Every time I hit a new park, I try to find the closest angle to this on every dive loop because I crave that sweet, delicious perspective shot. Inverts are always some of my favorites to photograph! Does anyone else have specific angles they like photograph on coasters?

I know the photos aren’t the best, but I love all these coasters with all my heart 🫶

Went to Hershey for the first time last week and oh boy did i not expect this ride to slap so hard! Best ride in the park for me, no question.

After two tries it finally happened. Third time really is the charm. I've finally ridden Expedition GeForce! Here's the trip report about my two days.

Day 1: Tripsdrill

Since it was a rainy day the park wasn't too crowded. I guess it doesn't see huge lines anyway, but it felt nicely crowded, but everything was very manageable. (In Dutch we call it "gezellig druk.") Longest wait we had was maybe 25 minutes for Karacho. Because Tripsdrill is about a 7 hour drive for us we arrived around 12:30 which meant most of the crowd had already left the entrance area making Hals-über-Kopf a station wait. I knew from my previous visit that I really loved this coaster and I remembered correctly. The way Hals-über-Kopf has this gentle, floaty feel mixed in with airtime, inversions and positive G moments is just perfect. Great pacing as well. Not too short, not too long. Like I said, close to perfect. Obviously I'm not saying that this is the best coaster I've ever done, but what I'm trying to say is that in its class it's probably close to perfect. (I imagine Na Fianna Force being slightly better, but have yet to ride that.)

Karacho also is very, very good. Tripsdrill really has a great 1-2 punch. The big pro for me is that they use Infinity trains instead of Eurofighter. That alone makes this coaster so much better than other similar Gerstlauers. It has a very interesting layout with an awesome beginning, similar to what we see on other Gerstlauers like The Smiler or SAW the Ride. Punchy launch, aggressive manoeuvres and if you're on the outer seats great whip into probably the smallest dive loop in the world? It's awesome! If you like this coaster more than Hals-über-Kopf I can totally understand that.

Mammut was still just fine. A little bit too much shuffling for my liking, but I remember it having a boring layout, but I don't agree with that anymore. I think there's a lot of missed potential with this one. I don't really know how to explain it. It's just a really middle-of-the-pack coaster.

G'Sengte Sau is (IIRC) the first Bobsled coaster Gerstlauer has made, but you can't tell. It's just like any other and that's a good thing, because I love these! Basically an extended wild mouse with sharp helixes and airtime hills. These are always good fun.

And finally Rasender Tausendfüßler, the Zierer Tivoli. I like the large models and this one is probably the best one out there. It's surrounded by foliage and it gets so close to the ground you can actually touch it. (You can on most, but for some reason it's really hard not to try it on this one.)

Of course I have to talk about the quirkiness of this park, because that's what sets it apart from other parks. They really go all in with poop jokes and things like that. Almost every queue is themed very well with lots of animatronics. Though they are dated, they add to the charm of the park.

Tripsdrill is kind of a nuisance getting to it, because it's quite out in the country side, but it's totally worth it.

Day 2: Plopsaland Deutschland

We jokingly called this the main event during this trip, because the entire trip was pretty much centered around finally riding GeForce. We rope dropped and walked immediately to it to find the line... Closed... Uh oh, here we go again.. Well, that's on me for going in October. We talked to the employee who explained that it hadn't opened yet because it was too cold. There were no mechanical issues so it should open later today. Phew, okay I can live with that! We wanted to ride the new for 2026 coaster anyway, so we decided to head into that direction.

100% Wolf is a great addition to this park. It's exactly what it needed. I'm really loving these Gerstlauer Family coasters, they do lots of fun stuff. I especially liked the drop after the inclined tyre launch halfway the ride. That's pretty steep for a family coaster! Gerstlauer has really started to utilize those off-axis hills and turns lately. Good stuff!

Sky Scream also had a delayed opening due to the cold weather, but it opened around 13:00. These Sky Rocket II's are simply very fun rides. I totally get why they get cloned so much. I just really hate the trains. Not the restraints per se (thankfully this one doesn't have the comfort collars) but it's so hard to get in and out of the seats. I've bumped my knee twice. Anyway, small rant aside, the intensity of Sky Scream is very good. Great hangtime through the roll and and the whip is also more than you can prepare for. Severely underrated model if you ask me.

