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Post July 30th, 2010, 1:11 pm

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Post July 30th, 2010, 1:33 pm

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5 minutes from Six Flags Great America! American Eagle is awesome.
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Post July 30th, 2010, 1:38 pm

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10 minute drive from Canada's Wonderland, the place blows though.

Post July 30th, 2010, 1:45 pm

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Canobie is closest at 1.5 hours, SFNE second closest at 2, and Compounce at about 2.5.

Post July 30th, 2010, 2:02 pm

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Sylvan Beach - 45 minutes. a freaking awesome, if tiny amusement park. Almost all of its rides are incredibly old and incredibly rare. Its only coaster is a Galaxi, but it's still a great place to go. They also have a lot of vintage arcade games, and the nearby restaurants--"Yesterday's Royal", "Eddie's", and "Harpoon Eddie's"--are fantastic places to eat. It's like a mini Knoebels on a lake shore. They also have the only completely original (all stunts are original, and the ride was built in 1954) Pretzel dark ride in existence.

Seabreeze-90 minutes. It's overall more current than Sylvan Beach, and has a fantastic, quaint, family friendly atmosphere. They have Jack Rabbit (fourth oldest coaster in the world) Bobsleds (the only coaster that was transformed from wood to steel until Texas Giant started getting overhauled) and one of the highest rated spinning coasters in the world (Whirlwind.) The only ones that have consistently better reviews are Winjas, Bakken's Tornado, and Dragon's Fury.


Darien Lake-2.5 hours. They got a heck of a lot better in the past few years. Now that Predator got Voyage's old trains, I solidly put it about half way between Hersheypark's Comet and Dania Beach Hurricane. Those trains made a *HUGE* difference. Despite the crap that's been given to RoS, it really does have airtime as strong as Bizarro (and yes, I've been on both) but the thing is it just has three less moments of such airtime. The water park just got a $7.5 million expansion, and although the water park itself is a good addition, they need to take care of capacity; there's not enough tubes, and I had to end up waiting 25 minutes just to get a tube, and then wait again to actually get in line for the new slide tower.

Originally posted by Live on earths ass

Cause I live in the middle of nowhere,the closest park(Europapark)is about 150 km away


150km? Dude, that's nothing. Especially for something as epic as Europapark.

Post July 30th, 2010, 2:23 pm

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Originally posted by coasterpimp

Six Flags St. Louis, 40 minutes out.


+1, about 50 minutes out

Post July 30th, 2010, 2:50 pm

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Six Flags Great America havent been there in years and i mean when i went on no rides so i dont know what its like

Post July 30th, 2010, 4:29 pm
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15 mins from Six Flags White Water
25 mins Six Flags Over Georgia
1.5 hrs from Lake Winnie
4 hrs Wild Adventures
4.5 hrs Dollywood

Post July 30th, 2010, 4:35 pm

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^Dollywood <3

I'm currently 10 mins from Schlitterbahn, 25 mins from SFFT, and 40 mins from Sea World.

I am moving to Orlando though, which puts me 15 mins from Universal, 20 from Sea World, 40 from Disney, a little longer to Legoland, and about 75 mins from BGT.

Post July 30th, 2010, 4:35 pm

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It used to be SFMM. I was 45 minutes north. But I just moved to Vancouver, Washington. No theme parks up here.

Post July 30th, 2010, 4:50 pm
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cool to see a few UK dudes, mine would be Thorpe Park which is about 2 and a half hours, as I live in Dorset.
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Post July 30th, 2010, 5:09 pm

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Originally posted by Tanks4me

Sylvan Beach - 45 minutes. a freaking awesome, if tiny amusement park. Almost all of its rides are incredibly old and incredibly rare. Its only coaster is a Galaxi, but it's still a great place to go. They also have a lot of vintage arcade games, and the nearby restaurants--"Yesterday's Royal", "Eddie's", and "Harpoon Eddie's"--are fantastic places to eat. It's like a mini Knoebels on a lake shore. They also have the only completely original (all stunts are original, and the ride was built in 1954) Pretzel dark ride in existence.

Seabreeze-90 minutes. It's overall more current than Sylvan Beach, and has a fantastic, quaint, family friendly atmosphere. They have Jack Rabbit (fourth oldest coaster in the world) Bobsleds (the only coaster that was transformed from wood to steel until Texas Giant started getting overhauled) and one of the highest rated spinning coasters in the world (Whirlwind.) The only ones that have consistently better reviews are Winjas, Bakken's Tornado, and Dragon's Fury.


Darien Lake-2.5 hours. They got a heck of a lot better in the past few years. Now that Predator got Voyage's old trains, I solidly put it about half way between Hersheypark's Comet and Dania Beach Hurricane. Those trains made a *HUGE* difference. Despite the crap that's been given to RoS, it really does have airtime as strong as Bizarro (and yes, I've been on both) but the thing is it just has three less moments of such airtime. The water park just got a $7.5 million expansion, and although the water park itself is a good addition, they need to take care of capacity; there's not enough tubes, and I had to end up waiting 25 minutes just to get a tube, and then wait again to actually get in line for the new slide tower.

Originally posted by Live on earths ass

Cause I live in the middle of nowhere,the closest park(Europapark)is about 150 km away


150km? Dude, that's nothing. Especially for something as epic as Europapark.

Oops I forgot to mention that my parents hate parks and I was there only for 2 Times,but now I'll make a trip...[:D]

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Post July 30th, 2010, 7:20 pm
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When I lived in OH, Geauga Lake was 15 minutes from my house, Cedar Point was 1 1/2 hours, Kennywood was 2 hours and Kings Island was 3 1/2 hours. Now I live in Gurnee, IL and SFGam is 1 mile from my house.
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Post July 30th, 2010, 7:46 pm
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I do not have a home park. I quit my last one, and the one closest to me is to ghetto to qualify.
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Post July 30th, 2010, 10:22 pm

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I just moved to Lafayette, IN, so it's Indiana Beach (used to be Holiday World). I'll probably buy some season tickets next year!

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Post July 30th, 2010, 11:46 pm

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SFMM is about an hour away, KBF is about 2 hours, Disneyland is 2 hours, Castle Amusemant Park is about 2.5 hours, and.... yeah.
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Post July 31st, 2010, 12:03 am
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my home park is SFGAdv, it's only 45mins away. However it's gotten very expensive so I'm starting to think about switching to Dorney which is 1.5hrs away but a lot less expensive and a lot less crowded.
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Post July 31st, 2010, 12:12 am

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Originally posted by bockzilla

When I lived in OH, Geauga Lake was 15 minutes from my house, Cedar Point was 1 1/2 hours, Kennywood was 2 hours and Kings Island was 3 1/2 hours. Now I live in Gurnee, IL and SFGam is 1 mile from my house.


Haven't seen you in a while. Been to Great America recently?
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Post July 31st, 2010, 12:27 am

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Originally posted by Kevin Brennan

I just moved to Lafayette, IN, so it's Indiana Beach (used to be Holiday World). I'll probably buy some season tickets next year!


That's awesome. Can't wait to go to Indiana Beach August 12th :)

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