Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
It's one of the most uncomfortable feelings in the industry. You get to this park, it looks absolutely beautiful, they clearly put a lot of time and effort into making it a nice escape from the real world...and then it's filled up with the rudest, most disgusting people. Cutting in line, littering, saying stupid things, and just being :xcensoredx:s in general. Which parks have you encountered that despite being so nicely put together have **** idiots out to ruin it?
Dollywood- It has a lovely setting, lovely architecture, and amazing rides, but some of the people there just drive me crazy! It's not uncommon to find somebody in line that can't control their crazy child, a slow-moving group on the midway in no hurry keeping you from getting on with your life, and people who don't seem to understand that rides have rules that you have to follow when your ride them. My least favorite behavior here happens to be the **** morons that think Thunderhead's test seat is a bench and get all bent out of shape when you ask if you can test it out before getting in line. It's a gorgeous park but some of the people it caters to are just knuckleheads!
Holiday World- It's such a cute little family owned park and my second favorite park with my favorite cred, but some of the people here are, again, HORRIBLE. It starts before the park is even open, people who simply can't follow the rules constantly being told to get behind the yellow rope blocking the park off. In line for Gobbler Getaway, we counted seven people around us wearing camo (and I know we all have our own tastes but I personally think it looks stupid unless you're in the military or hunting) and at least two had some colorful variation or camo on an accessory that isn't used for hunting. My favorite behavior here would have to be the people who actually buy the $10 souvenir cup with "FREE REFILLS!!!!111!!11!!111!!!" at the soda fountains that offer "FREE CUPS!!11!!111!!1111!!!!!" that also come with "FREE REFILLS!!!!!!!111!!111!!!1111!!!!" Sure, the free cups aren't exactly big gulps, but they're enough to quench a thirst. I have a caffeine addiction, I drank five cans of Mountain Dew during one movie a few days ago, but even with caffeine being my bad habit I was absolutely satisfied with the free soft drinks. No normal person should be drinking enough pop that a giant souvenir cup to keep you from having to go back and fill your cup back up is necessary.
Knott's Berry Farm- Not nearly on par with the other two parks on here but I feel it fits in. They obviously made a good effort to make this park feel special and while Fiesta Village and Plantseeker left me underwhelmed, the rest of the park was beautiful. It's a fitting tribute to the California culture and even though the ride lineup and operations lack to some degree, it blows the pants off of anything else Cedar Fair has done theming-wise. Sadly, though, it couldn't get the semi-normal crowd you get at most Cedar Fair parks. The park was full of rowdy teenagers misbehaving, people who seemed to just lack common sense (I had to get somebody in my car's seatbelt for them on Silver Bullet because they couldn't figure out the buckle; this girl found me photographing by Pony Express and asked if the graveyard complete with cheesy organ music and the photo op casket was a real graveyard). Saw this one group that let 10-15 7-year old children run loose around the park without an adult to keep them from line jumping waiting for Coast Rider. And then the old guy in front of me looks like he came straight out of a bad Western movie and now said bad Western movie is missing the drunk guy at the saloon. It's not AS extreme as the other two but it's still a good example.
Honorable mention to Canada's Wonderland. This park is drop dead gorgeous, it has two fab B&Ms and plenty of other unique attractions, and they did a really good job incorporating the fake mountain and watery landscape of the park into how it looked. It's my second favorite Cedar Fair park and one of my favorites overall, but some of the people there were just WEIRD. Saw one group in line for Leviathan with a 10-foot selfie stick so long they had to hold it up vertically as it hovered above the queue, and at the same time so much of that stupid "put the iPhone on the forehead and be as obnoxious as possible" game I feel like there were more people in line NOT playing it than were. Another group in line for Skyrider that had snuck off to do some religious practice had picked a restricted area down by the water to do it. And parents with children they clearly had little to no intention to control in line for Wonder Mountain's Guardian. The icing on the cake? More line jumpers than I had ever seen in a whole season at this one park! People would just randomly brush past you all, "my sister's up front" as if the rules don't apply to them. And this drunk American guy in line for Skyrider honking at this Canada goose. (Oh wait, that was me.
) People at this park were a little irritating, but it was just a nuisance and didn't really take away from the park experience aside from the whole line jumping thing.
I understand that idiots go to theme parks and I feel like dealing with them is just another part of the hobby, but some parks are just too nice to be host to some of the people that visit. I consider myself fairly well-traveled but I know I can't hold a candle to most CoasterForcers, so I'd love to hear about this phenomenon and whether it exists around the world and how.
