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William's Grove Amusement Park & Speedway
Mechanicsburg, PA
Official Website: http://www.williamsgrovepark.com/
July 4th
Weekend, 2004, PA Area Trip!
Wildwood Piers Knoebel's
Dorney Park
Dutch Wonderland
William's Grove
Hersheypark
Next up was the parks gem! The 'holy grail' of all wooden
coasters!
"The William's Grove Cyclone!"
There have been many stories and urban legends that describe the
Cyclone..."Rough woodie, but fun", "Can't believe it's still
standing",
"It's the 'funniest' coaster I've ever been on", "I heard a truck
once plowed through the center of it...", etc, etc.
This sign, however, is the truth! "Safe, but rough!"
Mark and Max look a little more than just 'concerned!"
As the train heads up the lift, you can tell that the track isn't quite aligned
right, and the whole lift sways to one side!
Down the first drop! It's actually quite enjoyable! It sort of
bounces along the track, and I think the track might even bounce with it!
At the bottom of the first drop, there isn't much room for the train to level
out and you hear the entire ride creak and snap!
This part of the ride is kind of funky. It's not really 'drops' as much as
it is 'steps'. The train pretty much bounces down the steps!
The ride has a 'cute little' train. Just two cars, but that's all it needs
to scare the hell out of you!
The track looks like it hasn't been painted in years! You can see the
steel part of it fade in and out of the wood.
The flat section at the bottom of this hill is really 'funny' because it goes on
for a while!
Mark and Max are hanging on for dear life!!!
They finally smoothed out this 'abrupt hill'. You can see in THIS
PICTURE that it used it be a lot more severe!
"You!!!! You!!!! I'm gonna kill you for making me ride this
damn thing!!!!"
Ahh, the fun house! With those cure little German dudes on top, who can
resist? Nothing bad can happen in here, right? RIGHT?
We're not even inside when the fun starts!
We found this "BLAST of air" that made Elissa do her "Vladimir
from Blackpool" impression!
Then she wanted to do her "Michael Jackson" impression....
...then John was all "oooh! oooh! Move! I wanna do my
Michael Jackson impression too!!!!"
We went tumbling around in the barrel and nearly lost the Catholic!
On a side note,
this park is really funky! You HAVE to come visit this place! We
made fun of it, yeah, but you just HAVE to! It's so odd
and quirky! Unlike any other park I've been to! It reminds me of
wandering through an abandoned park that just happens to still be open!
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