Andrewoplis

Such an amazing park! I think its really cool how the park can take an idea or a ride from the other Disney parks, and make it even better! I hope you guys had an awesome time on your trip!

Yes they do, if they are still doing it. I remember seeing workers with name-tags with the countries they are from around the park. That was about two years ago though I believe. Maybe last. I think they still do it, and I know they did last year.

Toyko Disney Sea is REALLY high up on my list of places to go!

OK, so, time for the next update! Ill really try to get these updates sooner to you guys, so sorry about the long time between updates. And now, on to Indiana beach! Well, not really because it was closed due to a power outage. But we did go to Six Flags Great America early and walking on to almost everything we rode! So, on to the pictures- We're here at Indiana beach, but it looks deserted Yep, its closed Come on Mr. Bird, open up the park! I swear I see lights on in there! We dissided to drive around town and get lunch and see if the park is ready to open when we come back. It was storming before we got there, so some of the roads are flooded. Yep, still closed.. ..and still deserted. We drove over to the main lot only to have Steel Hawg Taunt us! "Ride me!" Is the Cornball I see there? There was this cool dam coming from the lake. We gave up hope and dissided to head over to Six Flags Great America Thats a really tall building! We stayed at the Grand Hotel, across the street from Great America, and it was probably one of the nicest hotels we stayed at! As my brother and my mom hung out in the room, I dissided to check out the park So, were here at Six American Flags, Ive been to Californias Great America many times, so im interested on how this park turned out after being sold off from Marriott. Hmmm, now were have I seen this before? Heres one for all the arrow fan men out there Hello worlds first Inverted coaster, hows it going? I didn't know they have a ropes course here They also have one of those mack splash battle thingy's First up.. ..This Bull that is raging Over all a fun ride, the trim on ^this^ hill does ruin the ride a bit, but its still fun with some good airtime on some of those hills! Time for the randomly themed drop tower The name of this ride is Giant Drop, but the ride its self is theme more to a mine of some sort. Even though the theming has nothing to do with the ride, its still totalty awesome! Some ones shoe got stuck under the ride as it was coming down, I had to wait an extra 10 minutes for them to call some one to come out and try to get it out. They have this tea cup type ride, it was down both days though They still have two arrow loopers?!! Oh wait, its just that Cyclone clone over there And its actually pretty good! Smooth with lots of airtime Time for a REAL arrow looper Gotta love that arrow lift hill sound. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, there was some good airtime on the first drop in the back and it wasn't that rough Uhh, why does that hot dog look uncooked? Time to take a Whizzer Its not as insane as Jetstar 2 at Lagoon, but still good ol' Schwarzkopf fun! Speaking of Schwarzkopf, they have an Enterprise as well, but it only stayed in this position for about 10 seconds(Im not even exaggerating) Lots of nice green spaces all over this park Yay, they have a HUSS Frisbee!! But it was down both days Time for the Intamin wood Its no El toro, but its still a fun ride with some pretty good airtime. I DID see them race the ride, but by the time I rode it, they were only running one side. At this point, it got to dark for my camera to take any pictures so I had to take them with my phone. So expect that soon! Thanks for reading! EDIT- I looked at the photos I took from my phone and saw that they were pretty crummy so ill just post a written TR for the rest of the day. So look for that!

I think its funny how a lot of the "GP" thinks that airtime is really unsafe. And when coaster enthusiasts ride a coaster, thats something they look for in the a ride. (El toro isn't my #1 coaster for nothing)

I got some Bombora Photos for you-

I thought Wicked was a great ride! That tower has to be one of the best elements ive ever experienced! Not only does it feel really cool being blasted up the tower, there a lot of airtime on that thing as well. As for the rest of the ride, that's fun too, with some very cool elements. The ride was very smooth, and the trains look pretty cool, and there are booster seats for the smaller riders as well! I would love to see more Tower Launchers out there!

Ok, so its time for the rest of Adventure Land! Theres a little chapel inside the park, but it seems like its only used for shows. Lots of old looking buildings every where. Little KLOOSH!! Oh Mr. Turtle approves!! Funky! Funky! lol Time to hit the new water park! Theres some nice photo ops of Out Law from the water park. They have one of those awesome new Topsy Turvy slides here! There some got airtime on the red, white, and blue and the mat racer slide. This park is really of to a great start! This where the tubes for the tantrum slide hang out Theres a bar as well Wow, what park doesn't have this now Some show tent Time for another ride on Side Winder Still not as cool as Adventure Island Oohh artsy shot! Theres a rapids ride here, but I didn't get a good shot of it Ducks, just a bunch of Ducks Random flat ride Time to head out Bye Bye Adventure Land, thanks for an awesome day!! Next stop, Indiana Beach! (Sort of)

Sounds like a CP fanboy to me!

