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In my experience, Sunday crowds will be less than Saturday but busier than a weekday. Check this calendar for last June: https://queue-times.com/en-US/parks/50/calendar/2024/06 You can also change the year at the top to look at historical trends (but don't count 2021 since some COVID restrictions were still in effect). They also have predictions for this coming June but I have no idea how they arrive at those predictions.

It is a purchase that makes a lot of sense. It goes without saying that this is prime potential real estate for a majorly successful park if there was a company in position to eat the massive upfront costs of building a desirable one. It would be a strange time economically in the world to do so, but ignoring that, if someone were to do so, the reasons SeaWorld makes a ton of sense are swimming around in the open. They wouldn't even have to try to salvage the even more awful than their own reputaiton of this place as a home for animals, either. As questionable as SeaWorld's own habits and faciliies continue to be, there are levels to being bad at something. If they shipped the wildlife off to their own parks, it would be an upgrade for the wildlife. Then this is a wide open canvas for Busch Gardens Niagara Falls. Hell, I think the acreage of MarineLand is close to 3x Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Over time, if successful, this plot of land is literally big enough to be an Aquatica, a Sesame Place, and a full size Busch Gardens. Obviously that is dreaming EXTREMELY big, but they are within eyesight of Niagara Falls. A top ten most visited spot on the entire globe. The potential here is legitimately off the charts. It would just be so expensive to get started at any real scale. But they could just start with a Sesame Place and see how it does, or anything like that.

@Mustangman55This is the answer right here. The only advantage of booking an extra day is insurance against foul weather.

The 15th to the 19th should be more then enough time to knock out all the rides you want. Your legs will be more tired then anything. Its a pretty big park. You might as well spend the money on a Fast lane for one day and not an extra hotel stay. You can knock a few rides out the first hour of the day or the last few hours of the night on the weekdays. I think after your first day you can get a good idea what ride you want to go wait for first thing in the morning. Like one day try to do one or 2 rides on MF the next day get in line and wait the hour for Steel Vengeance to open Things like that. A week Day if your lucky could do Maverick and Steel Vengeance in the first hour of opening then Sky hawk, Can knock the back part of the park out pretty quickly

I'm with you on the age thing. I too rode it opening year, with my Dad who used to slide over and squish me against the side of the car. Yes kids, the buzz bars and no seat dividers were glorious. Sorry about your rough ride. Were you maybe on a wheel seat? I notice the difference, but maybe it's just a perception issue. I confess a big soft spot for that coaster since it factors into my family history so maybe I am just blind to any roughness. Yep, agreed about the Boss. If they would just titan track each valley it would be such a great ride! I mean, paint would be a pretty cheap and easy "enhancement" to highlight a fairly historic coaster!

I was at a con this weekend and got to meet David Howard Thornton in character as Santa Art while I was dressed as my own clown: Chortlez, The Mad. I went back later and got the printed photo signed. There was also a 360 photo booth I went in. video.mp4

I experienced the exact opposite ride Kim. It lumbered along from the first drop to the 90 degree turn, from there it felt like the train had square wheels. I have ridden SE easily over a 100 x's, my first ride was opening year 1976! (showing my age here). Yesterday's ride was the worst experience yet. And I agree about the painting, it looks old and sad. Ugh. I 100% agree with you about the Boss.... the First Drop is amazing thanks to the new Titan Track. Titan Track is needed for every Valley in the layout, hope that will happen soon.

So we were at the park yesterday. Grounds looked pretty good, they've put in some spring flowers but probably won't go whole hog on the landscaping until mid-late May, which I totally understand. Clearly not fully staffed yet which is normal, that should improve in May once college and high school workers start finishing up school for the semester. Boss was on one train ops which is probably staffing and Eagle started with two trains and went down to one.....not sure why. Freeze was operating both sides thought which was nice. Freeze and Batman both had some down time but it was fairly short lived. Justice League was down and completely shut, no workers, nada all day; same for Spinsanity, Supergirl, and Fireball. No water rides open yet this early in the season. Also, some stores and restaurants not open, but enough were to not be a huge problem. Again they are likely to get all of that going as the staffing builds up over the next month. Crowds were moderate but not too bad considering some capacity was lost with the closed rides. Characters were out and about. Shows all look to be opening Memorial Day weekend which is par for the course. Now for titan track on the Boss...................they only replaced one section, but it was probably the roughest most headache inducing section. It's right after the double down as the track turns to the right and goes back up hill. And for that few amazing seconds it was glorious and then right back to normal roughness. I will say though that we rode it first thing when the temps were still in the 50's and the whole thing seemed much smoother. Went back later in the day to get a second ride and with temps about 10 degrees warmer it was definitely rougher than the morning ride. I know purists don't like the idea of titan track but I think if they did a few more sections it would be overall well received. Joker was open but the funhouse portion of the queue was not. Hopefully, that too will get corrected when they are more staffed up. There were prominent signs at the entrances to both Eagle and Mine Train notifying guests of the height requirement change. Although I do agree they absolutely should have sent an email to passholders that this was happening and perhaps some basic explanation of why. Eagle was running as smooth as ever! I really love that old girl. If anyone from the park sees this......PLEASE give her a paint job and any other sprucing up you can (like maybe new chaser lights) for her 50th birthday next year.

The new 309' Giga Dive Coaster known as "Project Rubi" has been approved by the FAA. Well, that settles it! We're definitely getting this baby!

I'm going to miss the bobsled. I remember when it was still blue and white. That said I am not going to miss the wait, last time we were there in Oct I bet we spent 30 minutes in the fast pass line, and the people in the standby line must have been waiting 2 hours plus.

Titan's paint scheme hasn't changed in 24 years. Long overdue.

Said no one from Six Flags St. Louis leadership.

Dino: Off Road Adventure replaces the Chapparal Antique Cars.

That looked like a great event. We lucked out in the DFW area with the weather. The sporadic cloud cover didn't dampen the impact of the few minutes of darkness even a little.