I can never drive through Wisconsin without stopping for some Avalanch and Skyscraper. So worth it. Anyway, moving on to Valleyfair!.
Valleyfair! is one of the first Cedar Fair parks, hence where CF gots its name (CEDAR point valley FAIR).
Everywhere you look the park screams Cedar Fair. The place is clash of 70s & 80s.
Wild Thing, the parks Morgan hypercoaster is VFs star attraction and dominates the entrance. It was way better than I was expecting considering how lame the Morgan hypers layouts are.
Talk about cheap knockoffs, one of their shows features "The Squiggles."
Riding Power Tower like that would be much more thrilling!
I dont know whats with big Cedar Fair coasters, but a lot of their stations look the same to me.
Like all CF parks when it starts drizzling immediatley all the coasters drop down to 1 train.
VF is a pretty casual place. When it gets cool out instead of wearing park issued stuff, most of the employees just wear sweatshirts of whatever.
The Xtreme Swing area was caution taped off, but we got on it the night before and it was really good. By far my favorite of the 4 ive been on.
Whoevers idea it was to shoot water into peoples faces while theyre pinned in their seat riding a topspin should be shot. Luckily you dont get too wet on the corners, even though the area they have you store your items gets soaked.
On a good note the floorless topsin model is far superior to the regular model though.
VF has an old school Arrow Corkscrew.
Its about as popular as most old school Arrow Corkscrews.
You can buy a video of yourself riding an old unpopular corkscrew coaster. Its pretty weird they put these on Corkscrew and not on Wild Thing. It reminds me of parks that put them on SLC coasters, whats up with that?
Thats attractive.
Renegade only scores a 4 on the "Ride Rating" system.
The solution to the queue graffiti problem is to scratch over the profanity with permanent marker.
I dont know if they painted over at a later date, but the employees really did walk the queue and scratch out the profanity.
In case your wondering what Renegades queue house looks like.
Station flyby.
Had a few good very good rides and a few "meh" rides. Definitley a night ride as a lot of it takes place in a forest.
They do a good job of hiding their employee break areas so regular guests dont see them as you can see from this view in High Rollers line.
Not much to say, its an out and back coaster thats pretty slow and boring.
Arrows are my favorite mice. Feels like a mix of a Mack/Reverchon Zamperla with more of a coaster feel and better airtime hills. This was running like 8 cars and they were all sitting there empty until we rode, then we got stacked with all empty cars in front of us.
Yes this is a regular midway you have to walk through to navigate the park. For some reason I found it really creepy.
These look much better than they ride, never been a fan of looping starships.
And yes this rides name is Looping Starship, wtf. Doesnt look like much of a starship
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Excalibur was next, which is an old (and tall/odd) Arrow Mine.
Welcome to ride operator training 101, todays lesson is not to fall asleep while operating the ride.
Excalibur is fun but knowing its an Arrow Mine Train you get whipped around quite a bit. The drop was re-profiled after it opened due to extreme roughness.
Arrow tagged the electrical room.
Took some relaxing dusk spins on both rides of Power Tower. I dont know if I like the turbo drop or space shot setting better, they both seem rather tame except for the small shot towers which are insane.
VF has a pretty good enterprise, appropriately named enterprise.
Steel Venom is by far the roughest and weirdest sounding impulse ive seen.
For a ride thats "exactly" like V2, it scared the crap out of me. When it goes down the launch track it sounds like its crashing and the holding brake violently jolts and double pulses.
We ended the night with some more rides on Wild Thing.
Later.
