Canobie Coaster

Also if you are a seafood fan, they have a fried seafood stand near the Boston Tea Party that is usually pretty good and it's something you don't see too often at a park.

I got 63, but it was a really questionable list. I really want to know how some of these rides made the list. And then there was the "Bizzaro" gem. Spells the ride's name wrong and includes a picture of the wrong coaster.

Wile E. Coyote's Grand Canyon Blaster at Six Flags Over Texas

We were between that show and Heartsong in my most recent visit. The employee recommended the Bubble Show since it had lasers and we seemed like guys who'd appreciate that. I am so glad she recommended it since it blew all expectations away. I was expecting a kid friendly little show, not a bubble artist with laser bubble FX (yes that's a thing and it's awesome).

Hey now. Not that I disagree with you because "Fire on High" is amazing, especially with the projections, but when I hit both parks a few months back, I got Darude's "Sandstorm" on both the Funtown thunderbolt and the Canobie scrambler in the same day. Epic both times. (If you're into that sort of thing, anyway.) Sandstorm would be perfect for an indoor scrambler or himalaya. I think the last time I rode Great Escape's Blizzard I got Britney Spears. That was, well How dare you! Britney Spears is my Queen! Given the chance, I would go box frenzy on that for days! Guy "You cut me deep with your hatred." Koepp To each their own. She isn't someone who will get me fired up for a ride.

Will you be there all day? If so, the lines for the Corkscrew, Log Flume, and Mine of Lost Souls will be less than 5 minutes. Midday, the Corkscrew could have a 15-20 minute wait if the queue is at the bottom of the ramp, the Flume is a 30 minute wait with a full queue, and Mine of Lost Souls can approach an hour if it has a full queue. If the weather is cooler, they will close the flume's line early; however, on a day like that it probably wouldn't have much of a wait anyway. The Yankee Cannonball will have a full queue pretty much all day. If the queue is filled, it takes about 30-35 minutes. I recommend riding it at night, but be careful since they will close the line early. They typically close it a half hour before closing, so I recommend getting there by at least 9:15 to ensure you can get in line. The best seat by far is the very back (huge difference between this seat and even 2nd to back). Unfortunately, the park doesn't let you wait for seats. They don't assign seats. They count of 18 riders and then you enter into the station taking whatever seat is open. If you want to make the wait more pleasant, you can time it so you wait while a show is going on at the Midway Stage, since you have a great view of it while in line. Untamed typically has no more than a 20 minute wait. If you want to get on faster, there's a single rider line if you walk to the other side of the station. Usually I can get on within 2-4 trains with the single rider line. Psycho Drome is another one that will have a pretty consistent wait all day. Like the Yankee Cannonball, they will close this line early so do not wait until the end. If it's a full queue, it can take a half hour since this is a pretty slow loader. I'd recommend hitting this one towards the beginning of the day if you want to avoid a wait. Caterpillar and Turkish Twist will never be more than a 1 cycle wait. The latter is the best flat in the park so definitely ride it. Every other rotor or gravitron that I've been on runs considerably slower than this one. Star Blaster's line is a crapshoot. I've seen it as short as 5-15 minutes midday, but other days it can exceed 30 minutes. 3 out of 4 times, this line will die down at the end of the night, but there are some nights where it will still be pulling a 20-30 minute wait at this time. As for what to do first, I'd recommend trying to get on Yankee Cannonball (reride if the queue is short, since it will quickly get a full queue), Star Blaster, and Psycho Drome in that order. I haven't been to the park for opening in quite some time, but they used to stagger the openings of some attractions so keep that in mind. For food, my personal favorite is the Dancing Bear Cantina. You'd think that would be near Untamed since the whole area is themed to bears, but it's actually on the complete opposite side of the park across from the Tall Timber Splash water slide.

