Canobie Coaster

I was there a few years ago while it was pouring and almost everything was open outside of Kingda Ka. When the rain stopped, Ka reopened, but it quickly closed when it started to sprinkle. On the brightside, every single ride was a walk-on. When I've gone to the park on sunny summer days (weekday or weekend), I've always had to get a flash pass. Great Adventure is just far enough way that I can't go regularly so I want to maximize all my trips.

^ Lol, and you can't leave until you can fit on all of the kiddie rides.

Hey I find Stinger a fun ride...when it's open. It's smooth and intense. The only downside is capacity, but that doesn't seem to be an issue at Dorney.

I enjoyed T3 last summer despite it not being anywhere close to smooth thanks to the new trains eliminating the headbanging. Since Morey's already has the upgraded trains, making this layout any smoother would be a win for me, especially since the Nor'Easter interacts so well with the water slide.

It seems like the park is doing their due diligence announcing it this early and trying to make the skyline impact as minimal as possible with the color scheme.

The ride kind of reminds me of their old Laser ride. Honestly Venus would be a great fit at most parks.

Wow between that and Joker I didn't have the best luck on the new for 2016 coasters. Thankfully I did get Storm Chaser and Valravn!

For rides confirmed to open next year, I'm most excited for SFNE's Joker since it's at my home park and Great Adventure's Joker has been closed on all 3 of my visits this year so I have yet to try an S&S Free Fly. Of the rides I don't anticipate riding next year, it's a tie between Fun Spot's new woodie and the two new GCI woodies. If it's indeed for 2017, RMC Mean Streak will likely be the best ride. Even if it opens this year, I likely wouldn't make my way out there since I'd want to hit that and Kennywood's new coaster on the same trip.

I really like the name and look of the cpaster! I don't mind that this layout is being cloned so frequently since it's a lot of fun and makes sense from a park's perspective in terms of space and cost.

If only other Six Flags parks could do something like the waffle truck from Great Adventure.

It got a nice new set of trains...last year? Considering the circumstances, maybe we'll see them on another Arrow hyper coaster? I wonder how they'd run on Phantom's Revenge. I realize that's technically a Morgan now, but still. Or, on the Big One, maybe trains with shorter car lengths will make it oh so slightly less wonky. I'd love to see those trains on Magnum to allow me to enjoy the airtime without pain, but they'd also be nice additions to Cedar Fair's Morgan hypers as well.

It's definitely worth going, especially since it's located next to Golden Corral. What could be better than an all-you-can-eat buffet and a kiddie coaster? I haven't gotten a chance to ride one of the mountain coasters in cold weather yet. The "worst" weather I've had was 50 F with some rain drops and that was at Berkshire. I can't imagine how cold that lift would be because of how long it is, but at least the ride down probably took your mind off of it.

I find the biggest thing with the B&Ms is how hard the trim brakes/mid-course brake run hits.

Cedar Point is the mecca for sunset photos in my opinion. Maverick Magnum XL-200

Big E The Big E (officially the Eastern States Exposition) is a massive county fair held in late September/early October in Springfield, MA. The Big E is New England's biggest fair and has everything you could wish for in a county fair- insane flat rides, a full-size roller coaster, kiddie coaster credits, artery clogging fried food, animals, artsy exhibits, and shops. The Midway is the most impressive I've been to outside of the Alameda County Fair out in California. North American Amusements has multiple pendulum rides, a full-sized coaster, kiddie coasters, and cheesy dark rides. I would highly recommend visiting on a weekday since they have a wristband. Otherwise, each ride could set you back something in the ballpark of $3-6. Some highlights on the ride side: Blitzer- Blitzer is lone major coaster and it's better than it looks. A galaxi-style coaster, the Blitzer has two very steep drops that give good air at the beginning. The helices are nothing to write home about, but for a carnival coaster it's a winner. Speed- A KMG Speed ride, this was the most visually stunning and thrilling ride at the fair. Unfortunately, everyone else thought that too and it had an hour wait since it seated so few people. Speed was outstanding and felt like a zipper cage fastened to an oversized pendulum. The ride was extremely disorienting and forceful. I just wish I could have gotten more rides. Pendulum Rides- The fair had a KMG Freak Out which swung the highest and gave the longest sustained air of any ride at the fair. The Feuerball appeared to be a KMG Fireball, which was different from Freak Out since it spun faster and provided briefer, more powerful pops of air. The Sky Master was a Fabbri Kamikaze with a very long cycle. Then there was the 1001 Nachts flying carpet which gave some solid floater air going over the top. Mouse Trap- This is an undeniably cheesy, gravity-powered dark ride that some would count as a credit. The drop is actually quite zippy thanks to the weight of the cars and the inside portion is laughably bad theming wise and with how small the clearance envelopes are. It really needs to be experienced and I guarantee you'd leave the ride with a smile if you like bad dark rides. Kiddie Coasters- Credit whores rejoice. The fair had a Go Gator (kids only), Orient Express (adults allowed, I passed), and Wacky Worm (I couldn't resist this one though). For food, the fair had some interesting items. I loved the clam cakes (deep fried clam chowder) from the Rhode Island Pavilion. I also tried the Deep Fried Shepherd's Pie which was interesting. The freshly made donuts throughout the fair are another highlight of mine. If you ever leave the fair without raising your cholesterol, you're doing it wrong. Onto the photos, which sadly are lacking any food. And they have one larger coaster in the Blitzer. The first two drops give some really nice air. Concerts too! This year's headliner was Elle King, aka Miss Exes and Ohs. They have a few kiddie coasters- Go Gator, Orient Express, and Wacky Worm. This sign is true. Outside of fried food and rides, the fair also has several animal exhibits. The Big E has the most impressive midway of the New England carnivals. And then there's this awesomely ghetto, gravity powered drop ride. It's so cheesy that it's funny. There are also awesome flats like Power Surge. Or Speed which was included with the wristband. It was outstanding but unfortunately it had almost an hour wait due to its capacity. The best ride after you eat those foot long corn dogs and deep fried shepherd pies. Vertigo was child's play considering SFNE's 400 footer is just down the road. Words to live by. Yes I love weenie dogs. Deal with it.

