Indiana Beach most unique park?
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I made my first visit to Indiana Beach last Sunday and Monday and had the time of my life. In combination with 3 great CCI's, the awesome location on that beautiful Lake Schafer, the 2 quite fun steel coasters and several of thrill rides made my trip more fun than any other park I've been to. The thing is that the overall landscaping and layout of the park really...well...it sucked! Yet I still thought the park had this weird feeling I can't put my finger on it it's carny but it's not at the same time. And with LoCoSuMo quite possibly being the most unique wood coaster in the world, has anybody else experienced a more unique park? (talk about repetition)
Oh and who was the Knoebels guy I met there Sunday night, you said you were on cbuzz periodically.
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Tuesday's Gone With The Wind.
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Planned parks: Astroland, Knoebel's, Hersheypark, SFNE, SFGadv,SFGam,CP,PKI,PKD,PCW,HW,Indiana Beach,SFWOA,SFKK,SFDL,SFSTL,Lakemont,DelGrosso's... Need I say more?
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There is no room for landscaping. The most landscaping I can think of it the new area beside the frog hopper, double shot and big flush. There is a nice shrub line along there and some nice things they have done with bricks in the sidewalk. This section is obviously alot newer just by the looks of it. Not much room in any other part of the park for anything exept rides and people. There is barely enough room for everyone to sqeeze by each other on those really busy Saturdays in the middle of summer let alone landscaping. Although there is a bit in front of the Falling Star also. If you look, you'll find a bit here and there. Indiana Beach just dosn't have a whole lot of dirt to plant things in. It is all cement.
I guess it is unique. It is hard for me to think about the park objectively because it is all I know. I've been going since I was 2 so it seems very ordinary to me.
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You can hear the laughter, you can hear the mighty roar. From the brickyard down in Indy to the white Chicago shore. It's a rollin', twistin', turnin' and might we both suggest. You get you fanny ridin' on the Cornball Express!
I spent two days at Indiana Beach after SRM and fell in love with it. To anyone visiting Indiana Beach this year, I have some suggestions:
1] Enter via the south end suspension bridge, its one of the all-time best "first views" of a park ever, in the same league as exiting Compounce's tunnel.
2] Pay the extra three bucks and walk thru Frankenstein's Castle. Take your time, walk slowly, enjoy the gags. Near the end, when you come upon a large room via a second floor balcony make sure you walk out on the balcony and look up or you'll miss an incredible special effect not visible from the path.
3] Reserve an hour [and a $20 bill] and go sit in the Fascination parlor. The game is totally addictive, the old women who run it are hilarious, the prizes you can redeem tickets for are good, and the parlor has A/C!
4] Eat dinner in the Skyview Restaurant at the north end of the park.
5] Eat at least one "World's Best Taco" [just south of LoCoSuMo]. No, its not really the world's best, but its pretty damned good ;-)
6] Visit the Magic and Gag shop near Cornball Express.
7] Play a round of mini-golf at the SOUTH end of the park.
8] If you can afford it and the rooms are available, stay in the IB Hotel, and try to get a penthouse suite. You can split the suite w/ 4 people and they're *right on* the midway!!
9] Ride the bumper boats, they're the best I've ever experienced.
10] Buy a bag of popcorn and go stand infront of Galaxi and throw popcorn to the large mouth bass - and try NOT to be mesmerized!
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I don't know about unique,
Jam Packed, yes
Interesting, Yes
Fun, Definitely
But not really unique, it reminds me of Coney Island 50 yeas ago or Cedar Point that many years ago. Although it may be the only place like it anymore so in that way it might be unique.
I do know that having 5 full size coasters smashed into such a small space is vey unique.
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The Beast and Night, They go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly
I've never been to IB (unfortunately), but I would say it is unique in that it still retains that old-fashioned, waterside amusement park feel that so few parks have in these modern times.
SF, CF, Universal, AB, Disney, and Paramount have all dominated the amusement park scene, but IB still holds its own independence and its own.......dare I say it?.......uniqueness. ;)
'moosh, great suggestions all, and the sit-down restaurant was GREAT....prices it seemed were too LOW for park fare, but who's complaining....
but how can you possibly forget to talk about the AMAZING shoot-em-up dark ride....I end up stuck in a car with Annie Oakley (aka Jill), but that ride was fantastic....MiB holds no candle to IB's "olde-tyme" version IMO...
And grab something to eat on the Pronto Princess and eat on the top of the boat. My freinds and I always do this when we visit the park, it's like a must.
Also, ride the train ride. It gives you a look at the park you usually wouldn't get from the boardwalk along with some nice views of LoCoSuMo and Hurricane.
Ride Cornball Express backseat your very first time...no seat beats that very first drop! Also, I would say to ride LoCoSuMo backwards your first time, that's what we did and we were laughing the whole time. I was sort of-kind of familiar with the track layout, but after the big lake curve, I was completely lost and didn't care because it was so fun!
And about IB being unique, it sure is. I mean, of course, other parks have their uniqueness, but IB isn't your average park (along those same lines, LoCoSuMo isn't your average CCI :))
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-Eric
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*** This post was edited by Glitch01 on 6/28/2002. ***
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A very uique park, everything packed in tightly, notice how three coasters encircle and go over, under, and on the side of each other (HH, Cornball, Tig'rr). Water slides surrounding Galaxi and a CCI inside a mountain traveling over the antique autos. It has a kind of carnival feel to it, just with some permanent coasters. I really love to visit the park and the taffy at the place next to Den of Lost Thieves is my favorite taffy. Frankenstein's Castle is a great walkthrough that took a lot of work to put together. 'moosh, are you talking about the balcony the monster rock band, you should walk to the edge of the balcony and look straight down. IB is a great park with a lot of "fun" rides. Not the most thrilling, but lots of fun.
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HuKeD oNN fonickS dusinT wOrK"[;.
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Tuesday's Gone With The Wind.
Elijah Rock.
Is it written in the stars?
La Vie Boheme!!!
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-Eric
Indiana Beach Online | LoCoSuMo Count: 1
I visited IB for the first time this year and it won't be the last. This park instantly shot up to a tie for #1 with Holiday World as my favorite park anywhere. Great flat rides, great food, and an A+ coaster just make the place. I couldn't get enough of the laid back atmosphere.
Oh, and per 'Moosh's request, from my TR:
"I also really liked their Sally dark ride, but it gave me by far the biggest scare of the day. Mike Kallay and I failed to notice the 400 lb. weight limit per car (or we honestly thought we were less than 400 lbs, can't remember which...he he he!). As we climbed the lift, our car began to buck and stall out, going slower and slower. I was imagining a rollback into the 180-degree turn at the bottom, and planning my leap out of the car if that happened. We got closer and closer to the top...and then ground to a halt
about 3 feet short! Mike and I both started pulling us up the wall and we finally made it up...phew! We had another scary moment on the descent when we felt the car slip for a second and drop about 10 feet really fast. The
funniest part was at the end...we bashed through the last door very fast, and then, just after I got out, the next car came sailing through and bonked into ours pretty good. I swear, we don't seek these things out (see SRM log
ride incident last year)."
I swear, out of all the things to die on due to misadventure, Den Of Lost Thieves would not make my top 10!!
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Mamoosh said:
Near the end, when you come upon a large room via a second floor balcony make sure you walk out on the balcony and look up or you'll miss an incredible special effect not visible from the path.
lol, I really suggest this.
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