Dorney Park Fun Facts #2

New for '93:

White Water Landing

Cost: $3 Million Dollars
Height: 82 Feet
Drop: 80 Feet
Drop Angle: 50 Degrees
Speed: 42 Miles Per Hour
Splash: 128 Feet Long, 64 Feet Wide, 25 Feet Tall
Length: 445 Feet
Ride Time: Just Under 3 Minutes
Designer: Arrow Dynamics

Cedar Creek Cannonball

Designer: Funk Manufacturing Company
Trains: 11 Ton Engine, one Tender, and Five Coaches
Scale: One Third
Stations: One in Dorney Park, one in Wildwater Kingdom
Seating: 35 Guests per Coach
Hourly Capacity: 700
Track Length: 3,090 Feet
One Way Trip: 7-8 Minutes
Round Trip: 12-15 Minutes


Beautiful Photo from Themeparksonline.

Old Paramount Park Coaster Sheet

Obviously I'm fond of facts and press sheets and really anything that the industry put on paper at one time or another... so here's something I just came across.

It's from Paramount Parks in 1995 and is something I always wished that Cedar Fair and Six Flags would cook up!

The larger version (click it) should be clear.

My MGM Adventures 1997 Map

I dug up the map from my visit to MGM Grand Adventures in late summer of 1997.



Click Image > for a much larger image.

As you can see, they had already removed about half the park when I went. You can see the coaster in its outdoor location, before it was expanded. The river rapids takes up a lot of the park, and the log flume took up the back right corner. The "Haunted Mine" ride building was to the right of SkyScreamer, still standing, but they closed the ride when they closed that half of the park.

I love how the themed "streets" are like microsized. I've never seen themed areas that small!

There was also a Chaos and Zipper flat ride here when I visited, which was a last ditch attempt by the park to become interesting. They did not make the map, it appears.

More on the park coming soon...

Dorney Park Fun Facts #1

Here's the facts on the new slides that went in Wildwater Kingdom in 2003.

Patriot's Plunge:
Red 354' Open & Enclosed 51' High
White 275' Enclosed 51' High
Blue 405' Open & Enclosed 51' High

Wildwater Rapids:
Yellow 268' Enclosed 40' High
Light Blue 295' Open 40' High
Orange 308' Open 40' High
Green 182' Enclosed 40' High

Jumpin' Jack Splash:
Orange 200' Open 30' High
Yellow 202' Open 30' High
Blue 180' Enclosed 30' High

That concludes today's facts.

Lightning Bolt Part 2

Just a quick photo or two or three - this is the layout of the ride from MGM Grand Adventures after it was expanded:

And this is a nice view of some of the expanded part:

And this is the lift and the new part in relation to the old part:

MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park

I got the chance to go to the MGM Grand Theme Park at the MGM Grand Hotel in Vegas in 1997. At that point, half the park had already been gutted. Many of the rides were already removed, such as the interesting looking boat ride and ghost house. I think they had been trying to revive the park by adding a 250 ft. skycoaster, SkyScreamer, which I did partake in. Apparently it was the world's tallest at the time.
The river raft ride was decent with theming I believe done by R&R Creative Amusement Designs, or at least decent theming on a budget. They also had a coaster, Lightning Bolt, which started as an indoor ride, was them moved outdoors (which is when I rode it), and then eventually added on to by Arrow. It was a weird ride with weird trains.
If you have some spare cash, it's still for sale:
This park has always made me curious, even though I was actually in it. I'll have to see what else I can dig up.