
Fire2box
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I don't care for the 2015 ride, Hammerhead already does exactly the same thing including the face to face riders and it's ancient/hidden enough there's never a huge line. Plus I'd rather ride VooDoo then either of those. ::edit:: got a SFDK newsletter e-mail say this Saturday from 12-1pm you can ride medusa, kong or skyscreamer twice in a row if you show your season pass card.
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What was your First Launch Coaster?
Fire2box replied to RollingCoasting's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Greezed Lightning at California's Great America as well. -
Went today on sunday, sep 21st. Last day to bring a free in for free first three sundays of september. me and my friend to to the park at 2 pm, I was expecting it to be busy but the main lot was full, 100%. So they overflowed parking across the street to the fairgrounds beat up, un-mantained parking lot. Once inside the park my friends like "Blah Blah Blah, Flash Pass." and since one of the 2014 coupons (that 2015'ers can use too) is add 1 person onto flash pass only gold or regular. So we go half and half on Gold flash pass with only 5 houes left in the park. After that we program it for "Roar!" and we wait in line for superman. at some point it goes down for some sort of reason for about 20 mins, about 1/5th of the line leaves, around 7 train fulls. Roar's timer goes off before we ever get on and we get shoved into the back seat of superman. Once in line for roar we program it for sky screamer, we're hitting up the stuff he never been on, that I've barely been on. So after that we program it for medusa and get food. I give them my season pass for the meal thing " ACCESS DENIED" the scanners at season pass processing 2 weeks ago didn't scan/link my dining pass to my season pass. I show the server my 2015 cup that came with the meal plan saying "look the computer or a staff member screwed up the processing of the pass. But here's the 2015 cup, you can only get it with the meal plan unless people are stealing out of season processing." so they gave me the chicken strips and fries, no issue refilling the 2015 cup. course im fine with my friend drinking out of the cup but the straw is mine, mine! Bwhahaa. And we finish out the day with 2 rides on Medusa font and back. after that we check out the now lame shark exhibit which barely has anything in it. and half of it at the end is blocked off for a fright fest maze construction. So, what I though was going to be horrible was horrible but I'm still glad we got on good coasters and we're able to hang out there. Though, i'm not doing bring a friend day's again if I can help it. Might end up going next friday or saturday. Also Saturday the 27th of sep at the jelly belly factory like 20 miles from SFDK, they are having some event and mike tv and Ms.Salt from the original willy wonka movie will be there.
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What Was The Last Coaster You Rode?
Fire2box replied to SharkTums's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Last coaster was Roar @ SFDK on Sep 6th. The line was rather short even with one train operation I rode the front and then the back, total combined wait was maybe 45 mins at most. -
I really wouldn't mind it coming to SFDK, the down side is kong's footprint is too small for it. Yeah I'd rather have scream and medusa right next to each other then even see Kong. I do like scream at SFMM however. it's nice to be able to ride a pretty much cloned verison of your home parks biggest ride, but as a near walk on. Now i'm wondering if Twisted will make Scream have a spike in ridership.
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She's so cool, she was to cool to stop to say hi to my VIP group. Asked the tour guide if we/I'd get some meet and greet with the park's manager. She pointed out that we walked right past her. First time I go to SFMM I got snubbed by batman (no high five). On a VIP tour get snubbed by park's president. Classic SFMM it seems.
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Cold Weather at Amusement Parks
Fire2box replied to VF15's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
just wear jeans and a hoodie, though likely with the hood down. Given SFDK is my home park, it never gets that cold, It's more a issue with wind really. -
On October 4th SFDK is holding a AAA 'day". https://www.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/special-events/celebration/aaa-appreciation-day "EXCLUSIVE Block Party in Roar Plaza from 10:30 AM - 12 PM including access to Roar, Superman Ultimate Flight, Vertical Velocity, Tsunami Soaker, FREE Go Carts, Seaside Junction for kids." It says 28 dollars per person but I sent them a comment on their site asking if season pass holders that have a AAA membership can partake in this event. Mainly, I'd just do it for Superman and Roar. there's also some buffet for a extra 10 dollars but I can't see it being worth it as its from like 11:30 to 1 pm. Plus, I got the 2015 dinning pass so, meh. PS, The fish from seamore cod's isn't that good but better then Long John Silvers, but that's not saying much these days since they only sucked since 2003. Chicken tenders from same place were decent though. the menu for SFDK and SFMM are rather limited compared to the one near Chicago. In California your limited to pretty much high markup, state fair style food.
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And, the X2 lookers are in the station, so she will not have to be blind going through the line. Only a buck, but still burns me. The only thing I had was my refillable bottle, that I paid for all day refills, and still had to pay a buck to stash it. Small burn, but burn none the less. When I was at SFDK last weekend They had stand's designed to hold the cups at Medusa, Roar and superman I think. So, it's nice of SF to provide that, However I think some people would take the chance to steal the cup, more so one of the red 2015 cups that get refills for rest of 2014.
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom cracked down hard on loose articles when I was there on Saturday. Some girl in line for Roar asked if her small napsnack backpack was okay but the ripe op said "If it can fit in your pockets you can ride". needless to stay, all of its stuff wouldn't fit in her pockets. I think her little group devided it up between thewm and manageed to get on, but barely. If it was for single train operation she would of delayed a ride dispatch or be sent to put it in the locking rental bin or ask someone at station to hold it.
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Went there say 9/6/2014. Superman, Medusa and Roar do *not* have single rider lines still. (Why are you doing this SFDK. ) Roar has 1 train, couldn't even see a 2nd train anywhere. Though I got two rides on it front and back within 20 mins of each other around 5:30 pm about 35 mins of waiting total or so. Ride OP joked Santa needed another sleigh over the PA after I asked if it was 1 train only. Medusa had 2 trains but they were stacking at the station when i went and it was a walk up into the station around 4:15 pm. Maybe 16 min wait at most. Bumper Cars are down for fright fest setup. A portion of Shark Exhibit (fossil area) is closed off. Made it lackluster. Massive amounts of cobwebs and grave stones, etc around the path to seal show stadium. Also Superman was maybe a 30 min wait for me and someone else, maybe a 3:20 pm or so. first time on it, anything but the launcher was kinda forgettable for me but I think it pairs really nicely with Roar and V2 and i don't recall V2 being active at all. Oh and some person dropped their phone *looked white/silvery) onto the roof of superman from the inversion about 8-10 cycles before my ride.
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Your 5 year plan and predictions for any park
Fire2box replied to adamd's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
SF Discovery Kingdom: 2015: re-open 3d action theater. 2016: remove Kong, launched family coaster. Maybe something like pony express from Knotts. 2017: Kola's... Kola's EVERYWHERE. 2018: close down 3d action theater because it was stupid and costly. Dark ride this park up, some generic thing about sharks maybe. 2019: Fuck it, we've tried kola's, they didn't do shit replace kola's with brown bears. Cedar Fair's CGA: 2015: take flight deck and gold rusher out. Demo rest of park, pave it. sell to levi stadium/49ers. 2016: vist SFDK 2017: vist SFDK 2018: vist SFDK 2019: vist SFDK (isn't this what we're all kinda expecting or am I just being retarded again?) -
I got a survey from Six flags with the rider advisory panel program. It was all about possible new season pass options notably ones that last for TWO years but almost all of them had perks removed like no free parking or added black out dates, only weekday entry to other SF parks, etc. though some added perks like free font of the line to one ride every first or 3rd visit and 20-40% discounts on season meal program. the survey also alluded they will start to sell 2015 passes in September, possibly on the first. Hopefully the deals will be decent and they wont change too much.