thrillrider Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Nice pictures of my home park. It is strange that they were running only one train on the coasters. When I last went (last Thursday) they were running two trains on Outlaw Run, two trains on Wildfire, one train on Thunderation (the other train was on the transfer track and there were guys working on it), and Powder Keg was running all three trains. Did you ride anything else in the Grand Exposition other than the kiddie coaster? I can never pass up the Royal Tea Party, Electro Spin, or Magnificent Wave Carousel if I'm ever in that corner of the park. Oh, and did you check out Fireman's Landing? That area has one of the most powerful S&S Double Shots. Yea, it was odd. Do they typically only run 1 train or was it just a weird day? They only run one train on days that it is *dead.* Most of the time they run two trains. And sometimes if it gets more crowded during the day they will add a second train to the track. They definitely could have used a 2nd train on thunderation and powder keg. World's of fun pictures will be posted tinight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Off to worlds of fun. World's of fun is a cedar fair park that has probably the 2nd best theaming of the chain(right behind knotts). We have been to this park several times and have enjoyed it every time. After 2 exhausting days walking up and down the hills in silver dollar city, we slept in and headed to the park. This only gave us a half day at the park, but we were able to get some well needed rest. I really do love the charm of this park, even though it's starting to disappear with the corporate cedar fair decor of concrete and trash cans. I didn't get as many pictures of the park since we were only there a half day, so some rides and coasters may be missing. During our visit, we were able to get all the major coasters and a few spinning rides as well. We also has time to check out a show thanks to the very light crowds. So far on this trip, we have been extremely lucky as far as crowds go. I'm glad we didn't purchase fast lanes before our trip. Onto some pictures... Here we are...wirlds if fun This was our first time back since the front gate remodel The new gate looks great First coaster was spinning dragons. This is my wife and daughters favorite coaster in the park. It didn't seem to spin as much this visit as it did last. Yes...the park was dead We were able to snag a quick ride on the flume ride. Next up, is my favorite ride in the park. Love this coaster, and they have taken good care of it as it was running great. This ride was broken. Bummer, as it's one of my favorite spinning type rides. I love how cedar fair is bringing back retro gear. Here are a few examples of what they had. One last look This is new this year It's a huss condor. The other new ride. Another great huss ride. Can't remember the name of this show, but it was really good. Patriot is the parks inverted coaster. Lift hill Station shot Wind seeker(or whatever it's called here) was not running today. This is a great idea. I believe Disney sells these as well. Mamba! It seemed to be running better than last time, but the trims pretty much kill any hope of good airtime. Station shot Boomerang was having a bad day. It rolled back between the loop and back spike. This is the second chance rotor of the trip. I love how all the various coasters dinners have a picture of blue streak. And mean streak Cyclone Sam's is a unique ride. Cool looking plant. Anybody know what this is? The water rides were quite popular today, as it was about 95 degrees out. Flying Dutchman. From a distance, you can see whereboomerang rolled back. I think it just missed the catch car. That's it from worlds of fun, where it was so hot people were swimming in the fountain just to stay cool. Our next park is adventureland. Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestreak Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Great update! Got me a little more excited for our trip to Missouri next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytterbiumanalyst Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 ^ Awesome, have fun in Missouri! We have one great and two decent theme parks. You'll have a good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canobie Coaster Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Great report! With a trip to Silver Dollar City likely happening in a year or two, I'll be sure to stop at Worlds of Fun. Always glad to see a rotor still standing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonni Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 WOF really is quite a pretty park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 4, 2017 Author Share Posted August 4, 2017 Great report! With a trip to Silver Dollar City likely happening in a year or two, I'll be sure to stop at Worlds of Fun. Always glad to see a rotor still standing. I would love to hit up silver dollar city again. It's a great park. Even though we spent 2 days there, we didn't See it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 I'm going to try and have the adventureland pictures up today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyerracing69 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Great report! With a trip to Silver Dollar City likely happening in a year or two, I'll be sure to stop at Worlds of Fun. Always glad to see a rotor still standing. Hopefully the rotor will still be standing in a couple of years. There is a rumor going around that WoF is wanting to tear it out before the beginning of the season, next year. There is also, a petition going around to save