Trip report 4/19/2014

[amandagail13]

Glad to say my first trip of the season was a pretty good one! Went with my soon-to-be cousin and had a great time!

We arrived at the park around 11am, went straight to Backlot (which was closed). We decided to ride The Beast at maybe a 10-15 minute wait. Shout out to the awesome ride ops who were really nice about me needing an extra click, some get annoyed and just make you leave but these didn't. Awesome first ride of the season, did seem a little rougher than I remember last year.

By the time we had gotten off The Beast Backlot had opened back up, 10 minute or so wait. Honestly I love this little coaster. Always an fun ride for me.

My cousin didn't wanna ride Vortex so we went to see how long the line for FoF was. It said about 90 minutes, the outside queue was only half full but I didn't know if the whole inside queue was open. Decided not to ride it, and move on. Firehawk didn't seem to be running, don't know if it opened up later or not.

Rode The Racer, bout a 30 minute or so wait time. Blue racer wasn't operating until about 2 cycles before we got on. After that we went to Delirium to try to get a ride before Boyz are Back started at 1:30. The line for Delirium was 30 minutes also. AWESOME ride, loved watching Banshee in action while we waited as well as see her while we were on Delirium.

We went to Festhaus to eat (and to see Boyz are Back). Great show. Maybe it's the fact that I grew up in the Jonas era but I squealed when they started singing Pom Poms. Didn't think anything could top British Invasion for me but it did. Also I felt like the prices got raised from last year (I could certainly be wrong). $13.29 for 2 slices of pizza?! Got my Banshee souvenir cup though which was good, even though the boy checking us out was very confused.

After we got done eating we went to ride The Bat, after checking out Banshee of course. The line for Banshee was way to long for my cousin (who isn't a crazy coaster fan). I was amazed at how awesome Banshee looks. The fog and the queue make it so much more exciting IMO.

Also got a good picture of the new The Bat sign.

The line for The Bat was longer than I expected. Around 20 minutes, but everytime I've ever rode it's been almost walk on. It was worth it though, love that ride. Always ride it every time I go since it was my first ever coaster.

Rode Boo Blasters then decided to head on home (around 4pm-ish). Had a great time all in all. Only saw two super lovey dicey teenage couples

My only thoughts were in Boo Blasters Fun TV was playing on the speakers so they cut out the "scary" music, as well as the pop up characters (if I remember correctly they were there last year.). IMO kinda cut out a little of the fun of the wait. Another thought is even though Boo Blasters isn't technically in Planet Snoopy it is aimed at kids (at least I think) and a lot of little kids were making comments about not knowing who was singing, what was on the tv etc. My thought would be could they show more kid stuff on Fun TV in Planet Snoopy? (I'm honestly not sure if they even have it in the other rides in PS, if they don't ignore me lol) Disney/Nickelodeon has music videos, even if it was Hannah Montana or Selena Gomez. Something kids would recognize, as opposed to Lorde.

Also, no Gold Pass parking? Was this a thing last year too? I got dropped off Mose the time but I thought there was still Gold parking.

Just my thoughts haha. Well hope you guys sort of enjoyed this trip report

[jcgoble3]

Thanks for the report!

Interesting that they had FUN TV on the speakers at Boo Blasters. Yesterday it was silent in there. Apparently the speakers were not working, or at least I couldn't hear them.

Gold Pass parking was removed a while back. I don't remember whether it was 2012 or 2013 that it was taken out, but it definitely was not there last year.

[canobie#1]

Nice report but Lorde is one of the biggest new stars on the planet. All the kids love her!