Most Comments
Want it delivered? Subscribe to the RSS feed and my latest posts immediately.Subscribe Via Email
Subscribe Via RSS
» holiday world
-
MSNBC’s 10 Gut-Churning Attractions
MSNBC.com’s 10 Gut-Churning Attractions – Amusement Park Rides For the Emetically Immune Recently, I was interviewed by MSNBC.com for an article about extreme thrill rides and roller coasters. I came up with a list, but the writer only chose a few of them. He also chose a few rides from Robb Alvey of Theme Park Review and Robert Niles of Theme Park Insider That’s some great comp...
-
Holiday World President Will Koch Passes Away
Sunday night, Holiday World President Will Koch passed away. While I don’t know him personally, I do know what Holiday World has done in the past few decades. Since he took over the reins the park has transformed from a small regional park to an amusement park with national recognition in the enthusiast community. On my visit to Holiday World in 2006, I not only got to experience the maratho...
-
Top 3 Most Underrated Wooden Roller Coasters
After my post last December on the most overrated roller coasters, a visitor asked me to write the opposite. A post about the most underrated roller coasters. For this week’s Top 3 Thursdays, I will be covering the unsung heroes of the wooden coaster world. Here they are in no particular order: Hellcat (Formerly Avalanche) at Timber Falls Adventure Park (Wisconsin Dells, WI) For a such a dim...
-
Gravity Group’s Timberliner Trains Could Be a Game Changer
I’ll start by admitting that this is not a breaking story, but it does deserve a post. The Gravity Group is a wooden roller coaster design company. They’re a fairly young company, but they’ve churned out some amazing coasters in the past five years including Hades, Ravine Flyer II, Fireball (China’s first wooden coaster, and the top rated wooden roller coaster in the World,...
-
Most Overrated Roller Coasters
Most Overrated Roller Coasters: Which Roller Coasters Can’t Live Up to the Hype? There are roller coasters that are very highly regarded. Some of these rides deserve their status, while others are way over hyped or overrated in my opinion. “Overrated” lists will always be controversial as everyone has their own take on which rides are good and even which rides are as good as adve...
-
Cedar Point & Holiday World Add Water Rides for 2010
Cedar Point’s Shoot the Rapids Yesterday, Cedar Point announced “Shoot The Rapids” their new water ride for 2010. The park’s many hints and clues via their OnPoint blog and social media sites seemed to hint to a roller coaster. But as with Holiday World’s 2009 Pilgrim Plunge, it seems like parks are starting to hype up and tease even non-roller coasters these days. I ... -
Top 3 New Water Rides for 2009
As the weather gets warmer, people will be looking for ways to cool off. At an amusement park, there’s no better way to stay cool than a thrilling, drenching water ride. This week’s Top 3 will list the top new water rides opening in 2009. The list is no particular order. Buccaneer Battle at Six Flags Great America – An Action-Packed Water Battle Six Flags Great America (near Ch...
-
The Next Generation of Wooden Roller Coasters
The Next Generation of Wooden Roller Coasters – Part INot Your Father’s Wooden Roller CoastersFrom my early riding experiences at Kings Dominion on wooden staples like the old-school racing coaster Rebel Yell, I would use two words to describe wooden roller coasters. Rough and boring. Of course some woodies were more enjoyable than others, but I think overall I didn’t appreciate ... -
Holiday World Announces Pilgrims Plunge
Holiday World’s Pilgrims Plunge – World’s Tallest Water Ride Holiday World has been teasing their new attraction both on their blog, The Holiblog, and through Twitter messages sent to their 300 plus followers. Hints including ‘world’s tallest’ had the coaster community abuzz. I even signed up for the park’s Twitter messages. With my phone buzzing at random... -
Holiday World’s New Project Could be a Roller Coaster
Holiday World Joins the 2009 Tease-O-RamaHoliday World, located in Santa Claus, IN has a reputation as an enthusiast’s park. They officially announced their 2008 plans on YouTube last year, they’ve hosted the Golden Ticket Awards, and they even have park officials hanging out in coaster geek message boards. So, I won’t say that they’re followers by joining the current tease... -
Voyage’s Triple Down in the Dark
The Voyage’s Triple Down in the Dark | Coaster Moments After a rapid fire opening featuring hills, airtime, tunnels and a twisted turnaround, The Voyage like Happy Gilmore, has only just begun. The train slows considerably at the mid-course brake run and typically after brake runs most roller coasters can’t live up to the intensity of their first halves. That’s not the case with ...
