I bet y'all did Knott see this coming! Had to come out to LA for work this week and saw my opportunity to get on the recently reopened Montie while here!

What makes a good log flume? Is it the big drop and splashdown at the end? A long, fast flume section? What about two? Really lovely foliage and landscaping surrounding the ride? Get all of that and more on the Wild Waterfall Log Flume at Avonturenpark Hellendoorn! youtu.be/l8Bis751bY0

Wild Waterfall Log Flume - Avonturenpark Hellendoorn 4K60 POV

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So after a pretty suboptimal flight experience, I have finally arrived at my destination city. Where is that this time? Somewhere I have been before!

When you've been on the plane for 90 minutes and still haven't pushed back from the gate...

Have you ever wanted to ride an spinning roller coaster that was indoors & in the dark except for a trippy laser lightshow? Oh, and with techno music blasting the whole time? Well, if you ever venture to Vienna, Insider at Wiener Prater has you covered! youtu.be/-IyUBfzF6B8

Insider (Indoor Rave Coaster!) - Wiener Prater 4K POV

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Most coaster enthusiasts will be pretty familiar with the Arrow Suspended coasters and their swinging cars, but fewer know that Vekoma tried their hand at the same concept. Enter Dreamcatcher at Bobbejaanland, which also now has floorless trains! youtu.be/RtAbXG_vSa8

Dreamcatcher - Bobbejaanland 4K60 POV

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Anybody know if @knottsberryfarm.bsky.social has anywhere to store luggage (suitcase + backpack) for a couple hours if heading straight there from the airport w/o a rental car? I've been told they can hold stuff at Guest Relations, but that's past security, so don't know if that's entirely accurate

Had a really nice weekend at Cedar Point, despite some suboptimal weather (and my rapidly accumulating exhaustion). I ended up sleeping in today, having a leisurely lunch, and just heading to the airport rather than trying to get a bunch of rain rides. And that's okay! bsky.app/profile/acoa...

Nathan Firesheets@acoasterstory.bsky.social · 6d ago

Full weekend tally: 9x ea: SC & MF 5x ea: TT2, SV, Gemini 4x: Gatekeeper 3x ea: Magnum, Maverick, Iron Dragon 2x ea: Valravn, Blue Streak, Wild Mouse, Raptor, Rougarou, Wilderness Run, Sky Ride, Train 1x ea: CCMR, Woodstock Express, Pipe Scream, Corkscrew Plus Haunt stuff & 17 chicken wings

Day 10 of my Disney Global Ride Challenge was the *worst* day of the entire trip. Watch Episode 7 of the DGRC series to find out how I coped with sleeping through all of my alarms AND it being a 9 out of 10 crowd level day at Disney California Adventure! youtu.be/tKAnT2leINc

HOW I Rode Every Disney Ride in 12 Days | DGRC Episode #7 - Disney California Adventure Park

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Yes, I'm back at Cedar Point for Day 3. So I planned to sleep in this morning, let it rain, and then pop in after lunch when the weather cleared to finish filming. But I woke up and saw that the forecast had shifted and that I needed to hustle to get here for early entry, so that's what I did.

Hello, boys. I'm baaaaaaack! Got a long full day ahead of me back at Cedar Point! The weather is lovely. The rides look inviting. I'm exhausted. But the coastering will not be denied! Lol.

Hello from America's Rockin' Roller Coast! I'm geared up for a long weekend of Cedar Point festivities, which should be pretty legit. But...there's a fair bit of rain in the forecast for this weekend, so it may be a week but of a challenge to get everything done that I need/want to. Wish me luck!

Hey, y'all! Back in Ohio!!

