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More weight, less wind resistance, works for me Great video Erik!

Sorry bout uploading the video, I didn't know it but I wasn't seeing all of the video. stupid media player.

For anyone who's interested, I happen to be a nerd and took a video of the floors dropping when I went there just today. The one posted earlier doesn't show very much, so I thought I'd share mine. Griffon_Floors.zip

so, this means it IS open? I heard they were letting people ride starting the 18th, but I didn't know if it was really open or not. I'm planning on going down there on thursday (day before official opening), can I expect it to be running?

I really hope that early June means before the 11th

Sounds like everyone had a good time, too bad I'm too dumb to call One thing that was great about goin to SFA was the weather! I couldn't have asked for a better day to make my first visit there for the year. And I also got a season pass out of it too ($49.99 for regular admission OR a season pass? which one would you take...) It's good you guys went to a park not everyone knows too much about. It's a good park but just doesn't have a whole lot that others don't. I was really happy WildOne was running so well, it's probably my new favorite there (#2 being SROS). Anyone at the meet see the blue SROS train? I'm not sure what happened to it, but it wasn't on the storage track or running.

Can't believe I missed you all. I really should've woken up on time. I got a late start and got to the park around 10:30. Thought I'd see everyone around the park but I didn't. Oh well

thank god I don't need to bring a bag, $2 for a locker is ridiculous. damn you Snyder!

^Sweet! Finally some good weather! For the past week it's either been cold, or not as cold but rainy. Let's hope the forecast doesn't change.

I hope... the past few years haven't been too good and it (like many other SF parks I'm sure) needs a little attention to detail. I'm really glad to hear the employees are nicer than last year.

They're advertising it as "[The New] Skull Mountain" now, I saw a commercial for it. Hopefully that means it's now officially Skull Mountain like everyone calls it and it'll be open with more regular hours than before.

hopefully it'll be open

^you mean the Caps Center (now Boulevard @ the Caps Ctr)?

^Some people around here do who've been following them for a long time. But let's focus on the meet, shall we? Little discount for anyone interested. The Parks&Planning/Welfare&Rec service around here sells discount tickets for parks in this area, including SFA. I'm not sure about this year, but in a general price range, tickets for SFA through them are $20-30. Other places probably do this too I'm sure, just thought I'd let those know who don't. The only places I know besides the my town's town hall that sells them at those prices are PG Sports&Learning Complex (not far at all from SFA and relatively easy to find, if you can spot FedEx Field, you'll know where it is) and the Navy Yard in Southeast DC (where I got my tickets for KD today actually). I still remember it as Adventure World cause it was the first park I ever went to.

Yea I remember going last year and the management staff were randomly testing employees on certain aspects of their job. This sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun. I had no idea so many MD/DC/VA are on this site.

I doubt JJ is gonna be running this early in the season, who knows though. And ERT would be nice

awesome! I'll try to be there. I live 10-15 mins from the park so why not?

KD looks pretty normal (except for the de-Paramounting). It'll be good to go down there finally. Last time I was there was 2005 and they were working on IJST. I'm not particularly excited about it but it'll be fun nonetheless. Thanks for showing me what to expect when I go down there on Monday.

Great pictures! Love all the shots of Griffon, especially the trains. I've been wondering what they look like for a while.

nice pictures! (especially the one with the little girl) too bad about the weather. I live near DC and I remember the day you're talking about. too bad seeing as it was in the 70's for a few days before that. looks like you had a good time nonetheless. griffon looks great! I cannot wait to get down there in the spring in ride it!

yyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

congratulations! hope she likes coasters

Not to be a smart@$$ but it is difficult for a system to reach 500,000 units when only 400,000 were shipped worldwide. Besides I heard too many complaints about the PS3. go ahead and be a smart@$$, the thing hasn't sold over 275k yet

sweet, PS3 still hasn't reached the 500,000 mark which means I'm gettin a copy of Talladega Nights

I got so lucky with the PS3. My story: I got to target at about 5:45-6am and stood in line. Being anywhere from #13th-#16th in line, I felt like I had a fighting chance. So we wait, and finally 7:30 rolls around and the manager and everybody comes out and tells us that they only have 8 and that they already reserved em to people who got a spot in line on wednesday. So I just went to school, came home, hung out with some friends, just had a normal friday. After I get home and play some video games for a while, I decide I'm gonna check the sony site one last time to see if they had one. THEY DID, I was so glad.That was the fastest I've ever filled out any kind of order form in my life. So right now I'm sitting here with my copy of Resistance and an extra controller. They're taunting me right now, just sitting there laughing at me because I'm so impatient and can't wait for this thing to get here.