Are there anymore "Suprizes" for SFDK?

The last coaster I rode was Big Ohhhh! at fun plex. http://www.rcdb.com/3843.htm?p=20031

Doesn't Six Flags do some sort of "Exchange" program that gets people from other countries to work at there parks? That might be what the problem is.

OK, so its time for the next park, Adventure Land! Adventure Land a small park out side of Des Moines in Altoona, and this might be one of the nicest parks ive been to! The place has a real "Old School" feel to it and a cool water park. One think I notice is that many of the employees looked to be 40-70 years old, so it was a little weird since my home park is a SF park so its the complete opposite there, but any way, on to the pictures! Were here at Adventure Land! Hmmm, now where have I seen this before? The main street here is awesome! The park did a great job on the new side of main street! It looks like that moved the break dancer into the arcade, that pretty cool to me! let check out some of the other parts of the park, shall we. The park has a cool looking Log flume, didn't ride it though. Side Winder was awesome, it ran program better than most frisbee's in the U.S. I really wanted to ride this, but I never got around to it First up, Out Law. Like I heard, its a CCI the looks and runs much like a GCI. It was a fun little ride, and it almost never got a line! Next up... ..This ride It really wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. I kept hearing how the helix on this ride was "Rip your lungs out intense", but it wasn't that bad. The second loop was the most intense part of the ride. Time for the next ride Though the woods we go... ... to get to this It was a fun out back coaster, not to much air time though. OMG, A rotor! I always wanted to go on one, and now I got to! It was fun, but its sad to see a lot of these being ripped out. OMG, ITS A GIANT PIG!! Me(Left) and my brother(Right) in front of the GIANT PIG! I really do like the whole "Feel" of the park. .. is really cool CCI coaster/ dark ride. As you can see, is this the most popular ride in the park Hello Mr. Falling star, hows it going? This is Space Shot, and its probably the best S&S tower ive been on. So much air time at the top! Time for some Inverter goodness Hmm, wonder what used to be here? It was cool, a little painfull on the legs though. That top spin in the front there was insane! But ill get to that later Again, really nice park! This tea cup ride was weird, it ran on two tracks. The paratrooper was cool too. Time for lunch! This place served up some good food at a good price as well. When you order a pizza, they give you this little devise. When your pizza is done, it will light up and vibrate. I thought this was pretty cool! Time for some indoor break dancer This one ran a program longer than most of the break dancers ive been on, but either way, I still love these rides! Lets see what kind of a view you get up there Hello mr train! The park as a real "foresty" land scape This thing is crazy! It ran a crazy program! More Adventure Land coming soon!!

I wouldn't be suprized, I got on a film shoot for the show that they did at SFDK on hammer head, it took about 4 and half hours just to film that segment!

It would be cool to see this happen, but it just seems WAY to over the top for it to work. They need to start simple, build the theme and water park, and maybe a hotel. And if that's successful, then they can start expanding. And this thing REALLY didn't make sense. A theme/water park and hotels, it just seemed like another company tiring to make a resort during hard times. But when I heard the stuff about a sports stadium with a NBA team, shopping, schools, etc. that just made me go WTF?! They ACTUALLY think they can pull this off, especially out side of some place like Nashville?(Not saying that Nashville crappy or anything) It just didn't make sense.

What ever happened to that crazy Festival Tennessee idea? Maybe the people behind that and Baker and team up to build Festival Thrill Park!