You know, they say the children yearn for the mines, but at Drievliet Family Park, that's not too much of an exaggeration! Say hello to Kopermijn! (Which means Copper Mine in Dutch.) It may be just a stand wild mouse, but this one has theming!! youtu.be/b39uzbuDeRA

Kopermijn - Drievliet Family Park 4K60 POV

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I'm not really the biggest fan of spinning rides. Spinning wild mice tend to suck, but when a spinning coaster has a unique layout done well, I can work with them. Enter Naga Bay at Bobbejaanland. And this one has a pretty cool setting by the water! youtu.be/p5wG6vYSdUo

Naga Bay - Bobbejaanland 4K60 Backwards POV

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When in Spain last year, I swung through the now-defunct Parque de Atracciones de Zaragoza on my way down from San Sebastián to Madrid. And Moncayo was their Zyklon-style coaster, with an operator that would send a few cars & then go run off to operate another ride. youtu.be/Ntt8f2o2Gos

Moncayo - Parque de Atracciones de Zaragoza 4K60 POV

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I am BACK at Six Flags Over Texas! It's another scorcher, but I missed Tormenta by a DAY last time, so I am definitely not missing it today! Also need to get on Freeze since that was closed too.

At SeaWorld San Antonio today, at least for a little while! The weather is already oppressively hot and only gonna keep getting worse. But I'm here for one thing and one thing only: to ride Texas Stingray and decide how I feel about it relative to Mystic Timbers after just doing KI last weekend!

Hello and welcome back to Six Flags Fiesta Texas! If you correctly guessed this would be my next park, you officially win a cookie! The park is only open for the evening tonight (1st night of Fright Fest), but it's still an oppressively hot 100 degrees!

Futuroscope's Arthur, the 4D Adventure has nothing to do with an elementary school-aged aardvark and everything to do with the popular French fantasy series Arthur and the Minimoys. This is a simulator vs the similarly-themed Europa Park roller coaster. youtu.be/B0NJJur7alM

Arthur, the 4D Adventure - Futuroscope 4K60 POV

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Whoops! Tripped and fell and ended up on a plane bound for another adventure!

I'm not the biggest fan of spinning coasters in the first place, but what if I told you the spinning on Maskerade at Wiener Prater was so intense that the battery door on my camera came open & the battery slid out, which killed the end of the recording? youtu.be/St4Fho82hh0

Maskerade (Brutal Spinning Coaster) - Wiener Prater 4K POV

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I've done a lot of shooting dark rides at this point, but Discovery Club at Avonturenpark Hellendoorn has to be one of the weirdest. You sit around the outside of a round ride vehicle that then spends the whole layout spinning around & changing speeds! youtu.be/AsIRAsJZDco

Discovery Club - Avonturenpark Hellendoorn 4K60 POV

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There are a decent number of racing/dueling coasters out there, but this is the only one I've ever seen where the coasters leave the station in opposite directions! Efteling really did something different here with their Max + Moritz powered coasters! youtu.be/tEkpV-0jnss

Max + Moritz (Max/Blue) - Efteling 4K60 Rear Car POV

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I am back at Kings Island again today. Really enjoying this lovely marquee! (Is this the only park without its name above the entrance?) Anywho, while I could technically come back for a couple hours tomorrow before my flight, I'll probably just sleep in. Which means this is my last hurrah here!

And we're back at Kings Island for Day 2 of my Labor Day Weekend extravaganza! There's inclement weather in the forecast, but hopefully it isn't too bad or disruptive!

There is definitely a part of me that wonders if we're going to find out someday that all the little hits your head takes from riding roller coasters (and sometimes some pretty big things) might contribute to something similar, especially in light of the recent news from X2's TBI's.

Rude Law Dog@esghound.com · 3w ago

one misconception about football is that you can minimize this through limiting big hits or changing tacking, but the fundamental mechanics of the game, especially at the time of snap when linemen engage each other, involves little head to head collisions that add up over a lifetime

Hello from Cincinnati's own Kings Island, where I'll be spending this long Labor Day Weekend! The park is open tonight from 5-10, and while there are storms in the forecast for tomorrow, apparently there's also inclement weather in the area here tonight. Hopefully that doesn't wreck stuff too much!

What's this? Yet another weekend coastering jaunt?? Where could I possibly be going this time???

Dizzy Mouse is the aptly-named spinning wild mouse coaster at Wiener Prater, though it's not the most dizzying I've done. And then at the end it does something I've never seen on a wild mouse: You get eaten by a big cat & pass thru its digestive system! youtu.be/6SWxhX8BEtk

Dizzy Mouse - Wiener Prater 4K60 POV

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