silver2005

I'll be up in a bit. malem, I'll text you when I get there.

If it isn't a wash out tonight (going by the forecast), I may show up. Won't decide until after work.

I wouldn't call it roughness that bothers me about Voyage, but it has too many positive g's for a woodie. Yes, it does have some decent air time, but all those 90 degree turns and tight corners really takes a toll with it being over 6,000 ft long. I thought it was a tad too intense coupled with that length. In addition, on the return journey, I thought it could have used a few bigger camel back hills instead of all those smaller hills. The MCBR serves as a bit of a breather, but the triple dip just turns up the intensity again. There's another way I want to describe it. The best way I can put it is that it runs too hard on the rails, in a way that the positive g's along with even slight deviations in the track just wore me out, probably because the trains' wheels are very snug on the rails, much like B&M and Intamin steel coasters. I think it needs a bit of bounce as it traverses the track. It's like Gravity Group was designing it to try and do what a steel coaster can do. Heartlining and having the wheels so tightly gripping the track are things that PTC's aren't really meant to do. They're better off when they have wiggle room to bounce around. Raven and Legend had a bit of a welcome rattle and shimmy by comparison. They felt more loose and comfortable with the way they tracked.

One thing I've noticed with riding in the 2 bench PTC trains is that the front row of each car is smoother than the back row. Row 6-1 on Voyage is my favorite seat on it.

^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?