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This is open to any and all amusement parks you went to this year.

Roller Coasters

Best: The Raven Holiday World

Worst: Tie between Racer Forwards(PKI) and T^2

Worst New Coaster: Raging Wolf Bobs.

Coaster thats not all that bad: Son of Beast

Coaster that is THAT BAD: T^2

Most Improved coaster: recaR PKI

Flats

Best Flat: Delirium PKI

Worst Flat: Quake SFKK

Most and Least

Most Ridden: Son of Beast PKI 150+ Times

Least ridden T^2,Chang SFKK

Most visted park PKI 31 times

Best and worse Parks

Best Park Holiday World

Worst Park: SFKK

Food

Best new food in park PKI's Bubba Gump Shimp Co.

Worst food ever: SFWOA

Other

Worst experence of year: SRM

Ride that made me think of getting a new hobby: The Raven

Ride that scared the S*it out of me the most: The Villian SFWOA

Ride Most likely to cause injury or death: Kiddie turtles Strickters Grove Ross Ohio'

Dumbass of the year: Beast/Flyers Crew member who jumps off ride in mid cycle.

Best set of Flyers:PKI

Worst set: Holiday World

Best Water ride Zinga Holiday World

Worst water park ride: Most anything in waterworks PKI

Best thunderstrom: Aug 2003 PKI Water Tag and having managers yell at me...by name for acting like a moron.

Best Night ride...Still The Beast PKI 2nd place Raven Holiday World.

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Roller Coasters

Best: Scream! @ SFMM

Worst: X @ SFMM

Worst New Coaster: None of the 3 parks I went to this season had a new coaster!

Coaster thats not all that bad: Jaguar! @ KBF

Coaster that is THAT BAD: Superman: The Escape @ SFMM

Most Improved coaster: recaR PKI

Flats

Best Flat: Hammerhead (Soon to be RIP) @ KBF

Worst Flat: Even though it's not that bad, compared to the others its SR&R @ PKI

Most and Least

Most Ridden: FoF (At least 50 times) @ PKI

Least ridden:Everything at SFMM except Scream, Perilous Plunge and Hammerhead @ KBF

Most visted park: PKI Nearly every day

Best and worse Parks

Best Park: Tie between PKI & KBF

Worst Park: SFMM

Food

Best new food in park: Subway @ PKI

Worst food ever: SFMM

Other

Worst experence of year: X @ SFMM, roughest steel I've ever been on

Ride that made me think of getting a new hobby: X

Ride that scared the S*it out of me the most: Hammerhead @ KBF

Ride Most likely to cause injury or death: X @ SFMM

Dumbass of the year: Ride Op at Xcel @ KBF for giving out info on Silver Bullet (new coaster for 2005) 2 months before details were announced.

Best set of Flyers: PKI (Only one I've been on!)

Worst set: See above

Best Water ride: Didn't go on any!

Worst water park ride: See above

Best thunderstrom: Don't know date, but stormed all day while working, cleared up after shift and rode rides with no crowd!

Best Night ride: Midnight ride on Beast, very VERY foggy, creepy, and SWEET!

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Dumbass of the year: Beast/Flyers Crew member who jumps off ride in mid cycle.

Umm......I will give you that one. That employee was delt with and his actions do not count for the rest of the crew. There is always at least one bad apple in every tree. HAHA!

Happy Off-season Everyone!!!

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Roller Coasters

Best: The Beast (PKI)

Worst: Pepsi Python (Coney Island)

Most Improved coaster: Son of Beast (PKI, less bumpy)

Flats

Best Flat: Delirium (PKI)

Worst Flat: Yogi's Sky Tours (PKI)

Most and Least

Most Ridden: Adventure Express (PKI)

Least ridden: Face/Off (PKI)

Most visted park: PKI

Best and worse Parks:

Best Park: PKI

Worst Park: Guntown Mountain (Cave City, KY)

Food

Best new food in park: Mandarin Cuisine (PKI)

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I have to somewhat agree with you on the Pepsi Python. That ride has a first drop that looks innocent, but the cars can really whip over the top causing a good old whip/airtime. That is one reason why we are not allowed to load the last row of the train. Also, the breaks are applied hard on that ride as well. I`ve had numerous people comment to me as they got off of the Python this year that "You need to tone down on the breaks", or "Go easy on the b reaks, buddy." Unfortunatly, those people think that the ride operators control how hard the breaks are turned on. Unfortunatly, we only control when the breaks are released. Overall, I find the Python to be an enjoyable, rerideable ride, which is more than I got from Son of Beast during some rides this season.

