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P. 417 - Fury back open now with 100% less crack!

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Turns out there's a 2% (or so) chance I may make it back down to Carowinds this fall. If I happen to I would be very happy to get back on Fury again.

As others here have said this park has a great top 3 (I haven't been on Copperhead Strike yet) and I'll be happy to get back on those again.

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Visited the park for the first time this past Sunday, had a great time!...

 

Huss Enterprise (forget what the park calls it): I've always liked enterprises, and I was surprised to find this park has one. Cycle was quite short, but still fun. Glad I got to ride it before it likely gets removed in the coming years if Cedar Fair's other Enterprises are any indication.

It's a Schwarzkopf Enterprise, not Huss. It's called Scream Weaver.

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Carowinds has announced their 2020 additions including Boogie Board Racer and the debut of Grand Carnivale at the park!

 

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World-class water slide racing is coming to Carowinds in 2020 when Boogie Board Racer, the longest mat racing slide in the Southeast, debuts next summer at Carolina Harbor waterpark. On Boogie Board Racer, guests will ascend to nearly 60 feet, grab a mat, and choose one of six lanes where they’ll wait for the green light to begin an exhilarating competitive ride. Racers will zoom through tubes, high-speed chutes and a thrilling 360-degree loop. A final drop brings them to maximum acceleration before they reach the finish lane to splashdown.

 

Boogie Board Racer is the first new attraction in Carolina Harbor since the waterpark was expanded and re-themed in 2016. The brightly colored slide will be located near the park’s newest roller coaster, Copperhead Strike. The slide was custom designed for Carowinds by White Water West, a Vancouver-based world leader in water park attraction design.

 

Also new in 2020 is Grand Carnivale, a nighttime international festival and street party celebrating global culture in grand scale, with signature beverages and a special menu. The Spectacle of Color full-scale parade is a highlight of the festival, with extravagantly decorated and brightly lit floats, and lavishly costumed street performers who will draw guests into the action, tossing beads as they travel through the park to the beat of lively music. The festival will run nightly June 13-July 5, 2020.

 

“The new Boogie Board Racer water slide will amp up the adrenaline in our world-class Carolina Harbor waterpark and our guests will crave its exciting twists and turns as they compete against friends in this fan-favorite racing attraction,” said Pat Jones, Carowinds’ vice president and general manager. “And we’re going all out with Grand Carnivale, the largest summertime event ever held at Carowinds. We’ve seen how families enjoy our fully immersive SCarowinds and WinterFest events in fall and winter, and we’re bringing that same sense of wonder and delight to this captivating new summer nighttime experience. These investments, along with the new Springhill Suites by Marriott at Carowinds which opens this fall, further strengthen our position as the premier entertainment destination in the Carolinas.”

 

Carowinds has added many exceptional new attractions over the past few years. In 2019, Carowinds debuted the seven-acre Blue Ridge Junction area including the Carolinas’ first double launch roller coaster, Copperhead Strike, the Mountain Gliders family ride, and Blue Ridge Country Kitchen restaurant. Other recent additions include the record-breaking Fury 325 giga coaster, and County Fair and Camp Snoopy themed areas.

 

The best way to experience every moment of Grand Carnivale and our full calendar of events is with a 2020 Gold Season Pass. Your pass gives you unlimited visits for the rest of 2019 and all of 2020 so you can enjoy the recently announced PEANUTS Celebration and WinterFest Wonderland Parade this year too. Gold Season Passes are on sale now at the lowest price of the year at Carowinds.com.

 

To celebrate National Roller Coaster Day, Carowinds has a limited time 2020 Gold Season Pass offer valid only through this Sunday, August 18. Purchase a 2020 Gold Season Pass and skip the regular lines when you receive a free Fast Lane Plus good for use one time on select dates. Guests who renew their 2019 passes are also eligible for special perks if they renew now.

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With the Grand Carnivale only lasting a few weeks in the year and knowing a few other CF parks had one this year, is this a traveling show that moves from park-to-park? Do the paraders travel with the show?

 

If both of those are true, then I like the idea of CF having traveling shows like this. If they can find workers willing to travel like this, I can see more of these occurring, especially for indoor shows (the Cirque show at Carowinds, for example).

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So is this it carowinds new ride is just going to be a Matt racers slide for 2020? Nothing new will be announced in 2020 I mean yes their is a show coming but nothing in the dry park? Carowinds didn’t even have a announcement date for the new ride they just announced it. Usually they do this before announce new attractions right? What about dinosaurs alive and rip roaring rapids?

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Dino Alive is gone, they've announced that.

 

RRR hasn't had an official announcement. My guess: it's gone, and they're just waiting for end-of-season to announce it, maybe even to tease a 2021 announcement for that area. Alternatively, they'll put up signage around that area later this year or early-season next year.

 

I'm assuming this is all we're getting for 2020, and I'm not that upset about it. I'm hoping we'll see some updates to buildings and infrastructure - things that wouldn't need a big NEW IN 2020 announcement.

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RRR hasn't had an official announcement. My guess: it's gone, and they're just waiting for end-of-season to announce it, maybe even to tease a 2021 announcement for that area.

You're not gonna get a "by the way, our rapids didn't open this year" announcement. It's gone and there will probably never be anything spoken of it again.

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RRR hasn't had an official announcement. My guess: it's gone, and they're just waiting for end-of-season to announce it, maybe even to tease a 2021 announcement for that area.

You're not gonna get a "by the way, our rapids didn't open this year" announcement. It's gone and there will probably never be anything spoken of it again.

