SFKK and HW June 5th...with photos

[Canobie Fan]

Day 2 (the 5th) - Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom - Louisville Kentucky.

And Holiday World - Santa Claus Indiana

 

So after getting up at what... 3am? The trip starts its 600 mile drive

to SFKK.... yay. On the way to SFKK from TN we passed Beech Bend… I

could see the wheel that's about it… Yeah so after a few more hours

and watching the sun come up… We got to SFKK. After getting to the

park before it opened. We got to walk back to ride ""Chang"". Well as

we were going back we found out Chang wasn't open yet. So we got some

T2 ERT! WOO!!

 

I took 3 laps on t2. 2 In the front seat and one in the back. The ride

isn't THAT BAD... but its still bad. I had been on it 6 years before

so I don't know why I went on it 3 times in a row... But I did...

 

T2

Type - Steel

Year - 1995 (One of the first SLCs in the US)

Kind - SLC

 

The ride looks nice how it's over grown with trees and bushes the ride

is just like most other SLCs but the end hills are different as they

don't tilt side to side. It also has a shorter train and more trains

then the newer ones. It has 3 trains but only 2 are ever uses 2. The

ride is also odd looking... You can see red all over from where the

black paint chipped... and in the station its still bright red…

 

After that I went over to Chang by now a few park guests had got back

to this part of the park. I waited 2 or 3 loads so I could get the

front seat on it. I had been on it before but never in the front. So

it was worth the wait for me.

 

Chang

Type - Steel

Year - 1997

Kind - Stand Up

 

Chang starts off like Mantis but then ends different it has 2

corkscrews and a non twisted end. When it was new it was the tallest

fastest and most looping stand up coaster. The ride is still great and

has some air time and a trim less first drop!...Unlike Mantis. The

ride bangs you a bit but nothing to bad and overall is great. But me

being a stand up fan it's not hard to be great.

 

After my 1 Chang ride I walked over to the wheel. I took a ride on it

just to get some photos of the park and the rides and stuff… By this

point I had done POV videos on T2 and Chang. But when I got to the

wheel I was told I couldn't take my cam on the ride… So after being

let to POV on T2 and Chang.. I wasn't sable to take it on the

wheel…But I did anyways because im a rule breaker… After I got off the

wheel I made my way to Thunder Run. This is by far the best of the 3

"hurler" clones it was first and it's still better then the PC or PKD

clones of it. Some people don't like it as much as the Hurlers… But I

do…

 

Thunder Run

Type - Wood

Year - 1990

Kind - I guess it's an Out-n-Back....

 

The ride is fun and a lot better paced and smoother then both hurlers

it has more air time to. Over all I really like this coaster and

always have. And I'm amazed that Six Flags has kept it up and running

so well...Unlike some other wood coasters they own... The ride was

only running one train and still had no line at all I was able to ride

it 2 times in a row both in the front seat.

 

After my 2 front seat rides on Thunder Run I walked over to twins...

It was only running one side... the teal one. The ride uses older

style G-Trains and they are not as bad as the newer ones. They still

suck but not as bad. The last time I was at the park both sides were

running but they didn't go at the same time. So I still haven't seen

the ride run the way it should…

 

Twisted Twins

Type - Wood

Year - 1998

Kind - Dueling

 

The ride is ok and has some nice air time and a good helix at the end.

It would have been funner if both sides were open and dueling... But

that didn't happen... Also if the ride had better trains…. Going down

the first drop on the ride you see a sign for Holiday Worlds new wave

pool. I went on the ride 2 times. The first time I took the front seat

and then I took the back the park was dead so they let you re ride and

even change seats without going all the way around. So that was good.

 

After I got off twins I walked around a bit and got some photos and

stuff. And was almost done with the back side of the park But Deka

still had one more coaster to do in the back. The Roller Skater. I had

been on it before but it was a walk on. So I just went on…

 

Roller Skater

Type - Steel

Year -1994

Kind - Kiddie

 

The ride is ok. It's just a little Vekoma thing but its ok. The ride

is places in a nice part of the park over a little river with some

trees and bushes around it. I took a front seat ride on it and had a

fun ride.

 

After that I was done with the backside of the park so I walked over

the infamous bridge that splits the park up... And went to get the

only 2 coasters in the park I hadn't been on yet.

 

Greezed Lightnin' was the first one I went to. I had never been on a

Schwarzkopf shuttle before so it was a first for me. I took the front

seat my first ride and then the next 3 in the back and my last in the

front once more. This ride even with its 1 train had no line and I was

able to re ride over and over without getting off.

 

Greezed Lightnin'

Type - Steel

Year - '2003'

Kind - Shuttle Loop

 

The launch on the ride is slower then new launch coasters but it's

still a very fun ride. I had been on looping stars before so I knew

the loop was forceful… Going up the first spike is cool and you float

all the way back down. Going in the loop backwards is cool but then

something bad happened... I had seen videos of this kind of ride

before so I knew how high up the back spike it could go... But SFKK

trimmed it to death where trains back cars didn't even seem to make it

50% of the way up... Sitting in the front you don't even make it to

the steepest part on the spike. When riding one of my back seat rides

I looked backwards the full ride. That made the back spike funner I

guess...

 

So now I only needed to ride the mouse. By this time of the day it was

like 95-100* out and the line for the mouse is all outside in the

sun... So after I got a real bad sun burn I got my ride on Road Runner

Express.

