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Adventure Island Amusement Park was founded in 1948 and has grown since then, Once the park was known as a wildlife park before gaining it's new owners in 1995 who modernized the park by demolishing the parks wooden coaster to replace it with a B&M inverted coaster along with other additions such as the Power Towers and Pendulum and Mad Mouse. I am going to giving you updates from the park from now on. The park is nearly finished it's season and is preparing for it's Xmas event.
The Park is built on an island at which visitors cross a bridge to get to and can travel to various parts of the park by Boat. The park is the bigger of the two islands and features a large mountain which was also part of when the park was a wildlife and holiday camp.
Also there is a water park known as Adventure Creek Water Park on the smaller Island however I will not be able to cover this fully as the park has closed for the season.
Here are some pictures from the park before it preparing for it's Xmas event.
Here is the entrance area before the bridge, these feature ticket booths, shops and cafes, the parks offices and an small theater used for private events.
The bridge to cross allowing entry to the park
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From the entrance to the park you get a pretty good view of Prey and the inverter which rarely operates now.
Once crossing the bridge I decided to go round the park clockwise and headed along to the area with more of the thrill ride side of the park apart from the Shark Bait looping coaster which is on the more family orientated part of the park. As you can see the park promotes the thrill rides on this side of the park.
I passed one of the parks older attractions which is a Schwarzkopf sit down family coaster that utilizes the terrain of the mountain for most of the ride. It is called Adventure express and is opposite Pendulum
Near Pendulum and Prey is the parks oldest remaining coaster, the Racer. It is a wooden rollercoaster that was given new trains a few years a go however has stopped racing a while ago.
The racer racing during testing, it is rare to see it racing with passengers. It does still retain it's art Deco Station however with a covered maintenance shelter added on to store the new Trains and it still contains two of the old PTC trains.
Past the racer takes you to an older part of the park including the Wild Cat coaster, The Viper suspended coaster, Tidal wave coaster and a few other rides.
Walking along the path takes us to the old ghost train. The ride was put up for sale a few years ago however never got sold. The ride is built partly underground and is quite big, it used to have a big Facade however that was removed when the park was selling the ride, the rides building still remains and the ride only operates during the parks halloween activities and on busy days.
Near here is the end drop of Viper before going to the breaks, I didn't mention that the ride got new trains to save maintenance costs.
The Scrambler next to Vipers station.
Tidal Wave was the parks 1st looping coaster. You can see one of the Boat rides stations as well. In the distance you can see the entrance to kids kingdom and the back on the ghost train.
The ride from overhead.
Kids Kingdom is next door and you enter through a small castle facade which is extended at the side to have a small cafe and a storage facility along with the slide build on the hill. This area has not been touched very much since the park was sold apart from the family coaster was added in 1999
The Express family coaster
The Teacups and merry go round are both very old along with the train ride around the side of the mountain which is a family favorite in the park.
Next to the Teacups are the Vintage Cars that wind around the Log Flume and Shark Bait looping coaster
This photo shows the Cars station a bit better along with the Boat rides Station and a part of the Log Flume
This photo shows the interaction between the rides.
The older part of the park in the distance.
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Another photo of Prey from the distance.
The Parks Current Logo
Please comment, I hope to improve on the park, I am aware there's a few parts of the park I need to work on, I would love to hear your thoughts.
In my next update I will show more of the park and preparation of the Christmas weekends at the park.
The Park is built on an island at which visitors cross a bridge to get to and can travel to various parts of the park by Boat. The park is the bigger of the two islands and features a large mountain which was also part of when the park was a wildlife and holiday camp.
Also there is a water park known as Adventure Creek Water Park on the smaller Island however I will not be able to cover this fully as the park has closed for the season.
Here are some pictures from the park before it preparing for it's Xmas event.
Here is the entrance area before the bridge, these feature ticket booths, shops and cafes, the parks offices and an small theater used for private events.
The bridge to cross allowing entry to the park
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From the entrance to the park you get a pretty good view of Prey and the inverter which rarely operates now.
Once crossing the bridge I decided to go round the park clockwise and headed along to the area with more of the thrill ride side of the park apart from the Shark Bait looping coaster which is on the more family orientated part of the park. As you can see the park promotes the thrill rides on this side of the park.
I passed one of the parks older attractions which is a Schwarzkopf sit down family coaster that utilizes the terrain of the mountain for most of the ride. It is called Adventure express and is opposite Pendulum
Near Pendulum and Prey is the parks oldest remaining coaster, the Racer. It is a wooden rollercoaster that was given new trains a few years a go however has stopped racing a while ago.
The racer racing during testing, it is rare to see it racing with passengers. It does still retain it's art Deco Station however with a covered maintenance shelter added on to store the new Trains and it still contains two of the old PTC trains.
Past the racer takes you to an older part of the park including the Wild Cat coaster, The Viper suspended coaster, Tidal wave coaster and a few other rides.
Walking along the path takes us to the old ghost train. The ride was put up for sale a few years ago however never got sold. The ride is built partly underground and is quite big, it used to have a big Facade however that was removed when the park was selling the ride, the rides building still remains and the ride only operates during the parks halloween activities and on busy days.
Near here is the end drop of Viper before going to the breaks, I didn't mention that the ride got new trains to save maintenance costs.
The Scrambler next to Vipers station.
Tidal Wave was the parks 1st looping coaster. You can see one of the Boat rides stations as well. In the distance you can see the entrance to kids kingdom and the back on the ghost train.
The ride from overhead.
Kids Kingdom is next door and you enter through a small castle facade which is extended at the side to have a small cafe and a storage facility along with the slide build on the hill. This area has not been touched very much since the park was sold apart from the family coaster was added in 1999
The Express family coaster
The Teacups and merry go round are both very old along with the train ride around the side of the mountain which is a family favorite in the park.
Next to the Teacups are the Vintage Cars that wind around the Log Flume and Shark Bait looping coaster
This photo shows the Cars station a bit better along with the Boat rides Station and a part of the Log Flume
This photo shows the interaction between the rides.
The older part of the park in the distance.
vhttp://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae1 ... ot6356.jpg[/img]
Another photo of Prey from the distance.
The Parks Current Logo
Please comment, I hope to improve on the park, I am aware there's a few parts of the park I need to work on, I would love to hear your thoughts.
In my next update I will show more of the park and preparation of the Christmas weekends at the park.
