Holiday World

Welcome to Holiday World.

This park is one of my favorite places to visit.

Raven is the park's original wooden coaster and it's still my favorite here.

The course takes a wild out and back trip through the woods featuring lots of airtime.

Legend received some reprofiling last season and the ride is even more out of control now.

While still rough in places, it is at least rideable now.

HallowSwings is the park's amazing wave carousel.

Scarecrow's Scrambler

Turkey Twirl is the park's tilt-a-whirl.  Love the themed carts.

Voyage is still rough and is still unrideable.

They supposedly did some track work and reprofiling but I personally don't think it did any difference.  I think I'm done giving this ride anymore chances.

Gobble Getaway was a lot of fun.  The guns and targets seemed to all be working.

Is there a more natural name for a swinging boat ride?

Crow's Nest has to be one of the shortest starflyer style rides out there.

Thunderbird is still amazing.  I still cannot believe that this ride is here.

I think I prefer the left side of the train due to the headchoppers.

Though the front is where to be.  I love this ride.  Super smooth.

Don't skip the park's rapids ride.  It is actually a lot of fun.

Revolution is the park's round up - it has a great light package at night.

Flying Eagles - of course I rode them.  I never pass up on skooters.

Let's duck in here and ride the kiddie coaster.

HOWLER!

Liberty Launch is pretty powerful for an S&S tower.

They have a nice carousel.  I think they missed out on an opportunity - they should have put this in the Christmas section and had all reindeer.

The park's new ride is Firecracker, a classic calypso ride that has been refurbished.

I had an amazing day with my family at the park.  If you decide to go, make sure you eat at Plymouth Rock Cafe (great food, large portions, good pricing).  Also don't skip on the Dole Whips, so good and priced fairly.

Splashin' Safari

Welcome to Splashin' Safari - Holiday World's waterpark.

We started the day over at Hyena Falls.  This unique collection of 4 tube slides features a Boomerango element where the tube slides go up an wall and then back out another way.

The remaining 3 slides feature lots of drops and tight turns.

Kima Bay is one of two waterfortress playgrounds at the park.

The giant bowl slide Bakuli dominates the skyline over Bahari River.

Bahari River is the park's lazy river and it features some fun obstacles.

Like I said before, Bakuli dominates this area and actually empties onto the island that Bahari River creates with its course.

The king of the waterpark is MAMMOTH - a 6 person version of a watercoaster.

This watercoaster is said to be the longest watercoaster in the States.

If nothing else, it is one of the biggest.  The slides are huge.

If Mammoth is the King, then Wildebeest is definitely the queen.  This watercoaster features tandem seating for four.

There are multiple tunnels and lots of airtime hills.

This is probably my favorite of the two rides but they are both a lot of fun.

I love how the two watercoasters dominate the skyline by the Bahari wavepool.

Here's a better shot of the Bahari wavepool.  It features two coves to help spread of the crowd.

Time to head to the lower part of the waterpark.

Jungle Jim's Playground is the kiddie are and features some great smaller slides.

Jungle Racer is a 10 lane down hill mat racer slide.  You can get some air on those humps.

Zinga is the park's bowl slide.  Keep in mind, that even though the rafts can seat 4 people, the park only allows 2 adults to ride at a time.  This creates a long line for this particular slide.

ZOOMBabwe is the longest enclosed family raft slide in the world.  It is a lot of fun and pretty disorienting due to the dark.

Otorongo is a set of 3 tube slides that each feature different paths.  GO is my favorite of the three as it features a double down into the pool which creates a lot of speed.

Wahtubee is the park's original family raft slide.

Monsoon Lagoon is the park's original waterfortress.

Final attraction at the park is the Wave, the park's original wavepool.

Time Traveler Construction (SDC)

sdcfan88 was able to get some new photos of the progress on the new attraction.

Here is a wider shot of what the newly installed drop looks like from the Culinary School back porch.

Zooming in you can see they have added more track at the top heading back into the station. 

This is going to be one crazy first drop.

If you look through the trees you can see the first inversion is going in.

This first inversion appears to be a dive loop.  It should begin immediately following the first drop and then rotate to the riders' left before exiting towards TNT.

Time Traveler Construction (SDC)

The first drop has been installed.  Does that look like a 90 degree drop to anyone else?  Also you'll notice that the fire escape now wraps all the way around to the loading docks.