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Screamscape News -
(4/9/08) For anyone wondering, the trip to Orlando is over, though we had to cut it short and head home early. Between horrific weather that cut our time at Disney short on Saturday, ruled out any park time on Sunday and the fact that my oldest son got sick Thursday night and my wife was sick as well by the weekend, we just packed it up and limped home. Maybe next time…
(4/2/08) The Scream Team will be hitting the road tomorrow and venturing down to Central Florida for a whirlwind tour of everything Florida’s best parks have to offer over the next few days. The highlights of the trip will be attending the grand opening events for Jungala at Busch Gardens Tampa on Thursday and Aquatica on Friday. After that we’ll see how much Disney we can cram into a single park-hopping day on Saturday and then it’s off to Krustyland... errr... Universal Orlando on Sunday for our last day of fun in the sun.
I expect to try and make updates to the site whenever possible, but the days and times may end up being a little irregular compared to our normal updates, so check back often. I’m hoping to post a few videos from the trip as well if everything works out. Also if your into the purely visual trip log thing, you can sneak a peek at the Screamatorium where I send all my cell phone pictures. I’ve got to warn you though that for the most part, this is where I upload all of various photos of my kids for all the relatives to see, so expect to see mostly cute smiling faces in a variety of settings and not all big coasters. (Plus my cell phone camera isn’t the best...)
On a side note... I am now the proud Father of a true budding coaster enthusiast. My oldest (age 6) reached that magical 48 inch height limit last week during our season opening trip to Carowinds and not only took his first ride on a big wooden coaster (Hurler) but also surprised us when he asked to ride on his first steel looping coaster (Carolina Cyclone). I couldn’t be prouder. Now all he can talk about is wanting to ride Rock ‘n Roller Coaster at Disney. (Speaking of which, any local Disney CM readers out there happen to have a extra paper comp ticket going to waste? E-mail me... We could put it to good use!)
(3/10/08) The results for the 2007 Steel Coaster Poll have now been posted. Superman: Ride of Steel (SFNE) and Expedition Ge-Force (Holiday Park) took the top two spots again for the 7th year in a row. Other rides of note include Goliath (SFOG) taking the #7 spot, Maverick coming in at #10 in it’s rookie year, SheiKra at #11 followed closely by it’s new sibling Griffon at #13.
For you Dueling Dragon’s fans know that Fire Dragon was ranked #19 over Ice Dragon’s down in the #26 spot. For the Disney fans out there, Space Mountain at Disneyland was ranked best at #110 followed by Tokyo (#115), Florida (#144) and Paris (#196). Paris strikes back though with their Big Thunder Mountain ranking #74 followed by Tokyo (#126), California (#167) and Florida (#183).
Goudurix (Parc Asterix, France) ranked at #357 as the worst ranked steel coaster in the world with the painful Manhattan Express (Las Vegas) taking the #340 spot as the worst coaster in Vegas. Poke around the list yourself and see what the best and worst ranked coasters in your area were in 2007.
(2/19/08 - UPDATED) Just a reminder, today is likely you last day to vote in the 2007 Steel Coaster Poll.
(1/28/08) Mitch Hawker is at it again and has posted the ballot form for the new 2007 Steel Coaster Poll. It’s a bit more work to fill out than his Wooden Coaster Poll since thre are so many more steel coasters, but if you’ve got some time to kill take the poll and lets see where our favorite rides rank.
(12/11/07) While not “Theme Park” related, I’ve come across an excellent video clip showing off various new robots from Toyota and Honda that very likely could find applications in theme parks in the future, including a two-wheeled segway style wheelchair unit. Though, the in-dash helpful car robot just flat out reminds me of how the R2 droids in Star Wars ride shotgun in all the starfighters.
(11/29/07) Today I thought I’d upload a few video clips I shot at IAAPA 2007 for a quick morning update. They’re spread out around the site however, but I thought I’d start with this clip that features the Dinner In The Sky setup that they had running outside of the convention center (minus any kind of food however) as well as a quick clip of the awesome looking Tunnel Vision projection effect for dark waterslides. This thing is incredible looking and really should be a requirement for any dark slide out there from now on.
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