Trip Report: Holiday World 5/10

[spaceace12]

The primary purpose of my trip was to renew my season pass and get a few rides in and be gone in 4 hours. Got to the park about 9am and renewed my pass no problem. First thing I noticed was that Legend was opening late so I was planning on hitting Raven first. Went straight for Raven only to see a ride op standing in front of a closed gate and ride closed sign. Plan C, head to Voyage. Seen a train on the brake run, that looks promising. Got to the line only to see, you guessed it, ride ops waiting outside the ride and saying they don't know when the ride might open. Most got out of line, but knowing the other two coasters weren't open when I came down, I just waited.

 

About 20 minutes later they let us in. Sat in the very back and it was a good ride, rough like last year, but still a good ride. Next I went to check out the new addition for 2008, the carousel. It looks nice and the area around it is nicely landscaped. While in the area, I decided to ride Liberty Launch. Got on in one cycle and rode. Rode it two more times because there was no wait.

 

It was getting near the end of my time I had at the park and still had to hit Legend and Raven. Headed straight for Legend, line extended out onto the walkway. No switchbacks were beings used on the lower level switchbacks, but the whole inside station switchbacks were. Rode in the backseat, last year, this would have killed your back and anything else. They retracked and it did wonders, but still jars you sometimes. It was enjoyable in the back seat.

 

Finally I went to ride the Raven. First thing in the outside que I noticed, HW put speakers in the que with pre recorded safety spiels and other things. They also had a speaker on the lower level of the station house. In the station, the ride ops no longer say anything as it is pre recorded also. As for the ride itself, it was great like usual.

 

At this point I grabbed something to eat and grabbed my cameras for a photo round. I usually do this in about 2 hours, but this time I only had an hour. Due to time contraints, I didn't take many pictures.

 

I have a video produced, but won't be able to upload till tomorrow. This video I put together is actually pretty descent so I can't wait show it off.

[TheRapidsNerd]

Glad the day ended on a high note and looking forward to your pics and vid. Enjoyed the St. Louis ones, but then, I'm a tad biased.

[spaceace12]

 

Here is a crappy youtube version, I gotta figure out how to make my editing software not cut off the video 3 minutes in using a AVI file and I tried to upload it here and got a internet explorer error.