July 20, 2009

Freestyle Music Park


Welcome to Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach, SC

Turning left we headed into Myrtle's Beach

I found it interesting that they had a waterfortress in a ride park.

Here's the star attraction of the park

This is Time Machine, a B&M sit-down looper

The coaster plays different sound tracks from different decades

It's a lot of fun hearing the different decades as you ride through the course

I love the theme of the station

The next section is called Across the Pond

This is an awesomely themed flat ride

This land is the home of this interesting rollercoaster

This unique "ferris wheel" lift is the signature part of Round About

The 6-passenger car does a lot of helices after the initial lift and drop

Like all of the coasters here, it features on board audio

The break dance was taxi car themed

I really did not understand this dark ride called Monstars of Rock

It was just strange

There was also a carousel in the area

In the American section, they had a Country-Music themed Ice Show

It was decent

I think they took themselves a little to serious though

They had a water bomber coaster called Soak'd

You bomb the people below and they water geyser you back

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a kiddie coaster, but this is Hang Ten

I enjoyed it

The foam ball factory was called Grunge Station

The minetrain was called Iron Horses

Yes, it had on board audio

Everything is better with fire

Minetrain and Fire = Pefection

Texas Swing

Big Ol' Trucks

I had a good time, but it's a little unnerving seeing such an empty park.
I do wish the park luck as it is a very interesting concept to theme a park to music

July 19, 2009

Six Flags over Georgia

Welcome to Six Flags over Georgia

My first ride of the day would be Goliath

"SoGo" as I call it was running like crazy today

It has a funky little helix over the lake

For a B&M hypercoaster, it has a ton of airtime

Next up was Batman: the Ride

I never get tired of this layout - no matter where it is 

I love Mindbender!

This old school coaster just makes you feel so vulnerable

The reason I am here is because they completely redid Monster Plantation
and now it is Monster Mansion - all new animatronics and more!

The boats don't look much different, but...

You get inside and you can really tell the difference

I love that they kept the theme song and this guy

Ok a quick trip on the minetrain

Time to head out.  I still got another park to do today


Carowinds


Welcome to Carowinds

The first coaster of the day would be Afterburn

This B&M inverted coaster is one of the best out there

Unfortunately it is at Carowinds, so it tends to get overlooked

Want to ride a couple of rough wooden coasters?  Ok, here's Thunder Road

Carolina Cobra is a half-way decent boomerang

Goldrusher was next - it's kind of a minetrain

Carolina Cyclone is the park's resident Arrow looper

If you really really like a rough wooden coaster - try HURLER

Time for a mouse coaster - RICOCHET

Drop in any time.

The park has an older B&M standup coaster called Vortex

It's not that bad actually

The park has a Vekoma flying dutchman called Nighthawk

It's fun, but it takes forever to load

The park has a few kiddie coasters - this is Runaway Reptar

This is the Fairly Odd Coaster

Here's Taxi Chase

Final ride of the day was the Sky Cabin

Looks like something big is coming to the park next year

Until next time.