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I was considering getting a Dorney Pass plus passport before but if the legacy SF memberships are staying the same then I'm absolutely keeping it just for the meal plan alone. Probably would be a LOT more than $16 per month if I cancelled it

My question to that is as of 1/6/25, do you need the passport to get into legacy Six Flags parks if your legacy membership already gets you into all parks? I'm kind of confused about that. I mean I'll probably buy it anyway for the Cedar Fair end of things but it seems a bit vague on if legacy memberships will be valid at all legacy Six Flags parks next year like they have been. My 4x use of the word legacy makes this a very pertigiois post. Very premium. (I had rewrite that 3 times to get my phone to not autocorrect it to prestigious lol)

Not sure if there's a Gillian's thread somewhere way back (tried searching, no luck so figured I'd post it here). Gillians just announced that they are closing at the end of this summer. Obviously it's the significantly worse of the two Ocean City parks, but it will be strange not seeing that large Ferris Wheel on the ride in (assuming it isn't too rusty to take down). I will actually be down there this weekend and hope to finally get the Flume credit that I didn't get last time and maybe check out the Dark Ride.

Looks like we'll find out on 8/15. It's Steampunk so that pretty much confirms something will be going in Goliath's spot and they'll be retheming Crackaxle.

Alright, maybe it was a slight troll on my part but there are parks out there that like to out-Six Flags some Six Flags parks. If every park everywhere just tried to emulate Kings Island then no one would ever need to complain about anything.

Right now the listed hours have me taking my last ride of the year on Nitro at 8pm on January 1st. I know it's Six Flags and the hours are extremely subject to change, but I don't see it outright being cancelled. Could it be the last year of it? I ask myself that every year, but I hope it continues for many years to come because it's the best time to be at the park.

But those are more "Kings Island" things (and other top tier CF parks). I sat down to eat 3 times at Dorney last week in 3 different places and each one was absolutely filthy. And the food was garbage. Hopefully Six Flags cleans up the place Cedar Fair definitely has it's haves and have nots. Six Flag's haves have a lot less good about them, but their have nots are mostly better than the worst CF parks in my experience.

I'm kinda hoping they open it sometime during HITP just to screw with everyone and still be able to say "we opened it in 2024!"

Get ready for Aquaman: Power Splash

I mean, ~20% of the people in the parks are dressed in robes any given day. The wand shops and other HP merchandise stores print money. They are by far the most crowded areas of both their parks on any given day. Why wouldn't they incorporate it into the new park? Using Fantastic Beasts might be a bit of a gamble, but it's kind of moot when many people (myself included) are interested to see how insane the Ministry looks. Let's be honest, without Harry Potter Universal would not be directly competing with Disney as they are about to be with the new park.

I hope that people in the 3 day line for Batman can get off the ride in time to go to the town meeting. As to the rumor above, the last time that Six Flags worked with Intamin (outside of that disasterous free spin at Magic Mountain) was El Toro. So not sure if I buy it, but I guess we'll know more Thursday night or whenever that meeting is.

Yo, Great Adventure! It's too bad...social media, Reddit, etc are cesspools and like you said it's so much more work to sift through the bullshit to actually get reputable information. On forums you know who's who and the best people to get info from about certain things. Those people exist to a point on social media pages, but good luck finding them amongst the hundreds of spam and nonsense messages that the good posts are buried in. The good news is there is still a good amount of posting here regarding new announcements and things of that sort, but unfortunately the day to day updates and discussions have gone by the wayside. Same is true for most online forums.

I would be pleasantly surprised if they went with a coaster over a waterpark addition next year. Maybe they'll both so they can recycle that "one wet, one wild" thing they used to do back in the day. If they go with the family coaster hopefully it's something with decent capacity. The last two family coasters added have been mouse and spinning mouse. A straddle coaster at SFNE would have a throughout of about 18 riders per hour. Edit: Randomly checked queue times for no reason and...I hope everyone in line now enjoys riding Batman on Thursday!

Sorry I totally forgot to grab a pic while I was there. The track itself is built but I didn't see any sign of a ride vehicle. Knoebels has been known to open new rides in like October right before they close, but also took 7 years to open Flying Turns so you never know if it will be open by next week or next year or 2030. Good news is if it's not open and you get bored, you could always go check out the world famous Shamokin Dunkin Donuts!

