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Anyone in the vicinity of Munich should book the train to Innsbruck, Austria for an overnight. The trip is beautiful, and Innsbruck is an amazing town.

Storm Runner is a better ride than Ka or Dragster anyway. At least more interesting, in my opinion.

Those animatronics look pretty amazing! Didn't it look like Frankenstein's Monster was "walking" at one point? Also, and I may be completely wrong, it seems like the Monsters land is really focused around the castle as the "HQ" for the baddies. Dracula seems to have his own restaurant, the Stakehouse, run by vampires (familiars?) Maybe something similar with Curse of the Werewolf -- it's related to the Unchained storyline perhaps? Anyway, this is by far the portal I want to explore the most.

Is this the first Vekoma at Cedar Point??? (checks rcdb...) First major Vekoma!!! Similarly excited for this and did not see it coming. They played the ol' switcheroo with closing Snake River Falls. Aquatrax for 2028

Knoebel's Trip August 31st Just a quick couple of notes from our third-ever Knoebel's trip this weekend: 1) Park was quite busy but the lines move so fast! It's amazing what can be accomplished with a properly staffed park. Flying Turns was our longest wait (only because we rope dropped it) and it was only 25 minutes. To keep thing moving they have you put your loose items on the yellow lines on most coasters instead of having to maneuver through the seats to the storage bins and back to your seat. V. efficient! 2) Twister in a very light misty rain is awesome! At least better than Phoenix in a pelting rain. Both are better than most other coasters on a good weather day. 3) First trip where we focused on food and omfg -- why did we not realize how good it is??? Pierogies, roast beef, frozen iced tea, breakfast sandwiches -- all "home-made" and not a damn healthy thing in sight. Winning! 4) Rock-o-plane looks tantalizingly close to being completed, but not Bayern Kurve. A few pictures: My daughter and friend demonstrating what the front car feels like on Phoenix Going in the "campground corner" of the park by Phoenix and Gasoline Alley Fancy hand drawn blue circle showing Bayern Kurve's developing home Bayern Kurve as of Saturday the 31st. Handsome fellow, but not close to done. Looks like it is just sitting on the concrete as well, but I am no construction expert.

Great artwork! Excellent use of b/w vs color

I know there was a town planning meeting scheduled -- is this site confirmed for new stuff? Anyone know? I've been sincerely hoping for them to do something along the trees running from the former Kontiki through the former Fireball and using the former(?) Thomas the Tank Engine track and "land." That's a ton of linear space.

Don't forget the Kissing Tower and the sea lion show is still going. Either is better than the "skyride to nowhere"

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?

We visited for the first time last year and decided it was the same experience at both Busch Gardens parks -- almost all good experiences with employees, with the exception of the Pantheon crew (and we also were there two days) and in Tampa the Cheetah Hunt crew (about 3 years ago). It was very ride-specific in our experience.

Love the cameras (I think they are, anyway) mounted in the front of the vehicles for the car ride -- neat idea

I'd love to see a long trip report from someone with a fresh perspective -- Cedar Point does have some hidden corners and gems to explore. The Frontier Trail was always nice and is still a bit of a respite from the madness; I've never been in their waterpark and have been going to CP since 1975; the beach is nice with rentals if you're into that ... take pix of anything that catches your eye! We're all enthusiasts here

Well kudos to Daniel Radcliffe for his first nomination. And Leslie Kritzer was AMAZING in Spamalot!

Time to upgrade the "locker experience" like Wildcat's Revenge, TRON, Velocicoaster ... completely possible and better for everybody to include the dual-sided free lockers into the queue without slowing everything down or forcing us to pay for yet another "add-on."

...but what about girth? Mountain coasters don't "count" to me because you as a rider are in partial control of your speed.

We tried a smattering of mountain coasters and our favorite (family of 5) was the Rocky Top coaster just outside Dollywood on route 449. We loved Goats on the Roof as a tourist trap, but not the coaster - it was very short. Rocky Top is quite lengthy and "themed."

