Photo TR: Bas does Florida and the East Coast Tour

by **hyyyper** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:43 am

Part 2 of Morey's Piers and Clementon,

for Part 1, see the previous page

Facebook · by **HerBlackWings** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:55 am

^ die

by **philthephorce** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:29 pm

hyyper said:

If only those CCI-boys knew what banking was...

I love underbanked woodies! That's one of the things that made Boulder Dash great for me, and all the proper banking is what made rides like El Toro, Roar, Wildcat and to a lesser extent Lightning Racers not as much fun as they could've been if they had some lateral forces. I dunno, maybe it's just me...but I blame growing up so close to Thunderbolt at KW, where you get Wipeout/ Trabant/ Musik Express levels of lats going past the Potato Patch.

Great pics...and now I know what the top of my head looks like...to a bird...or Yao Ming.

by **kenshinmac** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:38 pm

philthephorce wrote:hyyper said:

If only those CCI-boys knew what banking was...

I love underbanked woodies! That's one of the things that made Boulder Dash great for me, and all the proper banking is what made rides like El Toro, Roar, Wildcat and to a lesser extent Lightning Racers not as much fun as they could've been if they had some lateral forces. I dunno, maybe it's just me...but I blame growing up so close to Thunderbolt at KW, where you get Wipeout/ Trabant/ Musik Express levels of lats going past the Potato Patch.

I totally agree but Great White was not running around those smoothly at all. It was not comfortable for me in the least... Heck my favorite part of the ride was down the stretch along the beach. If it was just an out and back it would have been better IMHO.

I thought that Boulder Dash was amazing because it gave the sideways forces but was super smooth the whole way.

by **Goliath513** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:51 pm

Nice try on the Photoshop work (I see the contrast lines). Better luck next time.

The last few updates were pretty fun reading to relive everything. It's really too bad Kings Dominion was so bad. It really had a lot of potential ruined by Cedar Fair.

The Morey's Piers trip report was also nice. I hope to get back there sometime in the next few years.

by **philthephorce** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:19 pm

^You think Cedar Fair ruined that place? I think it's more a management team that's having trouble adjusting to the new owners. I guess in a round about way it is partially their fault, but I'm thinking of the dillusional qualities of the two guys who did the Q&A with us...and at least one of them was there loooong before CF took over. I'm thinking he isn't the only one there who thinks that they can actually compete with Disney.

^^C'mon Great White wasn't that bad! There were much worse rides, as far as bad lateral force execution goes, that I haven't read anything about....like Rolling Thunder. I put Great White in the same category as Twister at Knoebel's. The lats weren't the smoothest, but the ride was still fun. Of course Twister's better though...

by **hyyyper** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:39 am

^, ^^^ and ^^^^

Do note that there's a difference between 'underbanked' (which I love) and 'no banking at all'.

Anyways, sorry for the delay, but school is eating me,

hyyyper goes to the USA
East Coast Day 9 - August 14
Hersheypark

Hersheypark, on of the best days on the trip. Today the trip was sort-off 'opened up' to everyone. Which meant that anyone who wanted to get some awesome ERT without having to do the entire trip could sign up. After the day at Hershey, I believe there were a lot of people who got very interest in doing (another) trip in the future.

We started our day with ERT on Fahrenheit and Storm Runner. Both rides didn't live up to the idea I had of them. Fahrenheit's over-vertical drop didn't do anything for me, and the trains are awfull short to achieve a decent capacity. Overall the ride is good, some transistion throw your neck into the restraints, but if you brace yourself, the ride is good fun. Storm Runner also didn't live up to all the great stuff I heard about it. The launch is awesome and the top hat with it's drop insane, but after that the ride just did an Immelman and the barrel-snake dive thing, and they were not comfortable in the Intamin OTSR's.

After the ERT a lot of people went to Rollersoaker, half to get the credit, the other half to soak the people who wanted the credit. The whole concept of Rollersoaker is a waterbattle between the ones riding and the once on the ground. Unfortunatly for the riders, the ground people have the advantage. For the remainder of the day we took it slow. We had to, because the operations were very slow and the lines longs. Thankfully we still had ERT on Wildcat and Lightning Racer so we could skip those rides during the day.

Siderwinder was a typical boomerang. The wild mouse was INSANE, it had the most forces on any mouse I've ever been on. sooperdooperlooper did very less to me, the loop was fun, and after that it was just waiting and boring myself untill we were back into the station. Great Bear was a real let down. I guess it's because of the geographical limitations but the first drop was so boring. After the lift you first go into a allmost-level helix, and then the real drop comes. The actual drop, the
loop, immelman, Zero-G and corkscrew are really cool and the way they should be, but then the train goes back to the station very slowly, and very boring.

After our group meal, there was the event called "TPR Trivia", which was just as hilarious as the trivia's we held on the bus and just as unfair. And after my group and me did the Chocolate-World tour we headed out for the two (actually three) GCI-coasters for the most insane ERT on the trip. Wildcat, although 30 ft shorter in lenght than Troy, really reminded of home. The transistion were all GCI, the only difference apart from the layout is that Troy is faster and smoother.

Lightning Racer is a totally different story. From the start of the ERT session, most of member picked their side and never left the train. If they did leave the train, they either felt sick, or wanted to ride another row. As soon as the trains dispatched, the once so loving members turned into eachothers worst enemies. If the tracks weren't ten feet apart, there would be blood. The ride at was incredible at night. Everybody was trying to slow the other train down by shouting, and altough totally ineffective, it was better than holding down your arms for better aerodynamics, as somebody suggested.

The only thing I regretted was that I didn't take any good pictures of Lightning Racer actually racing. But I comfort myself with the fact that riding a coaster is 50 times better than taking photo's of it.