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

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

To see a larger version of any of the photos in this trip report just click on the photo and a larger version will open up on top of the page for you.

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

Worlds of Fun's real and fictional mascots Nelly Bly and Phileas Fogg were on hand to give awards out to those who raised the most for Give Kids The World. I say real and fictional because Phileas Fogg was the fictional character from Jules Verne's "Around The World in 80 Days". Nellie Bly was a real and quite a groundbreaking investigative journalist who took Phileas fictional journey for the New York World newspaper and made it around the world in 72 days.

Here is Bond in his Coasting For Kids 2014 shirt in front of Prowler. The shirt has an awesome logo on the back. In fact it is the same logo that you see on the top of this page.

Last year Bond, John Byrne (known as Johnny.Ink on the -G Forums), his son Draven and myself raised over $1,600 in the name of my nephew Louie and this site. As a result Negative-G is one of the official partners of Coasting For Kids. This year we were joined by Michael Morris and the five of us raised over $2,000 and we plan on raising even more for 2015.

Prowler is a ride that never dissappoints.

The only thing that I don't like about Prowler is that it is so damn hard to photograph as it goes out and away from the park with very little to see. I did have some fun with a new telephoto lens shooting Prowler's "Bam Bam Bam" return run.

Why all the "bam's" you ask? There are three little hills taken at high speed that eject you up into the restraints and then slam you back down with a "bam". As you can see from the looks on everyone's faces a whole lot of "bam" is a very good thing.