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  1. My water park wish is for the water slide complex that Worlds of Fun got in 2013 and Dorney is getting for 2014. The water park has such long lines during the summer especially on the big slides like Funnel of Fear. One of these would really help considering there's 6 new slides total. Right now there's a spot that has 3 slides that separate into different places. It's very confusing if you don't know which ones go where and I've seen people get separated from their group unknowingly. Not to mention the current slides aren't very thrilling at all.

     

    I like this water park idea. The water park is very crowded in the summertime and it will definitely help with the capacity issues. I rode those slides on the confusing slide complex last summer. No one really knew what slides that they could ride as only certain colored tubes could go on certain slides. Lines were terrible!

     

    Some other items on my Michigan's Adventure wish list:

     

    - Connect the Shivering Timbers area to the Thunderhawk area with a pathway in addition to the train.

     

    - More off-season maintenance for the wooden coasters. They seemed a little bumpier than usual during the 2013 season.

     

    - Run 2 trains on Wolverine Wildcat! The line moves at a snail's pace for a subpar coaster.

     

    - Buy the new Vekoma trains for Thunderhawk. The current OTSRs really dig into my shoulders and the head banging is just icing on the punishment cake.

     

    - Some sort of thrilling flat ride.

  2. This announcement is just incredible! Besides the coaster, drop tower, and go-carts, does there appear to be anymore rides?

     

    "vertical accelerator" seems an odd name for marketing, why not just call it Europe's tallest and fastest roller coaster? the drop tower looks interesting but I wonder if it may be an observation tower as the park already has hurakan condor so doest really need another drop tower.

     

    Either way it looks great and if I'm still in Europe in 2016 will definitely make a fun visit.

     

    Making the drop tower to be just an observation tower seems like a giant waste of potential. I would guess that the people who would like an observation tower, would probably be intimidated with the OTSRs and dangling legs.

  3. If I were to change the itinerary, it would look like this:

     

    Day 1 - Drive to BGW From KI (KI is like my 2nd home park, just doing ERT)

    Day 2 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg (2nd Visit)

    Day 3 - Kings Dominion

    Day 4 - Six Flags America & Hershey Preview

    Day 5 - Hersheypark

    Day 6 - Dorney until bored, drive to Knoebels

    Day 7 - Great Adventure

    Day 8 - Six Flags New England

    Day 9 - Quassy and Lake Compounce

    Day 10 - Drive home, hit Waldameer for a few laps on Ravine Flyer II (2nd Visit to Waldameer)

     

    You might want to think about flip-flopping Dorney and Knoebels. You'll save yourself about 1.5 hours of drive time.

  4. Hersheypark: Didn't work out with all the other parks -> Is there a significant reason to choose this park over some of the others?

     

    While I haven't visited Hersheypark since 2007, they have added a 3 good to great Intamin coasters in the past 10 years, in addition to a solid B&M invert, a very fun racing-dueling GCI, a zoo, a waterpark, and the chocolate world. They have a preview plan when you purchase a regular full-day admission ticket, and you get 2.5 hours of free early entry for the prior evening. There's just a lot of things to do at the park.

  5. I am going to CP for the first time this summer for two days. I am getting fast lane plus both days. Will i have any problems like the ones above?

     

    What days do you plan to visit? Weekends or weekdays? June isn't generally too bad. Being a seasonal amusement park, July and early August are the busiest times of the year. July weekends the heaviest days of the year, except for October Holloweekend Saturdays. Since the 4th of July is on a Friday this year, that weekend is going to be a complete zoo. The absolute best time to visit is the weekend after Labor Day Weekend. Lines can be very short. I try to go every year on that weekend.

  6. Instead of spending the money for an Intamin 10 Inversion coaster, I wonder why the park didn't decide to build a Mega-Lite? My first guess would be marketing purposes, but after a few seasons I'd rather have an airtime machine than four consecutive inline rolls.

     

    Note: I am assuming that the cost difference between the two models is negligible based on their sizes and heights being similar. If the prices are farther apart, then I can understand the thought process.

  7. When I posted the article, I didn't read the comments section, and people really seem to have no idea that these killer whales have zero chance of survival in wild. It's really sad to know that there are so many uninformed people in this country.

     

    Also, I can't see this type of legislature being created in Texas or Florida, due mainly to the fact that they are much less crazy than California!

  8. Blackfish strikes again:

     

    SeaWorld’s Worst Nightmare: Calif. Lawmaker to Propose Ban on Orcas in Captivity

     

    If passed, the bill would be the most comprehensive protection law for captive orcas in the United States in over 40 years.

