This was kind of planned in 15 minutes yesterday morning, but one of my friends got 4 tickets from a Crystler dealer up here in Milwaukee. She's friends with the girl I always attend the park with so we all got into her brother's car and left around 9:15. We arrived at the park around 9:50 and were greeted with Crossfire's and 300 GT's flying arround the stunt course they had set up infront of S:UF. That was definatly a neat thing to watch.
Anyways, it took about 15 minutes for us to get into the park and we headed for S:UF right away. The line was at the stairs to the station but a breakdown caused a 15 minute wait, no biggie still got the 2nd to back row and had a good ride. We proceeded to Batman after that and was greeted to an empty station. We took the backrow and had a great ride. Came back and had nobody in our row so we did a re-ride. After that we switched to Row 7 which no employees cared about today. In all we had 8 rides in a row on Batman. A good little Mini-Marathon in which I heard U2, the Batman theme, and Seal. (Yeah Seal!)
We moved on a decided to take a ride on V2 since it's line was a walk-on. My friend's brother was really scared of this ride so he sat in the middle of the train while me and my friend took the backrow. Pretty decent ride with a good launch. He really liked the ride and there was still noone in the station so we took a reride in the back of the train. Again none of the employee's cared and had another good ride. After that we took a bathroom break at Batman and did another 2 rides on Batman. Two of my friends wanted to do Batman one more time but I didn't feel like it so I went on the swings with my other friend. It sort of made me sick but that feeling went away quickly.
We walked some more and passed up Iron Wolf and Revolution, but decided to stop at American Eagle. I went backwards with my friend while the other two went forwards. We all walked onto the backrows of the two trains and had a pretty decent ride. There were trims on the two helix's but nothing too major.
Noticed that Deja Vu was testing which really surprised me since I thought they would be way to understaffed to open Deja Vu. We walked over there and it was experiencing a temporary delay, so we took a quick ride on Demon then joined the Deja Vu line. This was NOT a good ride. I have never experienced headbanging of any sort while riding Deja Vu until today. Even being lifted up the first tower made my head bang! The Cobra Roll was absolute Hell and so was the second tower. Not a good ride.
I needed something smooth and exciting, so naturally we headed to Raging Bull which had an empty station! I thought that was all the amazement I'd have for the day until I noticed they were running all 3 trains!!! I was in heaven, walked on the backrow and didnt get off that train with 4 re-rides. We jumped off and got two more rides after that. Then they took off the red train and I didn't feel like waiting so we headed on over to Viper.
I met my favorite ride-op crew of all time yesterday on Viper. His name was Shay and absolutly helarious. We walked onto the backrow of the train and had a totally awesome airtime filled ride. Got back into the empty station and stayed on, still jokin around with Shay. We ended up staying on that same train 16 times in a row going in various rows and places. The crew didn't care whatsoever if we re-rode that thing all day and if there was an open seat we would take it. The best part about this crew is that they didn't care if you liked airtime or not. I had my lapbar probably about a foot off my legs on 14 of my 16 rides and they didn't care. (Boy, I hope I don't get yelled at for this) Best airtime rides ever.
It was starting to get later in my short day (We had to leave at 4) and we were very hungry so we went and got funnel cakes. Fabolous funnel cakes. It was about 330 and we wanted to get another ride or two in so we headed into Mardi Gras where we were greeted with somebody telling us that everything at the Big Time Recording Studio was free that day. You even got a free Rolling Stone T-shirt and Magazine when you did it! Took awhile for us to pick a song but ended up doing 3AM by Matchbox 20. Bad choice, nobody knew it and we sounded horribile, but thats OK because I got my Rolling Stone T-shirt. I told them we should have done Hotel California! Anyways that took us to around 415 and we left the park right away. I wish I could have stayed for the whole thing (Crystler had a concert and fireworks planned for later.) but that's not a huge deal, had a great day.
Totals:
SUF-1
B:TR-10
V2-2
AEB:1
DE-1
DV-1
RB:6
VI-16
If anyone got to go to the park today they were privilaged with no lines and a great car show. If the stunt drivers weren't cool enough in whats left of the Bus lot had a test course for actual people to test Crossfire's, PT Cruisers, and 300s. They actually also had a course for people to drag PT Cruiser's and Crossfire's which I watched on my many times up Viper's lift hill. Awesome day. If anyone was there I was wearing my X T-shirt and jean shorts and was with 3 other people. Thanks for reading.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
If I wasn't sick yesterday, I was going to go. My friend called from the park and she said she got to go home early because there was no one at the park.(Granted she was suppose to stay until 8 and she left at 5.)
There was nothing newer than anything that was mentioned on here before. Basically signs for the Southwest Scaritory was up, so were signs for other attractions and Sleepy Hollow 3-D entrance was finished.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
That is correct. I don't think the combo is even worth it because Sleepy Hollow is horrible. The Mausoleum is worth the $5 though, I usually do it every year even though it is usually about the same thing.
Man chrystler day freakin rocked, i mean it really rocked. Words cant described the abuse. I did it all. My repeat rides were raging bull, superman, V2 three times back to back, and iron wolf four times back to back. Hands down one of the best days ever i feel good!!!
Maneuverman.. pulling high altitude loops and zero g maneuvers every weekend.
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