Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread

[Raven Maven]

^ Why? What do you plan to do back there? Hmmmm?

[GrapesLie]

Hopefully ride Voyage and Thunderbird in complete darkness with nothing but the warm smell of honeysuckle carried on a Summers breeze and the delighted screams of other riders to keep me company! Why what do you plan on doing? LoL

[Raven Maven]

^ Me? I'll do what I always do. Shake my head.

[OneOfTheWills]

Raven Maven is at it again! *shakes fists*

 

Recent post on the HoliWood Nights Facebook group page shows Lauren and Leah holding, as Paula put it, a "Secret Document."

 

Here's a link to the page if you are a member of the Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/325861871036/

 

Here's one of the photos posted in the group for those who can't see it on the link above.

Who's heading to Chicago for No Coaster Con this weekend? Matt's bringing four videos, including one with Lauren and Leah revealing a Secret Document.

 

Looks to be a schematic and a tall (long?) one at that. The proportions are off for this to be a schematic for Thunderbird. 2016 maybe? If so...wow that was fast! Question is...could this be for the former Pilgrim's Plunge/Giraffica area or...an area including where the (former) Sparkler once stood?

 

For those curious like myself, I tried a few tricks to bring out any detail on the paper....it looks as though most of the schematic has been Photoshopped (or purposely overexposed) out. Except for the important bits at the bottom. Those are the boxes where all the design information goes...

 

Here's that photo.

 

Thoughts?

 

Paula, I just finished recovering from my withdraw from all the hype leading up to Thunderbird's announcement!

[ZeroGravity55]

^ I'm guessing it might be the B&M invert design that B&M proposed to the park back in 2009.

[ejot]

This is looking like it will overtake X-Flight's air traffic tower for my favorite keyhole element. Awesome pictures.

 

My partner is 6'5" so we're very happy to hear the ride is a go for him.

[kyleparks77]

^^^ being a civil engineer, I have NEVER seen a plan sheet like that so I'm all kinds of confused.

[Diamondbacker27]

^ I'm guessing it might be the B&M invert design that B&M proposed to the park back in 2009.

I never knew about this.

[nicman]

Remember back...

 

[ratdogg68]

I think 2016 addition will be something in the old Giraffica/Pilgrims Plunge spot. Maybe a Splash Battle.

[Nickstroberg]

I'm thinking this might finally be the year I make it to Holiday World Always wanted to go, but ended up going to bigger parks every year, but this coaster has given HW that little extra sparkle, to pull me in this coming summer.

[cfc]

this coaster has given HW that little extra sparkle . . .

 

There's your ad campaign: "Come Sparkle on Thunderbird!"

[alilstronger]

I think this year may be the first time I get to go to HoliWood Nights! Thunderbid looks amazing and I can not wait to ride it. This will also be my first time at the park.

[GwaziBSRider1]

^^^ being a civil engineer, I have NEVER seen a plan sheet like that so I'm all kinds of confused.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[JeromyL]

this coaster has given HW that little extra sparkle . . .

 

There's your ad campaign: "Come Sparkle on Thunderbird!"

 

I'm Game ROFL

[nicman]

Current Status of Thunderbird:

[ZeroGravity55]

^^^ being a civil engineer, I have NEVER seen a plan sheet like that so I'm all kinds of confused.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

From reports from No Coaster Con, it was the original steel coaster Will Koch had designed(I'm assuming this is the B&M invert HW told TPR about over the summer) to go over and around The Voyage.

 

Also, I came across a picture of the 2015 park brochure with a park map in it on Facebook. Pilgrims Plunge's station is still on the map with a body of water surrounding it. The part where the water park and dry park boundaries intersect by Hyena Falls shows that there is a bridge that goes over the water park pathway and that Hyena Falls new pathway starts where the entrance to PP from the water park used to be and goes underneath the pathway leading to Thunderbird. I know this is just a drawing, but I don't think they would have had drawn it up like that if that's not what the pathway situation was going to be like.

 

Edit: Btw, the new park map is not the the parks website yet.

[mikejenkins1]

So have we seen any images of the un-altered blueprint?

[Stu K]

Well playing with dates think May 20th will be my 1st trip to Holiday World! The woodies were the pull I guess that Thunderbird will Be the extra Sparkle!

 

Stu K

[ZeroGravity55]

So have we seen any images of the un-altered blueprint?

 

I believe it was showed through a video presentation.

 

This is from Visit Indiana's Twitter. Looks like the fly-through barn is now complete:

 

[thrillrider]

^^^ being a civil engineer, I have NEVER seen a plan sheet like that so I'm all kinds of confused.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

From reports from No Coaster Con, it was the original steel coaster Will Koch had designed(I'm assuming this is the B&M invert HW told TPR about over the summer) to go over and around The Voyage.

 

 

I wonder why they changed to a wing coaster over an invert?

[ZeroGravity55]

^ The original design was back sometime around 2009 or so probably. Kings Island built a record breaking invert last season, so it makes sense to go with something different.

[BDG]

^^^ being a civil engineer, I have NEVER seen a plan sheet like that so I'm all kinds of confused.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

I'll just leave this here...

[nicman]

A Minecraft look at Holiday World

 

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… and Splashin’ Safari.

 

And even our Santa statue:

 

At first, I really felt badly that I’d missed the “hey, take a look!” tweet from the creator of this impressive Minecraft rendition of our parks:

 

 

… by several months.

 

But when I noticed the date of the tweet and saw it was posted the day before our big Thunderbird roller coaster announcement last July, it seemed likely that anyone who was this big of a fan would understand one overlooked missive.

 

Matt, for one, is thrilled. Although our park president admits he’s a bit puzzled by the Minecraft phenomenon, his six-year-old son – Drew – has it all figured out.

 

First, middle-child Claire, 10, proclaimed the park tour legit.

 

 

Drew quickly corrected his big sister, “No. It’s better than legit.”

 

Big thanks to WolfStrike150 for the three months of devotion in creating our park on Minecraft – can’t wait to see v2.0!

[mikejenkins1]

Hopefully we will see images of those blueprints.

Why the change? Maybe wing coaster was not even an option then....