Chicken hits the finals in TPR Video Contest!

May 16th, 2006

Our own Phil Hart has been chosen as a finalist for his “Carowinds: How To Use Your Camera

” video! Check out all the great contest entries at:

Theme Park Review.Com!

Comments on the video can be seen in their forum starting here

Check out the new Forum category – Ride Lists

May 11th, 2006

Show off by posting your ride count / lists. Let everyone know how obsessed with the “gravity machine” you really are!

WHOOTAH! yelled out at 2006 Winter Olympics! Believe it or not!

April 14th, 2006

While watching the Winter Olympics this year I caught, what sounds to be, a Whootah fan yelling out the phrase during the female snowboarding competition.  Check out the video and judge for yourself then hit the forums and vote!  I believe… I believe…

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Theme Park Review video contest 2006

April 5th, 2006

It’s that time of year again, and with all the commotion about the whootah.com buyout (and return) we almost missed this years TPR annual video contest. Whootah.com has been very successful in the past.
2005 we won Most Improved Videographer From Previous Year for Carowinds Opening Day 2005
2004 we won place #14 in Readers Choice awards for the 2003 C3 video

2006 is our next chance to grab the #1 seat. Check out the TPR page for all the info!

Great News! – Whootah.Com is back!

April 3rd, 2006

Mr. Hawkins is in direct violation of one of the stipulating points in our signed contract.  Point # 197.2 – 39AR states clearly:

“If at any point Mr. Hawkins reacts in a violent, unpleasant, derogatory or negative way toward any forum/site members of the newly named Whootahawkins.Com site, he will forfeit in whole the amount of $2000.00 that was paid for acquisition of Whootah.Com  Moreover, Whootah.Com shall be re-instated in full as a solely owned domain to Alan Martin and Phil Hart.  All rights, privileges, names, facsimiles, usages, prosthetic, quirks, wags, fundles, bungles, bangles, ranks, works, talks, winks, warbles and all around cool stuff will be reinstated on the Whootah.Com website and Mr. Hawkins is SOL!”

Evidence of Mr. Hawkins direct violation can be found HERE  We sincerely apologize to you Mr. CoasterGary and hope you will come back to Whootah.Com!

Thanks to all our fans who suffered through this trying time for us all.

and we get to keep the dough!  WHOOTAH! 🙂

The Handover

April 1st, 2006

We documented the handing over of whootah.com to Jonathan every step of the way. From the initial discussion to handing over the $2000 check, view all the mayhem in one of the new original videos on whootahawkins.com as Jonathan proceeds to take over everything Alan and Phil had that was whootah! You know it’s true!

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Wookiecon 2004 Hawkins Style

April 1st, 2006

One of my first actions to improve Whootahawkins will be to enhance the site’s current videos. There is a certain element missing from many of the videos, but I plan on rectifying that. To demonstrate exactly what I mean, please have a look at the WookieCon 2004 video, reinvented.

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sigh

March 31st, 2006

So i finally had to help our web hoster solve the problem.  That being the 2 primary dns servers serving this domain name had conflicting records.  They have it resolved now, and it seems to be working so far.  But with the continued problems with the site and chronically poor help from our own users with our submissions, I’m just getting tired of it all.  Sorry.  But we make this stuff for all to see, and we occasionally ask for help and rarely get it.  We don’t ask for help because we need it, but because we just want to get you involved.  Wouldn’t you like to be in one of our videos?  You can help play a part in our next project, but no one wants to volunteer.  Well, thats ok.  Maybe i’ll just step away, leave it to Alan or somebody and see what they can do with it for a while.

site problems update

March 30th, 2006

Ok, i’m not sure what the hell’s going on.  The web host is moving some sites to new servers, and earlier today i posted some info about that problem.  Then later today, the post that i made disappeared, and the entire board went back to week old data.  i posted there on the forums that there was some posts lost, and now i come back and the data thats supposed to be here is here.  I just wish they’d make up their mind. I hope it stays like it is right now, although we would lose any posts made during the day today.

Not to mention all our other problems, this is beginning to really piss me off.  The data we had running on earlier today lost the C3 trip report pictures jonathan and alan posted, but i do believe they’re back now with the right data.

site unavailable earlier

March 29th, 2006

Sorry for the trouble this morning, but our latest trip pictures to Carowinds from Jonathan and from Alan helped to push our site over our bandwidth limit again. To compound the problem, our web hoster has changed servers and some people were seeing old website information. It caused the ip addresses of the website to switch and the DNS information had to be propogated out to the internet. For instance, a weeks worth of forum posts were missing because you were stuck seeing the old server while others were seeing the new sever. Should all be resolved now. Maybe we should look into a donation button, or sell some more t-shirts to help resolve the bandwidth problem.

In other news, we greatly appreciate the songs that were submitted at our last reader request post.  Many thanks to reader Ethan Rogers who submitted a song, and to Sue and Barbara also, although Sue and Barbara are already official whootah members, and we really  expected all our members to contribute.  However, as usual that was not the case.  Keep up the good work guys.