Worldwide Koaster Kids "weekend" (Clementon Park and Great Adv)-7/13-7/14 2019

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Yesterday was Worldwide Koaster Kids Day and Maddy, who is the Kid Reporter from the region, was hosting a Koaster Kids Day. I'm kind of burned out on the park and I feel a good musical show in the showcase would help break up a day at the park, especially with the incoming heat wave.

 

Anyways, I started the fun a day earlier by taking advantage of the twilight special at Clementon Park, which is somewhere I have never been before. When first coming in, I thought Helcat was closed/down. However, not only is it only on one train, but they second car was closed off with cones. I rode in the left seat in the second to last row. It was rough, but it was hauling and I personally feel it is better than El Toro. Even though I got more airtime on El Toro, I feel it was worth the cred.

 

Other highlights of my Clementon Park visit were Pharaoh's Fury, which reminded me of the Jumper ride in Parkitect, except inverted; getting stappled on their "traveling" drop tower. It seems to be similar to the one at Knoebles, which I feel is better than Clementon's and about equal with Zu.

 

Even though it was busy, Hellcat was about 1/3 of the way up the steps, could have been a station wait with all 16 seats and a second train. Pharaoh's Fury and the drop tower  were a 1-2 cycle wait. 

 

I was playing to stay from 4-6, but it ended up being more like 4:30-5:40. The park has next to no shade and no water fountains, that I saw. 

 

Anyways, the next day going to Great Adventure: got into the lot around 20 til 11 due to a "gaper delay" coming on to 195 at 7A. Met up with Maddy and the other Koaster Kids. We first headed to Zumajaro and Kingda Ka. As I said earlier, Zu is about equal with Stratopshere at Knoebles in my opinion. Since it sounded like Ka had a queue, I decided to do some offride footage of Ka/Zu instead.

Ka was probably a little over 20 minutes and Zu 2 cycles.

 

We then went over to El Toro, which was a station wait, I was somewhere in the second or third train (don't need to go over opinions). We then went over to Bizarro, which was halfway up the stairs with all 3 trains and some slight stacking to the op's jokes, but maybe less than 30 before the next train entered the station. We were then dismissed to lunch. I decided first to ride Harleyquinn (new cred). I was surprised they don't allow guests on the platform until the gates open, was lucky to get on it after a cycle. Had lunch in the boardwalk for the AC then went back to Harelyquinn, where the rest of the group rode it (I did my off ride at the time. P.S. the op that day was very fun).

We then headed over to Nitro, which was 2-3 cycle wait with 3 trains. Coming up to it, it was stopped on the lift (phone probably). Nitro started stacking before my train was unloaded, probably just over a min max, but I feel it might have been only 30-45 secs.

 

I then went on the rapids for the first time. Back in 2013, I did a tour where we went into the ride's trough. I got soaked because if you get wet in the first rapids, you get wet in the second.

We then went to Skyscreamer. Just before they were going to ride, the ride was stopped due to a part falling from the ride (which was not the case and ride reopened 5-10 mins later). It was still probably a 15 min wait for them. My dad decided to ride Swashbuckler, which was the very first ride I ever rode in the park. Classic like Swashbuckler, Flying Turns, and Demon Drop hold a special place in my heart.

We were going to meet them at Justice League, but they might have gone to Skull Mountain first, at least I got to go down the Wild Walkway and Old Country paths for once. It was 4:30 when we decided to leave. Could have stayed longer but my phone died and family reasons.

 

All in all, it was a fun/day weekend. Thanks Maddy, Logan, Jeff for the event.

 

-Lindsay

[Yoshi]

Great report. Sounds like it was a good trip to both parks.

 

It's surprising that Clementon Park has no water fountains.