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Nope, all I can do is laugh at their stupidity at this point. I gave up on this place with everything besides their coasters.

Oh good Six Flags is honoring RT by letting its trains rot on the last "unmovable" piece of track left. You can now view it from Zumanjaro's obnoxiously overlong queue line that never even comes close to being filled.

^ No I actually complain that I can't ride Rolling Thunder anymore. I rather them take that 1 million and give RT a refurbishment, at least there would still be a intermediate coaster for the kids to ride. Thats my take.

The popular coasters being on the left side of the park isn't even necessarily true. Nitro is on the right side of the park, which annually pulls in more riders in a summer season then some coasters do that operate at year round parks. They could do a refurbishment of the neglected looking Congo Rapids but I doubt it. Or perhaps do something about that vacant eyesore that is the waterfront arena, the same could be said about the arena that is vacant in movie town. Instead we got a Super-Loop, because that is the immediate answer to the parks many glaring problems. Make the place look respectable, then add your carnival flat and advertise it as a coaster. I will gladly take Great American Scream Machine and Rolling Thunder over a Super-loop and Green Lantern. Someone before was crying about how the park bounced back from nearly closing in the 80's. You can thank Scream Machine for that or else we possibly wouldn't have El Toro or Nitro or any coaster that has come after that.

You're placing the blame of Premier's management on modern day Six Flags. Six Flags in '99 through the early 2000's doesn't even resemble the Six Flags of today. Great Adventure went in over their heads adding more rides than they knew what to do with, could staff, or even maintain. Some of these rides were earlier models, meaning they were very unreliable. These were slowly removed after standing SBNO for a while, while others were replaced with rides you are saying the park needs more of. You know, that little known ride we call El Toro? Yes, it is true that many were just removed. Shipped to other parks. Packed up into the junkyard. This was the doing of 1999-2005 Six Flags. Not 2010-present Six Flags. Today, management realizes the park isn't all about coasters. They recognize the importance of a fairly well rounded experience, all done responsibly, meaning not $42 million in a single year. What I'm trying to say is the past is the past. It's over. Six Flags is doing what they see best for the park, and you know what? I think that's pretty damn good for a park that came within months of folding in the late '80's and filed for bankruptcy less than 10 years ago. Did we ignore the part where I said the park has always been plagued by bad management basically meaning every era ever? Look at the park its a gigantic hodgepodge of dead ends and themed area's that make no sense due to the mismanagement of everyone whose ever owned the park. The infrastructure is disgusting, most parts of the park look run-down. How about putting money into that? Look at Movie Town it has been reduced to TDK, Batman and an empty theater to accompany them. Why the hell wouldn't they put a new flat in pathetic movie town instead of backend of the park, an area that has gotten the most attention over the past 5-10 years while they've left the original area of the park to rot with the exception of adding the Sky Screamer a few years back. I will admit I've been a season pass holder for the past 5 years but thats solely due to the coaster collection they have to offer and that I live 45 minutes away. I refuse to sit here and defend Great Adventure being a good park minus its coaster collection. P.S. How about a vending machine that works? My friend couldn't even buy an overpriced soda the other due to the fact that the machine couldn't accept any sort of bills.

Wonderful, it should look great when it is all done and ready to go. Can always count on Busch to never disappoint in that department.

^ Remember when Six Flags added all those flat rides for the "War on Lines"? Then they ripped out those same flats not even 10 years in and now are spending money on MORE flats they could have still had. Looping Starship could have easily been relocated to another area of the park along with many of those flats. As far as Rolling Thunder is concerned, yea it may have been beyond repair but whose fault is that? The park's management. Maybe if they cared about their classic attractions a bit more and put some effort into maintaining them throughout the years those problems could have been avoided. Lets not beat around the bush here, this park has always been plagued by poor management. They do everything backwards. I'm just pointing out the obvious. Be Better Six Flags.

Six Flags should have never got rid of all their other inverting flats in the first place. Almost every flat they added during "The War on Lines" is gone now. They barely lasted 10 years. As for Rolling Thunder you could have always expanded behind El Toro by going through the large chunk of land that is behind Bizzaro. That area could use the much needed traffic anyway.

I know I may catch some heat for this statement but I hate it lol. It just reminds me too much of a cheap carnival ride. I can't believe they removed Rolling Thunder for this garbage and Zumanjaro's queue. There was no way they could get away with making it shorter?

(Sorry for double post) But has there been any word on what theming and landscaping will be done around the ride?

Yea you can kiss Joker's Jinx goodbye until July at the very least.

Boom! via All-American Thrills FB Does this take the record for fastest assembling of a coaster ever?

I've been saying this forever. They need a family coaster that kids and adults can both enjoy. I think a GCI in the Old Country would work beautifully. That being said in my dream world I would have a Premier remake of the Chiller

Meh. Next coaster at this park needs to be something unique, or bigger and badder than everything else. Thats the "Great Adventure Way." I do not, I repeat DO NOT want another B&M lol.