I was thinking more of a "Say goodbye to RRR, but say hello to SOMETHING NEW IN 2021!"

 

Obviously, something better, but I'm not exactly a marketing major.

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So is this it carowinds new ride is just going to be a Matt racers slide for 2020? Nothing new will be announced in 2020 I mean yes their is a show coming but nothing in the dry park? Carowinds didn’t even have a announcement date for the new ride they just announced it. Usually they do this before announce new attractions right? What about dinosaurs alive and rip roaring rapids?

Carowinds rarely ever gets an addition to the water park and dry park in the same year. Don't expect anything else to be announced... this was it. They just got Copperhead Strike last year.

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Visited the park last week for the first time since 2016. Some thoughts/pictures:

 

-Decent operations overall. Two trains on everything but Vortex, Carolina Cyclone, and Nighthawk.

-Copperhead Strike is a fun little ride. Hangtime on the roll out of the station is weird in a good way. Rode this a couple of times first thing.

-Afterburn still kicks ass

-Intimidator still probably my least favorite B&M hyper, but still a good ride. The one thing that was really annoying was half the day the crew would do the whole "do not pull down your lapbars, we will do it for you" and the rest of the day they did not.

-Fury still kicks all kinds of ass.

 

On to the photos!

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Another great day at Carowinds!

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New hotness from the sky

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I thought Cedar Fair would....nvm

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That's going to be a no from me dawg.

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The side of the parking lot filled up . Luckily the side by Intimidator was empty.

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Had lunch at Harmony Hall. Didn't realize the time. Kids show started and I scarfed the rest down and hauled out of there.

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Love parks that have ways to get aerial views.

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Sling...

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...Shot

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Carowinds has some really great rides

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Barrel turn goodness

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No boobs in multiple states at this sign

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I do like the new style entrances Carowinds and Cedar Point have now

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New Hotness

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20 year old hotness

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Still such a kick ass ride.

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Wind was Saught on this day

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Great theming for a plane themed coaster

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Hi short Intimidator

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Nothing to see here

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Such

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A

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Great

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Ride

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Later Fury!

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Just got home from my first ever, two day excursion at Carowinds. I was there Friday and Saturday.

 

Friday:

Landed at 11am and Ubered straight to Carowinds, this was me leisurely exploring, photography day. Since it was National Roller Coaster Day and I needed 8 credits to get to 100. I wanted Fury to be my 100th coaster, so I went around the park clockwise starting with Intimidator, Afterburn, Copperhead Strike, Flying Cobras, Ricochet, Carolina Cyclone, Hurler and then finally Fury. HOLY. F**K. If you blind folded me and I couldn't tell anything about restraints, I would never have guessed Fury was a new school B&M. I know it was 97 degrees, but that rides HAULS ASS and gives mild-medium ejector on the airtime hills at the end. Fury is now currently my #4 coaster and favorite B&M of all time.

 

After that I decided to do a photo pass, I got my camera out and had some fun walking around taking photos. The photos weren't coming out the greatest because of the direct overhead lighting, but that changed around sunset when I got some KILLER shots of the coasters.

 

Went back and did more rides followed by another photo lap at sunset which is when the magic shots happened.

 

Wound up doing Fury 16 times, Copperhead 5 times, Afterburn 2 times and everything else once. Favorite seat on Fury is back left, front left being second favorite. Left side of the train makes a HUGE difference.

 

Saturday:

This was the day I was waiting for, I had the all inclusive pass, it was set to be another scorcher but it was my day to just ride until I can't ride no more. Did Intimidator in the front because I did it in the back Friday but couldn't bare the 5 minute dispatches to sit on the brakes in the sun for 10 minutes because they triple stacked each train. Honestly can't really remember all that I did Saturday but everything was walk on with FLP. A random storm rolled through at 6pm and created a GREAT double rainbow that you'll see below.

 

Fury: 28x

Copperhead: 4x

Afterburn: 4x

Everything else: 1x, got the missing credits like Vortex, Nighthawk, Goldrusher. Only 2 coasters I didn't get were Kittyhawk, Wilderness Run and Woodstock Express because I didn't care enough.

 

All in all, I love this park so much, it's so tiny but it has some killer rides (mainly the 3 good B&Ms + Copperhead Strike)

 

I prefer Intimidator to Diamondback, I was either getting good rides or everyone else is a bit too dramatic because I was FLOATING.

 

Photos

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Typical Fury 325 photo

 

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Typical Copperhead Strike photo

 

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Empty train during the Hive Dive

 

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Empty train post Hive Dive

 

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B&M goodness

 

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Fury being absolutely MASSIVE

 

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Slow your roll

 

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Don't worry, this was during boarding and my phone went in a zippered pocket right after.

 

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More of Fury being MASSIVE

 

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Intimidator's lovely lady lumps

 

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Nice old school B&M invert

 

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Copperhead Strike twisting during sunset

 

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More of Copperhead Strike twisting during sunset

 

Now my two favorite photos of the whole trip:

 

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Double Rainbow

 

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Ridin' into the sunset (no rules broken, my zoom lens was against the fence)

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Great photos!

 

I first visited Carowinds in 2017 and liked the park (because of Fury mostly). After visiting again this summer, I think it is my second favorite Cedar Fair park behind Cedar Point. Copperhead Strike did a lot for their line-up in my opinion, and their current top 4 is very solid. Throw in a GCI and RMC Hurler down the road and this park will dominate. I'm so glad Cedar Fair recognized the potential it has.

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