http://www.art-studios.de/media/spots/ART_TheJump.mpg

lol

http://clip.break.com/dnet/media/content/slamball1.wmv

I wonder if they will introduce helmets though...

alright... getting an n64 for christmas might have been cool... but THIS? :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU&am...=t&f=b

olol

Maybe some of you remeber my first journal about rollercoasters in general and the new one which is built near my hometown.

today they finished the first 100 test runs with the completed coaster. There's still a huge mess on the building site though the coaster itself is already completed for weeks already. now it's all about the themeing. the park's opening day is in early april, but i don't think they will open the coaster to the public before may or so because theres still so much work to do.

if you're interested you may want to download a small video which shows the coaster testing. It's only about 5mb (edit, rapidshare removed)

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/bl...ng_990.zip

damn i can't wait to finally ride this thing ;>

yayyyy i just got confirmation that i'm part of an exchange program for german/american students.

so i'll be staying in the usa for one year beginning august 06, ending july 07. During this year i'll be going to college from aug 06 to dec 06, and afterwards doing an internship from jan 07 to jun 07. jul 07 is for free usage.
they're gonna provide me a J1-visum and also a 'permission to work' during my year over there.

the sad thing is that i can't decide on my own in what region i'm gonna stay though i were allowed to write down some preferences. hopefully it will turn out to be a good location.

oh but first i need to pass the 'TOEFL-Test' (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in march... i already got some books i will study until then ;>

we will see...

...blowing away a fleeing suspect with my 44 magnum used to mean everything to me. I enjoyed it! Well... who wouldn't?

lol, kinda funny video :>
hope it hasn't been posted before.

http://enterpriseevent.amd.com/amd_05e4/dcdvideo/high.html

A friend of mine i know from gaming/internet/music went to new zealand about one month ago. He's going to stay there until next summer.

Yesterday he wrote me an email to let me know what's going on etc.
He met a girl who came up to him because of his band-shirt he wore.
That shirt was from a band called 'Jupiter Jones', which is from my hometown Bitburg, Germany where i lived for 18 years (and my parents still do). So as they talk, she told him she is from Trier, Germany which is roughly 30km away from Bitburg. My friend then told her that he knows someone out of this area (me) and told her my name. And guess what, she said she knew me :o
He didn't let me know her name in his email, but i answered him if he'd tell me her name, so maybe i can remember who she is.

Then another story came to my mind which i've been told by a friend's mother the other day.

When i was younger, i played basketball in the local basketball-club in Bitburg. Because there was a US AirBase in Bitburg (and nearby in Spangdahlem), we had a couple of americans playing in our club.
This Airbase got closed a couple of years later, and our mates moved back to the USA. One of them moved with his family back to Seattle.
Some time later, my friend and his family went to Seattle to visit some friends over there, and guess who they met in a shopping mall?! :o
At first i didn't want to believe this story, but even my friend's father told me that it was true.

Sometimes this world is just so small. So be careful to what you say/do to strangers, maybe it will come back to you one day :p

... the same thing that men do ;p

lol can anyone please tell me how to get my q4 or any other esr-theme back? i clicked on some stupid random theme and now i dont know how to switch back because this one really sucks imo...

thx in advance...

www.smashmyipod.com

i like this page!

lol just found this nice vid showing Jackie Chan and some Street Fighter characters :>

HADOKEN!

hope this wasnt here yet :>

*edit*
lol and be sure to have a look at THIS video... they are SO SMART!!! ;p

lol watch this haaahahahahaha:

G-Unit getting owned by crowd at reading festival

aaaah man, good to see there are at least some people having a good taste in music! thats just the right way how to deal with those yeah-yeah-bitch-motherf*cker-nigga-pimps hahaaaaaahahaha

and now... flame on! :p

hellow :>

everytime i see a coment about makaveli there´s chairs involved...

because ive been a ut1-player since it was released, with only playing some q3 every now and then (which actually changed over the last 1,5 years to playing more q3 than ut), im not really into the q3 scene.

so, can anyone please explain? :>

finally... germany gets its first B&M Inverted Coaster!

i can imaging that most of you are right now like "wtf is this guy talking about?!" ill tell you!

i think everyone of you has ever ridden a rollercoaster. some of you like it, some dont. i like it! no.. i love it! i am a "coaster enthusiast". for me, riding a coaster is more than just the pure fun riding it. though it is still the biggest part for sure, im also interested in how the different kind of coasters work, from what company they are, who is the designer of it etc.

