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That video is only rivaled by the video Kentucky Kingdom out together for storm chaser.

Kinda crazy to think that a lot of regional parks will be open once again tomorrow.

Here's the announcement! https://www.holidayworld.com/holiblog/2017/11/21/38562/ New slides, wave pool, more for 2018 Holiday World to add Tembo Falls, Tembo Tides, and more SANTA CLAUS, IND.—–Christmas comes early in the town of Santa Claus as Holiday World announces a package full of goodies for their 2018 season. “We’re adding a fun elephant-themed water-play area for younger children,” says park president Matt Eckert. “When we discovered the Swahili word for elephant is Tembo, we named our new slide complex Tembo Falls and the junior wave pool Tembo Tides.” Holiday World will invest a total of $3.5 million in new attractions and other improvements for 2018, including: Tembo Falls – a water slide complex with eight junior slides, including twisters, a helix, a mini-bowl, and two racing slides Tembo Tides – a junior wave pool plus spray features for younger children Huge Themed Maze for Happy Halloween Weekends All new entertainment, including a stunt show, musical magic show, and strolling brass band Track improvements for The Voyage, the world’s second-longest wooden roller coaster Riverside Retreats – mini cabanas in Splashin’ Safari Electric Car Charging Station “Tembo Falls and Tembo Tides are designed for children who are under 54 inches tall,” says Eckert, “but their older siblings and parents are welcome to enjoy the slides and wave pool with them.”

I was there in the middle of August and they were already putting lights up.

Idk if "option" is the right word, but it was on the survey. That's what I thought. I hope a lot of people chose that since I think it would be cool to go into Valravn transfer and check out the maintenance.

Wasn't valravn one of the options for the tour?

Last train of the year on Millennium!

That ride will have amazing views of the lights in the park

That ride will have amazing views of the lights in the park

I feel like maybe for all the Cedar Fair Winterfests and depending on the turnout they'll alter the ride lineups for next year. It's kind of a test year so to speak. Just my 2 cents

Guess I'm lucky they didn't close a couple Saturdays ago when I was there. The weather was dreadful and nothing had full trains but they stayed open. I guess fright fest played into that and since we left at 6 I don't know if fright fest attracted any more crowds.

With Darien being in the spotlight the last couple days, it makes me realize how much I miss ride of steel. God I love that ride.

It's Darien Lake. Let's not get crazy. Oh believe me I know

Hopefully they run more than 1 train on it

This is on the park website.

So another season comes to an end. Big shout out to all the CP staff for making it a great year (looking at you Josh) Don't know how many people have said this but it needs to be mentioned how nice of a guy Jason McClure is. Many people in his position would do everything possible to avoid coaster enthusiasts but when I approached him just to say hello and thanks for a great season and he was very happy to engage in conversation. That goes a long way in guest satisfaction! This year, I decided to go full nerd and count my laps on Millennium. I reached 268 laps which compared to some people isn't much but I was pretty damn happy with that. I'll never get sick of good ole Millennium... Yes screw you enthusiasts! Closing day was sad as always but we bought fastlane and it made for a great day despite the cold temperatures. Finished the season being one of the 36 people on the final train of the year on Millennium. After Millennium we took the long way to get out of the park, taking it all in one last time before spring. As we passed the front sky ride station I happened to notice that one of the "congratulations 1,000,000 rides" signs that they put in ride stations was sitting on top of a garbage can. Since they were just gonna throw it away anyways I decided to take it home with me. I figured certain people here on TPR would appreciate it (ahem coasterbill). Thanks again to CP and all their amazing staff for a great season. Can't wait to come back next year for Steel Vengeance!

The valley was the straight away right before the final helix. If you're standing in the station the ride is coming directly at you before turning.

^Welcome to CP rain policies. You're lucky it's even open.

According to a friend who went in the afternoon, it took him 2 hours to even park. Millennium was 3+ hours. I don't even want to begin to imagine what that looked like.

If credit is required: last car, front row, brace hard. (The airtime on the first drop is quite frightening there!) I've had really good rides and really bad rides in that seat. Definitely your best chance for a good ride.

In other news, Dragster is officially open. Huge props to the CP maintenance team!

Michigan's Adventure anyone?

Josh always has his crew moving like crazy. Thanks for always making the millennium station a great time for me and my friends. You and Jared especially are a ton of fun!

So we were at the park from opening to close Friday (5-11) and from 11am opening Saturday till about 6pm. Friday was extremely crowded due to nice weather (until about 10:30 when it started raining) but we got on an impressive amount of rides for such a crowded day. Getting there early really payed off. Saturday the park was absolutely empty. It was dry for the first half hour or so the park was open but then after that the flood gates opened. A thunderstorm hit which shut down everything besides justice league and dark night coaster. The storms cleared at about 1:30 or 2:00 and the rest of the time was spent walking on everything in the rain. We had been to the park in 2014 when Goliath opened so the only new coasters were joker and if you count Viper backwards. The only coaster here I don't care for is Demon, other than that we were very happy with everything here. Few rides of note: Raging Bull is omfg great in the back row. The trims were not anywhere near as noticeable as they were in 2014. I'm sure they didn't change anything but I didn't notice them as much. Don't understand the hate this coaster gets. We enjoyed it a ton and I would definitely put it in my top 20 if I were to make a list. Goliath was amazing too. I remember it being one of my favorite wooden coasters back when I first rode it in 2014 but I couldn't really remember why. This trip just reconfirmed how great it is. It's not as crazy out of control as other RMCs but the ride is butter smooth, and those inversions are pure bliss. The hand choppers in the first inversion are crazy! Definitely still one of my favorites. Other than that, xflight was a pleasant surprise and a ton of fun, superman is great fun the back, and Batman was as good as always. Viper backwards was much smoother than I expected and I really enjoyed it! We rode in the middle of the car that hits the lift chain first. Joker was also a pleasant surprise. I had heard mixed reviews about these clones but I had a great time each time I rode it constantly giggling throughout! Aside from the rides, fright fest was a total let down. We didn't want to spend $35 for what we expect to be crappy houses and the free stuff was almost non-existent. The "scarezones" each had two actors or less. Not a big deal since we were only there for rides anyways but still disappointing. Food service was slow but not horrible. The only full meal we had was at chop six and it was pretty good! With our season passes that we got for basically nothing from their big sale, we will definitely be back numerous times next year. Scorecard for the weekend: Superman: 1x Darknight: 1x Batman: 2x Joker: 3x (single rider line ftw) Goliath: 5x Columbia Carousel upper level: 1x American Eagle Blue: 1x X-flight: 4x Giant Drop: 1x Viper backwards: 2x Raging Bull: 10x V2: 1x Justice League: 4 (single rider line again!) My pictures are all from my phone and it really didn't like the dark or the rain so not my best quality haha. Hope you enjoyed my report! View from our hotel King Kong was a nice touch I actually really like this picture That's all from rainy Six Flags! Thanks for reading!

Another great report! Love laughing my a$$ off while reading them haha.