Wild Adventures Photo TR

[jten11]

Sup fellas, hope you enjoy as this is my first photo TR

 

 

I left around sometime in the afternoon, and for the first half of the trip made good timing. I love traveling, so just the drive was nice.....that was until I got mislead by googlemaps. I'm usually real good at reading directions, but today my inner compass was broke cause I was definately lost. The directions I had was not following where I was at. To make matter worse, I get caught up at a railroad stop wasting even more time and good picture-taking sunlight. Very frustrating moment. Surprisingly, the train was much shorter than expected. But being the intelligent fella that I am, I just took an alternate route and ended up being there a little over an hour late.

 

So I finally make it to the park (by this time the sun was setting) Too bad all the coasters(with the obvious exception to Boomerang) was running one train. At least the park was pretty clean for the most part and I like the adventure music once you enter the park. It was fairly crowded, but mostly for their 'Phobia' event they had running. There were houses scattered throughout the park with extremely long lines. Lucky for me I couldn't say the same for the coaster lines.

 

I first headed to Boomerang, but it seemed like they were testing or something, so I headed to Cheetah. My last ride on Cheetah was pretty fun, if a little rough. I decided to see how good or bad this ride has got. It was about a 20 min wait only because of the one train and by the time I got closer to the front, they decided they need to test the ride......3 times in a row. That was pretty annoying. Any who, I finally got my ride on the back row. The first drop is incredible! I love how you get flung into the drop. The rest of the ride was good, although a little rough, but rough on a woodie = fun to me...Overall the coaster has a great layout with two great drops. Those low turns closer to the end were pretty good too.

 

After cheetah I decided to go straight to Hangman. This ride has to be the most popular cause I had the longest wait on this ride. Had they ran two trains, the lines would be going a lot faster. I finally got my turn after a nice 25-30 wait, I opted for the back row. Very nice drop and the inversions were very fun. I did notice the ride was a little bumpy, but NOT rough. You got some head banging action, but mostly since the restraints are so close to your head. At least they were cushy enough to not give me a headache.

 

I was done with that, so now I decided to go by the Swamp Thing area to see if it was running....nope it was closed so I went back to Boomerang to see if that was up and running...yup it was so I got in line in you-know-where by this point..the back row. I liked the drop and the transitions through the inversions were not rough at all. Hella fun, actually. Going backwards however, was VERY fun. You FLY through that loop and you encounter a lot of forces there. That had to be my favorite part of the ride.

 

Done with the the major 3 rides, I decided to do a second rotation and go back on Cheetah, this time in the middle row. Usually on most coasters, the middle row is the safest and smoothest. Not on Cheetah. This had to be the ROUGHEST ride I have ever encountered. There was so much shuffling that I damn near had a headache. I mean it was real bad. At this point I was real confused......The back row ride was rough, but great. This middle row ride was rough, but bad. I told myself I would never ride this again...yeah right. I went right back to the back row to confirm if it was just a fluke I had a good ride. Luckily it wasn't and the back was surprisingly more tolerable than the middle. My final ride on Cheetah was the front which was not as rough as the middle, but not as fun as the back , but still fun it its own right.

 

At this point the sun is all the way down and the sky is dark. I wanted to relax a little bit and see what else they have at WA. There was this ride called airiel flight, I think. From the ground it doesn't look like you go that high, but when you're on it, you're going a lot higher than you originally thought. It was a very relaxing ride, even though my fear of height kicked in, I still manged to enjoy myself and take a break from the coasters.

 

Walking away from the big coasters, I walked around and saw this little coaster called Bug Out. Never been on it so I decided to give it a go. This is my first credited mouse coaster so I wasn't sure what to expect. I did realize that they definitely designed this with kids in mind. It was a little compact to get on the ride, but I manged to squeeze in. It was a cool ride. It felt like you're about to go over the end, but at the last minute you hit a sharp turn. And man those turns were sharp. I really had to brace myself. Overall it was a nice mouse ride with fun, not scary drops and good laterals.

 

Around this point I was getting tired so I went and got front row rides on Boomerang and Hangman. The front ride was good, but not as good as a back ride. Same for Hangman,even though riding front row in the dark was HELLA fun

 

 

To end, I had and overall good time at Wild Adventures. I can't wait to see what the new owners will do to this park. Until then I don't think I'll be coming back here anytime soon. (Like when I said I'll never ride Cheetah again )

 

Most of the photos were taken while the sun was going down. Hope you like!

And I end with an artsy photo of the Ariel Flight ride....hope you enjoy the TR!

This mess of track is Bug Out. A nice fun-filled family mouse coster

Extreme close up!

Boomerang from afar...

This is when they were doing a test run for the millionth time...at this point I was getting annoyed

eh...too bad you're not open.

Side loop goodness

Bunch of happy riders.....for the most part

Lifthill in the sunset...

Hangman's signature shot...

Cheetah...this ride would be so much better if they better trains and a good retracking....

Here's a lake side view...on the other side is a closed Swamp Thing

...until i got lost thanks to googlemaps. On top of that, this train didn't make matters any better. At least the train wasn't that long.

The day started out pretty well...

[Team Thriller]

Really nice pictures. I love the reflection of the rides in the lake!

[Axman]

This is a cute park. i'm suprized its not owned by a themepark chain, like CF or PARC.

[Homer]

^It has been owned by a corporation, it was run by Adventure Parks LLC (1996-2007). Then, just about a month ago, Wild Adventures was bought by the Herschends (which own Dollywood, Silver Dollar City, and a few other parks).

 

Aside from that, great TR of Wild Adventures! Glad you had an awesome time, beside Cheetah's rough rides.

[Erik Johnson]

Nice photo TR. You will find that the SLC and the Boomerang at Wild Adventures are often considered the best versions of those coasters in the world. For whatever reason, they are not headbanging rough like the other ones.

[Axman]

^^ Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Good for them!!

[jten11]

Nice photo TR. You will find that the SLC and the Boomerang at Wild Adventures are often considered the best versions of those coasters in the world. For whatever reason, they are not headbanging rough like the other ones.

 

Fortunately these are the only Boomerang/SLC coaster I've ever ridden. Hangman was a little bumpy but nowhere near rough. Boomerang was smooth going fowards and backward...guess I lucked out!