![]() ![]() Getting off I saw the father and daughter in the front row were drenched to the bone.ĭespite the fact that I always fear them, I somehow end up enjoying most water rides I go on. As we made the way around the final turn, relieved I wasn’t that much wetter than on a normal log flume, I remembered I had the opportunity to pull the lever that dispenses the water our vehicle was carrying, and pulled it in time to make a fellow just getting off the ride have to jump out of the way, which I took tremendous pleasure in watching. Of course that wasn’t counting a second water cannon near the end of the ride that gave my shorts a good soaking. A waterfall got my shoulders pretty good, but other than that the rest of the ride seemed to keep us fairly dry. Most of the regular soakers were of little danger to us in the backwards position, but I also had no way to prepare for when the next canon would hit. I’m quite positive the front row took the hardest hit. Suddenly, ba-boom! A huge water fountain launches liquid up the carriages underside, leaving our legs completely soaked. ![]() This was one of the few coasters I’ve been on in recent memory in which I was unfamiliar with the layout before riding, so I had no idea when the waterworks were about to start. It starts with an all-dry lift, and then teases us mercilessly with an s-curving drop that takes place over the main midway where there are also no water guns. Do I bail? The fact that I had already made it through the queue without getting wet and I knew this might be my only chance to ride were the only things that kept me waiting, and I figured a backward facing ride wouldn’t be so bad, so as soon as the gates opened I made a beeline to claim the back seat, leaving a father with his young daughter to have fun facing forward. ![]() Turning around, I saw every water feature the ride had to offer had just been turned on. And then, just as we were next in line, I heard a funny noise behind me. Operations were quite slow, but with so few people waiting we made it to the platform in less than five minutes. The cars were still carrying their water-bomb loads meaning I had to be careful in the queue that some smartass above wouldn’t dump their load on us, but we made it up to the station without a drop on us. But the line was still non-existent at this hour of the day, and lo and behold… most of the water effects were turned off. That said, I had a lot of reservations about it as well because I am not one that enjoys getting soaked in street clothes, and I knew in advance that the entire queue took place underneath the attraction where there were plenty of opportunities to get doused against my own will. I was keen to give this one a go-around because back when we visited the rumor mill was speculating that it was looking to be on the chopping block at the end of the year, although at the time we didn’t know what might replace it. With Thunder Road down for the first part of its extensive 5-year maintenance plan, we ended up looking at the Flying Super Saturator for our next experience. The ride was very mediocre, my mom needed to ask me why that was necessary when we got off. We actually made the Scooby-Doo Haunted Mansion our second ride in the park, since it didn’t look to have a long wait, although it ended up loading slow. We fit a quick ride on Afterburn’s front row with less than a ten minute wait, and then moved on to explore the rest of the park before it all became too busy (most of the crowds were still focused on rides near the front gate I wouldn’t advise trying Vortex or Nighthawk as first rides of the day unless you’re right there when the main gates open). It’s quite an impressive entryway for being a non-main entryway, Afterburn towering over head, the batwing maneuver soaring over and under the pathway, it made me quite anxious to get riding. #Log flume ride papea park fullWhile the focal point of the trip, Hard Rock Park, ended up being a ghost town, pulling into Carowinds two days later revealed the complete opposite scenario, the parking lot bumper to bumper with cars trying to get in, and the front lot was quite full only ten minutes after opening so we made our way around to the back entrance. Charlotte, North Carolina – Sunday, May 25th, 2008 ![]()
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