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Not without removing something else, or putting it entirely over the lake. The park is incredibly landlocked and surrounded by residential and retail on all sides.

Yeah, you do not want to be at the park while that group is there.

Some chains do things better than others. For Six Flags, it's operating calendars, disregarding manufacturer operating temperature recommendations, and staffing each ride with as few people as possible to maximize amount of rides open. For Cedar Fair, it's maintaining rides, offering a drink plan that doesn't mandate comically sized bottles, a vastly superior skip-the-line program that is available on an all-park basis, and arguably water parks.

It's not necessary to ensure that riders are secure in their vehicles and won't go flying out? In 2021 America where companies get sued for everything? What are you smoking man?

SWO and BGT were still doing that (scan the barcode) thing for QQ when I was there in the middle of February. I used a printed piece of paper but if I had it on my phone that would've been good too.

It wasn't too bad last year, when all they had done was the turnaround on the right side. The trick is sitting in a non-wheel-seat (middle row of a car).

Actually, aside from the disaster that was their July opening last year Post-COVID, rides were pretty well staffed for my August and October trips. Mind you, they had employees from other, non-open parks, then, which they likely won't have this year...so yeah it's a crap shoot.

The new ride is Snake River Expedition. "Golden Entry" is only 30 minutes before opening while the Platinum/Guest Early Entry is a full hour. Every ride on the Golden list is also on the Platinum List (it's inclusive). I'm also not sure how you consider every one of the park's top coasters except Dragster an "uninspiring list," but to each their own.

Nothing has been announced. Probably won't be known until(/if) they put it live on the website's shop. For me, personally, as someone who dropped the grand for the All-Season, All-Park FL+ last year, I hope not.

Great Adventure and America also had those plexiglass dividers in stations when I was at each park in December.

True park capacity is often a lot more than you might imagine. SFGADv in NJ has a absolutely maximum capacity of around 30,000. In the six years I worked there we hit it twice. 50% of that is still 15,000 people...that was an average Friday in the summer. It's going to be busy.

Possibly not. It was originally designed with 3 trains in mind, so if there's already enough blocks built into the system (and they haven't substantially modified since), it won't need a complete rework.

Maybe nitpicking, but I'm pretty sure that RMC didn't have anything to do with the launch and that it was all Velocity Magnetics out of PA who are responsible for that. I could be wrong. Maybe they could bring Intamin in to convert it to a high-speed cable lift like El Toro?

Sorry, I guess I misread your post. I figured with you mentioning the "primo land" cleared up by Grizzly Run and the other removals, the next logical step (for a Darien Lake fan) is to presume they're getting some new major ride. You have my apologies.

Are you actually suggesting that Darien Lake might be getting a new major ride?

I know you're excited, but you can edit posts, you know.

Your guess is as good as anyone's. Amusement Parks aren't in MA's Phase 4 step A part 1 subpart a that takes effect on 3/22, so whenever their Governor decides to take his head out of his ass, they'll open. On the plus side, they did hire a bunch of people back in late February, so I guess that's good news? BTW I found this information after 2 minutes of Googling.

It says right on the page, "Fall operating days will be announced later this year."

On the other hand, the only other major amusement park is a 6 hour drive away. They're fine.

To each their own man....but just by looking at Google satellite maps I have to call BS on your claim of their waterpark being better than Hurricane Harbor NJ. And "it's better than SFA" isn't exactly the biggest claim to fame....

They'd probably better off if they did abort it LOL.

It's California. I'm not holding my breath. Unless the Recall Newsom endeavor is about to reach their verified signature goal, in which case he'll throw everything out the window and pull a Texas,

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Agreed. I mean, if you were passing by on the way to a better park (or anything else more enjoyable, like a root canal), sure stop in and get your ears flattened on Firebird and your spine tweaked on Roar, but otherwise totally not worth it. It's certainly not worth it for one of the weakest hyper-coasters in the world.

You're probably right. Plus the heat kinda put me in a little bit of a sour mood, so I probably didn't enjoy Cheetah Hunt as much as I could have (EDIT: or gotten multiple rides on it). Oh well, more to do next time, which will likely be around December but well before Christmas.