Flippin' awesome airtime on some parts. Just gotta say.
I need a refresher, but I can't ride for a couple days. I'm too busy. =(

We'll be there Saturday with a load of band kids on our "end of the year" trip.
Should be a fun exhausting day.

Sweet! I'm lovin' the updates, FYI.

I'll be working Saturday, You better play Fool the Guesser in Americana while I'm running it!
PS: *cough* I'm expecting a High-Five. *cough*
=P

I doubt I'll ride Fury, but if my group of kids that I get to "chaperone" at the park wants to ride, I'll talk to you or at least say hi.

Snoopy, if I remember I'll stop by while you are working... but I'll admit my mind will probably be preoccupied watching kids and I may forget.  If you see me, don't hesitate to holler out at me.  'cause TBQH I don't what you look like.

Nile is probably the wettest ride as far as ride only. Monsoon I never get real wet on the ride itself, it is when you stand on the bridge afterwards that you get completely soaked. Viking isn't to bad.

I saw Travis today but never saw Snoopy and we went by several times.
Unless Snoopy is a girl?!?  There was always a girl working the Americana Fool the Guesser

Oddly enough, I didn't work guesser once yesterday. We had a lot of people working, and they just never sent me on it. Lol

Also, I went home early because my stomach was flipping out on me. I have no idea what happened, but I just suddenly felt terrible.

PS: I'm a guy.

Last time I rode Fury of the Nile I got quite wet. We didn't have enough weight displacement (girls on one side, guys on other) so the heavy end kept dipping into the waves. We got pretty soaked.

My girlfriend and I were up at ValleyFair a couple years ago. It was a cool day, mid sixties. We got off Excalibur and noticed people coming out the raft ride. They didn't look real wet at all, so we decided to give it a go. The have a storage locker for personal items in the station, but they wouldn't let us use it for some reason. We had to take our stuff with us. I should have figured right then that this was a bad idea, but for some reason I was determined to ride.

We hopped into a boat, just the two of us, and off we went. The ride starts off pretty lazy, but starts to pick up a little speed. You turn a corner and slow down quite a bit. Continuing the corner you come across a pretty aggressive waterfall, we just missed getting soaked, we thought we were lucky! Then around the next corner, another waterfall! This one got me pretty good. I had my cellphone in my pocket, so I pulled it out and popped the battery off quick so it wouldn't fry out. I stuck the rest of the components in my girlfriend's purse, and we carried on our way. This part of the ride was quite lazy as we were at the bottom of the hill. We got a nice view of Renegade. I was terrified that we were going to get shot by some water cannons like on Nile, but nothing. The end of the ride is a lift hill like Fury of the Nile, but quite a bit slower...and longer. We looked to the top of the lift, and they had what appeared to be a makeshift garden hose that was dumping water on the boats as they climbed the lift. This was the most cruel part of the ride, as there was no way to avoid the cold cold water being dumped from above. We were completely trashed after the ride, and very cold.

Later, as we started drying out (which took a long long cold time). I decided it would be safe to ride the log flume. Most log flumes don't get you wet, so I figured it would be okay. It was a really pretty ride, sunk into the ground with lots of vegetation to enjoy. A tunnel lye ahead...could be fun. Inside the tunnel, the track takes a left hand curve after a short dip. Upon exiting the curve you come across the most awful thing ever conceived for such a ride. A literal WALL of water to go through as you exit the tunnel. I was so P***ed that I may have shouted some obscenities. The lift hill at the end, and following drop were kind of nice and relaxing, but that waterfall was brutal. We didn't ride to many things after that, as the water was soaked to the bone now, and it was getting cold out...

2 Hours for Timber Wolf? It's a good ride but 2 hours I cant believe it got that high. I love the ride but when I first started riding it last season(Last season was my first trip to WoF) I never waited more than 20 minutes. But Idk about the train it must still be getting re-built?

Speaking of Timberwolf, where the heck is its other train. 
Some of my kids yesterday said the wait was like 2 hours due to just one train... uh, no thanks I'll pass

So attendance must be picking up then? What about waits on Prowler and Patriot? Were they bad?

Hmmm... I haven't seen the water canons fire off on Nile for 3 years. And I always ride Nile 2 - 4 times each visit, depending on the line. Maybe they weren't working for all the times I visited? LOL

Prowler for some odd reason has one of the shortest lines in the park. I've seen longer lines for ThunderHawk! It's weird. Maybe there weren't very many people in the park? But every time I check the plaza, the lines are uber short.
I think the longest I waited for Prowler was 8 minutes, and that's because some stupid kids didn't understand the concept that you go through the turnstile and get into the line for what section of the train you want to go on, not wait for all the lines for each rows to be clear, THEN enter the turnstiles. Epic fail on their part.

