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Yes, if you have 2 days in St. Louis, absolutely spend an entire day at City Museum. It's more fun than Six Flags is. Honestly.

Yes, I've done this many times. They will fill any bottle with water, or give you a cup of water for free if you don't have a bottle of your own.

First they will have to blowtorch all the blemishes out of the track, so they'll have to blowtorch the entire track. Next they'll have to relocate the supports so they go east past Tidal Wave and down into the valley. Then instead of having two 110-foot lifts, they'll have to combine them into one 220-foot lift. Finally, they'll get B&M to re-manufacture all the track, and they can re-open it!

I saw a billboard today for our local zoo advertising its Pokestops. If they can sell tickets that way, go for it.

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Powder Keg this afternoon.

Haters gonna hate. I've always said you're going to have a good time at Six Flags, unless you're determined not to. Guess we know his determination.

I doubt it. Justice League is a pretty serious investment on its own. If you haven't been on it before, it's a seriously great ride. Best dark ride I've ever been on, bar none. Though I should stipulate that I haven't been to Universal or Disney (hoping to remedy that possibly this fall!).

I fail to see how this is a bad thing. So parks are taking advantage of the game and encouraging people to go outside, come to the parks, walk around and have fun in addition to riding coasters and stuff? I'm sorry but anyone who thinks this is not good for parks or for humanity is a complete moron. All I ask is that people play safe, follow the rules, and don't do stupid crap. But we didn't need Pokemon Go for this to be an issue. I don't think that Pokémon Go is a bad thing in any way and I really like it. I was just saying that it's going to get sort of dangerous if people start getting careless. <--Being what "out of hand" is referring to. I see like everyone on their phones at parks and I'm starting to get worried. Wait, I'm confused. Are you suggesting humanity wasn't stupid and wasn't always on their phones BEFORE Pokemon GO???? Yeah, stupid people are going to be stupid with anything. We had a great time playing Pokemon Go at Worlds of Fun last weekend. It's cool to see SeaWorld putting on such a great event. Glad you had fun!

I only rank the top ten; I don't really care to decide which is the 46th and 47th, as they're about equal and I'd probably be riding something else. Three parks have 2 rides in my top ten: Cedar Point - Millennium Force, Magnum XL-200, and Maverick Kings Island - Beast and Diamondback Silver Dollar City - Outlaw Run and Wildfire

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I tend to rank coasters by "given the choice, with both coasters available to me right now, no waiting, which one would I pick?" And I would choose Lightning Run over Storm Chaser. Both are absolutely excellent, though, and you can't go wrong either way.

Its not that special. The food is great but the original is just a corner bar. http://chickiesandpetes.com/location/the-original-at-robbins-ave/ There are like 10 of them all over Philly tho, I work in South Philly, Im about a 5 minute walk from that location. A corner bar with great food is my idea of special!

As a parent, I can't say enough good things about this game. Getting my children to take a walk around the neighbourhood has always been a chore. Getting them to go Pokémon hunting is easy! We had a blast with this game at Worlds of Fun last weekend too. For all the haters, just don't go anywhere you shouldn't be. But that's always been true.

Chickie's and Pete's is awesome. Out where I live, the location at Worlds of Fun is the only one in the state. We eat there every time we go. It'd be cool to experience the full-scale version.

^ That is the correct answer. Everything else is fighting for second place. A great candidate for second place is Thunderbird fudge at Holiday World.

I'm pretty sure there are laws against a for-profit corporation having people work for free.

Prowler this afternoon!

