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Since Intamin seems unlikely, I'd like to see a wooden twister style coaster from GCI or Gravity Group. If they were to add a wild mouse, I would hope they run it better than Dorney's. They only run 4 cars, have a rule of no more than 2 teens or adults per car and added seatbelts. A line just out of the station can be 15 minutes. I like how Hersheypark's Wild Mouse and The Dark Knight are set up with cars that don't stop in the station and they both run more cars.

I ate there last year and was surprised it wasn't that overpriced for park food. A chicken sandwich and fries was under $7 before tax. If Cedar Point was a local park and I planned to eat a meal in the park, that would have been somewhere I would have gone to often. I thought it was strange that they closed the one in Plaza Del Carnaval, and kept the other two open. One near the fountain and the other one near Nitro that are only a few minutes away from each other.

Diamondback, just not in the front row if it is cold out.

I wouldn't mind seeing Dorney go back to the type of park it was back then. I like the major coasters like Talon and Steel Force that probably would not be there if it had not become a corporate park but at the same time I miss the classic feel of the park and how Cedar Fair removed a lot of unique and older rides after they took over like Journey to the Center of the Earth, Rockets and Water Skooters. Cedar Creek Flyers was a step in the right direction and I guess I should be happy they still kept the Whip and Zephyr.

I am glad to hear FastPass+ isn't coming to Disneyland. I was against it when I first heard about it but didn't want to judge it until I actually used it and hated it. With the old system it was easy to switch park days around for various reasons like weather. Now if you book a high demand ride like Toy Story Mania or 7 Dwarfs Mine Train you have to know not only what day you want to be at the park and what time you want to be there. The new system sounds like a good compromise of keeping the old system with a few changes.

Epcot used to be one of my favorite parks anywhere. The original Journey to Imagination (and the upstairs Imageworks), Horizons, World of Motion were all rides I looked forward to on an upcoming trip. I liked how you learned something while still having fun at many of the attractions. Now I still like the park but not nearly as much. I won't ride Mission Space because the cabin looks very claustrophic, I'm not a fan of Soarin' and the original version of Test Track was interesting with the simulated car tests compared to now where it feels like you are just riding around with blue lights. It is also frusturating to me to see buildings used for former guest areas like the Millennium Village and Oddyssey yet they still feel the need to close more buildings like Wonders of Life. To be fair, they weren't maintining it well either with the last time I was in there many attractions in the main room were covered with tarps or shut off. If they were going to close Wonders of Life, I would have rather seen Mission Space go there and keep Horizons. Finally there is World Showcase. There were all those concepts for future rides and the Rhine River boat ride for Germany has the show building built (edit, I see that was already mentioned in an above post) yet half the park only has 1 currently operating ride.

I am going to be disappointed if this is true and is added to all Cedar Fair parks. The Cedar Fair dining plan was already $15 more expensive compared to the the Six Flags dining pass and the Six Flags dining pass not only includes 2 meals but also includes a snack each visit (even items like an $8.99 funnel cake) and a souvenir cup with unlimited free refills to the end of 2016 and was valid for the rest of 2015.

I try to pick days that a park won't be crowded to avoid lines as much as possible. I generally won't go to a park on a summer weekend, Saturday's during Halloween events, any day a special event is planned like a concert etc. When I have to wait, the one thing that I hate is when a line moves slowly, when you are standing in one spot for a few minutes and don't move at all or just a few steps. On some high capacity rides when the line barely stops moving it is much more tolerable for me.

I took my first and only visit to Kings Island in June. I rode all the coasters once except Invertigo, Firehawk and The Great Pumpkin Coaster. I hope to return again since it was one of the better parks I have been to for the coaster selection and non coaster rides as well. I also got these parks once: Cedar Point, Canobie Lake Park, Fun Spot Orlando, all 4 Disney World parks. For multiple trips to parks I got to Playland's Castaway Cove twice, Dorney Park 7 times and Great Adventure 22 times. My coaster count went from 96 to 127 which was a record number of new coasters for me in 1 year. My 100th coaster was Banshee and I was glad to have such an excellent coaster be my 100th after my 50th was Rollie's Coaster at Morey's Piers which is a non looping Pinfari with over the shoulder restraints that isn't very good.

In the spring it has been open in the cold. Sunday of opening weekend 2010 when they opened in March it was around 40. The ride operators warned us it was freezing at the top of the tower. I waited an extra train for the front and being launched that fast into the cold hurt my face a little and the rest of the ride wasn't too bad. They even had the log flume running that day. Because the coin operated sprayers were off you don't really get much water on you from the drops although few people were riding.

I was there yesterday. I never expected them to decorate the park as nicely as they did. It was amazing to walk through the park at night and see lights everywhere. It was in the upper 30's when I left the park and the coasters were still running. I hope the event is a success as it is nice to have the offseason go from almost 5 months to under 3 months.

