TAR 13 Spoilers

Teams are now spotted in Portland, Oregon. From this LINK, it says

Where For Art Thou, Phil? Amazing Race 13 is filming in Portland!!!

DASHING FOR DOLLARS: Forget next Tuesday’s primary, the real race is already underway. Although officials at the Port of Portland cannot confirm rumors, CBS-TV’s The Amazing Race 13 , which pits teams against each other in a race around the world, has touched down in Portland now through Thursday, May 15 . Who knew? Well, as first reported here, it was none other than local mens panties proprietor, Steven Lien, of UnderU4men. According to Lien, who was pushed out of his normal parking garage to make way for the camera crew on Monday morning, the show looks like it’s staging right behind Broadway’s Benson Hotel . “There are about 20 big vehicles and lots of people in nice shoes and really dark glasses,” Lien told WW. Later that day a few production peeps (alas no Phil Keoghan) who came in to his shop looking for fresh underpants confirmed Amazing’s PDX presence for Lien. A quick web search also confirms that filming for the TV show is scheduled to take place sometime in May.

Let's hope they have better luck getting half and half from our baristas than the following contestant had milking a camel.

So the race was filmed only in 22 days? After Dubai, where have they gone to? Europe or Africa? (,)

The finale pitstop of Amazing Race 13 is at the PITTOCK MANSION in Portland, Oregon. (http://www.wweek.com/wwire/?p=11881)

This is the Pittock Mansion.

The rear of the Pittock Mansion

View of Portland from Pittock Mansion, with Mt. Hood in the background

**Photos courtesy of Wikipedia

The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance château in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon originally built as a private home for The Oregonian publisher Henry Pittock and his wife, Georgiana. It is a 22 room estate situated on 46 acres that is now owned by the city's Bureau of Parks and Recreation and open for touring. In addition, the grounds provide panoramic views of Downtown Portland and points east.

The home was at the center of a political scandal in 1911 when Portland City Council member, Will H. Daly, brought public attention to Pittock having arranged for a water line to the construction project entirely at city expense, despite it being located a half mile outside of the city limits at the time. The incident resulted in a longstanding feud between Pittock's paper and Daly which ultimately led to the end of the councilman's political career.

Georgiana, one of the founders of the Portland Rose Festival, died in 1918 at the age of 72, and Henry in 1919 at 84. The Pittock family remained in residence at the mansion until 1958, when Peter Gantenbein, a Pittock grandson who had been born in the house, put the estate on the market and was unsuccessful in selling it. Extensive damage caused by the Columbus Day Storm in 1962 caused the owners to consider demolishing the building. The community raised $75,000 in three months in order to help the city purchase the property.

Seeing this popular support, and agreeing that the house had tremendous value as a unique historic resource, the City of Portland purchased the estate in 1964 for $225,000.

Fifteen months were spent restoring it. The mansion opened to the public in 1965, and has been a community landmark ever since. Roughly 80,000 people visit the Pittock Mansion each year.

Due to the location of the site 1,000 feet above sea level, the mansion is one of the best places for birdwatching in Portland.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The City of Portland estimates that $6-8 million worth of restorations are needed.

This location was used in the 1989 movie, "The Haunting of Sarah Hardy" starring Sela Ward and Morgan Fairchild.

**Article courtesy of Wikipedia.

Amazing Race 13 went to New Zealand.

From RFF, I Kiwi who goes by the name of selwyn wrote:

I'd like to add some more concrete support to the New Zealand destination...

The following request was posted on a couple of NZ TV production jobs:

We are looking for 20 Driver/PAs.

The job is 3 days and we have a flat rate of $200 / day. Dates are 30 April, 1 & 2 May.

Applicants need to be over 21, hold a full drivers license, and should confirm this in their email when they contact me.

And should send their CV to me at the email address below.

Many thanks,

Alex Campbell
Production Manager

That sort of job really doesn't fit in with any other sort of production that happens in NZ (there are no other large-scale reality show shooting locally). Fits perfectly with the dates here.

