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By ZeldaACFan17 · Posted
I like the traditional carousel as well, but the musical instrument carousel is just too fun and unique to miss out on... I can't resist it! -
Regarding the Carousel, KY Kingdom has asked for local schools to paint murals for the carousel, So I guess it's finally getting spruced up. -
Planning a trip next year. Hope they have the Bayren Kurve up and running. Does anyone have a picture of it in it's current status?
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Great day as always at Knoebels! Moderate crowds and thankfully the humidity that was plaguing the northeast the past few days was replaced by a refreshing breeze for most of the day. Twister was running immaculately today. Last time I was here it was getting a little rough but they've obviously done some great work to it in the past few years. Ejector pops in front, great laterals throughout, and it was hauling through that double helix with no shuffling. Phoenix fun as always, although I think I actually preferred Twister today with it running in perfect condition. I wish they would run two trains on these to really make them lapable, that's the one thing that they never seem to do that would really make the day even more awesome. Don't always make it on Flying Turns or Impulse, but got great rides on both today with not so bad wait times. Flyers, Stratosfear, Bumper Cars, etc phenomenal as always. Unfortunately never made it on the Carousel. Also the Flume was closed all day which was a bummer. Kosmotron seemed to be running slower than ever. Kind of a lame excuse for a Music Express type ride. Also rode Rotojet which I ended up in a broken jet that would not raise more than 1/4 way and caused a rather uncomfortable ride. Bayern Curve, Power Surge, and Paratrooper seem to be on a Six Flags maintenance schedule. I don't think any of them are actually going to open this year. Psyched for whenever they do get Bayern Curve up and running. Pierogies and Pizza delicious as always! Off to Dorney tomorrow. Iron Menace will be cool. Talon and Steel Force will be fun. But the real star of the show is Demon Drop. Riding a Larson Tower and an Intamin 1st Gen on back to back days makes me want to move to NE PA! Finally, going back a page we were having a discussion on Sheetz vs Wawa. Turns out there's another option in central PA as well called Rutters. You guys have it f*cking made with good gas station eats around here. I don't want to go home to my shitty Cumberland Farms. -
^ To myself, IMhO, it looks like Option #2 could be your best bet, for fulfilling your son's Disney needs, etc. You don't have to reserve a lot of stuff, so it's a bit easier for yourself. And helps you enjoy this visit, even more. -
So I guess it's not necessarily that the airtime is any less, it's more that the new restraints obviously contact your lap/waist area a lot more instead of your thighs and allow for less upper body movement. The old restraints were so unconventional that they kind of added to the intensity because your torso was able to get thrown around a lot more by the forces of the ride.
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By abovethesink · Posted
I still don't understand how the restraints clamping down less tightly impacted the intensity of the ride. Did I misunderstand something? Are they all new trains versus redone restraints? I guess I will experience it on the 3rd myself and understand at least. Anyway, this trip has been planned for a while for my kid's birthday, but now my wife is pregnant with our fourth and won't be able to ride. What do non-coaster riders do at Hershey? I don't remember there being any shows and we have to stay the the park proper with the two 14 year olds (son is bringing a friend). I mean they can separate from us for periods of time, but we aren't leaving them in the park without us, so Chocolate World isn't a great solution. Is my wife now condemned to a day of train and sky rides? A small price to pay for our last kid, I guess, but I will feel a twinge a guilt when I test out the new restraints and get to ride Wildcat's Revenge while she sits at the exits! At least she will get lots of candy and desserts if she wants. -
It used to have intentions on sending you to Pluto. Saturn is still pretty far though 😉
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By abovethesink · Posted
