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One time back during HITP 2016 I kinda uhhh got stuck at the park and couldn't get an Uber/Lyft to come pick up and take me to the Trenton train station and during my panicked and fruitless attempts with my phone dying that very outlet right there saved me, at least until I wound up begging a friend to come scoop me just before park close. RIP trusty outlet, I'll never forget you.

Oh, there's no doubt it would be extremely similar to Mystic Manor.

Just for fun I ran the numbers, and if my calculations are correct it would need to complete a full revolution a little over every 1.5 seconds to go more than 70mph! In actuality, each rotation takes about 4 seconds at full speed, for a top speed of approx 27mph. Note for my calculations I'm assuming a 50ft diameter (measured with google map's measure distance tool).

I passed by Liseberg yesterday in the beautiful sunny weather to take new photos, before the fuel prices goes up to really crazy levels due to the current situation in the world..... When I downloaded the photos from the memory cards, I realised that I didn't post the photos from the visit to the park during the Christmas season So, to keep the timeline in order, here are the photos from the Christmas season: The days before the visit, nature dumped ca 50cm of snow, so all snow in the photos are real snow :) The amount of snow on my balcony in the morning of the visit to Liseberg Delivery route of Santa I hope that I have the photos from yesterday ready for posting tomorrow.... /// Marcus

Great report. Certainly looking forward to eventually returning to BGT. Train was closed when I was there as well, so some new things to experience.

^ It's going to be really fascinating how things go, with Q back, after .... how many decades? I think The Quote went something like ..... "The trial never ends, Jean Luc."

I am curious to see Iron Gwazi's crowds and popularity once it officially opens. I went today and, despite being open for all passholders (which has to be a large portion of guests, right?), Iron Gwazi was a consistent 15-20 minute wait all day. The capacity is "acceptable" but not THAT good, I was expecting huge crowds today with it being much more widely accessible now that it was a few weeks ago, but it wasn't very crowded at all. I wanted to go one last time during previews because I assumed it would turn into a mess of people once it opens to the public but perhaps all the nerds and coaster geeks and thrillseeking families who want to ride it have already ridden it, and anybody else from here on out is just a casual guest who may just see it as another ride rather in the park and not totally flock to it. It was actually pretty genius on SeaWorld/Busch's part to do these very extended and tiered previews (yes, they delayed it 2 years... but give credit where credit is due I suppose). I'm sure it will cut opening day crowds and hype by a LOT and make it much more manageable.

Now, after watching "video rumors" here and there...... I will be "totally looking forward" to a Columbia Pavilion in EPCOT's World Showcase, with an attraction based on "Encanto: La Casita"... Could happen, yes? No? But "we won't talk about It, no, no, no...." (THIS IS ALL BASED ON CURRENT UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMORS..) A different kind of "Haunted Mansion."

It's pretty minor news, but Harry over at GreatAdventureHistory is able to confirm the Liberty Square Gazebo, a longtime park structure, is being removed this offseason with a new seating pavilion next to Johnny Rockets coming in its place. It's held a lot of shows over the years but it's honestly outlived its purpose at this point and removing it is the right call.

We went to the park again on Friday to get one last day (for us at least) of passholder previews before Iron Gwazi opens to the public next week. As my bf and I both have busy and conflicting work schedules, coupled with not being all that interested in visiting any of the parks during spring break, we likely won't make it back out to the park again until sometime in April. After fighting absolutely horrendous pre-weekend I-4 traffic, we were dreading a busy park and prepared to buy QQ just in case, but we got to the park around 3:00 PM and we got a bunch of Iron Gwazi rides with 2-4 train waits, max. Operations were super fast and consistent, and as on our first day riding it, Iron Gwazi was kicking all sorts of ass. One thing we either didn't notice before or was added since the VIP event was a small selection of pre-mixed drinks sold at the popcorn stand outside Iron Gwazi's entrance. We got the Iron Gwazi Fizz, which was some kind of gin-lemonade drink and it was really good and fairly strong. We also love that SeaWorld continues to be the only park chain to do a passholder discount on alcohol! After some of these, we headed up the left path and found SheiKra operating with riders, a surprise we didn't expect to see. The park finished maintenance work early and decided to re-open it a day early, sweet! They were only using one station but operating 3 trains, so the 10-minute or so wait moved fast. We also rode Kumba, which was running two trains with zero wait, so we rode our hearts out on what was Florida's best coaster for like 25+ years until these new gen-Zers came in with their iron alligators and velociraptor nonsense. While I'd say it's now the third-best coaster in Florida, Kumba still kicks all sorts of ass and is still a top-15 or so coaster for me. Ride it in the back on an edge seat for positive-G bliss. We saw Montu cycling and got excited for a second, but it was to cycle past park close with no riders. It wasn't scheduled to re-open until Saturday anyway, so oh well, but we definitely miss our only B&M invert in Florida. We went back and got some more rides on Iron Gwazi, with a line that at first was 30ish minutes, then died completely out again. Overall we were in the park for about 5ish hours and got to do everything we wanted to do. Operations were good and we're happy that the park continues to improve. The fact that we've now been able to get something like 20 rides on a brand new RMC so easily in just 2 visits is so, so awesome. To compare, I think I've been on Steel Vengeance like 15ish times total and we've gone every year with multi-day stays onsite with Fast Lane. This isn't a knock to Cedar Point, as we also take kind of a "chill" approach to parks we go to and don't get there at the crack of dawn nor run around like maniacs to ride every coaster during every possible moment until we're blue in the face, but it shows how easily accessible Iron Gwazi has been during just two visits during passholder previews. I already can't wait to get back to the park when it's off-peak again.

Want to take a ride on all the roller coasters at Hersheypark? Right NOW and all at once? Now you can!

^Very cool about the magnets! I didn't know that. This looks like a wonderful addition to the park. Screamin' Swings are fantastic flat rides (and high capacity) and I firmly believe they are an excellent addition to any park.

I see we have a member of the Department of Redundancy Department here.

Park President Jeffrey Siebert just tweeted out the following Friday night gift. all I can say is holy crap does this look good.

From what I'm reading it's mostly elderly and care home people getting sick because for some reason they didn't vaccinate them!!?? This is a disaster for not just the park but HK in general. Multinational companies don't want to do business there anymore cause it's such a strict mess!

Still early but the parks could be closed past April. Although total case numbers seem small by other countries standards, Hong Kong has to follow China's policy of '0 Corona' rather than 'Living with Corona' as well as Hong Kong seeing their corona death rate rocket past the average of any other country in this pandemic.