Hooray for more Schwarzkopf insanity! Ok, so here is the final update from lagoon, ill try the get the next updates for the next park soon. So- the final pictures from lagoon! Time to head to the water park, and the water is FREEZING cold!! They have an awesome kids area These were cool too! The white slide at the bottom left was very cool! There are some nice photo ops of Bombora from the water park This is a Schwarzkopf car, now reach into your screens and pet it... you know you want to! The clouds came in and its started to rain a little, which drove out quite a bit of the crowd! Which means more rides for us! This place does have a really nice back drop! Looks like lagoon got this as well. Don't mind the back of my brothers head, but I just want to point how many people there were making this park all nice and clean! Spinning goodness! Its to started to get darker, so many of the rides started to look all prudy! They have a Himalaya here too I was all little suprized that they allowed single riders on this, Lagoon has a very strange single rider policy that allows absolutely NO single riders in the back seat of ANY of the roller coasters, even the kiddy coaster! Spider and Jet Star 2 dont even allow them at all. Schwarzkopf > Huss enterprises IMO. But it was still a fun ride While going to put something away in the car, I noticed this dark ride tucked away in a corner in the front of the park. It was a strange ride, it was called Dracula's castle or something like that, but it had nothing to do with Dracula, and not much with castles ether. Time to ride the S&S tower, it was OK, not as good as intamin towers IMO. I got the credit!! YEAH!! Guns on a kiddy ride, what a great idea! They have a train! Thanks Lagoon for an awesome day!! Next stop, Adventure land!!

I herd a few from my visit to Mt Olympus the other day- Girl in line for hades- "What ride is that", pointing to the opening of hades, "Is that the red one?" Friend-"No, that one's over there" pointing to the Pegasus area" Other friend- " Hades IS the red one stupid!" In line for Cyclops- Girl- "Man, this sucks! There only running one roller coaster!" Friend-"What are you talking about, I just saw Hades and Zeus running!" Girl- "No, I mean there only running one roller coaster on the Cyclops!" Her friend still looked confused Also in line for Cyclops- The same group from the other Cyclops story noticed that they couldn't all ride on the same cycle, so one of the people in the group asked- "Hey, can we cut in front of you?" Me-"Uh, NO!" I was thinking of saying- "Are you really going to ask a stupid @$$ question like that?" But I didn't. Heres one thats about coaster videos, its not super GP, but it get REALLY annoying to find on all most EVERY coaster/flat ride video there a comment saying - "How does hes not drop the camera?!!" Its probably been sad a few times on this or other treads, but I just had to!

So, sorry that this update took so long, I haven't have internet in these past few hotels. Theres some bad news, Indiana beach was close the day we when due to some power outage. But it was still a great day. Now, some more lagoon. Wicked is still down Yay fire dragon! About a minute or 2 after get of the ride, I noticed something... WICKED IS TESTING!! On of the ride ops told the people waiting for the ride to open that its going to take a while. So time for something else. Time for some Rock o plane. This ride is pretty much ferris wheel meats Zipper. They some times seem pretty rickety, but there awesome! Hello mr. lama Time to eat! This was actually one of the best tasting subways ive been to. BTW, the park lets you bring in out side food if you don't wan't to pay for it. ITS WORLD OF COLOR 2!!!! I did like the architecture of this park, it looked nice. We'll get to this later This ended up being a lot of fun Giant shoe attack! Oh noes! This pirate ship was actually on the water! I spy a credit! But first, one of my favorite areas of the park TUNNEL! Pioneer Village is a nice, historic area which has 2 of the parks water rides The log ride This is where most of the shops and galleries are The goodies in here looked great! Many of the "Shops" are these museum type galleries. The food and drink shops were really shops though. Thought this was something else at first The other water ride is a rapids ride Time for some more Schwarzkopf loopy goodness! 30 years and still totally awesome! While in line, It finally happened.. WICKED IS OPEN!! There was a single rider queue, but 99% of the people in the line weren't single riders, just groups making real single riders wait longer than they should. If you didn't know, Wicked is a Tower launch coaster from Zierer, and is currently the only one of its kind. The seats and lap bars were very comfortable and the ride was very smooth. It felt really cool being blasted up the tower and there was some great air time a the top, and coming down from the tower. Wicked is a great ride to me! I would love to see more of these! Even more lagoon coming soon!

There are 2 loops on the Schwarzkopf looper. 2 awesome loops that is.

