Skyscraper Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 That was such a beautiful weekend to go "rollercoasting !" First, Darien Lake theme park on saturday. They honored our six flags season passes, even the season parking pass from Great Adventure ! The season passes still scans at the turnstile !No changes from Six Flags ! The park was lightly crowded. Almost every ride was a walk-on. Sadly, no Predator or Boomerang credit for me. Boomerang was supposed to open but was still closed when we left at 4pm. Predator is still in retracking and won't be open for at least two weeks. Superman, oh I mean Ride of steel, opened only at 3pm with only one train operation. Where was the other train ? It was nowhere to be seen ! The transfer track was empty ! Now, the pictures... I was very excited to ride Ride of Steel (what a stupid name without Superman...), I really liked his clone at SFA. Mmm... oh no ! Predator is closed! No credit for me ! Strangely, this park looks Cedarfair-ish more than SixFlags-ish. Almost everything still has Six Flags reference.. (euh it's Magic Mountain...) Official property of Six Flags ? LOL! Mmmmmm they looks so tasty ! 3 bucks each..not bad at all. Opening "show" Sorry guys our mechanics had all winter to make it work but they started to work on the ride only today no Ride of steel for you ! Mike and I on the Ranger The kiddie coaster operator wouldn't let me ride it ! The second best ride of the park after Ride of Steel, the log flume ! Fast and we didn't get too wet. *This is an acceptable amount of wetness* The park was pretty dead in the morning Crazy people in a boat splash ride when it's not even 63degrees outside!But that's not the craziest thing yet... Mandatory shot with the Shark.. This is the craziest thing ever ! Those waterslides were open ! About 5 people went on it that day... they must be sick at home right now. Please God, open it ! I don't want to pay 35$ bucks to enter this park next year to get my Ride of Steel credit ! Keepin' the beat show.. It was actually good ! And the main singer was so cute ... This could be seen at Ride of Steel, Predator and Boomerang No VeComa for me that day The Big Wheel As you can see, the park was really dead Viper wasn't so bad, I liked the tunneled helix at the end. Ride of Steel shot OH MY GOD ! Ride of Steel began testing at 2:30 pm ! ...and 5 minutes later all the park was in line waiting for it to open. The crew wasn't so bad... if only there was two trains ! The other train is no even on the transfer track ! Bye Bye Darien Lake... I don't think I'll be back unless you have an Intamin wooden coming soon... Because I live in Montreal and there is no Panda Express in less than a 6 hour drive, I was so happy to get my Mandarin chicken fix at the Niagara Falls outlet on our way to Toronto. I hope La Ronde and Great Escape will have Panda Express next year... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Me with a sunburn eating Panda Express goodness... Our room at the Missausauga Four points Hotel... Loved it ! Here we are at Canada's Wonderland on sunday at 9am ! The park entrance is really ugly ! The park deserves better! Canada's Wonderland was not too crowded, we rode everything by 1:30pm. Most coasters were running all their trains except Sky Rider that was closed, maybe it was related to the accident in Japan... (It's a Togo Stand-Up). The season pass processing opened at 9:15...10min later we were in the park. Two red lobsters Wow... this is beautiful ! For some reason, we got stamps and ride operators were checking if we had them... I still don't know why. Most people were running towards Top Gun when the park opened. This must be the only park on earth where a SLC get such loves ! Mike and I preferred to go ride Italian Job ! This is a way better coaster ! I don't know if it's because of Cedar fair buyout but no fire or explosions effects that day ! I totally blacked out on the helix after the launch ! Pet a fish... really disgusting The new Coasters restaurant, it's great looking Great flatride! Doh ! Cedar Fair forgot to change one trash can... Cliffhanger was great... but wasn't it running a tamer cycle than last year ? Paramount still hasn't be replaced by Cedar Fair story or whatever... Vortex is the best ride of the park by far ! Rode it in front row and last row ! Too bad the ride isn't long enough! Stupid added seatbelts ! It slowed down the operations a lot. They were stacking the trains a lot. Take that Darien Lake! Wild beast had great airtimes but was too rough ! Mighty Canadian was running really great ! Second generation Intamin Freefalls are the best ! We had a great time at Canada's Wonderland, we will be back this fall for sure! After a 5 hour drive, we are back to Montreal and La Ronde is still closed ! It it was open, it would be making tons of cash, it was summer weather in Montreal !
Darien Laker Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Wow looks like the same Darien Lake we're all used to! Half of the coasters closed....but at least it wasn't the better half. As long as you got on Ride of Steel and Viper, you've ridden the only two coasters in the park even worth riding. Missing out on Predator and Boomerang isn't a bad thing at all lol. Too bad you didn't get to ride Twister, Darien Lake's decent flat ride. Nice pics and report!
Mark Rosenzweig Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Thanks for the photos. Small point that probably no one really cares about, but LaRonde's "Spiral" Tower looks great in its new paint. The thing looked horrible last season when we visited. Nice to see attention to detail has extended its way north of the border. Be sure to keep us up to date on the "new" antique carousel being brought back into the park. -Mark
coastrfreak2000 Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Has anyone noticed...the "house" on the top of the mountain is GONE!
kennywood!007 Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Nice pictures! I don't know about you but it kills me to drive past a closed park! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! No shots of Vortex's mountain??
IwantRevenge Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Candain wodnelad looks like it has some very nice and rare flats,
kennywood!007 Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 Oh, forgot to mention this in my previous reply! Yay for second gen Intamin Drop Towers! I have one in my home park, I think it's better than Kings Dominions Drop Zone!
coastrfreak2000 Posted May 7, 2007 Posted May 7, 2007 No shots of Vortex's mountain?? Techically there was, Vortex was just on the other side.
kennywood!007 Posted May 8, 2007 Posted May 8, 2007 ^True, I mean't of it dropping out of the mountain though.
ginzo Posted May 8, 2007 Posted May 8, 2007 Yeah, thanks for the pics. I'm hitting Darien Lake later this month. I really hope Ride of Steel will be open.
vistaway Posted May 8, 2007 Posted May 8, 2007 Has anyone noticed...the "house" on the top of the mountain is GONE! Yeah - I did think it looked different! That's a small but nice improvement, for sure. There's still a small booth of sorts up there, but not that big old shed structure they had, thankfully. I miss the days when there were at least 10 separate waterfalls running down the mountain. Even running all three on the front would be nice to have back.
Skyscraper Posted May 8, 2007 Author Posted May 8, 2007 Thanks for the photos. Small point that probably no one really cares about, but LaRonde's "Spiral" Tower looks great in its new paint. The thing looked horrible last season when we visited. Nice to see attention to detail has extended its way north of the border. Be sure to keep us up to date on the "new" antique carousel being brought back into the park. -Mark You like the look of the Spirale ? I don't think the paint job is done yet... there's only orange paint where the word Canada used to be... there's even rumours that there will be a Pizza Pizza logo on it... but I doubt it ! I hope not !
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