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I'm back with another trip report, as promised! We did yet another full, long day at CGA and Haunt. While I intended to be back home at 11:00, I wasn't home until just after midnight, ended up staying longer than planned, plus having work today This past weekend was the first weekend of Snoopy's Costume Party so most of the crowds were the younger set. All of the 'big kid rides' had little to no wait and sadly, Demon was down all day, Grizzly was down for a while. Haunt... This time we got in 15 minutes early and there were only 3 groups including ourselves at the Boofet. We were the first people to hit up CarnEvil/the only ones to do so while the other 2 groups went to the Overlord Resurrection. After heading out of CarnEvil we just caught the Overlord's speech, and our group of 5 grew to 7 as we met up with Flagg o'Dim and rjvader. From there we jammed back to hit up Toy Factory (M4 had a line already built up) which was no wait. There were some good startle moments in here however the ending elements of TF were a bit...flabby and not firm. Next up we do Corn Stalkers which was yet another walk right in, no line. Like last time, this maze provided plenty of good startles and plenty of hidden monsters to ambush you. Highlight: Towards the end, there's me, cousin behind me, and rjvader behind her. Somehow one of the talent slips in and is stalking my cousin for several seconds. When she looks behind her, she gets a faceful and a healthy scare! Now that crowds dispersed some, we hit up M4 which was about 5 minutes or so. We had to split 4 and 3 so the first group consisted of Blue Fire Guy, Flagg o' Dim, rjvader, and myself. Plenty of startle moments again in this maze as we're all laughing at each other's reactions. Again, plenty of detail in this maze and a ton of potential hiding spots for talent to come out at you. Love the maggots on the table We decide to carry on and do the mazes in 'order' by hitting up Slaughter House...which was probably the least standout of the night...however one portion did stink pretty bad...someone forgot deodorant or was it theming? Club Blood was nice to come back to again, minus the fact that my ear got screamed in by one of the talent (it was pitch black, none of us could see anything, I'm sure it was pure accidental). After this we hit up CarnEvil (my second CarnEvil visit of the night) and we all just love this maze! Even though we practically know where everything is, it's still a great maze! Some good startles once again (can you tell that we got startled a lot last night?). From here, we decide to give the mazes a break and hit up Flying Eagles (ride #3 for me) where our cycle got cut short (wonder why?). After this point, Flagg o'Dim and rjvader had to get going due to work the following morning. We decide to hurry and catch the last 15 minutes of Culture Pop where they poke fun at current events, trends, and celebrities. We are probably going to have to get this from the beginning to see all the show. Gotta love the "Overlord Jr." Was a nice break off the feet after being on them all day! Next on the list was Robman's office, Werewolf Canyon! I was more impressed with it last night as it seemed some of the holes were filled. Besides seeing Robman growl at us and bang the wall, a maze highlight was this one werewolf who was hunched over the railing (in that dead zone), as still as could be. He got a few of us Making way towards Dead Man's Cove, it seems as though there's still some oddities of this zone. All the pirate props seem to be back by the kids area yet the talent are all out in front of the AFX theater. Again, like last time, no cool audio playing...sad times... Now only needing Black Widow's Cavern we try that out. Unfortunately our log was flooded about 4 inches deep. Lots of wet feet to be had, however I was able to keep mine dry! Now that we've done everything, we decide to go back and do CornStalkers (10 minute wait), another visit at Toy Factory (30 minute wait), M4 (5 minutes), and Slaughterhouse (no wait) before calling it a night, an hour later than planned. We also finally snagged our Demon rides as it was running all evening! Ok enough chatter, here's some photos! Arrival into CGA...Goldy is now easily spotted coming in! Ground clearing for more cement slabs! Overview (we've seen a lot already ) More k'nex pieces sitting down in that lot! Hmm...something's new here (Not Slaughter House) ZOMG HERE WE GO!!! Nice banking or excessive laterals? You decide After that Gold Striker photo session, it was time for a bubble bath. Invertigo, invisible ride! Hm...what's wrong here? Well, after thinking the barking was coming from MMMM as a maze prop, we saw a real dog was just left here. We decided to notify some employees and this was taken care of pretty quick! Stupid GP... More gold porn! Beautiful as always, you can even smell it if you're close enough (like on White Water Falls or in line for Slaughter House) "I'm still just hanging out here, nobody will ever see me hiding here!" Bunch o' nerds! Sexy curves! A quick ride in the Paparazzi Buckets for more photo ops of Goldy! Sadly, this was all we could see. But this thing is massive! The "Extreme Skyflyer" porn shoot. So this was added...one screen plays an off-ride POV, the other, an onride POV (at a very choppy frame rate). "Wheeee!" (CGA employee was laughing at us after checking out the display that was set up) Beer and Snoopy...perfect mix? Some headstone humor Hey Ryan, how's it going under there? Fast forward to Boofet/Haunt material Naturally, they come to torment my cousin Gauntlet! They were trying a bit better tonight. Still not up to par with Underworld Alley but it improved from last weekend. Overlord! "I saw that..." The group grew by +2 people! Now for some random talent action shots going after us Heading into UA, the best scare zone around! (Love the tune that accompanies this area as well) "Surprise!" And he's off! Using a slow shutter and flash, I accidentally 'CarnEvil-ified' my photos...pretty trippy "Your time has come madames and monsieurs" Caught the last 30 seconds of Blood Drums, the pyrotechnics caught our attention. Aftewards, it smelt funky and sulphury. Some Gauntlet love now... Over to Firefall plaza for a certain reason...not to ride FF either. Robman was on lunch (please don't make us your food, Mr Werewolf! I'll give you some bacon treats!) The (literally dead) Deadman's Cove. Too bad there were no pirates actually roaming back here like last season...and the lack of music. Alright CGA, time to wrap it up for the night, see you in a week! Random bonus photo...I went shutter happy (shot in continuous mode) and we all decided it would be a good idea to turn the Overlord into an animated .gif

We went last night too! We caught like half the show and it reminded me of CGA meets South Park with the whole ripping on current events/trends/celebs. "That makes as much sense as shoving diarrhea back up your butt!" -not so pleased Overlord Oh and I will have a trip report up later when I get off work, consisting of gold porn, nerd moments and a major wtf of the day...plus Haunt!

