Day 7 - Worlds of Fun
Day 7 - Worlds of Fun
andycoasterboy
After surviving a storm last night and very short drive to the park we were taken to Mamba to celebrate its 10th Birthday almost to the day!! The park decorated the queue with balloons and ribbons and made a special cake. Caleb - the ride op - demonstrated how to do the job properly and all the team had a meeting the night before to work on a special dispatch routine =) fun indeed. Patriot, the latest addition to the park was an actual fun Beemer for change. After lunch we were taken for an enjoyable behind the scenes photo sessions so we all have great pics of all the major coasters. The frisbee dog show was also a highlight. Another huge thanks to all the staff involved today.
Chris Hull
A fun morning's ERS to celebrate Mamba's 10th birthday. Coaster, cake, ice cream and cookies. Woo-hoo! :) A shout to Caleb and his ride crew for whooping up the ERS even if his whistle was broke ;) Ride on guys! One of the park's other coasters, Patriot, is a really nice non-standard B&M. Behind the scenes tour after a tasty lunch also provided views of coasters and photo opportunities. Thanks to all the staff for a really enjoyable visit.
Mette Doving
Happy Birthday Mamba:-) Great ERS to start the day. All the ride ops where really great, and made it so much fun. Cake, cookies and ice cream. Enjoyed the rest of the park as well, the Patriot was the best of its kind so far on the trip. A good lunch was followed by a really great photo trip back stage. Thanks to everyone at the park for making it such a great time.
Nina Kleppe
Great start of the day with the ERS to celebrate Mambas 10th birthday. Then we did all the other coasters. Patriot was the best B&M inverted coaster on the trip so far. Cool that we got to do the Wacky Worm kiddie coaster so we got our credit on that one as well. Good lunch. Tusen takk for en lekker dag.
Christof Muehlan
Join a coaster club. Go on a club trip to the US. Get a morning ERS on Mamba with an outstanding ride-op crew. Grin for weeks.
We got a badge from the park that gave us access to the kiddie coaster. I'd like one of those valid on all kiddie coasters in the world for Christmas, please (with sugar on top)
Dirk Lather
Coasterfans sind bekloppt, dass ist ja bekannt. Heute haben wir sogar einer Achterban ein Standchen zum 10 ten Geburtstag gesungen, hat aber gar nicht weh getan. Die Morgan "Mamba" dankte es uns mit sagenhaften Fahrten wahrend der ERT. Fuer sein Alter macht der Coaster richtig Spass. Aber auch der Rest vom Park ist bunt gemischt und sehr kurzweilig. So, nun noch 1 mal .schlafen, dann sind wir wieder bei meiner Voyage. *huepf*
Stuart Cosgrove
Great ERS on Mamba, just need to loose its trim brake, otherwise good ride. Timber Wolf running great in front albeit a bit slower than I remember it in 93. Patriot a great B&M. Enjoyed the superb lunch and photo tour. Another thoroughly enjoyable day. Also I must mention Cyclone Sams trabant ride in the dark: very noteworthy
Ole Bredesen-Vestby
Another great day. This started with an ERS on Mamba. Good coaster, very re-rideable. And great ride-operators. The woodie was a little bit too shaky for me, but the other coasters (except the Boomerang) were good. Another thanks to the park for the photo-tour behind the scenes after lunch. I really enjoyed that.
Mats Hummel
Great day, great park REALLY great ride ops (Thanks Caleb for making sure the ERS was at the top level). Patriot was a smooth running ride. Thank you for the great photo tour. Thank you for Mamba's birthday party.
Matthias Pies
Netter Park, tolle ERS incl Geburtstagsstandchen. Patriot fahrt sich einfach nur genial. So muss ein B&M fahren. Der Reas des Parks ist buntgemischt und hat mir gut gefallen.
Jonas Aastroem
Mamba celebrated its 10th birthday this day, and we were invited to join the celebrations with an exhilarating ERS followed by cake, soda, ice cream and cookies. Patriot was both fun and smooth. Interesting twist on "global" theming, too.
Chris Simon
Lovely day at Worlds of Fun, even found a Draig Goch (Ed: Welsh Flag) flying & had my picture taken by it! ERS on Mamba, fantastic crew, and birthday cake to end with. Possibly the weakest of the Morgan hypers due to excessive braking midcourse leaving the final camelbacks a bit tame with little airtime, however still a great ride and the first two hills are amazing in the back. Patriot a nice little B&M inverted, and getting my vote for the best zero G roll, taking it at the perfect speed where you float all the way through it and actually get zero G,
Paul Orsmond
Worlds of Fun was yet another wonderful park, Mamba was a great ride only slightly spoiled by heavy trims leading into the second half of the ride, It was so good to see the staff celebrating Mamba's 10th Birthday, and the cake and refreshments were a nice touch. My Favourite ride was Patriot though which was a wonderful B&M inverted, one of my favourite coasters so far on the trip. Overall it's been another excellent day, and yet again the hospitality from the park was great.