Then another member, apskip, wrote this:

I do not wish to divert attention from Portland but I have BIG NEWS from my brother-in-law Ray who works at the Auckland International Airport as reported by my sister who is a big Amazing Race fan after I asked about May 2:

I just checked with Ray and he said the Amazing Race team did arrive in Auckland, went into the city for the day and came back to the airport late that evening and departed. He told me he saw Phil Keogan the kiwi who fronts the show waiting for the competitors.

This fits perfectly with my theory that teams would do a REST DAY or in this case from 0355 until late evening. Here's the kicker:

There won't be any layover in Sydney because there is a nonstop flight SQ282 leaving AKL 2355 arriving SIN at 0645 after a 10 hour 50 minute flight. This had to be the flight AR13 teams took out of Auckland. There isn't any other except to wait for good old LAN801 to come through on May 3 and depart at 0525 for Sydney. This puts teams in Singapore and able to catch SQ972 from SIN to BKK 1030 1155. Now teams can get PG913 1510 1630 BKK REP and arrive Angkor Wat late afternoon.

Here is another interesting post from RFF coming from Stacy who personally witnessed the teams at Portland Airport on 14 May 2008. She is suggesting that the teams came from Moscow, Russia.

I was waiting to pick my boyfriend up at International arrivals around Noon today. saw a young couple, very fit and attractive and then 2 sisters (they looked related) also young and wearing matching nike workout gear- they definitely stood out, then when a camera crew w/ tons of gear started filming them running thru the terminal, well that's when it clicked! the A.R!! i love the show and had NO idea they might be in PDX. so, my boyfriend saw them in customs and he thought they had come from Moscow before PDX.
Cool! can't wait to see it on TV.

Here is another blog entry confirming the sighting of TAR 13 teams at Bangkok International Airport en route to New Delhi, India. If only Sprity could help us. LOL

Here is the Blog

From my journal:

In Route to India on flight IC 854. Possibly making decent at the moment. I had a moment tody. On the water tax in Bangkok. I love the river taxis, probably my favorite thing about Bangkok. Vibrant, interesting, so much going on for the eyes, it's a liquid carnival, a water dance of boats, unique, fast, accurate, cheap...absolutely the best way to travel so far in SE Asia.

So this moment right...Standing at the back as usual, cruising up river near the East bank through some floating plants. There was a shining white egret perched in the thicket of the plants and waves laped the bunch making it sway back and forth as the sun set a shimmer on the surrounding waves. And I felt so completely grateful to and privileged to be there. I understood in this one scene how precious and unique this vision was for a boy from hicksville Burdett New York.

Last Bangkok things to remember: picnic with thai ladies, mimimini, mae, and honey and frank and lawrence. Franks a musician knows explosions in the sky. Almost missed flight.

On the flight I met the cast and crew of next falls "Amazing Race." You give one couple your guidebook after being told that they and the camera crew are filming a travel documentary. One cameraman says it' s just a pilot and will probably come out on Discovery Channel. But when you go to hand your book to the gentleman and you ask him more about what the specific theme or title of the documentary is, he responds by putting on a cautious and direct face then points at a small black travel bag with orange and yellow stripes down the middle. I shrug my shoulders saying, "i don't know what that is." He then discreetly opens the top zipper and pulls out a black and yellow ticket just enough for me to make out the large bold letters that spell "Race" and I got it. He shook his head knowingly and we winked at each other and I returned to my seat. It all made sense then. And I could easily pick out who the crew were and the various couples. Some were partners, some were family, some were friends. They all seemed to be slightly frantic and on edge and some of them were trying desperately to exchange dollars for Rupees while still on the flight. A pair of young jewish boys asked me for some and I told them they could just go to an ATM at the airport. One replied with, "We won't have enough time." I was shocked by that. Who doesn't have an extra minute for an ATM when vacationing to a foreign country? I knew then something was up.

i searched in some indian community sites... but i couldnt see any blog/photos about the Tar 13 in india ... sorry jon...