it, so hopefully it will get saved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBpony414 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Now that I've been to Dollywood it's great to see the similarities in theming and setup to Silver Dollar City. That cinnamon bread is to die for and absolutely lived up to the hype! Can you tell me about the stunt dog show? They didn't have it at DW this year, instead they had The Gazillion Bubbles Show which was fantastic and a lot of fun. I'm a total animal lover so even though I enjoyed the bubbles I'm very interested in the stunt dog show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 The dog show was a lot of fun. I'm not a huge animal person, but still enjoyed it. The dogs that they had were all rescues, and incredibly talented. My next update is going to have to wait till tomorrow. Enjoying a day at America's rollercoast today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 Today's update is from Adventureland in Iowa. This was only my 2nd time visiting this park. Although this visit was kinda a bummer, we still had fun. We only spent about 4 hours in the park due to a rain storm heading in, but that was enough time to do what we wanted. Why a bummer you may ask? Mother nature was messing with us on and off during our time at the park. Plus, the tornado coaster was not in operation either(my favorite coaster in the park). But the monster coaster was a blast. I really enjoy this type of coaster, and it's a great fit for this park and other smaller parks as well. For a minute, I "almost" forgot about the log flume. This park has a big selection of spinning rides, 5 coasters, a water park, and a decent selection of good eats. This park reminds me of of Disneyland. Not for the attractions or a mouse, but for the entrance and main street area. They even have a stage that rises up from the ground(just like in tommarowland). The only thing that left a bad taste in my mouth durring this visit, was that it was in the upper 90's and they were charging people 50 cents for a cup of ice water. There were not too many drinking fountains, and the ones we did find had warm water. I really did not get as many pictures of this park as I wanted to get, as we were rushing thru it to beat the rain storm. I have another report from my last visit with a ton of pictures. So let's look at the pictures shall we? Are we at Disney? Main street U.S.A? Our first stop is the parks newest screen machine....the monster. They did a really good job with this. Rules....and stuff The ski lift goes right thru the coaster. Station A monster and a pig This is a special pig you see.... This is why. Next up was the parks most unique ride....the underground. The pre show consists of some very high tech animatronics that rival Disney. This coaster/dark ride is completely enclosed, so this is really the only shot I could get of the ride. You are here.... This is the dragon coaster. My wife and daughter ride it for the credit. I had already been on it last visit, so I passed on it this time. This is probably the best part of this coaster. Sigh.... The tornado is a great coaster, but it was not ment to be today I guess. The outlaw coaster. It seems to have gotten a bit rougher since last time. Still a decent coaster though. The boys having fun driving the big rigs. They definitely have lots of rides for the kiddos This water ride felt good in the heat of the day. The fam approves of this ride. It looks like when they designed this park, they really wanted to be like the mouse. Does anybody know if this ride ever runs? Last time we were here, it was not running. That's all from Adventureland. Next stop is vallyfair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonni Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Love this park! When I visited last summer the Inverter was operating. And I do believe that Disney Land was used as inspiration for the design of the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 Love this park! When I visited last summer the Inverter was operating. And I do believe that Disney Land was used as inspiration for the design of the park. Yea, I thought that I heard that some ex Disney people helped design the park. Not positive if that's true or not, but seems plausible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 We found this kinda odd. The hotel we stayed in on our way to vallyfair had a weird(and I'm sure unsanitary) way of drying the bed spreads. Pictures of vallyfair coming tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 Today's update is from vallyfair. So our plan going in, was to spend a day and a half at vallyfair and then half a day at mall of America. Well...those plans fell thru as on our 2nd day at vallyfair we(me and my daughter) came down with some kind of food poisoning. That being the case, we missed out on mall of America. Anyway, my thoughts on vallyfair... Overall I thought the park was meh. I think part of the issue was that we just came from a bunch of highly themed parks(sfft, sfot, sw,frontier city), and then we get to vallyfair and it just seemed "corporate" and "steril". Don't get me wrong, we still had a good time. The park had very nice landscaping and the staff as fast and friendly(excep for the Mexican place where we believe we got sick from). The workers in the Mexican food place seemed more interested in there cell phones than helping people. We literally stood there for 5 min, and they never even acnolaged(sp) that we were there. Other than that, the ride crews were on top of there game. Another bummer was that all the rides the kids have been riding in other parks were out of the question at this