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Yep, back up and viewable now. It works for me, at least.

Just tried the link you posted, and got this: But until that gets fixed, it's on their Facebook page and working just fine. [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew]

All I can add here is that Great America is completely unpredictable when it comes to crowds. If you're just going for a few hours at night, I'd recommend just using the normal lines Thursday night, and then splurge on either Gold or Platinum Flash Passes on Saturday.

Fixed that for you. Awesome video Robb, I like these log flume videos way too much.

It's hidden behind the Season Pass Portal, you get to enter the park 30 minutes before opening. Unless I'm interpreting the site wrong, it doesn't look like any of the rides would be open, though. Here's what they have on their site: All of them. But Monday-Thursday would probably be the least busy, but I'm not sure that's saying much.

Sorry about the double post, but this was to good to not post. They already offer that. It's called a regular Dorney Park season pass.

They already offer that. It's called a regular Dorney Park season pass. It works on a couple waterpark attractions, so you might actually have a line to skip for those.

Dorney is now offering an All-Season Fast Lane Plus.

They started a countdown on their website. As of right now, 9 days 10 hours until the announcement!

Maybe Valleyfair got them, because they got new trains for High Roller this year.

Magnum. That thing really beat me up. I loved the airtime on the bunny hops, but the valleys between them sucked. The first half of the ride was fun, it's just the return trip is awful. I will say that coasterbill saved my life with the seatbelt trick, though.

Nice job on your first TR! It was a great read and I'm excited to read the upcoming installments! Between your and Boldikus' trip reports, I'm seriously considering stopping here next year. It looks like a great park with an awesome mix of Steel and old fashioned wooden coasters.

This isn't really a sunset picture, but I like it nonetheless

I'm guessing the 21 minute dispatches were with VR?? Even so that's godawful, I know DDD has had horrendous dispatches with VR but I don't think they've been close to 21 minutes. Oh, I forgot about VR. But still, that's totally unacceptable, even with VR. Really hoping that VR gets turned off the major attractions at parks.

Yeah, they are incredible this year. I was always impressed that I was on the lift hill while the other train was still running the course. Doesn't happen all that often. I also have to give it to the Rougarou crew. They were running to dispatch half empty trains. All of CP's operations are better than average, but those ones stuck out to me. Also, 21 minutes??? What on Earth could possibly cause a 21 minute dispatch. That's longer than most of the lines we stood in during our last trip to CP.

EDIT: Have to add this one. It's from the "Most Over-Rated Coaster?" Thread. It's back from March (I just hit the first read post button, and this came up).

You've got to be more specific. Really, China is a haven for terrible coasters, your description could lead to any number of rides over there.

Park in the normal parking lot, and walk to the marina gate. The marina gate is actually under Valravn, so you're pretty much there the second the gates open. Try and get to the park about 20-30 minutes early, because it's about a 10 minute walk from the parking lot to the gate, and you also want to be one of the first ones at the gate, because a line does develop to get in, and Valravn can jump up to a 45 minute wait pretty fast.

Yep, and the paratrooper is fun being right over the water. Also, DO NOT miss the drop tower tower. Don't let it's height fool you, it is one of the most intense drop towers I've been on.

I have actually found this craze to be pretty amusing, seeing how far people will go to "catch" a Pokemon. As long as they aren't being stupid while playing the game, I say let them have some fun. And if it gets them outside, there's an added bonus for the players. Also, thought that I'd add that it's not just amusement parks tapping into the Pokemon Go market. We were eating at an A&W restaurant yesterday and they were doing some deal/promotion for Pokemon Go players. While advertising that there were Pokemon to be found in the restaurant. Shift 6 If you're on mobile (Android or Apple), it's on the third page of the keyboard.

Wouldn't VR just worsen this problem? From what I've heard, VR makes load/unload times unbearable and Pony Express isn't going to get any additional ride time from it.

I'm looking forward to all the new videos! It's nice to hear some commentary behind the videos again! This is seriously one of the best-looking trips I've ever seen. I really need to get to these European parks sometime, I just have no idea when I'll be able to get to one. Thanks for the 5 weeks of awesome trip reports!

You get 30 minutes of ERT on Fury with your pass.

I haven't been, but if I were in your position, I would definitely choose Germany to get to Europa Park.

Just spent about an hour and a half writing a trip report, and when I hit the save draft button, it logged me out, and deleted all of my progress.