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After riding Voyage for the first time just a few weeks ago (on opening day) I instantly fell in love, I had to come back. Just about three weeks later I found myself back at Holiday World (and Kings Island the night before).

So my friend Zach and I randomly visit KI for a few hours about once a week, and this week we went on Friday and arrived at about 4PM. We knew it was going to rain, but not as much as it did. There wasn't too many cars in the parking lot but there was about 739 buses, the park still wasn't too busy though. We knew it was going to be a great day filled with tons of rides!

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Here is the billions of buses...

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As we were waiting for Tom I snapped a few photos

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I caught someone spitting of Eiffel Tower!

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Delirium above the trees (and Royal Fountains)

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Hey theres Tom!

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We all went to Diamondback hoping for a small queue wait. It was about 20 minutes which wasn't too bad

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In line I took a random photo of Vortex. Yup...

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So we finally get into the station, and we see this....

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Nope, it wasn't nap time. A huge storm was coming in and little did we know it, but would ruin our night

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The storm arrived probably around 3PM. or so, and went on til' 7PM. After 7, it was no where to be found

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After a few hours of waiting, it was down to the enthusiasts. Our group, and than Gary Coleman; the guy who recently got his 2,000th. ride on Diamondback

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Your probably wandering why all the sudden it's some girl holding a pizza. Well Kings Island decided since the storm went away, they would close the park. So we met up with more KICers and went to La Rosas down the street! This is Angie (Gigacoaster2k) holding a personal pizza

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Tom ordered the fries which didn't sound too good being at a pizzeria

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OM NOM NOM NOM

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We all got super hyper and went crazy. I'll upload a video later and post it, but take my word that we all went a little insane

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I randomly made my hair have a unicorn spike thing! Than we started talking about uniboobs

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Angie eventually lost it and died at the table. No not really, we actually stayed at the place til' it closed than had a rave in the parking lot

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Here is us (well part of us), Theres Tom, Angie, Zach, than me. Please ignore the weird faces were making, we crazy! Okay, Holiday World is up next!

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Hey, I actually just got back from Holiday World again so expect another thing of photos to be posted here soon!

 

Mk, so anyways; We left La Rosas around midnight and got to Zach's house at 2AM. Than just three hours later we woke up and drove 30 minutes to Zach's friends house who lived in the middle of nowhere! I went to sleep and at about the time we arrived at Holiday World, the park was just opening. The Raven lot was full and Legend lot was getting there, we saw many buses too! Not a good sign... Honestly, I can't remember when we rode stuff or anything, so I'll just make a list of what we rode than show off the photos!

 

Rides rode:

 

Voyage: 11

Raven: 1

Legend: 3

Howler: 2

Eagle's Flight: 1

Wildebeest: 1

ZOOMbobwe: 1

Jungle Racer: 1

Otorongo: 1

Watubee: 1

 

 

I might as well say what I thought about Wildebeest. First of all, this is my old opinion as of before today. I only got to ride it once last time (this PTR) and waited two hours for it. Now since I've ridden it more, my opinion has changed! But anyways, the ride was fun but I actually liked Jungle Racer more. There were a few times where I could feel myself fly out of my seat, but I didn't get that airtime feeling. I wasn't impressed and said "I'm only riding it again if there isn't a wait" which there was still a full queue. But I later rode again (today) and now love it!

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Legend obviously...

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Legend sign

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(Howl) Don't look back!

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I loves me some of them laterals

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Hey it's a walkon!

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No it's not. That was the back queue, the front queue is pretty much filled

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Now it's time for some Voyage! By the way, I like this photo, but I wish I could add a little Voyage logo at the top right corner, that'd be awesome!

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This was actually my first time going into the indoor queue house, but luckily we just walked passed it

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They took off the back car of each train

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I thought this was kinda neato

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66º!

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♥Voyage

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I wander if there will ever be another coaster built in the next like ten or so years, better than Voyage

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Random Pilgrim's Plunge photo #1!

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#2!

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And #3, my personal favorite!

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So now were in Splashin' Safari!

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Still have yet to ride Bakuli! Looks alright

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Both of these are pretty good, I like Otorongo better, no matter which side

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The not-as-good-older-wave-pool-with-a-generic-name-but-with-Voyage-and-Pilgrims-Plunge-behind-it

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ZOOMBabwe or how ever you spell it

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Yummmmm Voyage

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Since I'm now trying to post more on TPR, I guess I'm supposed to talk about some bunnies with medicine and goo or something? I don't know, heres some fat chick though!

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Legend was calling our names from Splashin' Safari (oh and sorry, not Wildebeest photos in this PTR, but took some today!)

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Random Legend laterals

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But instead we went to Ravage!

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Dumb fences in the way

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I love how Ravage looks, but it seemed slower and smoother so less airtime

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True dat' homie!

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NOT 90º's!

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Ravage is soo much prettier than the blue PTCs

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TIMBERLINERS!

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Close up

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New piece

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Ehh... not that good of a photo

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Bee keeper simulator part of the ride!

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167' tall, right?

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Bye Voyage! We ended up riding it later, but this is all the photos I took of it this time

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Raging Rapids station

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The kinda hidden sign

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Eagle's Flight, I feel proud! I can get these to snap a tiny bit!

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Zach needed his Howler credit, I rode with him but while in line I took this photo

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Didn't people complain HW didn't have a Carousal, than once they built one, everyone was mad because the bumper boats got removed?

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Liberty Launch, the best of the S&S drop towers I've ridden, but I still have yet to rides IB's

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If the one at IB is even half as good as HW's it'll be a great ride!

