SFGAm/Kiddie Land TR: May 3rd/May 4th

[tp41190]

So yeah, this weekend I deceided to make another trip to Illinois. I got down to the park on Sunday around 3:30. I came down with Kelly and I meet Riely. We went to Batman as the first ride. We only waited about 5 mins for it in the back. Then we went to V2 and waited about 5 trains to ride. We also got a mis-grab on the back spike which was really cool.

We then walked to the west side of the park and we went on Giant Drop. I have my keys on a string and I let then float around in my hands as we fell. We then went on Raging Bull. This was my first Bull ride of the season and we went into the second row. I couldnt beleive the amount of forces I felt from airtime to positive G's. Its almost like the ride was running a bit faster then normal. Then we went over to Chubasco and got the car spinning pretty good. Then we went over to Viper and went in 1:3 for the ejector seat.

At this time it was about 5:25and the park was pretty dead. All the rides had a station wait except for Raging Bull, which was 15 mins. We then got a walk on Demon, American Eagle, and Iron Wolf. After we got of IronWolf it was 6:15 We then re-rode V2 and Batman which were both walk ons. We then went on East River Crawler which had a very slow dispatch time. At about 7:10 I had to go to my car quick to get my parking receipt. We walked back no less then 5 mins and they said we couldnt go back in. So we wasted a good 7 rides because they didnt let us in. We went to guest relations and we said that we had stuff in lockers and we had family in the park and they still wouldnt let us in, they didnt even give us anything like a boarding pass of something for it. Its ther fault that they gave us a stamp and didnt tell us we couldnt come back in.
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After we left the park we went to Gurnee Mills for a bit, ate some dinner, walked until the mall closed.

I then had to drive to Glenview (30 mins south, 2 hours south of my house) because I was staying at my friends house. Well they werent going to be home until 12:30 and its now 10:30. So I called up my friend Aaron to see if we could hang out until my friends Zach and Eric came home. He was at his girlfriends apartments and my phone was dying. So now, I have no way to get a hold of Aaron to tell him Im here, and no way to get directions to Zachs house. So I walked out of my car and I see a woman walking here dog. I was going to ask her if there was somewhere like a Taco Bell, McDonalds, Dunkins, ect so I can charge my phone. I was about 50 feet away from her and I am walking, we both look at each other. Then after about 10 seconds I say "mam excuse me" and she starts screaming LOUD! Shes like " HELP HELP HELP, GET AWAY"! I just walk away and I got scared so I kid in some bushes until finaly, Aaron come out 20 mins later. At this time though the woman calls the cops and she was outside with another man. We just got the hell out of there as fast as we could and went to Dunkin Doughnuts.

After a few hours, everyone came home and it was time to drop Aaron off, and go over to Zachs. I got to Zachs and and pretty much fell right asleep.
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SUNDAY MAY 4th

At about 11:30 me and Zach drove over to Kiddieland. I needed the credit and it had some pretty cool flats and FREE soda! So we realised the park didnt open until 12:00 so we just got in line and waited until they opened. When they opened we went right the the Little Dipper. I was shocked by this ride. It was really fun, it had some little pops of air and you could grab the track when you went around the turns. After the coaster, we rode the Polyp which was INSANE! It was the most fun flat I have ridden in a while at a park. Then we rode the Pirate Ship and the Tilt-a-Whirl. They had two wet-dry slides and a log flume which looked really fun. But we had to go to SFGAm soon so we left with a total of 8 rides on Dipper and about 10 cups of soda. So for $23 it was a fun little 40 min visit.

Now it was time to go to SFGAm. We got to the park around 3:15 and we were shocked at how busy it was for a Sunday. We rode Demon and I did the "zero g keys" and it was fun. The keys went completely up on the first drop in the back, and they stayed in position pretty much the rest of the ride. Then we walked to Eagle and saw it had a line all the way to the end of the bridge. So we said screw it and rode Loggers Run. I also did the "Zero G keys" on this ride too and they had a little bit of floater.

We then rode V2 and Batman and I did "zero g keys"! V2 was really cool because the whole time up the back spike they would just float around. Batman, the keys stayed in the lower position the whole time except for the zero g roll.

We then rode Viper but I didnt do "zero G keys". I had a bottle of water though that I was hanging on too. The op didnt say anything and I though he was going to tell me to put it away. So I unscrewed the cap and I was sitting in the last row. I was watching the water fly out of the bottle on all the airtime hills and that was cool to see.

Then it was time to try eagle again. It was a walk on and we did "zero g keys" and to my surprise the keys flaoted on every single hill. I think that because Im so tall and cramed into the seat that I dont feel airtime. We then rode triple play and I tried the keys but they didnt really do anything though. After we rode, we went to Whizzer and I did "zero g keys". They actually had some floater on the hills to my suprise in the 1st row, last car.

The last hour we rode Demon, Viper (2), Giant Drop (3), and then the last ride in the back on Raging Bull. And of course, I did "zero g keys" on the ride. And the floater was amazing in the back for only the second ride of mine for the season.

[Trailblazer Tony]

do you remember if the wisdom Tornado is up and running yet at Kiddieland?

[tp41190]

^ I didnt even see one. The only main flats that they had were the Tilt-A-Whirl, Polyp, Pirate Ship, and the bumber cars.

[Mr. D.T.]

Boy, sirs, aren't you a blessid union of souls. You almost got arrested and went to jail, that's no joke. If that happened to me I would've regret it for the rest of my life. Maybe you should ask a clerk at Shell next time, with all respect.

I'm surprised to hear that Raging Bull was 'running faster than normal'. It would if they removed the brakes from the third bunnyhop. I'll have to ride it again this year and find out.

Anyhow, I'm not too sure about the attendance this year or if the park will make much money. Hopefully, TDK will bring more people in the parks. They say it's supposed to be a good ride.

[tp41190]

I would have went to a gas station if I found one. I came off 2-94 and I had no idea where to go. My directions were (left, left, right, left, right) and I didnt want to get lost. At that time I was so nervous that I really couldnt think straight.

And Raging Bull "felt" faster. I dont know if it was because it was the first time riding it this year or something else. But I can tell you that I noticed the Red train going around the station fly-by faster then the yellow train.