SIX FLAGS FIESTA TEXAS 04.02
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/sfft/
GALVESTON ISLAND HISTORIC PLEASURE PIER 04.04
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/pier/
KEMAH BOARDWALK 04.04
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/kemah/
The Midwest Info Guide goes south!
FORT WORTH ZOO 03.31
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/fwzoo/
SEA WORLD SAN ANTONIO 04.03
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/swt/
The bullet is a bit rough but I liked it.
What's your thoughts on those Landry Properties?
Did you do the Downtown Houston Aquarium as well?
Moody Gardens?
Any shlitterbahns?
I got two rides on the Bullet this time. The first time it was great (rode in the very front). The second trip was horrible and was probably my last one ever on the Bullet. Unless they add something major to the Boardwalk I don't see myself being back. Operations were horrible and they clearly cannot handle crowds (like what was there Easter weekend).
I did visit the Downtown Aquarium - I just haven't had a chance to get that PTR up yet -- I am clearly behind on the website. Darn life getting in the way - but with school over now, I should be able to do that.
Did not do Moody Gardens or Schlitterbahn(s). I did visit the Lady Lex as well as sight seeing in San Antonio. Still need to get the SFOT PTR up as well.
After visiting Kemah the first time, I've had that kinda of concept in mind for Mud Island in Memphis to compliment whats there. Will see Robert Plant again at the Island in June.
I think Fiesta may be the best ran Six Flags there is.
Fiesta Texas is really well run, but give props to Great America and Over Georgia too.
I think a Kemah style park would do well at Lake of the Ozarks.
Just got back from a school trip with my daughter to San Antonio. Went to the Alamo, other missions and the Riverwalk on Sunday, Sea World on Monday, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas on Tuesday. Don't get me wrong- we did have fun at those parks but you really get a greater appreciation for the way SDC is run after visiting. Maybe it was because the crowds were thinner on Tuesday but when we went to ride the Gully Washer (version of the Lost River of the Ozarks) they weren't putting the max in the boats. The line had a 20 - 25 minute wait and they were letting as little as 2 people ride in an 8-person boat. We didn't ride a lot of variety of coasters since most went upside down or spun around and neither my daughter or I are fans of those. The only coaster i could talk her into riding was the Road Runner Express which is a fast mine train. I did ride the Iron Rattler which is very Outlaw-runnish (though I like Outlaw Run better!). Also there was loud modern country music playing through the western-themed area of the park and rock music throughout most of the rest of the park. Really makes me happy i'm much closer to our more laid-back SDC!
Quote from: Duelist on May 28, 2015, 08:50:22 AM
Just got back from a school trip with my daughter to San Antonio. Went to the Alamo, other missions and the Riverwalk on Sunday, Sea World on Monday, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas on Tuesday. Don't get me wrong- we did have fun at those parks but you really get a greater appreciation for the way SDC is run after visiting. Maybe it was because the crowds were thinner on Tuesday but when we went to ride the Gully Washer (version of the Lost River of the Ozarks) they weren't putting the max in the boats. The line had a 20 - 25 minute wait and they were letting as little as 2 people ride in an 8-person boat. We didn't ride a lot of variety of coasters since most went upside down or spun around and neither my daughter or I are fans of those. The only coaster i could talk her into riding was the Road Runner Express which is a fast mine train. I did ride the Iron Rattler which is very Outlaw-runnish (though I like Outlaw Run better!). Also there was loud modern country music playing through the western-themed area of the park and rock music throughout most of the rest of the park. Really makes me happy i'm much closer to our more laid-back SDC!
No steel eel?
Oops- i forgot! Yes i did ride the Steel Eel- that is one fast coaster! I could see that at SDC with the "proper theming" of course! :D Did not do the Great White however.
SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS 04.05
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/sfot/
Time to post some new trip reports.... man these things pile up
WORLDS OF FUN 04.18
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/wof1/
DOWNTOWN AQUARIUM HOUSTON 04.04
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/aquarium/
BROOKFIELD ZOO (CHICAGO) 05.26
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/bzoo/
SIX FLAGS GREAT AMERICA 05.27
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/sfgam/
HOLIDAY WORLD 06.04
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/hw/
Makes me appreciate the trees at SDC even more. I like that you can't get pics like these at SDC with the rides tucked into the corners and behind the trees. And I tend to enjoy me a bit of shade on a hot day.