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Midnight Ride... yup

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Christmas

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Halloween

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Hallowswings 1

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Hallowswings 2

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Yeah okay I know my captions suck, It's 12:30 and I've been up since 6AM. and been riding coasters all day!

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I love the bells that ring when Legend leaves the station!

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Legend's cool schoolhouse themed station

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Time for Raven!

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Raven's station, what is it supposed to be themed as? And old house?

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Okay good! The last photo of this PTR! Sorry the captions sucked and it's not detailed at all! Tomorrow when I do today's PTR I'll try to make it better!

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^Thanks, me too!

^^Thanks, I love HW also!

 

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Since we had so much fun at Holiday World, we decided to go again just a few days later.

 

This time is was me, Zach, Zach's ex-girlfriend, and Mitchell. We originally planned on getting there for opening than riding Raven until Splashin' Safari opened, than after the water park we would just ride Voyage and Legend the rest of the day with a few breaks on Raven and the 4th. of July flat rides. But since we didn't get there until 30 minutes until Splashin' Safari opened, we decided to just ride Voyage once than go to the water park. Voyage had a station wait which isn't too bad, but when we got off, the line was to the stairs.

 

After a ride on Voyage we went to Splashin' Safari for a few hours. After that we rode Legend once, than rode Voyage alot! At about 3PM. we took a break and rode Eagle's Flight twice and Liberty Launch. Than we rode Voyage some more until it closed at 4:30. I wanted to take some photos of Wildebeest and get another ride on it, so we went back to Splashin' Safari. We left the water park as it was about to close, than Mitchell & I rode Raven a few times and go the last train of the night on Legend.

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We arrived at HW to see this... Not a good thing!

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We decided to get one ride on Voyage than go to Splashin' Safari, it was a walkon but as we were going up the stairs, it seemed like the whole park followed us because all the sudden the line spilled out to the outside queues!

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I've always wandered why do people throw their bracelets on the roof? Do they think a genie will grant them a wish or something!?

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Another great day for photos!

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I wish they would open up this gate, it'd be so much quicker

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Seems like every photo I have of the blue PTC, the weather is cloudy

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Seriously. this was the next train and look how much sunnier it is!

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I went to Splashin' Safari but didn't take photos (did go back later and take some) but here I am at Legend's station!

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I love Voyage's station!

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Another Timberliner 'update'

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There is Mitchell in the Hard Rock Park shirt, than Zach and his ex-girlfriend behind Mitchell

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As we were getting on Voyage we saw Paula and some film crew. I asked the camera crew what they were filming for and they wouldn't tell me, it turns out it was for some boy scout thing

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The most photogenic Grandma?

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Scored 1020, my new record. I really shouldn't say record as if I ride it all the time or something, this was only my second time on it

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Plymouth Cafe wasn't open at all on Wednesday for some reason...

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This midway would look so good if it got those brick style paths

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Don't you agree?

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Okay since I suck at captions, I'm only going to put captions on photos that either need it, or I have something to say!

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Okay well the second half of the photos will be posted some time tonight probably. I have to go swim!

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Part 2 of May 26, 2010 Holiday World PTR

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Legend's twisted drop

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Liberty Launch in the trees!

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Theme Park Review doesn't have any photos of Indian River in it's park index, so here is one of the sign, didn't get one of the actual ride but will take a photo during HWN this upcoming weekend

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Which is better? This...

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...Or this?

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TPR also doesn't have a photo of the carousal...

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We rode Voyage too! But not with Timberliners..!

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Random part of Raging Rapids, speaking of Raging Rapids is it any good? I still haven't ridden it

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DUELING VOYAGE!!!1!11!!one!!!1!

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Maybe TPR will want some waterpark photos for the park index? If so, here is Otorongo

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ZOOMbabwe, I think thats how it's spelled

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Jungle Racer

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Zinga

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Read the sign...

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Random flowers by Bahari

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Bahari

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Bahari once again, only with a great back drop with some of Splashin' Safari's slides, and Legend

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Wildebeest sign

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Wildebeest's queue, which is pretty short in the photo!

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Sorry, Wildebeest is very hard to get good photos of, so these are the best I could get

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Ending helix

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Last helix and sign

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Heres another Jungle Racer photo

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Now we are back in the theme park riding Legend

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And now at Raven

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Can you find me?

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Here is what I look like, and yes I approve Raven!

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We ended up riding Raven a few times, than wanted to end the night with one last ride on Legend, which happened to be the last train of the night! And yeah, I don't know why I'm saying this in the caption of a photo of Raven's entrance...

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While waiting for my favorite seat on Legend (second to back), I randomly approved free Pepsi!

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After our ride on Legend we took a few photos in the Christmas area, which is very beautiful and probably will never get a major attraction, but thats good because it's the park's 'main street'

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I really like this photo! What do you think?

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The old HW tower needs painted

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Here is me one last time, I guess I DON'T approve Santa?

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Bye Holiday World! See you at Holiwood Nights!

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Good TR. Thanks for posting this. Loved the "dueling" Voyage shot.

Thanks! I like that photo also!

 

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Here is a random video from those two HW visits, I might make a few more small videos for KI and maybe a video just for Voyage later.

 

[coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=Hollardai_Wurld!1!!!11!!one!1!!_wyab[/coastertube]

 

And yes, I know Little Freak by Usher isn't a good song choice for a video about a park that is '#1 for family fun!' but Little Freak is my favorite song, and it goes well with the clips!

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