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mrceagle
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 2/11/2003 2:31:00 AM
The park: story land is one of the most Beautiful parks you will ever see. It is meticulously landscaped and cared for. Owned by the Morrell family for 50 years. This theme park opened 2 years before Disney land opened to the public. They have mad an effect to make some sort of addition to the park every year. From rides to shows and from playgrounds to water play areas. There is only one area of the park in which you can actually see out into the real world. And what you see is the parking lot and the parks second attraction the Heritage NH. All the rides in the park are family themed with only 1 kiddy sized ride. Every other attraction an adult can ride comfortably. At the park by 2003 within 50 years they have expanded the park from a collection of man made housed for the 3 little pigs, etc and a fire truck ride. To having 20 rides, 3 shows, a wide selection of story themed sets, and 5 play areas of deferring themes.
See my review hear
http://www.themeparkcritic.com/scripts/ViewPark.asp?ParkID=98
These are the best rides as the park:
Poller coaster, the park only coaster is a custom design OD Hopkins terran coaster. The gray Walrus shaped trains seat 2 across, 4 per car, with 3 cars for a total of 12 rides. The station an ice cave has an observation area atop is and an Ice pole in front of it. This ice poll is real ice and if you dare touch it, feel free. The interior of the station has penguins and an Eskimo inside adding to the theme. You leave the station into a dug out path to the top of the hill the lift is never for then 5 ft off the ground. Of the lift you turn right and head to the far side of the hill about 50 ft across. Then another flat turn. There are 5 more back and forth turn like this each moving a little faster and dropping to stay close to the hill. The turn also starts getting banked but every turn offers some lateral Gs. You then drop and go up a hill into a brake section ( I don’t think this was always their). You come of the drop into the finale of the coaster. You drop about 10 ft into a downward helix, then pop over a small hill, back down towards the water, turns along the water and then up into the brakes. The Poller Coaster over all is a great family coaster with fantastic theming. Max speed is about 20mph
The park has two water rides both are OD Hopkins. The Bamboo Chutes and Dr. Geyser's Remarkable Raft Ride.
Dr. Geyser's Remarkable Raft Ride: this is a family White water rafting ride. One thing to take notice of is while in line look on the wall for a new article of the town leaders. The Mayer of the town is no other then OD Hopkins! They not long ago added a separate unloading platform which dose make the ride a little shorter. The ride only drops about 7ft by the end of the ride. This is a quite large ride. There are small rapids rust for fun but that’s not what gets you wet. There are a series of gags that shoot water at you throughout the ride. In order the rain machine, a fireman and dog holding hoses, the bathtub scene and ducks, water cannons, water tower with holes, the brass band, the fog tunnel (there is a fog horn sounding), a series of water cannons, and into the unloading platform.
The Bamboo Chutes: this is a Chines themed flume ride that features boats with panda faces on the front. The ride looks very prominent on the hillside. Like most of their rides it is fit into the terrain. You leave the station and drop into a fast moving river of water. You travel forward about 30ft then turn right. The ride slows down and travails forward about 20ft. You then take a turn left. Half way through the state away there is a mini drop (a Hopkins signature), you then turn left again a dragon (cartoon like) comes out of the water with mist coming out of his noise. You travel up a lift hill to the top of the hill, where you turn around past singing bamboo. You then go straight a bit and then get pulled on to the drop. The drop is about 25ft and they tac
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mrceagle
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Registered: 6/9/2001
Rank: TPC News Minister
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2/15/2003 12:30:00 AM
If you hapon to visate story land make time to to visit the parks seporate attraction the Haratage, NH. it is a Historical walk through that shows you 200years of NH history. they use many effects from live acters to tell storys to animatronics and video driven storytellers. it is a very interesting attraction and worth the 10 admition.
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