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Joined a live chat on YouTube with Eddytainment, and he's pretty confident Grizzly will be open by Memorial Day. There's apparently trains on the track and much reprofiling by GG. It's also a smidge taller and steeper on the first drop.

Bringing this back to the forum.

^One that's open more than 2 days a year.

I know this would have been unlikely, but I wish that history would have been kinder to Coney and that this area would have a small park similar to, say, a Knoebels, or a Waldameer, etc where Coney had like one centerpiece classic wood coaster and a bunch of classic flat rides and the like, obviously nothing at Kings Island's level, but a small alternative to KI. I really wish the Cincinnati area had a small park like that.

I don't see such a thing on either FB or Twitter.

All stand ups have that, I meant that the ones on the Surf coaster can still bounce during the ride a little bit according to the animations.

Must have not worked when I rode it or Shockwave because I never noticed it.

One thing I just noticed in the animation is that the seats have some give to them and aren't rigid, they bounce a bit. That actually sounds it might make it a tad more comfortable, but I'm still not buying it until I see reviews come out.

So vids from the HP faithful from this past weekend have me very optimistic. Track work should be done within a few days (maybe even tomorrow), they've done transfer track tests, I think the chain is on the lift, and now they basically just have to do clearance test and actual testing. I trust the HP fanbase a lot based on personal experience with some of them, and most of them are guessing Memorial Day or early June for an opening. If true, that gives it roughly a month for me for it to get as much of the kinks out of the way as possible before I go in mid-July.

If you were at the park this past Saturday, it was also Music In The Park Day where there were a lot of school music groups performing competitions, so many of the teen groups were from them.

It's gonna be a water park addition that replaces T3, it's prime location for such.

I thought the portions were the perfect amount of food.

Ironic given its designer and its history.

Banshee is having very slow operations today. Spent 10 minutes on the brake run on my ride.

Thoughts on the Skyline operations- First, it is well staffed for the small menu they have, just coneys, ways, salads and fries, simple stuff. 4 on table is pretty adequate. However, they could REALLY crank food out better if they did stations instead of like an assembly line. They'll get better with practice, and they are doing quite well for the 3rd weekend, but a few small changes in operations could really improve their efficiency. Also, even compared to the Skyline I work at where we're generous with cheese portions, they use a TON. I also like the hot dogs better than mine. Got coneys today that were of good quality. They do need to open the buns up and put a bit more chili on coneys, but not drastically off what's done at the outside restaurants.

Action Zone is fairly action-less.

WindSeeker is still playing Haunt music, just heard music from Nightmare Before Christmas.

Grain and Grill- A+. Had the shrimp, and while it needs to be a tad more tender, it's still good. Potatoes and focaccia bread also good. Light on the stomach compared to other park food.

Diamondback has the bottom of about every drop painted now. I think the new paint sections also feel slightly smoother. EDIT- I also see that Backlot has had its trains repainted.

How do you know Intamin is re-doing TTD?

Isn't there a whole surfing club in Ohio dedicated to riding and being good at this?

And nothing of value was lost.

Which, I don't completely get because I did ride recaR and backwards Racer 75, and it didn't feel much rougher/smoother than the forwards side. Now, I do think that GG and GCI said that Timberliners and Millennium Flyers respectively can be made to go backwards. Hmm....now I want backwards Mystic Timbers.

Why can't KD and their fans be better at Grizzly updates like KI was when Beast got retracked?

Getting #wakandaforever vibes from the trains. Courtesy of Hersheypark's Facebook page.