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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #100 on: December 15, 2005, 11:23:30 AM »
Hi Kogs ! I guess more searching for phaniat fence & ground pictures , those dudes on the elephant  could be Asian ?

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« Reply #101 on: December 15, 2005, 11:34:36 AM »
Almost forgot , Slowhatch's Buddah (s?) :holidayC:


well , you get the picture  :lolCX:
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« Reply #102 on: December 15, 2005, 11:44:59 AM »
Hi Kogs ! I guess more searching for phaniat fence & ground pictures , those dudes on the elephant  could be Asian ?

Hey Puddin! hmmmm i think ur right, but it also could be care takers from another country.

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« Reply #103 on: December 15, 2005, 11:48:00 AM »
This darn site won't let me post pictures today  (:;)


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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #104 on: December 15, 2005, 11:49:31 AM »
Hi Kogs ! I guess more searching for phaniat fence & ground pictures , those dudes on the elephant  could be Asian ?

Hey Puddin! hmmmm i think ur right, but it also could be care takers from another country.

Yeah we can't be certain , maybe someone else will have luck .


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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #105 on: December 15, 2005, 12:06:54 PM »
Hi Kogs ! I guess more searching for phaniat fence & ground pictures , those dudes on the elephant  could be Asian ?

Hey Puddin! hmmmm i think ur right, but it also could be care takers from another country.

Yeah we can't be certain , maybe someone else will have luck .

check this out could those guys just been in the sun alot??

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« Reply #106 on: December 15, 2005, 12:21:51 PM »
Here is the starting point:
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« Reply #107 on: December 15, 2005, 12:43:04 PM »
I'm still not sure those elephant guys are Asian, both from skin color and hairstyle. The guy on the right seems to have thicker, corser hair than most Asian people. The skin appears way too dark. I really think these guys are in India, where elephants are a big deal (remember the "push the elephant through the streets of India" deal in TAR7?). The fencing is generic enough that it could be from any developing country. Besides, the Race is in love with India - it's one of few safe stopping grounds in that area. Plus, this race looks to already have some LONG initial legs (Denver to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo to Sicily) that Moscow to southeast Asia seems a little chunky without a break somewhere in between. Maybe something like the following?

EP1: Denver (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) to Sao Paulo, Brazil (bridge)
EP2: Sao Paulo to Segesta, Sicily (ruins)
EP3: Segesta to Corinth, Greece (diving into canal)
EP4: Corinth to Moscow, Russia (basilica, ballet)
EP5: Moscow to India (elephants)
EP6: India to Perth, Australia (newspaper)
EP7a: Perth to Darwin (newspaper/sighting) - TBC
EP7b: Darwin to Adelaide to Singapore
EP8: Singapore to Lopburi, Thailand (masks)
EP9: Lopburi to Tokyo (shopping district, Mt. Fuji)
EP10: Tokyo to Anchorage (sighting, red plane)
EP11: Anchorage to Denver

Other problem here, though. This is only like 40,000 miles of travel - nowhere near the 60,000 mentioned on the preview. What could make up for that kind of difference?

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #108 on: December 15, 2005, 12:49:16 PM »
I'm still not sure those elephant guys are Asian, both from skin color and hairstyle. The guy on the right seems to have thicker, corser hair than most Asian people. The skin appears way too dark. I really think these guys are in India, where elephants are a big deal (remember the "push the elephant through the streets of India" deal in TAR7?). The fencing is generic enough that it could be from any developing country. Besides, the Race is in love with India - it's one of few safe stopping grounds in that area. Plus, this race looks to already have some LONG initial legs (Denver to Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo to Sicily) that Moscow to southeast Asia seems a little chunky without a break somewhere in between. Maybe something like the following?

EP1: Denver (Red Rocks Amphitheatre) to Sao Paulo, Brazil (bridge)
EP2: Sao Paulo to Segesta, Sicily (ruins)
EP3: Segesta to Corinth, Greece (diving into canal)
EP4: Corinth to Moscow, Russia (basilica, ballet)
EP5: Moscow to India (elephants)
EP6: India to Perth, Australia (newspaper)
EP7a: Perth to Darwin (newspaper/sighting) - TBC
EP7b: Darwin to Adelaide to Singapore
EP8: Singapore to Lopburi, Thailand (masks)
EP9: Lopburi to Tokyo (shopping district, Mt. Fuji)
EP10: Tokyo to Anchorage (sighting, red plane)
EP11: Anchorage to Denver

Other problem here, though. This is only like 40,000 miles of travel - nowhere near the 60,000 mentioned on the preview. What could make up for that kind of difference?

crazy zig zagging travel ala tar5. but ur right something is missing

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #109 on: December 15, 2005, 01:02:18 PM »
Maybe there's a LOT of driving within each location or to surrounding towns. They probably count all that in the final mileage as well.