Adult Night at the Boston's Children's Museum Ok this update isn't of an amusement park. It's not even of a FEC. It's of the Boston's Children's Museum. I've done some things without kids like going to Story Land or Sesame Place that draw weird looks from everyone, but this would have definitely drawn red flags. However, every so often they offer an adult night. I finally attended and it was glorious. No screaming kids. Only 20-something year olds double fisting beers having the time of their lives in a museum designed for 4-7 year olds. The museum has a great location on the water. Upon entering the museum, you are greeted by a massive 3 story climbing maze that connects the bottom level to the top level. I believe I have seen something like this in the St. Louis City Museum TRs, but this one may be even harder since it's designed exclusively for kids. I'm a pretty skinny guy and I had a really hard time fitting through. I even saw a few poor souls get stuck and have to back out like a Mack truck. But the highlight was seeing someone treat it like an army obstacle course. A macho man with a buzz cut waited for the maze to clear out and then went blitzkrieg the whole way through. Everyone clapped and cheered him on as he pulled himself through the tiny crevices at the end. He was sweating buckets open entering. Instead of being doused by a Gatorade bath, his entourage was waiting for him with beer. And as a side note, the cruel structure actually has several dead ends along the way. So not only do you have to really squeeze through, but if you go the wrong way you have to climb back down and contort unnaturally to head in another direction. Why take the stairs when there's a climbing maze? It was pretty long and had several dead ends. Hope you're ready to squeeze since this was made for kids. They also had a ripoff of Legoland's Kid Power Tower. After strapping yourself in (or not like I saw many do), you can hoist yourself up a grand total of 5 feet learning about the power of the pulley. Can you lift yourself 5 feet off the ground? There was also jumbo bowling if you couldn't support half your weight. We skipped this activity since it had a sizable line, but basically you lugged a giant inflatable ball down a hallway and tried to knock over as many pins as possible. This was a slightly less impressive feat of strength. If you're more into cardio than strength training, the Children's Museum has you covered with the most dangerous game of dancing dodge tag. 6-8 people step on the board. The music starts. And then it's a drunken frenzy to avoid the glowing light of doom on the floor. I say the game was dangerous since the board was covered in beer. For some reason, I have a feeling that isn't a problem on most days. Beware of that evil orange light. If it touches you, you're out. Don't worry, this update isn't entirely without a roller coaster. The museum also has a "Gravity Room" with jumbo sized marble runs. You could send your balls down a 15ft tall roller coaster complete with parabolic airtime hills. Most people had too little speed and valleyed. A few were successful. I sent my ball down the hill like an Arrow launched loop and subjected my ball to a little too much ejector air (I may or may not have hit someone in the back of the leg, oops...). They also had one of those spiral things you see at malls, except instead of donating 25 cents you could use jumbo marbles. They also had a ski jump and loop-the-loop game that turned into pseudo beer pong. You would send your marble down a ramp and off a jump trying to make it land in the buckets at the bottom. Is this Dorney's Laser? Grab a marble and send it down this course. Most valleyed, few made it to the end with the grace of a B&M hyper, but I gave my marbles a little too much ejector air. This turned into adult beer pong on this night. So this is why everyone calls them loop the loops. Training kids from the start. The top floor is themed to diversity. If you are easily offended, please stop reading this report. They have a full scale Spanish-themed supermarket. I haven't spent too much time in Spanish themed supermarkets (Market Basket all the way), but this had some interesting items such as Cock Flavored (yes you read that right) seasoning and African phone cards. But in all seriousness, cock flavored seasoning! The exhibit was pretty well set-up though and I could see kids having a grand old time in there. It kind of looked like the Kidzania things I've seen overseas. Still better quality produce than Walmart. Wait, what is that on the bottom shelf? I need some cock flavoring! I'm guessing it may be salty. Hello Africa. Up next was the Boston Black area, a section dedicated to the African Americans in Boston. They had a David Ortiz photo opportunity and an interactive computer game. While the latter was supposed to be educational, we found it absolutely hysterical. Boston is considered one of the most racist cities in America and I feel like this game didn't help our cause one bit. Hello Big Papi. Is this a trap? I'm sorry but I found this game hysterical. They also had the John Smith Barber Shop where you could get all sorts of exotic haircuts (except not really). Such a white name. So many exotic haircuts. All night they had a dance floor open with a DJ. We spent our night exploring the museum, but after the exhibits closed we heard what was playing and absolutely died laughing. They were playing none other than I Want it that Way. All the 90s kids were fist pumping and dancing to the Backstreet Boys. That was really the perfect way to end the night. Dance music? Nope. How about Backstreet Boys. If you have kids, the Boston's Children's Museum is a must. If you have an inner kid in you, the Adult Night at the Boston's Children's Museum is a must. The museum is 3 floors of interactive exhibits and had shades of the City Museum mixed with a science museum.