I'll play along: "What nonsense are you speaking broom my words you must obey" I love your pictures and actually read your captions

If they use British IP's we definitely need to see 1) A Monty Python dark ride featuring Terry Gilliam's animations and 2) a launched coaster themed to the Benny Hill chase scenes

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Quick note to add: we went last night and had almost the exact same experience (almost all good, couple of sluggish ride attendants). Only want to add we sampled quite a bit of the Oktoberfest beer and food, and I have to add it was *actually* good! Not just *Six Flags* good! In fact, the pretzel was the least favorite item we had. Especially the bratwurst-on-a-skewer -- delicious. My wife and I were completely shocked.

Took my teen daughter to our local family entertainment center, Sonny's Place (Somers, CT). I was surprised that their carousel has some historical info setup in the corner courtesy of the New England Carousel Museum. Equally surprised that they are keeping up with maintaining this 1925 beauty! It has zero missing lights (it is indoors, of course), the paint is nearly all perfect with the exception of the bench which is in the process of being repaired, and it has a working (but electrically powered) Wurlitzer!! No piped in music here! Enjoy the pics. I was inspired by Bert riding carousels around the world. ^ The museum itself is near Lake Compounce. Sonny's Place is on the road from my house to SFNE. ^Cool little display of the actual scroll for the band organ. ^Anatomy of a pole dancer ^Nice little corner display. Can't believe no one messes with it! ^Carousel sits in a very nice specially constructed pavilion. ^Horsies ^A holdover control lever from yore ^Music

Can you let us know the status of Bayern Kurve? I'm absurdly excited about this ride.

A few years ago we were lucky enough to go to Phantasialand -- highly recommended! Just a really fun, well-done park (Europa Park is on my bucket list). Also, I'm a fan of trains. I would suggest using seat61.com (it's a travel site for European train travel, hope that's okay on these forums) to see if trains would work. They are usually very convenient and inexpensive; even better, often an adventure in and of themselves.

Wow -- brings back such great memories! Great work!

Got to experience Luna Park at Coney Island on opening day with the family (on our way to Sweeney Todd -- Broadway perfection). Two of us had been before and the other three hate NYC, so I had low expectations. I'm very glad to say we had a great day and the "other three" in the family really enjoyed the whole Coney Island area. [Quick note: from Connecticut/northeast, there is no good way to get there. We ended up driving in and I'm happy to say there is a lot of parking around Coney Island. The subway from the Times Square area to Coney is about an hour each way.] I did not get many pictures because I'm not a "trip reporter," though I avidly read them all. The new entrance plazas towards Tony's Express/Leti's Treasure are still under construction. Clockworkz and Zenobio were dismantled for maintenance (I would assume). Crowds were non-existent probably due to weather. We paid $65 for our 4-hour wristbands a couple days ahead online. At the gate they were selling for $75. I didn't look at individual rides/tickets. Cyclone is nearly 100 years old! On our way to the new area, we passed the mermaid painting ... ... who is wearing a Fremeni stillsuit? (nerd joke) So Tony's Express and Leti's Treasure share a large station structure. We saw maybe two people ride the flume -- we did not, because it was barely 50 degrees. The boats were coming back very wet ... We did ride Tony's Express twice, and I'd say it's a great kiddie/family coaster with a really nice helix finale over the flume: I got permission to walk to the front of the station (and I have to say, overall the employees at Luna Park, at least today, were really friendly!) The Leti's boats are also nicely done: As you exit Tony's you walk right by the double down drop on Leti's Oh, and we rode Thunderbolt once, it was having periodic maintenance issues during the day. No pictures, but 1) it doesn't suck as bad as I'd heard, and 2) the splash from the final drop on Leti's actually reaches into the station for the Thunderbolt. And one more thing: Soarin' Eagle was enjoyable! Rode it once before, hated it. Twice on this trip and actually thought it was fun. No idea why. Final picture is my wife enjoying the launch on Steeplechase (posted because I love the coaster cars and to show the launch is actually a bit more than expected!)