While we were on Sky Scream we saw Expedition GeForce doing a testrun, so we went to it immediately. It still took about 45 minutes for it to open up, but when it did I got on the first train of the day, row three. Dude, this is an insane coaster. I totally get it now. I've always compared it in my mind to Goliath at Walibi Holland but this is more like Kondaa, which I rate very highly! After row three we obviously had to queue for the back row. Now that's elite. It hadn't even had the time to properly warm up and it was already blasting with so much airtime over those hills. What a great coaster. It's now in my top 10, which I did not expect at all beforehand.

We rode it only a few times more, because the wait times quickly rose and we still had to drive 6 hours home. In total I managed to get 4 rides, which may not seem like a lot to most of you, but it was enough for me. I'm not a person that re-rides a lot anyway and I can very quickly get an opinion on rides.

Enjoy the pics!

The best coaster sometimes or even often is not one you can do over and over again without getting too exhausted or painful, so what's one you could do like like 100 times in one day if given the opportunity, minimal breaks?

For me and basically the reason I ask, it's one I've actually done this with several times, Nitro at SFGAd. For years I used to come to great adventure twice a summer, once for a normal day and once for Nitrofest, where me and my friends would try to see how many times we could ride it in one day. good capacity, and the ops would even let us stay on the platform and fill in any single rider seats to keep it going. think my record was in the 80s. only thing that made it a little hard was the helix, which would progressively grey out more on each ride, but added to the experience.

I recently visited Hershey park and Carowinds and found inaccuracy in the test seats. It's a bit frustrating cause I am a big guy 6'7" 300lbs. I been riding coasters since I am 16 and loved them and was never afraid of them after getting over the initial fear. I went on every ride I could.

There has been a long break I haven't gone on them in quite a while I am bigger then I used to be and finding I am having a hard time with the test seats now my kids are wanting to ride them. I am not scared to ride but the test seats not going green makes me second guess things. First found thunder striker would not go green for me on test seat untill 3rd time I pulled it but fury test seat went green right away. I rode both no issues. Since then I second guess I can't get on the ride.

Yesterday we were at Hershey park and tried the Fahrenheit test seat first (a ride I had been on and love) was not even close. I went over to the storm runner and the same thing but the ride ops told me the straps were bigger in the ride so I gave it a shot. Well I got on that. I was happy cause that old school fav for me. Figured I could get into fahrenheit but never got the chance to get back there.

Wild cats I really wanted to try and get on that as I haven't been on any rmc coaster and looked super fun. The test seat felt pretty comfortable but didn't go green but I was willing to try it we waited for like an hour and they stopped the ride for maintenance, so we came off the line.

Do you think I have a chance at rmc coaster ever ? Does anyone else find the test seat to not be accurate and still try it maybe they get it when I get up there.

Side issue I also realized that I never been on a big coaster with just a lap bar outside the BM clamshell (had no issues with candimonium btw). This combined with the others not going green got me legit scared to go on skyrush and I hate that cause well one that's never happened and two my son wanted to go on it. I am actively losing weight before this about 30lbs maybe I'll have more success after another 30 idk. Thoughts.

And these are all related to the theme of the ride.

1. What is the like, main plot? Are we becoming gravy? Are we mixing the gravy? Delivering the gravy? Honey I shrunk the kids gravy? Why are we in the garage? Are we saving Thanksgiving?

2. I understand it’s grandmas good gravy. But did it win first, second, and third place in 1942? You’re telling me that this recipe calls for all 3 titles??

Me and my gf just went for the first time (I went in 2020 but it was a really bad day so I let this be my actual opinion) and, while I’ve done Exterminator before, this time it was lights out for the haunt.

A spinning wild mouse in literal pitch black is nuts. I was genuinely thrown off by what I experienced and think that it should be a must do for any enthusiast this time of year. If you’re considering a Kennywood visit in the next 2 weeks, absolutely do it.

(Phantoms was also just wild)

On Oct 18th I visited Potts Park, Karls Erlebenis Dorf Oberhausen and Aqualand Oberhausen along with my brother for the first time (Not Aqualand Oberhausen I've been there before) and I though it was a pretty neat park, and Karls was a great Upgrade from CentrO Park.

Potts Park

We arrived at the park around 11:10 ish and started out day first with one of the park's highlight coasters Suspened Powerd coaster "Turbo-Drachen". Riders are able to control the speed by pushing the lever down. The ride was a bit milder than I though but did swing very high at 2 point during the ride. After that wd did 2 more laps since there was nobody waiting and we enjoyed it.

