
ImmelMatt
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I'm a know-it-all about donkeys!
- Birthday 01/17/1987
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Rank Your Home Park's Coasters
ImmelMatt replied to Imagineer Josh's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Valleyfair 1. Renegade 2. Wild Thing 3. Steel Venom 4. Corkscrew 5. High Roller 6. Excalibur 7. Mad Mouse -
Valleyfair (VF) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to the_rock401's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Asked the Enterprise crew today. Last day is August 24th. Get your last rides in. -
Valleyfair (VF) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to the_rock401's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Some "red-headed stepchild" parks don't even get capital investments year after year. The fact that we're getting anything is good news, and a Star Flyer will add something new to the skyline. You're right, it's not a roller coaster, but it is going to give Valleyfair an update on it's curb appeal from the highway. -
All the RMCs, originals and Iron Horse conversions All the Intamin MegaLites El Toro Nemesis Ultra Twister (Rusutsu Resort) Dodonpa X2 Boulder Dash Balder Blue Fire Maverick Cheetah Hunt Phoenix Flying Turns Bizarro (SFNE) Jack Rabbit (Kennywood) Phantom's Revenge The Beast Also, everything at Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, and Phantasialand.
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Pokemon GO at Theme Parks!
ImmelMatt replied to Peeps28's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I've been enjoying this game fully for the past week. My strongest Pokemon so far is a Hypno with CP912 and I just need two more Eevees to have enough candy to evolve my strongest one. I'm going to try to use the naming hack to get a Flareon. What's really amazed me about this game isn't how many people got on board (it was always expected this would be huge since it was announced), but how many complete strangers are socializing with one another over this game. I went to Valleyfair and MOA this weekend for Pokemon Go, and usually when I go to places like this, nobody says "boo" to me. I w -
Phantasialand Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to roeterich's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
No matter the cost, no matter the sacrifice, I must ride this before I die -
Adventureland (Iowa) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to rbpia's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
EDIT: Ignore this... I can't figure out how to delete this double post... -
Adventureland (Iowa) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to rbpia's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Yeah, the big indoor ride you're seeing is The Underground. Don't get your hopes too high. It is an indoor wooden roller coaster but it rides more like a dark ride than a coaster. That said, Adventureland does have quite the eclectic coaster lineup. Besides Underground, the park has one of the very few Hopkins coasters (Dragon), an early-age CCI (Outlaw), and their oldest coaster Tornado. It's part of the charm though. You get the feeling it's a park that has no interest in following trends or chasing records and is perfectly content to be the nice little park it is. -
Adventureland (Iowa) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to rbpia's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
If you're staying in Des Moines, then at some point you should definitely go to Zombie Burger for lunch or dinner. It's about 10-15 min from the park. Well worth it as the food options are pretty blah once you're inside the park. As for the park itself, Storm Chaser is like nothing in Minnesota, so if you've never been on a Windseeker or a Starflyer, that would be a must. G-Force is a great spinning ride inside an arcade. Great to ride if you need to get out of the sun for a bit. Sidewinder is an outside-facing Frisbee, unlike Mutant Masher at NU@MoA, and the outside ones are more fun in m -
Most Overrated coaster?
ImmelMatt replied to BlackWidow's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
This was Alpengeist for me. It's gorgeous and massive but it rode rather "meh" for me. The flow of elements didn't feel natural like it did on other inverts I'd ridden. Still a great coaster, but not one of the best inverts ever like I had been led to believe. -
Valleyfair (VF) Discussion Thread
ImmelMatt replied to the_rock401's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I love Wild Thing's crew, but I have to give props to Excalibur's crew as well. They have a lot of energy and hustle for a one-train operation at a dead-end of the park. Their operations are what make it so I end up riding it more than once. -
Your coaster ranking Hot Buttons?
ImmelMatt replied to Buckeye Brad's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
The overall ride experience is the biggest sell for me. Airtime, elements, intensity, the whole shebang, and followed by that is re-rideability. Setting though will often get a few brownie points. I might consider a coaster that is merely a good experience on its own to be a great experience if it uses terrain or goes through the woods or over a lake, etc.