welchce Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 My friends and I went to KI on Thursday the 2nd where four of us were there the entire day and two others meet up with us after work. While my one friend was in the process of telling me the story about the kid on youtube that got asked to be in the X-Games he exclaimed "Eiffel Tower" so he got to choose the first ride on account of villainy. He chose Delirium which we only wait a couple cycles for and was a good start off. I chose SoB as the next ride since I knew it would be my 100th coaster ride of the year. Both trains were running which was good. We waited around a half an hour, I believe, and got in the last car. The air time was amazing down the first drop but it seems that the rose bowl was rougher this time then I remember earlier this year. But that could've been because I had to go to the bathroom so I was concentrating more on the roughness (I had to have drunk several liters of water because I always had my bottle of water with me). Nonetheless next we went to Flight of Fear with its new on-ride video system. I was fairly concerned about the light for the camera ruining the ride but you don't even notice there's anything on until you look right at the light and see a soft red glow. I, of course, had to act it up. I knew there had to be at least a short clip shown after the ride so right away I picked my nose. After a little more ride I acted like the camera was a mirror and fixed my hair and checked my face. Then just before the end I did the look-around-and-sniff-your-armpits. The girl behind the new video counter just shook her head at me and my friends who were cracking up while I was jumping up and down shouting, "I win!" It was getting around lunch time and also really hot so we rode Recar, went to check out some more 60% off shirt deals, and then left to have lunch in the parking lot. After saving money with the packed lunch, we went over to Boomerang Bay to cool off for a couple hours. We were afraid that it was going to be extremely crowded because of how hot it was but it wasn't bad at all. The wave pool felt delicious. Then we went Taz Typhoon/Pipeline Paradise/ Down Under Thunder/Bondi Pipeline (straight down)/Crocodile Run/ and back to the wave pool. The water felt amazing. My only one peeve was the people that spend basically their entire day at Pipeline Paradise. Sure it's cool to watch them do tricks and stuff but when I was there waiting in line just to try it out and they're all on there for several minutes each it kinda got on my nerves. So we went back to the park to meet the one friend and ride the Viking Fury. However when we got off the other one got there and needed a parking pass to get in so we just decided to have an early dinner. We went to Skyline by the Beach again to save some money. It was very good. When we got back to the park we slowed it down with Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle and Avatar. This was some of my friends first times on Avatar and they really enjoyed it. We then walked past the closed TR:TR (it had a black covering over the entrance) to hit up The Beast. I can't get enough of it. Next was Vortex (always great airtime in the back down the drop) and Spongebob 3D (nice AC). Firehawk has a new feature which I haven't heard anyone on here talk about. There are new permanent rotating fans with misting around the queue. The mist wasn't turned on at the time but it still felt amazing. Great move IMO. The wait wasn't too long since both sides were open. My one friend wanted some Potato Works so we headed that way and took a round trip on the KIMVRR. It was nice and soothing. Then we took another walk through NickU and rode Phantom Flyers. To wrap up the day we rode Drop Zone (minimal wait) and Face/Off (walk on). It was a great day and a lot of fun. The water at Boomerang Bay never felt so good. I got another 60% off shirt which was pretty awesome and rode 22 rides. All in all, it was a great day even though it was extremely hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH13TEEN Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Boomerang Bay sounded Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Attack! Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Firehawk has a new feature which I haven't heard anyone on here talk about. There are new permanent rotating fans with misting around the queue. The mist wasn't turned on at the time but it still felt amazing. Great move IMO. I believe this is a Cedar Fair thing seeing as though the only other place I have seen these fans is at Cedar Point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welchce Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 O yeah, I forgot to mention two more things that I wanted to... SoB was closed later in the day (I noticed it when I went to the bathroom before Drop Zone which was after 9). At Boomerang Bay they had signs around the wave pool about kids wearing life vest so it was good to see that they were following through after what happened at Great America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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