penguin22
Posts: 332
Registered: 2/14/2005
Rank: Silver Critic
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 9/7/2005 6:12:13 PM
I'm not much of a trip report guy, however once a year I summerize all of my trips into one big report. So I hope you enjoy.
Parks Visited
Six Flags Great Adventure- 2 visits
Annunciation Carnival (Skelly's Amusements)
Trimper's
Clementon Park- 13 visits
Gillian's Wonderland and Playland's Castaswy Cove
Morey's Piers
Hersheypark
Dorney Park
Trip 1- Six Flags Great Adventure
Weather: Cool Breezy Cloudy
What I was wearing: Nike hoody,grey sweat pants
I was excited as heck pulling up to Six Flags. I was dropped off at 9 and I walked the trek to the front gates. I stared ad gawked at Kingda Ka, towering over the park. The skyline will never be the same. Meanwhile, I was at the front for the rope drop and went immediatly to Superman. I hitched a ride on the flyer. I still think it is a ho hum ride, even though it was nice to ride without waiting.
I continued over to the other side of the park to Chiller. Another walk on. Batman was closed, which sucked. I really like the Batman side better.
I got off Chiller and guess what? Another walk-on, this time Batman. This is still a pretty good invert. Very intense and it was running well. I then went to Nitro which had a station wait. I still don't see what all the hype is with this ride. It isn't as intense or fun as other hypers I have ridden.
I decided to go take the Skyride over to Frountier Adventures to hit the coasters there. The Skyride gave a really nice view of the park and Ka. Once off, I was disappointed to see the mine train closed. Nevertheless I continued onto Medusa. What a rush, this coaster is great! I especially love the cobra roll and ending corkscrews. Next up was a one sided Rolling Thunder. This is not the same ride if it is not racing. Hopefully it is next time. Then it was lunch time. I hit Best of the Westfor some chicken. Then came my post meal flat rides. I hit my favorite ride at the park, Rodeo Stampede, Taz Twister, and the parachutes.
I then went on the top spin over in the boardwalk area. It was my first ride on it and it was pretty good. I then resisted the temptation to ride Spongebob and went to Fantasy Forest.
In Fantasy Forest I hit the round up, swings Big Wheel and carousel. I skipped the tea cups, and instead went back to the Boardwalk where I rode my favorite, the scream machine. I don't know why, the inversions, especially the batwing are fun on this thing. This ride really loked nice with the new paint. Then it was off to Old Country where I hit a good enterprise (Spinmeister), a horrible Music Express, and the average Autobahn. I then left after catching one more GASM wlak-on. Overall, the park looked cleaner, friendlier, and the Golden Kingdom looked great. Very impressive changes for SFGAdv. 8/10
Annunciation Carnival
When: Monday through Saturday
Weather: Rain shortened nights wedensday and thursday, other nights good weather.
Price: $30 for all week wristband
Annunciation School is my former elementary school and I always go to their carnival every year. Instead of giving a report about every night, I'll just review the rides I went on.
Rides: Swinger (Watkins Swinger), Pharoah's Fury (Chance), Gravitron (Wisdom), Emarald City (Wisdom jungle gym walkthrough) Rock and Roll (Chance Trabent), Zipper (Chance), Fun Slide
Swinger: Very nice ride. It has been a while since they had this ride and it ran a lot better then I remember in the past. I rode this about 2-3 times a night. Overall it's still not the same as a Chance Yo-yo, but it's a classic. 8/10
Pharoah's Fury: I rod ethis 3 times in the week. I hate swinging ships and this is no exception. I don't know why, I just hate these rides. 3/10
Gravitron: This ride is there almost every year and is always one of my favorites. This year's operator sucked though, he never turned off the lgihts and the music was WAY too loud. Nevertheless, it's always fun to float above the floor and this is the best ride name ever thought o
Message updated 12/9/2005 12:55:39 PM by penguin22
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