Valleyfair announces suspended Top Spin for 2005

There we go...the Falling Star.
Somewhere I thought I read or heard that parts were no longer available for VF and KBF's model. Same might be true of MiA and SFStl.

Any fans of minutae wanna tell me?

-'Playa

Carl - King Chaos has three seperate flips. I will agree that it is a pretty lame program, however.

As for the Riptide, I'm really looking forward to riding the one out at Knotts in October. It'll be nice having one that is only five hours away now, too.

http://www.valleyfair.com/insidethepark/rides/coasterthrillrides/index.cfm

Looks like it will be near the water park. This would be good since it would provide another reason to hike all the way back there!

Game area would have been nice too as it seems a little dead at times.

-Pivo

Kick The Sky - I have noticed that King Chaos runs a couple different programs, but when i rode it last Sunday - one flip. I have seem it flip more though.

pivo... I'd hold off for a while before I believe that. There is no space in the waterpark to expand into.

My bad! I guess I was so excited that I skipped right to the video clip without thoroughly reading the release.

Looks like I still won’t have an excuse to walk all the way back to the water park – without my swim trunks anyway. Excalibur is fun, but…

The gaming area will be perfect and will help drive gaming revenue.

-Pivo

You mean neither Valleyfair nor Cedar Point had one of these before? I thought they were theme-park staples. I guess Cedar Fair was too busy building coasters to invest in the latest and greatest flat rides.

Paramount Canada's Wonderland has Cliffhanger, which is two parallel spinning logs. La Ronde has the basic spinning log, as does Galaxyland in West Edmonton Mall. I thought I rode one in SF Darien Lake, but I couldn't find it on the attractions list today.

I saw video of the Knott's Berry Farm ride last night on KARE 11 news. The gondola flipped over four times in a row, it looks like a blast! I just can't see VF running their Riptide like that one. I hope I'm wrong.

Is KBF's RipTide running the same program that they are running on WOF's Thunderhawk?

-SS

Why can't they put something new MIA? That park sucks.

MiA rakes in half of VF's attendance.
So a $4 million expenditure at MiA (like this one) would almost be akin to dropping an Impulse @ VF. It would be a major undertaking for a park with its draw.

Would you rather it got spent on a flat or a new woodie?

Besides, I think CF would prefer to get the infrastructure issues with the county resolved first.

-'Playa

I hope they run it like the one at WoF. Once we got 5 flips in a row and it was almost 6. I don't even bother getting on most other topspins.

However, any way they run it, I am glad to be getting a new ride at my home park.

CostaPlaya-

I definitely should have been more specific. Wild Thing came in '96, Mad Mouse came in '99, and Steel Venom came in '03. Since Wild Thing, there has really not been any major installation (using my definition of major) since '96. My hope has always been that Cedar Fair/VF tear down Corkscrew because (the ride is too short, the line is too long - they have two trains but they never use them both), the ride has become a standard arrow looper, and the nostalgic factor just isn't there for me. I don't exactly know what they could put in there... A Huss Giant Frisbee would be awesome, but that is just me. I could always wish for a B&M, but that is being a little too optimistic.

Although I know I should be thankful for what we have recieved so far. Steel Venom is fun.

Valleyfair!guy,

Look at the way they run Enterprise, Chaos, and Monster. But on the other hand all we can do is hope.
*** This post was edited by coasterMNguy... 8/25/2004 12:32:17 AM ***

Removing Corkscrew would be insane. The line is never over half an hour, most of the time when the line gets up to that long they and the next train, then the queve empties. And It's a great family coaster, and after all we do need inversions.

And Power Tower isn't a major instalition?*** This post was edited by Drew 8/25/2004 11:59:17 AM ***

If you don't think an Impulse is a "major installation", perhaps you should check the price tag on those suckers....to say nothing of the fact that I personally LOVE the things...:)

And the things that suck about MiA have little to do with the ride line-up...;)

Coaserguy, Cork is ALWAYS one of the first rides to go to 2 trains. If you are talking about recent weeks, that is becasuse there is something wrong with the ride, and they are having to debug stuff to get the 2nd on. Believe me, I've seen 2 on cork more often than any other ride (except wild thing) this year.

Also, your view of major is pretty skewed if Power Tower and SV don't fit.

CoasterCameron-

Every time I have been to VF this summer (about 10) I have never seen it running with two. Possibly a better sentence would be, "I have never seen it running two." Maybe it is just my luck.

Rollergator-

What I think I was trying to say (but really did not succeed) was that ValleyFair had not recieved a major installation from '96 to '03. MadMouse (in my opinion) is a GREAT family ride, but almost seems like a flat that happens to have track and cars. And yes I know we must be thankful for everything we get at our home parks so don't consider this to be a rant.
*** This post was edited by coasterMNguy... 8/25/2004 12:32:22 PM ***

See what I mean? Coaster people just...don't...get it.

Check the VF history page for yourself. Power Tower was part of a $10 million cap ex year. SV was close to $9 million. SV is like dropping down the 'big hill' of a coaster five times over--three of them in reverse at that--and you're still not happy.

They could built two woodies in 2000 or 2003 with that money and only you and a few dorks in stained T-shirts would care. The GP woulda shrugged and said, so what? Don't we already have two wooden coasters?

I don't think there's enough foam balls in the world to hit you with right now...

-'Playa

Holiday World seems to be increasing their attendance with 2 wood coasters and the people with the stained shirts seem to be going to IB. Contrary to popular enthusiast belief, a good woodie is appreciated by the public. I have seen it over an over, and I believe that the better woodies sell return visits about as well as any ride.

I don't agree that VF is not building, however I also don't agree that a woodie is a waist of money.

Please... Holiday World is successful because of the water park, not rides built four and nine years ago. The wood coasters draw dorks like us, but it's the constant water park improvement that keeps them up. Just check out the line mid-day for the coasters when the water park is open.