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 Our goal is to provide coaster enthusiast a one stop shop for all of their amusement park news, travel, photo, video and discussion needs. Our news is provided by William Bernstein, Jr. from Coaster Worlds News. Be sure to click on the News link for the latest info from around the globe. You can also follow our updates on Twitter.
Since most of us travel to fulfill our coaster riding addictions we'll also work to provide you with the best information on hotels, restaurants and entertainment options. I know that I've stayed in a hotel or two that I wouldn't wish upon anyone and you can never have too much info on good food. Our primary travel writers are Cory Bunting, Zach Earnest and Bradley Robertson.
We promise to provide everyone with access to high resolution photos from all of the parks that we visit along with the construction updates that we're able to obtain. The world famous Ben handles our videos, which can be found in on our YouTube site or Ben's High Def Vimeo page.
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Written by Jason & Janessa
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Friday, 18 June 2010 00:00 |
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Coaster Community visits Europe
Since I hate actually writing trip reports I'll keep this one short and hit the highlights. We started our adventure in the Netherlands at Toverland. We got there right at opening on a Tuesday morning and we had just gotten off of a plane 2 hours earlier. The park was great and it had several rides that we liked but jetlag held us back. We never waited more than 10 minutes for any ride and that was with several school groups in the park. Troy was the stand out ride but we have yet to find a GCI that isn't. Booster Bike was a new experience for us and a good one. The obstacle course ended our day. We both got hurt and we both blame the jetlag. Rest up before attempting.
Here's a couple of photos from our day and a link to the gallery
After a couple of days of sightseeing and beer drinking we found ourselves at Phantasialand. This park was several notches above most with regards to theming. The only stand out ride was Black Mamba and it was easily a top 5 B&M invert for us. The extreme theming added a lot to the ride experience. Mystery Castle was a cool ride. It was a launched tower ride made by Intamin that bounced like an S&S Space Shot. All of the lines were really short. Never waited more than 5 minutes for anything.
Some sweet photos and a link to the gallery
This next park was a total surprise. We were visiting the small town of Cochem and while touring the castle we saw one coaster on the top of a hill across the valley. We found a chair lift that got us to the top of that hill and then had to hike another mile or so up to get to the park. Wild- und Freizeitpark was one of the wackiest parks we'd ever seen. It's definitely a kid park but adults were able to partake in most activities. There was only one coaster, a Gerstlauer bobsled coaster. I actually prefer these to the spinners that they've been installing in the US. Janessa took a ride on their boat jump. It was basically an old school metal playground slide with a ramp at the end. You ride a boat down it and launch into a catch pool. The coaster at this park gave us our longest wait of the trip to this point. 15 minutes. We couldn't stay long because we had a boat to catch and a long hike back to the chair lift.
Photos and a link to the gallery
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Read more... [Germany/Netherlands Summer 2010]
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Written by Zach Earnest
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 21:48 |
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Here's a quick look at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter addition to Islands of Adventure.
The full gallery can be found here LINK
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Written by Jason
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Monday, 21 June 2010 20:55 |
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I recently got up to Worlds of Fun to check out Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights. The wife and I were thoroughly impressed. I had seen the similar attraction that Cedar Point installed last year and Worlds of Fun's addition is on par if not better. A nice side effect for the park is the additional foot traffic late at night in a part of the park that is usually pretty quiet around closing time.
Here are a couple of shots from the new gallery. http://coastercommunity.com/gallery2/v/Parks/wof/snoopyshotsummerlights/
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