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Ahhh, makes sense. I had completely forgotten those ever existed.

Holy crap this wasn't a prank. Either that or a very bored guy taking the time to make a full survey.

Good to see Donald Trump is taking a break from golf and visiting some parks.

Ah, good the Starbucks with the window to the Orlando Starbucks is staying! I love that place. They've got a fantastic patio for people-watching and relaxing.

Holy crap. This is massive news! I never thought Vekoma would be bought out considering just how huge they are. Could this be a case of ageing owners looking to cash out before retirement? I'm very curious to see how this impacts Disney's future attractions. Hopefully the partnership will stay healthy.

Railblazer.

Those helices better stay! Has this been confirmed RMC? If so, I'm seeing all kinds of terrifying headchoppers and screwy banking going on in that structure.

Try as you might, you know as well as all of us that Mario Kart is going to be the Spidey/Transformers tech. Maybe Gringott's.

It's such a shame there's so much bad news with this thing. It's such a fun ride with massive airtime.

No, they shouldn't.

So, the question is... Are they actually repaving the lot or just adding a surface coat to deal the cracks and make it look new? It's MM so... Honestly I'm surprised they're not just using a bunch of black latex paint from the Home Depot clearance section.

And so my dreams of a resurrected Storm Rider continue to be only dreams...

Hopefully they do something about the flying insect issue by Sledge Hammer. I swallowed about 50 gnats and mosquitos riding that. Probably the best giant frisbee I've been on, though!

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/BREAKING-Fire-demolishes-building-at-Mt-Olympus-Theme-Park-474034893.html God does not want this place to exist.

^ Have you looked into literally every Disney park's new attraction schedules? Disney isn't Six Flags. They don't need to add a new attraction every year to keep attendance. They'll spend a decade researching awesome new tech and unveil an attraction that costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

The memory of that ride still physically hurts just like Bandit.

Ummm... I'm willing to give Europa the benefit of the doubt and I hope this turns out to be one truly wacky ride that makes me giggle like a dope, but first thoughts are definitely of a more "wtf" nature.

^ Not anymore than it was last year. I think we were just very evenly balanced. Last year we had one ride where it didn't spin much but a second ride that was like being in a tornado.

Hi everybody! (Hi, doctor Nick!) The fiancee and I just took a trip to Hersheypark's Christmas Candylane last night and had a friggin blast! Unlike our trip last year we didn't freeze to near-death. Last year it was probably 30 degrees with a stiff breeze. This year it hovered in the low 40s with no wind at all. Anyways, enough about the weather and more on our bottomless hot chocolate and poor laser targeting. Yes, the bottomless hot chocolate. Still the best deal going in the theme park world. Pay $11.75, get unending hot chocolate all night and you get to take home the travel mug. By the way, the travel mug is actually great quality. I've used the one we got last year plenty of times and it's held up better than any other store-bought travel mugs we have. Long story short, we refilled our hot chocolate eight times. For free. In less than four hours. It was delicious and we're probably both going to die young from diabetes. Delicious, delicious diabetes. You guys got any insulin? Sooper Dooper Looper was running well and HOLY CRAP NEW TRAINS?! I missed the memo on that one. It was lovely to sit on a Schwarzkopf without having my knees jammed into the seat in front of me! The Triple Tower shocked the crap out of me. When they announced it I really didn't care. Another S&S tower? Yay. Whatever. Ride one, you've ridden them all. I was wrong. We hit all three from shortest to tallest and I gotta say this is one hell of an addition. The smallest one has some great ejector air at the top! Not very scary but definitely a great "whoah! whee!" moment. The middle tower has even crazier ejector air at the top, one that made me shout a few obscenities. The tallest tower actually freaked me out. See, I'm not afraid of heights, but this pulls a trick on you. We rode facing the other towers. When we launched and we rocketed higher than the middle tower I legit nearly pooped my pants. It's one hell of an optical illusion to make you think you are WAY higher than you actually are, plus the fact that it was built on one of the higher points in the park. Great ride all around! The indoor laser ride was, well, awful. I really don't know why I willingly ride it every time I visit because I know it's awful. Someone help. Oh, and I also scored maybe three targets because my aim blows. Wildcat I'll defend until the day I die. I love the ride and anyone who says otherwise is dumb. The Wild Mouse. Funny story, they told me to keep the hot chocolate with us rather than set it on the exit platform. Ummmm, OK? Thank god the lid on the travel mug is trustworthy! If you've been on this Wild Mouse you know it's one of the better ones because it doesn't ever brake. The first half with the hot chocolate was fine and dandy since it was just going around turns. Then the sudden drops, airtime, and crazy intense turns happened. I was fully expecting the lid to pop off and to come back to the station covered in hot chocolate but it held strong! We hit the brake run laughing like idiots and happily dry! Laff Trakk wasn't spinning so well this time and it didn't have nearly as many Christmas lights inside as it did last year. Oh, well. The train and monorail were fun little segways to enjoy the lights and get off our feet. Again, great trip to Hershey to see some blinking lights!

What the crap?! That's one odd looking water slide, haha!

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Anyone been to Haunt yet? I'm heading up on Friday and I'm curious if the houses have gotten any better since my last trip in 2011.

Everyone else said it would be crowded but I had the exact opposite experience. Granted, it was also in the mid-30 degrees on my visit. Everything that was advertised to be open WAS open, though! Those icy rides on Wildcat will stick with me for a while! We had a great time and blew through everything they had to offer in a little over three hours. Make sure you take full advantage of the hot chocolate mug deal! Last year it was something like $10 or $11 to buy the souvenir mug/thermos and refills were free all night. We bought one to share and refilled that bad boy at least nine times! Hershey's hot chocolate is also the best damn hot chocolate I've had, so go wild!