Legend Rider

:: cracks knuckles :: okay ive visited and gawked enough... there are Three Sections... first, Christmas, Mainly Food and Shops, and a Game Stand(Skee-Ball) There is a Kiddy Ride Area Rudolph's Ranch, has 4 Rotating rides, with a carousel, planes, ships, seahorses, and they have some baby bumper boats, but not like coney island, that they have no motors, my neice rides them, the operators play with them, but they drive themselves... there is also a kid play structure in the back by the raven, that comes last... the play structure has a ball pit... which ive heard can stay due to frequent cleaning... SMOKING LOUNGE$ OVER THE HILL GREAT VIEW OF THE LEGEND... LATER! theming X-mas (which IS correct) is done by Elf-ish Buildings Greens and Reds, red flowers, and benches, Santa Claus Staue, Nativity Set, and those kiddy rides have reindeer named on them, i think dasher dancer prancer comet and blitzen... not so sure... 4th OF JULY now it doesnt seem to have a very themed atmosphere, but due to there being different sets of music in each section, it makes it better, there is hillbilly-->modern-american praise music, like god bless america... there are two specific rides on the x-mas side, the spider and the tiques... the spider has a themed station, a gazebo, and it is called Paul Revere's Midnight Ride, and you could even picture a light in the gazebo, and a Weather Vane on top! the tiques across teh path have a barn style entrance, and have a small shed over the queueing guests, the station itself is NOT covered however, like "les Taxis" these cars have a fairly short track, a squashed figure eight... and they pass by HallowSwings, later to come... 4th of july heads back to the next segement... Liberty Launch, Rough Riders, and Thunder Bumpers on "chesapeake bay", typically the names say it, LIBERTY, TEDDY ROOSEVELTS ROUGH RIDERS, CHESAPEAKE BAY, liberty launch is Navy White and some red and yellow, Rough Riders Bumper cars are not cars, they are Buffalo, and Horses, that go in a tight oval shape... moving on... THE TRAIN, MOTHER GOOSE TRAIN, called Freedom Train, been in the park since the 40s, when it openned, and it circles the other kiddy area, Holidog's Funtown, a place for Kids, a roller coaster, jeeps, slides, all themed to the parks beloved Holidog Character... the train has several statues around it, and has nice stories and nursery rhymes to it, only one train for it, so there is typically SOME wait, the only operator rides on it... and its very loud in the front, ha ha, i have squeezed into the 1.5 ft. wide door in front, it hurts, i suggest the "open car" to any one... next, we head down into the Basketball area, there is a big 4 hoop Basketball Game, next to the 8 tub scooters! but no snapping, as it is both impossible, and illegal at this park, you get frowned on... across the path is the roundhouse (themed to sound like the trainstation roundhouse where the engine spins and locates to another peice of track...) and has been replaced with the new revolution, you can use your imagination, 4th of july is quite large, so bear with me, almost done... there is constant themeing throughout, mainly the fact of teh BBQ USA food stand, ALAMO MEXICAN RESTAURANT, and the effect the buildings possess... the rest of the rides include RAGING RAPIDS IN BOULDER CANYON, a short canyon rapids ride, very short, but very wet, you will most definietly get wet, trust me, i have been drenched... and yeah there are pay cannons... not toolong of a wait... three more rides... the Virginia Reel, DONT START NOW! it is NOT a roller coaster, it is a Tilt-a-Whirl, and i think i have figured the name out... it is an old dance derived from the Waltz, which is also where the coaster gets its derivative... two more, just baby rides... a fish ride, and a canoe ride, the canoe ride is themed to the INDIAN RIVER, and has two native statues, and the height board is themed to native colors, and the fish are just quite nice, thay do have a red and blue top to it... there is a stadium, i think called HOOSIER CELEBRATION THEATRE, there used to be a smaller one too, but it was moved and made bigger to allow the size of todays crowds, the old one was converted to a Smoking lounge before the park even went Smoke free, but speaking of which, it is now the 4th Of July Smiking area, as there are some in each themed section. theming explained, moving on... Halloween, what a fun section, i like the exorcist theme song... WOW HallowSwings Greets you, it is very pretty, it looks like Zephyr, but backwards, and its prettier, it has a halloween theme that is just beyond words, bats on top with rope light, and a giant jack-o-lantern, as well as halloween color striped canopy. there are 4 rides left... i will go ahead and get the scrambler out of the way, teh scarecrow scrambler, which has been run many a times, by the owner, pat koch, is just a typical scrambler, not risk of falling, unless you trip on an arm we will go ahead and talk about the restaurant, dive show and flume before the coasters, as i know you are dyinng at this point, Frightful falls Log Flume holds i believe 4 people per Log, not 5! it has a very long dark tunnel, then meanders around a cemetary and under THE LEGEND ROLLER COASTER... tehn heads up the big ole' lift, then down quickly, its a rush! fun-times... okay, when you exit Frightful falls, you come back up to Goblin Burgers, which has a picture of the slime green thing from ghost busters, and a photo opportunity to match, and all of this is in plain sight of the legend, so as you enjoy that "goblin burger" watch the legend a few times, see if your daring enough, HA! you can see the lift the drop, the helices if you turn your head... the finale and any station time, they work fast! and as you hop on you notice, this station looks like school! eek! the walls are so school like, there is even a chalkboard on the wall, and a bell on teh back end of the schoolhouse, i mean station. it is very nice, the Howl at the top is awesome, make you have a sudden chill before plummeting to the ground... on to the raven... you head up the hill and watch the AWESOME DIVE SHOW which is visible fromthe raven queue, but you wont want to watch it if you are like me, too busy watching RAVEN! it circles above you, and heads to the lift and you really dont see much of the ride, till teh end, and it just rocks, think of our coasters also as the LOST IN THE WOODS FEELING... raven station is Gothic, and is really just cool, a bird of prey is juat an awesome concept, the halloween area doesnt really have a lot of SPOOKY theming, but hey, its awesome! the arcade is called Merlin's castle, and thats all for Halloween, but as for the park, yeah thats about it... you will just have to go visit to see what was voted the worlds #4 most beautiful WAter Park... which includes the legend in lots of its scenery... JUST GO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF... HOLIDAY WORLD HAS A WEBCAM... on their website... www.holidayworld.com its awesome, but its fixed ont he Raven's new Transfer area, yes it took 10 years to finally get a second train, i think the transfer area will be something cool! looks big! ta ta for now!