The Pyhton does little justice to Coney`s history as being a fine amusement park with excellent roller coasters. However, I have heard rumors that there be plans for another coaster to grace Coney in the near future. On a side note, I heard that they were tearing down the tennis courts next to the Python. Could this be room for another ride, possibly a coaster? Maybe. However, a more likely scenario is that the space will be used for some additional parking spaces.

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Roller Coasters

Best - Ghostrider at KBF, with Legend at Holiday World in very close second.

Worst - Flashback at SFMM... the name is right... I saw my life flash back before my eyes

Best New Coaster - Top Thrill Dragster

Worst New Coaster - Top Thrill Dragster

hey.. it was the only new one i went on and was thrilled but quickly forgot about it

Coaster that is not that bad - Son of Beast.. still don't know what pain people are talking about

Coaster that is THAT bad - Flashback.... talk about instant migrane

Most improved - Top Gun... glad to see it back to two train operation :-)

Flats

Best - Delirium... gotta love ride breaks during the work day

Worst - That spinny thing at Holiday World that is on a trailer bed...

Most and Least

Most Ridden - The Beast

Least Ridden - Rugrats Runaway Reptar......

Most Visit Park - Obviously PKI... hello I work there almost everyday

Parks

Best newly visited park - Knott's Berry Farm

Worst newly visited park - Six Flags Magic Mountain

Best park ever - PKI... could be a little biased, but like everything else.. not perfect

Worst park ever - Six Flags Worlds of Adventure

Parks I can't wait to get back to - KBF, Hersheypark, PKI, CP, Holiday World

Parks I never want to return to without a new coaster - SFWoA

Food

Best New at PKI - Bubba Gumps

Best ever - Ribs cooked in the picnic grove combi steamer/oven at PKI (it was my idea to cook them that way.... they just fall off the bone)

Worst ever - the pizza at KBF

Misc

Worst memory of year - Accident at Holiday World... my heart go out to that family and the staff at that little park

Ride that scared the be-jesus out of me - Big Dipper at SFWoA... I thought I was going to be thrown out

Dumbass of the year - That idiot at SFWoA who said he couldn't do anything to stop the boomerang once it started leaving the station even though that girl wasn't in her restraint.. thank god she didn't fall out.. and what about the E-stop... did it not have one?

Best Water Ride - Zinga at Holiday World

Worst water ride - not anymore but the body slides at Surf Cincinnati... talk about really bad indian burns from not enough water in the slides... ouch

Best weather memory - The bad rain in September that caused almost all of PKI to flood including Bubba Gumps and most other food stands

Worst weather memory - That same storm as above that brought down the PKI sign overnight

Best night ride - Always has and always will be The Beast... even better when riding with Jeff Siebert

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Employees,

Best park with the best employees: Cedar Point

worst employees: SFWOA they suck... dry.gif

Most ridden roller coasters

Many times riding The Beast in one year: 345 times

Least ridden woodie: Beastie

Fave Flat

Fave flat in PKI: Delirium

Most ridden flat:Drop zone

worst flat: texas tornado, SFWOA

Best woodie

Best woodie in PKI: Son of Beast

worst woodie: Raiging Wolf Bobs SFWOA

Food

Favorite Food of PKI: Skyline Chilli Lunch Basket and Footlong express

Best eatery in the park:Bubba Gump

The most Ridden Steel Coaster: Vortex

Least ridden steel:Rugrats runaway reptar

Roughest woodie :SOB (somewhat)

Greatest theme and water park: PKI

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Roller Coasters

Best: Top Thrill Dragster

Worse: Forwards Racer

Best New Coaster: Top Thrill Dragster

Most Improved: Son of Beast

Craptastically Painful: Forwards Racer

Could the clearances actaully hit my hands? Cedar Creek Mine Ride

Most Ridden: recaR, TTD, Wicked Twister (at 2, didn't have that much time to ride)

Least Ridden: Scooby's Ghoster Coaster

Flats

Best: Delirium

Worst: I love flats

Most Ridden: Delirium (at 10ish)

Least Ridden: TR:TR at 0

Most Interesting Experience: Tearing the Theming out of Trader Jake's

The Coolest Experience: Being at Cedar Point during blackout 2003

Really Scary Ride: Top Thrill Dragster

Dumbass of the Year: I love everyone (i.e.-- no comment)

Best Storms of the Year: The ones during the week in September.... had to do the Trader Jake's inventory preparations walking on skids because of that one.