Today is the day. We have been watching our son grow ever closer to that most magical of childhood milestones, 4 feet tall. We measured him ourselves at home earlier in the week, and we realized the truth. We had been planning a trip to Worlds of Fun this weekend, so this was perfect timing. Yesterday we focused on Oceans of Fun, and spent most of our time at the Coconut Cove pool. My youngest is now 42", so she tried out the Aruba Tuba double slide. She liked the slide itself, but not the splash down. She does like all the Paradise Falls slides, so we had a good time. A thunderstorm rolled through about 5:30, and we were tired from a long hot day, so we left. Today was the day for Worlds of Fun. First order of business was the magical wristband. We went to Guest Services and were measured. The employee had to measure him twice to be sure, but there was no doubt about it. The +1 Bracelet of Greater Coaster Smiting was ours. Minimum level to equip: 48". Dude. You are in for an awesome day. We had arrived at opening, so we started with an old favourite, Spinning Dragons. If you're going to ride this one, you have to get it in early. Like previous visits, it spun profusely and produced laughter in large quantities. Unlike previous visits, it was not the only big coaster we can ride. Next we went to Prowler and walked on to the front row. This would be the first of many walk ons today. Evan had ridden Screamin' Eagle, so Prowler isn't too much of a step up. It was awesome! It's hard to tell with a non-verbal kid, but Evan seems to like wooden coasters better than steel. I judge by facial expressions and the volume of noises he makes. Prowler produced very loud giggles and very big grins the whole time. I think it's a new favourite. Skipping Boomerang, we went to Fury of the Nile. This ride spins more than most rapids rides I've been on, and I think that's most of its appeal to Evan. Plus, it was hot today, so even at 10:30, we were ready to cool off. Next up was Mamba. This is twice as tall as any coaster Evan had ridden so far. It's visible all over the park, and he's been pointing at it for a while now, but it's a big step up for him. The first half he was just hanging on, but he liked the helix (I've noticed that helices are one of his favourite elements), and the bunny hops at the end are where the smile broke out. When we hit the brakes, he smiled and said "Whoa!" It was fun if a bit intense. Timber Wolf was up next. It was hard to say whether he liked this or Prowler more. Timber Wolf's rough second half was better than the newly retracked section. Interesting, but not too surprising to me. I don't do spinning rides, so we skipped Cyclone Sam's. My wife generally likes spinning rides, but she won't go on that one again. That left Detonator as the last new ride. I'm not sure he liked it. He wasn't afraid of it, more bewildered by what had just happened. We then made our way back around, reriding Mamba and Prowler and hitting up Monsoon, Scandi Scrambler, Viking Voyager, and Grand Carrousel to finish off the day. What's behind Timberwall? Genie lift THROUGH THE TREES! Nothing to see here. Move along. Timber Wolf was okay. Giant freakin' puddle is where it's at! Boomerang doing its thing. It's a trap! This guy was chomping on an actual birds' nest. The youth of today have no respect for their elders. I have a theory about the Mamenchisaurus. All Mamenchisaurus are thin at one end... ...much, much thicker in the middle... ...and thin again at the far end. But why you really come back here is for awesome views of Prowler like this one! Oh yeah, and T. Rex. Because T. Rex is awesome. And then on to new adventures. Uh...fossil guys? You missed one. Our first new conquest of the day!

I'm sorry you were taught that in a college classroom. I would encourage you to forget everything you learned, as what you've stated above is terrible scholarship. Literature must always be placed in its proper context, and for Genesis, the context was that the Israelites, newly escaped from slavery in Egypt, were suffering an identity crisis. Moses wrote Genesis to tell them who they were and where they came from. Genesis should be studied in that context, as a religious and political text. Moses was both, as ancient rulers often were. To derive anything scientific from Genesis is to do exactly what Ken Ham does. Your interpretation of "firmament" is exactly the same as Ken Ham's. Where that comes from is an attempt to reconcile young earth theory with the fossil record. We know scientifically that in the age of dinosaurs, the world was much warmer than it is today. As plants and animals died and were buried under layers of sediment, that carbon was trapped in the earth, eventually to become oil, which cooled the earth due to a weaker greenhouse effect. This process requires millions of years to accomplish, which is a problem for Ham and his ilk. So they found a verse in Genesis that says there was a firmament, and described it in scientific terms as a worldwide vapour cloud, which would have warmed the earth and been able to be destroyed quickly. Bam! Problem solved! Oh, and where did oil come from? Never mind that.... So you may not believe what he does, but what you were taught in that class comes straight out of his textbook. That's no literary study; it's an attempt to get his line of thinking legitimized by being taught in a college. Scary stuff.

No. Just to be a jerk. Have you been to a Renaissance Faire?

^ LOL. Yeah, every attempt I've seen to validate Ken Ham's BS just seems more convoluted than his arguments. Here are the facts, and I'm going to keep this in the context of this theme park and Ken Ham's preaching in general. I am quite familiar with Answers in Genesis and what they're all about. The fact is that Christianity teaches that God created the world. It doesn't say anything about Pangaea or plate tectonics or a vapour cloud or anything of the sort. It doesn't say anything about chemical additives to food or pollution. Science teaches us about those things; Christianity does not. You cannot possibly say that Christianity agrees with plate tectonics because it doesn't. It also doesn't disagree with plate tectonics. It doesn't say anything about plate tectonics at all. Only through science do we know about it, not religion. There is no such person as an evolutionist. Ken Ham tries to say that evolution is a religious idea that can be believed or disbelieved. It's nothing of the sort, and that's the danger of what he preaches. It allows people to disbelieve scientifically proven theories. The story of Noah is a religious story. I agree that you should put it in its own context, and that context is religious, not scientific. If you believe that Noah existed, that's a religious belief. If you don't believe he existed, that's a religious belief. Noah didn't live to be 950 because of a vapor cloud or a lack of chemical additives in food--because those are scientific hypotheses. We can test whether eating food without chemical additives causes extreme longevity. We can use computer models to test whether a vapour cloud over the entire earth would cause extreme longevity. That makes these questions scientific. Science cannot tell us whether Noah lived to be 950, because that's a religious question. You're free to believe anything you want about it. Ken Ham provides religious answers to scientific questions, and as such comes up with complete nonsense that has no relevance in either field. That's why he is worthy of ridicule. I do believe that he preaches what he believes, and that he is very sincere in those beliefs. He is free to believe whatever he wants. He is also free to say what he believes in a public forum, just like all of us are. But his anti-scientific message is dangerous to our society and should be refuted sternly.