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From the Valleyfair site:
Next year, Valleyfair will mark its 40th anniversary with a season-long celebration that includes the return of an original park favorite and the renovation of a popular entertainment venue to feature an all-new extreme sports show. Throwback-inspired events and parties will also be part of the line-up as the park celebrates their legacy and heritage in the Twin Cities market.
Time To Earn Your Wings! A Valleyfair original makes its return in 2016! Guests will have a chance to earn their wings as the park reintroduces the Flying Eagles. Part of the park's original ride package in 1976, the Flying Eagles will once again become a family favorite for parents and children alike.
The planes will glide 28 feet above the ground and allow each rider to uniquely control their flight experience. The Flying Eagles will be nested between Route 76 and Enterprise.
New Venue Makes Way For New Entertainment - Valleyfair's outdoor amphitheater has played host to a number of well-known artists over the past forty years. Starting this fall, the space will undergo a complete renovation for future events including an all-new extreme sports show in 2016.
All Wheels Extreme, a finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got Talent" brings its high-flying extreme sports show to Valleyfair. The show will feature some of the top professional inline skaters, skateboarders and BMX bicycle performers in the world. Dancers, trampoline artists and aerialists add a theatrical element to create a one of a kind production that will excite audiences of all ages.
Read more from Valleyfair.
Good stuff for the park. I had the pleasure to make my first-ever trip up there (from Columbus, Ohio) back in August and we had a great time.
I think with Flyers going into Valleyfair, Worlds of Fun and Wonderland now that means that all Cedar Fair amusement parks, except Gilroy Gardens will have a Flying Scooter now.
And those aren't the only installations, either. Add Elitch, Hershey, Indiana Beach, Jungle Jack's, Frontier City, Castle, Storyland, Darien, Morey's, Kentucky Kingdom, and I don't know where else. But it's clear that right now it sure doesn't suck to be them.
Larson's first portable Flying Scooters, which is owned by N.A.M.E., made its debut at last year's NY State Fair, and they're currently making more of those to supply to other carnival operators.
So I guess the old saw is true- everything old really is new again.
Who's complaining here? Do we have to bring up Dave's poor behavior in every topic now? No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes.
Any park that doesn't have Flying Eagles type ride by now needs one. I am beginning to consider those to be a staple ride for any park. Although, they do still terrify me. lol
-Travis
www.youtube.com/TSVisits
"No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes"
Seriously?
That's all you got?
What planet do you hail from?
Seriously. I'd really like to know. Because I'm curious where anything remotely like disrespecting a person by throwing something in their face is simply accepted as a mistake.
You gotta be kidding me!
Ban me Jeff.
No one is going to get banned for just disagreeing with me. HAHA! If that were the case, no one would be left. You don't have to be so dramatic, buddy.
Everyone does the best they can, even if their best sucks. I often have trouble explaining this kind of thing to people. I have studied the subject of happiness for about ten years now, but I don't seem to be a good mentor for the subject, I'm afraid. I have taught myself something that I have trouble teaching others.
There is no excuse for Dave's behavior. That doesn't mean people have to repeatedly beat him up over it. He killed his reputation all by himself. It sounds to me like he has anger issues, but is that my business? He yelled at me the first day I met him. It stuck with me, but this has been the only time I have ever mentioned it. I forgive him for it.
Do we really know that free media events are being stopped because of this one guy's bad attitude? Is he just a scapegoat? Doesn't it make more sense that Cedar Fair realized that these events are just not worth the money they invest into it?
And I could be wrong. Maybe someone heard something from someone, or something? :)
-Travis
www.youtube.com/TSVisits
I'm everybody's buddy. :)
What I don't understand how you can shrug off that behavior of said individual as 'everyone makes mistakes.' but my post is being dramatic.
It wasn't appropriate to bring this up in VF's new for 2016 topic, but it was brought up. We all have a responsibility to conduct ourselves at any enthusiast event to be respectful of others and MOST of all to the park staff. This type of behavior by that individual shouldn't be tolerated at all. That's not being dramatic, that's being honest. And yes, bringing it up over and over again to serve as a reminder to others is prudent here. A really cool event, that quite a few of us enjoyed and are very passionate about, is no more because that individual wasn't respectful to the park staff. Anger issues or not, its not cool and again should not be tolerated. It's as simple as that.
You shrug it off as everyone makes mistakes. My passion called you out on it. If you continue to standby and just shrug your shoulders and say 'everyone makes mistakes,' continue to tolerate this behavior, you're going to find fewer and fewer of these types of events to go to.
Take a stand man.
I'm even further out. I have no idea what this is about, what it has to do with Valleyfair's additions, or who Dave is.
The amusement park rises bold and stark..kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
http://support.gktw.org/site/TR/CoastingForKids/General?px=1248054&...fr_id=1372
Dave's not here, man.
(Do I win for first Cheech & Chong reference on CoasterBuzz?)
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