I agree, but nobody said that. I said it was one of the worst RUN parks... which it is. Also a stretch with this. SFNE is very temperamental. Some days are great, the others are bad or just average. I agree with it being temperamental. My visit was extremely pleasant, I must have caught them on a good day.

Thats the funny part. It really wasn't opening day kinks, it was the same problem that always plagues its operations.

Calling this place one of the worst parks is such a stretch. Im not going to sit here and say it is an amazing park but I know for a fact it isn't even close to the worst. Once Wicked Cyclone opens I'm sure i'll be seeing those same people saying how awesome it is. But thats how the cookie crumbles.

Im posting this trip report a bit late but I too attended opening day yesterday with Genx24. We arrived at the park for opening and there was a light rain which wasn't too bad. The first thing I noticed was a new lane for people without bags which they finally added 40 years too late. Once security let us leave main street we shot over to take our season opening spin on Nitro.....But it was closed. So we headed over to Batman to start our day. After Batman we walked over to TDK and took a spin on that. By the time we go off Dark Knight, Nitro had opened. We then proceeded to Skully and got two quick rides in on that. The Sky Ride was open so we chose to be lazy an take that to the other side of the park instead of walking. The rain was pretty steady at that point as we rode Mine Train, Bizzaro and El Toro. I noticed Ka was running and Zumanjaro testing but it was extremely sporadic, not allowing us to get a ride in on Kingda Ka. By the time we rode Green Lantern it was raining hard and we called it a day. It was a solid 4 hours in the park and not bad for opening day. Wish it was nicer though so we could have ridden a few more things. On to the ride reviews: Batman The Ride: Fine wine. The older this ride gets the more and more it seems to kick some serious behind. Still smooth and intense, just were it left off from last season. Batman The Ride is really a testimony to how awesome B&M used to be, it is still one of my top 3 favorites in the park. "They don't make them like they used too." The Dark Knight: One of the weaker mouse clones to begin with but it was even more lame with the lights on and no theming working. How Six Flags of them. Nitro: The one train operations early on really left me scratching my head. I noticed that the only train running was the C train which gave some of the worst rides I've ever had on Nitro last season. I was bracing myself for a nice B&M rattle but then to my surprise I saw that the train had new wheels which helped the train's performance immensely. It wasn't Nitro's fastest ride but it was the smoothest ride I've had on it in awhile. Once these wheels are broken in a bit more it should be delivering high quality rides. Skull Mountain: Always a fun time, we got to ride twice without leaving the station. I always wanted to ride it with the lights on cause its so dark in the building I really have no idea where the track is going. Mine Train: One of my favorites in the park seeing it is one of two classic coasters I consider left in the park (The other being Batman The Ride) since they removed RT and GASM. Of course Six Flags had to pull a Six Flags and paint one of the trains a gross neon green with an advertisement on it. I was calling it the "EDM Coaster" all day. It really is sad to me that Great Adventure really could care less about maintaining and keeping their classic rides. Bizzaro: Not much has changed with Medusa...I mean Bizzaro. Gave its usual solid ride. El Toro: This was the tragedy of the day. One train running with horrible ride ops, no exaggeration it took 10 minutes to dispatch every train of riders. Up until this point every other coaster in the park was a walk on for the most part. We waited over an hour for Toro, even when boarded the train it took 5-10 minutes to send us on our way. I know I'm being dramatic but I was actually disgusted to the point where a ride op looked at me and I just shook my head. Call me a tough customer but I don't care this wasn't "opening day kinks" this was the same old problem with El Toro. Either the restraints weren't fitting the riders correctly or the ops had loaded the train the right way. The ride itself is still as magnificent as it always has been. Green Lantern: Ow. It was pouring rain and sitting in the front didn't help either. It felt like I was being shot with BB pellets in the face which is a shame because minus the rain it was one of the smoother rides I've had on Green Lantern. Minimum heads banging and me legs held up. Overall I had a fun day and I can't wait to see what the season has in store.

The Zero-G Roll into the helix looks particularly intense.

Which some people say they rather ride than this more than stellar clone

Pretty exciting news from Great Adventure. Almost as exciting as an aquatrax . But in all seriousness I'd love to get some winter rides in on Nitro and Batman. That would be pretty freakin cool.

This is the only logical explanation. If I arrive Friday and don't see a brand new shiny Aquatrax on the Lakefront I'm burning my season pass immediately.

Now you sound just plain ridiculous. You're going to sit here and say you rather ride a Vekoma SLC instead of the best cloned rides in the world? I understand your displeasure with this ride but that is just something I cannot believe. I don't care if this ride was painted white with pink and vomit colored polka dots, there is no way I am choosing and SLC over it.

I agree with the statement that Temptesto looks way better from inside the park than outside. I can't wait until the station is built and they add the theming an landscaping. I'm sure it'll look great.