Braus & Saus

After that we walked towards a Stone-Age Themed area which had the next highlight "Braus & Saus" which was not only a better ride, not that Turbo-Drachen was bit but, Braus was more fun and better themed but our favourite ART Coaster (We haven't ridden Cannibal at Legoon). The ride is themed to a Stone-Age themed Car-Wash and before the launch there a little Dark/show section that was playing a Halloween version because on Oct 17th the Halloween season started for some parks in Germany. Anyways, back to the Show section. On the left there some were Mammoths Trunks spaying water on the passengers and on the right (I am not making this up) were Mammoths farting using a smoke-machine to represent them farting. Which realy reminded us to Hundepruten at BonBonland in Denmark. First we have a Farting Dog coaster now we have a Farting Mamoth And after the door infront opens and the train launches backwards into a twisted spike, the the ride launch trough the station into 2 Helices, a wave turn up until the 2nd launch which was tilted at a 25° angle which was very unusual of what me and my brother experienced, up into another spike and did the whole thing backwards. I relly liked this coaster, not just by experience but also by theming, while it wasn't as great themed as ZiegleBlitz I did the day before it was still great. After that we did the park's ART Wild Swing "Kippenschleuder" and just as I said with my previos trip report, I love these ART Wild Swings, the are my favourite flat ride ever, but that's for another time.

Other rides and Final thoughts

After that we did the park's Zierer Force Two \[Potts Blitz\] whicj is your standard Force 2 model and the park's Bear Rides log flume Pottwal which did make us as wet as the one in Jadefpark did but was less themed.

Final thoughs about Potts park: Similair as what I said about Jaderpark, PottsPark was a fun and charming little park with some theming and would recomend for a half-day visit. Jader park is better in theming but Potts has more rides. I liked both parks equaly and I would recomend for a half-day vist.

Short Stops

After that we did a few more rides a decided to leave at around 13:50 and visited the Keizer-Wilhelm tower that was nearby and after that we visited an observation platform nearby named "Aussichtsturm Steinzeichen" and after our trip up and down we drove for about 2 hours to Oberhausen.

A Brief History of CentrO Park

At Oberhausen we walked through Karls Erlebenis Dorf for first time and we were impressed of how much the park has changed. For context, way way back in the Nineteen-eigh-- I mean, back in 2013-2015 the area was home to (Sea-Life) Abenteurland Oberhausen which we visited back in 2015 before it closed and went SBNO for years before getting bought By Karls in May of 2021. And reopened in July of this year (2026).

Karls Erlebenis Dorf

While we were there we didn't do any of the rides, we just walked through the whole park (and took pictures) the park has free entry but the rides are paying at entrance of each ride or you can buy a wrist-band at the entrance of the park (Which I'd recomend not just for this but for all Karls Parks).

Aqualand

And finaly after that we went to Oberhausen's indoor Water park for about 2 hours and the entire park had a Cole Mine theme which reminded us about Baron 1898 at Efteling and speaking of Cole Mine the Waterpark has a Triple racing water slide themed to escaping a Cole Mine and fore the water park itself it was dead calm, almost nobody there, maybe it was because it was 7pm and the park closes at 9pm. I would recomend the water park IF you arrived there at around 16:30pm because there is a unique water slide similair to Pelican Dive at Duinrell's TikiBad that drops you into a pool that has special and a bit of an annoying time-table where the slide is only open for about 30 minutes every hour from 11am to 7pm. (I might be wrong here)

And that was our day.

Haven't been to CP in a few years so was psyched I had the opportunity to visit, and see the park when dressed up for Halloween. Ive been to the park 3x prior so ive riden most of the coasters, but mostly during summer months and always try to go on a weekday bcus of crowd levels if it works out. I planned to go on a Friday since its the only full weekday theyre open now but this past Friday was a washout it looked like, not sure if all rides were open or not but it looked like it would've sucked w the rain and winds. So we pushed out our visit to Saturday where it still wasnt gonna be the best day either because it was gonna be a little chilly but luckily sunny and less wind. Thought maybe not many people were gonna go since it was only gonna hit mid 50s. That thought was short lived once we arrived.

