SilverArrow
Certified Ride Geek
Daviddoc and I decided to tag Tripsdrill and Holiday park on the the beginning of the main ghosterforce trip. I hadn't done either of these parks before so I was excited to do them, especially to finally ride Expedition Geforce.
Tripsdrill
So I had started this trip off being someone who mostly disliked launches and hadn't done many big coasters with lap bars (only Mako and Scorpion (if you count that) I believe). This was the start of a revolution.
This park was so cute! Everything looked so lovely with the trees in autumnal colours and more pumpkins scattered everywhere than you could shake a stick at! I got the impression that this was the best time of year to visit. The autumnal feel just suited the park so well! I didn't take than many photos of the cute scenery though unfortunately.
We did the kiddie cred first to get it out of the way. This was a surpringly smooth and picturesque tivoli. Then we went to the woodie. This was an interesting one.
It looked really good offlride. It had some nice banking and a good-looking drop and it looked relatively new (apparently it was built in 2008 but I would have guessed newer). It had a nice themed queueline (which you couldn't bypass on dead days unfortunately), a themed station and nice sawmill themed preshow bit. By the ride was just meh. It just lacked that something. There were mutliple times where you almost got airtime but just as you started to lift out of your seat it just lost momentum and carried on. The ride is really smooth and well-paced but it just felt so lacking. David aptly named it "mehmut". We rerode it a few times because it was walk on and we wanted to double check but each time it delivered the same oddly underwhelming experience. It looks good though.
Karacho! I was a bit nervous about this because it was a launch coaster. I loved Anubis so I had a feeling I would like this one. This was my first gerst with lapbars! Woo!
I had nothing to fear, this was a great ride and the lap bars really gave a new sensation that I hadn't yet experienced before. It has a heartline roll in the dark that disorientates you right before the launch and top hat. I really like the launches into these top-hat style elements on this and Anubis (anubis' isn't a proper top hat I don't think). Really nice elements. The rest of the ride was good and it kept good pace. We rerode a few times as it was so quiet and noticed they had even put some hallloween theming in the queueline. I would put this in my top 20 for sure.
The park has a posh restaurant right by Karacho that had some nice views of the two biggest coasters.
We finished off the creds by doing the unpronouncable gerst bobsled which had an imaginative layout that intertwined with the log flume theming. I thought that the cars had cute theming on this, they were like little wooden sleds. The log flume was also good and came complete with an array of plastic boobs which apparently was meant to signifiy eternal youth or something (according to rcdb). The rapids were nice too and had that cool whirlpool effect. We managed to get a free meal of sausage and chips that came with our tickets which was a nice bonus. The park also had a nicely themed sky fly that we didn't do but it looked nice. We also did the funhouse which had a scary barrel thing in it that I conquered after much consideration.
We had a really good, chilled day at the park just taking in the surroundings and doing some creds. Karacho is obviously the standout attraction but most other things there seemed well-themed, cute and worth doing. If I had had time I would have maybe liked to have checked out the wildlife park they they also have there.
Holiday Park to follow.
Tripsdrill
So I had started this trip off being someone who mostly disliked launches and hadn't done many big coasters with lap bars (only Mako and Scorpion (if you count that) I believe). This was the start of a revolution.
This park was so cute! Everything looked so lovely with the trees in autumnal colours and more pumpkins scattered everywhere than you could shake a stick at! I got the impression that this was the best time of year to visit. The autumnal feel just suited the park so well! I didn't take than many photos of the cute scenery though unfortunately.
We did the kiddie cred first to get it out of the way. This was a surpringly smooth and picturesque tivoli. Then we went to the woodie. This was an interesting one.
It looked really good offlride. It had some nice banking and a good-looking drop and it looked relatively new (apparently it was built in 2008 but I would have guessed newer). It had a nice themed queueline (which you couldn't bypass on dead days unfortunately), a themed station and nice sawmill themed preshow bit. By the ride was just meh. It just lacked that something. There were mutliple times where you almost got airtime but just as you started to lift out of your seat it just lost momentum and carried on. The ride is really smooth and well-paced but it just felt so lacking. David aptly named it "mehmut". We rerode it a few times because it was walk on and we wanted to double check but each time it delivered the same oddly underwhelming experience. It looks good though.
Karacho! I was a bit nervous about this because it was a launch coaster. I loved Anubis so I had a feeling I would like this one. This was my first gerst with lapbars! Woo!
I had nothing to fear, this was a great ride and the lap bars really gave a new sensation that I hadn't yet experienced before. It has a heartline roll in the dark that disorientates you right before the launch and top hat. I really like the launches into these top-hat style elements on this and Anubis (anubis' isn't a proper top hat I don't think). Really nice elements. The rest of the ride was good and it kept good pace. We rerode a few times as it was so quiet and noticed they had even put some hallloween theming in the queueline. I would put this in my top 20 for sure.
The park has a posh restaurant right by Karacho that had some nice views of the two biggest coasters.
We finished off the creds by doing the unpronouncable gerst bobsled which had an imaginative layout that intertwined with the log flume theming. I thought that the cars had cute theming on this, they were like little wooden sleds. The log flume was also good and came complete with an array of plastic boobs which apparently was meant to signifiy eternal youth or something (according to rcdb). The rapids were nice too and had that cool whirlpool effect. We managed to get a free meal of sausage and chips that came with our tickets which was a nice bonus. The park also had a nicely themed sky fly that we didn't do but it looked nice. We also did the funhouse which had a scary barrel thing in it that I conquered after much consideration.
We had a really good, chilled day at the park just taking in the surroundings and doing some creds. Karacho is obviously the standout attraction but most other things there seemed well-themed, cute and worth doing. If I had had time I would have maybe liked to have checked out the wildlife park they they also have there.
Holiday Park to follow.
