 Alrighty, welcome to our new series, hashtag underrated, where we shine some light on some of those parks that do not get the attention they deserve, and some of those coasters that also do not get the attention they deserve. There's a lot of them out there, and Valley Fair is one of those parks that has both the coasters and the park atmosphere that is extremely underrated. So I'm gonna go over a few of the things that I think make this park extremely underrated. The coasters will appear in another series, as this series is both parks and coasters. So to get it started off, Valley Fair was one of the first two parks in the Cedar Fair family, and that means it's an OG park. It's an OG family member. And haven't you heard to always respect your elders? Wink face? I'm kidding. Anyways, let's get right to it. So Power Tower is one of those attractions that you definitely don't see that height at a lot of the other Cedar Fair parks. In fact, Canada's Wonderland's a great example of that. Their drop tower is around 230 feet tall, and you look at Power Tower, and it's 275 feet tall. That's a big difference, especially for a smaller park versus bigger park. So that's definitely up there on terms of those underrated aspects of Valley Fair. That seems like a great flat ride in itself. Anyways, Wild Thing definitely comes to mind when I think underrated. Wild Thing is a hyper coaster at Valley Fair, and it looks extremely underrated. A lot of people don't talk about this coaster. In fact, a lot of people have some bad things to say about this coaster. People specifically whose home park is not Valley Fair. A lot of enthusiasts typically forget that just because it's not a B&M doesn't mean it's not a good coaster or it's not a good hyper coaster. I would definitely say that these designs are extremely underrated. And in fact, Magnum is one of my most underrated coasters at Cedar Point, and that just tells me that Wild Thing is probably gonna be one of those underrated coasters at Valley Fair as well. I'm definitely gonna be making my way to Valley Fair next year, and I'll be able to say for sure what's underrated and what's underrated. But I'm taking into account a lot of the enthusiasts whose home park is actually Valley Fair and who have traveled around and ridden other hyper coasters. I'm gonna believe them and trust that Wild Thing is extremely underrated. I feel like there should be kind of a drinking game through this whole video where it's every time I say underrated, take a shot. But anyways, I definitely strongly believe Wild Thing is one of those coasters that it's extremely overlooked and not appreciated for what it is. Valley Fair is an extremely beautiful park as well, just to add that in there. So another one that comes to mind is Renegade. Renegade is a GCI wooden coaster and I have heard this coaster is absolutely amazing. I have heard this coaster needs to be higher on the Golden Ticket Awards. I've heard this coaster needs to be a lot more recognized than it is, meaning it is, yes, hashtag underrated and that will be a separate video in itself. So I'm not gonna get too into detail about why I think this coaster is underrated, but I've heard this is an absolutely amazing coaster. You should go check it out. I feel like if you rode the coaster, you would definitely have it higher on your list. I'm hearing this is probably a top competitor compared to other wooden coasters out there. I would definitely say if I wanted to compare some wooden coasters, I would say I wanna ride Mystic Timbers and then Renegade and even some of the other wooden coasters out there as well. So another aspect to look at is the large array of family and kids attractions at this park. Some of you may be looking at me going, why are you talking about the kids and family aspect of the park when you're trying to call it underrated? Well, just to let you know, one of the biggest family parks in the chain, Canada's Wonderland and even King's Island, they have some of the higher attendance numbers and highest growth rates in the chain and it looks like Valley Fair is actually starting to get up there as well. So a lot of these family and kids rides do bring in numbers and a lot of enthusiasts sometimes overlook the whole family and kids area aspect of a park and this park, Valley Fair, definitely has a really nice array of family and kids attractions and the better part is they're actually well themed unlike other parks in the chain that kinda just throw in these steel looking fairground attractions. So this is an interesting aspect but Dinosaurs Alive is soon to be removed and that is the perfect location and the perfect time to invest in a new coaster. Now, this leads me into another topic before I dive a little too much into that aspect but the Stockholders' Call recently touched on Valley Fair and how well it's doing. Valley Fair was actually brought up as one of the parks doing some of the, sorry, pulling some of the best numbers this season in terms of season passes and growth. Now this is for 2018, I have not heard Valley Fair mentioned before on a Stockholders' Call so this is really good news from a smaller park. Valley Fair is definitely one of those parks that needs this attention and showing some growth potential could definitely sway the chain into investing into the park sooner than later. In fact, I wouldn't hold off when seeing some of these rumors swirling around that there's a delay over at CGA because it wasn't doing so hot in 2018 and now Valley Fair was doing extremely well in 2018. I'm thinking you could see some of those investments sway on over to Valley Fair. So that's an interesting aspect to look at as a whole and I would keep that in the back of your head when looking at 2020, 2021 at Valley Fair. I think they have something exciting down the road. It's not gonna be 2019 but 2020, 2021 I really think is Valley Fair's year. Now again, as I said earlier, Valley Fair is an extremely beautiful park with tons of potential with even the little land that they own. So what do I think could really improve this park? Well, I think an invert would complete the lineup perfectly. I think an invert is exactly what this park is missing and it would really add to that lineup if they added something like Banshee because Banshee is a really high-thrill slash a lot of people are gonna be triggered here. It's kind of a family high-thrill invert attraction over at King's Island. It would be perfect for a park like this. It's not like too high in the GeForce aspect. I know that a lot of people are like, well, yes it does but it's very drawn out, it's massive so it doesn't feel like as tight and as high-force as some of those other roller coasters out there. I think Banshee style invert would be perfect for a park like this, perfect for a park like Canada's Wonderland just because they are more family high-thrill theme parks. Now, if they were not to get an invert, I think a Mac double launch coaster would be perfect for this park as well. They need those inversions, they need that uniqueness, something to draw in the crowds but I really do feel like an invert is perfect for this park. Now, I wanna hear from you guys. Do you think Valley Fair is underrated? Comment down below what you think. Comment hashtag underrated or hashtag overrated for what you think this park is. Don't get too triggered, everyone has their opinions but I definitely wanna hear from you again. Hashtag underrated if you agree with me that this is an underrated theme park or hashtag overrated if you think this is not underrated whatsoever. Now, I wanna hear from you guys as well. What do you think is coming to Valley Fair in the next couple years? Cause I'm gonna tell you Valley Fair is definitely in for some exciting years to come. They are definitely being talked about on the stockholders end. They are definitely showing a promise for guests attendance and season passes as well so that means whenever you see those things increasing investments are to come. Now, there's a lot of talk about parking, Excalibur, flooding going on and I definitely think that you're gonna see a lot of changes coming to Valley Fair over the year and over the years and a lot of them are gonna be really exciting. I think this is definitely one of those parks that are overlooked and not many people predict great things coming to this park. It's constantly a park that is on the lower side of things when you do your 2018 predictions, 2019 predictions. And I think in 2020 and 2021 predictions I think we should start adding some more exciting predictions to this park because they have a bright future. Anyways, hopefully you guys enjoyed this first video on the hashtag underrated series. Comment down below what you think. Again, hashtag underrated or hashtag overrated. Thanks for watching guys. Hopefully you enjoyed the video. Hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Have a good one guys. Bye.