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  1. We were at the park last Sat for the annual ACE event. Unfortunately, I utterly failed at my intention to find out anything about the current progress of the carousel. I just never got a chance to ask, every time someone of authority was around they were being bombarded by people and I just never got a chance. Not that they necessarily would have told me anything and certainly it wouldn't have had any affect on the answer but I was hoping to get some info. They did auction off some legs from horses that could not be used and gave away eyes from carousel horses, which was a bit creepy but appropriate for a Halloween event I guess, lol. Let's not argue about it, it's pointless and exhausting. It will take as long as it takes and I am fine with that in the end. Anyway, I did get confirmation, which is probably obvious, that the funhouse part of Joker will not be open until next year. We had ert on Eagle and RR before the park opened and they did open up Joker for us the last 20 min of that but it promptly went down after a few cycles. It did come back up over the next couple hours. All in all everything else was running well other than the obvious closures of the water rides. Eagle is still running so well after all these years! But for the first time I regretted getting on Boss. I've never minded rough woodies that much and they usually don't hurt me, even at age 56, but it wasn't an enjoyable ride. I know it's late in the season, it was hot, etc, etc.........but they definitely need to re-track/do the conversion/something. Full disclosure I've been butt hurt ever since they removal of the helix. The park gave us a few nice perks; scare characters at lunch (there was also another big company group eating so that probably helped), free haunt wristbands, and we got to ride on the train with the freaks when they make their entrance for the night. I've done that before but it's actually pretty fun. There were about 100 people there and so it was a packed train. As far as FF goes, having the same 4 houses and not very well staffed scare zones as the last few years does make it a bit anti-climatic. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Halloween events and I still had a good time, but it's definitely a bit stale. To be fair it was the first weekend and the employee giving us the behind the scenes tour of Eagle did say that the new GM (we are actually still sharing a President with Chicago) is well aware and very motivated to improve things. As we all know there has been a lot of infrastructure work, which despite what the naysayers will complain about had to be done and they have done a tremendous job engaging and updating on social media. I would actually say that improving FF should be on the same level with new rides. That might be controversial but like it or not FF has always been the biggest money maker event for the park. They really need to put their heads together and try to figure out a way to improve staffing (don't get me wrong all the staff were putting in the effort, they just need way more) and get some new houses. Just my 2 cents, I won't drone on. Funny story to end on: As we exited the Jingle Mangle house which comes out where the entrance to the cars used to be, I see a skunk run out of the log flume queue and toward the entrance to AT. Of course a group of teens (looked to be in the 16-18 age range) see it and start surrounding the poor thing trying to get selfies I tried to warn them to just leave it be, but no of course they didn't listen and cornered it against the fence. Yep. They paid the price. My son and I laughed our asses off, the skunk escaped under the fence INTO Jingle Mangle and the teens probably had some splaining to do when they got home......and based on my experience for several days when they went back to school on Monday.
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  2. I really need to make it down to this non-Six Flags park sometime.
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  3. Well done. I like GeisterWölf (Ghost Wolf). Basically the return of Big Bad Wolf from the dead.
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