The cast of today's adventure. Myself, Patrick and Jackie. This was Patrick's birthday trip and as you see, he is not too thrilled with going to Wild Adventures, but he did want to get his coaster count up before we go to California in June. This was Jackie and I's third time (and year) going to the park.
On the drive from Orlando, FL to Valdosta, GA we got to drive through a wildfire. Yay
Wow! Those welcome signs are getting stranger and stranger.
Disclaimer: I do not work at Universal, I don't know how we ended up with this name tag in the car
And because we're cheap, we stopped to get coupons.
We pulled into the parking lot afraid we wouldn't be able to find a spot.
Welcome to Wild Adventures. ...yay
This was our first impression of the day. One ticket booth opened only an hour after park opening.
Patrick can't wait to go inside.
Once inside the park, we were able to tell this place was deserted.
First stop of the day was Ant Farm Express. The park's Vekoma Roller Skater
Patrick and Jackie ready to ride this unique coaster. It was rought
Every Vekoma ride needs one of these at the entrance
The parks Wild Mouse coaster was next.
Go Bananas! is your typical Maurer Sohne Wild Mouse coasters
It was rough and trimmed.
They're Bumper Cars just seem so out of place.
Next we did their Vekoma Jr SLC, Swamp Thing. It was boring and rough...NEXT!
Here you see the parks Aviator, which was running like crap by the way, and Boomerang. What you also see is a nice plot of land where a ride used to be, there's plenty of them around the park.
So yea...here's the Boomerang. A very unique and exotic ride.
It was rough, moving on.
Walking on the boardwalk to our next location.
We headed over to Cheetah
Due to Cheetah's location, it's a hard ride to get photos of, so we'll come back to it later.
After the lovely and talented Cheetah, we rode this monstrosity of a ride.
Viking Voyage is a Miler coaster. This one was relocated from Celebration City
The ride is very uncomfortable and extremely rough. It is easily one of the worst engineered coasters out there and should be used only for scrap metal.
I seriously wonder who thought it was a good idea to make this god awful ride.
Good luck Vikings!
We saved the
best for last. Twisted Typhoon.
Twisted Typhoon is the park's Vekoma SLC.
Up until last year, this coaster was named Hang Man and had a different paint scheme.
The new paint job really makes the ride look nicer.
Hang Man was repainted and renamed to Twisted Typhoon to math the neighboring water park, Splash Island.
I seriously love SLC lift hills...
...and that's about it.
With the new look, the coaster did not get new trains.
Thus making this coaster your standard, painful Vekoma SLC.
Across from Twisted Typhoon, you can get Gator meat. Scrumptious!
We had lunch here.
The food looked good but it really wasn't. And a couple of hours later, we were all feeling sick.
After lunch, we decided to ride Rattler.
Great idea after eating
Firecracker is probably the smallest S&S Space Shot I've ever seen. And it wasn't really powerful either. Nice try Wild Adventures.
We went to go get our Cheetah fix. As you can see, it was crazy busy.
The train going up the lift. Now give me an "oooooooh," now give me an "aaaaaaaaah"
Cheetah is an out and back with a figure eight at the end. Doesn't sound like much, but this coaster maintains it's speed, it's smooth, and it's packed with airtime!
As much as I try, I'm just not going to get it.
Perfect shot of the tree blocking the train.
Another train load of satisfied customers.
I know everyone wanted to see what the lift hill looked like again. So here you go!
We wanted to do their Flyers....but when we walked up to it there was no operator in sight. The queue was open and the operator panel was in plain site. So we just walked away. No Falcon Flyers for us today.
I wanna see your peacock cock cock! Your peacock cock!
At this point we were starting to get really bad head aches and nausea.
For some stupid reason we decided to do the Boomerang on the way out.
Patrick was smart and sat out.
Jackie and I got our own train on the Boomerang. It was really painful, a good sign to tell us it was time to go.
See ya Wild Adventures! Thanks for having Cheetah, otherwise you would have been a waste of a drive up here.
On the drive out of the park you go around the entire property, which means you can get some shots of Cheetah. Here's the train going down the first drop.
And the train in the turn around.
And why not another photo of the "new" Twisted Typhoon.
After a short drive back into Florida, we were greeted into my home state by this flag. Thaaaaaaaaaanks, I feel so welcomed.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the worker who asked Patrick, "Are ya'll Yankees?" Yea...
-Dainan "I can wait another year before going back again" Rafferty
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