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Tuesday it was overcast and cool so we welt to the old Oktoberfest section: they started the display in 2010 for the 200th anniversary of oktoberfest and it was popular so they kept doing it. They had this fun spinny one it had a brass band in the booth later on Would you eat at the badass imbiß? Some nice tractors a nice pipe organ And organ grinders with animatronic monkeys. and who would turn down the chance for a fahrt ins paradise (12 year old boy humour still going) it was really cool, it had this steering wheel that the operator turned to change the speed he also had a saxaphone and would pick it up and play some of the songs . He did moon river for us. surprise: side view you can really see how they crammed all of that track in there. Spoiler alert: big fanboy! as it turned out we were lucky that tuesday was family day and they only charged 9.5 euro rather than 14 for olympia looping helped me get to 11 rides so far. Aiming for 20… most of the other rides had discounts as well so it only made sense to ride the double wild maus. So good. ttoday we took the train to ringsheim via freiburg. It was a bit rainy but we walked around the old town. it turns out we could have taken the regional train down from mannheim rather than up from freiburg but i was happy to visit again. We are staying at the holiday inn ringsheim it is near the train station (more like whistle stop) and they have Rothaus pils, a local black forrest beer i love. i was able to visit the brewery with my friends the week earlier. They name their logo Birgitte which is a play on words for beer getter Was able to do a little hotel sink laundry as we prepare to visit europa park tomorrow.

While I am excited and I am trembling, the latter is because I have a cold. Depending on how this looks and when it'll actually open, I'm looking at taking a 12 hour detour into Arlington next year at the start of my main coaster trip.

Hopefully the entertainment enhancement includes a major revamp of Fright Fest. How many years are they going to just do the exact same things over and over?

Only one more day of cold showers for you.

Did the Moose out front tell you?

The latest demise at Great Adventure: Jersey Devil's dispatch times! Anyone who's been to the park this year knows they never run more than two trains on it anymore, which really wasn't going too badly with how dead the park was. But according to Eltororyan's new video, just in time for Frightfest the 2nd train now has to park outside the station until the first train is all the way out onto the lift! Due to the ride time, that means every train sent out now has to sit on the brakes for a good 30 seconds. The minimum dispatch time is 2 mins 15 seconds, rendering a throughout of just over 300 people per hour. The ops on this thing used to be a work of art when it opened and it ran 4 trains. Most days 2 trains were fine and 3 was good enough on busy days. But with this change, forget it. I really have never seen a park doing more bad for itself than this place has since Cedar Fair's management took charge 14 months ago. Not sure if it's an IROC thing, a New Jersey regulation thing, or just an excuse to make the lines longer and sell more Flashpass. Also if you're going to Frightfest, keep in mind Nitro has been down for almost a month and is potentially down for the rest of the season due to a lift motor issue. Wonder Woman has been down for almost two months. And Flash has been up and down a lot also.