by chadster » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:34 am
Day 2 brought us very early in the morning to Conneaut Lake Amusement Park for exclusive ride time....in the entire park! Yes, that's right. Originally Robb had only requested a hand full of rides including the Pepsi Blue Streak but upon arrival we were treated to just about every ride in the park. It was quite awesome having our own personal ride operators who followed our group from ride to ride.
Then there was Blue Streak. Awaken from the dead a few years ago, this ride has it's own personality. Riding in the rear is comparable to riding the Coney Island Cyclone in the rear, you're going to take a beating, at least on the first two drops. But after some filming, the skies opened up beginning with a light rain and ending in an all out downpour. Allowing us to ride even with thunder booming around us we had the time of our lives. As the rains intensified the ride got faster and faster. Two poor souls were relegated to the back for multiple rides as a few unnamed people in the front kept chanting to keep the ride running. And running it did, right through the station and back to the lift.
But all the fun and games would come to end when lightening was spotted. The train was hauling the mail and combined with wet skids wouldn't stop in the station. As a result, we had an evac on the lift hill with two cars in the rain and two cars in the tunnel. Fortunately for me, I had swapped seats with those in the rear and remained out of the downpour until time to evac and trek across the mud to the platform. Epic fun. Epic fun indeed.
No pictures of the rain soaked ride so story telling will have to suffice from me. And yes...its a True Story!
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- Shawn was none the happy with the park's policy.
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- First ride of the day, the Yo Yo.
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- Taking a brief look at the park we find the lake's general store, sponsored by Pepsi.
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- The area beyond here houses the Tabogan, a ride surely to never run again.
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- It's also an area we were told we didn't want to enter as ghosts were still sleeping.
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- I saw a ghost and quickly turned around.
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- First ride of the day was this awkward contraption; it didn't spin like I thought it would but KT approved of it so that's good enough for me.
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- Is it a credit, or is it not a credit?
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- I have very strict standards for what is and what is not considered a credit. To be considered a credit it should be launched, have a lift chain, cable, drive tires, or powered. Lift Chain - Check.
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- It should fall by gravity. Check.
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- It should have some sort of brakes at the end. Check.
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- Therefore I count Devils Den as a credit.
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- I never saw this ride running, but what was running was the tumble bug after Lenny worked until midnight the night before getting an electrical problem fixed. Way to go!
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- I like a good bumper car, but sadly they just didn't deliver more than a 2mph drive.
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- So we pretended it was going to hurt :)
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- Off to a land where credit whores were not allowed.
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- So KT and Megan had their own personal ride operator. How cool was that?
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- No adults were allowed to ride, even with a handsome bribe.
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- Does it count if I only watched someone ride? Under my very strict guidelines for what counts and does not count, it comes close, but not close enough.
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- The park still has pony rides but fat people were not allowed.
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- LMFAO!
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- Oh yeah, they had a mini tumble bug. Again, NOT a credit although some think they should be. It is NOT on two rails. NO CREDIT!
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- This is the Halloween section of the park.
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- Over here we find the Universal Backlot.
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- Some sort of new attraction is going in, pretty sure it's not going to be a credit.
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- Park Themeing.
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- So now on to the late 1800's carousel of progress.
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- With beautiful hand carved horses.
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- Installed in the park around 1914ish with hand painted murals that were updated several years ago.
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- Amazing.
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- Um, yeah!
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- AKA "Welcome TPR"
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- So as Blue Streak was getting warmed up a few people found Bench: The Ride and later ran for Picnic Grove: The Shelter when the rains came.
Again, Epic rides on Blue Streak of which I'm sure video will surface of soon.
In the meantime we will journey on to Waldameer, the latest park to be added to my top 10 favorite amusement parks.
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Last edited by
chadster on Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:15 pm.
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