 

Road Runner Express

Type - Steel

Year - 2000

Kind - Mad Mouse

 

The rides station area looks nice SF tried to theme it. The overall

ride is fun but in the end it's a mouse... If you have been on

one...For the most part you have been on them all. The ride wasn't

using all the cars so the line was longer then it had to be... It

ended up being the longest line in the park fro me.

 

So after that I took one ride on the parks Intamin drop tower.....

Hellavator I wish SFNE still used this name and not Scream. It's much

cooler... The tower wasn't using all its sides so the line was longer

then it should have been. You get a nice view of the park from the

ride I guess. After I got off I was done with SFKK... After hanging

around for the other people to show up we got in the vans and were off

to Holiday World.

 

For the first time in my life I went to 2 parks in 2 different states

in 2 different time zones in the same day…

 

I had never been to the park before and have always seen such great

things about the park and its rides. So I really wanted to go to

it….To bad for the most part everything I heard was wrong......

 

Once I got in the park the first thing I ran to was...Raven....

 

Raven

Type - Wood

Year - 1995

Kind - Terrain

 

My first ride on it I took the front seat. Later I took the front seat

once more... Then 2 back seat rides and one in the middle.

After my first ride on it....The only thing I could think of was.....

 

WHY IS THIS RIDE RATED SO HIGH!........... I hated it... yes...

hated..... I didn't feel much air on the ride in any spots... And that

"5th hill" with its 'killer' air time or whatever even with a slacked

seatbelt still didn't give me much... Later I was told I was on the

"new" train so that might be why it wasn't a good ride for me. But

still... I think the ride sucked... and it made my head hurt…

 

After that big let down I made my way over to the Legend this ride

always looked better in photos and videos to me then Raven. And it

was. Legend is a much much much better ride then Raven it's a lot

longer has a better layout and way more air time.

 

Legend

Type - Wood

Year - 2000

Kind - Umm I guess it's an Out-n-Back Twister Terrain coaster....

 

Legend is a great ride from start to finish the first drop is cool and

goes into a tunnel you get air time over all the hills and one of the

hills has some of the longest floater air I have ever felt. I also

liked the helix the ride has. I wish I had more time to go on it but

it had a long line all day. So I only got my 2 front seat rides. I

wish I would have had time for one back seat ride. But because it was

only running one train… As with raven... It had a long line.

 

After that I walk around and went on a few of the flat rides and water

rides. The log ride was nice and had some good views of Legend. The

S&S tower the park has felt very weak. The river raft was nice and

felt long. The flyers they had were just ok... After getting on some

other stuff I made my way up to the Howler coaster

 

Howler

Type - Steel

Year - 1999

Kind - kiddie

 

Howler is the parks only steel coaster. I think the trains on the ride

are cooler then the ride itself. It gave 2 laps so that was cool I

guess. The park put it in an odd place in the park. You have to walk

in and around this big playground thing in the park to get to it… I

think I had more fun playing in the playground then I did on the

coaster… The ride itself is just like many clones of the "jeepers"

coasters or "Road Runners" at some SF parks.

 

Yeah so in the end... SFKK was the better of the parks for the day.

Chang was the best steel and Legend the best wood. SFKK is much better

now then what it was before… And it really isn't THAT BAD of a place.

People just hate it because of the bridge… But it really is one of the

BETTER SF parks! Holiday World sucked a lot to me. I felt the park was

very over rated and it's also really small with not a lot to do. Raven

is also way over rated for what it is... And I would not go back to

this park unless they added something really amazing... (*NOTE* I

wrote this up weeks before Voyage had its press release)

 

 

Changs dive loop

 

Backseat on Twins

 

Backseat in the loop on GL

 

Legends first drop...

 

Ravens first drop...

[BiCoastal Kid]

Raevn rules. It sucks you might have caught it at a bad time, but when it's on it's amazing.

[USRoadTripper]

I agree that Legend was better than Raven. I still thought Raven was great, but Legend is taller, faster, bigger drops, more airtime, longer...just seemed overall to be the better coaster. I said that on RRC and it was like I had killed someone's firstborn! There was nothing in Raven to make it stand out as anything special to me. It's a great coaster, but not one of the top woodies in the world by any means in my opinion. I'm sure I can easily name 7 or 8 woodies I like better, including Legend!

-Julie

[Real]

Amazed you got no airtime. I rode in both trains (new and old) and the airtime was amazing with a slacked belt. Neither train seemed different. Tons of substantial airtime.

 

I got air on drop, 2nd drop, 3rd drop and "The Drop" (should be 4th drop - wheres this mysterious drop between it and the helix?) was crazy. The airtime in there was far more than on Legend in both power and time.

 

Legends air was a bit more muffled aside from the double hill coming back from Zinga. It was there but not with the same power or abundance - more like little pops of airtime. However the longer ride for some makes it better. Im not a quantity person - all about quality.

 

 

You REALLY must have caught it at a bad time. I rode in the morning...afternoon...and last rides of the night. It only ever got faster from the morning. Very, very strange.

[Jonathan]

I was there the same day as Canobie Fan, and yes, it was a very bad day for Raven. It was running incredibly sluggish, and was a shell of its normal self. I was told that was due to the new train, but who knows. Maybe just a bad day.