Kim Varde Lassen
World's of Fun, well indeed it was! Huge cheers to the ride ops on Mamba. They did a fantastic job making this one of the best ERS's I have ever been on. Strictly-by-the-book ride attending was replaced with common sense, smiles and an atmosphere that made us feel very welcome. Caleb took the prize as the funniest ride operator ever. Way to go WoF!
Five of us took the time to go to the water park. No queues to some superb water slides... fast and out of control... water up your nose... great.
Lars Soerensen
What a great ERS, and what a great ride-op. I had a really great time. Great park, with some great coasters. We went to the water park as well, not the biggest water park, but they had some really great slides. Worlds of fun lived up to its name. It was great!
Steve Fagin
Good lively ERS on Mamba - which I thought was a nice ride, and smooth enough all things considered. It was great to see the happy ride ops celebrate its 10th birthday with a giant cake, and even better to have a behind-the-scenes photo tour later in the day. A few of us found time to hit the waterpark, and larked around amongst the bare-fleshed Missourians wallowing heavily in the shallows. Overall, a pleasant day, and the park staff were clearly pleased to have us there.
Nick Christensen
Worlds Of Fun was a really good park, with some great rides and coasters. The ERS on Mamba for its 10th birthday was awesome, the ride ops were really in the birthday-mode, and the giant birthday-cake was one of the best cakes i've had. The coaster did infact disapoint me a bit, but the first drop and the first big airtime hill in the back seat was just awesome! The Patriot was also a very good coaster, best in the front row of course, with some good g-forces and a good speed thoughout the ride. Overall the park was great, considering it was a cedar fair park.
Paul Greenwood
After a terrific thunderstorm at the hotel last night, today was another boiling hot day!! Celebrating Mamba's 10th birthday was great fun - the ride was running extremely well (although less brakes on the return run would be better) and the ride ops were in a really hyped-up birthday mood. We even had birthday cake!! I even won something in the raffle (which I never do) so this was one terrific day. Worlds of Fun, please provide more shade in your queue lines though...
Darren and Mary
Great park, ERS on Mamba on its tenth birthday was something of an occasion, party hats and birthday cake, the operators of the ride were also in party mood which made for a relly enjoyable ERS. Darren's favourite ride was the boomerang which for me was a little headbanging. The patriot was an enjoyable ride, the day was great and the food at lunchtime was good along with the raffle prizes given out, another park with friendly staff.
James "Spinner" Hannaford
The Parks get better and better and when the staff join in that's a Plus. This park has a lot of space so room for expansion. Keep up the good work
Andy Dewar
I enjoyed my day at Worlds of Fun, the staff on the Mamba ERS were really fun, in fact all the parks staff were happy and enthusiastic so the place comes across well. I thoroughly enjoyed Patriot, excellent trackwork showing how things have come along and it makes for a brilliant well balanced ride. As for their other coasters I thought the woodie was a bit rough, Mamba was wooshy with great drops, and I came off the Boomerang somewhat suprised at how much I'd enjoyed it. All in all a really happy park to visit with a great atmosphere throughout.
Gordon Taylor
2nd visit here in over 10yrs. Glad 2c the back of Orient Express, no loss there but shame that Timber Wolf was not as good as I recall, in that it used 2b a top 5 ride. ERS on Mamba hit the spot; perfect for a morning ERS, not too intense and fun after breakfast. Park "horse brutality" (Ed: hospitality) excellent; 10th birthday cake ice cream n drinks and photo tour. Patriot a fab addition to the park eps the colour (sp) (sic) scheme however Oceans of Fun was one of the best water parks every. The WILDEST tube and flume slides I have ever been on, and a VERY deep wave pool. Most unusual for a US park. Another gr8 day.
Cal Jones
Another lovely day despite last night's storms. The ride crew on Mamba was lively, especially Caleb, and we had a fun ERS. It was nice to see inside the rides as well on the photo tour.
David & Susan Ellis
Today was our first visit to Worlds of Fun, in Kansas City, which for some odd reason is in Missouri and not Kansas! Our ERS was on Mamba, the Morgan steel hypercoaster. Caleb, the man with the mike in the station, was a real star, and the atmosphere during the ERS was fantastic. He should be cloned and sent to every park worldwide! The weather got hotter as the day went on, just when we thought we would be having a cooler day. The park arranged a walkback tour of three coasters, so we were able to get some great photos and filming. Now off to St Louis. Halfway through the trip now, but having a fantastic time so far.
