AmyUD06

Been a while since you've been to a SF park, huh? I haven't seen a grouper at one since COVID times. Sorry, I can't remember if they had groupers at SFGAm from my trip in 2017. I don't think so...?

I, for one, was enough of a whore to spend $7 for the Wacky Worm haha. And you should've checked out their so-bad-its-good-not-really dark ride, aptly called "Dark Ride." Did you ride Squadron 33 at Castaway Cove? That thing is nuts.

Most of the 50th stuff is kinda easy to miss - the history in Tower Gardens, the art on display in one of the stores, the once-a-day-and-now-it's-over(?) parade, the nightly fireworks/drone show. Um...Shake Rattle and Roll (their Troika) is awesome, and you forgot about Backlot. Or maybe you didn't, you did say "attraction of note" LOL. As for Mystic trying to lift your shirt over your head, I thought I was the only one it does that to!

Xolo Loca, in one of the traditional spinning cars, at Casino Pier, Seaside Heights NJ. #289.

No arguments there. On topic, my last coaster was Xolo Loca at Casino Pier; #289.

You can keep them out of the park, but you can't keep them from shooting people in the parking lot.

I'm convinced that was just a scheme to increase their stock prices and was never a serious offer. I hope LOL.

I believe they counted each of the seat flips where your head points more towards the ground than the sky as an inversion. EDIT: Confirmed by the Wikipedia entry that this is how the Guinness Book counts the inversions.

This is very true. SF websites are known to not be the most reliable.

Kings Dominion at one point had four (Backlot, Flight of Fear, Volcano, and Hypersonic XLC), but yeah I think 3 is the crown right now.

If these are in fact Kumbak trains, the comfort collars will be the least of your worries. On the one coaster that I rode with their trains (T3 at KK), there was definitely some SkyRush-esque thigh clamping, and I was pushing the restraint out as hard as possible during the entire ride.

$40 for parking at SFGAdv, wow. That absolutely blows my mind. When I first started working for the park at those very booths where you pay for parking in 1998, it was $7. That is a 471% increase. For comparison, the inflation rate for those 24 years totals 82%.

Care to enlighten us when that was the policy? The 1980s before they bought Dorney and the Paramount parks? As long as I've been following parks, and the history that I've studied since, that is absolutely not their "policy." The lack of major additions to the smaller parks more than once a decade makes that clear. And yes, "if they're still drawing crowds there's no reason to do major ride additions" at these smaller parks is what I've been saying all along. You think it's a change, but in the past 25-30 years, it has absolutely been par for the course. Cedar Point, and to a lesser extent Kings Island, are true "destination" parks. People plan trips solely around going to Cedar Point, much like they do Disney or Universal parks. This is why they need continual major investment; there isn't enough local population to support the park, so they need to keep drawing in the "destination" crowd. Not everyone is me who's willing to do a blitz 8-hour-each-way roadtip to visit CP on a long weekend regardless of what they add. Keep the dream alive, kid, keep the dream alive.

Thanks! I know I would have appreciated at sign at Flying Turns at Knoebels that explained that the heaviest group needs to sit in the front in 2017 haha. As to your other point, you have a PM.

Like @tndanksaid, no discount for Platinum Pass on FL at Kings Island; that's only at Cedar Point. The bring-a-friend tickets are limited to 6 per visit.

Welcome back to the wonderful world of parks and coasters! My last coaster was last Sunday, the Spinning Coaster (this is its actual name) at Trimpers in Ocean City, MD - a boring SBF Visa figure 8.

I'm guessing you meant for the phone flying out, not BGT actually having decent operations for once haha.

It's already $250 on weekends for FL+. It's priced fine, and works fine on every other ride except for SV (and to a much lesser extent, MF). When I go to the park I've just learned to accept it for what it is; SV is going to take a while and there's no way around it. I'd still much rather wait 45 minutes than 2+ hours. Honestly the massive proliferation of ADA passes is a bigger impediment to efficient lines than oversold FL, if you ask me.

This is normal in my experience. It all has to do with where the merge is. Back before the in-queue lockers, the FL wait would be substantially shorter.

I fail to see how buying a SBNO coaster from a closed park equates to forcibly buying an operating coaster from an operating park, but you do you. But thank you for confirming the sterotype of a WoF (or VF, SFStL, Dorney, Darien Lake, etc. etc.) local enthusiast - no matter what you get, its never enough. Would you rather go another 13 years without a coaster?

Not gonna lie, you can count me in with those who didn't know they had a Tilt-a-Whirl before your post. It's kinda like KI's Flyers - hidden in the kiddie area.

This. The area opened up by moving Matterhorn and Scrambler is so minuscule, and Corkscrew's footprint is so narrow, I don't see much of anything fitting in the area. Now had they also moved the Super Himalaya (which they might as well trash it since they run it slow and forwards only) and Power Tower, you might have a theory there, @jarmor, but as it stands no way. Since we're spouting off crazy theories for the future literally the day after they just announced their 2023 plans, I personally foresee the rapids ride going for their next major coaster. It's a huge plot of land in an area that doesn't have any other rides except an up-charge.

Good news all around I guess, but I really think them calling Monte the "oldest shuttle loop coaster still in its original location" is a bit disingenuous, since from everything we've seen the only parts they're definitely reusing is the station. If the launch mechanism, signature element, and trains are different, is it really the same coaster?

Um, you know that Scrambler and Matterhorn weren't exactly in the "back half" of the park to begin with? They were right at the north end of the Skyride, which I would certainly classify as "middle" of the park if not the "front half" if you're dividing the park in two. You're also completely forgetting about Lake Erie Eagles, Wave Swinger, Skyhawk, and Pipe Scream (and add in Slingshot and Prof. Dilberts Frontier Fling if you want to count up-charges).

I'm not holding my breath. I've yet to meet a Zamperla seat/restraint that was anything but uncomfortable, and that includes their newer stuff like the NebulaZ.