ajacy

I was there the same day.... I even appear in the second photo of the main gate crowd... it's like a where's waldo, pretty funny. Between my avatar and the photo, can you find me? lol! There's a clue later in my report -- First time I've been in someone elses photo report that i've seen, but a friend of mine caught himself randomly in someone elses trip report last year. Sounds like you did all the haunts and no rides? We didn't get to do everything we wanted since we wanted to do some rides (phantom x2 took a lot of time) and we had 1 newbie who has never been in our group. We ended up doing the haunted arc, the one through the rapids ride, and the one through the restaurant (or maybe arcade?). Yeah, getting out was a pain in the *** [plus a ride back to buffalo NY!], but I had an awesome time. ~~ Line for phantom was about 45 min all night even with 2 trains, the one haunt we waited for inside the water raft ride was 45 min, the one haunt we did right away and only waited for 15 min but later on the line had to be at LEAST an hour because we were in a TINY line [it was second, just after the no-line at the shooty/mansion ride, right as the park opened] and it took that long (they were taking tiny groups in at a time). Flat rides the lines went pretty quick. We also did the mansion / shooting dark ride at opening so we didn't wait for that. We had to skip over the other houses due to running out of time and we wanted to ride phantom twice vs 1 time. I thought they did an awful job with the one that was inside the raft ride / trough. It was very spread out, with just little set-ups throughout. You knew where the actors were gonna be, there was absolutely no crazy fog (unlike warewolf canyon @ CP i remember from a few years ago which was insane) and most of the actors were just standing there or talking to friends/guests. Lame, and not worth the time. The other haunt we went to was alright (in one of the resteraunts) but nothing to write home about. The haunted noahs ark which we went to instead of Exterminator at the end of the day took 45 minutes... and that line was tiny compared to earlier in the day, too. That was honestly the best of the haunted stuff we did, unfortunately. That was more "fun" than scary, though. All of the food lines were absolutely outrageous, it's like all these people have never had food before, lol. We ended up going to mcd's which is a tiny walk away. Exterminator had to be longer than an hour because we went to it an hour before closing and it was closed already (unless it was closed the whole night?) Had a great time though. Phantoms revenge is still awesome, the fog around the park is great, it's everywhere. The other stuff around the park was well done as well. There were random guys juggling (fire & knives!) on the midways, the scare zones were OK, but they did a good job decorating, changing all the lights, etc. They "trashed" up many areas (toilet paper in the trees, newspapers laying everywhere, etc.) but it all added to the atmosphere. Fog was spewing out of ever nook and cranny of the park.. the bushes, the fences, the queues, etc. Almost all the lights on the rides were either turned off, or Halloween colored. Thunderbolt was a full queue, and after we got in line it went past the entrance and onto the midway. Didn't seem like it took *too* long, though. The screamin' swing ride was about 15 min. Was my first, and enjoyed it, just wish it had more than 3 swings at the "top" The disk-o was a 10 min wait all day it seemed. Another first for me, and I enjoyed it. Not the best flat ride by any means, but enjoyable. Racer was closed when we went by it for whatever reason. It was running earlier with empty trains? A for atmosphere / ride alterations / decorations C- for the actual haunted attractions C- for the lines (we got lucky for most of them, though) A+ for the overall experience [good times with good friends, good rides, and was the only park I went to w/ friends the entire year as opposed to the 8+ I usually get other summers] and nothing really pissed me off other than the fact some of the houses could have been a LOT better and instead were very lackluster Wish the park was open longer than it was. Missed out on a lot of rides/attractions. Traffic SUCKS. We came from Buffalo but luckily gave ourselves a ton of extra time. If you are going for the haunts only, you can probably do all the haunts, but don't expect to get on ANY rides. And vice-versa, if you want to do ALL the rides, don't expect to get on any or most of the haunted houses. 6 hours seems like a long time, but getting through the gate with the metal detectors sucks [they didn't open early at all to get people at LEAST past the metal detectors, which is silly as all the staff was shooing people away from the gates]. And if you go to the houses right away I suppose you would free up a lot of time, too. We just did 2 haunted things before we ended up riding phantom and some other things, but perhaps if we knew exactly where the other haunts were, and went to them right away, we could have fit more in. I think that's all I have to say! Thanks for the report and the pics

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