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[ForgotToGrowUp]

Hi everyone,

Made our once a year trip to Six Flags NE last week. Always a great time. I love that my daughter now loves rollercoasters until last year she was afraid to ride any, now it is all she wants to ride!

Got 2 rides each on Batman the Dark Night, Bizzaro, Thunderbolt, Mins Eraser. The lines for the new coaster Goliath were really long and the regular Flash Pass was not accepted at that ride, only Platinum, which is way more than I am willing to pay.

[Old_Hag]

Anybody going to CP on the 24th?

[rollercoasterfanatic919]

So after years of barely ok pictures of my rides, and always needing to borrow my dads camera, I have decided that I want to get a camera for my birthday. My budget would be €170. Would this be reasonable? And if so, does anyone know of a good one? Thing I want the camera to do:
- Take pictures of rollercoasters, so that would be some pretty close up pictures
- Maybe even make some good videos (look at the videos that I made so far, I want it to top that film quality)

Basically I want a camera that takes good macro pictures and videos, but can also be used as a decent allround camera. Any ideas?

The Canon G12 is a great camera, although it's closer to 350-400 Euros. It has lots of the advantages of SLR cameras, like full manual control, but it's smaller/cheaper. It also takes HD video.

[Intamin Thrill Rides]

I got home this afternoon after traveling up to Cedar Point for the day yesterday! It was great! Rode Top Thrill three times and Millie twice! Plus everything else at least once.

[Coastergeek987]

Anybody going to CP on the 24th?

Pshhh, I wish, but as you can see from my location, that's not a possibility, great, now I'll be thinking about how you're at CP, and I am in Spanish, listening to Mrs. Latara yelling at somebody....

[IOAgeek]

My dad told me that the guy I bought my SS of, just shipped my SS today like an idiot! Crap, now I won't get it until later this week. Because I saw on eBay a few days ago, that it wasn't shipped yet, and it was worrying me!

[Snake]

Does anyone know what set these come from?
50 ORANGE TRACK SPLICE CONNECTORS Gold Splicer Clip KNEX Parts / Pieces Lot | eBay

They are in the 400 piece value tub, bbf, original rollercoaster, and the hyperspace training tower. They can also be used as half chain links.

In other news, one of my friends and I are building a dueler so expect me to start becoming more active on here again.

[Britfag]

I got home this afternoon after traveling up to Cedar Point for the day yesterday! It was great! Rode Top Thrill three times and Millie twice! Plus everything else at least once.

for some reason, I read this as if you were Micro'nexer, and thought "you've ridden Millie already?! that was fast!"

[Maxwell58]

Anybody going to CP on the 24th?

MEEE! No seriously, I'm going either that day or the Friday after.

Thank the great lord almighty my mother let me quit football today!!!! This is the happiest day of my life.

EDIT: Aaaaaaannnd the entire day is ruined. My brother (Beavis) and his fuckface friend did this.




Then the shithead tried to tell me the cats did that. Haha, fucking dumbass.

HEY JACK (beavis) HOPE YA SEE THIS!!!!!

[Coastergeek987]

MEEE! No seriously, I'm going either that day or the Friday after.

Thank the great lord almighty my mother let me quit football today!!!! This is the happiest day of my life.

EDIT: Aaaaaaannnd the entire day is ruined. My brother (Beavis) and his fuckface friend did this.

Then the shithead tried to tell me the cats did that. Haha, fucking dumbass.

Why would he wreck such an awesome coaster! I was looking forward to seeing that too! Are you going to rebuild this??

[Maxwell58]

Why would he wreck such an awesome coaster! I was looking forward to seeing that too! Are you going to rebuild this??

I don't know. I'm sharing a room with him now, (that should be fun, damn). It would have been my best coaster too and my favorite one to build! And that fucktard did that to it. No. I won't be able to rebuild it. The thing is flattened. Us K'NEXers know that the only way that that coaster could look like that is if him and his friend knock it over and step on it or hit it with their hands.

[Coastergeek987]

Uhhh, yeah, it's pretty obvious that it wasn't anything else. Darn, I want to see what you have next! I may build a VV coaster, but I don't have that many pieces. I kinda want to after I have seen what has been going on here.