The park was the most slammed ive ever seen it. Every coaster had a 2+ hour sometimes 3hr wait. I dont even know how they can allow that many people in the park, granted some rides were down, like Millie and valravn & Steve some of the day, which pushed people to other rides, but still... thats just forcing people to buy Fast Lane. Which is something we didnt even think about before entering the park (big mistake), and by the time we looked at it, it was sold out. Only could buy single ride FL, which that adds up.

The main rides I wanted to get on were TT2 and Sirens Curse since those were new to me since last time ive been. We went to TT2 first just in case it broke down at some point and luckily only waited 1hr 15min or so. Obviously amazing incredible intense ride, top 10 worthy, maybe 7 or 8. After that we thought about hitting Sirens Curse but once we got there it said 3hours. So we booked it to Maverick and SteVe which said 90min, but once we got there it said 2hrs and 2.5hrs. Since ive riden both of those amazing coasters we decided to go back to SC bc its new and just eat the time so we can ride it. (Wasted time walking back and forth I know). Luckily once we got back to SC it dropped back to 2hrs so not the worst but still awful. We ended up waiting about 2hrs, maybe a little more but finally got on it, and it was a great ride, probably 4th best in the park.

At this point its already about 430pm (due to walking around and lines) and unfortunately we couldn't stay too late in the day because of kids at home so we didnt have a lot more time in the park, which is unfortunate because the Halloween stuff would have been cool. Every ride was still an incredibly long wait, even rougarou, corkscrew and iron dragon. We really only had time for 1 more ride so we had to choose one with not too long of a wait. All the great coasters were too long unfortunately so we had to settle for Raptor (which is still an incredible coaster, but I prefer Maverick or Steve). Decided to just use my single use FL on it bc of time. So in the end, in the span of about 6.5hrs we rode 3 coasters. Absolutely disheartening bc of how much i love the park and coaster lineup. Luckily I accomplished my goal of riding TT2 and Sirens Curse even tho it was only 1 time so it wasnt a complete loss, and ive riden all the other great coasters many times. I have the Six Flags Prestige Pass so the visit was already paid for as well, so i didnt waste money on a ticket. We also didnt arrive to the park too early or right when it opened (arrived about 1130), which is another mistake made. So definitely learned a lot of lessons from this trip -

1. Dont go to the park on halloweekends and expect to ride rides no problem, BUY THE FAST LANE before your visit, or just enjoy walking around

2. Get to the park on time or early if possible

3. Research how busy the park may be during halloweekends (huge dumb mistake on my part)

4. Go on a day you can be there the full day and not have to leave early (not exactly my fault but the people I was with)

Hi all, I've been working on a hypothetical expansion plan for Kennywood that uses a portion of the existing parking lot to create a new section connected to the current park with new pedestrian tunnels and a gondola ride crossing the road.

The proposed expansion includes:

• Blue Polygon: A compact log flume (1.30 acres), Log Jammer 2
• Purple Polygon: A new family suspended coaster (3.00 acres). This helps to fill a void in Kennywood's lineup, providing a suspended coaster and a newer family experience.
• Orange Polygons: New food, retail, and restroom facilities... near plaza spaces.
• Black Polygon: Employee parking, entrance, and facilities.
• Blue Line: A gondola connecting Kennywood proper to the expansion... this layout doesn't bisect any rides so clearance shouldn't be a major issue.
• Relocations of the SBNO Skyliner (1.50 acres) and Leap-The-Dips (.50 acres) from Lakeside Park in Altoona, PA.
• An Enterprise, near a Skyliner plaza for an additional retro atmosphere.
• A Calypso or Scrambler-style flat ride near Leap-The-Dips.
• Improved connections (pathways, stairs, escalators) to auxiliary parking to compensate for lost spaces (photo 2).

My goal was to combine Kennywood's historic character with new heritage and family attractions while making better use of the rare flat (developable) land.

I know the historic coaster relocations would be a major challenge, but feel like something such as this could be an achievable (albeit unrealistic) plan for a park like Kennywood. I think keeping those rides in region would be an awesome aspect of this proposal.

I'm interested in feedback on the overall layout, whether the attraction mix makes sense, what you'd change, and which parts seem most or least realistic.

What would you change if you were planning this expansion? Thank you for reading!

Have been in the Gardaland and noticed that closer to evening rollercoasters run with one cart full and one cart empty. As they do that despite the queue (had to wait 10 minutes in the morning and 25 in the evening), I am curious, what is the technical reason behind it?