Thats your opinion I think The Beast is the Best. Raven = Best

ive been using that for quite a while, but ha ha ha

back to the original topic, maybe it has to do with all the deaths in the park???

Its good that you had fun, dont forget the raven celebrates his tenth in May!

and this... ive ridden enough to decifer... Scream your head off, But dont ask why, or the headless horseman might pass you by, and as you race 'round the twisted track, whatever you do... DONT LOOK BACK *top of lift* ::HOWL:: DON'T LOOK BACK! ::HOWL::

Hydra, SheiKra, Kingda Ka, does this seem to be the year of f cked up coaster names? "Rita - Queen of Speed" sounds neat! gee golly! but yes i look forward to riding at least one of these... hopefully one of them, if not, oh well, im a busy guy... i work too much to do anything, need the money for college... GO TOPS! Speaking of weird names... What has gotten into Busch Gardens Tampa? -Montu -- Egyptian mythology: Montu had the head of a hawk and was the god of war. -Kumba -- means "Roar" in the African Congo language -Gwazi -- a mythological creature lion/tiger -SheiKra -- ??? Diving Demon Beast??? hmm... what? oh well they all look super fun! go Coaster Geeks! we rock! Go ACE! "Where is my G.D. magazine??? MOM!" ----- I-HJ doesnt seem to make me want to make a trip out to PKI for it, but for BEAST, FACE/OFF, TOP GUN, Delirium, DROP ZONE, TOMB RAIDER: THE RIDE, Vortex, RECAR, and the awesome collection of rides, no specifics, but okay, mainly troika, it was cool, and Beastie! ----- Has nobody caught my joke yet? I-HJ ----- 2005, it will be cool...

ive seen the mechanism, and have even thought of pulling it myself. did you know that the legend station only used to take up as much space as the raven station? the bell was where car 6 was... it was very easy for them to dispatch and ring immediately, the long brake shed was not there, so it was a fairly small schoolhouse, but who here thinks The Beasts Mine Themed Station Rocks too? except the random lights, thats a bit odd...