I tried solving the question whether TAR13 went to Dubai for tasks or not.

I went around the city by riding a cab. I hailed around 15 taxis just to ask the drivers if they have seen some sort of people running around the city, with backpacks and camera crew running after them.

I went to the Dubai Airport Terminal 1 to ask some of the employees there if there are gossips of TAR coming to the airport. I was a little tame here since I am afraid they might think I am a terrorist.

I went to the famous landmarks of Dubai to ask the people working in the vicinity. I went to Burj Dubai, Burj Al Arab, Souk Madinat, Dubai Marina, Old and New Souq.

But the answer was NONE.

Could it be that teams just had connecting flights here? And if the spoiler is right that there is a team of JEWISH FRATS, I doubt if they will go to any Arab countries like UAE since they are not allowed to enter the country.

Just my thoughts

From RFF:

Hi Stacy,

I saw TAR teams today as well at PDX. I drive the international buses at PDX but not today. However, I was driving the terminal parking lot buses today and saw a camera man /sound man running after a very tan blond woman in a florescent green sporty outfit, backpack and one of those TAR clue cards (?) in her hand just about the time the Germany flight would have landed. They were getting a taxi here at PDX. I had to keep my eyes on my driving but a person in the bus said they were from The Amazing Race.

My next loop around (20 minutes later), I arrived at the terminal and saw more teams grabbing a taxi. Fortunately I was driving the Employee lot bus and one of the supervisors (who got on camera & had to sign a TAR release for TV) confirmed that the teams in fact were from TAR and got off the Lufthansa flight from Germany to Portland OR. They were headed up to Washington state. He also said there were only 4 teams and perhaps the other two teams went up via Seattle first - but that of course is purely speculation.

It's okay Sprity. (,)

Another forum, found out (I hope this is true.) that one of the teams for TAR 13 are named TERRANCE AND SARAH. (,)

interesting...

Hahaha, this is a funny story. I was searching the net for blogs about sighting of the Amazing Race when I read an account from a blogger of went to Hong Kong. He was describing a scenario of an Amazing Race filming there. I was so happy again thinking that I found out another spoiler but I was disappointed after reading the last paragraph. He was only dreaming seeing the show filming there.


If you want to read more about the spoilers, go to realityfanforum and you will see how my idol puddin works there. She really rocks.

Yes Jon, puddin is my idol since TAR10..

JonLover wrote:Another forum, found out (I hope this is true.) that one of the teams for TAR 13 are named TERRANCE AND SARAH. (,)

i was reading a blog, one of team name is Matt and Alson

What blog is that Reevo?? Give me the link..please (,)

i forgot, Jon.

i was read it about 2 weeks a go.

sorry ..

Do you remember the title of the blog??? the name of the blogger? is it blogger.com???

yea .

blablabla.blogspot.com

I have seen the blog..hehehe...Matt and Alson are the names of the bloggers... (,)

but it shown that matt and alson is the part of the race .

hmm dunno lah

There is a sighting at Torquay Beach in Melbourne and Auckland.

http://survivorsucks.yuku.com/topic/28916?page=12

I live in Melbourne,Australia and i was at the torquay beach which has
the biggest waves and most popular beach in Victoria and there was
amazing race
producers organizing a date they can book the beach for a dettour or
road block or something i tried my hardest to take the form of the
bench to see what date
and stuff it was but couldnt get it.

I was in Auckland 3 weeks ago and i suddnely saw 2 camera
mean running around Mt.Kallua and i looked and saw a team running i
follwed them and when
i had the chnace when they were waiting for a taxi i took a pic from
behind as the camera men kept telling me to get away i couldnt get a
pic of the guy i
heard the girl screming out hes name and she was saying george so hes
name is george but i coundt catch her name

Here is another BLOG from a person who saw the filming of TAR 13 at Angkor Watt in Cambodia. He saw 3 teams also in his flight to Thailand from Cambodia.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Just to catch up....