OOO! Funny story!
Yesterday I had this kid come up to Break-A-Plate, and he said "Sweet! Break-A-Plate! What do you do here?". (Sadly, I get this question all the time) So I showed him the sign that had all the rules written down so that he understood the concept of the game. (because apparently the name wasn't obvious enough for him).
He looked back at me and said "I know, but how do you play?". /facepalm
So I figured I should probably give a tutorial. And I did.
Well, that wasn't the end of it. You see, we have a ton of $100 Bill Pillows hung up all over the game, obviously to showcase what you can win. And he said to me "Awesome! So if I win I actually get a hundred dollars?". I kind of stared at him for a minute with a look of "Are you joking me?", because I wasn't sure if he was screwing with me, and I wanted to see if by staring at him made him break his tom-fooleries (Tee-Hee!). Well, that wasn't the case, because he showed no sign of it. Just a look of complete confusion.
So I sarcastically replied with "Yup. You get a one hundred dollar bill" I than pointed at the pillow, hoping he  would understand my sarcasm because the pillow obviously wasn't $100 dollars.
Well, he didn't catch on, so I had to explain that I was just joking and that you get a pillow if you break 3 plates.
He ended up winning the pillow and acted as if he won the real thing. He than ran off shouting out "I won a hundred dollars! I won a hundred dollars! I'm rich! I'm rich!".
The entire thing didn't really phase him. He had an expression of complete confusion the whole time. It was mildly funny. And I thought you might get a kick out of it.
He didn't seem to have anything wrong with him, and he was certainly in his early teens. I think this was just a case of a guest not really comprehending what was being said to him. He was "in the moment" I guess. But that often happens when you take a child to a theme park, fill him up with sugar, give him all sorts of prizes and have him go on Mamba a hundred times. They tend to become a bit insane. I know that the same thing happens to me when I'm on Fool the Guesser.
I mean, what?

Lol I remember when I won a Patriot Bird Plush at the Fool the Guesser game. I was so happy when I won that brid because it was more to add to the stuff I got from WoF last year. I went a little crazy on the Timber Wolf stuff that I found in the different stores. I'll probably do the same this year and go crazy buying Prowler stuff when I finally get out to the park.

*cough* Remember to play Guesser when I'm working it. *cough*

Arg! I haven't ridden Prowler for a while. I need my fix!

So attendance must be picking up then? What about waits on Prowler and Patriot? Were they bad?

Have to remember we are at the end of the school year and the influx of busses makes the park appear busier.  I want to say that the 2hr wait for Timberwolf came around the magical hour of the "Twilight Admission Influx".  Around 6pm there were queue line extenders for Prowler, Patriot, Boomerang and Mamba's queue had the top two sections of the "back and forths" completely full.  Timberwolf actually had it's "back and forth" open and the line extended to the bridges.  Now while that sounds short for TW, remember there was ONE TRAIN.

we went today and it wasn't very busy 5 min wait for prowler and it was awesome can't wait to ride it again plus walk on for mamba and this was around 12 the only bad part was timberwolf was down for some reason it got a little worse later on but nothing worse then a 35 min wait

I clearly remember waiting 45 minutes for Patriot with a completely full queue and both trains running. Depends on the day, I guess.
Nile's line explodes fast, I've found. At least there's good shade for much of it.

I gotta say, the worst part about TW is the way people pack the station to bursting (that's actually a problem on a lot of rides). I definitely prefer it when there's an employee stationed at the entrance to the station directing people to queues. It doesn't really shorten the wait at all, but the line outside the station moves a lot faster than the line inside the station (outside it moves by 20-something people, whereas inside it moves by 2 or 4).

I think when the crew at Patriot gets there groove the queue when full could be 30-45 minutes, but again if they can get 40 trains per hour with the guests cooperating, 30 minutes is possible and has been attained before.  The turnstile person has been working great at Prowler, it definetly makes things easier on the platform for the ambassadors to monitor and control.  plus with the station being as small as it is, it can get confusing on where people are waiting to ride at.

I'm curious mainly to how long I'll wait for Prowler. Most I've ever had to wait at Worlds of Fun was almost 30 minutes for Spinning Dragons, but it was well worth it. I had a bunch of fun on the ride. But they were quick about getting the line moving and I can only assume Prowler will be quick to. I'm also hoping that the Dragons line is short this year because im kinda anxious to ride it again. Can anyone say the average wait in early June for the parks rides?