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Lagoon has released the names of the Two New Family Rides coming to the Park in 2013. Tipsey Tea Cups will be an in ground Zamperla MIDI Tea Cup and Red Rock Rally will be an in ground Zamperla Speedway. - Sid Lagoon 2013 New Ride Logos

Mine was Desperado at Buffalo Bill's. Ouch! - Sid

Fire Dragon at Lagoon!

I know it's off topic, but I work occasionally for a locally owned country music station here in Utah, mostly doing giveaways and such. Chris is absolutely 100% correct. There is a person at our radio station that does the playlists for the week. She creates a Playlist for every day with songs that must have a minimum amount of air play, for which they get free crap from the labels (it's far from the quality TPR Bag-O-Crap stuff). Each hour there are 3 open air play slots where the DJ can play requests or what they want. -Sid

As the Attractions Supervisor at Cowabunga Bay, I can give you my personal opinion shared by myself and crew. The Piperider was a Nightmare to Operate and Maintain and overall poorly designed and engineered.

I know members of Lagoon's Management went and took a Gander at Black Widow over the Summer. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk visited Lagoon over the Summer to make a decision about their Spinning Coaster and they were pretty impressed with Air Race.

I guess this would make Lagoon the last pop park in North America where you can bring in a cooler and food into the park.

Where is the Red Locomotive going in Florida? I still can't believe no one has any photos of the Green Train in Operation at the park. - Sid

Fire Dragon at Lagoon!

The First 32 Passenger 8 Plane Air Race is already operational in Chile.

Fire Dragon is going no where anytime soon and Lagoon will finish up it's repainting and new lighting package in time for it's 25th Anniversary next year. Jet Star 2 on the other hand might not be around in another 5 - 10 years with the extremes the park is doing to keep it running. Dal Freeman, Lagoon's Vice President of Engineering designed Wicked, BomBora, and the 2014 Coaster. Lagoon will be contracting out the Uprights and Track to Intermountain Lift and probably the Trains to the same company that built the trains for BomBora. Zierer also contracted out the Upright and Track Fabrication to Rutin, the same firm used by Intamin. With the TRAX Light Rail Green Line opening in April, next summer it would even be possible to Fly into Salt Lake International, hop on the Green Line, Transfer to Frontrunner North to Farmington Station, and Ride the Free Shuttle to Lagoon and back in a Day.

Lagoon doesn't own any property near Farminton Station, but does own land surrounding the park. It would also be easier to transfer from the TRAX Green Line (Airport/West Valley) directly to Frontrunner North via the Transfer Station on the North Temple Bridge. -Sid

Another Zamperla Air Race! Nice! -Sid

Yes, that Dal Freeman. At least Magnum XL-200 and BomBora turned out fine. Lots C & D (Overflow) are used every Friday and Saturday during the season and sometimes Frightmares!. Intermountain Lift hasn't manufactured any components or Uprights for Lagoon yet. What you saw were piles for the piers of the footings. Lagoon-A-Beach hasn't sunk and Mooch's Mainstream has never been any deeper than it currently is. - Sid

Intamin: Have you ever considered an Energy Recovery System for your LSM Coasters?

I don't know any "Small" Park that is 140 Acres, has 9 Roller Coasters, and has spent over 65 Million Dollars on new rides since 1991. Kennywood would be a better comparison than Silverwood to Lagoon. Lagoonisfun.com has been receiving information on this 2014 roller coaster since around 2010. Here is the info we have been able to put together.... 2014 Lagoon Roller Coaster: Will be designed by Lagoon's Vice President of Engineering, Dal Freeman. Lagoon will contract out the Track and Upright Manufacturing to Intermountain Lift, Inc. The ride will be just over 200ft Tall. The ride will have at least 1 inversion. We have also heard Lagoon will be installing one or two small family rides for 2013 before opening the new roller coaster in 2014. Since a "Frisbee" type ride has been on Lagoon's radar since 2004, I would imagine that's still an option after 2014. - Sid

^^^^ When was there a Collision on Dorney's Maurer Mouse? ^^^ I don't know where you got your Figures, but the Maurer Mice Sold for just over 2 Million Dollars. ^^ & ^ Having operated the First Maurer Mouse in North America, at Lagoon, this has all left me scratching my head. Lagoon had some Issues with Stress Fractures in the Wheel Housings in 2005 and have done some Re-Enforcing of some of the Weldments on the Uprights and Track, but other wise Lagoon's Wild Mouse operates just fine! - Sid

