#b&m

[thetinytennant]

tiny tennant goes shopping (B&M)

+return of the tiny cornflakes...

[hyper-coasters]

Late night wave advisory!

[fuzzkaizer]

the french case

"We call this case the 'french' case - im not totally sure why"

cred: instagram.com/macaris_official

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Sonic the Hedgehog was the Doctor from Doctor Who and I helped him steal the TARDIS from a giant B&M (basically UK dollar store) while hiding from my family.

[flojector]

shapes from b&m

[aryburn-trains]

Merry Christmas - B&M 410

The B&M 410 under snowfall in Lowell, MA where it is on display at the Lowell National Park. In the background is the lighted tower of Lowell City Hall.

Photographed by Jon Hill, December 20, 2007.

[tacoma-narrows]

Guys I'm thinking abt Tatsu at Six Flags Magic Mountain again. I need to ride this thing so badly you guys don't understand. It's been so high on my bucket list forever it looks like such a monster

[quanb3z]

ART DUMP AND SHOPPING HAUL

First post ever 😭

[blitzcoaster]

Leviathan [August `4, 2018]

Some pictures of the other most important coaster to me from back in 2018 for National Rollercoaster Day, for good measure

[rushthehollow]

25 days of coasters / 23. behemoth, canada's wonderland # of rides: 4 / last ridden: summer 2024

as the list goes higher, you'll learn that b&m hypers don't offer the type of ride experience i typically care for. i'm not a big floater hill type guy; this isn't to say they're bad by any means -- just not the type of coasters i like!

however, what i do like, are nontradtional b&m hypers. behemoth starts out like a traditional b&m hyper: massive floater airtime hills (though honestly some of my favorites out of the b&m hypers!). however, the few hills before the midcourse & everything after the midcourse is what makes me really like this one, as they ride much different than that of the other hypers.

i didn't think i'd ever like a b&m hyper this much, even moreso a staggered seating one, but here we are!! just a fun ride that has a little moment that makes me feel very silly because of a ride i really like :)

[littlestsnicket]

title: good people by gellavonhamster

word count: 2.6k

bertrand baudelaire&montgomery montgomery

i love the little details about how the organization works, with monty perusing a degree and how rare that is even though learning and science are so valued. but i especially love how the two of them interact—their forthrightness in an organization that values secrecy and code, the way they care about each other and say it, the little details of how they make tea together, their desire to protect one another. yeah, this fic is so good!

excerpt:

“A murder, Montgomery! A crime story at its finest; the whole city is going insane! Come read.” At that, Professor grabbed him by the elbow and pushed him into the middle of the crowd, so that Monty found himself right behind the left shoulder of the guy with the newspaper.

He took a look at the page, found the piece everyone was reading, and grew cold.

“Poison darts! With snake venom!” Stein exclaimed. Monty winced as if in pain. The loud noises around him were distracting; he wanted to read carefully, turn each word round in his head, persuade himself it was not what he thought it was. Coincidences do happen sometimes, after all. “And where – at the opera! Right during the performance!”

“Yeah,” someone to the right of the newspaper chimed in, “straight out of Gaston Leroy.”

“Leroux,” Monty corrected mechanically. He was suddenly overcome with fierce and helpless anger. He stepped back. “I’m sorry, Professor, I really have to go.”

Walking quickly, even quicker than back when he was urged on by the unwritten report, he headed for the door.

Well then, La Forza del Destino. Poison darts. Snake venom.

And his flatmate, who went to the opera yesterday and didn’t come back home.

[hyper-coasters]

Early testing before Manta opens for the day!

[fuzzkaizer]

Three boxes and then two more ... and the French case!

"Three boxes with the same Jumbo Tone Bender fuzz circuit. And then two more with a different circuit each. Ant Macari of @macaris_official has mentioned in the Vintage and Rarities book that “Having the three knobs in a row down the middle of the deal like that also allowed us to put the same circuit in the Colorsound Supa Wah Fuzz Swell Pedal”. I wonder if this is the right way round? It seems as likely that there were surplus boards originally destined for the SWFS and they were repurposed for “specials”, like the rebranded CMI and B&M - which uniquely used the long, flat “French case”. I wonder also if this was the origin of the French case, as this board format would have required the case to be drilled differently for both knobs and jacks. The CSL Power Boost/Overdriver had the usual knob layout in the French case, but jacks either side, not together. Another outlier was the Carlsbro, which was the same as a regular Tone Bender in all respects bar the graphics. My take on the side jacks on the French case - on the three in a line boards there was no room for end jacks - but there was plenty of room in the CSL. The CSL jacks are at the side (left and right side because there’s no room for two on one side with the larger circuit board) because the rear of the French case is curved top to bottom - so it was ** never designed for rear facing jacks, the Colorsound standard ** I think there were surplus SFWS boards, which dictated the format of the French case, with side mounted jacks and a rounded rear section because they never anticipated putting jacks there. The last few pics are of the 1976 Carlsbro, which has a germanium TB circuit, and the more complex CSL from three years earlier, which has the silicon Overdriver circuit. Now I’m really confused."

such a cool post, and at least we have learned about the French case!

cred: instagram.com/humphreybarclay

[ahsokajedi]

oblivion, alton towers (19.03.22)

[flojector]

[20th-century-railroading]

Inbound

Delaware & Hudson EMD GP39-2 7407 & Boston & Maine GE U33B 192 ease their train into Enola yard. 7407 is ex-Reading & 192 is ex-Conrail, exx-Penn Central.

Enola, Pennsylvania August 1986