GCI Wooden

11:00 AM Eastern. It is in 1 hour and forty minutes currently.

Blue Lightning- Construction complete! Construction is complete, all that is left to do is landscape and start testing. We will start testing as soon as we can. The queue and station has already been completed. You have to see this beast, it's huge! Construction is complete! This is the layout, both inversions are pictured. This is going to be a very wild ride! This is the crazy turn-around after the loop. After the turn-around you get thrown into a corkscrew! After the corkscrew is a 360 degree helix. This is the station and lift hill. I'll leave you with a very beautiful loop. This area will be landscaped and testing will begin soon!

Granted, but you get into a crash and go bankrupt. I wish that there were more GCI coasters near me.

I've been on Valleyfair's Northern Lights which is the same as Pipe Scream. It is not thrilling by any stretch of the imagination, however it's a really fun ride, few moments of weightlessness, and the spinning is great. If possible try to get as far away from the center as possible. It has some great laterals in the back.

Wow, that is huge! This is going to be great, It's either a coaster or several flat rides, I'll definitely be checking for an announcement, any idea on when that would be?

Granted, but Google couldn't afford the cost of maintaining a website, so it died. (That's youtube too) I wish that rides never broke down.

Hydra The Revenge @ Dorney Park Sunkid Biga Coaster. Good Luck. Yes that is Biga, not giga.

Ok, first off, I want to apologize for my short posts before, unfortunately I don't know how to delete those posts so I guess I'll have to live with those elements of my own stupidity. Our construction workers have been working around the clock and have already finished the loading area and the lift hill. Construction workers are beginning the walls on the station. This is going up very quickly! The station, walls are already going up! The lift is already completed! There is going to be a loop here above a small area of water! View of all the construction, this should be testing soon. I'll update again when track is completed!

About that water jumping ride, TPR did something like that on a trip to Europe. I'm not one for water rides, but this actually looks fun.

New for Cedar Valley- Blue Lightning! Cedar Valley is proud to announce that for the third operating season, we will be adding a double looping coaster that will leave you breathless. This new monstrosity is 89 feet tall and 47 MPH! With over 1400 feet of terror, you will be relieved when the brakes kick in. The tallest and fastest ride in the park will be open to the public opening day next year! Height: 89 feet Drop: 84 feet Speed: 47 MPH Length: 1408 feet Inversions: 1 vertical loop, 1 corkscrew G-force: 4.4 G's, -1.1 G's Manufacturer: Arrow Dynamics Our construction crews have already began working, I'll post more pictures when vertical construction begins!

Jerry Whitman- Manager You won't need a wet suit.

I will not be adding any custom scenery to this park. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Whitman- Manager This will make you dizzy.

The queue lines look very realistic, I'm excited to see what happens to this park.

I think that would be a great idea! The land behind it, where the bumper boats used to be, is also vacant. I could see a large flat ride back there, like a Huss Giant Frisbee. But, I don't think that would mesh well with the Route 76 branding of the area. I'd think the more likely option for that building's plot would be a few smaller flat rides more in keeping with the Route 76 theme, like Flying Scooters from Larson Int'l Inc., or - if they want to go a little bigger - a Booster from Huss. I don't think that the Boooster would fit in to the 70's section of the park, but I would love to see some flying scooters. However, I think that a Huss Giant Frisbee would fit into Route 76 as well as Steel Venom.

It makes it sound like they were stuck upside down for a few years. This happened at Valleyfair a couple years ago. Trapped over a hundred feet in the air, having to actually walk down stairs, we report the tragic happenings at Valleyfair. Not hyped at all.

Jerry Whitman- Manager This is something major.

Avatar Airbender at Nickelodeon universe. I wish there were more Intamin half pipe coasters out there.

Oh, the way the news article made it sound was Millie was stuck in the actual ride portion, Iron Dragon was a delicate rescue situation and the whole park was without power. The world will end. Back to you in the studio.

It says that millennium stopped near the bottom of one the hills, is this mid-course because if it is, why would it happen?

I just remembered, that building were you used to by tickets for go-karts and mini golf is still there. Do you think that in the near future we could see that taken down and replaced by a flat ride?

Which employees? When I am there I will ask the Dippin Dots guy what he thinks . Actually, I believe that Looping Starship may be on its way out as well, I haven't seen a full load on thing ever.

