Story Land is somewhere every small child should be brought to it has beautiful theming and a decent selection of rides to please both the young and the young at heart alike. Park scientists might well have consider patenting this creation were it not for the fact that any royalties would surely be negligible. Six Gun City appears to have crossbred a new species for the sole purpose of transportation, pictured above. Two days ago we were introduced to the nation's only diving horse. There was one little oddity we noticed on the way out the door. Nevertheless, we did not find anything that in our view justified the $18.95 admission fee. There were a few other attractions two token waterslides representing the water park, a boating lake, go karts, and laser tag. As for theming? Well, the ride has green coloured track, which I'm sure has something to do with the midwest theming found in the entrance area of the park. You can still see some of the lines where cars once parked. This park was known as Six Gun City at the time of this trip report.Īfter the wonders of Santa's Village we were brought rapidly back to reality by Six Gun City, a park that can be summarised rather succinctly by the fact that their new attraction, Gold Rush Express (#872), has been built on a large concrete slab that at one stage might was part of the car park. However, unlike so many other parks in this country, it is possible to visit in December. The place certainly has the atmosphere to be the spiritual home of Santa, but for one thing the absence of snow. Nevertheless, we spent some time walking around and taking in the atmosphere of the place, noting some of the tiny details street signs for things such as Ho Ho Ho Boulevard, and a signal crossing which, instead of ringing as might be normal, played a few notes of Jingle Bells. We decided to pass on the log flume, and everything else was targeted at people a great deal smaller than we were. My score was still below average, but at least I was able to actually hit something! It is fair to say that my ability to hit a target is somewhat substandard, due to medical reasons, and for this reason the bigger target areas allow me to enjoy the ride far more. The designs were not altogether unlike the Senyo-built versions in Japan, rather than the more common Sally models seen everywhere. This was a fairly typical shoot the targets attraction, but had the benefit of larger target areas than usual, which were much easier to see and hit. We rode the Giant Wheel as it provided a good photo angle on the coaster, before making our way over to the Great Humbug Adventure dark ride. A large tivoli is nothing particularly special of course, but this one was enjoyable and ran well. Case in point was the extremely enthusiastic ride operator on Rudy's Rapid Transit (#871), who was jumping up and down and waving his arms in the air as the train passed through the station. Santa's Village is a particularly nice kiddie park in New Hampshire, marked by friendly staff and quality theming throughout. It goes without saying that we could have just moved our hotel and not visited extra parks, but that would have been silly we were close, so we decided to stop!

The main reason for the change was a rare attack of sanity our original plan would have had us driving for almost seven hours after a day at a big park, which really wasn't sensible. In the days before this trip we decided to make insert three small kiddie parks into this morning even though doing so would mean less time at Palace Playland, Funtown Splashtown USA and Canobie Lake Park.

Funtown log flume ride