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For some reason the midway carousel at CP hasn't done much for me in the past. The pavilion is super ugly which doesn't help. I have never ridden the kiddy kingdom one. Will have to check it out next time I'm at the park

Did they run Sol Spin during Winterfest last year?

Any more updates on moonlite gardens?

Just an update on the carousels, I did get to ride the one at Santa Cruz about a month ago and while I did enjoy it very much it's hard to place. The clown mouth is definitely more difficult to throw a ring into than the Knoebels lion. The carousel itself looks a bit more dated and less pristine as the Spokane Looff Carousel. I did enjoy the fact that it was 4 across and all were jumpers Another pretty one I rode recently was the PTC at Elitch Gardens. Had very beautiful artwork and jumpers that were pulling the chariots

If it's running at full staffing and all the coasters are open like the day I was there it's a very enjoyable park! Their PTC carousel is very petty as well!

So is this the dude from that old rollercoaster movie that blows up the rides? Lol. Sorry I'm glad nobody got hurt and law enforcement acted

Firehawk 2.0 in Vortex plot...

100% this. You don't get that whip over the airtime hills on a 4-accross train like what they put on Mako and Candymonium

I'd say Gwazi is my #2 RMC after SteVe but I don't criticize anyone who puts it at #1. I think steVe ending going through the support structure is unrivaled but Gwazi does have relentless pacing and doesn't have the somewhat painful bunny hops Montu is my favorite invert as well for sure I actually ended up liking Griffon at BGW better than Sheikra. I like the bigger trains and the layout was better with the extra inversion but sheikra is for sure the #2 dive over any of the ones with vest restraints. I think BGT is a decent park but I've always had issues with multiple coasters being down when I visit. For example first visit it was Gwazi and Shiekra that were closed all day, second visit it was Shiekra and Kumba, and this visit it was cheetah hunt and Grover. I also think that park suffers from a lack of flat rides. I personally do prefer the Williamsburg park as I think their ops, ride collection, and food is all superior. I think I'd like BGT better if it actually performed 100% but it always seems like it's running at 80% when I visit

