Hercules

^ What a load of crap. If I am going to spend $3-$50 trying to win a basketball, I want my air damnit!!!

People still use the chat around here???

It happens that El Toro is my #1 ride overall, if there was somewhere else I could go to ride it, trust me, I would. Nitro and Batman also make it worth the trip. I just wanted to take a day to let these couple of lines settle for me. So you are saying that those multimillions of improvements that were put in to rides make it worth visiting the park? Game. Set. Match. Won by Hercules.

I was thinking about this the other day as well. I will bump this the rest of my life until Beemer comes around and gives an update.

Gay days. I hate Gay days. I'm just #&$%ing with you.

Oh dear god.

Quoted for truth.

People just like to complain. It seems to be the majority of human nature. I can't stand it. Just be happy. If you don't like something, then don't frequent it. It isn't going to change.

Yeah Merlin wouldn't get in to something like this. I can see Palace taking all of the life out of this place to be honest, at least what it has left. Let's throw the ball to Herschend and see if they will give a crack at it.

Yeah seriously. Just another example of people talking before they even know what the hell they are talking about.

Burritos. No question for me.

It's for the love of the game.

I'd say it is doubtful. The Lake George area is unique in that many families go there on local vacations and not just for The Great Escape. I don't think any other SF parks in are "destination" areas like Lake George. Six Flags Great Adventure? Families do not vacaton in Jackson, New Jersey! Exactly. It's freakin' Jackson, NJ.

Windseeker. Just kidding.

That's no excuse, Busch Gardens Williamsburg competes with DC and yet somehow they find it within their budget to keep their park pristine and beautiful every year. There's no reason SFGA can't build big new rides AND work to improve infrastructure. They're just cheap bastards who don't care about the customer experience. Seriously, the layout of the park as it is now is one of the worst of any park I've ever been to. The clientele is those two areas are totally different. Great Adventure attracts those who do not care as much about a pristine atmosphere. Busch Gardens attracts families that are typically on a vacation to the Colonial Williamsburg area, and some nicer suburbs of the DC area so they are looking for that kind of experience. I am not saying it is an excuse, but calling Six Flags a bunch of cheap bastards is not correct in this situation. They are making multi-million dollar additions and improvements during the off season, they are just different than what Busch Gardens makes. Sorry, I don't buy it. BGW caters to a wide variety of clientele, including thrill seekers, seeing as they have two B&M's that are both the tallest and fastest of their type. SFGA also caters to a wide variety including families. They don't mainly attract people who don't care about atmosphere, why would that be true? They're cheap bastards when it comes to doing anything to the park other than building new rides. BGW is simply a nicer, better-run park, as is Hershey, as is King's Dominion, as is most of their major competition. No excuses, Six Flags sucks plain and simple. That is fine. Six Flags sucking is your opinion. I personally don't enjoy the atmosphere at most of their parks either. And sure, you are going to get a mix of people at parks (families, teens, twenty-somethings, thrill seekers, grandma's etc.) I"m just saying that Six Flags chooses to spend their money in a certain way, and that is usually on rides, and it is kind of tough to change that now. In order to make the improvements you would be looking for at Great Adventure I would venture to say it would take 3 years worth of off season improvement expenses and all of that time in order to make the park full of nice surroundings. 3 years of no ride or thrill improvements/upgrades to the ride lineup. They are were they are right now, so they almost kind of have to keep running the course with it. And I am not making excuses for them, I am just being a realist here.

^ Luck is the only thing good on that offense, unless you consider Hilton. Bad line and no running game

This actually made me lol a little

This looks AWESOME.

That's no excuse, Busch Gardens Williamsburg competes with DC and yet somehow they find it within their budget to keep their park pristine and beautiful every year. There's no reason SFGA can't build big new rides AND work to improve infrastructure. They're just cheap bastards who don't care about the customer experience. Seriously, the layout of the park as it is now is one of the worst of any park I've ever been to. The clientele is those two areas are totally different. Great Adventure attracts those who do not care as much about a pristine atmosphere. Busch Gardens attracts families that are typically on a vacation to the Colonial Williamsburg area, and some nicer suburbs of the DC area so they are looking for that kind of experience. I am not saying it is an excuse, but calling Six Flags a bunch of cheap bastards is not correct in this situation. They are making multi-million dollar additions and improvements during the off season, they are just different than what Busch Gardens makes.

I agree that the park is not really complete. However, when you are completing with New York City and Philadelphia attractions you need big additions in order to peak interest and get people coming in to the park year after year after year.

A paint job will cost in the high 100 thousands to over a million dollars, so that would be a big chunk of money in improvements for a year, so I don't see something like that happening any time soon.

Boooooo

Out of all of the decisions that have been made at this park over the years, this is by far the most disappointing for me. There is a ton of potential over there. Heck, even if they just opened it up just so there is another route to get over to MovieTown that would be great. I really liked the feel of the area walking through there. It was like old Great Adventure, and now it is all closed off. It is really disappointing. I agree. Even without a lot of rides in the area I really liked the Old Country section of the park. I know they aren't going to reopen Autobahn with new bumper cars and Music Express isn't in operating condition but it would be nice if they bought a couple of flat rides and put them in those spots and re-opened the area. I realize the park has a budget, and they can only do so much from year to year for park improvements, and reopening the area would not be a huge announcement type thing that would bring in people and get them excited about the park.... but it would be nice to spend a couple million one year to re-open the area and put a couple of decent flats in there to open up the park a little bit and keep some of the bottleneck that occurs in that area during the busy season.

I could be wrong but I would assume it is because of safety concerns since the accident. I don't believe they would want to get the path too close to the track going up toward the ride.

Just my opinion but Wild One > Roar