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Ah what the heck, I'm bored.....

Roller Coasters

Best Steel: Superman @ Six Flags America

Best Wood: Raven @ Holiday World

Worst: SFA's SLC...Almost ruined my day

Worst New Coaster: SFA's SLC

Coaster thats not all that bad: Raging Wolf Bobs @ SFWoA

Coaster that is THAT BAD: T2 @ SFKK

Most Improved Coaster: Chang @ SFKK

Flats

Best Flat: DUHLEE baby!!

Worst Flat: Flyers @ PKI tongue.gif

I'm adding this for myself....

Best New To Me Flat: The Magic Carpet @ BGW

Most and Least

Most Ridden: Duhlee

Least Ridden: Ghoster Coaster @ PKI

Most visited park: Went to Nagishima Spaland around 20 times. Not really but DUH!

Best and Worst Parks

Best Park: Holiday World

Worst Park: No park I went to this year was horrible. SFKK keeps getting better and better with every visit as does SFWoA

Other

Worst Experience of Year: SRM...It's also worth noting that I was having a great time until tragedy struck.

Ride That Made Me Think of Getting a New Hobby: SFA's SLC

Ride That Scared the Shat Out of Me the Most: Dragster @ CP

Ride Most Likely to Cause Injury/Death: Don't really think about that too much.

Dumbass of the Year: Sadly, some enthusiasses take the cake this year.

Best Water Ride: Ecscape from Pompei @ BGW

Best Thunderstorm: July 4th @ PKI

Best Night Ride: Raven @ HW

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Ditto on the boredom Sparky: Might I add, I've only been to 3 amusement parks this year but here goes.....

Roller Coasters

Best Steel: Batman @ SFWoA

Best Wood: The Beast

Worst: Raging Wolf Bobs @ SFWoA (PAINFUL)

Worst New Coaster: ??

Coaster thats not all that bad: Corkscrew @ Cedar Point

Coaster that is THAT BAD: Villian @ SFWoA

Most Improved Coaster: Ummm..... Serial Thriller @ SFWoA

Flats

Best Flat: DZST!!!

Worst Flat: Delirium!!!!! haha. j/k, probably Troika Troika Troika @ CP because the ride cycle is like a miniute and loading is like 10. Kinda ****ed me off.

Most and Least

Most Ridden: Face/Off

Least Ridden: Congo Falls sad.gif

Most visited park: I was a ride operator at Wonderpark in Forest Fair Mall people, jeez!

Best and Worst Parks

Best Park: Gotta stick with KI (remember only 3 parks this year including KI)

Worst Park: SFWoA kinda sucked because the employees kinda ****ed me off but Im not there to see the employees, im there to ride the rides.

Other

Worst Experience of Year: Me + Looping brakes = Bad times

Ride That Made Me Think of Getting a New Hobby: Face/Off

Ride That Scared the Shat Out of Me the Most: Dragster @ CP

Ride Most Likely to Cause Injury/Death:

Dumbass of the Year: Cant say.

Best Water Ride: WWC. I only rode Congo and WWC this year.

Best Thunderstorm: July 4th @ PKI

Best Night Ride: Congo Falls, always a good time

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Roller Coasters

Best Steel: Raging Bull @ SFGAm

Best Wood: The Beast

Worst: Racer Forwards

Best new Coaster: Superman: Ultimate Flight @SFGAm

Worst New Coaster: ? ?

Coaster thats not all that bad: Adventure Express

Coaster that is THAT BAD: Racer Forwards

Most Improved Coaster: Iron Wolf/American Eagle @ SFGAm

Flats

Best Flat: Definately Delirium!!

Worst Flat: Hometown Fun Machine(scrambler @ SFGAm) It is slow, shaky, and ready to fall apart.

Most and Least

Most Ridden: Demon @ SFGAm

Least Ridden: Beastie

Most visited park: SFGAm: 5 times in 2003

Best and Worst Parks

Best Park: SFGAM & PKI: the only two I've been to this year and they are both awesome parks.

Worst Park: n/a

Other

Worst Experience of Year: My one and only ride on Racer forwards.

