coasterbill

Yeah, it looks like a pretty wicked cyclone Source: SFNE Online

The Covered Bridge Festival is permanently leaving Knoebels.

Why not just fire the maintenance team and let the internet crowdsource it? Clearly Reddit, Instagram and Facebook have it all figured out.

So... one Kidding, lol. Glad you had fun. I'm on a bit of a terrible piss beer kick right now myself, hot weather does that to me.

The most unreliable rides in the park (that matter... I didn't forget you, Cyborg) are Kingda Ka and Jersey Devil Coaster. Conveniently they're as far from each-other as humanly possible but I'd start at one of those since the only real strategy you need with Platinum Flash Pass is to make sure you ride those before they break.

I don’t remember where we rode it. It was a piece of crap but it was a run-of-the-mill piece of crap. I expected worse.

When we rode this a few years ago we absolutely hated it. I hated Goudurix less, that’s how bad it was. This is awesome news.

I don’t really think Platinum is necessary if you want to save money but I would buy some type of Flash Pass. Generally though if you reserve the ride as soon as you scan in to the previous ride (make sure you get scanned, sometimes it’s not right at the greeter), by the time you finish waiting in the station, ride the ride and walk over to the new ride it should be time to ride with the mid level Flash Pass. You can also take the opportunity to wait a few extra trains for a better row since you’re technically waiting for two rides at once anyway. You can also get the regular one and just ride Jersey Devil while waiting for other rides since it’s not on Flash Pass (though that could change, so check first).

This seems like the kind of thing that Six Flags would buy the prototype of because it's cool and probably cheap. How have the newer Zamperla coasters been? Have they come a long way since... say... Thunderbolt in Coney Island? It looks great but I'm wondering how high the suck-potential is.

I’d like to see more confirmation on this but if it’s true I might actually go there (once they fix Gatekeeper). Despite all of my shit talking lately I do love this park, which is why it’s a shame to see it run like crap.

Note that Six Flags St Louis and Silver Dollar City will still be open daily all summer because they’re a theme park company and of course they will. I’m not saying that they’re not facing labor shortages, but man this is starting to feel budget-cuty now that they’ve raised wages so much.

Wow... that's actually all good news. Slow clap for Cedar Point.

I’m very excited for this. We’ll absolutely be down to check out the new Magic Kingdom show at some point probably next year, and it also got me to buy tickets today for September to see Happily Ever After one last time if it doesn’t return. I’m sure the new show will be amazing and probably much better, but I love that show and want to see it again. God dammit I’m becoming a Disney Person™ and I hate myself for it.

Life Hack: Streamline your experience and avoid all of these trips to guest relations at Palace Entertainment parks by not going.

It should be noted that the ride is posted as open today on Queue Times. This took place on the 19th and it was closed for the rest of the day and all day yesterday. If that's accurate I'm assuming it's just running one train and probably will be for awhile.

Yeah, they're not having a good time. (Same source)

That's what I do too. Half the time I drink beer, otherwise I just drink free water courtesy cups since it's free and better for me than soda anyway. Every once in awhile I'll want a kick of caffeine and order a coke, but whatever... it's 50% off with the DE pass and worth a few bucks every 2-3 visits to not have to carry the cup.

I agree with that entirely. Elitch Gardens is an atrocious park. It has potential to be an "okay" park but it's so badly run. Lakeside is a total shithole but I found it to be a really fun shithole and they're open about being a shithole. If both coasters are open then it's fun at night. The wood coaster kind of sucks but Wild Chipmunk is the best coaster in Colorado so... fight me. lol Honestly, I like Lakeside. Expectations need to be set and it's totally weird but we had fun. As for Glenwood Caverns, yeah... everyone should go there. It's fantastic. I agree that nobody should go to Denver unless they're okay with like half of the coasters in the state being closed at any given time but on the flip-side it's a great city and it's Frontier's home airport so it's dirt cheap to fly there from basically anywhere if you don't mind flying them. People should go, but you're totally right that people need to manage their expectations for the parks.

Did anyone know that this was a thing? We popped by yesterday for a few hours and saw the signs up everywhere but don’t see any announcement aside from the signs in the park:

The park has quietly updated the hours for a few operating days in the coming weeks: Friday, June 25th - 8pm close (previously 7pm) Saturday, June 26th - 9pm close (previously 8pm) July 2nd through 4th - 10pm close (previously 9pm)

Oh, it only took me 30 seconds to get the cup. It's just that it only took me an additional 30 seconds to throw it in the nearest trash can.

Am I the only one that doesn't get those? I get it with my drink plan but always throw it in the trash. I'd rather pay the extra money if I ever actually want soda than carry that unnecessarily large cup that doesn't fit in a locker around all day. Now I feel like I should get them and give them to people who care.

I mean... these are the people that they're dealing with

I don't want to alarm anyone but Six Flags is kind-of theming something. I'm grading on a curve, but I am impressed. Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfgadvconnoisseurs Also this should be set back from the path because if it's actually made out of wood, everyone is going to scratch their names into it in 5 seconds. At no point should this park forget that they have the worst guests ever...

Per queue times it looks like an obvious staffing move but they often open those rides the last few hours of the day when the staff becomes available. I'd imagine it won't be an issue on weekends.