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It's painfully obvious that you have no idea what you're talking about, but sure, go ahead and keep digging.

Conneaut Lake Park Too soon?

90 minutes for Corkscrew is a crime against humanity. The rest of that seems rather reasonable. Hope all the first timers got that Fast Lane+!

I am unreasonably excited for an indoor queue on Poltergeist. Looks like they're hard at work!

That's where I was going, just being needlessly controversial.

Captain Marvel

That really surprises me that American Thunder would be so slow. HITP, yes. I've had some near freezing rides where I genuinely thought it would valley. But midsummer? Weird. Batman is still the best coaster at this park, and it's a mirrored version, so definitely worth riding, though I understand your reasons not to. Screamin' Eagle and Boss are both good early season. They do trackwork every offseason on both, but it just doesn't last. By Memorial Day Boss is torn up bad. Screamin' Eagle lasts a bit longer but by this time of year, yeah it's got potholes too. Be glad you didn't have to endure Boss's helix, that thing was demonic. When it was new it was fine, but past about 2005 or so it was just always painful. I agree on the rapids and flume. Not the best but always solid. Definitely needed in the humid Missouri summers. Sorry this park was disappointing, but it was inevitably going to be the low point of your trip. I'm sure this park coming on the heels of SDC factored in too. Oh well. All uphill from here!

Aw, that's sad to hear. It was the third best theme park holiday event in the state.

That all sounds fantastic. They're really doing this right.

Yes, and it is the responsibility of governments to align those interests. You definitely want large employers in your town, but you also want those large employers to pay enough that your cost of services goes down. If you have 10,000 residents who all need EBT and Section 8 and heating subsidies and all that, is that employer really benefiting your town? Probably not. That's where minimum wage laws are actually valuable, they essentially privatize those services by shifting how people pay for necessities from government subsidies to their own paycheck. So when it comes down to large international businesses like this saying "We want an exemption from the law to pay below minimum wage," what they're really saying is "We want the people of this town to pay our employees for us." If you live in that town, you're right to feel that's deeply unfair.

They absolutely are. Add in Sea World and you have a really good time.

^ Yeah for sure. A lot of people who haven't been here make the mistake of assuming this is a Six Flags park.

You are aware that what you just said makes you sound like a d*ck, right?

Awesome day! Glad you made it onto Mystic River Falls, was worried you might have missed out with all that downtime. And you had me going on the cinnamon bread until the very end! The burgers are probably the thing they do the least well. Nothing there is bad at all, but they do other things so much better. 100% good choice on the brisket grilled cheese. That stuff is awesome. The Flooded Mine is a very old ride, over 50 years now. The guns and targets were added in the 1990s, and also the final scene was changed. In the original plot, the prisoners didn't escape, but instead died in the flood while the mine owners left them to their demise because they didn't want to spend the money to save them. It used to have a bunch of ghosts rising ro the top of that lofted room that had laser eyes. It was fantastic. I guess they figured that was too scary or something. Prior to Wildfire, the American Plunge used to be all like that last scene before the tunnel. Its current iteration in the plain concrete tunnel is a dim reflection of what it used to be. Pre-Wildfire Plunge is still the best log flume I've ever been on. Post-Wildfire, still good, just not quite the same. And in fact the American Plunge is itself the second version of that flume. The original was called Jim Owen's Float Trip, and you can see some homages to that ride on the current Plunge as well as elsewhere in the park. That conversion was before my time though, so no idea about the specifics of the Float Trip. Outlaw Run at night is the best choice. No regrats. As to the idea of SDC early on ruining other parks for you, looking forward to how that plays out but knowing you went to Holiday World, I'd say you prolly be aight.

Welcome to Kansas City, where you're getting barbecue...no matter what! Glad you went straight to Spinning Dragons and found Cyclone Sam's. Those are the two tricks to WoF. Your assessment of the park is spot on. I agree that it's not neglected, they just don't see any need for giant new additions in such a small market. I like the small new rides every so often and events like the Grand Carnivale (laughable though the food selection might be). One liiiiitle thing, Worlds of Fun is in Missouri, not Kansas. The Kansas state line is about 13 miles southwest of the park, just west of downtown KCMO. The flatness you saw is northern Missouri, and you think that's flat, wait until you actually see Kansas! That swamp is our very own Truman Lake! You went over it twice on Hwy 13 just south of Clinton. Nearly all lakes in Missouri are dammed rivers, and the vegetation makes them great for fishing. Great report! Glad I could help you breeze right on through the shithole that is Western Missouri, and looking forward to the Branson report!

That better be one hell of an immersive Looney Tunes hotel for the $2000 a room they'd be charging.

Two of those three being fixable ain't bad.

Apparently you haven't experienced the dreaded B&M Rattle. The coaster shakes so violently that it causes extreme discomfort and a strong impulse to post about it on the Internet. It affects 100% of B&M coasters, but only specific seats; specifically, whatever seat the coasterboy was in just now.

Completely agree. What a way to treat the people who create your company's value. It's not like the cost of living in the MD suburbs is 2/3 of what it is in DC, either.

They can just park an RMC engineer there full time like Action Park used to park an ambulance.

Wait, what???? Can you explain this?

I'd be down with that. One of the things I love about Cedar Point is that whenever I need a trash can or a bathroom, there's always one right in front of me. The park just isn't quite at that level with their bars yet.

Always my expectation. That way I'm never disappointed.

I like those rides a lot, and Wicked Twister was the best of them. Hope it finds a home somewhere else (Worlds of Fun maybe??? Please????)

Oh wow, I didn't remember I had guessed that. But thank you, and I will enjoy the walnut chocolate chip cookie!