East Coast Photo TR - Updated Page 6

by **tiger01** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:04 am

Great TR love the Hydra photo!!! :airtimer:

by **chadster** » Thu May 27, 2010 1:10 pm

I left NJ behind on 5.27.10 and thought I left the Toll Boths behind, but was wrong. The George Washington bridge wanted 8 bucks to cross and was log jammed, took 45 minutes to get passed it on my way to Lake Compounce. Today was part of their "education days" tho the only eductation that was taking place was simple math, how long will it take me to get on a ride. (And of course their appeared to be a little, umm, science eduction taking place with some of the youngsters, lol)

Overall cost was 45.00 to get in with parking. Thought this price was high considering they only had two of three coasters running and the water park was closed. Only about 12 rides worth getting on. The Ski lift ride takes about 8-10 minutes and trust me, if you are affraid of heights, don't get on this thing. I've been on 285 foot drop towers, 456 foot tall coasters, none of which compares to the way this thing will wear on your nerves looking down in a canyon.

Honesty, Boulder Dash was ok, nothing to write home about and wild cat just took the number 1 spot for roughest wooden coaster ahead of even mean streak. I thought my brian was going to shake loose.

Needless to say, unless, and only unless you have some time and money to kill AND were in the immediate area would I drop by, I can honsetly say I don't care to go back at the posted prices, no coupons could be found...but they do have free sodas with each admission. :roll:

by **Goliath513** » Thu May 27, 2010 8:14 pm

I've really enjoyed these photos so far. I'm surprised Boulder Dash was only "ok". When we (TPR) rode it, it was beyond amazing! Did they add the rumored trim breaks or something? Wildcat was pretty terrible for us too. Everything else in the park was great. The free sodas were great to have too.

by **chadster** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:38 am

Thanks, I suppose I am just not a fan of the type of trains used on boulder dash, especially the center seat divider they chose to use, had it been solid instead of an "L" shaped hard rubber box, and then had a little padding on it, it might have made for a better ride, now throw a Millennium or the new Timberliner train on it and then you'd have a 9+ ride for sure. No trims on it, picks up the most speed on the turn by the ski lift.

by **chadster** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:29 pm

5.28.10, Six Flags New England, this place was packed with students from everywhere, there must have been 5k students alone, then add on the "normal" crowds made for a busy busy busy busy day at the park. I ended up springing for the regular flash pass, should have gotten the gold. The season pass got me 10.00 off so I should've quit being cheap and sprung for the extra 20. The water park was scheduled to open today. but only partially opened. They had the master blaster going and about 5 water slides, and the main wave/activity pool. Everything else was closed, in other words, all the stuff I cared about. Oh well.

The line for Bizzaro was 2 hours most of the day, never shorter than 1 hour, so I used my pass to hold my place while I went for swim and a ride on the few flat thrill rides they have. Quite honestly, in retrospect, they really don't have all that many rides for the adult crowd. They have an S&S fly swatter, power tower's, and well, in the flat category, that's all the "thrill" rides, everything else would fall under family. I think 9 coasters, including 1 family, and 1 kiddie (I couldn't fit in it, said I was too big to ride

)

Needless to say, with all the waiting I spent most of the day there and look like a freshly cooked lobster thanks to the water park and my not putting on additional sun screen, stupid mistake on my part.....

Oh yea, here are a few shots, besides, that's probably why you are even reading this at all

by **knottslover77** » Sat May 29, 2010 1:48 pm

Wow that looks like one of or the nicest SF parks!

--Jay

by **chadster** » Sun May 30, 2010 11:20 am

Yes sir, it was one of their nicer parks, however, I have discovered as of late that a good number of their parks under the leadership of their former CEO, Mark Shapiro, started sprucing things up a bit. I'll be at SFA tomorrow and see if any improvements were made there, last year it was bad. SFGAdv was also very nice and SFoT is also a good one. SFStL was decent, and was also clean. I've been noticing that some, not all, of Cedar Fair's parks are starting to lack in the cleanliness and friendliness department, most notable, Kings Dominon. The line queue for Volcano is disgusting, I'm not talking about the decor, but the flooring in the queue. Park staff is ok and not rude or anything but some act as if they want to be somewhere else and when spoken to at the line entrance some don't say anything back. The entrance staff seem inviting. Donrey was sparkling and worlds of fun is usually nice and tidy.

**edit** I think I know why the kd crews are crabby, take volcano and dominator for example, those are miserable ride stations with little ventelation, rebel yell, lots of open air = decent station = happy cree

by **chadster** » Sun May 30, 2010 11:33 am

So on my way to wrapping up my East Coast trip and to avoid 35.00 in toll fees, I made a detour coming from SFNE over to Allentown and then down to Richmond to get another ride in on Talon and Hydra at Dorney (5.29.10), fine B&M products. The toll roads aren't that great, very bumpy and seemed to all be under construction on the way up, my Detour only cost me about 45 extra minutes and 30 miles, plus I got to see alot of Penn that I would not have otherwise.

I have for you a construction update on the Demon and something funny I noticed about the S&S drop towers I didn't notice the first trip, some of you may already know about it...Still no sign of the Demon Cars, also, from the top of Steel Force you could see that none of the ride's control systems were in place yet, (control pannels, sensors, etc)

by **chadster** » Sun May 30, 2010 11:49 am

before my battery dies on my laptop, how about a small update from KD (5.29.10)

I-305 with trims, you can tell a very noticable difference. If I had to guess, they slowed it down at least 10 maybe 15 MPH and got rid of the trim over the second hill before entering all the twists and turns. The ride is now slow and smooth enough that you no longer get a form of whip lash. I never blacked or greyed out when the trims were not there, and that same now. You can feel thr train trying to break loose when it comes off the lift hill, but it can't until about 50 feet before the turn. When you come off the hill you can feel getting pushed forward in your seat as the train is under breaking, however, if you've never ridden it before or haven't ridden alot of coaster, you could mistake it for the train not yet being off the lift, if they could ease that transition a bit as it lets loose, I think you would have a great ride.

by **YoshiFan** » Sun May 30, 2010 2:20 pm

I think the original plan was to add a 3rd tower if it was needed later on and since the ride rarely has long lines, I guess they decided it wasn't worth it. I was always hoping they'd make the 3rd tower a combo tower if it ever got added but with Demon Drop, the chances of that happening even seem less likely now.