According to Amusement Today, Wild Adventures theme park in Valdosta, Georgia has purchased two coasters at IAAPA both aimed for the kiddie crowd. The first installation will be the new design from Zamperla called the Mini Mouse (to open this December) which was a ridable feature at the show and the second will be a Vekoma junior suspended coaster (set to open in March 2003) similar to the Paramount trio(Reptar-PKI/PC and Silver Streak-PCW).
This will make the park's total coaster count at 9(including Cheetah-CCI woodie, Hangman-Vekoma SLC, and Boomerang-Vekoma) and kiddie/junior coaster count at 5(in addition to Ant Farm Express-Vekoma Roller Skater, Gold Rush, and Tiger Terror), the most in the World.
More info can be found at http://www.amusementtoday.com/extra.html.
Danny, who couldn't be more excited about this many Vekoma rides in one park and wishes the park a lot of success!! =^D
Danny
From what I heard at IAAPA, the Mini Mouse is *the* ride that was at the show from Zamperla's booth...and also from what I recall, Tiger Terror is leaving? Can anyone confirm that? If that was true, it'd only (lol, only) be eight coasters instead of nine.
Can't wait for their next adult installation though, I'm sure it will be coming soon enough after all these kiddie coasters bring in the big bucks!
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"No honey, the monkeys have already done enough damage on this trip." - Guy coming out of front gate at SFGAd
I'm usually fairly nice about kiddie coasters in ratings, but that one jerks you down into the station then beats you up onto the rocky, annoying lift like nothing I've ever ridden before not once, but twice! It's hard for me to think of a worse steel coaster, but I will have to give thumbs up to the helix on the ride which was pretty fun. Besides that, I wouldn't mind if Tiger Terror was scrapped for good. :)
Tell me there aren't more like this out there?!
I can't wait for their next adult coaster installation either.
Danny
*** This post was edited by Koaster King on 11/24/2002. ***
Now, I **love** Ant Farm Express and several other kiddie coasters, but Tiger Terror takes the cake of one I love to hate. Does that count as "loving" all kiddie coasters for me??
Danny, who wonders how Jill puts up with Bill ;)
Bill, you "weren't" the *source* of that information... I heard it *somewhere* around their *booth*... I honestly *cannot* remember "where" I had *heard* it though... Ah *well!* ;) :) ;) :)
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"No honey, the monkeys have already done enough damage on this trip." - Guy coming out of front gate at SFGAd
See, it's *big fun* once you get in the *spirit*...(or is that in the "spirits"...;).
bill, who *does* come by it honestly....I remember as a kid Dad trying to drive us through GAdv's animal park in a convertible...:). Mom was the "responsible" one....ROFL. Oh, and kiddie suspendeds ROCK!
That's a good expansion after they added Cheetah.
SFDL could use a junior coaster.
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As the coasters get bigger so do the queue lines
-Danny
Fiesta Express was set up last week, but there may be a problem getting an inspector in before Christmas. It should be open for the ACE Regional Event on January 19 (go to ACEonline.org Events page for details).
The Vekoma Junior Suspended should be up by the end of March (hopefully).
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