larrygator

Corporate has to decide: Do they put money into a park that the locals don't visit? Do they park money into parks that are well supported by the community? Why should corporate support a park if the community does reciprocate? What level of support is needed to bring in additional revenue? What level of support is needed to maintain revenue? What are the dynamics of competitors? Those are the questions Cedar Fair must struggle with every day. Not a good enough reason to throw money into a park.

Didn't mean to specifically jump on your case. Just seeing as both pieces of information were posted on top of each other on PCC's Facebook Page I thought it was fair to mention the good news, also.

Thanks Chuck - because this site has idiot's like me, who went to a park(Lagoon), knew I needed a picture of a ride sign (Bombora) and then deleted the photo

Too much negativity! Focus on the positive! August 10th discount wristbands to benefit first responders

Keep up the good work, I've gotten photos of almost all the new 2016 rides, but surprisingly am still missing many from parks that I know many of you have taken pictures of, so please help. PHOTOS: I've spent may hours over the past few weeks updating elements of TPR's Park Index besides searching for uploading photos. RIDES: Let me know if any rides are missing or if any rides need to be marked as closed or have been renamed. PARK NOTES: I am in the process of updating Park Notes for over 200 parks, if anyone sees any inconsistencies, please let me know. Park Notes provide a quick snapshot of each park PARK GUIDES: I have recently updated The Park Guides for over 70 major parks around the world (mostly US and Europe), if anyone notices any inconsistencies, please let me know. Park Guides are a more comprehensive guide to each park. TRIP REPORTS: I recently linked over 50 new trip reports If anyone has an opportunity to review their home park and provide feedback we can keep The Park Index as accurate as possible, I can't do it all myself. Please submit only your own photos. Do not take them from another person or website. You can post your photos of any size in this thread or in your Trip Reports Or you can use the submission tool in the Park Index, but in that case please resize your photos to 800x600 or smaller before submitting, otherwise they are difficult for me to review and place in the Park Index. Or if you have any of those photos already in an existing PTR just send me a PM and let me know. For this first listing of rides we need any pictures you have of the ride (and signs if the ride is new): USA/Canada/Mexico Adventure Park USA - Wild West Express Alabama Splash Adventure - Scrambler Bay Beach Amusement Park - Bay Beast, Rockin Tug, Falling Star Bosque Magico - Policias y Ratones, Zombie Calaway Park - new log flume Coney Island (Ohio) - Top Spin Idlewild - Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood LaRonde - Phoenix, Gravitor Legoland California - Pirate's Reef, Ninjagoland Playland Castaway Cove - Gale Force, Whirlwind, Wild Waves Scandia Sacramento - Wild Mouse (formerly at Casino Pier) Silverwood - Krazy Koaster Six Flags over Georgia - Daffy Ducks Bucket Blaster UK/Ireland Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Red Arrows Sky Force Botton’s Pleasure Beach – Cup and Saucer, Gallopers, Rockin Tug Codona's - Vertigo (Ropes Course) Flamingoland – Dodgems, StarFlyer, Hero, Twistosaurus Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach - Whirlwind, FamilyStar Gulliver’s Warrington – Barrel Ride, Joker, Sky Tours Observation Tower, Tree Tops Swing Pleasure Island – GoGator, Falls of Fear, Galleon Thorpe Park - Derren Brown's Ghost Train Germany Bayern Park - Gerstlauer Sky Fly Europa Park - Ba-a-a- Express Freizeitpark Plohn - Miniwah Hansa Park - Kleine Zar Legoland Deutschland - Gerstlauer Sky Fly Phantasialand - Raik Wunderland Kalkar - Kernie's Boot (Rockin Tug), Tea Cups Denmark Farup Sommerland – Raeven Hule (walk-thru) Legoland Billund - Ninjago France Mer de Sable – Wild Mouse "La Mine Bleue" (formerly at Compagnie des Alpes), Riviere Sauvage, Train du Desert, Jungle des Chikapas (Indoor Tow Boat), Babagattaux (Outdoor Tow Boat) Nigloland - Funtime drop tower and a Zierer kiddie drop tower Parc St. Paul - Aerotrain Walibi Rhone Alps - Timber WalyGator Parc - Zamperla Air Race, rethemed raft ride Italy Cavalinno Matto - Freestyle Etnaland - Dragon River, El Dorado, Hip Hop Coaster, Storm Gardaland - Kung Fu Panda Master Minitalia Leolandia - Zamperla Splash Battle Movieland Studios - Diabolik Invertigo Rainbow Magicland - Battaglia Navale Netherlands/Belgium Bobbejaanland - Forbidden Caves Plopsa de Panne - Viktor's Race Finland/Sweden/Norway Grona Lund – Kuling (Rockin Tug), House of Nightmares Linnanmaki - New Kummitusjuna (Ghost Train), Kinji Särkänniemi - High Voltage (Zamperla Power Surge) Skara Sommerland - Spinner, Rodeo and Jr. Drop Tower Spain Parque d'Attractiones Madrid - Los Rapidos PortAventura - Angkor Other Europe Energylandia AnkaPark Wiener Prater - Insider, Maskarade, Olympia Looping, Race China China Dinosaur Park - King Kong, Super Swing (Wave Swinger), Coaster Brontosaurus (Disko) Chuanlord Manor - Magic Ring Roller Coaster (knock-off Sky Loop) Hong Kong Disneyland - Iron Man Japan Universal Japan - Flying Dinosaur Yomiuriland - Spin Runway Australia Dreamworld - Zamperla Air Race Sea World Australia - Creatures of the Deep attraction other Asia/Middle East Ferrari World - Mission Ferrari, Vortex South America Beto Carrero World - relocated Batman and Robin: The Chiller from SFGAdv Fantasilandia - Tren Minero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the following rides we only need pictures of the ride sign: USA/Canada Beech Bend - Spinning Out Bowcraft – Crossbow Kentucky Kingdom - Raging Rivers Lake Winnie - Sea Warrior Michigan's Adventures - Lakeside Gliders Silverwood - Spin Cycle Six Flags over Georgia -Wonder Woman Flight School , Superman Tower of Power Six Flags New England - Fireball Six Flags St. Louis - Fireball ZDT Amusement Park -Switchback UK Flamingoland – Navigator, Sky Flyer Pleasure Island (UK) - GoGator Thorpe Park - re-theme of Detonator Other Europe Djurs Sommerland - Drageskibet, Soulken Farup Sommerland - Wave Swinger Freizeitpark Plohn - Plohseidon Hansa Park - Hanse Fleiger Liseberg - Liseberghjulet (Giant Wheel) Movie Park Germany - NYC Transformer Nigloland - Gerstlauer Sky Fly Parque d'Attractiones Madrid - Noriavision (Giant Wheel), Ford T Power Park – Pegasus (Evolution) Tivoli Friheden – Forhindringsbane (Obstacle Course) Tusenfryd - Rapid River Walibi Belgim - Pulsar Walibi Rhone Alps - Boomerang, Coccinelle WalyGator - Waly Coaster Other Asia/Australia Adventure World (AUS) - Dragon Express Nagashima Spaland - Acrobat If you have photos of a non-kiddie ride that is not in TPR's Park Index, please submit that also. The list of what we need is not complete, only based on rides that appear on my personal park maps. High quality photos, please (not blurry, distorted or out of focus).

Agreed, this is a very good compromise. Giving riders what that want and saving face fiscally

Updating: Dubai (IMG, Ferrari World) Taiwan (Janfusun Fancyworld, E-DA) Korea (Everland, Lotte World) Australia (Dreamwold, both Luna Parks, Sea World, Warner Brothers) Turkey (ViaLand, ViaSea, AnkaPark) Italy - Rainbow Magicland, Cinecitta World, Etnaland) Sweden - Kolmarden China - Shanghai Disney

Knoebels

Looks like I'll finally get back to Orlando and SeaWorld to ride Mako in two weeks.

It is not logical to say the suckiness is universally accepted when the ride continues to have a line on mildly busy days.

