valleyfairfanatic
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"adult night" event
*shivers* I'm sure security will have fun with this one.
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*gets radioed but doesn't hear it*
*gets radio but takes a while to get radio off belt*
*finally responds to radio call*
*person doesn't respond*
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Radios are the best.
"Can you repeat that?"
"I SAID klajshg;oliw4hog;nuvehtnbldajrkng;l srjbdlskm"
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"copy"
Or:
"Can you meet me somewhere?"
"Okay, what is your location?"
*no reply*
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Dang, when I completed IROC in the middle of summer I was just assigned a ride. Northern and autos was pretty cool though.
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You get to chose your ride when you come back?
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As a former Power Tower loader (I did rides in the fall) it can be pretty great working at a popular ride but also very tough. I hope you don't get stuck with a ride you have to balance though.
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Since this thread has been dead, I figured I might as well start some discussion. Is anyone planning on working at the park this year? I currently I have a interview for a tech job in live entertainment, and will be switching to blackout in haunt. Hopefully all goes well! Although I will definitely miss park services.
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That Valleyfair sucks goat balls.
Valleyfair feels like a children's park
Valleyfair has coasters from the days of Ben Franklin
Valleyfair has defined a new low baseline.
That is haven compared to Valleyfail
I could give 2 pennies that Valleyfail has fun theming and a marching band whistling through it. Give me a B&M. Epic fail.
put some love and care into what is currently a crater of epic fail.
Valleyfail can't even manage that hat trick.
Actually what we get are 2 things: Jack and Squat
Ouimet gives us Jack and Squat.
Valleyfail = Epic Fail
Look at all these Valleytards defending Valleyfail.
Quick Question: What is your opinion on Valleyfair?
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I've heard some rumblings in the metaphorical jungle about the possibility of a winter fest event next year. I wouldn't be to quick to dismiss it. On a different note, anyone planning on working at the park this year? I'm planning on applying for a live e tech spot (this will be my fourth season working)
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North star is a step in the right direction. As a former ride attendant for antique autos and power tower I can confidently say this will not be a ride for the whole family; its geared towards the thrill seekers.
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I heard there will not be any lights on the chains.
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I'm suprised they didn't cover the gondola.
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Looks like they're testing the LED setup.
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^ Attendance in the summer rarely gets to the "3 Train Operation Number". However Haunt is usually when attendance gets that high but by that time they don't have enough operators to put 6 loaders at wild thing only.
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I just wish they did something about the trains in the process.
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If only the color separation was equal
Kinda reminds me of the election. A lot of red and a little blue.
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^Agreed. How does one change one of those cans????
Theres a smaller plastic bin inside the can with two plastic semi circles encircling the top of the inner can. The first bag goes in the plastic bin (not all cans have the plastic bin) and the second bag gets tucked around the plastic semi circles (this is the part where the bag usually doesn't hold)
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It's easy to get to the station and stair trash cans, and up to the first tunnel. I usually hit up the tunnel cans in the morning or when the line dies so I don't have to shove through people with a huge bag full of trash and have it break somewhere in the middle of all of them.
I'm curious, what's your record for the number of trash bags for one can?
My worst fear right there, bag breaking with guests around. I think my record was 3-4 bags last year when the schools went and ate lunch near the dino hill so the cans got slammed pretty quick. Probably one of my worst cans was a planet snoopy style can in dinos with no bag that was filled to the brim. If theres one general improvement I'd like to see valleyfair is the replacing of the planet snoopy cans with the regular ones; way too heavy to lift if filled with water or trash and the bags never say secured inside so you end up scooping a lot of the trash out by hand.
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First year working in Park Services in '14 I was at thunder canyon and about 6 gallons of trash juice went straight into my shoe. There's a reason why associates really hate going to queue lines. For me personally i've been working there long enough to know that its necessary to change them so I no longer mind it but its pretty evident which ride's have successful sanitary maintenance based off where the cans are located. Nothing better than trying to change the can in the renegade queue tunnel when its full of people.
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Oh god, please no more trash cans than necessary! Let's hope that the queue line is easy to understand and get into so that poor park service peeps don't avoid it and let it build up and get all gross.
Ugh. Too many bad memories of too full trash cans. Ugh.
As a three year Park Services employee (going on four) we're definitely ok with the trashcans we have. And I definitely support the idea of having an easy queue line because harder to get to rides in regards to trash cans (renegade, wildthing,corkscrew, power tower) almost never get attention from garbage teams because of that.
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Stuff that left with a big announcement and going away celebration:
Excalibur
Stuff they just demolished in the off-season:
Chaos
Antique Autos
Imax
HydroBlaster
Haunt struck me as kind of an off year as far as decoration and staffing. I did go through Chateau because I had been through in the lights on tour and knew the general layout and where the monsters might hide, and Beserkers where everyone went through as a group.
Excalibur is still here.
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It is the last weekend of the season . I'm looking forward to 2017 Northstar opening next season. Are we going to see any more rides leaving in 2018 for new ones? Was Northstar in this year's budget?
I actually heard a rumor from another employee that Looping Starship might not be back next season due to maintenance issues, but that is just a rumor so don't quote me on that. Regardless, if Looping Starship was removed, I don't think many tears would be shed.
Highly unlikely that they'll just pull a ride like that after the season is over; I'd imagine they'd have a pretty big PR issue on their hands if they just pulled a ride without warrant.
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Just was at the haunt rehearsal. I must say Berserkers was impressive. Its different and you'll be suprised. Everything else was OK
I was there as well and can back this statement up. However, I believe Berserkers is more of a theatrical attraction rather than scares-around-every-corner type of maze.
Valleyfair (VF) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Disappointed that they're cutting the fireworks down to only two days during the season unlike the previous years.