So I just got back into Thailand from Cambodia.... which is why i haven't posted in a while. Ends up that Cambodia is not a telecommunications mecca. Anyways, everything has kinda been a whirlwind. Covered 3 countries in 2 weeks and it kinda feels like we are on "The Amazing Race".... and i mean literally. Yesterday we were in Angkor Wat (more of that story later... it is AMAZING... you should look up pictures... seriously a Wonder of the Ancient world--- i thought better than the stuff i saw in Rome) The Amazing Race was filming at Angkor the same day we were there. AND THEN... we end up at the airport to fly to Bangkok from Cambodia... and who was on our airplane.... thats right.... 3 teams competing on the next season of the Amazing Race. We are sitting there and then all the sudden all these camera and sound guys are filming everything. And the producer guy was sitting in the seat right behind me and vida. CRAZY!! So now we consider ourselves official unofficial cast members. And before all this started I was telling vida that i thought it felt like we were on the amazing race.

Here is another BLOG from a Filipino who saw the filming of TAR 13 at Cambodia. There are many blogs about the sighting of that leg in Cambodia because they chose to do the roadblock in a tourist area.

Saturday, May 10, 2008


A day in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)



Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia and it’s a 6-hour bus ride from Siem Reap. We were hoping to take the Mekong Express bus or plane going there but both were fully booked so we ended up taking a regular airconditioned bus which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because we chanced upon the shoot of Amazing Race right across where our bus was parked!:) Photo-taking isn't actually allowed but we were able to snap some shots from the bus.:)

If I would recall, we saw the African-American team riding on the same blue truck.

alenn_wafu wrote:If I would recall, we saw the African-American team riding on the same blue truck.

Yes, the Afro-American were seen in Cambodia. You can check their pictures HERE. They were seen riding at the back of a waiting truck after loading a pig. Then they were not seen in Thailand International Airport.

There is a possibility that they were eliminated in that leg in Cambodia.

I have reported here days earlier that one of the teams is named TERRANCE and SARAH. Telivisionwithoutpity found this out through a video posted at youtube.

Here is the video:



Here are the video comments that were already edited.



Here is a picture of them:



Credits go to RFF and televisionwithoutpity.

jon where is the name of TERRANCE and SARAH in the video? I only saw tar 12 racers

Benj, the names Terrance and Sarah were not included in the video..
read the comments below ....
Jon is referring to the comments to that video lah.

Btw.. thanks....Keep on spoiling us, jon.

From puddin of RFF again. OMG, I don't know how she is doing all these. She's unbelievable. Thanks, puddin. I know you're coming here. Hehehe.


Here is another BLOG confirming a TAR 13 task in Angkor Watt.

We didn't manage to take a picture of it but i think we ran into a couple doing the Amazing Race here. We'll have to check out the next season but the couple was being followed by a camera man and they had to find a specific face in the ruins. I did my best to make a cameo between this and Bollywood I am really getting my face out there.

And, TAR 13 went to Moscow, Russia. Great Puddin discovered this for RFF.



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WRP is World Race Production, the producer of Amazing Race.

I know that it has been confirmed that TAR 13 went to New Zealand. I just tried to contact my cousin who is living in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand if she happened to see the racers.

This is what she replied,

Yes, we've heard from friends and people around that they came here. Actually, when I was at Wesfield Mall, I saw an envelope for the Amazing Race at the parents room.

It was a short reply and I am still waiting for her answers to my follow up questions.

You're so good Jon! You have all the connections..

alenn_wafu wrote:You're so good Jon! You have all the connections..

It so happened that I have a relative living there. But I really don't have any idea about the Wesfield Mall and the parents room she was talking.

