Nickelodeon Universe (New 3/22)

Hot frickin' damn. There are absolutely no words to explain the excitement of this night, or the rides I just went on for two and half hours.

Firstly, might I just mention that a Gerstlauer himself passed RIGHT over me while I was strapped into Spongebob in the station [:)] My hero for years, waste level with my face [lol]

I met Drew from over at Valleyfairzone.com. Definitely a cool guy, let me and my friend's sister jump the line to the front.

Spongebob Squarepants

It's indescribable. You just can't explain this...No preferred seating, so me and my friends got forced to the back...Thank god! The car slows right as it crests, goes a little faster, and then you're just frickin' getting blown down this spectacular drop, and in your gut is once-in-a-lifetime adrenaline that you could never have imagined if you haven't been beyond vertical before. You're right up at the scaffolding and then back down to the bottom before you can look around. This ride is so much faster than testing runs made it out to be. The loop is greatly forceful, really nice feeling. Stalls just a bit for some brief relief airtime. The airhop is this really cool little pop that wakes your arse up right nice! The overbank is quick, forceful, and really shakes ya around. Zero-G, granted all the tests I saw and assumptions I made; perfect. It does pull zero gs in the front middle seats, actually, and it feels phenomenal!

Do NOT think that it bores down after the breaks! The pull up + the second overbank is incredible and great, as well as the helix. The first fourth of the helix is a nice tunnel of supports that are great headchoppers.

I rode it 8 times tonight. Each delivered outstanding rides. The drops are absolutely fantastic. I was dreading to be disappointed by the design I've idolized for years...but I was no where near that! In fact, it beat out SheiKra, Gwazi, and Montu, all the way up to my #2 favorite ride.




Avatar Airbender

This ride is just plain clean fun! I was excited to ride with those Intamin OTSRs, and they were darn comfortable! This ride was very fast and exhilerating. It only takes three speed-up passes to get all the way to the peaks of the track, and once you do, you got 3 times on each! It's a nice long ride, and it was worth both 2 minute waits I endured! Rode it twice, had a ton of fun on this.



Splat-O-Sphere

AH! This ride was badass to the core! It drops you like 10 times before it holds you at the top for the finale drop. Really nice blows of air. It's just not tall enough. I guess it is still a kiddie ride, but it was actually worth the one time/no wait ride!



Now for pictures. I apologize for the darkness, but my flash isn't great.




LSMs



Dang straight, it's a hot ride!







Turntable, mmmm



Highlight of the night



Beauty. I want a new religion. Eurodropianity.



Gerstlauer: Top Secret Binders of Layouts and Euro-Fighters?



My party





I want one



Damn good section of track



Avatarrr!!!







First car. Drew got on that, I only got on the third car.

Cool report, I've been on the Typhoon couple of times, lot's of g's there also.

Great TR Gerst. But .... how does this relate to the PM you sent me or the IM conversations with Oscar? Whatcha think Gerst, shall we share it with the site? [lol]

Is this normal?:




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Awesome! I'm so jealous.

And yes, Gav, it is. Look at any Intamin double-tower impulse coaster.

Just wait until Avatar starts banging your head around like Half Pipe at EG.

Haha, ok tiepilot!

It just looked kinda cool.

I don't like the idea of making whole new threads when I'm going to this place so much and have small reports, but

Spongebob's lift is INSANELY annoying already. I didn't think it would start squealing for at least another few months, but after less than a week the drop, lift, MCB, and overbanks are screeching like mad. It doesn't disrupt the ride though. I waited about 25 minutes all three times I went on it, which isn't that bad. Lines on it move pretty fast. My count is up to 11.

Avatar: Went twice. This ride is so beautiful, smooth, fast, spinny, and really exciting. Only been on it 4 times total but it's one of my favorite rides ever.

Also visited Timberland Twister and Log Chute. The Log Chute had a LONG wait. I think it was around 45 minutes. The entire cavernous queue was opened up, so it was hot stinky, and boring. But the water and the long ride was worth it especially after such a bad wait experience. So we only went on 4 different rides, but they were all fun.

Nice trip reports. I'm going over there tomorrow to check things out finally, hopefully the lines aren't too bad. Looking at the comments on that video of the loop someone said they added another support to it to stop it from shaking as much, is this true? It sounds pretty made up to me, they obviously knew it would shake when they built it.

No, there's no new support. It shakes just as much as it did last weekend. Actually most areas of the ride shake if you look at them closely enough.

One good thing I did notice is that it was clearly faster and more powerful than last Friday. It's not just in my mind, it was obvious becaus I actually enjoyed the helix today [approve]

Ok good, that makes sense then.