Negative-G - Worlds Of Fun 2014 Coasting For Kids Page One

Worlds of Fun
Kansas City, Missouri
Coasting For Kids
June 8, 2014
Page One

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Coasting For Kids at Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri

For our second year Bond and I participated in the Coasting For Kids fundraiser that Cedar Fair parks put on for Give Kids The World Village. Once you raise more than $75 dollars you are able to visit one of the Cedar Fair parks for a day of exclusive ride time and fun. Like in 2013 Bond and I participated at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri.

Worlds of Fun was a little late in posting what the exclusive ride time (ERT) was to be as they announced it a little over a week before the event. The first ERT was to have been on the slightly used Steel Hawk (It came from Knott's Berry Farm where it had a troubled tenure) but it was not up and running yet.

In the place of Steel Hawk we were given ERT on Detonator which is Worlds of Fun's prototype S&S tower ride.

Here is David Lipnicky the Public Relations Director for the American Coaster Enthusiasts joining me for a launch on Detonator.

Cedar Fair recently changed their rules so you can not continuously ride for fear of concussions so we had to sit it out for a few minutes between rides. Having camped out on many coasters for hours including one Sunday where I sat on Greezed Lightnin' at Six Flags Astroworld without getting off the train from 10 am until 6 pm getting launched from 0 to 60 mph every couple of minutes without any ill effects. But you've got to follow the rules so Bond grabbed a seat and took a load off of his feet between rides.