Andy Costin
Another day, another park; Worlds Of Fun. another great park, and more good hospitality. We had an ERS on Mamba, and the ride crew had as much fun as we did! We were also treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the coasters - a great photo-opportunity! Weather was also great-started off cool and got hotter. Still no rain yet (famous last words). Now about half way through the tour.
Steve Gzesh
It's been a number of years since I was last at Worlds of Fun, and it's still a very nice park. I got to add another four coaster credits, including the quite marvelous Patriot B&M inverted (excellent pacing!). A nice add-on for us today was being allowed to go behind the scenes and photograph the coasters from areas the public can't access, and I took advantage of the opportunity by shooting lots and lots and lots of photos. Picture perfect, cloudless skies gave me lots of great shots! Overall, an excellent day!
Paul Hindle
Another great day. Started with 12 rides on Mamba in a 10th birthday ERS; a fun team of ride ops led by Caleb. Next came Timber Wolf, Patriot and two rides on the Wacky Worm (hmm). To make up for that Dave & I went on Rip Cord - my first sky coaster - fantastic!
David Elvy
A great day today. Mamba was awesome, a great ride with a great crew - Caleb - you rock. A few spins on Patriot, and a behind the scenes tour allowed me to get some cool photo's and as already stated, Paul Hindle and I did the
Ripcord, a Skycoaster. Amazing.
Mark and Jenny
Many thanks to Caleb and the rest of the Mamba crew for a fantastic ERS! As for the ride, it was superb although the trims could have been a little easier. Timber Wolf was a surprise as it was running very well. Patriot was also a class act, but for me was a bit too forceless. Great park and great people. Thanks for looking after us so well! As the trip goes on, it's becoming clear just how good Six Flags operation is up to now. With at least two trains running on everything (even with the parks being quiet) they are, up to now, the best run of all the parks we've visited. What a nice change!
Chris and Lisa
Amazing day today at Worlds of Fun, made more special by being able to meet our friends we've been speaking to on the internet for the last 4-5 years. ERS on Mamba for its 10th birthday was cool, with the ride ops being lively and fun. Afterwards there was cake, ice cream and cookies :D Timber Wolf's a great woodie, although the back's a bit of a rough ride. Much better at the front of that one. Patriot's a smooth ride and Spinning Dragons is just a bit of fun. Did the Wacky Worm just for the tick but all in all a great day.
Bob Clark
Another great park. Having narrowly missed the storms last night it was another hot day. Great staff and rides. Walk back tour was very nice surprise.
Owen & Alan Rees
Nice hospitalty. Mamba was good. Spinning dragons was ok, the loading was very slow.
Jeppe Nygaard
A very good day today at Worlds Of Fun. Superb birthday ERS on Mamba this morning. Nice park, Loved their B&M Patriot coaster, even though Malcolm and I were a litle unluckly with our ride partners twice. Very good hospitallity by the park, good food, fun with the raffle, even though I didn't win anything. Enjoyed the backstage walk very much.
We where lucky with the weather today, there was a quite good storm last evening and night, so I feared we could be rained out, but the weather was good to us. Now on to St. Louis.
Malcolm Marr
Excellent start to the day at Worlds of Fun with us helping the park celebrate Mamba's 10th birthday with a party, ERS and cake. Excellent ride op team in the station ensured we all had a good time and they caught us all off-guard with their Mamba-dance. Good work guys!! The rest of the park was OK with Patriot being renamed as Patience as everytime we rode it we seemed to end up with a "challenging" individual sitting next to us.
Martin Valt
Nice to have a day at a park with no new coasters for me, so lots of photographs taken along with an hour or two spent in the water park. Great ERS on Mamba to begin the day with; rides ops really "in the zone". Point to ponder - I bought a Cedar Fair Platinum Plus season pass at Knott's Berry Farm earlier this year. Since then not a single admissions/parking lot/retail member of staff at Cedar Point, Canada's Wonderland, King's Dominion or today at Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun has admitted to ever having seen one before or demonstrated even the slightest idea what to do with one. How is this possible?
Yvonne Janik
What a fun ten year celebration of Mamba - loved the cake, party hats, balloons, and fun ride team for our ERS! Also it is a coaster lover's dream to be able to go take photos of three major coasters in areas that are off the beaten path; thanks so much Brandon and team for all the extras. We did have so much fun!