Ride That Made Me Think of Getting a New Hobby: Deja Vu

Ride That Scared the Shat Out of Me the Most: Deja Vu

Ride Most Likely to Cause Injury/Death: Whizzer @ SFGAm

Dumbass of the Year: ??

Best Water Ride: White Water Canyon

Best Thunderstorm: ??

Best Night Ride: BEAST!!!

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Roller Coasters:

Best Steel: Millennium Force, Wicked Twister

Best Wood: Beast

Worst Steel: Corkscrew at CP

Worst Wood: Twisted Twins

Coaster that's not all that bad: T2, Meanstreak

Coaster that is that bad: Corkscrew

Most Improved: Chang

Best Flat: Delirium, Drop Zone

Worst Flat: Tomb Raider, Chaos

Most Ridden: I guess Delirium, Vortex and Beast, and Tennesse Tornado @ Dollywood but I haven't been counting.

Least Ridden: WT, Raptor, Mantis, Iron Dragon, Corkscrew, and the other rides up at CP cuz I was only there for 2 days.

Best Experience: My first time on Millennium Force

Worst Experience: My ride on Corkscrew

Most Scary Experience: My first ride ever on Drop Zone early this year, going up the huge hill on Millennium Force.

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Well, I didn't go anywhere besides PKI this year, so I'm going to pick and choose to save some time.

Best steel coaster: Flight of Fear

Best wooden: The Beast

Best crew: Delirium

I've got to hand it to that crew, with that set up, it could either go really good, or REALLY bad, but every time I rode it (which was quite often) the line ran smoothly. So hats off to them!

Worst crew: Flight of Fear

er... where do I start? I haven't had my lap bar checked countless times.. I saw the crew members standing around and talking while they should have been collecting people's loose article and whatnot, thus making the line even slower. "3,2,1 Goodbye!" <--That got really old really quickly... Get a freaking life people!! Then again, I'd probably get really frusterated with all the people that seat belt was too lofty of a concept for them.

Best memory: When they kept pushing back Nights of Fire on July 5th, and finally we were told that it wasn't going on until 11. Then the storm was delayed, so an employee ran frantically into the Festhaus to tell everyone that it was starting in 5 mins. biggrin.gif

Worst memory: Sign falling. Need I say more?

Thing that scared the poo out of me: When my OTSR popped up completely on the 2nd lift on Face/Off. The seat belt part was the only thing that kept me in.

Most improved coaster: SoB, still rough, but really getting there.

Favorite employee: The guy who was sitting there one morning at the tram station near the front entrance. He was on the mic begging people to ask him questions because he was so bored. I remember him specifically saying, "Come on! Ask me something. I probably know the answer... even if I don't, then we can find out together."

Best new eatery: Manderine Cuisine. If you haven't tried it, give it a shot. I give a close honorable mention to Bubba Gump's. Great food, even better themeing.

Memories of the weather: Specifically, I remember The Beast getting struck by lightning. I'll always remember this season as being the season that it rained just about every day in the early part of the season and due to that, everything was a walk-on!

~~A special honorable mention goes out to PKI's Guest Relations for returning my cell phone in a safe in timely manor!!

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Best crew: Delirium

I've got to hand it to that crew, with that set up, it could either go really good, or REALLY bad, but every time I rode it (which was quite often) the line ran smoothly. So hats off to them!

Thanks for the props man. Sarah and I's(is that even proper grammar?) crew kicked so much arse in 03. Definately my favorite season so far. I miss everyone on the crew so much already and it's only December 31. sad.gif

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Worst crew: Flight of Fear

er... where do I start? I haven't had my lap bar checked countless times.. I saw the crew members standing around and talking while they should have been collecting people's loose article and whatnot, thus making the line even slower. "3,2,1 Goodbye!" <--That got really old really quickly... Get a freaking life people!! Then again, I'd probably get really frusterated with all the people that seat belt was too lofty of a concept for them.

1. What do you mean haven't had your lapbar checked?

2. Ride ops are people, not robots. We need human interaction, and not the kind where a person hands you something then ignores you the rest of the time. Yeah we talk, but I try to talk only when people are getting into their seats still, or we have a hold up where we can't launch the train or continue checking restraints (ie. restraints have been unlocked for someone to get out).

3. Yes, I know, the "3, 2, 1, goodbye!" thing does get annoying. There was only one person that did that every train that launched. When I was driving, I would try to space out the times I did it, so the people in the station would only hear it once. There are also sometimes where a person would ask me to say it, like a little girl who had never ridden before.