This is a good addition for anyone that likes waterparks. Other Cedar Fair parks have gotten the same slide complex over the past couple of years. I have tried all 6 slides at Dorney. The first time you are standing in the capsule and the floor drops out is a cool feeling and all 3 slides are very fast. For the tube slides, the 2 regular slides are short but both have great drops, especially the one with the double down. They also have a small section of different color rings around the slide that looks cool when you slide past them. The constrictor slide is my favorite of the slides. It's not intense although you go up the sides of the spirals more than a regular slide.

I looked up a video of Turnpike cars and it does look nice, a lot better than Road Rally at Dorney that I had heard half the Turnpike cars had gone to years ago. Road Rally has basically no theming and a very short track. Next time, I'll ride both sides of Gemini and go for a non wheel seat. I did ride Cedar Downs but forgot to mention it in the report. It was a lot better than a regular carousel and the racing of the horses was fun. 9.5 seconds for dispatches at the Sky Ride is really fast. At Great Adventure it takes at least 30 seconds for each dispatch sometimes because they are waiting for another car to enter the station with a lot less cars running compared to Cedar Point.

After out day at Kings Island and driving near Cedar Point, we left our hotel about 25 minutes from the park and got to Sandusky. When we saw the Welcome To Cedar Point sign and the skyline of all the coasters it was exciting. I was finally getting to Cedar Point and try the coasters I have seen so many reports and pictures of in the past 10 years. Even though it was a Thursday in June, there were a lot of people entering the park right after the normal opening time and I knew to skip the coasters in the front of the park. Raptor had a 45 minute wait and I didn't even bother to check out Gatekeeper's line. Blue Streak had a 2 train wait so that ended up being my first coaster at Cedar Point. It was good for an olden wooden coaster and better than other similar sized wooden coasters that I have tried such as Thunderhawk and Rolling Thunder. We stopped at the Cadillac Cars next with about a 10 minute wait. Unlike the tracks at Hershey and Dorney, it was much better with some theming and the track had a cloverleaf design which made it a longer ride time. Iron Dragon had about a 20 minute wait. It was tamer than Bat but still a lot of fun. I liked the final section with the mist over the water. Surprisingly for a "new coaster" Rougaru only had a 15 minute wait. Since the first half of the ride is a mirror image of Green Lantern, it felt a little strange to be going through the ride and feeling like you have ridden the same type of ride before but much better with the floorless trains. I liked the second half two with just the 1 corkscrew and lots of turns. It was much better than Green Lantern and if Great Adventure didn't already have Bizarro, I would hope they would also convert Green Lantern to a floorless coaster. Operations were fast with 3 trains running and little to no stacking. I heard Mantis was rough and Rougaru seemed smooth with the floorless trains. It was a great idea to convert it from a standup to a floorless. Top Thrill Dragster had been closed and when we walked around to the midway with it, it had just reopened. The sign said it was an hour wait but the greeter said it was really only 15 minutes. The line was just at the ramps right after the Fast Lane merge point and was just under 15 minutes. Ever since Kingda Ka opened, people who have ridden both Kingda Ka and Top Thrill Dragster have said Dragster is better. I knew the lap bars were supposed to make the ride better but I didn't mind the OTSR's that much on Kingda Ka and I like the air time hill at the end of the ride. After riding Top Thrill Dragster, I now understand why it is the preferred ride. The lap bars made the ride a lot better and it was nice for the ride to have a more open feeling because of it. Kingda Ka has also been running so rough this year that I have skipped it on most trips to the park this year. Top Thrill Dragster was much smoother and a much better ride overall. It wasn't my favorite ride at the park but it was still a great coaster and I was glad I had a chance to try it. They had a lot of switchbacks in the middle of the ride area and would hate to wait through a full queue for the coaster. Many of the coasters had queues that looked like they could hold hours worth of waiting riders. I was going to try Corkscrew but it had a 30 minute wait with 2 trains running. I skipped it for now and planned to return to it later in the day when hopefully the line was shorter. It was cool to see the corkscrews go right over the midway, Power Tower had a posted 15 minute wait for the turbo drop side and no wait for the space shot side so I went to the space shot. It was fun and better than Dominator at Dorney but I think it will be difficult to find a better ride than Zumanjaro. After Power Tower it was time for one of the coasters I have been wanted to try ever since I first saw it and what might be the signature coaster for Cedar Point, Millennium Force. 3 trains were running and it took about 45 minutes. Like Top Thrill Dragster, the restraints were very comfortable and I liked the design of the trains. It was cool to try another cable lift ride besides El Toro and the train was at the top of the lifthill. The first drop was awesome with the height and angle and the ride hit the top speed and didn't let up. The overbank turns were a lot of fun and I liked how in between the high speed turns and overbanks there were some good airtime hills as well. The final overbank that goes near the queue area was a great finish to a great ride. This was my favorite coaster at Cedar Point and probably my favorite coaster of the entire trip. Next we walked over to the train entrance and took a lap around the park. The skeleton town was cool and it was a good way to get some different views of the park. We walked into Frontier Town and skipped Thunder Canyon because it looked like you got soaked with waterfalls that can't be avoided unlike Congo Rapids at Great Adventure where it's random if you get soaked or not. It was the same with Snake River Falls that I have ridden the clone of at Dorney many times and Shoot The Rapids. It's too bad Cedar Point didn't keep White Water Landing since traditional log flumes