The excitement is just beginning for our eBay charity auction. We’re down to the last day, so it should get wild in the coming hours. We’ve received lots of wonderful feedback as well as a few emails asking for some coaching so that they are sure to win. No big secret: Bid more money than…
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The first beautiful Voyage coaster train is here. Seven cars per train means 28 riders for each. (The trains for The Raven and The Legend have six-car trains.) Train #2 is enroute from Pennsylvania. Finally, #3 will follow a few days later. Next, a crane will lift them carefully onto the track. We’ll be watching!…
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That funny little phrase was uttered Friday evening by James as we walked hand in hand through the park. The hours get long this time of year, but the burden of carrying a key is sometimes a perk. You get to take your six-year-old son along for an after-hours HoliBlog photo shoot. It was his…
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Throw it over the hill? What does that mean? We’ll get to that in a bit. First, let’s go back to daybreak. Korey, one of the Gravity Group engineers, took this photo. What was Korey doing here at dawn? He had a TV interview scheduled for this morning. Danielle from the Korean Broadcasting System was…
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Jack from Anderson came on last weekend’s Voyage construction tour, too. A group of us laughed about how last summer a lot of Guests would peek at The Future Home of The Voyage through the knotholes in the fence just past Raging Rapids. I couldn’t find a single hole that was large enough to frame…
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Could be … Let’s step back into the double-wide tunnel for another look at Voyage’s turnaround. This turnaround, of course, is where we will find the first two 90-degree banked curves. Chris, who’s our Director of Security & Entertainment (he knows, he knows!), couldn’t resist getting a closer look. And at this point, the camera…
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Ha! I got to be the first one to say it! Construction is well underway as we move toward opening day in just two months. Of course, I cheated by saying it a day early, but I guess that’s my prerogative. First, we see the Pepsi Oasis building in our new Thanksgiving section. And this…
Read More » Chad from The Gravity Group was here on Tuesday to check up on Voyage construction But who knew? After tromping about the construction site, catching up on the progress made over the past several weeks, Chad was so muddy he just headed back to Cincinnati. “The mud was up to my knees, so I didn’t even…
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Here’s The Voyage‘s station on Saturday, with the lift hill off in the distance and a dusting of snow on the ground. You can see the second hill and a bit of the third. At the bottom of the third hill, down we go … … underground. Amid the snow. We’re making good use of…
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“Happy Valentine’s Day!” sang out the joyous voice through my phone line. “I took some more pictures — I’ll drop by your office later.” These sweets from Craig may actually have the opposite effect of the usual Valentine’s Day fare. Surely we’ll burn a few calories when viewing these photos. Can’t you just feel your…
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Thanks to The Gravity Group, we have a few more photos from out in the Voyage woods from this week. Let’s start with a look at the turnaround. To get there, we must traverse yet another underground tunnel. Korey got artistic with this one. The structure will be very close to the ground here….
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Larry and Korey, two of the four Gravity Group engineers, took a nice long walk yesterday. How kind of them to snap off a few photos for your viewing pleasure. Let’s get started: This is the view you’ll see as you walk down the pathway into the new Thanksgiving section. The crane is lifting…
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