silver2005

^It's the internet. Dealing with posters on any form of social media is an adventure in and of itself. You just gotta roll with it. Fighting it is like fighting the ocean. If you really want to see some concentrated crazy posts, try YouTube.

Just out of curiosity, how are the Soak City crowds during the later part of the day on weekdays (like after 6)? Thinking of going after work this week.

I imagine VR is significantly cheaper than adding physical special effects.

During my visit, Iron Dragon consistently had the longest wait (I only rode it twice during my visit) even when VR wasn't running and I think it has to do with the VR sign the put in front and guests don't read the VR times and got in line out of curiosity. It greatly surprised me. I can imagine the same thing happening with other rides.

Have any other CF parks besides Cedar Point tried out VR yet?

After seeing how much MIA's Corkscrew's colors pop, I'd like the giga to be colors like that, basically a brighter, flashier Behemoth color scheme, but the supports either a darker teal (darker than the track of Invertigo) or a solid blue color.

The park is now holding auditions for WinterFest shows, including, and interestingly enough, a brass quartet and small vocal groups. Sounds like there will be roving entertainment along with the ones at the fixed stages. The brass players better get paid well because playing outside in winter sucks.

Well, if anyone is at the park and hasn't checked the weather, there is quite a big storm headed towards Mason/Kings Mills.

From viewing the webcams, Diamondback is barely down the stairs, Banshee and Backlot are walk on, not a lot of people at the park overall on the midways.

How would SIX market this since most of their parks already have the Larson Loops? However, I wouldn't mind seeing CF go after these if they work out elsewhere. It'd be a cool ride for X-Base.

I think we should dub it the Ouimet cup at this point.

I had some bits of headbanging on Thunderhawk, but the restraints have some padding to ease things. It wasn't as bad in the middle of the train. Invertigo is much like that as well. My problem with it was the pacing. The long trains really slacken the pacing in the taller elements, particularly the roll over and the sidewinder. It was very funky in the front seat as you really fly up into those inversions, and as soon as you crest over the top, it really, really let up the speed, strong and sudden enough where you get forced into the restraints. In the back, it would pull you over very quickly and slammed you to the back of the seat. It was quite an intense ride aside from those elements and it was comfortable, though, I also hear that T-hawk is one of the better of the SLC's. In contrast, B&M's may have 8-9 cars per train, but with the 4 across arrangement allowing for each car being a row, the weight is much more centered thus they can keep their pacing even though elements are still massive (sans the v-seating on Behemoth, Diamondback and Intimidator). They also do this thing called heartlining where the transitions are centered around the riders' hearts resulting in far less head movement side to side.

Michigan's Adventure, CF's smallest and most neglected park, has better food service than KI. That should be all you need to know.

Just out of curiosity, with Kennywood's rain practices, do they always open at 10:30 or will they delay the opening if there's early bits of rain that die out?

I can confirm that, during the fleeting moments it was actually running, CP's has a pretty similar soundtrack to KI's.

I'd like to see Coney Mall be the spot for a flat package that included the area between Zephyr and WindSeeker as well as some of the area surrounding Backlot. I'd even throw in a wild mouse.

I found a decent hotel about 20 minutes from Pittsburgh and 30 minutes from Kennywood, somewhat near the airport west of downtown. This'll be a much easier trip in terms of routing since it's all interstate highways to Pittsburgh and my hotel is right off of I-376. Only 1 other major city in between (C-bus).

I'm slightly behind financially, but only enough where I'll probably be cheap in eating this trip. The raise I got at work should make up the difference. Just booked my Pittsburgh trip! And yes, I'll proudly be wearing Reds gear to the Pirates game. EDIT: Am I seeing this right that Kennywood's entrance is on the other side of the road from the rest of the park?

Question- why do they close off the WWC train crossing when the train is approaching the station?

^Did you read the whole thread? The trees in question are by the train and Mystic Timbers, pretty much on the opposite side of the park from The Bat.

Sounds like the first day of my trip last summer, though at least I had Voyage. Are Raven and Legend prone to downtime or something?

Probably gonna ride it early and get it out of the way. I'm also surprised by the ticket prices being lower than I thought. This trip is looking to be less expensive than I first thought, though, the hotel rates around Pittsburgh will make up for both Pirate and Kennywood tickets being lower price than I expected. I could use tips about downtown Pittsburgh (mostly involving dining and parking). Gonna spend the day exploring downtown before the Reds/Pirates game. Additionally, how much is parking at Kennywood?

I believe you can leave loose articles in the station on T-bird. I'm about 65% sure on that. I didn't have anything loose on me there. Also, I don't remember there being lockers atop of Mt Thunderbird.

^Got it covered, malem will be with me for that. Also, just out of curiosity, I've never been on a spinning coaster before, so what kind of experience can I expect from Exterminator?

Consider me jealous that you get to ride Superman and Boulder Dash in the same trip.