Skycoastin' Steve's 2011 Season Extravaganza!!

[TheSchwitekDonkeys give me orgiastic scream!]

My Whore on the Shore day will be taking place in mid August. I feel like an exited schoolgirl. Speaking of Jersey, yet completely unrelated:

"Lloyd: That's a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?
Lady at bus stop: Austria.
Lloyd: Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!
Lady at bus stop: Let's not."

-And totally unrelated yet again, the Jersey South Park episode is amazing.

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

^I'm honestly shocked you hadn't done the whore on the shore day yet. Let me know if you stop by KD on the way up here!

[DenDenFabulously FIERCE!]

Reamining?

Lift hill, and this this was crooked like a set of teeth in Alabama.

Great report, as always.

And they forgot the "close-paren" on this sign, (after the comma on line 4,) they must have been using Open Office...

[alilstrongerI prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

Awesome update! I went to Waldameer for the first time back in May. It it such a awesome park. It is not huge but it is extremely well taken care of, VERY clean, and the staff were awesome!

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

^I agree. Waldameer has been a fun stop each time I've gone there. My only complaint is the amount of stuff to do, but they've been working on that the last few years, so they're getting there.

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

I was going to wait till Monday to do this report, but I'm bored.

Last night I drove down to BGW to check out Illuminights and to see some fireworks, and a great time was had! Illuminights consists of shows in four different "countries" of the park, which are Germany, France, Italy, and Ireland. They have showtimes at 5, 6, 8, and 9 so you can see all of them. Unfortunately, I got there after 5, so I had to skip a show, which would end up being the French one. The fireworks finale happens at 9:30, and they shoot the fireworks off from the railroad bridge over the river. The closest place to watch the fireworks is the bridge by the old BBW river drop, but I watched from over by Griffon so I could take pictures of them with roller coasters in the foreground (more on that later).

As far as the Illuminights shows were concerned, I thought they were pretty well done. The German show centered around Oktoberfest dancers, and then had the "world's largest cuckoo clock," featuring human actors playing out the parts of the cuckoo clock characters. Here is a video of that finale.


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The Ireland show was a silly tale of some Irish dude that couldn't play the flute (or whatever instrument it was), so he needed a magic wand to help him play, and it involved large puppets. Then some giant broad threw gold pieces at everyone at the end. That's about it. I have pictures of that one.

The Italy show was basically some pretty impressive acrobatics.......performed by Asians. Thought it was odd that Asians were performing in the Italian show, but it is what it is, and it was still pretty neat! Here's a video of that show.


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Overall, I think Illuminights was a fantastic experience. They do a good job mixing in music, humor, and some pretty breathtaking visuals (at least at night), and spreading it throughout the park. I think this is where it has the leg up on some of the Starlight shows at CF parks, because it's a much longer experience spread out over several areas as opposed to one confined portion of the park. The fireworks were your standard theme park fireworks (can't expect too much when they have to pay for a show every night). Definitely enjoyed it, though!

And as always, many pictures were taken, so here they are! Comments are loved and appreciated!

[Intimidator305Challenge me at Donkey Kong...I dare ya!]

Nice pictures and update! I bet the neighborhood around BGW loves those fireworks, haha! And yes, the Griffon sign is awesome, same with the lights that shine up on it at night.

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

^This is an edit of a photo I took of the sign last year.

[daveydo5172I teach at the school of donkey!]

Reamining?

Lift hill, and this this was crooked like a set of teeth in Alabama.

Great report, as always.

Ummm, no one seems to point out the name Vettle Engineering...EVERY single roller coaster source guide has his name spelled Vettel! Everywhere you can possibly look, thats how its spelled!

[simon8899If the donkey is rockin, don't come knockin!]

German dancers for the Illuminights show.

Gawd this is crazy.....I'd be lying there laughing my A$$ off....