magic springs or silver dollar city or celebration city?
scubadiver
have the chance to go to little rock (magic springs) or Branson for
one of the other parks. Which is better and why? I have a few young
children that do not ride coasters yet. I was looking at pics of the
ozark Wilcat at celebration city it does not look like it has
seatbelts does it? is it a bench seat? Which park has the best kid
rides and family attractions? Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Also living in central florida we had circus world/boardwalk and
baseball which closed is the coaster at magic springs the old
hurricane?
See ya on the lift hill.
Ricky Summersett
The Arkansas Twister at Magic Springs is indeed the former coaster
from Circus World/Boardwalk & Baseball (was it Roaring Tiger?
Hurricane? Or both?). It is a fun & smooth coaster which your whole
family (of height requirement) will enjoy. It's been several years
since I've been to Magic Springs but the last time I went it was kind
of plain and fairly devoid of worthwhile rides.
Being a wood coaster fan I would go to Celebration City because Ozark
Wildcat is one of the best GCI woodies out there. I find it rated
above Thunderhead which perplexes me, but for a GCI it's a wonderful,
wild and ultra-smooth coaster. I don't believe the GCI Flyer trains
have bench seats. There's a seat divider and I'm pretty sure there
were seat belts.
As for the family, Silver Dollar City is probably a better choice. SDC
is one of the lushest, most beautiful parks in the country, there's
lots for the young ones to do, and Wildfire is an incredible B&M multi-
element coaster. In my opinion, Wildfire is a very underrated steel
coaster, though I don't pay a lot of attention to steel and what's
current and hot and top-rated etc. In fact, I don't even keep track of
steel coasters I've ridden or rate them.
An option is to spend most of the day at SDC (you'll get tired of
walking the hills) and pop on over to Celebration City for a couple of
hours to ride Ozark Wildcat. Celebration City can easily be "done" in
a few hours as there's not a whole lot there BUT Wildcat should not be
missed!
Have fun!
Ricky
BaSSiStiSt
"scubadiver" <scub...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Branson BY FAR. I wrote a trip report for Branson and Magic Springs last
year:
David H.--REMOVE "STOPSPAM" to reply
Personally, I found not much at Magic Springs to recommend it. Admittedly,
this was before they put in the X-Coaster, so that would certainly change
things, since it's gotten rave reviews. But if you're a woodie fan,
Arkansas Twister was one of the more boring woodies I've ever ridden.
Still, I was going to recommend, as Ricky did, that you do both parks in
Branson. They're easily doable in a day. And I really enjoyed both parks.
You'll get a great woodie at Celebration City and great steelies at Silver
Dollar City.
David H, davi...@STOPSPAMbellatlantic.net, Boston, MA
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