Skycoastin Steve

That sound you hear is the world's tiniest violin playing for you and your sore neck.

^I agree, the water around the canyon area was a nice surprise. Unless they told us from the get go that it was going to have water, in which case I must have missed that memo...... It does crack me up, however, that everyone seems to LOVE this ride now.

Riding in the back, El Toro is starting to get pretty rough coming around the far turnaround after the 3rd hill. Feels like the connections between the track pieces are starting to sag a bit and it's getting bumpy. The rest of the ride is holding up fairly well, but that one big turn is bad.

This will be credit #300 for me and it looks like it will be very worthy of the title!

^One can only hope that at least Cedar Point will get some type of Lo-Q system in the near future. So many of the other CF parks don't really need them, though. I would say Kings Island and Canada's Wonderland could use them, but no other parks are crowded enough on a consistent basis.

^Only VA residents can get a Fun Card.

Yes, lots of parks don't allow you to do head-on collisions. Even Knoebels, which is considered to have the best bumper cars in the world. It's a safety issue, especially if kids are riding.

^A lot of times the people in line for the 3rd row will fill it if nobody has Quick Queue, but if they don't, the row usually goes empty.

Time to dust this thread off with a couple of updates from my epic weekend trip to New Jersey! On Friday, I went up for the season pass holder preview for Green Lantern, which ended up being a pretty interesting day to say the least. Green Lantern is still a pretty decent ride, just as I remember it from when it was Chang. However, the ride rattled a little too much for being "new." Other than that, it was definitely a fun ride, had lots of positive g's, and even a couple pops of air thrown in there. I think they have the same loud wheels that Kumba runs with, because that thing was LOUD. Also, the great thing about it being a pass holder preview day was the fact that I literally walked on for all four of my rides on it. The rest of the park was overrun with school groups full of non-deodorant wearing, immature, obnoxious teenagers. For this reason, I took my first foray into purchasing a Gold Flash Pass (as opposed to the regular one I usually get), and that thing was a life saver! I ended up getting 5 rides on El Toro when the line was at least 30-45 minutes or more the entire day. I also rode Nitro twice (probably the most overrated coaster this side of Raven), Kingda Ka once (yawn), Bizarro once (with no sound, thank God!), Superman once (yawn), Batman once (another yawn). For a park that has 5 B&Ms, they sure are some lackluster models. Anyway, the waits at every major ride were all incredibly long, and I'm sure the wait for Superman was somewhere near 90 minutes because there was only one train running. So in summation, if you have the cash to splurge on a Gold Flash Pass, DO IT!!! On to the pictures...... So I guess the picnic areas are now extremely dangerous and involve high voltage??? This ride sign was brought to you by the letter R, which promptly walked away after delivering the sign. Wait, when did they repaint GASM? Wait. You stand up AND it goes upside down?!?! You can see that it was a beautiful day in the northeast United States on Friday. The evil yellow loop. Sources have told me that this loop has been responsible for such heinous deeds as causing starvation in Africa to steadily increase, preventing rapture, almost single-handedly crashing TPR's servers, and killing Macho Man Randy Savage. It's that evil. Who knew a different paint color could cause so much havoc? Pop quiz: Which is worst: Osama bin Laden, the eye of Sauron, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Lebron James, the false B in Robb's name, or the yellow loop? Shockingly enough, these people have survived the certain doom of going through multicolored track. This is the evil-doer responsible for the dastardly act of painting the loop yellow. Shame on him! Back to green track, whew! I was inclined to take this loop picture. This fighter jet is used to shoot missiles at every person who doesn't wear deodorant to a theme park. My guess is most of the people at the park that day would have been dead. That is, unless the yellow loop connived to stink the park up and blocked the missiles. Half empty train, that's why I love being a season pass holder (I guess it's the only positive perk of being a SF pass holder). This guy looks NOTHING like Ryan Reynolds. I want my money back. Kenny Loggins approves. What a line...... Yeeeeeeesh.......... I am epic win!

Maybe they bought Time Machine. ^I could maybe see a small Eurofighter, but you're on some shrooms or something if you think they would get a ZacSpin.

But...who hires these contractors?

Does everyone realize that construction projects are outsourced to contractors? It's not like the BGW maintenance department was building this. There's a long list of people and/or companies you could blame for any construction delay, and more often than not, the park isn't anywhere near the top of that list. Sometimes there are delays. If some of you would take some life lessons from watching Forrest Gump, shite happens.

^Paddlewheel is the hidden jewel of that park!

^Yeah, I may take about 500 pictures on Friday. There are TONS of places to photograph this ride.

Well this means I might be able to go for Mach Tower's opening day.

Show off! My 300th credit is going to be Cheetah Hunt on Friday. Congrats on getting to 500!

Well this is certainly an exciting development.

^It's just sad/funny to me that the stupidity of humanity has led to policies like that. And it still looks hilarious.

I heard them count at least once or twice yesterday, but that was it. For the most part, it was just as you saw in the video. They also did it at Skull Mountain, which made me laugh pretty hard, as well. At SFA, they say, "Take five!" and turn from side to side with their thumbs out rather than combing the horizon like Christopher Columbus.

This is literally my favorite part of visiting SFGAd anymore (yes, even more than El Toro). I shot the clips today, paiging_jen was generous enough to do the editing.

^That kid is my hero. My all-time favorite GP-ism is the classic "IT GOES FASTER IN THE BACK!!!!" line.

Rode it today, I had forgotten what kind of positive g's this thing has. Very solid ride, although the B&M rattle has already taken over this ride in several places. I'd hate to think what it's going to feel like in a few years. However, I had fun not waiting in any sort of line for it today, can't count on that in August.

I just hope the fact that my SF season pass is for SFA doesn't matter. I would think a season pass is a season pass, but you never know with those wacky SF people.

^^I really do think a GCI would fit nice and snug right in there. ^That would also be a great choice for a new attraction.

Good stuff. I'll be there riding it tomorrow!