29yrswithaGApass

Hey Amanda, Welcome !!!

Ferris wheels are fine with me - the higher the better. Frogs freak me out ! Put me in a room full of snakes before frogs!

Long before the creator of Great Adventure, Warner LeRoy, introduced the original Lion Sign park icon (right photo), his father Mervyn LeRoy, the producer of the Wizard of Oz, gave us the Cowardly Lion character (left photo). Do you see any similarities between the two lions?

EDIT: ........ GAcoaster replied too while I was typing. As you can see, those are the facts!

Well, the biggest hurdle to getting Spotlights out quicker is that Tom (GAcoaster) and I both work full-time jobs and then some! In the past, our target has been to release a new Spotlight about every 10 days. We have been sort of successful with that schedule- it really depends upon the size of the Spotlight we are working on. Each Spotlight requires a tremendous amount of work including compiling photos, preparing them for publishing, researching facts and statistics, locating and editing videos, graphic preparations and font selections, layout design, writing and editing text, populating the pages, and finally proof-reading and testing. Smaller Spotlights (like Joust-a-bout) can be completed in a couple of days, but the more lengthy and detailed Spotlights (like Skyride and Chiller) can take a couple weeks. Having just completed two huge Spotlights (Chiller and Halloween) followed by the simultaneous introduction this week of five Spotlights (Safari Hospitality Center, Safari Exploration Station, The Lion Sign, Wiggles World, and the GA Rides Graveyard) to coincide with the kick-off of the forums, we will be back to a "normal schedule" over the next two months with new Spotlights scheduled for every 7-10 days. (subject to change of course!)I hope that helps! Harry

Your input is really valuable and we do take it into consideration when putting our plans together. Some of the Spotlights that we already introduced have been based on reader's suggestions. We will add these to our list. Stay tuned! Harry

Welcome everyone! It's great you could join us. Enjoy your ride!

It definitely is the largest single ride Spotlight we have done (to date ) with almost 350 photos. I think Adventure Rivers would have been the biggest if we hadn't decided to break it out into sub pages. Overall, so far the record goes to the Halloween Events Spotlight coming in at over 400 photos. Very happy to hear you enjoyed it! And to answer your question without ruining the surprise, one of them is in the works!

During the Time Warp's first season, for several weeks it featured a sign that read "The Peter Arthur Time Warp". Does anyone know who Peter Arthur was or why the ride was named after him?