park due to ridiculous height requirements. That was a ruff one to explane to our 2 and 3 yo kids. The rides we really enjoyed were wild thing and steel venom. I really wanted to like high roller, but it was trimmed down way too much. The kids really enjoyed the ball play area, and we had a hard time getting them out of there. A weird observation was the seatbelts on steel venom. They were much longer than wicked twisters at cedarpoint. I gave up in wicked twister because the belt will not reach anymore. I was worried waiting in line for steel venom that this was going to be the case as well. Thankfully is was not, and I even had slack in the belt. Anyway, on to the pictures. Vallyfair! As soon as we entered the park, the kids found out that Moana was playing in the parks theater, so that was our first stop. After the kids got the "your welcome" song out of there system, we hit our first coaster. The high roller is a classic out and back coaster. Station shot Here is the far turnaround Next up was mad mouse I believe this is a arrow coaster. For lunch, we are at chickie and Pete's. This place reminded me a lot of the red garter at cp. After lunch, we hit up renegade. I had high hopes for this coaster, but unfortunately it was a very ruff ride. Next up, was the rumored to be removed coaster. Station shot This coaster is a arrow hybrid coaster. Steel track, wood supports. Think gemini... Right over by Excalibur, is the parks rapids ride. Just pray that you don't get thirsty here. This is one of my favorite classic rides. This park has some really nice landscaping Vallyfair has a unique carousel. The roof of the ride is on rollers, and spins when the ride is going. A closer look. The sun was starting to set on our first day at the park. The newest ride at the park is the star flyer I love star flyers, but always have an uneasy feeling riding them because of the tiny chains holding your seat. Beautiful light package. A few more looks at the star flyer The super cat ride. Anybody have a dust rag? Stay tuned for LOTS more from vallyfair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonni Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 I always forget about High Roller. It doesn't seem to be talked about much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 I always forget about High Roller. It doesn't seem to be talked about much. Probably because it's trimmed to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytterbiumanalyst Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 ^ True, but it's a full size coaster with a 42" minimum, and it's also the biggest coaster in any Planet Snoopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 Was it originally intended to be located in the kids area? I'm not real knowledgeable on vallyfair history, but was it always located in a kids area? Also, I though I heard that this coaster was transplanted as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytterbiumanalyst Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 It has not always been in a kids area, but it has always been in the same location. Planet Snoopy was added to that area in 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 Vallyfair pictures part 2.... Vallyfair day number 2 Wild thing is a HUGE hyper coaster that dominates the skyline of the park. It is a Morgan coaster. Even from the parking lot Lift hill Wild thing has an airtime filled layout The helix turnaround Airtime! There is also an awkward looking tunnel with plenty of airtime inside as well. One last look at wild thing The comic coaster is a powered kiddie coaster. It was actually quite fun. Steel venom! Steel venom is an intamin impulse coaster Station shot Twisty Next stop is the corkscrew Corkscrew is right in the middle of the park. Corkscrew over the water Lift hill Station shot One last look Landscaping in kids area Classic ferris wheel The parks antique car ride, gives some good views of wild thing. The park also has a train ride that runs thru the park And a tunnel. A few more random shots around the park. That's all from vallyfair. Stay tuned for our next park....Bay Beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prozach626 Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Your pictures of Valley Fair were great! I like how you capture different large areas of the park vs. close ups of coasters and riders. It's nice to get a perspective on how the rides look in their different settings. I want to go to Valley Fair, but I don't know if I would drive seven hours to visit what looks like Worlds of Fun version 2.0. Everything looks really clean and nice, but all of the rides, aside from the Intamin Impulse coaster, look pretty uninspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 If you had to drive 7 hours to just go to vallyfair, you probably "would" be disappointed. But if your ever in the area, I would definitely swing by. It's not a destination park....more if a local park. If your going to do the drive though, you could do mall of America as well as it's only 25 min away. If we didn't get food poisoning, we would have done just that. It's honestly not that big of a park. I don't know if you have ever been to Kennywood, but it's about as big as that. With that being said, as long as the parks not that buisy you could do it in half a day if you go just for the coasters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestreak Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 And they actually have decent ops so you'll actually enjoy your time there. Definitely better than worlds of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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