How was your 2006 season?

[ChuckR]

Well, 2006 was an amazing year for me! In the beginning of the year, I had 97 coasters and as of right now I end this year with 214. I boarded an airplane 3x(6x if you count round trip) to go to parks. I've been to seven new states this year, maybe more. I went to construction tours(Thanks Wade and Di!), media events(Thanks again!), been on AMAZING new wooden coasters(Toro, Voyage, Hades, Avalanche), AMAZING steel coasters(X, Xcellerator, Phantom's Revenge, Apollo's Chariot), met some awesome people, and had a blast!

New parks I went to this year:
-Disneyland
-Disney California Adventure
-Knott's Berry Farm
-Six Flags Magic Mountain
-Universal Studios Hollywood
-Myrtle Beach Pavilion
-Family Kingdom
-Paramount Kings Island
-Busch Gardens Williamsburg
-Paramount Kings Dominion
-Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
-Holiday World
-Indiana Beach
-Six Flags Great America
-Mt. Olympus
-Riverview Park
-Timber Falls
-Kennywood
-Knoebels(sorry Joe... )
-Astroland
-Ocean City Piers(Gillians Wonderland and the other one...)
-Rye Playland
-Beech Bend

And I think thats about it...


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[Bubba Z]

Is this TPR?  J/k  Oh and it's Knoebels!

It was another avg year hitting 54 new coasters. Bringing my count to 184

Highlights of course were winter tours and Media day.
Midwest trip with Rob
Riding  S:ROS for the first time.
PPP with my daughter
ERT on KK with Pcman
Lake compounce and the climb up the Mountain.
Hershey 2 days ago
Rye Playland and Bowcraft
Eating bugs on J2
Volcano Mania with Drkliter Tom and the gang.
Disko's and the old school arcade in Sea Side
Storybook land and Santa
watching paint dry in Wildwood


New credits
El  Toro
Kentucky Rumbler
Dragon
Wild mouse
Looping Star
Raven
Legend
Voyage
Road Runner
Chang
T2
Thunder Run
roller skater
Twisted sister stella
twisted 2
Tigg'rr
Hoosier Hurricane
Galaxi
Cornball Express
Lost coaster
S:UF
Spacley sprocet
V2
AE Blue
AE Red
Demon
Raging Bull
Dejavu
Viper
Doo Whop
Rollie coaster   
Looping Tornado    
Family Coaster   
Might Mouse    
S:ros sfne    
Batman dark knight    
Thunerbolt    
Flashback    
posion ivy tangle train    
cyclone    
Mind Eraser    
Mr Six Pandemonium    
Hot tamale    
Star jet    
wild mouse    
crossbow   
Dragon
Family flyer
Dragon coaster
Crazy Mouse
Flitzer wildwood
Boulder Dash #50 wooden
Zoomerang
Pkd  Italian Job

That and making friensds, I guess it wasn't to bad of a year.

[PcMan]

Chuck you forgot Beach Bend
Let see it was my biggest year even after being in ACE for 22 years.
I never really counted coasters but here are this years parks.
Midwest trip fly and rent car:
first visits
-Paramount Kings Island
-Beach Bend
--Holiday World
-Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
-Indiana Beach
-Six Flags Great America
would love to do the same trip without beach bend and maybe add the Dells to the end.
all above parks half price or free with season passes
-Great Adventure and all the ERT's and fun times
-SFNE (my first visit)and the Superman ACE event
-P:KD
-Wildwoods as always
-and CLementon park J2 as always since I only live about 2 miles away 

Parks I didn't make that I usually hit Hershey,Dorney,Bush Gardens VA.

2007 tentative plans/trips
-P:KD
-Bush Gardens VA. (a must)

-Lake Compounce/SFNE

-Cedar Point/Kennywood

-Paramount Kings Island
-Holiday World
-Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
-Indiana Beach

-Orlando parks
-plus all the local PA,NJ parks
 
As always I will try to hit the ACE/Coaster events for ERT's
Anyone interested to share the expense keep in contact towards the spring.
Most of the above parks will be free to get in with a Six Flags and Cedar fair pass 

[SilverBullet]

Well of course the highlight of the year was the WB11 shoot (Thanks Wade!)

Even without that amazing highlight, I had a good year

GAdv: 10
Hershey
Dorney: 2
SFNE
Morey's Piers


For not being able to drive yet, NOT bad!
Shore Points (LBI, Seaside)

[UrsaMajor]

Well, my 2006 was great, nothing compared to Chuck's 2006 but here are my totals and some highlights.

GAdv: 20
Dorney: 1
PKD: 1
BGE: 1
IOA: 1
Magic Kingdom: 4
EPCOT: 2
Animal Kingdom: 2
MGM Studios: 1
Blizzard Beach: 1
Typhoon Lagoon: 1

Timeline of highlights:
April 1st- 1st trip of the year to Great Adventure...a great day
April 13th- Paramount's Kings Dominion for the first time
April 14th- Busch Gardens Europe for the first time
May 5th- Coasters After Dark, was in line for front row during Ka's Big Breakdown. Actually Chuck, you were in front of me in line that night.
June 23rd- Dorney Park, an annual day-after-school ends tradition. Dodged a big rainstorm and got a lot of rides in
June 27th- First ride on El Toro, actually first 3 rides on El Toro. My life changed.
July-Nine total trips to GAdv, inlcuding three in one week
August 11th-18th- Another trip to the Happiest Celebration on Earth, including first rides on Everest, first trip to IOA, and some more memories
September 9th- Trip to GAdv two days before school starts again
September 22nd- Family Fun Night. Where to start? Lines were sparse, tons of rides on Toro, met many people including our very own SilverBullet, and just an amazing night
October 22nd- Last trip of the year at GAdv, a very sad occasion but at the same time the most time spent at the park this year, from nearly opening to closing. I left sad but at the same time fulfilled at the end of my 20th trip of the year

[PcMan]

Nice count
I think you and Wade are close with the Magic Kingdom trips 
It's been over 15 years for me so I'm due big time.

May 5th KK I was inline next to board the front Seat when I heard the bang.
Can't complaint got 87 KK rides since it opened  love those ERTs

[WadeJ]

This probably won't be complete because my memory sucks lol

Disney World in January, April, August, October and November.  I lost track of how many times to each park though.  I think the trips ranges from 4 days to 10 so depending on the visit, we probably hit each park between 10 and 15 times on each visit lol.

Gadv - How the hell do I know LOL  I lost track this season but it was A LOT.  Probably in the 30-40 visits range when you factor in the offseason stuff, media stuff, etc.

Lake Compounce - First time visit!

Knoebels - First time visit!

Islands of Adventure - 3 times including 1 private party

Universal Studios - 3 times including 1 private party and a behind the scenes tour of Halloween Horror Nights

Universal Studios - 2 times to Halloween Horror Nights

[GADVwow]

The highlight of my entire summer was finally getting to Wonderland in Amarillo, Texas!   That place rocks! Honest.

And I got back to Bell's in Tulsa.  Never knew it might be my last trip there.  Life's like that.

And for some reason, I went back to Magic Springs.  Was X open yet when I was there?  Why, of course not!