are always fun and a great way to get cooled off but not soaked. The Antique Cars were next with about a 10 minute wait. The ride was good but the Cadillac Cars track was better. We went to Chick-fil-A for lunch. The food wasn't that overpriced compared to the rest of the park with a chicken sandwich $4.29 and fries $2.59. After lunch it was time for another coaster I had wanted to try since I first saw the animated POV before the ride was built Maverick. It was about an hour wait. The new restraints are great and much more comfortable than the older restraint type used on Kingda Ka, Storm Runner, Fahrenheit and other rides. The fast lift to the beyond vertical drop was fun and the twisted horseshoe rolls were great. Then the launch after that in the shed was great as well, add in the fast small overbanks and it was yet another great coaster. Before this trip I wasn't that much of a fan of Intamin steel coasters (I liked Cheetah Hunt and thought Fahrenheit and Storm Runner very good but not as good as some B&M coasters I have ridden) but after riding Millennium Force and Maverick, I can understand why their rides are so highly regarded. And of course El Toro is excellent as well. I noticed that the posted Fast Lane Plus wait time for Maverick was 30 minutes. I had considered Fast Lane Plus and wanted to see if I could get away without it. It was $85 the day I was there and I see it goes up to $115 on peak days. On a Thursday in June if the Fast Lane Plus line was 30 minutes which is bad enough in itself but only half the wait of the regular line, it seems like they are selling too many of them when they are charging up to the equivalent or more than Platinum Flash Pass prices when Platinum Flash Pass almost instantly gets you in the Flash Pass ride and gives you 2 rides in a row on most rides. Cedar Creek Mine Ride was next with a 15 minute wait. After Runaway Mine Train and Trailblazer got new individual restraints and Adventure Express already having individual restraints, I forgot how bad the shared lap bar with it lowering with the entire 3 rows of the car was. It was not good for taller riders and I had to cross my legs to get them under the lap bar and even then it was uncomfortable. The track layout itself was not bad for a mine train but even if it was a walk on, I wouldn't want to have ridden the coaster more than once. Gemini had a posted 5 minute wait with 2 switchbacks full. I thought there was no way that it was really 5 minutes but with both sides open and 4 trains running, I almost never stopped walking through the queue and was in the station in a few minutes. I went to the first open row I saw which was the 3rd row of the first car on the blue side. I didn't realize there was a raised section of the floor in the 3rd row. The ride was fun with the racing but a little more jolting (not really rough but not smooth either) than I was expecting. I decided against riding again to ride the red side. I had missed the turn to Mean Streak so we had to back track a little to get to the ride entrance. It was around 15 minutes with 3 trains running. With 2 bench cars, there was no way to avoid a wheel seat and although the trim brake on the first drop ruins part of the drop, I can't imagine how brutal the ride would be without it. It was shuffling and rough the entire ride. It wasn't as bad as Hercules of Gwazi but was easily the 3rd worst wooden coaster I have ridden and the only bad coaster of the entire trip. After Mean Streak it was time for the world's first hyper coaster Magnum XL-200. I really liked the station design and the front of the trains. It was a 10 minute wait and I went for row 1-3 since I had heard there is a lot of air time in that row. The ride reminded me of Steel Force but more intense and after the pretzel turnaround, the air time on the hills was really good. Corkscrew now had a mostly empty station and I went to the first row of the last car. The ride wasn't rough for an Arrow looper and the corkscrews over the midway were cool. I can see how this ride must have been amazing when it first opened and although it was ok, it would have been better if there were some more elements like a helix at the end of the ride. The Sky Ride had about a 5 minute wait and it was amazing how many cars they were running and how fast they were loading them. Although it doesn't travel very far unlike Great Adventure's Skyway, it was still fun. Blue Streak had no wait so I stopped there for another ride and then went to Raptor which was now a 1 train wait except for the front. Riding Banshee the day before and now Raptor it's difficult to say which coaster I liked more since they were both excellent. The layout was really good and it was nice to try another B&M invert with a cobra roll and I liked how hit had a good mix of inversions and turns rather than just inversion after inversion. I walked around for another ride taking advantage of the ride having no wait. I didn't check out Gatekeeper's line earlier in the day thinking it would have a long wait like Raptor and now the line was just past the stairs. I chose the left side and thought it was going to be around 15 minutes but the line moved extremely fast and I was boarding the 7th row in just over 5 minutes. It was amazing to see how fast they were dispatching the trains here as well with the ride ops literally running. The dive drop was something different and the keyholes were cool giving the illusion you might hit them even though you knew it wasn't going to happen. I also liked how the track goes right over the park entrance. The ride was very good but for some reason I expected it to be better. It might have been because I had already ridden so many amazing coasters in the past 2 days but I thought it was going to be one of my top coasters at the park and was probably my 5th favorite. I should have tried the right side as well just to see if it was different. I wanted to see if they had any baseballs to add to my collection along with the Banshee baseball I had gotten at King's Island and they didn't have any. I ended up getting Millennium Force and Raptor golf balls instead that I'll display next to a Cheetah Hunt golf ball. Cedar Point was amazing and probably has my favorite coaster collection of any park I have been to. Rides like Millennium Force and Maverick lived up to the hype and combined with all the other coasters I could spend a few days at a time at the park and not get bored. I hope to return sometime again, hopefully in less than 10 years.

I don't mind the ads so much on the midways, it's the train wraps I can't stand. For a ride like Kingda Ka in the Golden Kingdom that is arguably the best themed section of Great Adventure, having Smurf or Karate Kid ads in the queue and banners in the station and Karate Kid train wraps felt out of place. It was the same with Runaway Mine Train. The station is in the giant fort along with the Skyway station and they put huge Polly O ads all over the outside of the fort, took down historical pictures with captions about the West and covered them with ads and put ads on the trains. As much as people are tired of Super Hero themed rides, at least they can't put ads on those coaster trains.

Great report. I agree about Skyrush's restraints. They really effected how much I liked the coaster and prefer B&M hyper restrains or the Intamin t-bar. Comet almost always had a bad line earlier in the day I guess because it's the first coaster people see when they walk in and with the low height requirement, it makes a good first stop for families with kids.

Thank you for reposting this. I'm still going to post a Cedar Point report as well, I'm about 1/3 done writing it and hope to post it sometime next week.

Stacker is programmed to pay out only after a set number of losing plays (number is determined by game operator). Its the same with Key Master and similar games. There are videos on YouTube of the top level on Stacker in slow motion showing it skip the winning spot when it isn't set to pay out. For Hi Striker, Great Adventure has it setup where you play for fun and you win a prize no matter what score you get. That seems to work well for them since kids don't get disappointed that they got nothing for playing.

From the choices listed I have been to King's Dominion, Canada's Wonderland and Dorney Park. Dorney Park is my favorite of the 3 with a really nice water park, short lines on the ride side and some fun coasters such as Talon and Steel Force. I haven't been to King's Dominion in years and my last 2 trips to the park were not good with bad operations, long lines and some rude employees. I need to give the park another chance espeically since I haven't ridden Intimidator 305 yet.

That was one of the reasons. A lot of the time they would only run 1 side and even then the only reason it ever had a line was because of the capacity. Dispatches were very slow with it taking as long as 3 - 4 minutes to dispatch a single train because they had to check to make sure everyone had their belts buckled then checked the buzz bars.

I'm looking forward to both Zumanjaro and Kingda Ka being open. It will really help spread out the crowds more with both rides open and it will be nice to be able to ride Kingda Ka again.

sooperdooperlooper at Hersheypark. I was only willing to try it because I knew it only had 1 loop so if I didn't like it, there weren't any more inversions to worry about. I didn't ride another looping coaster for a few years after that.

Here is the info for Dorney: "Season Passholder will be allowed to enter the park 30 minutes prior to park open every operating day through Labor Day. In addition to early entry, Passholders will receive ERT (extra ride time) on the following days: Every Public Operating Day Antique Carousel Weekends May 24 - June 29 Everyday June 30 - August 24 Antique Carousel, Talon, and select rides in Planet Snoopy" https://www.dorneypark.com/season-passes/season-pass-benefits

I went to Kennywood last year. I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting too. I had watched POV's of the coasters before and they were better than I had anticipated especially Sky Rocket and Thunderbolt. I was also impressed with the Auto Race not expecting the cars to move that fast and I also enjoyed the Turtle and Ghostwood Estates. If it wasn't so far away it would be a park I would try to get to more often.

They raised the Flash Pass price this year too. It used to be you got a price break when you added more than 1 person to each Q-Bot. Now, for Platinum Flash Pass at Great Adventure it is $110 per person. It used to start at $120 per person and drop to around $85 per person if you had 6 people on the Q-Bot.