Ingo Meckmann Photography - The Blog » Six Flags http://meckimac.com β€œAll our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:58:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Wooden Monster Coaster http://meckimac.com/2011/05/31/the-wooden-monster-coaster/ http://meckimac.com/2011/05/31/the-wooden-monster-coaster/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15:39 +0000 Ingo http://meckimac.com/?p=2253 This is one of my favorite roller coaster rides in the World and one of the first “real” roller coaster my oldest son rode back in 2009 when he was just 8 years old. He barely passed the minimum height restrictions – they actually measured him 3 times to make sure. I think he . . . → Read More: The Wooden Monster Coaster]]>


This is one of my favorite roller coaster rides in the World and one of the first “real” roller coaster my oldest son rode back in 2009 when he was just 8 years old. He barely passed the minimum height restrictions – they actually measured him 3 times to make sure. I think he didn’t realize what he was up to until we reached the top. That’s when he started screaming at me and continued to do so even during the big drop…. I’m a bad parent, I know ;-)

“El Toro, meaning The Bull in Spanish, is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. It opened to the public on June 11, 2006. It was designed by Intamin of Switzerland. It had the steepest drop of any wooden roller coaster in the world, at 76 degrees, until this record was broken by T Express in 2008 by 1 degree. It is the third tallest (188 ft; 57 m) and third fastest (70 mph; 113 km/h) wooden roller coaster in the world. It is also the first wooden roller coaster to use a cable lift hill instead of the traditional chain lift. Because of the extreme negative g-forces (airtime) on the ride, the lap-bar restraints are very tight, causing some problems for older and larger riders.” Source: Wikipedia

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite PicLens]]> http://meckimac.com/2011/05/31/the-wooden-monster-coaster/feed/ 1 Shooting at Six Flags Great Adventure http://meckimac.com/2009/05/12/shooting-at-six-flags-great-adventure/ http://meckimac.com/2009/05/12/shooting-at-six-flags-great-adventure/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 16:55:35 +0000 Ingo http://meckimac.com/?p=293 Below pictures are a collection from a recent trip to the Six Flags Great Adventure Park in Jackson, NJ.

One of the pictures even made it to the front page of Flickr’s Explore and I thought I’m going to show the original version (Aperture calls it the Master) of that image just to show . . . → Read More: Shooting at Six Flags Great Adventure]]>



Below pictures are a collection from a recent trip to the Six Flags Great Adventure Park in Jackson, NJ.

One of the pictures even made it to the front page of Flickr’s Explore and I thought I’m going to show the original version (Aperture calls it the Master) of that image just to show the capabilities of Aperture and its Plugins.

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The Golden Age Superman Find Your Way Spreading out Custom Built

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