Fun day at Dorney yesterday! Did a loop of the park to start (which takes all of an hour and a half at Dorney) and then spent a lot of time on the many classic flat rides that they still have. Everyone shits on this place but honestly as someone who has SFNE as a home park, I would trade in a heartbeat. Flat rides are important, and the fact that Dorney still has an Enterprise, Whip, Tilt-a-whirl, and whatever the hell Apollo is supposed to be is really awesome to me. As far as coasters go, Steel Force was actually running really well, with abundant ejector in the 3rd row on the return hops, and even some good moments in the first half. No one is gonna confuse it with Magnum, but it definitely wasn't keeping to the Steel Forceless moniker. Iron Menace was pretty good, quite intense for a Dive Coaster. However a few posts back someone said it's kind of redundant in the same park as Hydra and I can't help but agree. They ride almost exactly the same. They probably would've been better off with that rumored switchback woodie in that spot. But hey, at least Dorney finally got something new and the theming is great. It's almost bizarroworld how in the past couple years BGW built a totally unthemed coaster in an open field and meanwhile Dorney nicely themed something. Talon, Hydra, Possessed, Thunderhawk all running pretty normal. That death trim on Thunderhawk is really a killer, those ending bunny hops would probably be really good! I finally rode the Flume for the first time. It's basically a brother to Lake Compounce's flume, with the nice layout on the hillside and complete with the terrible capacity! I got drenched by a rogue wave in the section before the big drop (riding alone, mind you) and other people were coming off almost totally dry, so good luck figuring this one out. The real star of Dorney is Demon Drop, which I rode probably 6 or 7 times. I loved these 1st gens as a kid, and was sad when Cedar Point announced they were removing it as it was the only one remaining on this side of the country. For some reason, instead of scrapping it like everyone else did with their 1st gens, they moved it to Dorney where 15 years later it still operates somehow. The thing looks, feels, and sounds like a deathtrap but it's just so much fun. Even ran into Bill and Brit on one ride who also stopped in to partake in some 1st gen goodness. My two biggest negatives on this park are the ops and the cleanliness. The ops are slow (which is fine at this place) and also love to chain off the stations for 3 minutes at a time while trains dispatch half empty and a line builds up outside the station (I saw this happen at Talon, Hydra, and Steel Force). This made no sense to me. Also, if you're planning on eating at Dorney expect to sit at a dirty and sticky table. Never saw a single table get cleaned all day. Hopefully Six Flags improves the cleanliness. Unfortunately my PA swing is over but it was a great time! If there ends up being a Six Flags mega pass next year I could definitely see myself at Dorney more often, mainly to ride Demon Drop a bunch of times.

Great day as always at Knoebels! Moderate crowds and thankfully the humidity that was plaguing the northeast the past few days was replaced by a refreshing breeze for most of the day. Twister was running immaculately today. Last time I was here it was getting a little rough but they've obviously done some great work to it in the past few years. Ejector pops in front, great laterals throughout, and it was hauling through that double helix with no shuffling. Phoenix fun as always, although I think I actually preferred Twister today with it running in perfect condition. I wish they would run two trains on these to really make them lapable, that's the one thing that they never seem to do that would really make the day even more awesome. Don't always make it on Flying Turns or Impulse, but got great rides on both today with not so bad wait times. Flyers, Stratosfear, Bumper Cars, etc phenomenal as always. Unfortunately never made it on the Carousel. Also the Flume was closed all day which was a bummer. Kosmotron seemed to be running slower than ever. Kind of a lame excuse for a Music Express type ride. Also rode Rotojet which I ended up in a broken jet that would not raise more than 1/4 way and caused a rather uncomfortable ride. Bayern Curve, Power Surge, and Paratrooper seem to be on a Six Flags maintenance schedule. I don't think any of them are actually going to open this year. Psyched for whenever they do get Bayern Curve up and running. Pierogies and Pizza delicious as always! Off to Dorney tomorrow. Iron Menace will be cool. Talon and Steel Force will be fun. But the real star of the show is Demon Drop. Riding a Larson Tower and an Intamin 1st Gen on back to back days makes me want to move to NE PA! Finally, going back a page we were having a discussion on Sheetz vs Wawa. Turns out there's another option in central PA as well called Rutters. You guys have it f*cking made with good gas station eats around here. I don't want to go home to my shitty Cumberland Farms.

So I guess it's not necessarily that the airtime is any less, it's more that the new restraints obviously contact your lap/waist area a lot more instead of your thighs and allow for less upper body movement. The old restraints were so unconventional that they kind of added to the intensity because your torso was able to get thrown around a lot more by the forces of the ride.

