Who's going to NoCoasterCon on Saturday?

Dinorex sucks. Nuff said. :)

It's also closed! Don't know if for good though. Just went to Safari Land with the kids today and we had a blast, well worth the $15.00 wristband. Might go back tommorrow if a bunch of people go.

I am still quiet confused why RCDB has the park listed as closed when I drove pass Dinorex Addison yesterday and it was open. Yes it does suck, but they are trying to fix it up.

I never went to the Dinorex in Addison but I did visit the one in Crystal Lake and I left that place aggravated.

The pizza was completely nasty, the tables were never cleaned, and half the games didn't work(and the place was only open a few months when we went).

For those of you who went to the event, how was it? Where there any major announcements from any parks? And what did SFGAm say? Sorry fo all of the questions.

no suprises except Kennywood is redoing the front enterance and adding more bathrooms near the front enterance. we had a good time. lunch was ok.

SFGAM went around the questions anyone asked about whether or not the waterpark will be seperate gated or not. They said we will see an announcement on the website in a few weeks. *** Edited 1/16/2005 8:10:19 PM UTC by Cs6153***

Actually they said it would be included in the gate. They also said that it would be included with your Great America season pass, but eluded the question of whether or not it will be included with other SF park season passes.

Other than that, Lexi (sp?) from GL did a great job on her first presentation for NCC. They had a video that was pretty funny. The presentation of the day still belonged to PKI though. They had a spoof of the Brady Bunch episode at PKI and Jeff played all the men and Alice, and Maureen played all the ladies. It was absolutely hillarious. Of course the blueprints that were lost were for Italian Job. They even gave everyone in attendance DVD copies of that and five years worth of unreleased projects. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm going to do that now.

Almost forgot, although Mt. Olympus couldn't attend, they did send word that tracking through the tunnel was done and final banking in the tunnel was at 93 degrees. *** Edited 1/16/2005 8:39:36 PM UTC by sparky697***

I thought that the event was good. It has been better in past years, but it was still a fun time. There were a couple of presentations, not to name them, that were very VERY boring! If you keep up on the internet buzz then nothing new was presented.

Here is a summary:
Kennywood - New entrance, new prices
Cedar Point - maxAir
SFGAm - Hurricane Harbor, Deja Vu Paint
Indiana Beech - 80th anniversary
Holiday World - wave pool, raven train, roundhouse
Geauga Lake - Water park
Kings Island - italian job
Canada's Wonderland - ""
Dominion - tomb raider (floorless outdoor)
Carowinds - kids section theme, flying scooters
PGA - water rides

Most everyone knows all of that already, but I figured I would summarize everything that the parks said. In addition they all also talked about last year. Most of the other presentations of the day were uneventful or didn't offer any new information. I may have missed something up above, but I think that was mostly what was said. Sadly, neither Holiday World nor Big Cheif could make it. As for goodies, Kings Island ruled this year. Each person got a free ticket to the park and IJ media day as well as a DVD of various park videos. All in all it was a good time, but it has been better in past years.

Afterward I went to enchanted castle with some friends. What a great place! I am already planning to go there for an after party again next year. I recommend it to everyone. Me being from St. Louis I drove up Saturday morning and drove back home late that night. If anyone was watching the weather channel, you would know how bad the snow storms were. All that I can say is that it was a LONG SLOW drive home.

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sparky697 said:
Actually they said it would be included in the gate. They also said that it would be included with your Great America season pass, but eluded the question of whether or not it will be included with other SF park season passes.

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They never said Hurricane Harbor would be included with SFGAm. They said HH would be included with GAm season passes. No one-day ticket info has been released yet.

Yea thats what I meant by the post. When I said seperate gated, I meant if thre will be a seperate gate for admission for people with regular tickets

Yes indeedy the PKI DVD is the SWEETEST! Let's not forget Cedar Point's ride Jr. Gemini without a kid pass either! *** Edited 1/17/2005 11:46:38 PM UTC by Marky Mark***

For my first No-coaster I had fun. It's nice that the parks bring some good door prizes. I won a Cedar Point poster-calendar of Millie an TTD.

Went to Safari Land with Sparky697 and some others he new. Was nice to meet them all.

$3.00 to ride Tigar Coaster

$5.00 to ride Go carts.

Sparky697's face as I hit him and spun him out.

PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!! *** Edited 1/17/2005 12:56:32 AM UTC by Iggy ACE***

For those of you who may ever ride go-karts with IggyACE, don't ever slow down in front of him. :)

It was great to see you again man. Had a blast.

Frank, who thinks Iggy's just mad that he couldn't pass me on the karts. ;)

That was priceless, Frank. I saw the whole thing. ;-) I now wished I would of joined you guys instead of sulking over the DDR imposter ;-)

Never let 7 enthusiasts take over go karts or bumper boat cars unless you want to laugh your ass off.

I had a BLAST with you guys at the Con, Safari Land, and at dinner afterwards. It felt great to get out of town and laugh all weekend.

The Con was great! The PKI Brady thing.....I swear to you I have never laughed so hard in my life. BRILLIANT!

I am still laughing at the "no kid is needed" pass for Jr. Gemini. :-D

All the park reps were awesome, and I enjoyed all the presentations as well as the videos. I especially loved the historical IB video as well as the hilarious video by Lexi and the GL crew. Much thanks to all!

-Tina

No, he is just mad because you keep hitting the brakes. :)

Been on this go-kart track plenty of times and it is a blast with the cars at full speed with tight turns.

None of the parks on the West Coast or Florida come to this event? I know they'd have to travel awful far, but I'm surprised that Universal, Busch, and even Disney to some extent, were not involved, since Busch and Disney especially have 2 new coasters coming out in the next year.

Now come on Frank your going to give me a bad name. ;)

Iggy's not mad that he couldn't pass, but thinks Frank doesn't know how to count laps. No Chitown that would be Beth. (Hows your wiplash?)

Tina you should have seen 7 enthusiasts take over the coaster.

I also thought the event was great. I thought it flew by. I couldn't believe it. I just finished watching (and listening) to the entire PKI DVD. There is over an hour and a half of material on there!

It was nice meeting a couple of Buzzers at the event.

-Sean (A.K.A. Quinton)

Tina, the shame is that SFMM won't open up THEIR kiddie for us at Solace, the good news is that I'll finally get Jr Gemini, assuming I can pry one of those passes loose from *someone* who HAS the credit already...I hope! ;)

Kyle, historically the FL parks haven't been real....enthusiastic...about enthusiasts, they're really quite geared to international guests and don't need any EXTRA publicity, LOL...that IS starting to change, though...:):):)

bill, (aka Kingda Kiddie)...doesn't use brakes, but DOES need to find out about this *Quinton* thing...;)

Hey, Jake and I had a blast with everyone at Safari Land! And yes, I've finally given up lurking and decided to post. Now if I could only figure out how to get that picture of us taking over the tiger coaster in here...