Its time for the next park of this trip, Lagoon! Lagoon is a medium sized park just out side of salt lake city, featuring some great rides, water park, and a cool, museum type area called Pioneer Village. I heard mixed things about this park and its rides, but they were both awesome! The park is kind of set up like SFDK due to the fact that most of Lagoon's major coasters are in the front of the park, and they also have some great flats! The parks star attraction Wicked was closed until around 3:30, but more into that later! Its time for the pictures: Were at lagoon! When we got there, they were already testing the rides.. ..all but Wicked The entrance Were in! OMG ITS WORLD OF COLOR!!!! The Carousel, it had a spinning car in it. The ropes are down, lets go see if Wicked is open! What are you looking at? Wicked is still down, so its time for some Schwarzkopf goodness! The station, there is assigned seating and they were running only one train, but that ok since the line moved pretty quick! It my not look like much, but this thing totally kicks butt! Come on guys! I spy a credit! Wild Mouse was a fun ride, but its one of the rougher mice ive been on. RA ima CRAZY spider! Give me some people!! That giant spider leads to The Spider, a Maurer Sohne spinner which is a lot of fun! This ride may look like a normal top spin, but its pretty much a top spin meats water ride. I didn't get to ride it though. YES! They have a rock o plane! But all get to that later Time for the park woody, Roller Coaster, it was actually pretty smooth! Not that much airtime though. This was a strange, old school dark ride and it was pretty cheesy. This may just look like a ball here, but it spun using water which was cool! Time for the parks newest coaster, Bombora. It was pretty fun, a very nice addition to the park. The trains were very comfortable, and there are many larger coasters that could use trains like these. Hello! Im a random train guy! How are you? I spy a Vekoma behind those trees! But first, some more Schwarzkopf. Jet Star 2 was fun, but insane! And by insane, I mean INSANE! Time for Samurai, ive been wanting to go on a top scan for a while now, so I was happy I finally got to ride one! It was different than I expected, but still loads of fun! Since were in Utah, it only makes sense that they have an S&S ride here. They have flyers, and they were awesome! Lots of cable snapping! Now its time for the Vekoma ride, Bat. It was fun with only a little Vekoma roughness. Thanks for reading, more lagoon soon!

Ok, so this summer, my family and I took a BIG road manly on I80 but in other parts of the US as well! The farthest east we went was Indiana which is a pretty far distance from California but we had a great time! So, here is a list of the parks we have hit: Golfland Sunsplash (Below) Lagoon(Pg 1, after SS) Adventure Land(Pg 2) Indiana Beach(Closed) Six Flags Great America(Pg 2, after AL) Noah's Ark(Pg 3) Timberfalls(Pg3 Mt Olympus(Pg3 after NA) Valleyfair!(Pg3 after MO) Mall of America (Pg3 after VF) Fun Plex(Pg3 after MOA) Park City(Pg3 with FP) So with that, its time for Sunsplash! Sunsplash is a smaller sized water park with some great slides and one of the best looking mini golf courses ive ever seen! They have a half pipe slide called Stealth ,which I didn't get a good picture of, and it was ok. The life gard accidentally sent me down backwards which was pretty cool. Now, on to the pictures: ADMIN EDIT: I went ahead and added "Photo TR:" to your thread's title. Thanks for sharing this with us! Into the castle we go! The castle leads to the arcade and and this AWESOME looking mini golf course! I didn't get to play, but it looked like fun! How not to land your plane! I have my sexy wrist band, lets go! Not only is this the name of a pretty awesome video game, its were most of the slides are. First up, there master blaster slide creatively named Master Blaster. Riding this first wasn't a very good idea because it was the fastest moving line at the park, but its still really awesome!! The Green and blue slides are called Dark Tunnel, they don't look like much, but they ended up being a lot of fun! These two slides are called Twin Twisters, they're similar to Dark Tunnel, but not as good. They both had sort lines though! Sunsplash had a fantastic kids area! Which proved to be a lot of fun for the older kids as well! This water play structure was a lot like the one at SFDK, there were to buckets, water guns, and a whole lot more! Don't judge them, there cool too! They also have "not Dan friendly" basket ball! Sunslpash is one of those parks were the slides( in this case 3 slides) dump into the lazy river! Random pipe! Six Shooter (Green and purple) was really fun! I got airtime! The Wave pool The park had a snack bar, which served up some pretty good food at a descent price. This is Vortex, the cute looking, but evil body bowl! This thing is insane! Is he surprised to see you, or feeling something up is anal area? You diside! Stormrider's (Mamoth bowl) bowl and dump area Coming out of the park, I noticed some gokarts Thanks Sunsplash for an awesome day!!

Im 13, and i think my first coaster was a wacky worm at my local fair.

This look great! Calypso looks like a lot of fun!

For the video, I think the main reson this story made the news is to show people how not to say "Tatsu".