OK: Let me rephrase this a notch: Instead of scrapping a ride, the ride could have lived on in many ways: Cars, for example, can be restored and used on other Wildcats. Gerstlauer not only markets restored models, but also new ones- depending on the park. The track, I'm sure, is still in good shape. For the most part, steel coasters, including Schwarzkopf models, does not have the same general wear-and-tear that a wooden track does. Gerstlauer has already restored an older (And with greater mileage on it) JetStar II, and sold it to a park in Sweden- with restored trains no less. I think this is a case of "Penny wise and pound foolish" instead of actually the ride being something 'classic.' I'll agree, it isn't like a, say, Mindbender or a sooperdooperlooper, but it IS still a good ride- and one that still delivers a decent, consistent ride at that. I think the cop-out of "Scrapping it" is Cedar Point's cheapness showing, and not necessarily in a good way. Preservation doesn't necessarily need be confined to wooden coasters anymore- as if we don't start to keep an eye out on steel coasters, we will lose those as well. The reasons behind removal can be numerous; but in this case, I think it comes down to cheapness all over. I'm sure that anybody would have loved to see a Wildcat pop up at Great America, or Gilroy Gardens, where it would have fit nicely instead of seeing it head to the scrap heap. Any loss of a coaster, whether a Dragon wagon, or Big Bad Wolf, or Wildcat is a bad thing- and not something to look at as "oh well!" Cedar Point is going the cheap route without thinking it out, I think. The only reason I can logically think they'd scrap it is if there were substantial faults with the ride (Cracks, fundamental warping, etc.). If that were the case, why were they not maintaining the ride properly in the first place? Wildcats are well-built rides all over, and others operating in worse conditions, harsher weather, etc. are still operating with gusto. Portable models still spring up at fairs and carnivals to this day. Why is this model more in need of scrapping? There's a ton of questions I have- and hopefully Cedar Point will give us some answers sooner rather than later, as I don't think they're telling us the whole story. RD, It's always sad to lose another Classic Schwarzkopf Coaster. From personal experience, I can tell you that the older Schwarzkopfs like Wild Cats and Jet Star 2s were not built for a long service life. Lagoon has managed to keep their Jet Star 2 operating for so long only because they are welding on it nearly every day. The running track was the first problem Jet Star 2 had. Lagoon had Fabbriweld manufacture new track for the Carousel in the mid 90s and Lagoon re-manufactured it during the 2005 refurb. The only reason it's still there is because the owner of the park is the one who bought it and keeps throwing large amounts of money at it. The Running Track, the Uprights, The Base Frame.........it's all a Mess to this day. Concerning the Gerstlauer restored Jet Star 2, it's not like they received an old Original Jet Star 2. After being modified and re-manufactured by BHS (Maurer Söhne), it received a new base frame, new uprights, and new running track. If Gerstlauer re-manufactured it as well, it's pretty much new. As for why this model would have more Issues? I would say it would be the hours operating and cycles over it's life. I'm sure other models have had less hours operating and fewer cycles during their life. I'm sure if Gerstlauer really wanted it, they would buy it from Cedar Point. - Sid (Just another Schwarzkopf Fan)

I hope not, because we are getting the first one!

Fishpipe. You're welcome. Actually, it's a Pipe Rider from Euro Bungy. http://eurobungy.com/

Premier is probably too busy trying to get that S:UF track manufactured and out the door. Except that Premier Rides has always Contracted out Track and Upright Fabrication to Intermountain Lift, Inc. in Springville, Utah. - Sid

I didn't see that element in the yard a few weeks ago down at Intermountain Lift.

First comment - A Core Cashless system (or just about any cashless automation system for that matter) can be used to whatever capacity the park desires. Here, Waldameer is merely using the system they had in place in a much greater capacity. Instead of just using the cards and wristbands to get into ride queues, they are going to cashless for everything. A park does not have to use cashless for everything, which I believe to be the case with Cowabunga Bay, which I believe just usess the system for entry into slides and attractions (someone please correct me if I am wrong on that one). At Cowabunga Bay, CORE Cashless is our Point of Sale System. It's used for every purchase made at the park. Admission Tickets and Season Passes are Scanned at the Entrance Gate just like Wally Cards and Wristbands are. We can also put Money onto a Gift Card or Season Pass that can be used for any purchase inside the park which makes things incredibly easy. - Sid

SL,UT is further than 200 Miles (Close to 540 Miles Away), but it's not that far away.

I've worked with a CORE Cashless POS System at Cowabunga Bay for close to 4 Years now and can't imagine life without it! Waldameer was very smart about rolling out this Completely Cashless System over the past couple of years to avoid any major issues. The park has allowed most of their regular guests get used to the new system to make the change over go as smoothly as possible. The Cash Control and Labor Savings is going to pay off greatly, which means more improvements to the park. I'm looking forward to what the park has to say at the end of the season about the system! - Sid