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EP3 Title : I'm in Russia Playing with the Dolls
puddin:
the clues almost always go on order , and has so far ...so Dolls are last ( thats my take fwiw ) .
1)When teams take an exhilirating ride acoss a 300 foot-zipline,one racer's nerves gets the best of her .
2)A deep water phobia paralyzes one racer who is afraid of drowning during a challenge.
3)Frustration mounts when teams have difficulty searching for a clue buried inside thousands of Russian nestling dolls .
banzai:
clock is at ??:17 so Wanda got stuck for at least 21 minutes :'(
can we read the time on his watch? 11:30am?
never0102:
--- Quote from: puddin on March 11, 2006, 08:22:41 PM ---the clues almost always go on order , and has so far ...so Dolls are last ( thats my take fwiw ) .
1)When teams take an exhilirating ride acoss a 300 foot-zipline,one racer's nerves gets the best of her .
2)A deep water phobia paralyzes one racer who is afraid of drowning during a challenge.
3)Frustration mounts when teams have difficulty searching for a clue buried inside thousands of Russian nestling dolls .
--- End quote ---
you think the detour comes second then? Because on the after the show previews the dolls came before Wanda's disaster, who cant hold her breath for five seconds. [this is going to be the worst roadblock invented, if you cant do it [Wanda] and you dont have asthma[because that would be a good reason] you really arent in best shape for the race]
gingerman28:
Just some wild thoughts,
If teams arrive from Sao Paulo via Franfurt on Lufthansa at 12:05PM they might go first to the Novodevichiy Convent to find clue which takes them to the Chaika Sports Complex on Turchanoav Pereulok. This could take them to the 14.56 time we see on the wall when we see a female diver. This sure is the ROADBLOCK.
But is it possible that this ep only had the one Roadblock and no Detours with all nine teams having to make their way to the site of the nesting dolls (Matryoshka dolls)? Has there ever been a TAR ep with only the one Roadblock and no Detours? We have had programs with only a Detour and no roadblocks. And a lot of time seems to be spent on the zipline in Brazil, then 15 hours flying over seven time zones. So we may just have the one roadblock with everyone having to do the doll think. I think the site for the doll search is the Manege on Mokhovaya Ulitsa. It is the only building in the central area I can find with a colonnade. We have shot of Eric and Jeremy led by Yolanda running through the colonnade; the beach boys have the same knit watch caps on that they have on when we see them pawing through the dolls. The clue to be found here may send them around the corner to St. Basil's Cathedral which we are pretty sure is the pit stop for the first day in Moscow.
Chateau posted a map with a red line supposedly matching the shot of the car going down the street with a building with a colonnade on the right. I have checked all my references and pictures and I do no think that the street shown in the video is Ulitsa Varvarka. If it were the church on the left would be the Church of St. Barbara (and my pictures dooks entirely different). And this is quite different from the one shown. Also the building across the street would be the Old Merchant's Chambers now housing a shopping center and it looks different and does not have a colonnade on either side. So I think that this is different location from the one shown in the map leading toward St. Basil's Cathedral.
Back to the beginning of the ep. The first three teams probably leave the coffee plantation while it is still dark. But later we have a shot of the teams in the order they finished at the pit stop (BJ/Tyler in first, Eric and Jeremy in second, and Mo/Jo in third) and this is the order we have them running toward the camera. So I suspect that the first clue tells them to make their way to the Alaya Adventure Center which will be a bunch point with a pre-set opening time after the sun comes up. So it looks like these three teams will be the first teams to make the zip lline journey. Later still it looks like the same three teams are together at the bus station maybe waiting for a bus to take them back to Sao Paulo Airport and on to Moscow.
Oh well, it is Saturday night and being alone for the evening I had nothing better to do than put my random thoughts down on paper. Oh, where, oh where has my puddin gone?
banzai:
see if you can read Russian on the building, gman ???
edit:
closer shot of a section of the Kremlin wall
church
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