Other Happenings in the Washboard RCT3 Universe

[40 Minute Washboard Solo]

Well. Let's try this again.

 

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April 15th, 2023

 

Thread started by Evelyn85 in Trip Reports

 

Sprightly Park: An average trip report about an average park

 

Oh no. It’s me again.

 

To kick off a new season, as I’ve done about 5 or 6 times before (in a row), I decided to take a little quickie trip to Sprightly Park up in Burlington (A/N: The one in Vermont of course). This was mostly continuing what is now tradition, but also ties into some recent rumors swirling around regarding a few attractions.

 

And also because my cousins, who I typically visit around this time, live all of 5 or so minutes away.

 

8:00 AM, and the parking lot already looks like this. It should be of no surprise that they cordoned it off later in the day because it hit capacity.

 

Welcome to 2023!

 

I skipped the Carousel this time around as I’ve ridden it several dozen times before and I have more important matters to attend to.

 

 

Like War Bird, which I lost the original photo I took for so here’s a cheat shot from 2022. It’s a rather intense little mite!

 

Next was the New for 2021 ride, the Boomerang they poached from Bumbly Beach’s carcass. I elected to skip it since I’ll be back later this year anyway and I already have the cred. I also lost the photo for this one, hence the 2022 cheat shot.

 

And that brought me to Shooting Starr, with two Rs for some reason, the park’s oldest operating coaster. (Fun Fact: I found out, via research, that this is where the park’s old Cycle Railway operated until the Great Depression. Interesting!) It being a one of a kind it is of course a special ride, but unfortunately it wasn’t at its best today. Oh well…

 

After that, for some reason, I decided “Hey, why don’t I go on Head Spin?”

 

I forgot they run this one especially intense. Oops.

 

This is where the rumors come in. According to trusted insiders, Wild Mouse (which, I must remind you, is dire)  will not be around in 2024. Thankfully. The general consensus is this will be making way for a major new coaster that will interact with Thunder Canyon, the local river rapids, and stretch all the way to Abyss. Maybe it’ll be a B&M Dive?

 

Speaking of, next was Thunder Canyon. With Logjam closing in 2006 to make way for Abyss and Sawmill Splashdown giving its last rides in 2019 to be replaced by Flying Cobra (the park never opened in 2020, remember?), this is the last water ride standing. It’s rather necessary considering Sprightly never got a waterpark, or at least not one on site (Plymouth Rock Resort & Indoor Waterpark, also owned by Cedar Fair and opened in 2005, essentially counts as the park’s waterpark). Layout wise it’s basically a clone of the rapids ride Carowinds used to have, and experience wise it’s somewhat unremarkable?

 

And the local Scooters, Cardinal. Snapping is allowed….to a point.

 

Next up is Dominator, the tallest ride in the entire park (A/N: Please please please just pretend that white support is a third tower, I got lazy and copied nathan8848’s Dorney Dominator scenery and towers). Quote of the day #1, from who appeared to be a young teenager:

 

“Wow, Dad, does that go to space?”

 

Sorry, kiddo. Not quite.

 

Quote of the day #2 came in the queue-line to the park’s not-quite-inverting-anymore hyper coaster, Son of Burlington Beast (remember the last Son of Beast? Yeah, me too.), from the mouth of someone who was, at maximum, 8 years old:

 

“That motherf██ker is faster than the Space Shuttle! Wow!”

 

About 5 minutes of stifling giggles followed. “From the mouths of babes”, indeed…

 

Confirmed: still the best coaster in the park.

 

No thanks.

 

Ahead was a fairly sizable B&M Floorless coaster named Abyss, but the area around it is so wooded that this is essentially the only good shot of it you can get without being on the train. It was decent.

 

No thanks, we’re running out of time.

 

Time for a rant: In most parks the path does a full loop so if you walked all the way around you could easily get back to the front in no time. Here? Not so. I had to walk allllll the way back around because for some reason they never ended up completing the circuit to Camp Snoopy. Mercifully, the rumor mill is also saying that the 2024 additions will rectify this.

 

Speaking of, Camp Snoopy. I had to skip it because it was getting too crowded and also because I wanted to ride the train, but then had to go immediately after to be able to make the dinner I had planned with my cousins at the Pixels n’ Polygons in downtown Burlington.

 

Final rare train ride vantage point photo dump:

 

After that, I breezed out of the gates, slipped out of the still gruesomely crowded parking lot, and made it to the Pixels n’ Polygons restaurant with just 2 minutes to spare by my calculations. It was a great night, and it brought me my first park of 2023, too! I’ll be watching the rumor mill like a hawk for more updates on the Wild Mouse and its possible replacement.

 

Cya!

 

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CoasterInsider.net > The Rumor Mill >  Sprightly Park officially retiring Wild Mouse, last rides November 11th

 

Posted by Evelyn85 on July 1st, 2023

 

Yeah goodbye forever you flaming piece of s██t:

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The Burlington Free Press said:

After 23 years of fun, Sprightly Park has officially announced that the Wild Mouse roller coaster will be retired, to be replaced by an unknown new attraction in 2024. The park has marked November 11th, the park's closing day, as the final day for the ride.

Built by German manufacturer Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG, the Wild Mouse opened in 2000 to replace Whipcrack, a "Whip" style of carnival ride, which before that used to be home to Halitosis, a wooden version of the Wild Mouse. It is currently unknown what will happen to the Wild Mouse after it closes, aside from the fact that it is reportedly already for sale.

An official announcement regarding the replacement attraction will take place in August.

Bring on the B&M!

 

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Yeah so this is my second go at a "other non-Evergreen happenings" thread after the first one got nuked along with every other post made on June 16th, 2023 due to a site error. Hopefully this one stays up, but thankfully if it doesn't I have everything but the final news quote backed up in a Google Doc. You may notice this is also a different park from the original version - this was because I decided I wanted to show this off first.

 

Put yer feedback below!

[JB]

Nice park! Lots of trees, which always adds to the appearance and feel of a park. I notice that you use just a little bit of custom content, like the Flying Scooters ride. But mostly it's in-game stuff. Is this to cut down on lag, or some other reason? Just curious. Also, it looks like you used "black" text in your story, rather than "default" (not really sure about that). When using the site's dark theme the text pretty much disappears and we have to switch to the white background to read it.

[40 Minute Washboard Solo]

9 hours ago, JB said:

Nice park! Lots of trees, which always adds to the appearance and feel of a park. I notice that you use just a little bit of custom content, like the Flying Scooters ride. But mostly it's in-game stuff. Is this to cut down on lag, or some other reason? Just curious. Also, it looks like you used "black" text in your story, rather than "default" (not really sure about that). When using the site's dark theme the text pretty much disappears and we have to switch to the white background to read it.

Thanks!

 

I usually don't use all that much CS because I'm still relatively new. Also because I'm lazy. The text is black because I wrote the update in Google Docs, then C+P'd it over, and it kept the black color for some reason. So yeah you may want to use white background when reading my updates ;)

Edited July 2, 2023 by 40 Minute Washboard Solo