PTR: "We're not in Cincinnati anymore Todo"

[08stien]

So just returning from 2 weeks of vacation that included a week in Virginia and our anual trip to Lake Rudolph and Holiday World I decided to share my opinions and some photos with you.

 

*Warning: We are not credit whores and we are all about having fun on whatever rides make our meat loaf at the time so if rides were skipped on our first trip to these new parks we appologize to anyone who is offended*

So we made it to our home park Kings Island.

We took our regular bless our little hearts picture infront of the fountains

We rode our favorite stunt coaster, but couldn't seem to find larosas pizza anywhere so we headed to the top of the tower to see if we could find it

We got to the top of the tower and..OMG!!! WHAT is that!?

It seems that somehow we ended up in Virginia and this Kings Island knock off, but it's ok because we found this behemouth

It is BIG

And it goes FAST

Keisha gives an example of how people in Virginia love nascar tooooo much

"The car ran good"

The first hill is climed much faster than Millennium Force and gets the blood pumpin more than cars going around the same loop of road 500 times in a row

At the bottom of the first drop everyone is knocked unconscious

This ride really does take a giant flaming dump on Millennium Force and I can easily say it's the most intense coaster I've ever been on.

These people are all thinking. "man this would be in my top 10 if only the restraints were a little softer and more like racing straps

Intimidator was a freaking blast but just too intense and not reridable enough to crack our top 10's, if anything I would compare it to Top Thrill Dragster more than MF as it has that same kind of atmosphere around it with each train thats sent

Hey there's volcano! the ride I was most excited to see in person

But with it being 100+ degrees and the claustraphobic Q being hot and smelling like burnt rubber we passed on the long line as this is a ride I was more excited to see than ride(I hope someone knows what I mean when I say that)

The bobsled coaster was a hit and a big suprise, we took several laps

Now on to the biggest dissapointment of the trip

I was so happy to get to ride one of my all time favorites Bat Man Knight Flight again as I couldn't get enough of it when it was at Six Flags Ohio

A group of trash cans, we assume on a trash can school field trip were the only ones that wanted to ride that day

The first drop was just as good as I remembered

And it was a nice touch keeping the loop the same color

But oh wow how one of my favorite coasters has gotten rough over its travels from Geauga to Kings Dominion

Now we could have caught it on a bad day, or maybe the 110 heat and us not having any snickers made us rate coasters like divas, but it just seemed rough!, and my favorite ejector air out of the brake run was gone

We were so mad that Bat Man Knight Flight sucks now that we left the park and started driving til we hit this traffic and ...oh snap!

Woo Hoo! we rode our translucent steeds right into Busch Gardens!

The only problem was they said our platinum passes were no good here so we had to crush $64 worth of berries before we were aloud in

Just a note, the whole freakin park looks like this

This is actually the inside of one of the mens restrooms

Before we could ride the coasters we had to talk down this family of Ducks

Ah! finally a legit top 10 coaster..but oh wait

The ride was closed!! .. we can only assume it is better than Diamondback and we'll put it in our top 10 even without riding it...(rumor was they were taking out the last row on each train and replacing it with a flower bed)

So we moved on, and took ski lessons in 110 degree heat

We passed and were aloud to enter the ride

It was a very fun invert, but not as good as either Montu or Raptor in our humble opinions

Rides that crawl into the brake run are just a bugaboo of mine, along with onions on cheeseburgers, and the justin beiber, so that really hurt Alpengiest in my ratings

Speaking of huge flaming dumps, this ride right here takes several on Spider Man at IOA and any other dark ride ever built..seriously go ride it

Note: Look how good I am at taking roller coaster pictures

Note: We didn't know that these were about $600 a piece until after we were done playing with them

Note: This ride was a cool idea but not that cooley put together, it made us almost naseous

Note: This ride freakin rocks!

This was our first B&M drop ride and it made us giggle like little school girls, every park should have one *cough cough Cedar Point cough*

The best part about Griffon is that these 30 people are all compacted into this little train to experience being hung 200ft above the park for about 5min together

Being able to hear everyone on the trains reactions as you go through this tramatic experience together is priceless and will make you laugh with joy the whole ride

We may never have been on a coaster more, just plain old 'fun' than Griffon

We gave Griffon and Busch Gardens our approval, and we headed back west to our favorite place in the world!

Holiday World!

I didn't bring a camera because Holiday World is too fun to waste time taking pictures(there were also no new trains so nothing anyone wants to see here) but I'll give you guys a few actions shots of us over the week takin by our professional photographer

We love Raven

We love Legend

I love chain lifts

I also love unbanked turns taken extremely fast

Jacob does not

We tried out the Ravage Red Trains

And it had tons of airtime

There had to be a difference so we tried to old blue trains too

Yep, still gave us tingly feelings in our pants

There really is no bad ride on Voyage, and I don't know where all this rough talk came from because it feels the same as opening day to me, if anything faster, but definatly not any rougher.. I think the day dreams about the Timberliners have people thinking their rides are rough

And if you get the chance to ride at night, it's well....

SCARY GOOD! .. thanks for reading and feel free to whole heartedly disagree with the opinions expressed in this report

[braztaz]

Nice photo TR.

 

But Kings Dominion isn't a Kings Island knockoff...that makes as much sense as calling Kings Island a Kings Dominion knock-off.

[08stien]

I agree Kings Dominion and Kings Island are very different, For Example: Kings Dominion has red trash cans, and their boo blaster ride Q is outside

 

But no KD is a very unique park I was just dragging out the "We thought we were at kings island" joke as long as I could.

[DOCTOR DOOM!!!]

Voyage tends to be glass smooth one hour and will be rough as hell the next. The roughness on Voyage really comes and goes!

 

EDIT: I thought the dogs name was TOTO!

[VegasGreg19]

My hats off to you sir, for that is THE funniest on ride photo I have seen! Well done!