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What a bummer for the holiday weekend visitors. Hopefully it's fixed by mid week. I want to hit the park on Wednesday Ouch, today was supposed to be the official public opening..sucks for all the GP that came down to ride it. I was considering popping in today too, glad I didn't.

i just went on it for the first time friday, and the guy let me sit in the back. If you've been getting row preference on Gold Striker you've been unusually lucky. Due to the small station size they almost always mandate seating. In my experience they kinda go overboard with it mandating seating even with no line and practically empty trains.

Yeah the checking system seems to be a little different, I noticed the ops having a bit of difficulty communicating when they wanted to recheck a seat or row not able to hear themselves over the evil repeating music...they'll come up with a signal system and get that down soon no doubt. I asked about the seemingly crazy high number of riders preboarding through the exit and was told that though a few were people coming back that were on the ride when it broke down earlier (I dont think you should get exit passes for that on a ride's first day, but that's just my opinion) most were ADA riders. I think there were a fair few that decided to just use the ADA line to skip the wait.

Tell him to wait for me to get back down there damn it! Ride went down with me in the front of the line so I don't want to leave, I want to get one more lap in.

The music in the station is going to drive every one mad though. Extreme theming?

I'm in line for lap 4, my first three laps were middle row, back row, and front row. Back row SO much better. Haven't met anyone here yet that disagrees. I got here right before it came back and has been running one train so it's like 40 min waits now. So worth it though. I'm staying till they throw me out.

First impression: Better than Twisted Colossus. That was all kinds of awesome.

Jokers down at the moment.. acknowledge. I'm told they plan on reopening before the park closes though so I'm just going to loiter around...

Ill be there by about a quarter to 6pm in my Club TPR shirt. If that's only enough time to ride Joker once, that's fine by me.

Very packed. And a big yes on the flash pass. I second this, it's going to be a mad house. This is one of the few weekends where I would say to just buy your flash pass online before you get there. No question you'll need it and selling it out is a possibility. I also recommend splurging on the platinum.

Interesting now that you mention it, the park is listed as opening at 10:30, I would guess that means that 9-10:30 is just essentially passholder Joker ERT, but if you're going I'd call the park first to get confirmation.

From the newsletter: So basically, passholders can ride all day Friday and Saturday from 9-1, but in order to have access from 1pm to 9pm on Saturday you have to have a pass AND purchase a T-Shirt. I think I'll go on Friday.

You can use your pass like normal for admission and parking (if gold). Unlike MM, DK doesn't have a gold pass line at the front gate. Once they open the front gate, they do rope drops into the major areas. Gold passes gain entry past the rope to the Kong/Medusa area ~10 min early, but most often you just get to go to the front of the Medusa line and wait another 10min for them to finish testing.

That Kong article was hilarious. I'm pretty much Kong's biggest fan and even I was reading it like "Yeah, right, no one likes Kong THAT much."

Mediocre coaster in a fantastic park. Shrug indeed.

And just like that, I'm headed to the Boardwalk on Monday... can't wait! Incidentally.. if you look up SCBB on Google Maps you'll notice the satellite photo was taken while Undertow was under construction and you can see all the track pieces in the parking lot across the street. Kinda cool.

Yeah normally you could wait until the afternoon to ride X2 when the line dies, but if it's only running 1 train that won't happen, so hit it first. I also recommend hitting Superman right after if you don't have a platinum flash pass.

Nice TR, I really need to get back to the beach some time soon while it's nice out there.

Joker's first test run happened this morning! https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdiscoverykingdom%2Fvideos%2F10154160024497743%2F&show_text=0&width=560

You're checked in individually when you enter the stations, so yes it would be $250 for two people. They monitor flash pass entries very closely any time there's a line. Platinum pass holders used to have to have a wristband with their fob too, but I'm not sure if they did away with that recently.

Yeah, I am usually good about avoiding exceptionally busy days, so that probably adds to it. But like scooter says, if this is your first time, you're short on time while in the park, or you might never come back, then just splurge on the platinum and relax. Personally for me once they made Superman a platinum only attraction, that may have nudged me into the platinum camp, because Superman for me is my least enjoyable queues. It's cramped and slow moving (especially in the "short" lane) and if the A/C isnt working can get nasty hot and smelly in there.

I know that's what they advertise, but in my experience over several years with people with both platinum and gold passes, the platinum and gold passes almost always show rides ready at virtually the same time. There might be more of a difference on exceptionally busy days, but there hasn't been on any normal day.The platinum pass is still worth it for the other things it provides, and I might get one for the first time this year for that reason.

You really cant have it both ways. The cheap way would be to get a gold flash pass and hit the excluded coasters strategically, but then you wont be able to ride everything in 5 hours. If you want to ride every coaster in 5 hours, (especially in June), you're probably going to need the platinum pass. In my experience the wait time is about the same as gold, but you need the platinum pass to buy the reservations on a coaster or two and if I remember right there are a few coasters that are just "platinum fp only" this year that dont actually require a reservation. I think Superman is one of those.

Demon actually stays pretty cool in the station, lots of tree cover. The front of the queue is partially covered, only the back is wide open. Flight Deck's station is brutal though. The man ride op is in a covered shed but everyone else is in the sun, and those plywood walls just amplify the sun too.

It is quite faded, but fortunately the colors used still look fine when faded. Much like Flight Deck at CGA when it was black, even when it faded it still looked "natural". Tatsu at SFMM is an example of the opposite, it badly badly needs a paint.