As mentioned above, germany gets its first Inverted Rollercoaster by "Bollinger & Mabillard" (short: B&M) from Switzerland. They´re also responsible for rides like "SilverStar" (EuropaPark, Rust, Germany), "Incredible Hulk" (Universal Island of Adventures, Orlando, USA), "Superman Ultimate Flight" (Six Flags Great Adventure, NJ, USA), "Riddlers Revenge" (Six Flags Magic Mountain, CA, USA) or "Silver Bullet" (Knotts Berry Farm, CA, USA).

The last coaster mentioned is a so called "Inverted Coaster". There are different companies building such coasters beside B&M. For example Vekoma from the Netherlands.
But there are BIG differences between a coaster from B&M and a coaster from Vekoma. As a "normal" Park visitor you might not realize the differences. As a coaster enthusiast you do.

Just imagine you have to buy a new Computer and you have to choose between a PC from the local Supermarket, or a PC where you can choose every single part of it so it fits your needs.
In this case, a Vekoma-Coaster is the Supermarket-PC and a B&M Coaster is the other one.
Vekoma Coasters are much cheaper but they´re nearly all the same lenght, height and have the same inversions. And maybe the worst part of it: riding a vekoma coaster can really hurt. its rough as hell. when you arrive back at the station your ears feel like someone constantly slapped you for one minute.
A coaster by B&M is different. Though its much more expensive, you can choose your own track-design, no matter if its about height, lenght, number of inversions etc. And you can really enjoy your ride.

So... like i said before, germany gets its first B&M Coaster. Its gonna be located at Phantasialand (short: PHL) in Bruehl, just outside of cologne (my hometown). PHL is worldwide known for its great Themeing. Its not like at Six Flags parks where a coaster is built like "oh theres a parking lot lets build a coaster on it" (see "Scream" , Six Flags Magic Mountain, CA, USA) its more like "mhh lets build a coaster within a jungle with nice houses, wood-bridges, plants etc" . Its not gonna be that high, but it will have a lot of underground sections.
"Black Mamba" will be the name of this new monster and its gonna have five Inversions:
Loop
Immelman
Zero-G-Roll (Heartline Spin)
2x Corkscrew (Wing Over)

To see some pics how things are going at PHL, check this site (scroll down). The Lifthill is completed by now. Im so curious about how work will continue in the next few weeks and months until it opens in spring 2006. One thing is sure: Im gonna be at Phantasialand on the day it opens to the public just to ride this piece of art :)

so... i hope i could give you a little view about what rollercoasters mean to me and other enthusiasts :)
Now get your friends all together, visit a park, sit down in a coaster and enjoy your stay! and always remember: "First ride - first row!" (meaning when you ride a coaster for the first time you have to ride the front row) and throw your hands up in the air to get some nice airtime! :)

To find out more about ThemeParks, Rollercoaster etc visit
www.rcdb.com - world biggest rollercoaster database with LOTS of infos and fotos
www.coasterimage.com - nice articles, pics and videos
www.thrillnetwork.com - international coaster board

and last but not least, i have some POV onride-videos of B&M-Coasters for you (hostet by http://www.nogodforme.com/ )

"Montu" (23mb)
"Incredible Hulk" (30mb)
"Dueling Dragons - Ice" (22mb)
"Dueling Dragons - Fire" (23mb)
"Kumba" (29mb)
"Silver Bullet" (22mb)
"Kraken" (29mb)


rock on
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