Knott's Berry Farm 3/21/10

[Changsucks]

Last weekend was West Coast Bash, a TPR event held at SFMM and for the first time this year also KBF. I could only attend one day, so I decided to check out KBF since I went to SFMM last year for WCB.

We got an hour of morning ERT on Montezooma's Revenge, Jaguar and Timberline Twister, another hour of morning ERT on Supreme Scream and Boomerang, a chance to go inside Calico Mine Train, a tour of the parks' Train, lunch, an S&S Presentation, Q&A with park management, and an hour of nighttime ERT on Ghostrider, Silver Bullet and Sierra Sidewinder. It was an awesome day.

Ride Count:

Montezooma's Revenge - 2
Jaguar - 2
Timberline Twister - 1
Supreme Scream - 2
Silver Bullet - 3
Ghostrider - 3
Pony Express - 1
Bigfoot Rapids - 1
Perilous Plunge - 1
Timber Mountain Log Ride - 2
Calico Mine Train - 1

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Aren't these trash cans just so nice and orderly in a row.
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Monte was our first ride.
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And then next door for a ride on Jaguar.
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This is the only good picture I got inside Calico Mine Train. You'll have to go to WCB and see it for yourself. :)
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It's the famous Galloping Goose...
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Roundhouse tour...
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Cedar Fair signs FTW.
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Boomerang opened for us! (It's closed for re-hab.)
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But I passed.
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Perilous Plunge would have been fun at 8:30 AM.
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Silver Bullet testing.
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Rattle rattle rattle rattle rattle rattle
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I spy a human test dummy.
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I accomplished something on Sunday. That's right. I rode Ghostrider. In the back. Twice. In a row. During nighttime ERT. These improper sentences are really dramatic.
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We gave Pony Express a courtesy ride.
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"Hey man, you know, I rode that uh, the Pony Ride, you know it was AWESOME, just like, it was short, dude. Why?"
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"That's why it's called Pony Express..." - Q&A.
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Having fun in there?
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I'm sorry I took such a long break from you Silver Bullet. I'm back to stalk you again!
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Chicken asks us where we're going. To eat chicken, of course.

Ahh, lunch time. I didn't eat, but there was a water balloon toss, so it was awesome anyway.
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After lunch we went over by TGI Fridays to get pictures of Ghostrider.
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Those nightrides on it were amazing, btw. It was actually smooth and filled with wooden-coaster-like-air-time! Ghostrider went from being an extremely painful and average coaster to an awesome Top 20 must ride.
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Oh, Perilous Plunge has a splash now.
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Just about four more weeks!
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Gotta get another Monte ride in before closing.
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Knott's at sunset.
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Silver Bullet was nice at night.
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And that's all I have for this event! WCB is great, I highly recommend it!

[nitrofan]

Great TR! It's great to see parks doing events like this as they look like a lot of fun. I'm glad that it looks like many more of these are starting to pop up around the country.

[Austin]

I wonder if they will push back Xcelerator again at the end of the month. Other then that great TR and It'll be in the pages soon.

[Changsucks]

If you're talking about the site, then yeah it's already been pushed back to the end of April. It doesn't really mean anything though.

[bobbinbop20]

Will Xcel ever open?! Nice PTR!

[Austin]

Ive been keeping watch from westcoaster. Its all put back together and the walkway is built so by the end of the month it should be back up. Speaking of the walkway, does anyone else think its not long enough?

[bobbinbop20]

Ive been keeping watch from westcoaster. Its all put back together and the walkway is built so by the end of the month it should be back up. Speaking of the walkway, does anyone else think its not long enough?

It may not be long enough, but at least there is one now :rolleyes:

[Austin]

My philosophy is, Do it right the first time so you dont end up having to do it later and waste more money.

I mean its down this long and is relatively cheap to build a walkway so its kind of confusing on why they would do half the launch zone.

[bobbinbop20]

The walkways cover the whole launch area... at least they did a month ago when I was there...