After being busy most of the year I was finally able to go on July 2nd and bought my season pass, as I've done for the last two years. I was kind of disappointed at the $10 increase to the season pass price, but I know I will be visiting the park at least 3 more times this year so it's all good.
Fourth of July weekend, Saturday. It wasn't as packed as I thought it would be, I remember going last year on a weekend and it was more packed. Lines were surprisingly moving efficiently. We started off on Revolution, and Viper, both were about 30 minute waits. Tatsu was about an hour, but they were only running one side of the station and two trains so it made sense. We proceeded to Deja Vu, another 30 minutes followed by Apocalypse, which was around 50 minutes. Then Superman was next, they were only running one side of the track, the track closest to Goliath; then after 30 minutes in line they opened the other side and me and my friends were on the 3rd ride of the opening of that side. Probably a total of 40 minutes was spent waiting for Superman. I had not ridden it since it reopened as "Escape From Krypton", but it was good. I originally found the regular Superman ride boring.
After that we made our way to Green Lantern, skipping Riddler's Revenge, which is another "so-so" ride for me personally. The line was surprisingly good...it only took us an hour to get on, it didn't break down during the time we were in line. In fact, I watched various of the trains when we were still in the outside line, and I saw from really tame partial spin rides to 3-4 flip rides. I knew about the whole weight distribution thing so I was hoping to ride with my thin friends (I'm a porky fellow) to get a flip or two in, but since we were three (other two friends went on the opposite side) they added an older single rider who was also of gratuitous weight and we ended up being balanced, so we only got partial flips. However, as I've been lurking on this thread the past week, the G-forces were indeed intense. I sat in the inner seat so I could put my arms up, I like to put my arms up on almost all rides. At one point during the ride, I think after the middle section where it slows down for a few seconds, on the following drop my whole body was launched out of the seat, but the restraints kept me safe in my seat... I was pleasantly surprised at how powerful it is. Then again, I did have my arms up the whole time so I kind of asked for it. Bottom line, I think GL:FF is pretty great.
After that, we skipped Batman and went to Colossus, and Scream. Both were 30 minute waits at the most, from my experience, Scream really suffers from its location, usually I never see a line form behind the entrance area right before the lockers. Goliath was next, that was a 50 minute wait. It was 9:20 or so by the time we finished up Goliath, so we went to X2, that was about an hour wait. When you're with good company, the lines don't seem to take so long.
tl;dr: Green Lantern was legit, and the lines were (imho) not very long for a "4th of July" weekend.