There are many Westfield Mall branches in Auckland:

• Westfield Albany - Albany Centre, North Shore City (under construction as of 2007)
  
• Westfield Downtown - CBD, Auckland City
  
• Westfield Glenfield - Glenfield, North Shore City
  
• Westfield Manukau City - Manukau Central, Manukau City
  
• Westfield Newmarket - Newmarket, Auckland City (Also trading as Two Double Seven)
  
• Westfield Pakuranga - Pakuranga, Manukau City
  
• Westfield St Lukes - St. Lukes, Auckland
  
• Westfield Shore City - Takapuna, North Shore City
  
• Westfield West City - Henderson, Waitakere City
  

Yes, Alenn_wafu.. I did try to search it also with google. My cousin is in Manurewa, it's the southern most tip of Manukau City. So the Wesfield she might be talking is the Wesfield Mall - Manukau City.

She will confirm this sooner. But if you happen to see a picture from the net, try to post it here.

Thanks, Alenn.

Westfield Mall, Manukau City

Exterior:



Interior:


I tried to search for the Parent's room in Westfield Mall and here's what I've found:

LINK:

Westfield Mall

Parents Rooms

To make shopping with children easier we have a Parents Room on the
upper mall near Sainsburys. This child-friendly room is fully equipped
with bottle warmers, changing bays, private feeding rooms, parent and
toddler toilets, nappy dispensers and a microwave oven.

For your convenience we also have a number of baby changing rooms and toddler toilets located near the public toilets.

Dads, you're also welcome in our Parents Room and all our baby changing rooms and toddler toilets.

Great, alenn. The question is did the racer went to Wesfield? (,)

My speculation is that they just passed by the Parent's room and ask directions there.

alenn_wafu wrote:My speculation is that they just passed by the Parent's room and ask directions there.

But I think, if they go inside the mall just to ask for directions, it is a waste of time. But why is the envelope lying there? Probably, there was a challenge also there. If my mind is right TAR 6 went to IKEA, Sweden's biggest Mall, to search something or assemble an office table.

Yes Jon, I think there is a challenge inside the mall. It would be weird if there is a task that involves baby-sitting.

I wil hear from my cousin more probably tomorrow. I am searching the net like what Puddin of RFF is doing but unfortunately , I only saw one which is the Dubai blogger. Hehehe

Hehe I'm lazy to research.

I came across with this blog

http://kkwhome11.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FA0C7A39343F5BB!740.entry

I don't understand what is written but I clearly see the the words Amazing race and saw.

I am posting it here to see if someone can figure out what does this mean.

May 28

期待的... ...

期待很耐的埃及, 可以於一年後重返.

L'arc~en~ciel concert都係我好耐未試過如此投入,
no 1 concer依然係LUNA SEA, 因為我於第一行, 身邊的是KELLY CHAN同黃耀明, 真係HIGH爆... ...
期待X JAPAN真的到來... ...

13駭人係套似AMAZING RACE的電影, 似SAW 但又未夠候... ...

I hope yamagato can translate that for us...

JonLover wrote:I came across with this blog

http://kkwhome11.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FA0C7A39343F5BB!740.entry

I don't understand what is written but I clearly see the the words Amazing race and saw.

I am posting it here to see if someone can figure out what does this mean.

May 28

期待的... ...

期待很耐的埃及, 可以於一年後重返.

L'arc~en~ciel concert都係我好耐未試過如此投入,
no 1 concer依然係LUNA SEA, 因為我於第一行, 身邊的是KELLY CHAN同黃耀明, 真係HIGH爆... ...
期待X JAPAN真的到來... ...

13駭人係套似AMAZING RACE的電影, 似SAW 但又未夠候... ...

Hi Jon, it's in cantonese.. I don't think they r talkg about the amazing race, Kelly Chan and 黃耀明, are celebritites in Hong Kong. He only mention something like a movie that is quite similar to amazing race series. But it's too brief, I cannot really figure out wat tis guy is tryg to say.