thank the sun for such a shot.
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Got about 5 Top Gun ERT rides.
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Yup, along with everyone here.
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You're the best.
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Got some sweet shots before lunch.

For lunch we had hot dogs and fried chicken although we were supposed to have prime rib and roasted chicken...so for not having what they said we would have, we got dinner as well . Very nice surprise!

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Been there. Done that.
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Me and my friend waterpark chillin

we all got our awesome Intimidator cups...and another surprise to go along with them. Bottomless Soda Wristbands!

Didn't take any more photos until after dinner when the surprise was announced, and what a surprise it was.

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WE GET TO GO WHERE?!?!?!

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BEHIND THE SCENES INTIMIDATOR TOUR!!!! This stop sign was put here in the past few weeks because a service truck was driving under the coaster when a train was coming and a cell phone fell and cracked the windshield.
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So...Tempting...
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We had to stop too!
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WAVE!!!!
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OOOOOOO...its BIG!!!
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Had to prove I was here.
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What dummies.
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I never imagined being here.
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Its Wheely Heavy(25 lbs. anyway)
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My turn!!!
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Neat o
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Intimidator electrical room...Best spot ever! Why? Super cool A/C!!!
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He made a new friend.
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So B&M rents out water dummies?
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Lift hill from under the station.
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HI



More comming later...
Last edited by coasterfreak on July 25th, 2010, 8:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By coasterfreak
#41722
...Part 2

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LOOK BARS OF PURE GOL...O wait. Its just brake pads.

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I can't believe you!

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I can't believe ME!!

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It's a fire hydrant :roll: ...LOCATED IN INTIMIDATOR'S RESTRICTED AREA!!!!!!!!

After the tour we went towards Thunder Road and on the way there it started to thunder and lightning, so all the rides in the park closed. We made it into the T-Road station just before it started to rain HARD. We decided to wait for Thunder Road because we had nothing better to do and we would stay dry that way. After 45 minutes of rain we were awarded with the best, smoothest, fastest T-Road ride we have ever had. When we got off we were completely satisfied!

We skipped Snoopy On Ice, but came for Park Jeopardy. It was really fun. Then they showed the videos for the competition. There were 2 whole entries and they were both great. Good work on those guys.

We came out of the theater at 10:15 and headed to Intimidator for our ERT.

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LETS GO LETS GO!!

That was the last pic I took last night. I was too busy riding. The 2nd trim was off all but 1 time(not a clue why it grabbed that one load.) and the 1st trim was anything from a tap to nothing!

Total rides I got in was...

Gliders-1
Top Gun-5ish
Boo Blasters-1
Rip Roarin' Rapids-1 (no line then cause we got it very early)
Ricochet-1
Goldrusher-1
Thunder Road-3
Vortex-1 (It was actually running very good)
Intimidator-35 (give or take a few)

Which puts me at about 95ish Intimidator rides total.

I highly recommend going to Coasterstock next year if you didn't go this year.(and I recommend going if you DID go this year as well!)

Once again thank you Bryn and everyone else for making this happen!
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By griffondor
#41728
Had a great time yesterday, Bryn had a little trouble at first but was able to pull through in a big way. I remember last Friday the 16th when Nighthawk broke down...must have been about 8 in the afternoon. We saw that flag on the lift and thought some teenagers had paper-toweled it somehow :lol:
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By RiDeWaRrIoR
#41730
Good shots man! I will try to post some of mine on here (keeps telling me my pictures are invalid) so once I have that fixed they will be posted in a different topic. I am in the 2nd picture you posted, in the green ACE Shirt.
By Edwardo
#41748
I REALLY enjoyed that they were letting the staff ride, and that the Marketing team rode. That was pretty fantastic.
By Lil_Gump
#41754
coasterfreak wrote:
Lil_Gump wrote:I'm in the one of the storage track on the left.


Are you the guy with the Maverick shirt we ate lunch with?

Yeah that's me.
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By coasterfreak
#41755
Lil_Gump wrote:
coasterfreak wrote:
Lil_Gump wrote:I'm in the one of the storage track on the left.


Are you the guy with the Maverick shirt we ate lunch with?

Yeah that's me.


awesome.
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By Cosmo_TAD
#41767
Edwardo wrote:I REALLY enjoyed that they were letting the staff ride, and that the Marketing team rode. That was pretty fantastic.


LETTING?!? Ha they were not gonna stop Steve and I, I mean come on lights were off, half empty trains, it all equalled us riding! :lol: Like steve said, he spent more time riding then working, don't tell anyone but thats normal for him anyways...

Edit: And yes the elctrical room really does have the coldest a/c known to man :mrgreen: