KICoasterGirl Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Day Four July 5th: La Ronde Soon we left Belleville and headed to Montreal! Montreal from the car. The entrance to La Ronde is different from other Six Flags parks. Watch the tram car please! Watch the tram car please! Watch the tram car please! Oops wrong park! The arcade. La Ronde is centered around a lake. Another section of the La Ronde. Ednör is across the lake from the entrance. Ednör 's drop Ednör 's sign, the theming to this ride is really cool. When you enter the building you walk through to get to the main queue is similar to Expedition Everest with signs up talking about how they found the sea monster. The second SLC of the trip! They have a very pretty carousel at the front of the park. And a very pretty one at the back too. This one is extremely slow, but has a working band organ! Le Galopant was built in 1885. Pretty carousel horses. More Ednör ! If you've ever been to a Six Flags park the employees wear these bright yellow shirts with the message, "Have a heart. Do your part help keep the park clean!" this shirt had it in French since we were in Montreal. A Coke sign. Something we found interesting is instead of the 3 point games they have a soccor game! They also have hockey! DiscoRonde! Toboggon Nordique's sign. Toboggon Nordique is a nice mouse ride that is themed with the cars being bobsleds representing different countries. Condor and Monster across the lake. There flume looked well themed but boring! My dad's getting attacked by a shark! Orbite is their launch tower. Orbite from a distance. Vertigo is like Aero 360 at Kennywood. Cobra is unique since it is one of the two operating Intamin Standups left. The family riding Cobra, Adam sat out the second lap. Look who we found! This was a very tame groundhog. Their kiddie coaster, Marche Du Mille Pattes, has a lot of laterals for a kiddie coaster! Vampire is a very forceful Batman clone! Vampire's entrance is very similar to Batman the Rides'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KICoasterGirl Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 La Monstre is an okay woodie, I didn't like it much but the rest did. Monstre's lift hill, the trains are very weird. I'm assuming this is showing you which side is which. I love this t-shirt I got! We didn't ride these but I love the sign! Super Manege is like an Arrow Looper except it is a Vekoma. This is La Boomerang. The accident that happened with the three restraints happened the day after we were there! The Tour de Ville, the scenes are very pretty and detailed. There's an expensive McDonalds inside the park. Katy and I on the carousel. Daddy and Adam on the carousel. And Mom on the carousel. The mechanics of the carousel. Here is the old carousel organ I was talking about. I've saved the best ride for last! This was Katy's 200th different coaster! Goliath's lift hill. Goliath's airtime hills! Goliath's turn around. I love La Ronde's logo. Did KI have bumper cars like this at sometime? Ride Info Goliath is my favorite megacoaster. It has two twisty elements that are really fun! Make sure to ride Cobra. When Dragon starts its second lap, watch your back because it can be a surprise and can hurt really badly. Make sure to ride the Minirail full circuit because it has great photo ops! Good Eats The new Place Pasta Pizza was really good, they had great spagghetti bolagnese and fettichini rosa. Rides We Rode Vampire Monstre Left Monstre Right Ednör - L'Attaque Cobra Super Manège Dragon La Boomerang Toboggan Nordique Marche Du Mille- Pattes DISCORONDE Orbite Vertigo Le Galopant Minirail Ft. Edmunton Minirail Villiage Goliath Tour De Ville Ferris Wheel We left La Ronde at closing which was nine and got lost trying to get out of the city. This was not fun since it was dark and you couldn't read the signs due to there being in French. Montreal at night was very pretty! We crossed through customs around 10:30 and were back in the United States of America! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveStroem Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Nice PTR, I wish I could have been there with you...............Oh wait I was there. KICoasterGirl mentioned our lunch at the park. While still expensive, it was quite good and the pasta was cooked to order. It took about 5 minutes to get our food all of that time we could see them preparing it in a some what open kitchen. It was also a lot of food. The 4 of us split 3 entries and all were well satisfied. I really liked Le Monstre especially the left course or Parcours 2. It had some decent air and incredible head choppers. I rode it alone for the last train of the night and got a bonus re-ride. Half of the female crew of the ride took off their park shirts and rode with us. While Goliath may not be over 200 ft, it was still a blast. It was missing a helix but had a turnaround unlike any other B&M that I have ridden. On Ednor, I was hoping for the newer style restraints like one of the other SLCs that we rode on this trip. This one though required you to wear your shoes/flip flops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH13TEEN Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 What happened on the Boomerang? Ps. Love the PTR's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KICoasterGirl Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 Terpy posted an article this morning about how three of the restraints opened mid ride on La Boomerang. No one was hurt because of centrifugal force holding them in. Link: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22235 And Thank you! This one took forever to write since there were so many photos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH13TEEN Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 ^ Keep up the good work. You have wrote some of the best PTR's on this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillsberry123 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Goliath looks like airtime heaven! Great pictures again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KICoasterGirl Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 ^ Keep up the good work. You have wrote some of the best PTR's on this forum. Thank you again! Goliath looks like airtime heaven! Great pictures again. It has a lot of airtime and there's no midcourse! Thanks! Most of the pictures are taken by either my mom or dad so the credit goes to them! On Ednor, I was hoping for the newer style restraints like one of the other SLCs that we rode on this trip. This one though required you to wear your shoes/flip flops. Oh yeah! I had taken my flip flops off and set them to the side and fastened the restraints, but when the ride op came she put my flip flops back on for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 All day at work today I kept thinking of the rarity I had waiting for me when I got home...a photo trip report for La Ronde that I knew would be supreme....and indeed, you did not disappoint! Awesome, my girl...awesome! Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KICoasterGirl Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 Thank you! Right now I'm writing Great Escape's. I very much enjoy writing these trip reports! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkiboy Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 All day at work today I kept thinking of the rarity I had waiting for me when I got home...a photo trip report for La Rond that I knew would be supreme....and indeed, you did not disappoint! Awesome, my girl...awesome! Thanks so much! I knew you would injoy the Laronde Report we had a blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Great PTR! LaRonde looks very interesting, I think I like all of it except for the...*cringe*....soccer and hockey! Nice job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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