I'd let every B&M standup slide off the face of the Earth just to ride that one more time. In something like 2000 rides on Shockwave I don't think there was one time I wasn't sacred to crap for just an instant mid-ejection. The actual curve was intense, but not one tenth as painful as it seemed for a moment it was going to be. Brilliant! This is a really painful thread for me to contemplate. I think the B&M layouts are salvagable with floorless or sit down trains as Cedar Fair has found out. The Togo ones were great going in a straight line but those transitions were bad. Did you ever ride Skyrider in Canada and experience that trick track?

I'm cheap, but not that cheap. Looks like I'll just pay for summer rides.

Good to know Six Flags New England is getting another coaster that can valley with Goliath next year.

Party Zone USA Party Zone USA is the ultimate credit whore stop and I took the bait. The park is located less than a minute or so off the highway in Middletown, NY and is attached to a Golden Corral. I had eyed this park for a while, but my travels hadn't brought me down the section of I-84 in New York until my return trip from Camelback Resort. Party Zone basically felt like an upscale Chuck E Cheese's. There were several arcade games, some inflatables, and lots of kids screaming and blindly running around. Most importantly, they also had some amusement rides highlighted by the Python Roller Coaster. The Python coaster brings you mere feet from the roof of the building (and mere feet off the ground) but as far as a kiddie coasters, it's a pretty smooth ride and gave 3 laps if I remember correctly. They also had a mechanical bull. I had never tried one before, but I quickly learned that they are quite hard to ride and can throw you pretty far despite looking slow and unassuming before boarding. It also may have been that it was running much tamer for the kids going before me than they'd set it for an adult... I did feel quite awkward there without a kid, but it was totally worth it for the credit. The park also had the cutest little drop tower ever. It's a credit whore party in there. There were plenty of inflatables. And the mechanical bull that totally kicked my butt. Wow. And a small little himalaya. Check out that theming. Python comes mere feet from the roof of the building or rises mere feet off the ground. Take your pick if you're a glass half full or half empty kind of guy. As far as kiddie coasters go, this one was pretty smooth and gave 3 laps.

Camelback Mountain Resort After leaving Bowcraft, I planned to hit Land of Make Believe. When I pulled up to the park, I was greeted with a sign saying they were closed for the season. Upon double checking the website, I realized I completely missed the line stating their final operating day of the 2016 season. My bad. Thankfully, there was a mountain coaster not too far down the road at the Camelback Mountain Resort waiting for me. The Appalachian Express Mountain Coaster is another Aquatic Development creation. The park was completely empty and I was able to board right away. The ride was an above average mountain coaster. The ride was pretty long. The car built up its top speed fairly quickly and there were some bumps on the way down that gave quick pops of air. The park had an alpine slide under construction and there was an adjacent outdoor water park that was closed during my summer visit. The indoor water park looked amazing with the drop pod slides, master blaster slide, and a few others, but the price wasn't great for non-resort guests. Alpine Slide coming soon. At least I could get the amazing segment from the brake run to the loading platform. Same old same old. Great setting, difficult to photograph. I see you, bowl slide.

This game is amazing and everything I dreamed it could be. The game runs extremely well on my iPhone 5s. The graphics are just as I remembered them being on the computer and the frame rate holds steady. All of the rides and features from RCT1 and RCT2 are here and I'm impressed they could get that all in the app. My only complaint is that some of the buttons are a tad small when converted to the phone screen, but that's an extremely small complaint and well worth having arguably my favorite game of all time in my pocket.

Togo and B&M stand-ups each have their pros and cons. The newer B&M ones are smoother and more forceful, but those forces make my legs feel like they'll explode on Green Lantern and Riddler's Revenge. I did really enjoy Georgia Scorcher since it wasn't quite as forceful and was glass smooth. The older B&M stand-ups had too much head-banging combined with painful forces. The Togo ones don't kill my legs, but they kill other things with those transitions. Ejector air on a stand-up in those restraints is just horrifying, especially if it is followed by a quick banked turn.

I prefer Talon but it's extremely close. I couldn't imagine visiting GAdv without riding Batman at least once unless I was extremely pressed for time (like less than 2 hours in the summer).

Too bad I already left New York. I'd love to rack up some rides on these without having to pay an arm and a leg. I wonder how crowded it will be because of that wonderful word "free".

SoCal seams a little more competitive than Virginia for parks. Maybe that's why. Though just because they have a public hearing doesn't mean the official announcement will immediately follow.