OK, I think I am done with defending my crew, lol.

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3. Yes, I know, the "3, 2, 1, goodbye!" thing does get annoying. There was only one person that did that every train that launched. When I was driving, I would try to space out the times I did it, so the people in the station would only hear it once. There are also sometimes where a person would ask me to say it, like a little girl who had never ridden before.

Trust me, it gets annoying hearing it just one time.

Oh, and my worst experience or experiences is waiting in line for Delirium.

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Best Park...PKI

Worst park...SFWOA

Best coaster(Steel)...Steel Phanton R.I.P. Now Phantoms Revenge

Best coaster(Wood)...The Beast

Worst coaster(Steel)...Serial Thriller SFWOA Way to rough

Worst coaster(Wood)...Raging Wolf Bobs SFWOA Way to rough

Best Food....Kennywood Park...Potato Patch Fries Rule

Worst Food...SFWOA....I'll bet their are Psychiatric hospitals that have better food

Best Employees...PKI...They have the friendliest staff I've ever experienced.They are the reason I bought Season Passes,And have been to the park 12 times this year.

Worst employees...SFWOA...They have the most miserabe,ruddest,un-friendly bunch of people working there.

Cleanest park...Kennywood Park

Dirtiest park...SFWOA

Park I most attended in 2003...PKI...and I live 6 hrs. away!!

Best waterpark...Sandcastle...They have hot tubs and a dance club at night!

Oh well thats all I can think of right now....

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Worst crew: Flight of Fear

er... where do I start?  I haven't had my lap bar checked countless times.. I saw the crew members standing around and talking while they should have been collecting people's loose article and whatnot, thus making the line even slower.  "3,2,1 Goodbye!"  <--That got really old really quickly... Get a freaking life people!!  Then again, I'd probably get really frusterated with all the people that seat belt was too lofty of a concept for them.

1. What do you mean haven't had your lapbar checked?

2. Ride ops are people, not robots. We need human interaction, and not the kind where a person hands you something then ignores you the rest of the time. Yeah we talk, but I try to talk only when people are getting into their seats still, or we have a hold up where we can't launch the train or continue checking restraints (ie. restraints have been unlocked for someone to get out).

3. Yes, I know, the "3, 2, 1, goodbye!" thing does get annoying. There was only one person that did that every train that launched. When I was driving, I would try to space out the times I did it, so the people in the station would only hear it once. There are also sometimes where a person would ask me to say it, like a little girl who had never ridden before.

OK, I think I am done with defending my crew, lol.

1. Not having my lap bar checked means that I didn't have my lap bar checked.

2. I totally realize that people need interaction. It just seemed to really slow the lines down a lot when they were standing around BSing. Granted, I work at Best Buy and there have been times when I've been talking to another employee and walked right past a customer that tried to get my attention. It just seemed to be done way too often.

3. There was a girl who had glasses, and a guy (who I assume wasn't you) that would do it every time.

Don't take my observations personally. That was just what I noticed. I could have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time often last season. I didn't intend to offend you or your crew personally. I don't know you guys, so I have no grounds to attack you. How about we just drop this debate so they can possibly keep this thread opened.

Thanks,

Ryan

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Yeah, associates who stand around and ignore guests is an issue. People from my crew used to do it all the time and it ****ed me off. I had to apoligize numerous times to guests for that happening. If any of that has come from the DOT/Drop crew to anybody who posts, im sorry about that.

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But you also have to understand why we defend our crews like we do:

Think about it: we are with the same people for almost nine months. We get to know them as a second family. If someone insults your family, dont you get ****ed off too?

None of us really tries to take it personally, but it just happens.

Just to point something out: if someone doesnt check a lapbar, shouldnt you report it to someone? Just a thought.

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Think about it: we are with the same people for almost nine months. We get to know them as a second family. If someone insults your family, dont you get ****ed off too?

I realize that you guys are really fond of your crews, but for those of us who don't have season jobs, instead of seeing the same people 9 months out of the year, we see them 12 months out of the year. So it's not we don't know what you're talking about.

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Boddah, while I do not know your job, we have to form a very intimate relationship with every person we have on our crew (nonsexual your perverts) or else things start to fall apart. I have had jobs where I was with the same people for a couple of years, but still, the level of caring between people there and at my PKI crew are completely different. Its hard to describe, just something you have to experience.

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