It used to have intentions on sending you to Pluto. Saturn is still pretty far though

Nervous start to today with Wildcat still down in the AM but they got it running a little after 1. Park was busy feeling today but walk ons almost everywhere. Wildcat's Revenge is a different feeling RMC, with more of a focus on insane laterals that are especially intense at the end of the ride. Quite a feel nearly unbanked and sharp turns. Some good airtime and overall a nice ride. Not sure if I put it above the two good Intamins (sorry Fahrenheit, you're okay but not god tier like the other two) but an awesome addition to an already stacked park. Storm Runner was closed for me in 2020 and I made sure to lap it like crazy today as it was a total walk on. Forgot how much of a masterpiece this is outside of it being super short. I like how each part of the train offers different experiences. Front gives you great ejector on the top hat and before the barrel roll. Middle gives you bone crushing positives in the saddles. Back gives great air off the back of the top hat and really accentuates the twisting dive near the end of the ride. What can I say, no one creates masterpieces like Intamin. Mediocre Bear running fast today with some good positives in the first half. Just wish it did something...anything...in the second half. Maybe a 3 train wait midday. Coal Cracker and SDL total walkons. I'm growing to hate PTC single lapbars. Comet stapled me to hell. Still a really fun ride, but I'll be on Phoenix in about 16 hours so one and done on this. 3 train wait which is about as little as I've ever waited for it. Skyrush only running 1 train but still only a 3 or 4 train wait. I purposely stapled myself which kinda helped it feel like the old thing lol. It's still amazing. Just neutered a bit. Fahrenheit had a pretty short wait when I was in the area so I grabbed a back seat ride. It's super underrated, yet super overshadowed in this park. Just wish they wouldn't run 3 trains on it and make you sit for 4 minutes before you can get off. Candymonium... whatever. Usually a B&M hyper is the best ride in any given park. This barely cracks the top 5 here. There's no such thing as a bad B&M hyper but this is the weakest. But I'm glad everyone stands in line for this and makes the lines for the Intamins and Wildcat shorter.

So far tonight I've waited through a Skyrush breakdown, a Storm Runner breakdown, and then went over to Wildcat's Revenge to find it totally deserted and clearly closed for the day. No mention of that on the website. Did Six Flags aquire Hershey too? I really hope it's open tomorrow because that would be a very disappointing 6 hour ride home. The new restraints on Skyrush neuter the intensity quite a bit. Was always my favorite Intamin but it no longer has the insanity that the old restraints gave it.

How have weekdays been crowd wise? Queue Times is useless at this park. Wildcat's Revenge isn't even listed. Usually I use preview night to power ride Skyrush and Storm Runner and then rope drop Fahrenheit the next morning. Does Wildcat's Revenge get insane lines after the water park closes or should I try to get to that end of the park on preview night instead?

I'm guessing there's still that one new lawn ornament to the right of the entrance gate that was not open. Maybe they're just waiting for Holiday in the Park.

Rode a coaster for the first time since February tonight. And that was the extent of my night. Intended on hitting the park from 6 till closing but as soon as I turned into the parking lot, I noticed that mother nature was about to have other ideas. I quickly marched into the park and only waited 2 trains for a front row ride on Superman with sprinkles starting to fall. Running great as always on a hot July evening. When we hit the brakes they were dumping the train in front of us due to the incoming storm. Had dinner at JBs and upon looking at the radar it became clear that the storm just to the west had no intentions of moving anywhere. Close enough to stay down for lightning, but not close enough to bring any heavy rain in so we figured we should just head out while it was still dry. Good to be back in the park for 40 mins, I suppose. Nothing else to really report. Like I said it was my first time this year but from what I could see there was absolutely nothing new to report. Obviously I didn't walk around very much, but I don't think I really missed anything.

Why is everyone all up in arms? Once Six Flags officially merges in, there will be no more free lockers anyway. Cedar Point will basically be Great Adventure without the Saturday night fistfights

There is a new(ish) casino called "Ocean" that took over a few years after Revel closed. The giant escalator and rooftop terrace are pretty cool but otherwise a pretty forgettable property IMO. And no there is no giant water park or ferries to Manhattan or whatever other pipe dreams they thought of 10 years ago. From a casino standpoint, other than Borgata, there's nothing really worth visiting in AC anyway. And if you're not a casino fan, just wave as you drive by on your way to Ocean City and Wildwood.