-
World’s Best Wooden Roller Coasters
Mitch Hawker’s Wooden Coaster Poll ResultsThe best wooden roller coasters of 2007 look a lot like the best from 2006. Mitch Hawker’s Internet Coaster Poll is arguably the most accurate coaster poll around. The ballots take into account votes based on mutual rides. On the ballots riders must rank the coasters they have ridden and then their ballot is put up against someone else that has... -
Holiday World Announces 2008 Plans on YouTube
Holiday World Announces 2008 Plans on YouTubeHoliday World, located in Santa Claus, Indiana, is home to the critically acclaimed Voyage wooden coaster. It’s a smaller park, but has made strides in the past decade to really make a mark on the industry. Earlier this week, the park made an announcement on YouTube. The real story here is the medium and not so much the message. It’s cool to... -
Top Wooden Roller Coasters of 2007
Voyage Takes Top Wooden Coaster at 2007 Golden Ticket Awards At the 2007 Golden Ticket Awards, Holiday World’s Voyage has over taken Dollywood’s Thunderhead in its second year in existence. This isn’t too surprising and is well deserved. Check out my full review of the insane and intense marathon that is The Voyage including an onride video. While I have my own Top 10 Wooden Coas... -
Top 3 Small Amusement Parks
Everyone’s been to a Six Flags, Paramount, or Disney theme park. But what about the smaller amusement parks. This Thursday I’m counting down my top 3 small amusement parks. My three amusement parks are off the beaten path, have only three major roller coasters, and have a rich history. Lake Compounce – Bristol, CTLake Compounce is home to Boulder Dash, an amazing wooden coaster ... -
World’s Best Roller Coasters Announced
Mitch Hawker’s Internet Roller Coaster Poll ResultsThe results for Mitch Hawker’s Roller Coaster Poll have been posted. Information about how Mitch’s poll works can be found here. Basically on the ballot you indicate all of the roller coasters that you’ve ridden and then you rank them. The results are based on which coasters were ranked higher than other coasters by riders ... -
Top Wooden Coasters of 2006
Thunderhead Edges Out The Voyage for Second Straight GTA TitleThunderhead won top honors at Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards for the second year in a row. But the real surprise, to me at least, is that The Voyage shot all the way to the second spot nearly taking first in its very first year in existence. That’s impressive, and it must mean that a lot of those well-traveled enthus... -
Smaller Parks Popular Among Enthusiasts
Smaller Parks Getting PropsAs I looked at the Golden Ticket Awards, I was surprised to see the smaller parks scoring so well. I was especially surprised to see Knoebels ranking third overall. Of course Knoebels will never surpass Cedar Point, but it is getting more votes every year. The smaller parks like Knoebels and Holiday World also won other categories. I think this reiterates that the survey... -
Voyage @ Holiday World | Coaster Reviews
Voyage Lives Up to the Hype Another trip and another extremely hyped coaster. This time I traveled more than 700 miles for two parks, but mainly for one new beast of a wooden coaster, Voyage. Luckily, I wasn’t let down. It rained on and off all day at Holiday World which must have helped with the lines. At times, Voyage was nearly a walk-on! The Trip Out (Hills, Air, & Tunnels) My first... -
Voyage at Holiday World
The Next Big ThingHoliday World near Evansville, IN has reputation of being a great family park as well as park that pleases the coaster enthusiast community. With renowned woodies like Raven and Legend, this small park has already made a mark. For 2006, Holiday World may make quite an impact with the addition of Voyage a massive woodie that looks to once again please both audiences. The stats are...
Advertisement
Search
- Dare Devil Dive Coming to Six Flags Over Georgia in 2011
- Intimidator 305 @ Kings Dominion | Roller Coaster Reviews
- WindSeekers Announced for Cedar Point, Kings Island, Knott’s & Canada’s Wonderland
- Superman Krypton Coaster | Most Wanted Roller Coasters
- Kings Dominion Trip & My 200th Coaster
- Sky Rocket @ Kennywood | Roller Coaster Reviews
- Happy Roller Coaster Day & USA Today’s 10 Roller Coasters
- Coaster Stock 2010 Recap Pt. 4: Trivia, Videos, & Night ERT
- Trip Report: Filming Bert the Conqueror at Carowinds
- 5 Most Missed Defunct Roller Coasters
- Sir Coaster on Bizarro @ Six Flags Great Adventure
- Brian on Dare Devil Dive Coming to Six Flags Over Georgia in 2011
- Quil on Bizarro @ Six Flags Great Adventure
- Sir Coaster on Bizarro @ Six Flags Great Adventure
- Hoss on Intimidator 305 @ Kings Dominion | Roller Coaster Reviews
- Hoss on Intimidator 305 @ Kings Dominion | Roller Coaster Reviews
- Quil on Bizarro @ Six Flags Great Adventure
- Defunct Roller Coasters (14)
- Editorials & Rants (43)
- Exclusive Features! (46)
- Interviews (6)
- Memorable Coaster Moments (7)
- Most Wanted Roller Coasters (5)
- Roller Coaster News (109)
- Roller Coaster Reviews (81)
- Roller Coaster Showdowns (7)
- Theme Park News (166)
- Theme Park Reviews (9)
- Theme Park Tips (13)
- Theme Park Website Spotlights (7)
- Top 3 Thursdays (36)
- Trip Reports (27)