The work of a moderator never ends.

I merged this into an excited thread about coasters in movies

So my last day was supposed to consist of credit whoring and sightseeing. In the end I did not get to all sights I wanted, nor did I make all the coasters. The plan was to visit the Amusement Park at Heritage Square, the mountain coaster at Breckenridge, then City Park in Pueblo and finally Santa's Workshop along with a visit the Garden of the Gods and the Air Force Academy. As I ran into a lot of traffic issues, I decided to cut out the least excited and expensive kiddie coaster by skipping Santa's Workshop and Garden of the Gods. The Amusement Park at Heritage Square was set up very nicely, I expected it to be rundown after the commercial/entertainment side of the Heritage Square is no more. As many of you have noticed I'm a big fan of mountain coaster, although this one is pricey. City Park in Pueblo holds a lot of history and is one of only a handful of parks run by local governments in the US. It only cost fifty cents to ride the coaster (other rides are only $0.25), but I bought $5 in tickets and gave away the remainder to a family waiting in line for more tickets. What many people don't know about me is that I almost attended the US Air Force Academy, so it was nice to finally see the campus. Also, Colorado Springs has awesome hole-in-the-wall food places. They have the some classics at Heritage Square Like the Tilt-a-Whirl Ferris Wheel But none of this is why I'm here The awe inspiring Python Pit and the incomparable Miner Mike After a much longer than necessary drive, thanks to traffic, I got another gondola ride to the Gold Runner Coaster at Breckenridge. and then encountered a ridiculous line It is a Weigand model and I've grown to like the ADG models a little more. One of the signs that tells the story of Pueblo's acquired classic CW Parker Carousel They are proud of their carousel Here's the credits I drove all this way to ride. The only other ride at City Park capable of holding adults The city keeps captured gnomes inside of trees to starve them out The park had some neat jigsaw puzzles mounted on the wall. I may have to search the internet to find one for myself. This a Azada Mexican Grill, great homemade mexican food in Colorado Springs nom! nom! nom! fresh Carne Asada Tacos

I hops we get a lot of input from Europeans and world travellers on this one, since there are so many unique candidates outside of the US I'll admit, that I'll probably change this when I see what others post and realize what I forgot. 1) Auto Scooters: Knoebels 2) Flyer: Knoebels 3) Pooh's Hunny Hunt - Tokyo Disneyland 4) Journey to the Center of the Earth: Tokyo DisneySea 5) Tower of Terror: Disney Hollywood Studios 6) Room of Living Dolls: Joypolis: 7) Astrosphere: Funtown Splashtown 8) Indiana Jones Adventure: Tokyo DisneySea 9) U571 - Movieland Studios 10) Valhalla: Blackpool Pleasure Beach

^^^If you couldn't tell coasterbill doesn't like Green Lantern. Ride in row 1, stand the proper way and you might enjoy the ride. I have never had a issue with Green Lantern, unless I ride near the back with an empty train.

Dollywood

Chuck - I take it that you enjoyed Karnan.

Why do you want to go when there are kids there? Oh Henry!

With the antics that go on after dark, rides on a pier are the last thing a homeowner should be concerned about in Sleazside Heights.

I interviewed for a job in Nashville and loved the city, seems like a great place to live. However, Memphis is much edgier and has such great food. But in the end, it is all still Tennessee. Great you enjoyed the trip.

The brassring arm was never installed after the restoration. On Wikipedia, it states this underneath the "old" location chart

It is no longer a requirement for Trip Reports. However, it is preferred that you submit 800x600 individual ride photos if using the submission tool in the Park Index, much easier for the moderators to view

That's nice, the park feels the same.

I've now been on 13 of the 15 oldest coasters (missing Luna Park and Dreamland side friction coasters)

The bottom crust was a little burnt, but the pizza was incredible. The make bar size pizzas for one. It was about $18 for the specialty pizza. But Sunday they had a lunch special so you could get a drink and salad with the margherita pie for the same price as the margherita pie alone. I passed on the salad and they were kind enough to put reggiano on my pie at no charge.