East Coast Photo TR - Updated Page 6

by **chadster** » Sun May 23, 2010 11:45 am

I drove up to the Trenton area as sort of a central point for many things, I calculate it would actually save me a little green and travel. Once I arrived, I dorve over to Morey's Piers (5/21/10). This is a great little place with a decent amount of variety. The boardwalk, the rides, the games, everything made for a fun evening. I thought the pricing was a little much for what they had to offer, but still got a wristband as the individual prices for 4 rides almost = 35.00 wristband. Worth the time if you are in the Atlantic City area. Wish I had something similar to this close to me...

by **chadster** » Sun May 23, 2010 11:51 am

I attended coaster celebration at SFGadv on 5.22 and headed to Dorney park on Sunday, will post items from those adventures next chance I get, no internet in hotel unless I want to pay 11 a day for it, no thank you.

by **HCLcoasters** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:20 pm

You see those green tents that the boy scouts are using. I have had to sleep in those during rain and shine for 4 years, once a month. They are by far the crappiest tents ever made.

Great Photo TR by the way.

by **Wild 1** » Sun May 23, 2010 12:25 pm

I was on that camp out, Morey's has it every year on this weekend and it is quite fun. Great White was up and down all Friday and Saturday. Glad you had a good time, Morey's and the boardwalk are very nice places to spend an evening at.

by **chadster** » Tue May 25, 2010 4:03 pm

Coaster Celebration at Six Flags Great Adventure (5/22/10) was worth the additional monies, with "processing" fee the coast was about 30 bucks for season pass holders and included 3 hours of ERT, a picnic (burgers, chicken fingers, mac and cheese, and something they called ice cream was all they had, no chips or fries, found that odd, but who cares) and a ride photo, I got mine on El Toro, Ole!

The first hour was for El Toro, (almost my new favorite woodie) Rolling Thunder and Bizarro. Spent 45 mintues on El Toro, didn't have to walk around, just found an empty seat, then tried Rolling Thunder, sad, it needs some TLC, rough around the edges and the appeareance that it hasn't been well cared for. I thought the modifications they made to Bizarro were rather cool and different. The soundtrack combined with the cutouts the ride runs throught, the fog, fire, and other special effects I can see appealing to those who are occasional or first time visitors to theme parks. I could also see other parks doing things similar to spruce up an older ride and try to increase ridership and get the most bang for their investment. There are still traces of MEDUSA on the station building, though I don't have a pic of it, yet.

The park was jammed tight about 30 minutes after opening, so I split and came back for the picnic, this is what I captured.

by **chadster** » Tue May 25, 2010 4:30 pm

Drove over to Dorney Park (5/23/10), forecast called for 50% chance of rain, and it had been raining up to about park opening time. Arrived an hour after opening, and there were about 25 cars in the parking lot, I thought they were closed, needless to say, the rides were all walk on and allowed me to ride everything I wanted and turn and burn in about 2.5 hours. If you are in Jackson for SFGadv or Harrisburg for Hershey, it's worth the drive, decent selection of rides, and for non pass holders, the price is right.

by **thrillrider** » Tue May 25, 2010 4:50 pm

Demon drop looks so different in it's new home. I plan on getting out there this summer.

by **chadster** » Tue May 25, 2010 4:54 pm

^^^^^^

They have done a really nice job of refurbishing it and the installation crews were working on the tower portion while I was there, though I don't look for it to open til end of June first of July.

by **chadster** » Wed May 26, 2010 7:25 am

So after a visit to Allentown that only took a few hours due to overly light crowds, I had some time to kill back in NJ and wondered back over to SFGAdv (5/23/10) to see about Kingda Ka. And....it was down, again. It started raining so I took a few spins on Bizzaro which in the rain is awesome. Ka opened back up despite not being able to see the top of the ride due to the fog and I finally got a ride in on it. The park was empty at 7pm and closed at 9, all rides were walk on and re-rides were plentiful. I also had to go see my favorite ride crew at Batman and hit it up another 10 times in the rain. Riding in the rain certainly adds another dimension to the ride.

I have ended up skipping Coney Island, tried to get over there but NYC traffic made me a nervous wreck and I didn't care to ride the train over. Did make it to the Statue of Liberty, a definite must if in the area. Park on the NJ side, reserve your tix in advance online from the park service and get Crown access if available, otherwise, for 12 bucks for the ferry plus 7 to park, you can easily spend 4 hours here. The turnpike will also request another 5 or so from you each way.

My next park will be Lake Compounce followed by SFNE