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Awesome, thanks! I'm sort of debating taking a trip out there later this year, mainly because there's nowhere else to go and all of our other travel (and wedding) plans got cancelled so we're sitting on a bunch of vacation days.

Is Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown open? Asking for a friend.

Yeah, the flume is a dealbreaker for us since it's the best ride in Wildwood. I'm still holding out hope but it requires a lot of staff.

That’s the Dragster we all know and love! Yeah, timed access passes for that thing are going to be a hilarious disaster since for most of those windows the thing won’t be running anyway, then when it is it’ll have a huge line.

Is Kings Island selling crack in the gift shop now to try to make up for some of those covid losses? (Lol but thanks for the report though. Glad you had fun )

Animal Kingdom is (by Disney standards) actually a pretty terrible park for little kids (in terms of rides... obviously they have great animal exhibits). TriceraTop Spin is one of only (I think) three rides in the park that doesn’t have a height requirement and the only one of those three that doesn’t normally have multi-hour waits (Navi River Journey and Safari being the other two). It’s also available to expectant mothers. I actually can’t think of any other ride in the park that is except for Navi River Journey. I never thought about any of this until we went with some friends of ours last year and they had a little kid and another one on the way. At Magic Kingdom they can ride tons of rides, but at Animal Kingdom you’re mostly SOL. So thanks to them we can now say that we’ve been on TriceraTop spin which wasn’t a ride I ever thought I’d ride.

Next year's is going to be wild...

I don't want anyone to interpret my report as overly "positive". We had fun because Nitro and El Toro can make up for whatever operational clusterf*ck bullsh*t and nonexistent covid policies they throw at us but other than the new entrance policy and mobile ordering at certain food places (I've heard it's been a mess at others) I don't feel like they actually know WTF they're doing. El Toro just makes you forget all of that by being incredible.

I get that enthusiasts will be growing tired of these but they're honestly fun rides and I don't blame any regional park for buying one.

There's no benefit to opening new rides when nobody can come to the parks anyway between quarantine restrictions in random regions of the country, travel bans internationally and daily capacity limits.

Not ranking them all but okay.. 1) Millennium Force... like... obviously 2) Maverick 3) Steel Vengeance 4) Raptor After that it's a blur. Thirsty Pony closes too early.

I *almost* never really care that much when a celebrity dies but this one sucks more than normal for some weird reason. I was always a fan and he seemed like a really down-to-earth guy.

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Any time someone tells me Steel Vengeance isn't in their top 3 at Cedar Point I assume they're one of those Magnum hipsters.

Adventure Express owns and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Honestly, the one at Fun Spot is better and that's just not a sequence of words that you should say about any ride at Walt Disney World.

Our mistake was assuming that it would be quick to get the Diamond Elite skip-the-line passes after doing it at Six Flags Mexico and seeing it take 30 seconds so we figured that when we got there right at open it would make more sense to go to Nitro and get on that with no wait than go and get the passes right away because we didn't think it would be that hard to get 3 paper vouchers. Once we got them, actually using them on El Toro and Nitro was a breeze. Only Wonder Woman was a nightmare. Other than that we did standby and never waited all that long for anything but we also weren't really stressed about running around and riding as many rides as possible since it's our home park. We were happy to have a few drinks, relax, ride some things and look at some animals. PS: Kingda Ka has opened for the season

Except that bathroom... don't ever badmouth the Primevil Whirl bathroom.

A bird must have flown in the mine again...

I posted this in the TPR Facebook group (which you should all join if you haven't already) but I figured I'd share it here also. We went to Six Flags Great Adventure today for the first time since they reopened. Overall we had a great day, but there are definitely a few things worth noting (both good and bad). - The new entrance experience is great and way more high-tech than I would expect from Six Flags. You walk through the temperature screening in groups without even slowing down, same with the new metal detectors. I hope those new metal detectors are permanent and I’d assume that they are. - Anyone expecting any of the advertised social distancing or mask wearing guidelines to be enforced or adhered to will be disappointed. Social distancing in queue lines is not a thing. There are stickers but they’re all entirely ignored. Honestly I don’t know why that is, I know some people don’t like masks but I wasn’t aware that there were people clamoring to be right on top of a bunch of strangers on a hot day in a queue line. I kind of feel like the more personal space the better, covid or not but I guess we’re in the minority. - They’re pushing mobile ordering for food now and we had a good experience with it. Shockingly quick and easy for Six Flags... - Diamond and Diamond Elite members need to get the skip the line passes early. We waited ONE HOUR to get 3 skip the line passes that were included daily with our pass. It’s tempting to go straight to a ride when the park opens to ride it with no line and come back later for the passes. Do not do that (okay... maybe do it with Wonder Woman, and on that note...) - Don’t get a skip the line pass for Wonder Woman. Brit waited an hour and a half with a skip the line pass (she encouraged me to bail and ride Nitro if I wanted and I didn’t need much convincing). The regular line was probably shorter. Nitro and El Toro handled Flash Pass really well and we barely waited at all. I recommend getting passes for those. - El Toro is an un-freaking-believable roller coaster. It seems weird to say this in July but I guess the park did just open, so hopefully some of the kinks get worked out soon and hopefully they get better with enforcing their policies. Still, we had a great day and it was great to be riding Nitro and El Toro again!

Great to see! Honestly I’m all for social distancing and mask mandates to prevent airborne transmission but I’m a little tired of obsessive policies that prevent surface transmission. I feel like if haven’t figured out how to wash and sanitize your hands by now you’re just a dumbass. I’ll happily grab for some rings.

Oh for sure, especially because Kingda Ka, Justice League and Safari are also closed so they have tons of extremely popular rides down.

It doesn't eat up lines now since the park is skipping seats. I was actually surprised by that since Hershey isn't on Candymonium and Kings Island isn't on Orion.

Nitro is closed and listed as closed on the website. I've heard some not-so-good rumors but don't want to post them since I don't trust the source at all (and if I did I still wouldn't post them for other reasons, lol).

Millennium Force isn't going to have a 4 train wait though. Especially not now. If it did, they wouldn't close it early that day. This all makes sense since the park needs to try to salvage something of this season financially and they have no staff, so they probably don't feel like paying people overtime or needing more than one shift.