Amusement Parks

[IrishLake]

The Beast is pretty cool. It's a very LONG ride, and most of it is through woods. Not gonna lie though, I have to sidle my bootie in bass akwards because the seats are SMALL. But it's great at night, it has tunnels, it's prolly the best wooden one I've ever been on. I love the Gemini at CP as well, and the Blue Streak is classic! The best was before they put the updated snug fitting thigh bars on the Blue Streak, and it just had a seatbelt and the automatic lap handlebars. We used to unbuckle the belts and there would be so much space between your body and the bars that you REALLY got air going over the little hills. Alas, they put in the bright orange bars that stick to your thigh, boo.
The Mean Streak versus hand story -
So, it was 1991, the very first year for the Mean Streak. Some guy had ridden the ride several times, and could lean out of his car and actually touch/slap the wooden supports on certain parts of the ride. He later claimed to have done it several times. Well, the last time he did it, he leaned too far out of his car and tried to hit a part the was very low, on the same level as the train. His hand was severed between the train and a part of the wooden structure. My boss from when I worked there was in the Mean Streak Photo Booth when it happened, she said his screams gave her goosebumps.

AGDee, meeting Dora and Boots was the highlight of my daughter's year last summer at KI. Even after the Nick theme (after Hannaa Barbara land) the one indoor ride kept it's Scooby Doo theme, and she LOVED it. It's no longer Scooby Doo. It's a generic themed scary ride now, an it's REALLY scary. She wasn't scared of Scooby Doo, but when we rode it this past June, she started crying! We won't try that one again any time soon.