Theme Parks Welcome

There are hundreds of excellent theme parks around the world, and it seems that there are more being built every year!

The thing is, theme parks in general aren't well known for having informative websites. You're most often stuck searching things out via YouTube, Flickr, and personal blogs. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find what you want that way, and sometimes, well, it's not as though people go to theme parks with the intention of filling in the rest of the world with what goes on. Right?

Truthfully, I don't either. I have a handful of sites that I like to read for information on my favorite parks, such as AllEars.net, ScreamScape, and Get Theme Park Info, depending on what information I'm looking for. Usually I can find what I want on one or more of those sites, but not always.

My all time favorite theme parks are the Disney theme parks, in particular, Walt Disney World. However, Universal Studios has some awesome rides. It's just that the parks don't seem to be as clean, or as friendly, and the rides that suck REALLY suck. But the rides that rock REALLY rock too.

There are some great local parks too, such as Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA, and Hershey Park in Hershey, PA (yeah, the place where they make chocolate- which would almost put it up there with Disney if they gave the chocolate away for free). KennyWood is near Pittsburg, and Mall of America has an indoor theme park! Hey, if you've got room for it, there's nothing wrong with rockin' the indoor theme park. Seriously, who at the Disney Parks wouldn't sell half their worldly goods to have everything in air conditioning when the temperature reaches 95 degrees in the shade?

That being said, there are a few rides that I won't go on, being afraid of heights as I am. Magic Kingdom's Splash Mountain is flat out for me. Just the outside drop looks way too steep, and I've heard that the highest of the Splash Mountain drops is inside, in the dark, so you don't even know how high you are (but I counted how long people screamed from a YouTube video- and it was 4 seconds, vs the 2.5 seconds of the outside drop).

So, basically I'll be writing plenty of posts on theme parks here, but I'd love to be able to answer questions too! So if you have any questions on theme parks, feel free to ask. I can't guarantee that I'll know the answer, but I'll try to find something useful for you, too!