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You want a construction tour? I'll give you one. To your right, you'll see a giant area of concrete with some concrete walls. Going farther down, there's the "new" action river. As you can see, they've moved some dirt around and hung some buckets overhead. Oh and here's the new entrance to Waterworks, opps I mean Crocidile Dundees Boomerang Bay, no thats not right, Boomerang Bay, darn it thats not right either, I meant Soak City.

Photo # 22 - Opening Day 1972

I hope to ride it again as well. If not, I'd like to see another record breaker of some kind (and not one that gets owned by another coaster in the same year (DB vs. 305)) ... Ok. As promised. Last one, folks: (No sons of beasts were harmed in the making of any of these videos.)

I can feel the bars hit my shoulders just looking at that picture....very nice shot!

Vortex was the Coaster that started it all for me. I rode it opening year, when I was only 7 years old, back in 1987.

Thanks, and footlong corn dogs sound great! So, Intiminator is like Diamondback, with great capacity? And afterburn has good capacity too? And if we do leave for lunch or something I WILL get a hand stamp, because you have to at KI to.

Congrats on your 25th anniversary. Love is a very long part of your life, and... ...oh wait were talking about the coaster?

I highly recommend going to Nighthawk first for one your going to wait longer because it does not have a dual load station like Firehawk!! Timmy never has a line its always a walk on when i go to Carowinds for food go to Carolina Corn Dogs its the only Cedar Fair park that sells Footlong corn dogs on a stick and OMG they are out of this world!! right across from Ricochet and next to Carolina Cyclone!! if you feel like leaving the park for food there are some very good nearby restaurants hop on 77 north get on the bypass 485 east go about 5 miles get off the 3rd exit its called the carolina place mall Sticky Fingers Best BBQ in the entire world you get 12 different choices of BBQ sauce makes Famous Daves look Tasteless!! or if you want really good pizza turn right out of Carowinds head towards Thunderroads Turnaround great photo ops BTW, keep going down about 8 miles till the road ends forgot the shopping malls name but there are a ton of good food choices there is a pizza place next to the Starbucks its good pizza have fun Make sure you get your hand stamp. Carowinds will not let you back in if you dont get your hand stamp even if you are a season pass holder just ask Terp on that one!! wish i had a few nickels for the GM of the park but noooo only had Pennies at the time

I trust you ain't highly interested in a position in marketing or PR. Terp, heartened he at least didn't reference Paramount or Viacom. Go Big. Oops. Have some New Fun!

Really enjoying all the pictures! Love seeing the pics from before my time.

Crowds on Sundays at Carowinds early and late in the season are usually quite lovely no matter the weather. The only day that you'd be wise to avoid early in the year there is the Saturday before Easter, but outside of that the crowds likely won't be that bad even if it's really nice outside (which it has been for our last few visits). It seems as though Carowinds crowds don't really start picking up until the waterpark opens. Sundays are also nice in that people won't start arriving in larger numbers until around 12:30, so if you're there at opening you should have smaller queues for a few hours. I'm sure that Carowinds is hoping to open up WindSeeker along with the rest of the park, but as kingsrattler replied I'd look at it as a bonus ride if it is indeed open at that time. Just a few other quick thoughts... * there's a really good snack stand in Planet Snoopy called the Snack Bar. The chicken tenders they offer at that stand are among the best amusement park food I've had. I'd highly recommend a stop there * make sure if you want to ride Nighthawk that you do that right at opening. I can't stress this enough. Even on very slow days there Nighthawk will have a 30+ minute wait, so get this out of the way first (by way of example, we went on an extremely slow October Sunday this past year and as long as you didn't want the first two or last two rows on Intimidator then you could walk right on. Nighthawk was still sporting a 45 minute wait) * Afterburn won't get a line until close to noon. If you're essentially on a mission to ride everything there then you may want to wait to ride that until you get on some other low capacity attractions first (Boo Blasters, the Flying Eagles, etc.)

Rocky Mountain’s new trains will able to allow a wooden coasters to perform inversions. http://www.spokanejournal.com/article.php?id=7763

What an amazing shot! That's some heavy duty parading going on. I can't help but look at that shot and think, "Geez it must have been brutally hot without any trees!"

Thrill_Biscuit, thanks for the entertainment!

I snapped this picture this afternoon passing Kings Island...looks like they're testing the fog machines a bit early

That is too funny!

I would like to see a "Walking Dead" type of haunt. that would be cool . And I agree with "bonks" about the school or camp type of attraction. Maybe even a classic monster mix haunted house.

^Unless he simply dictated the letter...I give him credit for being able to type with those claws.

Photo #11 - Beast Letter