[Turtle Man 24]

Anybody going to CP on the 24th?

If I didn't have school, we'd probably be going.....I know how you always tell me NOT to go on a weekend, but the only day that we're able to go is the 2nd of September since my parents have been putting the trip off.

[< Knexrule11 >]

@Old_Hag

I won't be, but I will be going to CP Sunday and Monday!

[Treeko890coastr]

MEEE! No seriously, I'm going either that day or the Friday after.

Thank the great lord almighty my mother let me quit football today!!!! This is the happiest day of my life.

EDIT: Aaaaaaannnd the entire day is ruined. My brother (Beavis) and his face friend did this.

~snip~


Then the head tried to tell me the cats did that. Haha, dumb.

HEY JACK (beavis) HOPE YA SEE THIS!!!!!

Beavises friend really is a butthead.
If i had to guess, they were rough housing and youre brother pushed him and he fell on it[Sure is logic]

Stupid Mail System Shipped my package to the wrong town.....

[sathothy]

MEEE! No seriously, I'm going either that day or the Friday after.

Thank the great lord almighty my mother let me quit football today!!!! This is the happiest day of my life.

EDIT: Aaaaaaannnd the entire day is ruined. My brother (Beavis) and his fuckface friend did this.




Then the shithead tried to tell me the cats did that. Haha, fucking dumbass.

HEY JACK (beavis) HOPE YA SEE THIS!!!!!

Wow, that really cant be done by cats... I hope that not much of your pieces are broken cause that would suck.

[TheSUCKCrew]

The Canon G12 is a great camera, although it's closer to 350-400 Euros. It has lots of the advantages of SLR cameras, like full manual control, but it's smaller/cheaper. It also takes HD video.

Well that is WAY beyond my budget...

I found a pretty cool and cheap camera, a Rollei Powerflex 800.
It has a 24mm - 300mm lens, it uses a Sony chip that will give you 30% extra light, and it has 12.4x zoom! The video, however, can only take 720p videos. Extras: A leather case for the camera (worth €19,99), a 4GB SD card (€15), and a second battery (worth €19,99). Total price: €149,99

It was between the Rollei and the Canon IXUS 230HS, which has a 28mm - 224mm lens (much less than the Rollei), and it only has an 8x zoom. It's screen is a bit bigger than the Rollei's. The big plus on this camera is the 1080p video. But from what I've read, generally 720p tops the 1080p on these kind of cameras. Especially when you are using it just for youtube videos. This camera is only €129,99, but if you would also buy the SD card, case, and battery, it would be atleast €185.

Oh, and the Rollei looks MUCH cooler than the Canon. Soooo.....

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I bought the Rollei

[Maxwell58]

So after all of this bullshit with my coaster being demolished, my cat puked in one of my K'NEX bins. GREAT! It was the most disgusting thing I've ever had to clean up.

[< Maxlaam >]

^Throw it in the tub and let it soak, then just rinse it off

I hijacked Jogumpie's dorm for the intro this week

[TheSUCKCrew]

I tried to make a pizza calzone. Flour, flour everywhere.

[Maxwell58]

Am I the only one who is in love with this?

[SCM]

^I'm in love with that too. K'nex Coaster Building Itself, Will you marry me?

If I was seriously bored, I'd play with knex no matter what was on it. Max, you should spray disinfecting spray on the knex so you don't get sick or anything.

[Coastergeek987]

Am I the only one who is in love with this?

Le video

Nope, I love that video, maybe one of my favorites, except for Balrog of course!

[< Maxlaam >]

^I'm in love with that too. K'nex Coaster Building Itself, Will you marry me?

If I was seriously bored, I'd play with knex no matter what was on it. Max, you should spray disinfecting spray on the knex so you don't get sick or anything.

Either I'm blind or there is no K'NEX here at all... I'm pretty sure everything is at Gump's parent's house for the part count.

[Bleach11]

Still can't believe that school already started. Oh well. Sorry for my absence. I've been in Kentucky for a week performing at nationals for Fine Arts. The video is on youtube if you guys wanna see it. Just look up "fine arts 2012 oneof99". Oneof99 is put together. The video's from districts and nationals are on there. By the way, i'm the bald one in both video's just in case you're asking.