Theme Parks

[JeremyM]

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I just like a ride on a wooden coaster now and then. Good enough for me. :

 

 

 

i'll give ya a ride on my wooden coaster! :twss:

[Leoo]

I am pleasantly shocked with the amount of replies :

 

 

 

1.5 hour queues are nothing! Here we have to wait 3 hours on busy days for a ride half the height and speed of Top Thrill Dragstar (called Stealth) unless you have Fastrack/Fastpass tickets :wall:

 

 

 

I can't wait for the halloween events in October :mrgreen:

 

 

 

Unfortunately I've seen Final Destination 3.

 

 

 

No rollercoasters for me.

 

Ha, same. #-o

 

 

 

Final Destination 2 distrubing accident is more likely to happen :shock: And getting your head stuck in the lift, great :|

[MoeSzyslak]

I love Cedar Point, I'm upset that I didn't get to go up there this year (it's about a 3 hour drive but when we've gone in the past we've stayed at a motel and made it like a 3-4 day trip)

 

 

 

I was lucky and got to ride Maverick last year after over a 2 hour wait :

 

Top Thrill Dragster's wait was pretty dang long too but we were waiting in the station forever... it was nervousness/exciteness, awesome feeling. Crowds do annoy me sometimes too, even when I go to a sporting event.

[Lenin64]

If theme parks are the same thing as ameusement parks (I always get confused since some of the ones I know have no real theme), then I'm a sucker for 'em. I love me some roller coasters. That said, I will never ride a wooden one again.

 

 

 

This summer I went on a sort of ameusement park hopping trip, going to several parks in Virginia. Well, I was supposed to anyway. First stop was King's Dominion, and all was well until my dad and I went to ride the Hypersonic XLC, which we didn't realize had been taken down. So we rode the Rebel Yell instead, and the hills on that thing left us both in pain, but I honestly thought on that ride I would break my back. My neck was in pain the rest of the day and I couldn't ride anymore.

 

 

 

So the next day we go to Busch Gardens. Nice long drive, and my neck feels mostly fine, but after a few coasters it starts to hurt again (i.e. Big Bad Wolf).So I'm done for the day again while everyone else is still going strong. We ended up just not going to our next and last expected stop, Six Flags, though that was also due in part to the heat, drive, etc. To wrap it up, I had a spy sappin' mah vacation because of a single wooden roller coaster.

 

 

 

Steel coasters are awesome, though, and sitting front seat in Apollo's Chariot...simply wow. Virginians should know everything I've been talking about here, location and ride-wise. I don't know if they have BG in other states or not.

[Kenshinjapan]

Lenin, the whiplash of the wooden 'coasters make them as fun as they are :thumbsup: . Steel 'coasters just seem so...mechanical ( :? ). Speed isn't the thing that really gets me excited, it's the feeling that the entire ride is about to collapse underneath me. =P~

[doomy]

Living in NZ, where we have 1 theme park, which also happens to be 2 1/2 hours away from where we live, I don't go to theme parks much.

 

 

 

I went to all the ones on The Gold Coast though, I love the things to Movie World, they're great. And Dream Worlds rides are alright, the Roller Coaster there is totally crap though, gotta walk round the bulding heaps of times to get to the start.....

 

Dream World does have the Giant drop though. Thats pretty cool :D

 

 

 

Heh, I wish I could go to the bigger theme parks like there are in the US.

[olenik2]

I consider myself quite an enthusiast, i love going to theme parks and amusement parks.

 

My relative isolation always makes it special to go to them, the closest good one (tusefryd) is 600 km away from me :wall:

 

Also its the only one ive been to this year, and my first ride in the new speedmonster, which is a nice intamin accelerator.

 

 

 

Up through the years ive been to some good parks through the UK and US

 

 

 

The best experience was Busch Gardens Europe(Williamsburg), in 2001, i remember the apollos chariot, loch ness monster and big bad wolf. but i was freaked to see alpengeist, so i didnt ride it :wall:

 

There where great scenery and other rides too

 

 

 

Other parks:

 

Alton Towers

 

Six Flags over Georgia

 

Liseberg

 

Thorpe Park

 

Busch Gardens Africa(tampa bay), back in 1998, first looping coaster, scorpion

 

 

 

PM me for a talk about coasters and theme parks if you like, got quite some advice about where to go...

 

 

 

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[krisc6]

Love themeparks will go on almost anything.I wont go on those tower things which shoot you straight up purely because i had a bad experience on one of those where i cracked a bone in my shoulder and it also dropped my mobile straight to the floor smashing it.

 

I love the ultimate at ligh[bleep]er valley, kamale(sp?) at flamingo land, Air, oblivion and ripsaw at alton towers.I think i got the names wright but if i have, its because i havent been for a year or two, i dont have money to burn on food and gifts for lady freinds.