Road Trip Day 5, Part 1 - Sesame Place (PA) If you want to catch up, Day 1 was King's Dominion, Day 2 Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Day 3 was Six Flags America, and Day 4 was Morey's Piers. Reports are in their respective threads. The trip was myself and my oldest son, soon to be 14. This will be a shorter one! We took the hour drive over from where we stayed about halfway between Sesame Place and Morey's Piers, our previous day visit, and parked for an expensive pair of credits, It was an interesting stop. Vapor Trail -- The kids around us seemed to be loving this Vekoma Junior coaster. We did not, nor did we expect to, but such credit seekers the two of us are these days. We waited in one of the longer lines of our entire trip for this custom model. It looks impressive for a family coaster from the queue at least. With the one train operations, that is good because you are in the queue for a while. When we got very close to the station, the one larger family group in front of us abruptly decided not to board the train because they were a seat or two short of all of them being able to get on it. Understandable! At least it was understandable until they made it clear they weren't going to let anyone by, that they intended this train in this already super slow queue to go out with like four people on it and the rest empty. Then, when the ride ops told them to fill in, they argued pretty passionately against doing so. When she then said to let people by, they dramatically threw their hands up and filled in the spots, deciding to split up their group after all. Very strange thing to watch. Anyway, this coaster will do nothing for anyone who comes to a place like TPR, but it isn't supposed to. It is a bunch of mild helixes and nothing else. Moving on! Oscar's Whacky Taxi -- Having ridden Wooden Warrior, Kentucky Flyer, and The Bobcat, we were very excited for this one! Our entrance into the queue was again unexpectedly strange though. A man and three teenagers entered right behind us and were just screaming obscenities. I have no problem with this in other contexts. Well, maybe with the volume, but not the content. I swear a lot and don't censor myself much at all in front of my kids either. But in line at a kids, Sesame Street themed park? Okay then. When we got to the front of the queue, which was very quick this time, somehow the same thing that happened on Vapor Trail happened again with an entirely different group! They needed close to every seat on the train to fit their group and decided that this train should run empty except for the three or four people on it. Why is everyone's instinct here not to let people pass if you're waiting for the next train? At least this group let people by when the ride op asked them to. Just weird. Unlike with our other credit of the visit, I can happily report that the coaster is great! I think this is my second favorite of the four now just behind Wooden Warrior and just ahead of The Bobcat, but really the top three are interchangeable and even Kentucky Flyer isn't that much worse. Oscar's Whacky Taxi had excellent airtime and we had ended up in the middle of the train due to bad timing luck. We circled back around for a back row ride and got even more. Excellent ride. So, needless to say, our brief Sesame Place experience was a little weird. Maybe this is normal and I didn't know to expect it. But if you had told me I would find one park full of obnoxious park goers on my list before I left for the trip, I wouldn't have guessed Elmo and Big Bird Land. Regardless, we were there less than 90 minutes car to car and it was still worth it for the Gravity Group. Well, worth the time, probably not the money, but fellow credit chasers will know that pain all too well. Both coasters were up front, so we saw next to nothing and can't comment much beyond that. My son, an extremely biased Dallas Cowboys fan (I failed as a parent -- 49ers fan here), attributed the weird crowd to being close to Philly as he passionately hates the Eagles. Other than that, the only thing I can think to add is that it strikes me as kind of weird to not have a true kiddy coaster in a place like this. Vapor Trail is tame enough for smaller kids for sure, but it is kind of big and likely intimidating looking from the outside. At least we were saved from debating whether or not awkwardly wait in a long line for the kiddy credit, I guess! We were off to Dorney next, an hour away. -
We're thinking of hitting HKDL for our son's first-ever Disney. He loves Nintendo and Minions so we'd originally budgeted for USJ and then were going to head down to TDL but with DK coaster delayed and vacation looking like around Halloween, we think the crowds and lines and having to arrive so early would just be overwhelming for him. It's not a big deal because being in Korea, Japan is a very short flight, so we can wait until opening excitement/standby passes wear off and do 2 separate long weekends in the future instead of a main vacation. However, his biggest thing is he is really into getting photos with characters (see my Legoland TR's) and he goes to the soccer stadium every home game to collect signatures. He's found out that Disney does both those things in one and really wants that so that's what we are planning the trip around. Rides aren't an issue, HKDL lines rarely go over 30-45 minutes and even if they do almost every ride in the park now offers purchasable one-time skip-the-lines (even the ones not in the bundles). Nothing is ever perfect and if we aim for that we will fail but we want to treat the