Negative-G - Idlewild Park 2015

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What kid who grew up watching Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood didn't want to hop on the Neighborhood Trolley and head off to the Neighborhood of Make Believe?

Unfortunately this ride does not take you to the Neighborhood of Make Believe that was populated with King Friday, Prince Tuesday, Henrietta Pussycat or my favorite Lady Elaine. Times change and with the passing of Mr. Rodgers a few years ago PBS spun off a replacement show called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. This year Idlewild updated the ride that Fred Rodgers himself helped design and now a new cast of characters has taken up residence in the Neighborhood of Make Believe.

Even though there are a new neighborhood of characters the rides story remains the same.

It is "Neighbor Day" in the Neighborhood of Make Believe Prince Wednesday asks that you go around and invite neighbors to the "hug & song" at the castle. At each stop along the Neighborhood Trolley line your job is to invite all of the neighbors to the hug & song by saying in unison as a group "Won't you come along to the castle hug & song".

This is Lady Elaine's "Museum Go Round" house and many of the characters in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood are the children of those characters that I grew up with. Miss Elaina is Lady Elaine's daughter.