AmyUD06

Glad to hear. This bodes well for the trip I'm planning for the last operating weekend of the year.

It was funny since the ride is already a RMC.

Um...just LOL.

Blame Murphy's indoor dining edicts.

The one at Upper Clements Park? Google Map imagery from earlier this year indicates it's still there.

If you intended to try to get more than one ride on Fahrenheit, Great Bear, or Candymonium, I would say yes.

Thank you for your very valuable contribution to the discussion. Meanwhile my post cited aspects of 2020 that I hope are different in 2021. You know, the topic of the conversation. *shrug* Not going to argue with you.

Well, the OP of the post cares because he's the one that asked the question. Don't know why you're being needlessly hostile for someone sharing their opinion. Please note that my post was specifically in reply to the one above it; in retrospect I should have quoted it. And I stand by my assessment that no one cares if you dislike the current state of affairs and aren't going to parks because of it, as the post mine was responding to states. That does not add anything to the discussion of what parks will be like in 2021 or beyond.

*shrug* One less person in line. No one cares.

*Delete - the post I was responding to was deleted*

Was Beast closed for some reason while you were there? Nope. Same issue at Kings Dominion surprisingly; the nearest bathrooms to their FoF/i305 area is buried up in the middle of Safari Village.

Watch out Jason, political posts aren't allowed here.

Hmm...that almost makes a blitz trip out for Saturday 10/3 possible...

I haven't seen it, and have no intention of watching it unless it comes on Netflix, but having actually been to the real Action Park in my youth, and been following the blog of a group of former employees, your review told me everything I needed to know: It's overly sensationalized, just like every modern article or video about the park is. What has been said has been said a hundred times before and by better people. Only one and a half of the six deaths could be in any way attributed to the park (the flipped kayak electrocution, the half being the cold-water-shock induced heart attack); the others were all due to the individuals inability to control their own experience, which was the entire purpose of Action Park, and honestly something the world needs a whole lot more of (personal responsibility) these days.

Or they're so desperate for income they need to stay open.

I guess we just have different tolerances for things. I had FTU at Hershey and didn't wait more than 10-15 minutes for any ride that I can recall (except the Lazy River LOL), but I definitely bypassed some 30-60 minute waits for Great Bear and Fahrenheit, and much fewer people were respecting social distancing markers than at CP. It seemed like there were a lot more people at Hershey than at CP overall. And their waterpark was a disaster, which probably soured me on the day to be honest.

In their defense, CP was much more tolerable earlier in the year on weekdays. I had a much more enjoyable time at CP during my two trips this summer (Mon-Wed in July and Sun-Tues in August) than I did at Hershey on a Tuesday in August. Honestly going now should be looked at like going during a normal October Saturday - things are going to be painful.

I posted a picture halfway through my report two pages ago.

Like I just said that wasn't our experience at all last weekend. They took the ride's maximum capacity from 36 with 3 trains to 12 with 2 trains. It's realistically doing like 400 riders per hour and it's capacity is the same or worse than Maverick this year with covid. Most of the coasters had lines between 30-60 minutes even though they all should have been walk-ons or near walk-ons. Also, Demon Drop had a 30 minute wait at the end of the night which was hilarious, but they're also only running 3 cars on it. Dominator down was a walk-on and waiting for riders while that was happening which made me happy though. Oh, and Thunderhawk's new capacity is 8 riders per train... maximum, but they can't group single riders so probably like 6 or 7 all so they can create needlessly long lines of people not social distancing or wearing masks where the park makes no attempt to enforce it in the name of social distancing. *shrug* That's the exact opposite of what I experienced when I visited in July, though it was a Friday. Yes, the social distancing measures were the same (2/3rds of rows blocked on Thunderhawk and Steel Force, half the rows on the B&Ms), but the crowds were just not there. I waited around 15 minutes for Talon and Steel Force but everything else I went on was a walk-on.

There was nothing happening there when I went in July. Honestly I wouldn't expect any major ride installations at any park for a few years with the hit they've taken due to COVID.

Joke question, right? It's Dorney. You might wait 10 minutes for Steel Force, and that's only due to the COVID protocols.

We should just rename this thread "Hurricanes that hit the gulf" LOL.

No idea. The park hasn't said anything. It looks like they may have been trying to get it going, since when I was there on Tuesday the trains were parked in the station and what appeared to be the brake run, but it could have been a storage track. It is notable that on the website it's listed as "Temporarily Closed" as opposed to Storm Runner which is listed as "Closed for the Season."

When exiting the park, single-day ticket holders get a re-entry ticket from someone handing them out at the exit. As for your second question, no idea how they stop people from gaming the system.

I would say yes, because my personal tolerance for lines is like 15 minutes during normal times, let alone COVID. When I last went in 2017 on a July Saturday, no line (in the dry park) was longer than an hour. So, if you can deal with that, then no, it's not a necessity. If you don't want multiple rides on certain coasters (namely Fahrenheit, Great Bear, Laff Trakk, and Canymonium), the non-unlimited Fast Track is probably a good middle-ground option.