Also, it wouldn't at all be surprising if there's a 2nd South American leg we don't know about, maybe down to Chile (that would add over 5,000 miles right there) or something -- or a trip up to mainland Asia before or after Australia maybe...
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« Reply #110 on: December 15, 2005, 01:15:34 PM »
Maybe India off the beaten path ? Mostly from what I could remember in  India they paint the elephants .

btw : you guys are all doing some great speculating  :thumbC:

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« Reply #111 on: December 15, 2005, 01:36:22 PM »
 :winkC: FT- ?

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #112 on: December 15, 2005, 01:39:46 PM »
Maybe India off the beaten path ? Mostly from what I could remember in  India they paint the elephants .

btw : you guys are all doing some great speculating  :thumbC:

remeber the roadblock in thailand tar2 where they had to clean paint(which was really chalk) off the elephants?

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« Reply #113 on: December 15, 2005, 01:41:53 PM »
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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #114 on: December 15, 2005, 01:43:34 PM »
:winkC:

my guess is leg1 day3 in brazil still warm climate

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« Reply #115 on: December 15, 2005, 01:48:13 PM »
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remeber the roadblock in thailand tar2 where they had to clean paint(which was really chalk) off the elephants?

Oh that was a GREAT Task  |#'
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« Reply #116 on: December 15, 2005, 01:53:43 PM »
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remeber the roadblock in thailand tar2 where they had to clean paint(which was really chalk) off the elephants?

Oh that was a GREAT Task  |#'
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same type of elephant in the preview?

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #117 on: December 15, 2005, 03:02:44 PM »
could this be a monkey similar to the1 in the preview?



could it be they visit sights from herculies in gibralter?

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Re: TAR 9 Preview
« Reply #118 on: December 15, 2005, 03:21:24 PM »
Sad to say, but the digital rip I got from *ahem*alternative sources*cough* turned out to be of better quality than the analog signal I piped directly through my capture card. Anyway, the markings on the yellow helo are PT-YPR.

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« Reply #119 on: December 15, 2005, 03:39:25 PM »
Wow. I'm pretty impressed with the helicopter info. Looks like it's registered in Brazil -- lots of Brazil stuff in the preview... maybe there are multiple legs there?

I got on that Airliners site yesterday trying to get an ID on the white plane with a blue-tip tail in the nerds running shot from the Preview, but it would take a pretty serious investigation to figure that out. More time than I'm looking to spend, at least.


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« Reply #120 on: December 15, 2005, 03:57:58 PM »
To add to the pinning of the helicopter in Brazil, there is an advertisement painted on the side of a building that the helicopter flies over.  In the ad there is a telephone number expressed as nnnn-nnnn.  This is the standard structure for numbers in Brazil (maybe other places too but at least it is consistent.
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« Reply #121 on: December 15, 2005, 04:00:31 PM »
Heck YEAH !!  |#' Slowhatch !!!!!!!!!

And the Taiwan site has higher resolution  vidcaps up if you want to check it out .

http://amazingrace.myweb.hinet.net/tar9_promo.htm
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« Reply #122 on: December 15, 2005, 05:00:13 PM »
You should take into consideration another country in South America.  I cannot imagine them going to Brazil and just going to Sao Pablo.  Usually they have visited 2 countries in every continent visited.  Maybe in South America they went to Peru. Or other cities in Brazil.  They have a really beutiful country, and could have spend 2 legs there. =]/

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« Reply #123 on: December 15, 2005, 05:01:26 PM »
I think I've made some progress on the dancers, but I'm not ready to call it a match yet. Compare Puddin's cap to a cap I made from video at the Gzhel website. There are so many changes of costume; it looks more like a Vegas act than folk-dancing! I'm going to check out some other troupes and cities before calling it, though.
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« Reply #124 on: December 15, 2005, 05:25:42 PM »
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Looks like it's registered in Brazil
Yes, go here and enter the tail number (I can't link to it directly). Not much useful information, and nothing about the owner--just "private air services" (I'm surprised I got that much). As far as the nerd team photo, it looks like they're walking away from another Robinson 44.
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Sao Paulo City is ranked as one of the world's three busiest helicopter zones, following New York and Tokyo, and as number one in heliports concentrated in a single area.
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