Carnival just rolled into town, lame ride package.
Our carnival is usually pretty good, with a Fireball, Zipper, Gravitron and other cool rides. This year they got a large ferris wheel, a kiddie ferris wheel, a Chance Morgan Yo Yo, a Zamperella vertical swing, 1001 Nachts, and a smaller version of pretty much the same thing, they must have ordered the "ridiculously redundant super lame ride package" And I blew 50 bucks on advance tickets.
At least you don't live in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Our County Fair organizers almost always order the Super Lame Ride Package.
At last year's County Fair, we had a scrambler, kiddie swings, and a kiddy Ferris Wheel, and nothing else. They charged $15 for an all-day ride bracelet. Needless to say, they didn't get many customers.
The year before last was better, but nothing to brag about. They brought a medium Ferris Wheel, a Gravitron, and a Casino ride. I think that they also had a few kiddy rides that year too. That year, they were charging $25 for an all day bracelet, but reduced it to $15 when not a lot of people were buying one.
Other than the rides, each year they have just a few food stalls, the same old flea market that they have ever week, and a concert tent featuring Lincoln County's best country music karaoke singers. lol
The next door counties have pretty cool fairs sometimes; lots of rides, animals, shows, and vendors, at a very reasonable price. I always try to go to those.
I wish I lived somewhere normal.
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Amusements of America.
We went last night to grab some icecream. Wristband night is tonight so I was offering my suggestions to my kids, ie low capacity on the vertical swing so try and hit a couple laps on that first.
Amusements of America usually sets up at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. Last year I was quite impressed with the selection of rides and ended up spending the entire day there when we only intended to spend an hour or two.
Before you can be older and wiser you first have to be young and stupid.
This is a smallish Catholic Church real estate wise but they usually pack a lot of cool rides in there. Last year they had a Ring of Fire, for example. This year the offering seems kind of redundant. The difference in size between the 2 Ferris Wheels is like 20 feet.
Looked at their route and this is apparently the church festival unit. Typically they don't ususally travel with anything resembling a spectacular with these units, the committees like to have a "family"mix of rides and games. If it had a Ring of Fire last year, they may have had to fill in a hole in the lineup in a hurry.
The carnival that sets up at Mira Mesa high in San Diego a couple times a year was missing its Zipper the last couple of setups. Too bad; it was the best part of the lineup.
Yeah that's Christiansen's. They have three units now and they they are not identical in makeup, so it may be another year or two before it may show up in a lot.
They have either had a zipper or a ring of fire for the past decade as their "extreme" ride. This year's offering seems particularly lame. They dont even have the swinging pirate ship.
Having a 40 foot vertical swing for your "extreme" ride is kinda lame IMO.
I just read that this carnival draws 100K people in a week's time so I'm probably mischaraterizing it by calling it "smallish". It's the only carnival I know of so I have nothing to go off of.
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