Seaworld San Antonio 12/30

[bobbinbop20]

Ah Seaworld, Really the reason I wanted to come to San Antonio. Since they opened at 10, and SFFT opened at 3 we obviously started our day here. This proved to be a great family park, seeing as its more focused on little kids, with the addition of a few thrill rides for the older crowd.

If your looking for alot of rides, dont expect it from Seaworld, of course there more catered to the marine life, which I think it's cool to learn something new about the animals here, plus my sister is a complete animal lover so she had something to do except complain about the rides that I like and she hates.

The interactions between the animals and trainers is pretty cool, you get to see the trainers swim with a killer whale, scuba divers feeding fish and you can even feed dolphins for $5, which we did, and it was pretty interesting.

On the thrill side of things they have a pretty fantastic Morgan "mini hyper" that gives boat loads airtime and is actually one of my favorite coasters as of now.

Theres also a BTR clone, called The Great White, which some people say is more intense then the other clones because it has a shorter track length, but to me I found Goliath at SFFT to be the better BTR clone in San Antonio.

The only other real "Thrill Ride" is Journey to Atlantis, which quite frankly I really really liked, it was pretty cool going backward down the mini drop and then having a nice splashdown at the end, even if the splash was pretty weak. Plus it also counts as a credit! Win Win situation!

Overall I was pretty impressed with my Sea World Experience, even if they were only running one train on Steel Eel and Great White, they were both walkons throughout the day so it didn't matter, the only thing we had to wait for was the shamu express, which is a kiddie coaster

They had a Christmas version of the Shamu show, which was still cool, but I really wanna see the Believe show.... oh well, next time I guess.

Anyway, a trip to Seaworld San Antonio is definitely worth it! Well in my opinion anyway!


Here we are.


Time for Seaworlds Christmas Celebration!


Steel eel


BTR in disguise


This was my 4th BTR clone, with my 5th being later in the day


some zero gravity sensations


hey there


I love supports!


more of that B&M thing, I was really starting to miss B&M, good thing I rode this about 6 times




oink oink


This is a whale, its KILLS!


Yes, there were flamingos


Here you can see the lovelerly Steel Eel


Journey's backwards drop


This ride is very fun!


Plus it was cold for Texans so nobody was riding


whooosH!






The hill on the right delivers the best airtime




whore


I like the shamu trains






This was Jaime's 100th credit, I thought she was never gonna get there, she doesnt ride anything she knows shes gonna hate, for example SLC's Boomerangs, B&M standups, and Floorless coasters, and most woodies






Why do Morgan trains look so weird, you can barely see over them if your short


All of the supports on Steel Eel are numbered, this is number 39, obviously


Its gotta a great first drop in the back seat






who doesn't love a penguin!


Penguins, and my favorite airline, win win!


Texas Splash Down, didn't ride, looked similar to Loggers Run with its double down drop


No lies


If you didn't know by now, B&M is my favorite ride manufacturer




Aren't B&M's just awesome, I dont care if most are similar, there all so much fun


All hail the Steel eel airtime gods






ACER! ACER! ACER! NERD!!!








I can assume this is what Magic Mountains is gonna look like when its done being painted




The shamu show was freaking crowded! Get to this one way early if you want a good seat!


nice decor


whale


This little stunt was very impressive


They should change this show to watch Shamu eat, thats all he did!


We moved to the aisle when we knew shamu was gonna splash, yeah we were forced to sit in the splash zone because that's all that was left seating wise


I think Seaworld has 6 killer whale, they kept switching them out, the most that were in the pool at one time was 3


oh dear


come on Shamu you can do it




I love the Shouka show at SFDK, and this one was even better!


Now the sun had come out so it was a good time to ride journey










Sea Lion


This is what the entrance looks like


Tree!


They had Clydesdales


Real live ones!


Thats a whale!


People feeding Dolphins


First you buy this tray of food, then you feed them!


see!


my attempt at feeding the begging dolphin


Next we see this lady feeding fishies


And this ugly shark


poisonis frog, ugh I hate frogs


SHARK!




Seaworld doesnt tell you, but Journey to Atlantis actually goes 90 degrees

THE END

[w00dland]

Curious whether or not you liked Steel Eel and whether its like most Morgan Hypers. The two I've been on have been more boring than any coaster at SFGAm. Your thoughts?

[BP317]

Curious whether or not you liked Steel Eel and whether its like most Morgan Hypers. The two I've been on have been more boring than any coaster at SFGAm. Your thoughts?

On the thrill side of things they have a pretty fantastic Morgan "mini hyper" that gives boat loads airtime and is actually one of my favorite coasters as of now.

Steel Eel gets much more positive reviews than its bigger siblings, similar to how Goliath and Expedition GeForce in Europe are considered better than the larger Intamin's around here.

[bobbinbop20]

Curious whether or not you liked Steel Eel and whether its like most Morgan Hypers. The two I've been on have been more boring than any coaster at SFGAm. Your thoughts?

Oh, I loved Steel Eel. Yes, its much much better then the other two Morgan Hypers Ive been on (Wild Thing @ Valleyfair! & Superman @ Six Flags Mexico)

[forddude1416]

is it just me or does that steel eel have the most random looking support system? is that a morgan trademark or somethin?

[FParker185]

Nope, Most other Morgans have Arrow style scaffolding all over the place, especially when something is over about 100 feet tall or so. Observe.. http://cache.rcdb.com/pictures/picmax/p6401.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Seaworld must have asked for it to look like that, not sure why though, though being built in 1999 it could be post- Steve Okomoto, maybe someone else did the design and perfers that style also.

Also the park looks a heck of a lot different now than when I was last there in 2001. And it's to bad that Atlantis doesn't have the airtime hill that the one at Europa Park in Germany has, it's the best part of the ride.

[forddude1416]

thats not arrow type scaffolding in the photos the OP put up. they just look like they are going at random angles to hold up the track.

[FParker185]

yep, then after the first sentence of my post I explained all that.