Dorney Park 2008 Opening Day Part 2

Here is the 2nd part of my Dorney Park opening day photos. This section is pretty much all Voodoo shots.

This way to Voodoo! All the sign posts have been updated.

Let's start with the ride's entrance sign. It's awesome. It totally clashes with the bright (somewhat unappealing) orange of the station, but the sign itself is fantastic.

The logo is only somewhat 3D, but features those awesome fake melted candles at the base of it. Dorney really does have an eye for detail with this stuff, like Hydra's smoking dragon head on its sign, even the meteor rocks they created for around Meteor.

The view as you approach Voodoo on the park's lower midway. This pic is one of many, many shots I could take that make me wonder why Dorney is still mocked for having too few trees!

Getting closer... the ride really towers over the park.

This one was taken from the bridge that passes over the creek.

Here's the new Voodoo plaza, if you will. The station and queue sit pretty much right on the midway, and on ground level unlike Steel Force, Talon, and Hydra, so you can get up real close to the ride. That makes it's presence very different from previous coasters at the park.

The station from the opposite side.

They made an area where you can get really close to the launch section, which will be great for watching riders once the ride is operating.

Here are some closer shots of the trains. Here are cars one and two. Again, the seats are purple, like Dominator's and Thunderhawk's (no not Dorney's rides ... at Kings Dominion and Michigan's Adventure - which makes me realize Cedar Fair copied a lot of Dorney names for stuff...).

Here you can see the end of car 4 which is the last of the 'new' part of the train. Starting with car 5 you can see that the train is the old style from Geauga Lake.


Here's the bulk of the queue for the ride. I'm really surprised that it doesn't have any shade covers. If they do not add them that's going to be really horrible in the summer.

Then the queue wraps around the supports for the holding-brake tower in this little area.

... and then heads back to the station. The emergency exit for the ride empties into the seating area for Monster Grille as seen above.

Here are some close up shots. We have the holding-brake tower, the actual holding brakes, and the stopper at the top of that same tower.

Taking a look at Voodoo's area, or plaza, or whatever, some work was done here as well. Above is the basketball game that was relocated for Voodoo, it's now where Laser's sign used to be.

Here's a mega picture of stuff. At the top of Possessions, a new store that has a ton of Voodoo merchandise, and plenty of other ride related items as well. There's a second version of the sign for the store in the lower left which is awesome, the games by Voodoo are now officially the Voodoo Games (used to be Laser games) - And Voodoo has it's own flags flying around the ride as seen on the right. That was a really horrible run-on sentence.

I'll finish with some photos that show Voodoo from all over, here's one of Laser with Voodoo's towers behind it.

Here is the twist tower from across the creek.

And here's a nice one that was taken over the creek by the Zephyr station area. This is another one that makes me wonder why people say the park has no trees...

Okay that'll do it for me! That was a lot of resizing and editing and posting for one day. Hope you enjoyed, and thanks to Dorney for a good time!