Canobie Coaster

Looks like Phantom's Revenge is now on the temporarily closed list. This park can't catch a break with signature rides being closed.

^ Last Friday, Superman and Wicked Cyclone still had hour plus waits due to the reduced capacity. Six Flags New England is dropping the mask mandate starting on Saturday for vaccinated guests, so I suspect they may start loading all rows on rides sooner rather than later. I think every Six Flags park that reopened started by skipping rows and gradually switching to loading each row.

I was at the park again this weekend and there are two observations I wanted to note. First, while the park was still skipping rows on several rides, the operators were trying to pair single riders up. I was asked to be paired on both Wicked Cyclone and Superman. I didn't mind since I'm fully vaccinated, but it's puzzling the park is skipping rows on rides but willing to pair different parties in the same row. Two, Goliath's sign was removed.

I'm seeing a few posts online that Intimidator 305's cable may have snapped. Is anyone there to confirm? It's listed as closed on Queue Times.

Glad to see Steel Curtain open again! Any idea what's wrong with Black Widow? I think that ride has been closed for longer than Steel Curtain at this point.

For an initial test, Jersey Devil was moving very fast. Those drops in the back row should be crazy.

I agree Velocicoaster is amazing. I got several rides on it this past week. I also didn't mind waiting in that queue line one bit because the outdoor section had fantastic views of the coaster and the indoor section has a lot of cool items and videos to look at. Plus, the line flies. Usually I only waited about half the posted time unless the ride broke down (which it only did once for me in all the times I rode it).

The section being replaced appears to be the second drop, so it's definitely not to add a second train. Maybe they thought it was running too smoothly and they wanted it to better train young guests for the older, rougher coasters.

There is a photo floating around of Slime Streak missing track. Seems like they may be retracking a section of it already?

^ I was the one in the Waldameer shirt. I definitely saw you a few times. Scream was running one of the back towers in space shot mode around 6 pm when I was heading towards Wicked Cyclone. It was shocking how fast Superman's crew was getting trains out considering it has been a long time since the park last opened.

For Wicked Cyclone, they allowed you to wait by the turnstile if you wanted either the front or back (at least the operator between 6-7:30).

As many of us expected, Six Flags New England is skipping rows on Superman and Wicked Cyclone. What did surprise me tonight is that they are allowing guests to wait for specific rows. Superman is absolutely flying right now considering it's the first day it has run with guests in a long time.

My goal tonight is to just get a handful of rides on Wicked Cyclone and Superman.

I'm excited to hear how the lockers turn out since I heard Cedar Fair did something similar with Twisted Timbers. I'm glad the park listened to guest feedback and found (what's likely to be) a better solution.

Storm Runner has not opened yet. When I was there last week, the train had water dummies loaded on the train. As far as I can tell, no one has seen it test yet.

That's great to see Alpengeist is confirmed as open on weekends now.

I think one of the big differences with Velocicoaster is that it was a ride type Intamin has built several times (LSM multilaunch). Most of their unreliable rides are either prototypes or things no one else would build like Ka or Dragster.

Speaking of that, one dark horse I have for that record breaking Gerstlauer is Lake Compounce. In the past they had looked at adding a spinning coaster and I think that mountain terrain would count as a challenging location. They could build a spinner that's larger than Shredder to take that ride's records. I'm just being optimistic today between that and two train Boulder Dash operations.

The optimist in me says they're doing this so they can transfer a second train on without having to dispatch the first from the station. The realist in me suspects the control system just broke and they waited until the last minute to replace it. On the bright side, every other ride was open including Thunder Rapids. That ride was closed all of last year and rarely runs outside of peak season due to its asinine location.

Today was Lake Compounce's opening day. Unfortunately, Boulder Dash is closed until next weekend since it's waiting on a new control system.

Ok thanks! Most of my past visits were too last minute to reserve.

I've never done the membership preferred parking at Six Flags New England before. It is the lot on the side of the street where they put people for the Holiday in the Park Lights event or do I got to the main parking area?

And I'm reading some reports they have the single rider line open. I think it'll be interesting if it switches to a virtual queue at any point during the soft oepning, especially this weekend if people suspect it'll open again.

Ah ok. I'm usually pretty luck while in line for Ka (getting into line is the issue) so I never realized they parked on that side.

I was surprised Kingda Ka was down as well, but it allowed me to focus on El Toro and get nearly 30 rides on it. From atop El Toro's lift, I noticed Kingda Ka had a train parked on the side of the dual load platform that hasn't operated in years. When Kingda Ka is closed, do they usually park trains on that side of the station? The reason I ask is because if people did see Kingda Ka and Zumanjaro operating together, maybe they're thinking of bringing back the dual load platform on Kingda Ka to boost its throughput.