lapseofreason Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Yay, my digital camera finally works! Here goes... Goliath's helix says, "Thanks for reading!" Our last ride of the day was Goliath, on the third last and last trains of the day, both from the front row. Then we went to go see if we could get on Batman before the park closed. The stupid sun ruined this shot, but check it out... nobody in line. Awesome. There it goes! Yay! I like this shot. On the way back into the park at 5:30, they started testing Tatsu. Um, then we went to Wendy's. But I didn't hold the camera up long enough to take a good picture. Rrrgh. ...there's a (*&(* QUEUE behind it? WTF? My husband says this is the original entrance for Revolution; does he remember right? On the way out from X I noticed this funky door behind the Panda Express. I used to think it was just themeing, but... There was also about a 20 minute line for X, with 2 trains! Woohoo! We rode twice. Oh, and they also put up fence on the exit ramp. Yippee. After that I swung around to Rapids Camp to check out the construction. Here is a random bulldozer and some guy working on the queue. I also love SFMM's choice of barrier here. Man, they really need to paint Ninja. We went on Scream and Riddler, then got bored and headed over to Jet Stream. Our first ride of the day was at about 12:45, Goliath 3 times in a row. Near-empty queue houses rule. Tatsu, Revolution, and I welcome you to my photo TR.
ShoubraStreet74 Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Ewww... I never realized the ground below Goliath was so disgusting. Nice pics though. Thanks for sharing.
ebl Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Actually, the way the Revolution queue is NOW is the way it was when it opened in 1976. For a brief time in the late '70s/early '80s, Revolution's queue was where you saw it. By 1990 when Viper opened, the entrance was moved back down to the bottom of the hill. BTW, National Lampoon's Vacation was shot in 1982 when the entrance was up the hill. Nice Photo TR. I need to get back out there. Eric
arrowfanman Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Nice trip report! Cool to finally see you and glad to hear that you had a good time! -Jahan
colossus Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 cool,i never knew there was a queue behind that wall i also thought it was theming. ~Chris-O
s2pids2 Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 you're right, the ground below Goliath really does look pretty bad!!
BeemerBoy Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Maybe they drew their inspiration on where to place Goliath and Scream from a trip to Fantazy Land?
socalMAN123 Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 Great PTR! I personally never knew there was anything behind that door until now. That's kinda cool. ---Brent
lapseofreason Posted April 29, 2006 Author Posted April 29, 2006 Thanks again guys, I really appreciate it.
Swimace Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Actually, the way the Revolution queue is NOW is the way it was when it opened in 1976. For a brief time in the late '70s/early '80s, Revolution's queue was where you saw it. By 1990 when Viper opened, the entrance was moved back down to the bottom of the hill. BTW, National Lampoon's Vacation was shot in 1982 when the entrance was up the hill. Nice Photo TR. I need to get back out there. Eric Why was it moved in the first place?
lapseofreason Posted April 30, 2006 Author Posted April 30, 2006 ^The only thing I can think of is that it got really popular, and maybe they needed a bigger queue to accomodate a greater amount of riders?
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