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In September, 1994, Rick West created Theme Park Adventure. TPA as it would become known by its readers as quickly, has gone through several lives from print publication to its current form, a digital entity on the Internet. TPA was created before there was such a thing as the Internet as we know it today our first online incarnation was as part of a BBS online Bulletin Board System we called Black Rainbow way back in the day. When the first scanners were available to the public, we would often include downloadable images for our readers of various things from Halloween Haunt monsters to roller coasters. Those were introduced to the TPA audience by the way of Amiga computers, as very large for then JPEG and GIF files Cutting edge Theme Park Adventure then moved as well into printed media. With aspirations of publishing very large booklike publications on attractions from the past, we set out on our first project, which unfortunately for various reasons, still has not seen the light of day. It was to be a book titled, Lion Country: The Lost Safari, chronicling the powerful rise of the incredibly popular Lion Country Safari company in the late 60s into the 70s and its heartbreaking collapse in the 80s at the hands of its shortsighted CEO, Harry Shuster. The Lost Safari is something that we do want to complete one of these days and with the largest archival collection of documents and photos from LCS, Inc. in its possession, there is no reason for Theme Park Adventure not to. But for now, The Lost Safari remains our everelusive first stepping stone. To keep our new subscribers happy and occupied, we began publishing a monthly newsletter, which we dubbed The Brake Zone. That newsletter lasted several years and was crucial to our survival and gained us the respect and support we needed to grow from within the themed entertainment community. In March of 1995, Theme Park Adventure was the first ever fan publication to be invited to a major Disneyland Resort press event the opening of the Indiana Jones Adventure. TPA commemorated this event by dedicating an entire, extendedpages version of The Brake Zone to the attraction and event, which proved to be a highlysuccessful move, both with our readers as well as the powersthatbe at Walt Disney Imagineering. That Indiana Jones issue of The Brake Zone paved the way for many more projects with Disney, including the opening of the new Tomorrowland at Disneyland, final farewell coverage to the Disneyland Skyway and the opening of Disneys California Adventure.

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