Roll Call: Knoebels Opening weekend

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:26 -0400, Coastin_Steve@ (Coastin
Steve) wrote:

>Just curious as to who all I'll be seeing at Knoebels opening weekend
>2008
> Sat and / or Sun, DAFE event or Not
>
#1 Coastin Steve (DAFE & Sun )
#2 Sandy Nicolaysen (didn't know about the DAFE event) Sat/Sun
#3 Patty Nicolaysen
#4 Jen Nicolaysen
#5 Karen Nicolaysen

On Apr 24, 7:04 pm, Sandy A. Nicolaysen <sandy...@> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:26 -0400, Coastin_St...@ (Coastin
>
> Steve) wrote:
> >Just curious as to who all I'll be seeing at Knoebels opening weekend
> >2008
> > Sat and / or Sun, DAFE event or Not
>
> #1 Coastin Steve (DAFE & Sun )
> #2 Sandy Nicolaysen (didn't know about the DAFE event) Sat/Sun
> #3 Patty Nicolaysen
> #4 Jen Nicolaysen
> #5 Karen Nicolaysen
>#6 Rick Davis
>#7 Sue Davis
(By the way, we had 341 people register for the event!)

On Apr 24, 7:04 pm, Sandy A. Nicolaysen <sandy...@> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:26 -0400, Coastin_St...@ (Coastin
>
> Steve) wrote:
> >Just curious as to who all I'll be seeing at Knoebels opening weekend
> >2008
> >   Sat and / or Sun,   DAFE event or Not
>
> #1 Coastin  Steve  (DAFE & Sun )
> #2 Sandy Nicolaysen (didn't know about the DAFE event) Sat/Sun
> #3 Patty Nicolaysen
> #4 Jen Nicolaysen
> #5 Karen Nicolaysen

#6 Kyle Mackey
#7 Jenna Labbie
#8 Brian Murphy
#9 Caitlin Labbie
No DAFE event, Sat/Sun. Attending with Jenna and I are Jenna's sister
and her boyfriend, two Knoebels virgins.

On Apr 24, 8:16 pm, darkrid...m wrote:
> On Apr 24, 7:04 pm, Sandy A. Nicolaysen <sandy...@> wrote:> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:26 -0400, Coastin_St...@ (Coastin
>
> > Steve) wrote:
> > >Just curious as to who all I'll be seeing at Knoebels opening weekend
> > >2008
> > >   Sat and / or Sun,   DAFE event or Not
>
> > #1 Coastin  Steve  (DAFE & Sun )
> > #2 Sandy Nicolaysen (didn't know about the DAFE event) Sat/Sun
> > #3 Patty Nicolaysen
> > #4 Jen Nicolaysen
> > #5 Karen Nicolaysen
> >#6 Rick Davis
> >#7 Sue Davis
>
> (By the way, we had 341 people register for the event!)
#8 Kyle Mackey
#9 Jenna Labbie
#10 Brian Murphy
#11 Caitlin Labbie
No DAFE event, Sat/Sun. Attending with Jenna and I are Jenna's sister
and her boyfriend, two Knoebels virgins. Should be a fun weekend, just
hope the t-storms and rain stay away.

Kyle Mackey
kylewmackey@

On Apr 24, 8:27 pm, kwmackey...@ wrote:
> On Apr 24, 8:16 pm, darkrid...m wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 24, 7:04 pm, Sandy A. Nicolaysen <sandy...@> wrote:> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:51:26 -0400, Coastin_St...@ (Coastin
>
> > > Steve) wrote:
> > > >Just curious as to who all I'll be seeing at Knoebels opening weekend
> > > >2008
> > > >   Sat and / or Sun,   DAFE event or Not
>
> > > #1 Coastin  Steve  (DAFE & Sun )
> > > #2 Sandy Nicolaysen (didn't know about the DAFE event) Sat/Sun
> > > #3 Patty Nicolaysen
> > > #4 Jen Nicolaysen
> > > #5 Karen Nicolaysen
> > >#6 Rick Davis
> > >#7 Sue Davis
>
> > (By the way, we had 341 people register for the event!)
>
> #8 Kyle Mackey
> #9 Jenna Labbie
> #10 Brian Murphy
> #11 Caitlin Labbie

#12 Jim McDonnell
#13 Dave Fraser

On Apr 28, 9:16�am, "Thomas Henderson" <grayz...@yahoo.deletethis.com>
wrote:
> Trip / Park reports, please?

let me predict the trip reports.

Everything running except Flying Turns, Phoenix and Twister running
well, with a one train operation. Still no visible parking charge nor
admission charge. Bumper cars kick .

On Apr 28, 9:16 am, "Thomas Henderson" <grayz...@yahoo.deletethis.com>
wrote:
> Trip / Park reports, please?

A quickie-

We had about 330 of the 342 registered in attendance. Flying Turns not
running of course, but Knoebels added a walking tour to the event
schedule. Twister running one train but running VERY well, lots of
retracking over the winter. Knoebels busted butt to get the second
train running on Phoenix for the event. Concurrent ERTs on both
coasters for an hour. Minor glitches in registration due to the
massive amounts of people registered.

Lunch (pizza and soda) ran a bit long, not only due to the amount of
people but also due to a surprise for Knoebel that we couldn't
tell anyone about. His family restored their old 1940's fire truck
(that sat inside the railroad tracks) for 's birthday. DAFE also
presented with a giant birthday card signed by DAFE and ACE
members attending the event. DAFE also supplied a birthday cake for
and two sheet cakes for the rest of us.

After the park closed for the day, we gathered for a group photo in
front of the Haunted Mansion then queued for a walkthrough tour of the
Mansion, the first time Knoebels has ever allowed a group this large
to go through.

Knoebels threw in a few extras as well. Everyone received a ride
ticket for the sky ride and two tickets for the Haunted Mansion, one
of which was a 20+ year old ticket. Most people chose to keep that
ticket as Knoebels planned to destroy all the remaining stock of those
old tickets.

Knoebels also added one last ride on the Haunted Mansion before we
left for the day and kept Phoenix open until 7 for anyone having an
event badge.

All this for only $20!!

Opening day next year will be another Dawn of a New Season event, this
time hosted by the Great Ohio Coaster Club.

Rick

>> Trip / Park reports, please?
>
> A quickie..........(snip)

> Rick

Thanks! Wish I could have been there. Glad you all had such a good day.
Hope someone posts some pix of the day and especially the fire truck
surprise?

-Tom

>
> The Bumper Cars were great as usual but the cars and floor hand't been
> cleaned up from the off season. It was pretty dirty and dusty.

Actually, Jack told me that he had used a leaf blower several times to
clean out the bumper car building and had waxed all the cars. I
noticed that the ceiling had been sanded and I suspect all the dust
from the sanding and rest of the rust was raining down on the cars all
day as the "stingers" ran across the ceiling.

Rick

On Apr 28, 6:51 pm, "Tim Melago" <rollocst_at_comcast_dot_net> wrote:

> The Haunted
> House received a new scene (spoiler: it's a witch projected at the top of
> the lift hill) along with some minor sprucing up of some scenes.


Actually, that kind of scene is not exactly new. They used to project
a screaming head onto a head at the top of the "stairs". It went away
sometime in the 90's, only to have it brought back. Since the Haunted
House is 35 years old now, have they gotten the barrel working again?
The chaos room was in a very sad state and the laser effect didn't cut
it. I remember the original design and it was very disorienting.