whos the BYOTCH NOW? LOL but i too think that the theming will go down quite quickly, it just seems like a PKI thing to happen... plus, i agree that it may experience lots of Down time, and that it doesnt seem that thrilling of a ride, nor is SoB, but hey, some love SoB, but not me, give me Vortex, FoF, Beast, recaR, Reptar, Top Gun, and Face/Off, you can keep SoB, Scooby's Nutbuster, "I-HJ", and Racer

ha ha ha, if only it said, hey, Fatal Error, Abort, Run Away! Operator Error, Brake Error, Restraint Error, and not something like"NotOk" or "Stucked" LOL this would not pass 2nd grade...

it cannot be B&M Track, are you sure it wasnt King Cobra's Track being pulled away from its resting hole? maybe they sold it...

BULLSH*T IT CANT BE!

do you work for huss? or no you are the person who is actually working on the new program right now and this is how you know everything about TRTR. therefore you can explain to me where "CLX_E_114 MotionStatus notok Skew" comes from or "SLC_E_025 ArmSynch notok" can you explain this one? ..matt are these the codes that are displayed on the screen?

Your right SoB is themed a lil tiny bit better and a lil bit more fun. you crazy? do you have the headless horseman's schoolhouse? the bell? they are typically willing to ring it upon request...

come on, sharing is good!

this is typical of ride mfg.s

theming???

go OFF campus... duh! candy is candy! ha ha ha! i am taking my neice next year, and nephew if he wants to... Well candy is good but it also makes you fat eh? go to the gym? i do... and work with kids, they will keep you on your toes

Actually, its 7-10 days for concrete to get 85% of its strength. It is 99% at the end of 30 days. Yes, concrete does cure for an extended period, so getting to 100% takes years. so "in depth," but yeah the concrete needs to be quite sound in order to house a coaster, when the legend was being built, the footelrs were located, then poured, in sights of guests, they started clearing in july and had some footers done with as of october 1999... it was awesome, construction kept working through december, at which point the lift hill and drop were in place, but not the crest at the very top... ha ha ha, but there was an Xmas tree, a USA flag, and teh HW flag on top of the lift, the highest point in holiday world, which was ironically over one of teh lowest points of the valley. but yes construction takes a while and as i have heard IH-J opens in may? and the park opens what in april? that means SBNO times! legend openned on time, with a ribbon cutting ceremony, by the owners Pat and Bill Koch, (pronounced Cook) he died later the next year, it was very tragic, but he had a large stretch of highway named after him, if you visit, you will notice it... he brought the park from 1946's kiddie rides... to the new rides like Raven, Legend, and Zinga... all of which are world renown... it was excellent, a cornfield hosts this beautiful family park... sure size matters, but they are growing quite nicely, from other sources, io hear that they have topped Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom on Attendance.. which is amazing! Wow! i get off on crazy tangents, Im flighty sorry... ...anyhow...

PICTURES!? ME WANT TO SEE!

oh ha ha ha, what about riding the raven 27, kajillion times until we got bruises on the last day in october... how could i forget, those bruises were brutal.....but it was fun!! are they still there!? october is fun! including going to Delirium and Drop Zone and freezing our feet and hands off because we were so dumb that we didnt bring gloves! HA! just as a side note, we were causing the raven-bruises, when riding facing forward, no pain, just good G-Forces... but when you do odd stuff like "the box" or "don't look back" it does leave bruises due to the location of your legs and thighs, it is so much fun though, we even hugged for the entire ride... that one hurt most, because it felt as if i were just laying on her... ha ha ha but wow, that was fun, Raven in the Dark anytime is excellent!

oh ha ha ha, what about riding the raven 27, kajillion times until we got bruises on the last day in october... how could i forget, those bruises were brutal.....but it was fun!! are they still there!? october is fun! including going to Delirium and Drop Zone and freezing our feet and hands off because we were so dumb that we didnt bring gloves! HA!

like most, i am skeptical to see anything happen RIGHT after IJST, i think they are going to update some stuff, but it shouldnt be too much later...

i learned most of that in SPANISH!

go OFF campus... duh! candy is candy! ha ha ha! i am taking my neice next year, and nephew if he wants to...