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What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Who is Patcheye and why should we care? June - September 2023
We went to Gold Striker, figuring the wooden coaster was the one least likely to be moved when the park shuts down, even though it was right up front at the beginning of the day. So the line was maybe a half-hour, which we didn't think unreasonable, and which it turned out was the longest wait we'd have anyway.
``So you say Gold Striker was designed by Great Coasters International, huh? What makes you so sure?''
They assigned seats, which gave us a near-backseat ride the first time around, but turns out it's quite a fun coaster from the backseat too.
... Hope we weren't supposed to be on that train.
The park, like all in Cedar Fair's chain, has been creating mascots for their rides and here in the gift shop we see Rail Blazer's mascot, Nick Wilde But A Minion. I don't understand it either.
And now we get to wander into the park, past the carousel. The Candy Kitchen sure looks like it was designed for the park's original mid-70s look.
Just a view along the park, to give some idea how nice the scenery is.
Delta Flyer, eh? I wonder if that name dates to when Paramount owned the park and what it looked like when Star Trek: Voyager was on the air.
And here's Flight Deck, formerly the Top Gun roller coaster, much like its sisters at Kings Island and Canada's Wonderland.
Like the other Flights Deck the queue is decorated with Aircraft Carrier tokens.
This one even has a mock bridge that looks pretty good in blurry pictures.
Looks pretty good for in-focus pictures too.
Trivia: Ignatius of Antioch, a Jacobite Christian from Syria who arrived in Rome in 1577 or 1578, provided his expertise in mathematics and astronomy --- and the perspective of the Eastern Orthodox church --- to the commission working on what would become the Gregorian Calendar, despite early suspicions that the former patriarch was a fake. He was legitimate, and signed the 1581 report ont he calendar in Arabic and Syriac. Source: The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock with the Heavens --- And What Happened to the Missing Ten Days, David Ewing Duncan.
Currently Reading: The World In A Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, Vince Reiser.
