My Final Count

ChanceWMitchell · My Final Count

Well, it all ended at 2 am last sunday on the last ride of the night on Zeus at Mt. Olympus in the Wisconsin Dells. On a brisk night when both Hades and Zeus were running like bats outta hell. After having fun with the excel file that I've used to document my trip I present some amusing statistics:

SEASON STATS:
Time spent within a theme park: 690 hours 4 minutes
Parks visited: 42
Different coasters ridden: 246
Total coaster laps: 2381
Feet of coaster track traveled: 8,315,350
Miles of coaster track traveled: 1574.9
Equivalent distance: NYC to the Nebraska-Colorado border via I-80
Times inverted on a coaster: 2811

CAREER STATS:
Parks visited: 52
Coasters ridden:303

PERSONAL RECORDS:
Most laps on one coaster in a single day:
1. Skyliner @ Lakemont park - 200 laps
2. Afterburn @ Carowinds - 126 laps
3. Excalibur @ Funtown Splashtown USA - 60 laps
4. Voyage @ Holiday World - 57 laps
5 (tie). Comet @ The Great Escape - 52 laps
5 (tie). Voyage @ Holiday World - 52 laps

Most total coaster laps in a single day:
1. August 6 @ Lakemont Park - 205 laps
2. July 3 @ Carowinds - 137 laps
3. June 20 @ Michigan's Adventure - 72 laps
4 (tie). July 31 @ Dorney Park - 70 laps
4 (tie). July 2 @ Carowinds - 70 laps

Coaster with most total laps:
1. Skyliner @ Lakemont Park - 200 laps
2. Afterburn @ Carowinds - 176 laps
3. Voyage @ Holiday World - 160 laps
4. Shivering Timbers @ Michigan's Adventure - 92 laps
5. Comet @ The Great Escape - 81 laps

Park with most total laps:
1. Carowinds - 207
2. Lakemont Park - 205
3. Holiday World - 181
4. Cedar Point - 170
5. Michigan's Adventure - 136

SIX FLAGS VS. CEDAR FAIR
Parks visited:
1. Six Flags: 9
2. Cedar Fair: 8

Different coasters ridden:
1. Cedar Fair - 88
2. Six Flags - 81

Total coaster laps:
1. Cedar Fair - 739
2. Six Flags - 436

Well, as you can see, I had an incredible summer!

Darienlakerules

wish I could have made it to darien lake or sea breeze. How did you like the two parks?

Stingray

How do you get some many lap at Carowinds? Man it wasn’t that busy there was it?
Anyway what’s take on these new coaster coming to Kennywood, Carowinds and King’s Dominion?

ChanceWMitchell

@DarienLake: Seabreeze was a nice little park. Jack Rabbit was a blast, although I really wish it had PTC trains instead of Morgans. That would make the ride infinitely better. Spinning Dragons is one of the best spinners I had been on and I was impressed with it. Bobsleds was a great little ride. Very unique and entertaining with some decent airtime. Darien Lake's RoS is sooooo much better than its clone at SFA! I was stunned by the difference! It made the visit completely worth it. Motocoaster was also a fun little ride. Its a neat experience riding like that. Viper is probably the smoothest Arrow looper I've ridden and I thought it was a great deal of fun. DL catches a lot of flack, and I'm not really sure why. Sure its not the best of the best, but I thought it was a pretty nice park and I thoroughly enjoyed myself there!

@Stingray: I was a single rider so they just let me hop into open rows on Afterburn all day! It was a very fun 2 days in Charlotte!

Here are my thoughts on the 3 new coasters:
Intimidator 305: This looks like a VERY weak layout for a 305 foot coaster. It looks like it will have maybe 3 moments of decent airtime including the first drop. None of the turns are overbanked, and to put the final nail in the coffin it has freaking OTSRs for some unknown reason. Im sure it will be fun, and it will draw huge crowds to the park (bye bye SFA) but I just think there could be so much more done with the layout...

Intimidator: Typical B&M hyper. I do like the drop out of the second hill though, as well as the lack of any trim brakes (according to POV video). It's always hard to judge these until you actually ride them. Which I will attempt to get around to next summer.

UNKNOWN @ Kennywood: First off... why does this ride not have a name??? seems like a poor marketing technique to me... Anyways, I love Premier and think their rides are fantastic. But the video on Kennywood's site concerns me. It looks like the animated POV was done on RCT2 and it appears quite jerky. I really hope it isn't as bad as it looks (Im sure it wont be), but I wont know until I ride it.

UNKNOWN @ Cedar Point: Current popular belief is Intamin reversing log flume. I tentatively agree. But I can't say Im terribly excited about it... Still hoping for a coaster, but not expecting one. I'll be back at CP again next year anyways, so it doesnt really matter anyways.... haha

Doug_Barnes

Amazing! If I was 10 years younger... I would be inspired to set up my 2010 East Coast Crazy Chaotic Coaster Tour.

dougscoastergirl

I love you, but even 10 years younger, I wouldn't be sleeping in the car with you......you'd have to be getting me a hotel room. Wink

e_tapley0687

Man! You are sooo freakin fortunate! lol I can only dream of doing as much as you've done!