AmyUD06

Haha. Nice.

Where are they going? What's your source, Little Miss 9 posts?

Probably because that whole section of the park isn't open?

In the shop page, it lists the attractions that its valid on.

Be warned, from 6 years of working at the park, the Orthodox Jewish days were some of the busiest at the park. Not sure if that has anything to do with Yom Kippur but if it does...yeah have fun. I'll reserve my comments about the behavior of those attendees as to not offend.

I don't believe that's chain-wide, just some parks (like Great Adventure). I could be wrong though. But yeah, it's a little nuts.

For only $35 I'd say it's totally worth it. You'll be able to skip all of the other lines too. Honestly Twisted Timbers will possibly be towards the shorter length lines out of the 8 rides that are on the Winterfest FL. Can't be sure since it wasn't open last year.

Wow. I've never had that happen to me in any of the flashlight mazes I've been through at CF parks despite shining the light every which way.

I'm pretty sure the actor was messing with you when they told you to only shine the light on the ground.

For the record, I had two rides on Vortex this morning; first one was front-row with the entire train to myself. The second was in the very back row with maybe 10 other people in the train. There is nothing wrong with this coaster. Yes, it's not glass smooth like a brand-new RMC, but its still less brutal than Racer is. Using the "Arrow trick" of keeping your head in front of the restraint to avoid headbanging helps.

Yeah, young teenagers was the kinda riff-raff I was referring to.

Most High Schools in Central Jersey go through mid-June, so you should be good on crowds in that regard. That said, you'll be good on crowds, meaning the park will be pretty dead, meaning if there's a slight drizzle they'll close early. As for Flash Pass, I frequently go to parks by myself, and almost always splurge for the skip-the-line pass. Standing in any kind of line by yourself is still kinda weird to me, and there's only so much surfing the internet on your phone that you can do. Boldikus will surely reply with more details.

I personally was not excited about the combined pass, since I have little desire to go to any SF Parks that I've already been to, and the (presumably) lower price point would bring in more riff-raff (and crowds in general) than the current CF Platinum pass does. Though I have to say, after spending a truly great evening at KI tonight, the lower-priced CF-park-specific Gold Pass is not helping the crowd issues.

EDIT: Mistaken

Where did I personally insult you? Several posters were flipping out about this and the Mindbender incident. I understand metal fatigue just fine, I just don't see any correlation between something that happened on a ride when it had probably 1/100th of the amount of cycles that this one did. No one (on this forum at least) knows what happened here, so to assume that it MUST be the same as what happened on Mindbender is ridiculous. I completely acknowledged that they MIGHT be the same situation, by my use of the word "possibly" as the second word of my first sentence. Perhaps "gullible" wasn't the right word. I had originally typed out something far more hostile. EDIT: At least I didn't go in to my usual commentary regarding rides in third world countries.

Kinda glad I haven't renewed my Platinum Pass yet if this turns out to actually happen. I'm truly dreading this, mostly for the prospect of them eliminating the (IMHO) vastly superior skip-the-line system that CF uses and how the parks will fare in the future. I don't go to Six Flags parks for a reason despite there being two of them closer to me than the nearest CF park. EDIT: The only way I could see this being beneficial for the consumer is if SF buys CF, but retains CF's entire management team and none from Six Flags, and changes nothing at existing CF parks. Sadly I don't see that happening.

Two possibly-but-not-definitely related accidents separated by 30+ years. Yeah, there's totally a connection there. Seriously how gullible are you people?

Batman & Robin: The Chiller says hi. Though technically it did open for a few days/one week in '97 before being reintroduced as the "New for '98" ride next year.

After riding on the new-generation Vekoma trains with the vest restraints, I feel that every Arrow looper needs these desperately. I get that roughness complaints probably didn't lead to Vortex's demise, but yeah...

In short, yeah today was a lot better. Temperature was manageable up until 3 (when I left), minimal crowds. Fury is a kickass ride, and Copperhead was a lot of fun if not super-intense. I did splurge for FL+ but ended up not needing it except for a few rides (Fury, Nighthawk, Flying Cobras come to mind). Probably won't go back tonight for Scarowinds again, since I hit all of the Halloween stuff last night, but I'll probably go back tomorrow morning for some more rides on Fury and Copperhead before it gets too crowded/hot. Full trip report/review coming soon.

That is a common practice? My apologies then; this is my first time encountering a park that kicks people out and then "re-opens" the same day. I still think they shouldn't be charging full price when the pass is only valid for half the day. And yeah, I was kinda pissed when I wrote that. I'm going in to the day with a completely open mind and we'll see how it goes.

A shame. When I rode in in 2017, it was plenty smooth and didn't have any of the traditional arrow headbanging like I'd get on something like GASM at SFGAdv. Has it really gotten that bad in two years?

Back from my first night at (S)Carowinds. Initial thoughts: -Mazes were kinda meh; not enough scareactors. though at least they were grouping people instead of sending lines straight through. Did 4 of the 5, without Fright Lane. Longest I waited was about 20 minutes; Urgent Scare looked to be 30-45 by the time I got to it, and since that theme has been done at KD/Dorney in the past, I decided to skip it. -Got on my first Intamin 2nd gen drop tower...quite impressive. It felt for a moment that it wouldn't stop falling. -Didn't feel like waiting in any other lines after making a 6 hour drive to get here, so I didn't go on any other rides, figuring I'd save that for tomorrow when I've got Fast Lane. -Half of the employees I encountered seemed like they hated their life. What happened to "Southern Hospitality"? I did learn however that apparently on weekends, they close the park at 5, force everyone out, and then re-open it as Scarowinds. That doesn't seem to bad on its own...but FL/FL+ passes purchased during the day are not valid for that night. I get they need to make money, but that is seriously messed up and has soured me on the park greatly, especially since they're charging full price for FL during the day when the time of use has been cut in half. That said, I'm still keeping an open mind, and we'll see how tomorrow goes. Fury, Afterburn, and Copperhead better blow me away.

"Every 15 minutes" is the type of exaggeration and sensationalizing I was talking about. There was not. One was in fact able to walk away if unwilling to jump. You're right about them waiting for the pool to clear, though.

During my past Haunt visits, even before Winterfest, it hasn't been open at night.