If you were me...what would you do?

No doubt Tremors is an incredible coaster, and you seem to be wood-
coaster oriented, but...

Silverwood tends to pack in the crowds and I'm not sure how long the
park is open mid-week. Going mid-week will mean less lines than
weekend, but if you're only there for one night, you might get there
too late to really get enough rides in on the coaster to "get" it.

So I'd keep that in mind - Tremors is very much a night ride bigtime
(even more than most everything else I can think actually), so if you
can't get that set up with enough time to enjoy it, I'd say skip it.

-m

On Jun 12, 5:41 pm, nashvlm...@aol.com wrote:
> No doubt Tremors is an incredible coaster, and you seem to be wood-
> coaster oriented, but...
>
> Silverwood tends to pack in the crowds and I'm not sure how long the
> park is open mid-week. Going mid-week will mean less lines than
> weekend, but if you're only there for one night, you might get there
> too late to really get enough rides in on the coaster to "get" it.
>
> So I'd keep that in mind - Tremors is very much a night ride bigtime
> (even more than most everything else I can think actually), so if you
> can't get that set up with enough time to enjoy it, I'd say skip it.
>
> -m

If I had to pick one, I'd hit Silverwood, but again, only if I'd never
been to either one. As for crowds, you can go mid summer on a
weekend, and get 25 rides on both coasters BEFORE noon. Don't let
that get to you. Pick a place, and go.

On Jun 13, 5:36 pm, CoasterLisa <coasterl...@isomedia.com> wrote:
>
> Tremors is a fun ride as well as Timber Terror which is a smaller out
> and back but delivers butt banging air.

You had me at butt banging.

> The new coaster Aftershock
> (aka Vu) won't be operational until maybe July but even that is ify.

Which leads to a pair of questions that have been bouncing around my
head, but with the state of things in the industry these days I've
pretty much stopped asking questions. That said....

a)How will Silverwood have any better luck keeping this ride running
when one of the best maintenance crews in the business over in Gurnee
couldn't?

b)Given that Silverwood has many days when they are over capacity that
the park can really handle, won't this thing still have 3-4 hour lines
even at a park that maxes at 10-12,000 people?

I dunno. Maybe they know something I don't. For about the same
amount (perhaps a bit more), a third custom designed wood coaster
could have been their's. After the tear-down, moving, set-up, etc,
this is one monster investment that I hope pays off for them.

-Mark

On Jun 13, 4:50 pm, Mark Rosenzweig <stoneo...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 5:36 pm, CoasterLisa <coasterl...@isomedia.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Tremors is a fun ride as well as Timber Terror which is a smaller out
> > and back but delivers butt banging air.
>
> You had me at butt banging.
>
> > The new coaster Aftershock
> > (aka Vu) won't be operational until maybe July but even that is ify.
>
> Which leads to a pair of questions that have been bouncing around my
> head, but with the state of things in the industry these days I've
> pretty much stopped asking questions. That said....
>
> a)How will Silverwood have any better luck keeping this ride running
> when one of the best maintenance crews in the business over in Gurnee
> couldn't?
>
> b)Given that Silverwood has many days when they are over capacity that
> the park can really handle, won't this thing still have 3-4 hour lines
> even at a park that maxes at 10-12,000 people?
>
> I dunno. Maybe they know something I don't. For about the same
> amount (perhaps a bit more), a third custom designed wood coaster
> could have been their's. After the tear-down, moving, set-up, etc,
> this is one monster investment that I hope pays off for them.
>
> -Mark

It won't.