     

    In a surprising move that is sure to send shock waves across the entire captive whale and dolphin industry, a California lawmaker will propose legislation to outlaw Shamu shows at SeaWorld San Diego.

     

    State Assembly member Richard Bloom, D–Santa Monica, will introduce Friday the Orca Welfare and Safety Act, which would make it illegal to “hold in captivity, or use, a wild-caught or captive-bred orca for performance or entertainment purposes.” The bill would also ban artificial insemination of captive killer whales in California and block the import of orcas or orca semen from other states.

     

    Violators would face a fine up to $100,000 and/or six months in a county jail.

     

    “There is no justification for the continued captive display of orcas for entertainment purposes,” Bloom declared in a written statement prior to a press conference to be held at the Santa Monica Pier. “These beautiful creatures are much too large and far too intelligent to be confined in small, concrete pens for their entire lives. It is time to end the practice of keeping orcas captive for human amusement.”

     

    According to Bloom, the law would be “the most comprehensive protection law for captive orcas in the United States in over 40 years.”

     

    Under the terms of the bill, all 10 orcas held in tanks at SeaWorld San Diego, the only California facility that has whales, “shall be rehabilitated and returned to the wild where possible.” If that is not possible, then the whales must be “transferred and held in a sea pen that is open to the public and not used for performance or entertainment purposes.”

     

    Exempt from the legislation are any orcas held for rehabilitation after a rescue or stranding, or for research purposes. But even these animals would have to be returned to the ocean or sent to a sea pen.

     

    It is not the first time state lawmakers have tried to outlaw the captivity of killer whales, the world’s largest dolphin. South Carolina passed a bill in 1992 against captivity for dolphins and porpoises following efforts by the South Carolina Humane Society to stop a proposed dolphin park in Myrtle Beach. Just last month, New York state Sen. Greg Ball, R-Carmel, introduced a bill to ban orca captivity in that state.

     

    Of course, there are no captive orcas in South Carolina or New York, making the California bill far more than a symbolic gesture.

     

    At least five countries—India, Croatia, Hungary, Chile, and Costa Rica—have also outlawed all cetacean captivity, while Switzerland has banned captivity for dolphins.

     

    Dr. Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute, said the bill was inspired by the orcas-in-captivity documentary Blackfish.

     

    “The Blackfish effect has never been in greater evidence—everything has led to this, the first serious legislative proposal to prohibit the captive display of this highly intelligent and social species,” Rose wrote in an email. “SeaWorld should join with this effort rather than continue to fight it. They can be on the right side of history.”

     

    Assembly member Bloom reached out to Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the director of Blackfish, for help with the bill, who in turn consulted with Rose.

     

    “We did not initiate this proposal,” Rose wrote. “But once they reached out to us, we dove in wholeheartedly and assisted in every way we could—helping with the bill language, information, and fact-gathering, and getting support from various sectors of the public, including the scientific community.”

     

    Rose also gave credit to former SeaWorld trainers featured in the documentary for supporting the legislation. Rose, Cowperthwaite, and former SeaWorld trainers Carol Ray and John Hargrove were scheduled to appear with Bloom at the Friday press conference.

     

    Should the bill become law, SeaWorld might want to look at other highly successful aquariums that do not keep cetaceans in swimming pools. The Monterey Aquarium in northern California, for example, is routinely packed with visitors, without a single whale or dolphin in sight.

     

    In South Carolina, where orcas will likely never entertain people, staffers at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston routinely direct visitors to local waterways if they want to see dolphins.

     

    The Charleston Post and Courier reported in 2010 that when tourists ask to see the dolphins at the aquarium, the facility’s CEO, Kevin Mills, “smiles and answers, ‘Just walk out on our observation deck and you're bound to see them, swimming freely in the harbor.’ ”

     

    www.takepart.com/article/2014/03/06/seaworlds-worst-nightmare-calif-lawmaker-propose-ban-orcas-captivity

  9. Thinking of CP with some friends this May.

    I've been there during May before and the crowds were pretty low, and that was on a weekend.

     

    We're thinking of doing it on a weekday. I imagine a weekday in May would be pretty dead, but just looking for verification.

    Also when may be better? The week after the 10th, or the 17th? I can't imagine it would matter on a weekday, but the 10th is opening weekend.

     

    Thanks yall!

     

    Actually, a weekday in May can be surprisingly busy. A good number of schools in northern Ohio (probably southeastern Michigan as well) have class trips to Cedar Point on May weekdays. So you could literally have a dead day anywhere to moderately busy day depending on the number of schools attending the park on the day you choose. Lines probably will be manageable, but don't expect walk-ons for all the big coasters.

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