Cedar Valley Construction? John Warren- 31- Repeat guest Hello, this is my 3rd time at the park and I loved it. I noticed that there is new stuff in the park, as well as some construction. I'm not going to keep you hanging on what I saw so on to photos! The landscapers are amazing here, definitely one of the prettiest parks I have ever been to. This was taken during loading of Discord, you get a great view of Breeze. While I was on Discord I saw a large area of cleared land. This was the best picture I could get of it because of all the trees. This was taken from Avalanche's lift, in the background you can see the cleared land. The sunset is beautiful, and Breeze is the perfect ride to just relax on. The food court has some new lights. In northern Minnesota there aren't many city lights so you can see lots of stars. Breeze looks wonderful at night. Discord and Breeze look beautiful together, and the background makes me exited for the future! Overall I am really curious as to what is going on in that cleared area, it's either a coaster or a major flat ride. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Whitman- Manager Cedar Valley Just to let everyone know, we will be teasing you as to what this mystery expansion is.

Cedar Valley opening day Season 2! Jerry Whitman- Manager of Cedar Valley Cedar Valley is entering its second season. There were only minor cosmetic changes done to the park because of the expense of opening a new park. However, things did get changed during the off-season so lets check it out! The park was very busy for opening day, I hope that attendance is up all year so we can afford more attractions! We planted trees around Ladybug Run to make it a more adventurous ride and to make the loading area shady. We changed Whirler's color scheme to red and blue. It looks much better than it did before The food court was very busy today, this is the busiest I have ever seen it! Discord was running at full capacity today! Breeze was broken down for most the day, but our mechanics spring into action! This is the view from the lift of Avalanche, we planted hundreds of trees to enhance the feeling of speed! Here are some aerial shots of the park. As you can see we added lots of landscaping this year. In this picture you can see the new paint on whirler, the new shaded queue for Ladybug Run, and the hundreds of trees to make our 2 coasters more fun! Whirler was very popular today, it looks much more appealing with the new paint job. This is a view of all the trees in Avalanche's area. The park is very beautiful at night. This is whirler at night. This is Avalanche dominating the treeline. Discord is covered with lights that look amazing at night. By the end of the day Breeze was back up and running. This was also a very good opening day, just like last year. The future is very bright for Cedar Valley! Once again I will add that if you have any ideas as to how this park could be better please post it!

Cedar Valley- Last day of the first operating season Daniel Castor- 23 year old guest Hey everybody, this is my second time visiting the park and I am here on the last day of the season! Cedar Valley is located in northern Minnesota so there is a long off-season because of the treacherous winters. I didn't see any activity that hinted towards construction, so I don't think that next year will be anything major. The weather was perfect, it was 66 degrees and sunny, couldn't ask for better than that. Here are a few pictures I took a on my trip. I love walking into the park because of the beautiful landscaping. This park definitely has charm, something lacking in most regional amusement parks. Discord was my first stop, and it was a walk-on! I like it! I was very dizzy when I walked off this ride. My next stop was Whirler, it has a long line but it moves fairly quickly. My only complaint is the color scheme, it is REALLY ugly. Next up was Avalanche. This woodie has the most airtime I have ever experienced. Well worth the wait. I went for the back seat, you get lots of airtime when you get whipped over the tops of hills, especially the first drop and quadruple-down! I decided to ride again, this time in the front. It is a much better ride in the back. But the front is good because even at halfway through the ride, you can see the entire layout of this remarkable coaster. The line was short for Ladybug Run, so I decided to try it. Yes I am pitiful for going on the kiddie coaster, but I was comforted by the fact that I wasn't the only 20 year old on it alone. (I asked the other 20 year old and he said he was from TPR) I love the look of these benches, it adds to the charm of the park. The line for Breeze died down so I decided I'd try it. I was pleasantly surprised with it. Nice calm ride. The Line for Avalanche was extending out of its queue for most of the day, and I decided it would be the last ride of the day for me. So I'll leave you with this, a picture of the park taken from Avalanche's lift. I am exited to see what Cedar Valley does next year, even though I don't think it will be much.

The Carowinds website says that this is the biggest announcement in Carowinds History, does that mean that it is the biggest investment in park history? I believe the parks largest investment was Intimidator at $23 million, and Carowinds has been set up with $50 million to use so a $30 million dollar coaster may be coming our way!