The Turbulence following a Hurricane.

Ah, Adventureland Long Island... One of the nicest, tiniest parks I've visited. Located in Farmingdale, NY about one third of the way down the Long Island and home to one of the 32 new for 2015 built coasters in the US. This would be my third time making the trek out to the park... and this time, I'd be dragging Yatpay along for the ride! Since I only had a day in NYC (and the Metro area) I had to make the most of it.. Zoo's, Parks, History, and Friends. haha. My first visit to the park was back in 2005 where I rode their at the time current Hurricane coaster, my 200th roller coaster (aww, and to think, since that day I've ridden some 600 more.). Hurricane was retired after the 2014 season and replaced with a custom Mack built spinning coaster that opened in May, Turbulence.
(And with an odd-twist... Hurricane ended up being relocated to Florida, where its now running in Panama Beach City at Race City (where I also happen to be visiting in the next few days!))

So, uh, since someone overslept and missed out on going to the Queens Zoo with me.. I waited in the parking lot after doing my thing for Yatpay to show up from the MTA so we could head down to Long Island.
Just over a half hour later we were pulling into an extremely full Adventureland parking lot... where their were no less than 9,000 school buses parked....Oh, joy.
Adventureland is free to walk around and guests can either get a pay-one-price rate or buy tickets for each ride. Since this was gonna be a One-and-Done stop, I opted for tickets and handed over my $7.50 for a single ride on their new coaster.
Had I planned on spending time here, I would have gotten the day pass like I have on previous visits. Turbulence alone would be worth a re-ride. (and the Frisbee in the park is one of the best I've ridden)
Since Yatpay isn't really into going on coasters (or spinning for that matter) he sat out and took photos while I did my thing, plus he knew I'd be making him ride at least one other coaster later in the day.

Woo, Turbulence!

My second time encountering a Mack spinner 

ZzZzz, the line was pretty long.. Although thanks to two train operations and quick ops, it moved rather quick. (and while lines might not be fun.. it shows the park that the ride was worth installing)

An overview of most of the layout.
The coaster even has its own soundtrack that plays as the train travels up the lift.

And for just $5,000,000 you could have a Turbulence of your own!

Some of the smaller hills even manage to provide a bit of airtime.

The somewhat clunky looking train, although it doesn't take away from the rides quality.

While it was added at the loss of the parks Hurricane coaster, Turbulence is a worthy replacement.

And I'd be fine with more parks around the country adding them

Yaayyy!

Turbulence!

After my single ride on the coaster, I took a few photos and we made our way out of the park and down the street to get some lunch at a Chipotle Mexican Grill before getting stuck in some hellacious traffic heading back towards Brooklyn and the Coney Island area, yaayyy.

And for fun... a POV from CoasterForce.

 Its super fun.

 

Twitter stuffers...
Turbulence photo - Photo
Turbulence video (via Vine) - Video

Woo

Two Flags Over Niagara Fun Park

Er, uh, I mean.....

Martin's Fantasy Island!

Yeah yeah, lets go with that...

So back in June I made a trip to Buffalo, NY to visit Yatpay and pretty much use his house as a base-camp to pick up some upstate New York and Canada credits... Oh, and also to hang out with my friend and make him ride Silver Comet!
(Since this trip.. he's now moved to NYC... and I'll be making him go to Coney Island in 2014!)

Martin's Fantasy Island! Well worth the price
(of their after 5pm rate)
I'd been here once before, on a cold and raining season-opening day back in 2005
((they were in the process of replacing the maps when I was here last time))
Pretty much everything here now was new for me but Silver Comet, the Ferris Wheel, and the Log Flume (that was skipped this go-around) I really, really liked Silver Comet back in 2005... So I was pretty excited to get to ride it again as well as take in all these new flat rides (and be kinda sad at the ones removed since 05... I regret not riding Chaos but I'm glad Sling Shot is gone)
Since my visit in 05 I've driven past the park at least 4 times.. But half of those were in the winter when the park wasn't open and another time it was like 6AM because I needed to be at Canada's Wonderland at opening....

We got to the park at like.. 4:30 and waited around for the after 5 rate to kick in... Once inside the park I kinda.. ran off to the parks newest coaster....

Max's Doggy Dog Coaster!

Yatpay... sat it out.
I, on the other hand.. got my +1!
And it was sooo worth it.

Getting the first of my two credits... I made my way over to Silver Comet.. not really caring about the second credit yet.

Silver Comet! Still so good after all these years.. and now with a rainbow-ish train.
Back in 05 it had an all purple train.

It was Yatpay's first coaster since 2009! Although we tried to ride a coaster earlier in the day but it was closed.
(He liked it... so did I!)

Mind Warp was new last year and like I've noted in past updates... it's one of just two Technical Park Loop Fighters in the US....
This, is the better of the two.

Blaah.. the park now has a Zamp Mega Disk'o... I would have skipped it if it had a line.. but it was a walk on so I took a spin.
(I liked NITRO, the parks former Frisbee better...)

FYI, decorative fence.

Flight, a Zamp swing tower was new back in 07 I believe
It replaced the parks AWFUL chance Sling Shot

I found it awfully suspicious that its in the same colors as the original Funtime Star Flyer
(and amusing that people online think its a Star Flyer and not a crappy Zamp product)
But its fun... despite the parks bizarre loading process of not letting anyone into the ride area until they have enough riders to fill a certain number of seats (no singles either!)
It just makes it look... closed, as you see people waiting around in line.. but all the seats remain empty.

Hey look, a ferris wheel.. that only went around ONE time....

 And that Log Flume I rode back in 05 and got annihilated on... PASS

OH LOOK! and that Crazy Mouse coaster that was "new for 2005"
To be fair, while the sign hung at the ticket booth says July, their website didn't... So it was a little disappointing that opening day the coaster was not only MIA, they had barely cleared ground.

Well, at least the rides here now.... Although not very good.
Easy credit, I guess.

This lady had the same face I did, the whole ride.
(But she probably knows the people riding with her... I got placed with some random old guy that pretty much sat on my lap)
Until riding it this past summer... Crazy Mouse was one of the extremely few adult coasters I'd seen in passing... but not ridden. (in fact, right now I can't even think of any off the top of my head unless seeing the coasters at Scream Zone from a plane counts?)

With time running out.. and both of our needs for some numnums.. We made our way to the exit.. but with a few more quick stops on the way out.

Martin's had the first ARM Full Tilt.. and much like the one I rode owned by Reithoffer.. it was boring.. But the girl next to me seemed to be having a good time..
Or a heart attack, I'm not sure.

This is the only park I know of that has "I Got It".... So I made Yatpay play...
(They have a touring version at the Florida State Fair I can't seem to pass up)

He didn't get it.

And I was amused by this...
Ok and now for real before leaving...

We took one last ride (front row <3) on Silver Comet.

I hope its not 8 again... before I ride it again. Although with lack of real-reason to head back up that way.. It might just be that long.
After leaving the park and driving back to Buffalo (Orchard Park) we stopped at a TGI Fridays and watched Nik Wallenda's Skywire Live. yay
So yeah, Martin's Fantasy Island... a much better park in 2013 than it was in 2005 and still home to a world class Wood Coaster. Its just inconvenient to get to for a park that's not really in an "out of the way" location.