(I know somebody's going to make a comment about how you know it's got bad clientele if I'm there, haha. )
Dollywood- It has a lovely setting, lovely architecture, and amazing rides, but some of the people there just drive me crazy! It's not uncommon to find somebody in line that can't control their crazy child, a slow-moving group on the midway in no hurry keeping you from getting on with your life, and people who don't seem to understand that rides have rules that you have to follow when your ride them. My least favorite behavior here happens to be the **** morons that think Thunderhead's test seat is a bench and get all bent out of shape when you ask if you can test it out before getting in line. It's a gorgeous park but some of the people it caters to are just knuckleheads!
Holiday World- It's such a cute little family owned park and my second favorite park with my favorite cred, but some of the people here are, again, HORRIBLE. It starts before the park is even open, people who simply can't follow the rules constantly being told to get behind the yellow rope blocking the park off. In line for Gobbler Getaway, we counted seven people around us wearing camo (and I know we all have our own tastes but I personally think it looks stupid unless you're in the military or hunting) and at least two had some colorful variation or camo on an accessory that isn't used for hunting. My favorite behavior here would have to be the people who actually buy the $10 souvenir cup with "FREE REFILLS!!!!111!!11!!111!!!" at the soda fountains that offer "FREE CUPS!!11!!111!!1111!!!!!" that also come with "FREE REFILLS!!!!!!!111!!111!!!1111!!!!" Sure, the free cups aren't exactly big gulps, but they're enough to quench a thirst. I have a caffeine addiction, I drank five cans of Mountain Dew during one movie a few days ago, but even with caffeine being my bad habit I was absolutely satisfied with the free soft drinks. No normal person should be drinking enough pop that a giant souvenir cup to keep you from having to go back and fill your cup back up is necessary.
Knott's Berry Farm- Not nearly on par with the other two parks on here but I feel it fits in. They obviously made a good effort to make this park feel special and while Fiesta Village and Plantseeker left me underwhelmed, the rest of the park was beautiful. It's a fitting tribute to the California culture and even though the ride lineup and operations lack to some degree, it blows the pants off of anything else Cedar Fair has done theming-wise. Sadly, though, it couldn't get the semi-normal crowd you get at most Cedar Fair parks. The park was full of rowdy teenagers misbehaving, people who seemed to just lack common sense (I had to get somebody in my car's seatbelt for them on Silver Bullet because they couldn't figure out the buckle; this girl found me photographing by Pony Express and asked if the graveyard complete with cheesy organ music and the photo op casket was a real graveyard). Saw this one group that let 10-15 7-year old children run loose around the park without an adult to keep them from line jumping waiting for Coast Rider. And then the old guy in front of me looks like he came straight out of a bad Western movie and now said bad Western movie is missing the drunk guy at the saloon. It's not AS extreme as the other two but it's still a good example.
Honorable mention to Canada's Wonderland. This park is drop dead gorgeous, it has two fab B&Ms and plenty of other unique attractions, and they did a really good job incorporating the fake mountain and watery landscape of the park into how it looked. It's my second favorite Cedar Fair park and one of my favorites overall, but some of the people there were just WEIRD. Saw one group in line for Leviathan with a 10-foot selfie stick so long they had to hold it up vertically as it hovered above the queue, and at the same time so much of that stupid "put the iPhone on the forehead and be as obnoxious as possible" game I feel like there were more people in line NOT playing it than were. Another group in line for Skyrider that had snuck off to do some religious practice had picked a restricted area down by the water to do it. And parents with children they clearly had little to no intention to control in line for Wonder Mountain's Guardian. The icing on the cake? More line jumpers than I had ever seen in a whole season at this one park! People would just randomly brush past you all, "my sister's up front" as if the rules don't apply to them. And this drunk American guy in line for Skyrider honking at this Canada goose. (Oh wait, that was me.
) People at this park were a little irritating, but it was just a nuisance and didn't really take away from the park experience aside from the whole line jumping thing.I understand that idiots go to theme parks and I feel like dealing with them is just another part of the hobby, but some parks are just too nice to be host to some of the people that visit. I consider myself fairly well-traveled but I know I can't hold a candle to most CoasterForcers, so I'd love to hear about this phenomenon and whether it exists around the world and how.
(I know somebody's going to make a comment about how you know it's got bad clientele if I'm there, haha.
)