I still have a bunch of PTRs to post. This has been a busy trip summer for me.
Thanks for posting...I enjoy the photo essays and love seeing what is going on at other parks!
Holiday World has always been a park I've wanted to visit. Thanks for the pics, Swoosh. Keep 'em coming.
SPLASHIN' SAFARI 06.04
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/ss/
SOAKYA WATERPARK (LAKE WINNIE) 06.05
http://www.midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/soakya/
LAKE WINNE 06.05
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/lakewinnie/
SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA 06.06
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/sfog/
HURRICANE HARBOR (SFOG) 06.06
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/hhatl/
So, now was the SFOG trip, Swoosh? It doesn't sound like you were impressed.
I probably won't go back to SFOG in the foreseeable future. Nothing against the park, just nothing there that makes me want to drive all that way to visit.
If they add a coaster I might stop in route to Florida to just ride it and then head on.
Quote from: Swoosh on July 05, 2015, 04:26:55 PM
I probably won't go back to SFOG in the foreseeable future. Nothing against the park, just nothing there that makes me want to drive all that way to visit.
If they add a coaster I might stop in route to Florida to just ride it and then head on.
That park can be sketchy at times. Being from Memphis, we liked StL better.
Did you not route in Alabama Splash Adventure with it's retracked woodie. Watch hinges that park as it gets Holiday Worlded.
Quote from: Swoosh on July 05, 2015, 03:47:13 PM
LAKE WINNE 06.05
http://midwestinfoguide.com/migcrew/2015/lakewinnie/
Winnie is a timeless treasure, old school. One can have a great little vacation in Chattanooga.
Tennessee Aquarium, Winnie, Rock City, battlefield, catch a Lookouts game, other stuff and either before or after, a side trip to Lynchburg and visit the square with bluegrass music and the Distillery. No booze at the end, Jack is made in a dry county but you can buy college tor bottles at the end. I'very got a dozen bottles registered with them. They send back a certificate of ownership.
I've been to Alabama Adventure before. Other than Rampage there is nothing there currently that I care about. I rode the Rampage when it had 3 pot holes and I was able to do a "one-click" seat bar ride. I flew all over the place during our ERT session.
SFOG was fine with regards to the crowd. Schools were still in session down there and I went on a day without field trips. I do admit it was weird being in the majority for a change at this park (if you know what I mean).
Quote from: chittlins on July 05, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
That park can be sketchy at times. Being from Memphis, we liked StL better.
Memphis and STL calling Atlanta "sketchy"? :D
Quote from: KBCraig on July 06, 2015, 12:50:53 AM
Quote from: chittlins on July 05, 2015, 05:48:38 PM
That park can be sketchy at times. Being from Memphis, we liked StL better.
Memphis and STL calling Atlanta "sketchy"? :D
Memphis has no park at the time and experience tells me that StL did a better job at the controlling the behaviors of the local patrons. I don't mean the black folk but usually the roving packs of teens of a races. Maybe it's changed but in the 90s and early 2000s ATL' s Six Flags was a mess the two times I hit it. Libertyland never really had unruly behavior in my experiences except at MidSouth Fair time but it was a small park, it suffered from city ownership and that was the #1 reason for it's downfall as the parks budget kept being raided. It's the same effect you see with Mud Island, city owned so reinvestment is at a minimum so it's become tired.even though it has great features like the scale model of the Mississippi and the never updated River Museum or to renovate the amp,.which is still a great concert venue without the investment needed.
I can't help but think a great update and feature for the River Museum would be a soaring type of attractions where you fly down the river starting in Minnie, while over StL, you smell the brewery and fly over a Cards game, you fly over and with migrating waterfowl, in Memphis you fly by the river during the BBQ championship and you smell the cooking and when you get to New Orleans you buzz the French Quarter at Mardi Gras and you smell urine.
When it hits the French Quarter the smell should be a mix if stale urine, and vomit. Uniquely New Orleans, I tell you!
Quote from: Junior, too! on July 06, 2015, 05:04:57 PM
When it hits the French Quarter the smell should be a mix if stale urine, and vomit. Uniquely New Orleans, I tell you!
Yeah, forgot the vomit.
Mix in cotton fields, steamboats chugging upstream, wetlands and bluesfest at Helena, a plantation in LA, and an oxbow lake with cypress and tupelo. I think it would be a winner and a perfect addition to a
Mississippi River Museum.
Smell the Que
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