Great report so far! I always like seeing reports of Cliff's. It looks like a good park but not sure when I'll ever be out that way.

I've used short 2-3 Arrow trains on RCT2 when I can't fit a station and it looks wrong there. It looks just as wrong and weird in real life too. Thanks for sharing!

That sounds like the scariest Halloween event ever. They don't even need any theming for it to work.

Hey now. Not that I disagree with you because "Fire on High" is amazing, especially with the projections, but when I hit both parks a few months back, I got Darude's "Sandstorm" on both the Funtown thunderbolt and the Canobie scrambler in the same day. Epic both times. (If you're into that sort of thing, anyway.) Sandstorm would be perfect for an indoor scrambler or himalaya. I think the last time I rode Great Escape's Blizzard I got Britney Spears. That was, well

After what happened with Sandy I was a little worried when I heard about this storm, but that's good to hear that the storm itself is that many miles from the mainland.

^^^ Great report! I had that same operator for the first half of my visit in June and it stunk. I kept on getting the ride slowed down. But then for the rest of the visit I had someone who let me run wild and have near death experiences.

Absolutely. It sure beats the pop songs used on Canobie and Great Escape's indoor scramblers.

Thanks! I like Funtown quite a bit but just wish they would add a little more to the ride side. Several of their newer additions have been on the water park side.

Great report! I really wanted to stop in to try Blue Streak when I was in PA in June but the park was closed for rain. Not every park can be as awesome as Waldameer in that area. Some of those midway shots look pretty creepy.

My recent SeaWorld San Antonio report also includes some photos of Wave Breaker open. The shots I found on the Park Index were of the ride still under construction.

It seems like most people (at least around me) only go to the cape if they own a beach house. Hampton Beach is far more popular. Guess leaving the state makes it feel more like a vacation.

I've been to the real Hampton Beach once but that was years ago. I just remember thinking how small the sand area was compared to Nantasket and wondering why anyone from Mass would vacation up there. Yes it was route 1A.

When we drove through Hampton Beach (I-95 was so bad that this was faster), I couldn't believe how trashy it looked. The tone was set when I saw a sign advertising nude women combined with a still standing storefront of an Ames. I'm just worried Palace Playland will turn into condos like many other seaside parks have.

Great report! Glad you liked I305. It's a good coaster but personally not my cup of tea. I'm just thankful Flight of Fear doesn't still have the OSTRs.

Great report! It's a shame things kept closing like Ride the Comix, the Genie elevator, the slide, etc before the place met its demise. Though we all saw it coming. I enjoyed my one visit to DisneyQuest 10 years ago, but I couldn't justify spending time at it over the main parks at the resort.

Great report! Were the ops still stapling like crazy at Great White for your visit? I thought Great White could have been a wonderful coaster but it was hard to get airtime after the op tightened my seatbelt to the max and shoved the restraints all the way down.

Cool photos! Definitely impressive that you've found that many coasters before ACE or RCDB. In the 3rd to last picture, is that a drop tower in the background?

^ I'm guessing not everything will be open for staffing reasons. But then again they could surprise us. Definitely interested to see how this works out.