Some friends and I went down to Orlando for the Halloween weekend on a trip we'd been planning for about a year and a half. We bought two days at Epic Universe and one night at HHN (seeing as some of us aren't super into scares). One of our friends loves that stuff so they bought an HHN pass and went every single night. They rest of us hit other parks in the region like Fun Spot and BGT. So I'll break down our experience mainly focusing on HHN and Epic Universe but also mentioning the Halo-scream Event at BGT. Epic Universe Lands Celestial Park: despite not having a movie IP theme, this area of the park is home to arguably the best coaster in FL and a very unique carousel. I much prefer this area at night when the fountains are colored and the lights twinkle on the carousel pavilion. HTTYD Isle of Berk: honestly this was my favorite portal. They just did the theming so well and it looks great at night too Nintendo: this area has a lot going on and I thought that it was a bit overwhelming with how much was moving around and all the different pathways and people. The donkey Kong area was a bit more calm. Dark Universe: unfortunately the windmill was broken and had the blades removed during our visit. The other areas such as Darkmoor looked great. I did think the area by Curse of the Warewolf was lackluster Harry Potter Paris: beautiful area with good attention to detail. Looks great at night but unfortunately doesn't have as many things to do as the other lands. Epic Restaurants 1. Mead Hall: located in HTTYD, this place had the atmosphere, the delicious food, and reasonable prices. I don't like alcohol much but the currant boysenberry mead was REALLY GOOD 2. Le Gobelet Noir: located in the Paris section, I had the baklava and the lentil soup and both were very good. Nobody else in our group ate here because they don't like supporting JK which is their personal preference but they missed out on some good food 3. Das Steakhouse: in dark universe this is the main restaurant. My meal was very good but others in the group seemed less satisfied with theirs. This one did have a great atmosphere with a live musician playing the violin during dinner 4. Oak & Star Tavern: this place in Celestial Park would have been at the top of my list based on flavor but the portions and prices left much to be desired. I had a brisket sandwich with the best cauliflower of my life (which was 3 tbs in a tiny bowl for $5) 5. Toadstool Cafe: so all my friends loved this place but I thought the food was not great with the exception of the princess peach cake. It had a fun atmosphere but my meal was arguably worse than most fast food Epic Universe Rides Ranked 1. Stardust Racers: really really good coaster. I wish it had IP theming but it's such a solid ride even without it. The yellow side is slightly better than the green side to me personally because the twist inversion is going down the drop instead of going up. This ride rarely had more than a 30min line and was a really good night ride. Very re-ridable 2. Monsters Unchained: thematically and ride experience this is the best ride in the park. Has the same ride system as forbidden journey but this one has such great new technology of blending animatronics and screens. It's a decently long ride too. This one also rarely had a wait longer than 45min and sometimes was only 15-20min wait. But one must ask, who's the true monster? The monster or the one who puts them in chains? 3. Mario Kart Bowser Challenge: by far the best shooter I've done. You aim with these VR headsets that allow you to still see the physical sets and props in each room. Again a great blend of practical and digital. This ride had a solid 90min wait all day until about the last hour when it would drop to 15-20min 4. Harry Potter Battle of the Ministry: another fun one that is like a blend of tower of terror ride vehicles with forbidden journey technology. This one brings Delores Unbridge to trial. We rode this twice. Once we waited about an hour because of a break down and the other time the cast member running single rider gave us an escort to the front of the line and let us all go together which was very nice of him and seemed more like a Disney moment than a universal one. This ride gets lines of 2 - 2.5 hours but it also closes early to avoid crowds at the end of the night so if you ride it about two hours before park close the wait is significantly shorter. Usually around 30 minutes. 5. Donkey Kong Mine Kart Madness: this was a cool concept and I enjoyed the ride but it is a bit shorter than I'd hoped and it also jostles you around quite a bit. This ride had a 2-3 hour line all day and would drop down to 45min for the last hour the park was open. We did not get a day ride on this as we rode it at night both times. 6. Hiccup Wing Gliders: excellent family coaster by Intamin with a fun tour of the HTTYD land. This is also an underrated night ride. Usually the wait time was about an hour for this but you could get it around 20 minutes at Park opening or closing. 7. Constellation Carousel: I actually loved this ride as it's a combination of a slow teacup ride and a carousel. It had great music and a nice lighting package. The wait time for this was usually always under 30min 8. Curse of the Warewolf: this spinning coaster seemed lacking on theming and also was super short. In the morning you can get on on about 20-30min but during the later afternoon and evening it soars to 70min. 9. Fyre Drill: this was my first water battle boat ride and I thought blasting the targets and getting hit with geysers was alot of fun. I've heard ones at other parks are better but I have nothing to compare it to. This ride always seems to have a wait under 45 minutes. 10. Yoshi Adventure: average wait time was about an hour during the day but early morning and evening could see it as low as 10-15min. This is an Omni mover type ride that is pretty short. It's cute but not something this is worth an hour long wait 11. Dragon Rally Racer: this is the typical glider ride where you try and flip except this one has an extremely short ride cycle and you usually have to wait 20-60min for a ride on it. Overall wasn't impressed HHN: since some in our group had a ticketing issue that caused a 45 minute delay and we got stuck in Disposable Me Mayhem resulting in an Evac we received 4 skip the line passes per person for the HHN houses which helped us successfully do all 10 as well as grab rides on Men in Black, Mummy, Gringotts, and transformers after seeing a showing of nightmare fuel. I'm going to rank the houses based on my personal enjoyment knowing that others would have vastly different opinions 1. La Artista: A Spanish Haunting - this one was my favorite for its elaborate sets, good costuming, and good amount of scares. A classic haunted house with a twist and it worked wonderfully 2. Galkin Creatures of the North - I also really enjoyed the concept of this one and it final scene was the best one of the night with you being consumed by the witch who had transformed into a monster and when you go into her stomach it's full of skeletons and other monsters. 3. Five Nights at Freddy's - I actually didn't think this one sounded interesting in the description but I ended up loving it. Not as scary as some of the others but still very fun 4. Dolls - this one surprised me. It might have looked a bit cheap but the concept was cool, had some good scares, and the entire vibe of the house was like toy story demented 5. Fallout - also not as scary but a really fun concept. Others in my group didn't care for this one as much but I was told it included alot of iconic scenes from the show 6. Jason - this one was perhaps more boring in set design but it had some really good scare sections. 7. WWE - this was one of the darker houses and it also smelled like sweat and p!ss I got one really good jump scare in this one that made me scream much to the amusement of our friend group 8. Hatchet and Chains - this was like a Western demon apocalypse of some kind. Overall this one wasn't as scary and the theme was odd to me. Just an ok house. 9. Grave of Flesh - this one had a cool concept of what happens after you die but it was dark and sometimes hard to figure out where to go. Also harder to predict where the scares were going to come from. I'd say this was actually the scariest house based on the unpredictability and the number of jumps 10. Terrifier - ok so this house was very well done in terms of set design and being faithful to the films (which I've never watched but have done a bit of research on after seeing the house). I put this one at the bottom because I enjoyed it the least. This one did make me nauseous from the intense gore. So to be fair I love the concept of art the clown and the actors did a good job at bringing him to life. I was honestly doing ok even with the girl cut in half (which was just a video of a shadow and then a mannequin around the corner) and also the corpse that Art was rubbing with bleach. However when I got to the bathroom scene I wasn't feeling well. Something about smelling poop and seeing sinks full of it as well as seeing art taking a chainsaw to a victim's body was too much for me. (Upon research this was the death scene of Cole and Mia from Terrifier 3). This maze also had water affects that mimicked getting squirted with blood. It was ultra gory and that was more unsettling than any of the scare actors. BGT Hallo-Scream So we happened to hit BGT and I FINALLY got the credit on Shiekra which is my second favorite dive coaster. We also lapped Kumba which is running good as new smooth since the refurbishment. We also grabbed rides on Montu and iron Gwazi. We did the Mars haunt and the stranglewood haunt and both were good. Since it was Halloween night the park wasn't very busy and the longest line were in was 50min for Gwazi because of the one train ops.

I'd take that. I just think we need another story show when most of the entertainment is music based

We NEED what the Dickens back or some other old English style Christmas show. That one was hilarious

I was thinking the same thing. I never realized that it was basically just resting in the floor beneath it and was actually not nearly level with the floor in the building.

Cedar Point needs to bring back a new version of the pirate ride considering they still have the old building for it over by blue streak.

https://www.fox13now.com/entertainment/lagoon-retiring-jet-star-2-roller-coaster-after-end-of-2025-season Honestly, I know we've lost some special coasters the past few years but this one hurts because it was running so well when I was there in May. Super smooth, such a great compact layout, and awesome color scheme. I honestly think I'm more upset about this one than I was about Kingda Ka or the Vekoma Flying Dutchman... Probably the worst I've felt about a closure since La Vibora