first time as special so we just asked what would be his target for the trip. Being an 8-year-old boy he's not so interested in the permanent meets (sorry Duffy friends) but is after superheroes specifically Spider-Man. We know Iron-Man is permanent but heard he doesn't sign autographs so I think that is why he's aiming for Spider-Man. So not sure if this is a HKDL question or a question for all Disney apps? How accurate are they when it comes to character greets? It's our first post-COVID trip so not sure how the entertainment looks these days. As an example. This was the app on different days for Chip and Dale. We kind of assumed the no-times meant they wouldn't appear that day. But other characters told you no showtimes/closed. My wife and I have done multiple HKDL and find the park is super-strict due to heat with these times and characters leave exactly on finishing time. So if this was accurate and there is only one single showing maybe only 10-20 families would meet Pocahontas on that day, from our previous trips quite often in HKDL if you see a character already at the photo zone chances are you missed your opportunity and the experience is closed. I have money set away from almost a decade ago when the weather caused me to miss out on the Macau Bungee Jump. Maybe I'm just old or really became a family man but now that time has come but having done much cheaper jumps in Asia, I can't just the price-tag for a 5-minute experience just to show off I did the biggest one when it can go into a nicer vacation (e.g. instead of Hong Kong's busy water park we are thinking Macau's new one has a better line up/queue times) and invest it into Disney. We are looking into two options so just hoping I can get some advice... Option 1: Treat the kid to a stay at the Disney hotel. There's a package deal that is 2 nights at hotel, plus park entry, some meal vouchers and photo pass plus along with 2 days breakfast and character dining, and a fast pass for the Frozen rides. That way he'd get some guaranteed meets for him at breakfast but we heard the characters don't sign because of time constraints and the photos taken there are considered a separate photo pass plus from the one given in the bundle. We'd also be locked into those dates on visiting the park at the start (weekend in park) or end of the vacation (Thur-Fri in park) regardless of who is showing on app or weather. Option 2: Buy a 2-day pass and use the hotel money for perks such as early entry or more premier access tickets. Early entry would get us into the park an hour early before hotel guests for Frozen Land and Fantasy Land but it would also mean a more flexible ticket in that we can use the 2nd day anytime in the week. HKDL isn't a park you need to rope-drop so we could check times for characters and see who is appearing before going out. We've been checking to try to get a feel of how often superheroes come out. Some days the app gave only one viewing. We haven't seen a Spider-Man time yet. Our son also showed interest in Ant-Man, probably because the ride is also in the park, but in the 2 weeks my wife has looked we only ever saw one day where they appeared. Sorry this post wasn't supposed to get so lengthy. We just feel that the way our son will have the best day is if we can set his expectations beforehand. -
By BobloLives · Posted
Heading to the Morey's area for the first time in a couple weeks. Great report on the coasters above; any suggestions about great/awful/so-awful-they're-great tourist attractions in the area? -
By coasternut · Posted
I do love Hershey Park. I'm also disappointed that they installed a camera on Comet. More importantly, there are new trim brakes to slow down for the picture. This ruins the entire pacing of the ride after that! I've ridden it the past 2 days and it's definitely ruined the ride. That's so sad... -
By CaptainUnknown · Posted
Those who are complaining for the most part is that it is no longer "Thigh Crush," or that that feeling has lessened somewhat. It's still a kick-ass Intamin with intentions on sending you to Saturn at light speed, so I don't know what people's problems are. -
By abovethesink · Posted
We are heading down there in about two weeks so I will see for myself, but can someone clarify how the restraints have impacted the ride on SkyRush negatively? It isn't what I expected to read. -
By prozach626 · Posted
I vote Busch Gardens Williamsburg or Hershey Park. Both are two day parks. Lines are usually more manageable at BGW during the week, especially when it's hot. We just stayed at Kings Mill Resort close to BGW. It's a beautiful higher end resort, which is surprisingly way cheaper than Hershey Lodge for what you get. We got a waterfront king room. You can do some local history when you're in the area. BGW is a beautiful park, and is one of our favorites. It feels much more well put together to us than BGT. You could also do a day at Knoebels and a couple days at Hershey.
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