Chad with a Golden Ticket made from LEGO bricks! Chad and I recently were invited to be presenters at the 2009 Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards ceremony in California. The first day was at Knott’s Berry Farm where Golden Tickets attendees and presenters were guided on behind-the-scenes tours a ...
Mike Graham and Chad Miller are on their way to California for Amusement Today’s annual Golden Ticket Awards. Anticipation is mounting. For the past two years, The Voyage at Holiday World has been ranked as the #1 Wooden Roller Coaster in the World. Will it be the top rated wooden coaster again this ...
Last month while I was visiting Waldameer with my family I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with the park’s President Steve Gorman. I’d visited the Erie, PA park last year to ride Ravine Flyer 2, but this year I was able to stay for a longer visit with a larger group and enjoy more of the pa ...
Tomorrow I’ll be returning to Waldameer in Erie, PA. It’s home to the 2008 Golden Ticket Winner for ‘Best New Ride’ Ravine Flyer 2. I liked Ravine Flyer 2 so much last year that it landed at 8th on my Top Coasters list and 5th on my favorite wooden coasters. Read my full Ravine Flyer 2 review. Last ...
It is not officially summer. Woo hoo! It's even nice today. It was nice on Father's Day, too. Saturday, it rained like a motherfucker. Friday was decent, which I was glad for because it was the kids school picnic at Waldameer. It was fun. We took Daughter's friend L. L.'s grandma doesn't seem to car ...
We decided to take some time and look back on The Ravine Flyer II and Waldameer during this fourth episode of Gravitycast. As designers, we don’t often have the chance to talk about some of the memories and historical tidbits that we have for each of our coaster designs. This was our time to look ba ...