Bumptastic post: Here's some gold for you

Underworld Alley - Thomas Tissot - CGA Halloween Haunt Ready for another fun-filled Haunt weekend!

Great America posted this fun contest on their Facebook, thought I'd share it here since there seems to be CGA interest and haunt interest here. Sounds like a fun opportunity, I've already entered myself...would be fun to be a maze monster for an evening Oh, and to answer the question: I know the sign at the entrance spells out all safety requirements (who ever actually reads/pays attention to these is beyond me) but there are also signs that look sort of new-ish pretty much explaining what bumper cars are...yea, I know...it's sad they have to do that but most people these days have been living under a rock their whole lives and don't understand the concept of bumper cars, inertia, and the effects on their body. I'm not sure if I snapped a photo of it, seems like something I would have done when I noticed it up this season...if I find it, I'll post it...then I was thinking to myself that if I don't have the photo I'll snap it this weekend, until it dawned on me that the Bumper Cars have been Carn-Evil'd.

Well, not everything's all happy-go-lucky with CGA...remember a while back there was talk about the idiot who broke her wrist on CGA's bumper cars? Here's a new story, we'll see how far this gets (in which I hope the whole case just gets thrown out). http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-court-bumper-car-20121004,0,51776.story What kind of idiot would reach outside of the car to brace themselves? And leave coasters out of this incident, and they are not dangerous monsters like you're presenting them to be...face it, she broke a rule and suffered the consequences...she now needs to own up to her mistake rather than pass the buck onto the park. thursday evening rant> I don't see why amusement parks and even water parks can't be protected from these kinds of law suits...Especially with rides that involve rider control, variability, and the slight chance of a wipeout. What I am happy about is how there is some form of defense in the park's favor (as in, are they going to eliminate bumping altogether on the bumper cars, making them just...cars?). We'll just have to stay tuned and see what happens with this case...(which I thought it was all gone, bye-bye ages ago).

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Yea, that is pretty funny, it's not even a CF coaster. Speaking of the carnival rides and whatnot, betcha anything CGA will get a Wacky Worm! That will be CGA's new for 2012 addition that will be removed by 2013.

(Photo of my dragon BTW)

Something that was spotted yesterday on the Global Winter Wonderland's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Global.Winter.Wonderland Looks like it will take place inside of the park...now does this mean that some signature attractions will be running? This definitely means that I can now check out Goldy construction during the off-season...hoping that my season pass can be used to get in or for discounts. Someone had responded to our questions about the park and mentioned that some rides will be open. We'll just have to wait and see but I'm pretty excited! With this said, JeffyJosephNorcal and I noticed a white tent sitting in the back of CGA's lot next to the portables. Initially we thought that it was probably part of the stadium construction but after riding Flight Deck, I noticed some parts & pieces to some of the sculptures sitting in that area just outside the tent. If I hadn't known about the event, I would have initially thought that they were parts to a flat ride. UPDATE: Looks like a small handful of rides will be running: Carousel, Swings, Delirium, Bumper Cars, Berserker and most importantly, Flying Eagles! http://globalwonderland.com/great-america-rides/

Freddy's TM Coming!

When you're in line for a haunt maze and spot an opening in the shrubs with a clear view of Gold Striker parts...and you immediately step away from the rest of your group to check it out. And when you begin going paparazzi mode when you find a different angle of the same construction...and when you get GP kids behind you asking what are you taking photos of and why. It's a long story, kiddos... Lastly, when you are tempted to count a Step 2 Coaster (Kid coasters you can buy at the store) as a credit and call it a "Plastic" credit...you know what? I may just do that Ok, I'm doing it!

^Better yet, waterslides need to be equipped with vehicles fixed to the slide via upstops and guide wheels. And these vehicles should be equipped with restraints. To ensure nobody will go down without clearance, they will feature air gates, restraint checks and finally dispatch. No wait, that would then be pretty much a coaster What really needs to be done is just ban idiots from life.

I believe it's this one. It's got a pretty sharp, sudden drop.

I'd have to go with the Enterprise, followed by the Calypso. Both are great rides and very forceful! I really wish our Bayern Kurve ran faster than it does...but at the same time, I'm glad it's still operating!

According to one of the other links, they said they received conflicting reports of going down head first (park spokesperson), and going down feet first with a running start (a witness). That was on this link (mentioned about it in the video report).

^ Seriously, that dude's a moron. Similar to the ever-so-viral "Near Death Water Slide Launch" video on Youtube. I can say that this is what the moron gets for not only line jumping (I absolutely despise of line jumpers) but for also breaking rules and going down when he was not even cleared to go down. Part of me wonders if he tripped over his 2 left feet when getting that running start (assuming that was the case) and completely missed the slide altogether.

^Yay, more gold porn! Some more fun from the past weekend, during Boofet. I forgot that I even had this. My cousin tends to be a 'talent magnet' and during the "Boofet" she refused to surrender her brownie. They came back to greet her later

Slightly off topic, I came across my 2007-2009 CGA maps earlier, decided to put them all together and snag a photo of all the seasons I've been going so far. About the foggers, I'm not sure what they use, but they output a ton of fog at a fast rate! I'm actually excited to try our new 1000-watt fogger we bought last year, as much as I doubt they'll put out as much as the high-end commercial foggers.