Valleyfair is the second biggest park in the Cedar Fair chain, in fact it is this park that provides the "fair" part of the name; "cedar" does of course come from their smallest park "cedar wonderland" in Ohio.
Well this sign is quite explicit although it doesn't explain how they do the banning exactly. Is it just the gun that gets banned? Does it have to wait outside whilst the owner enjoys the park.
No readmission and strollers today, it should be quiet!
We'd arrived at the park early for an ERS on Wild Thing and Renegade.
Nice pun and there's a perfect opportunity for a Spoonerism.. Tryer what?
The park has two of those big air powered swings. I'd be having a go on that later.
Chipper Lowell had been booked to play at the park but alas after the day of our visit. This guy is amazingly funny. For those that haven't witnessed the majesty of Chip, check this out.He's a funny guy!
The park is well themed even with that clearly easy to do 50s theming as everyone seems to have it.
Wild Thing is yet another Morgan coaster. I was fairly notching them up!
Mad Mouse, Mad Ride!
It didn't have the standard track layout for sure.
In the background is Renegade, a great looking wooden coaster. However its not easy to photograph as it goes out away from the park. Even the first drop faced away.
Special Access only goes to people with sticks.
One of the few points where you can photograph the trains as it returns back towards the station.
and the other is on the exit ramp.
At the back of the park is Excalibur, a strange steel monstrosity.
It was down but only because we'd jumped the gun and got there too soon.
The ride when it did open was a just OK. By now I'd gotten close to having ridden 100 coasters on this trip alone and I think I was getting bored of them haha!
High Roller was a rather average wooden coaster.
and the corkscrew was below average, but that's because they all are!
but it was well located. It was just a shame you had to try to enjoy that whilst fighting a concussion.
Rather amusingly the on-ride photo booth was closed, I can only imagine because no one would be smiling in them.
The park's mini big wheel.
The high dive show was quite good using large fat men to make big splashes from such a small height.
The final coaster of the day was Steel Venom
Yep, its another impulse shuttle with one twisty bit and one straight bit.
It was a lot of fun, just as much as in the Six Flags park a few days previous.
Jeppe enjoys a coffee. We took this picture because Martin couldn't find where the coffee was being sold, and we wanted to tease him.
One of those floorless top spin variants.
Back to the big swing for a go now that it was running. I still think the basketball games ought to be incorporated into this ride. It would be fun trying to launch a ball across the length of the park into a basket.
The parks drop tower ride. I didn't bother with this, in fact thinking back I don't think I did any!
These guys were atrocious, but at least they were up there doing it. There's no way I could do it.
This is a kiddy coaster that adults can't ride because they'd hit their head on the shack. We wanted to duck but the owners said "no, I don't want to hear you go 'quack' "
Lunch was spent with the park management and they were a nice bunch of guys. They held a raffle, which I didn't enter (I'm not a collector of park merchandise) and it went down really well with everyone.
The tomato plague had found its way to Minnesota not that I was too keen to have more of them!
Following lunch a few of us were offered the chance of a behind the scenes tour, which I went for given that a lot of the rides track were inaccessible to the public.
The park staff cycle park. I'd not seen so many bikes in one place since my last visit to Amsterdam.
Renegade's first drop, which has a twisting S-shape to it. Really nice to look at, just a shame most people don't get to do so.
The turn around at the rear of the park.
The coaster was actually decent, and everyone seemed to really enjoy it.Valleyfair is a really nice park with a decent selection of rides and 80s music playing throughout, which made it great for those of us who grew up listening to it.
From that park we headed to our hotel, perfectly located a short ride from The Mall of America.
In the centre of the mall is Nickelodeon World, formerly Camp Snoopy. A great looking indoor park with a wonderful selection of rides. The club had stuff arranged in the park the next day but we chose to do the rides whilst they were running and then spent the rest of the evening checking out the mall before having dinner in one of its many restaurants.
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