How the Mighty Have Fallen: CFF

That... Central Florida Fair... thing
Remember when this fair used to be really, really good?
Yeah, me neither.

Continuing a birthday tradition of mine.. I made a half hearted visit to the fair. What was once a dominating midway is now a third of its size and seems to be shrinking, yearly now :(
That being said, we made the best of it.. and since it was still a fair, had fun.

The 2016 Central Florida Fair!!!
Oh wait, half the ride models shown here don't even come to the fair anymore...

Uh, the actual midway
Well, mostly just kiddie land.. but still.

Super Cyclone!

Yaayyy! After missing it at the State Fair.. because it wasn't ready for some reason.. despite the fact it was cycling with staff on it our whole visit... We got on it at Central Florida.

Although it still took two takes to get it right.. Since on our first attempt... while already seated in the train locked and ready to go... Everyone was removed from the ride and it went out of service for a few hours...
(but in the end, we did mange to get our ride...)

Zombie Apocalypse... I think the apocalypse ended before we got on the ride.. since there wasn't much going on inside it.

Observation Tower was at the far end of the kiddie midway this year (where the Mulligan used to always be) while odd to be in the kid area... Its was nice being along side of the lake.

Jungle Twist!
Is it sad that the best coaster at the fair ended up being this unsuspecting kiddie spinner?
Its actually pretty fantastic. I first came across one at the State Fair of Texas and now Wade is traveling with one.
(For sure one of those "don't judge a book" coasters)

Pirate!
(rrrrrr)

Fireball, uh, skipped.
After my lame ride on the one at the Osceola County Fair earlier this year, I've just kinda been.. uh.. over them.

Music Express was back again this year...

:3 We saw the bear show! :3
(although it was hard to get a good photo of the bears... so here's one of the empty stage area)

Oh.. And they had the giant portable slide this year.
So I rode it.
And stuff.

Opa! Uh, Mighty Mouse.
Given the courtesy ride.

Enterprise, woo

<3 Mega Drop <3
With some pretty sunset action going on

Basic Ferris Wheel, sunset, palm tree photo... because, Florida.

O-Town

Some of the adult rides on the midway from Mega Drop.

PIRATES!
(RRRRRRRRRR!)

HIT IN 2000!
Wait no, Wade doesn't even bring Hit to Central Florida anymore...

Luckily their banged up Super Himalaya still runs better than most any other!

Music Express was run better than the last time it was here
Although without directional changes or switching the cycle up.

haha, Fighter.
Remember when this was super flashy... and uh, worked right?
(lololol)

Gravinception

Fireball.. Looking pretty cool covered in LED's

Same for the Orbiter... And since we had ridden everything else we wanted to.. we took it for a ride.
I do enjoy the Orbiter but I tend to overlook them in favor of more exciting rides. 

And since there was no Swing Tower ride here to end our night... We jumped on Mega Drop once more.. because, well, I love me some drop towers <3
Woo? maybe?? 2016 may not have been as awesome as say... 2010 or 2011... But here's hoping 2017 is at least on par with this? :/

Deggeller Attractions: Enterprise!

Deggeller Attractions got their lovely Huss Enterprise back out on the road again and it visited the 2015 Volusia County Fair in DeLand, Florida... and I had to go out and ride it :D

Woo

Enterprise!

 Deggeller took theirs back on the road in 2015 and Volusia was the first stop it had that I was able to make.

What was once a sign a true quality.

 The car, that Deggeller requires two riders to ride in.

(in all my travels, this rule has only been in place at fairs... and *only* Thorpe Park)

 And.. uh.. a photo of the ride in action.

 Yaayyy, Enterprise!

 Oh, and because LED's are the future... its covered in them

 But it makes for some nice night photos :)

 Oh and look... its me, how exciting.

Also... and because its a fair...

Uh, bonus ducks?!

Yup.

(I can't Belize it)

Central Florida Fair..... With Nolan

Well, yeah, Central Florida Fair... with Nolan.

So..... I found out Nolan (born/raised in Metro-Orlando....) had never been to the Central Florida Fair, IE: Orlando's fair. In fact he had never been to any fair! 

So while this fair had nothing new for me as far as the ride lineup goes, it was kinda neat going with someone who had never been on or even seen most of these rides before. yaayyy

So here we are... The Central Florida Fair.

While the Midway seems to continue to shrink in size, sadly

Wade Shows still puts on a fantastic event.

The MegaDrop was the first...and last ride we rode 

(and some 5 other times in between!)

I'd never done Wade's Wipeout.. And Nolan seemed to like it 

(while making some amusing faces)

So we rode it twice..

Fighter was here, I had skipped it a few weeks earlier at the Florida State Fair.

Good LORD this ride has fallen apart. The arms didn't even swing around... So it just kinda spun you around. What happened to this Mondial beast?!

Hidden behind Fighter was Kick Flip, the Larson High Roller <3 

((Car Crash : THE RIDE))

They had some BS rule where it needed X-Number of riders to run this year... 

So we only got one ride, barely. 

Zyklon has been repainted and renamed Crazy Cat. It was running nicely and looked rather nice.

It was one of two adult coasters at the fair.

RC-48 being the other, seemed to be running better than it was at the 

Florida State Fair, if there is such a thing as....better

Pirate was back again, only my second time seeing it 

:D swinging ships :D

Ugh, White Water. It might look like it was a nice day... but it was rather cold. 

And not just "Florida Cold" but like, actual cold. And yeah... we still rode it :/

So we went for a spin-dry-ride on the Gravatron.

It ended up being one of the most fun rides I've have on one in a long while... despite the fact I was offered weed while riding it by some random guy....

Spin Out, ridden twice... 

Got to watch an iPhone fly away and smash on our second ride.

Zipper, also ridden twice <3

Hit-In-2000!

ALSO ridden twice!... 

I still love the looks of this ride, even if it was missing almost all its neon at the CFF. :(

DLR hoodie VS. WDW hoodie. 

Not planned but slightly amused us.

Cuckoo Haus... we did it real quick to kill time before PIG RACING!

Vertigo, and such. Hey guess what, yeah, ridden twice...

By this point I should have just said we rode pretty much everything twice

Everything... but this. I guess after having the Huss Fly Away near me, a Dartron Cliffhanger doesn't cut it.

(I would have skipped it all together if not for Nolan wanted to ride)

Hey look, downtown Orlando!

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Mmhmm....

So yeah, my fourth trip to the Central Florida Fair was rather fun. I'm already excited for next years fair!

Woooooooo!!!!!

Bahbahbah, so I'm gonna play around with this "schedule" feature on blogger and make something else I crapped-out just right now post in a few days to act like I'm activity blogging or something. I don't know. At the end of my posts is where I just kinda go off and ramble because outside of maybe five people I don't think anyone is even reading this... So why not ramble!