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I had the opportunity to ride northern lights today! 1) Its a lot of fun, I was very surprised! It had a lot of airtime and was actually pretty fast! 2) Its ok, I got a pretty bad headache on renegade,i'm just not a huge wooden coaster fan. 3) It was pretty cool, I saw some REALLY weird music videos, they did have a constant cycle going of mostly the same stuff, They did have trivia and sports updates which was a nice touch. Mr.Frazier really did well with route 76

Who is going on opening day? I'll be sporting my TPR shirt! Can't wait to get back on wild thing

Anyone notice on the top of power tower it looks like there is a train up there?

Yes, valleyfair's only competition is Nickelodeon universe, but that is a very small park. I could see major growth going to valleyfair but we seriously need to give some feedback to cedar fair. I know, valleyfair doesn't have much of a market but I think cedar fair could send some rides to us hopefully in the near future.

Yeah I asked him that question, Its going to be interesting this year, Last year they only had one swing running, anyone know why?

I caught scrambler with its light display going, It looks fantastic!

This is all great news, I had a couple Ideas for renegade as well that I might submit to Mr. Frazier, By the way, how were you able to tour the park, I'd love to meet mr. frazier? I think the improvements to renegade will be fantastic because it does give me headaches periodically and sometimes I skip riding renegade all together. Is it me, or when I go on renegade the edge of the lap bar sticks into my side when I go over the airtime hills, and it is somewhat painful and I have side pain after the ride, Is that happening to you also? I'm just a little concerned about it.

I'll be there also on those exact same days, I hope I can get my Club TPR membership in by then, I will always be wearing a TPR shirt when I go so you'll probably see me a few times

If you guys haven't noticed the webcam is back up!

They could put a very nice water slide there, I hope they could put in a drop panel slide or a looping one, that would actually make me want to go into soak city

Oh china, only you would put chickens under a roller coaster. I guess you could say some coasters have pecking orders *ba dum tss. btw i commented

Wow, that looks fantastic, I can't wait to ride it this year, It will be interesting if the light packages and the rethemed rides will draw more attention and more riders, I might just have to ride scrambler and tilt a whirl. What do you guys think about northern lights? Do you think its good? Or do you think valley fair could have done with out it?

Exactly what I said back on Page 130

Yeah, High Roller actually is a pretty decent coaster, even if it is trimmed a bit. High roller actually has a lot of airtime if you sit in the back, I actually ride it every time I visit the park (Which is usually 3 times a week)

My list is 1) Steel Venom 2) Wild Thing 3)Corkscrew (I know, I know its an arrow loop and screw, even though they aren't the best i really enjoy corkscrew 4) Renegade 5) Power tower 6) Excalibur 7) High roller 8) Mad Mouse

Hi robb, I was wondering where is the best place to get new or used roller coaster parts, because I think a wheel or a bolt from a coaster would be fantastic in a collection. Sorry if this is a horrible question

I believe it is just the first sign Excalibur's eventual removal. If the drink stand made money it would still be there. Excalibur and Thunder Canyon just don't draw enough people back there to make it work and with Excalibur's reduced operating time than the rest of the park that did not help it. And why not remove it and get it under budget in a year when you are also removing IMAX and Hydroblaster. The question is how many years until VF gets a new coaster to replace it? Probably not next year with the expected water park expansion but the year after that and beyond we can only speculate. I think it will be sooner rather than later with the removal of the drink station now but that is just opinion. I think it will be removed the 2015 season, but i think the roller coaster that replaces it will be around 2016 or 2017. 2016 is the parks 40th anniversary but that is not a stable reason to bet on. My personal opinion is it will come in 2017 because the water park expansion will be very spendy and I think they will use the 2016 to save up for the coaster because they spent a lot of money on the water park expansion

Son of Beast Cyclops (Mt. Olympus Hades 360 Demon (Six flags great america) I know I'm going to get crap for saying that Vekoma Slcs

My twitter is @coasterguy246 i mostly post ride updates

Valleyfair was featured in the movie Little Big league

Valleyfair has some bad operation on looping starship, the cotton candy stand at valley fair was producing a bad of cotton candy ever 15 to 20 mins

Do you think there is a possibility of a lake erie eagles kinda flat ride? That wording of the announcement could be a pun or it could be not even related to the ride

If Excalibur does get removed, what do you think would go there? My guess would be a cheap invert or a maverick style coaster. I know its a long shot but I'm up for anything really, except a vekoma SLC I would not like to see that coming to the park. Do you guys think there is a possibility of a slingshot ride at valley fair? Cedar point is receiving one this year. Has anyone thought of the possibility of a floor less? Its kinda slipped under my predictions because i've been mainly focusing on the possibility of an invert. Im up for suggestions

I'm going to sign up for this tomorrow for valley fair

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